(a) Up to fifteen percent (15%) for program administration and technical assistance in accordance with Section 18.

(b) Up to twenty percent (20%) to the State Discretionary Reserve for the Department to distribute to capital or operating assistance projects that exceed a region's ability to fund, to projects that are multi-regional in nature, or to projects that address statewide interest or concerns as determined by the Department. Criteria for selection of the projects shall include such items as Statewide significance, use of other available funding, local support, ranking of projects by the TPA, relation of project to local needs and other similar criteria.

(c) Not less than sixty-five percent (65%) for county apportionments for capital or operating assistance projects. The county apportionment shall be calculated on the basis of the latest Federal decennial census of the nonurbanized area population that, for any county that is entirely non-urbanized area, the county apportionment shall not be less than $15,000 per year. County apportionments for a multi-county transportation planning agency shall be treated as a single apportionment. These apportionments shall be programmed exclusively by the TPA for projects selected by the TPA, subject to meeting the applicable State and Federal regulations. In order for an applicant to qualify for the State Discretionary Reserve for a project, all county apportionment funds available to that county for the current fiscal year shall be programmed.