N.Y. Transportation Law § 411: Transportation improvement program

* § 411. Transportation improvement program. 1. Each transportation

coordinating committee shall develop and update annually a

transportation coordinating committee transportation improvement program

in cooperation with state and local officials, regional and local

transit operators, recipients authorized under section five of the Urban

Mass Transportation Act (49 USC 1604), and with input from other

affected transportation and regional and local planning and implementing

agencies. The transportation improvement program shall consist of

improvements recommended from the short-range and long-range elements of

the transportation plan developed under this article, and continuing or

special planning studies.

2. The council shall incorporate the transportation improvement

program of transportation coordinating committees annually into an

areawide transportation improvement program, including projects of a

regional nature recommended by the program, finance, and administration

committee as initiated pursuant to title IX of chapter one of the United

States code, and shall endorse the program as meeting the requirements

of 23 CFR 450 and 49 CFR 613, provided that the program is consistent

with plans adopted by the council. Additions, deletions, or any other

changes to the transportation improvement program shall not be made by

the council except by consensus of its members as defined herein.

3. The transportation improvement program as endorsed by the tri-state

regional planning commission for federal fiscal year nineteen hundred

eighty-three, shall not be altered by the council except by consensus of

council members as defined herein.

* NB Expired June 30, 1983