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 119 STAT. 1566

PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005

(c) CHAPTER ANALYSIS.—The analysis for chapter 53 is amended by striking the item relating to section 5304 and inserting the following: ‘‘5304. Statewide transportation planning.’’. SEC. 3007. PLANNING PROGRAMS.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5305 is amended to read as follows: ‘‘§ 5305. Planning programs ‘‘(a) STATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘State’ means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. ‘‘(b) GENERAL AUTHORITY.— ‘‘(1) GRANTS AND AGREEMENTS.—Under criteria established by the Secretary, the Secretary may award grants to States, authorities of the States, metropolitan planning organizations, and local governmental authorities, and make agreements with other departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the Government to— ‘‘(A) develop transportation plans and programs; ‘‘(B) plan, engineer, design, and evaluate a public transportation project; and ‘‘(C) conduct technical studies relating to public transportation. ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.—Activities eligible under paragraph (1) include the following: ‘‘(A) Studies related to management, planning, operations, capital requirements, and economic feasibility. ‘‘(B) Evaluating previously financed projects. ‘‘(C) Peer reviews and exchanges of technical data, information, assistance, and related activities in support of planning and environmental analyses among metropolitan planning organizations and other transportation planners. ‘‘(D) Other similar and related activities preliminary to and in preparation for constructing, acquiring, or improving the operation of facilities and equipment. ‘‘(c) PURPOSE.—To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall ensure that amounts appropriated or made available under section 5338 to carry out this section and sections 5303, 5304, and 5306 are used to support balanced and comprehensive transportation planning that considers the relationships among land use and all transportation modes, without regard to the programmatic source of the planning amounts. ‘‘(d) METROPOLITAN PLANNING PROGRAM.— ‘‘(1) APPORTIONMENT TO STATES.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall apportion 80 percent of the amounts made available under subsection (g)(1) among the States to carry out sections 5303 and 5306 in the ratio that— ‘‘(i) the population of urbanized areas in each State, as shown by the latest available decennial census of population; bears to ‘‘(ii) the total population of urbanized areas in all States, as shown by that census.

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