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1 . The transit agency shall publish in the local newspaper of its area , in the form prescribed by the Department, the productivity and performance measures established for the transit providers' most recent completed fiscal year and the prior fiscal year. 2 . The performance report shall be approved by the Department prior to its publication . 3 . The performance report shall be submitted to the Department no later than September 15 of each year, and published either by November 1 , or no later than twenty-eight (28) calendar days after the Department's written approval of the report. 4 . The transit agency shall furnish an affidavit of publication and a copy of the newspaper report to the Department within twenty-eight (28) calendar days of publication . 5 . Publish performance measures must be consistent with the transit agency's National Transit Database (NTD) report. 6 . In computing per capita measures , service area population shall be used as the denominator. Service area population shall be determined according to the Federal Transit Administration 's NTD guidelines . 7 . For 'agencies operating both fixed-route and demand response systems , performance measures shall be reported separately for fixed-route and demand response services . Published fixed-route and demand response data shall include purchased transportation data for each of those modes . If data for purchased transportation are not available to compute any of the required measures , agencies can report that measure for directly-operated service only, but make a notation (footnote) that the reported value for that measure does not include purchased transportation . 8 . When a new system begins to report, the first year becomes the baseline and that system would only report their first year data . In the second year of reporting , a new system shall report two years of performance data . To allow for meaningful comparison , computation of all prior year data must be consistent with methodology used to compute current year measures. 9 . Performance reports shall be given as much prominence as possible in newspaper publications and must include an introductory paragraph as to why these measures are being published . 10 . The newspaper publication shall at the minimum report the values of the following nine (9) performance measures ( 1 — 9 , shown in Table A4) :