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PUBLIC LAW 86-669-JULY 14, 1960

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amended, together with travel expenses as authorized by section 5 of the Act of August 2, 1946, as amended (5 U.S.C. 73b-2), for persons employed intermittently as consultants or experts and receiving compensation on a per diem when actually employed basis.

60 Stat. 808.

ADVISORY AND COORDINATING COMMITTEES

SEC. 203. (a) The Administrator is authorized to establish such advisory and coordinating committees composed of representatives of State and local governments. Federal agencies, other Government agencies, and such private organizations and persons as may be necessary or helpful to obtain the maximum amount of cooperation and correlation of effort in order that a coordinated system of transportation be developed for the National Capital region. These advisory and coordinating committees shall consider problems referred to them by the Administrator and shall make recommendations to the Administrator concerning the activities of the Agency as they affect transit, traffic, and highway conditions, and other matters of mutual interest to the Agency and to the Government agencies, organizations, and persons represented on the advisory and coordinating committees. (b) The advisory and coordinating committees shall serve the Agency solely in an advisory capacity. Members of such committees shall serve thereon without additional compensation. Members who are not representatives of an agency of the United States may receive travel expenses as authorized by section 5 of the Act of August 2, 1946, as amended (5 U.S.C. 73b-2), for persons serving without 6o stat, 808. compensation. PREPARATION

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APPROVAL OF T R A N S I T

DEVELOPMENT

PROGRAM

SEC. 204. The Agency— (a) Shall prepare, and may from time to time revise, a Transit Development Program. The Transit Development Program shall consist of a plan or plans indicating the general location of facilities in which the Agency will participate for J h e transportation of persons within the National Capital region, a timetable for the provision of such facilities and comprehensive financial reports including costs, revenues, and benefits. The Transit Development Program may indicate (1) the routes of surface, subsurface, and elevated carriers, including bus and other motor vehicle carriers, rail carriers, waterborne carriers, air carriers, and other carriers, and (2) the location and extent of terminals, stations, platforms, motor vehicle parking facilities for transit users, extra-wide median strips and other rights-of-way, docks, rails or tracks or other similar facilities, bridges, tunnels, buildings or structures, powerplants, repair shops, yards, garages, and other necessary facilities relating to the transportation of persons. The Transit Development Program shall, to the extent practicable, conform to the general plan for the development of the National Capital region and to the comprehensive plan for the National Capital within the meaning of sections 3, 4, and 5 of the National Capital Planning Act of 1952 (66 Stat. 781), except as may be determined by the President. D. C. C o d e 1001 note. (b) Shall, in the preparation of the Transit Development Program, give special consideration to: (1) Expanded use of existing facilities and services, including expanded use and development of existing railroad lines into the District of Columbia, and coordinated and efficient transit service across jurisdictional boundaries and between areas served by different companies: Provided, That the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia, before granting its approval to any further

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