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PUBLIC LAW 92-517-OCT. 21, 1972

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transit, serving the Washington metropolitan area is essential to commerce among the several States, and among such States and the District of Columbia, and to the health, welfare, and safety of the public; (2) economies and improvement of service will result from the unification of bus transit and rail transit operations as well as from integration of bus transit facilities within the Washington metropolitan area; (3) the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is a body corporate and politic organized pursuant to interstate compact among the States of Maryland and Virginia and the District of Columbia, with the consent of Congress, to plan, develop, finance, and operate improved transit facilities in the Washington metropolitan area transit zone; (4) an appropriate solution to the current bus transportation emergency is public ownership and operation of bus transit facilities within the Washington metropolitan area; (5) the cost of such public ownership should be shared by the Federal and local governments in the Washington metropolitan area in accordance with the matching formula authorized by the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 ^^^ U.S.C. 1601-1612); and (6) to these ends it is necessary to enact the provisions hereinafter set forth. •

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C O N S E N T TO COMPACT AMENDMENT

Washington §^0. 101. (a) The Congress hereby consents to amendments to Trinsu° Auth^u^ articles X II and X VI of title III of the Washington Metropolitan Compact, amend- Area Trauslt Regulation Compact (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1431 note) sub""80*Stat. 1342 stautially as follows: 1347. ' (1) Section 56 of article X II is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(e) The Authority may acquire the capital stock or transit facilities of any private transit company and may perform transit service, including service by bus or similar motor vehicle, with transit facilities so acquired, or with transit facilities acquired pursuant to article 80 Stat. 1333. VII, section 20. Upon acquisition of the capital stock or the transit facilities of any private transit company, the Authority shall undertake the acquisition as soon as possible of the capital stock or the transit facilities of each of the other private transit companies within the zone requesting such acquisition. Lack of such request, however, shall not be construed to preclude the Authority from acquiring the capital stock or the transit facilities of any such company pursuant to section 80 Stat. 1350. 82 of articlc X VI. " D. C. Code 1 (2) Subsection (a) of section 82 of article X VI is amended by 1431 note deleting "or by a private transit company" at the end of such subsection and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: "whenever such property cannot be acquired by negotiated purchase at a price satisfactory to the Authority". (b) The Commissioner of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed to enter into and execute on behalf of the District of sic^o iiwit^fs,;-! Columbia amendments, substantially as set forth above, to title III of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact with the States of Virginia and Maryland. •i

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