N.Y. Transportation Law § 400*2: Legislative findings

* § 400. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and

declares that:

1. Transportation of people and goods is vital to the economic and

social well-being of the metropolitan area embracing the counties of

Nassau, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester and the city of New

York.

2. General purpose local governments of the metropolitan area, the

state of New York, and local, regional and state agencies have a strong

common interest in coordinating and cooperating in performing

transportation planning to meet local, regional, state and federal goals

and objectives.

3. The transportation, land use, and economic planning and development

activities of public and private agencies within the metropolitan area

are of such magnitude and complexity and of such potential degrees of

mutual impact, as to make necessary a formally coordinated,

comprehensive, and continuing transportation planning and decision

process carried on cooperatively by local governments and agencies and

the state.

4. Titles twenty-three and forty-nine of the United States code

require such a transportation planning and programming process for the

metropolitan area.

5. Since nineteen hundred seventy-five, the Mid-Hudson south, New York

city, and Nassau-Suffolk transportation coordinating committees have

been recognized by the state and federal governments as appropriate and

effective subregional forums for cooperative transportation decision

making by principal elected officials of general purpose local

governments and local, regional, and state transportation agencies.

6. The members of the Mid-Hudson south, New York city, and

Nassau-Suffolk transportation coordinating committees have agreed to

join together to form the council of transportation coordinating

committees and, acting through the council, to constitute the federally

required metropolitan planning organization for the metropolitan area.

7. Pursuant to the federal regulations, the council of transportation

coordinating committees has been designated by agreement among the units

of general purpose local governments and the governor as the

metropolitan planning organization responsible, in cooperation with the

state and publicly owned operators of mass transportation services, for

carrying out the urban transportation planning process specified in 23

CFR 450 and 49 CFR 613 and other applicable federal regulations.

8. It is the purpose of this legislation to delineate the roles and

responsibilities and administrative, decision making, and staffing

arrangements for the transportation coordination committees and the

council to carry out transportation planning and programming to continue

the area's qualification for federal transportation assistance.

* NB Expired June 30, 1983

* NB There are 2 § 400's