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 119 STAT. 1854

PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005 ‘‘(i) hold any public meetings at convenient and accessible locations and times; ‘‘(ii) employ visualization techniques to describe plans; and ‘‘(iii) make public information available in electronically accessible format and means, such as the World Wide Web, as appropriate to afford reasonable opportunity for consideration of public information under subparagraph (A). ‘‘(4) MITIGATION ACTIVITIES.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A long-range transportation plan shall include a discussion of potential environmental mitigation activities and potential areas to carry out these activities, including activities that may have the greatest potential to restore and maintain the environmental functions affected by the plan. ‘‘(B) CONSULTATION.—The discussion shall be developed in consultation with Federal, State, and tribal wildlife, land management, and regulatory agencies. ‘‘(5) FINANCIAL PLAN.—The statewide transportation plan may include a financial plan that demonstrates how the adopted statewide transportation plan can be implemented, indicates resources from public and private sources that are reasonably expected to be made available to carry out the plan, and recommends any additional financing strategies for needed projects and programs. The financial plan may include, for illustrative purposes, additional projects that would be included in the adopted statewide transportation plan if reasonable additional resources beyond those identified in the financial plan were available. ‘‘(6) SELECTION OF PROJECTS FROM ILLUSTRATIVE LIST.— A State shall not be required to select any project from the illustrative list of additional projects included in the financial plan described in paragraph (5). ‘‘(7) EXISTING SYSTEM.—The statewide transportation plan should include capital, operations and management strategies, investments, procedures, and other measures to ensure the preservation and most efficient use of the existing transportation system. ‘‘(8) PUBLICATION OF LONG-RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANS.—Each long-range transportation plan prepared by a State shall be published or otherwise made available, including (to the maximum extent practicable) in electronically accessible formats and means, such as the World Wide Web. ‘‘(g) STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.— ‘‘(1) DEVELOPMENT.—Each State shall develop a statewide transportation improvement program for all areas of the State. Such program shall cover a period of 4 years and be updated every 4 years or more frequently if the Governor elects to update more frequently. ‘‘(2) CONSULTATION WITH GOVERNMENTS.— ‘‘(A) METROPOLITAN AREAS.—With respect to each metropolitan area in the State, the program shall be developed in cooperation with the metropolitan planning organization designated for the metropolitan area under section 134.

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