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PUBLIC LAW 91-258-MAY 21, 1970

(8) "Planning agency" means any planning agency designated by the Secretary which is authorized by the laws of the State or States (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam) or political subdivisions concerned to engage in areawide planning for the areas in which assistance under this part is to be used. (9) ^'Project" means a project for the accomplishment of airport development, airport master planning, or airport sjstem planning. (10) "Project costs" means any costs involved m accomplishing a project. (11) "Public agency" means a State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or Guam or any agency of any of them; a municipality or other political subdivision; or a tax-supported organization; or an Indian tribe or pueblo. (12) "Public airport" means any airport which is used or to be used for public purposes, under the control of a public agency, the landing area of which is publicly owned. (13) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Transportation. (14) "Sponsor means any public agency which, either individually or jointly with one or more other public agencies, submits to the Secretary, in accordance with this part, an application for financial assistance. (15) "State" means a State of the United States or the District of Columbia. (16) "Terminal area" means that area used or intended to be used for such facilities as terminal and cargo building's, gates, hangars, shops, and other service buildings; automobile parking, airport motels, and restaurants, and garages and automobile service facilities used in connection with the airport; and entrance and service roads used by the public within the boundaries of the airport. (17) "United States share" means that portion of the project costs of projects for airport development approved pursuant to section 16 of this part which is to be paid from funds made available for the purposes of this part. SEC. 12. NATIONAL AIRPORT SYSTEM PLAN. (a) FORMULATION or PLAN.—The Secretary is directed to prepare and publish, within two years after the date of enactment of this part, and thereafter to review and revise as necessary, a national airport system plan for the development of public airports in the United States. The plan shall set forth, for at least a ten-year period, the type and estimated cost of airport development considered by the Secretary to be necessary to provide a system of public airports adequate to anticipate and meet the needs of civil aeronautics, to meet requirements in support of the national defense as determined by the Secretary of Defense, and to meet the special needs of the postal service. The plan shall include all types of airport development eligible for Federal aid under section 14 of this part, and terminal area development considered necessary to provide for the efficient accommodation of persons and goods at public airports, and the conduct of functions in operational sui^port of the airport. Airport development identified by the plan shall not be limited to the requirements of any classes or categories of public airports. In preparing the plan, the Secretary shall consider the needs of all segments of civil aviation. (b) CoNsmERATiON OF OTIIER MODES OF TRANSPORTATION.—In formulating and revising the plan, the Secretary shall take into consideration, among other things, the relationship pf each airport to the rest of the transportation system in the particular area, to the forecasted technological developments in aeronautics, and to developments forecasted in other modes of intercity transportation.

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