(1) The Idaho transportation department and its director are the designated recipients for the federal transit administration funding for the rural transit program and the small urban transit program within the state of Idaho.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section: The department is not the designated recipient for large urbanized areas as determined and defined by the United States department of commerce, bureau of the census; and
(3) The department is not the designated recipient for any qualifying urbanized area identified by the governor prior to July 1, 2011.