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STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW 9 3 - 5 0 3 - N O V. 26,

1974

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(3) by striking out the sixth and seventh sentences; and (4) by adding at the end thereof the following: "(2) I t is declared to be in the national interest to encourage and promote the development of transportation systems, embracing various modes of transport in a manner that will serve the States and local communities efficiently and effectively. To accomplish this objective the Secretary shall cooperate with the States in the development of long-range plans and programs which are properly coordinated with plans for improvements in other affected forms of transportation and which are formulated with due consideration to their probable effect on the future development of urban areas of more than fifty thousand population. The development of projects in urbanized areas under this section shall be based upon a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive planning process covering all modes of surface transpoT'tation and carried on by the States and the governing bodies of local communities in accordance with this paragraph. The Secretary shall not approve any project in an urbanized area after July 1, 1976, under this section unless he finds that such project is based on a continuing comprehensive transportation planning process carried on in conformance with the objectives stated in this paragraph." r 0 R M I ' J > A GRANT FROCiHAM

SEC. 108. (a) The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 is amended by striking out section 5 and inserting in lieu thereof the followinti; new section:

49 USC 1604.

" U R B A N MASS T R A N S r r PROGRAM

5. (a) As used in this section— Definitions. "(1) the term 'construction' means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and all expenses incidental to the acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of facilities and equipment for use in mass transportation, including designing, engineering, locating, surveying, mapping, acquisition of rights-of-way, relocation assistance, and acquisition and replacement of housing sites; "(2) the term 'Governor' means the Governor, or his designate, of any one of the fifty States or of Puerto Rico, and the Mayor of the District of Columbia; and "(3) the term 'urbanized area* means an area so designated by the Bureau of the Census, within boundaries which shall be fixed by responsible State and local officials in cooperation with each other, subject to approval by the Secretary, and which shall at a minimum, in the case of any such area, encompass the entire urbanized area within the State as designated by the Bureau of the Census. •'(b)(1) The Secretary shall apportion for expenditure in fiscal f^fPj"/"""'"*^"' years 1975 through 1980 "the sums authorized by subsection (c). Such °™" ^' sums shall be made available for expenditure in urbanized areas or -i parts thereof on the basis of a formula under which urbanized areas or part thereof will be entitled to receive an amomit equal to the sum of— " (A) one-half of the total amount so apportioned multiplied by the ratio which the population of such urbanized area or part thereof, as designated by the Bureau of the Census, bears to the total population of all the urbanized areas in all the States as shown by the latest available Federal census; and •'SEC.

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