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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".16" citation="COMAR 14.39.02.16" title_num="14" subtitle_num="39" chapter_num="02" heading="Capital Maintenance Projects.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>This regulation applies to capital maintenance projects approved in the State capital improvement program. Capital maintenance projects may also be referred to as “systemic renovation” projects.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A capital maintenance project:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Extends for at least 15 years the life of a properly maintained school building or component that is 16 years old or older;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Installs, upgrades, replaces, or renovates one of the following building systems or system components:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Architectural and structural;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Mechanical;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Plumbing;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Electrical;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Fire safety;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Communications; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Vertical conveying systems; and</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>May include reasonably related components of other building systems as determined by the IAC or its designee.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Requests.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>An LEA may submit a request to the IAC to fund a capital maintenance project in the following circumstances:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The project has not been released for solicitation; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The project has been released for solicitation after being deemed eligible but deferred due to fiscal constraints by the IAC in a prior fiscal year and has design development and construction document approvals by the IAC.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The request may only be for eligible expenditures in a project for which the total estimated construction cost is:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>At least $200,000; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Less than $200,000 but more than $100,000 when the LEA does not have any capital maintenance project requests that exceed $200,000 in estimated construction costs.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>A county board may bundle, for approval and procurement purposes:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Similar capital maintenance projects at different schools; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Interrelated capital maintenance projects at a single school.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Procedures. The requirements of Regulation .15B, F, and I—M of this chapter and COMAR 14.39.03 apply to capital maintenance projects approved in the State capital improvement program.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>