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 116 STAT. 1470 PUBLIC LAW 107-230—OCT. 1, 2002 and 134(1)(1) of title 23 of the United States Code and sections 5304(a)(1), 5305(c), and 5305(e)(1) of title 49 of the United States Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder, shall not apply to the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council or to the Metropolitan Planning Organization designated under section 134(b) of title 23 of the United States Code. SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS. (a) PROHIBITION ON CAPACITY EXPANSION. — During the period of the temporary transportation conformity waiver for transportation plans, programs, and projects under section 1, no regionally significant capacity expanding highway project shall be added to the Regional Transportation Plan for the counties referred to in section 1 and no such project may be advanced from the out years of the Plan into the TIP, except as provided in subsection (b). (b) EXCEPTION. —Any regionally significant capacity expanding highway project south of Canal Street and West of Broadway in Manhattan may be added to the Plan referred to in subsection (a) if— (1) the project is part of a redevelopment plan for lower Manhattan subject to NEPA and the New York State Environmental Quality Act, as applicable; and (2) any projected increases in transportation related emissions resulting from the project are offset by corresponding reductions within the affected county, with best efforts made to secure reductions from within the immediate area affected by the project's emissions. Approved October 1, 2002. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3880: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 107-649 (Comm. on Energy and Commerce). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 148 (2002): Sept. 10, considered and passed House. Sept. 12, considered and passed Senate.

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