* § 400. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and\ndeclares that:\n 1. Transportation of people and goods is vital to the economic and\nsocial well-being of the metropolitan area embracing the counties of\nNassau, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester and the city of New\nYork.\n 2. General purpose local governments of the metropolitan area, the\nstate of New York, and local, regional and state agencies have a strong\ncommon interest in coordinating and cooperating in performing\ntransportation planning to meet local, regional, state and federal goals\nand objectives.\n 3. The transportation, land use, and economic planning and development\nactivities of public and private agencies within the metropolitan area\nare of such magnitude and complexity and of such potenti
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* § 400. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and\ndeclares that:\n 1. Transportation of people and goods is vital to the economic and\nsocial well-being of the metropolitan area embracing the counties of\nNassau, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester and the city of New\nYork.\n 2. General purpose local governments of the metropolitan area, the\nstate of New York, and local, regional and state agencies have a strong\ncommon interest in coordinating and cooperating in performing\ntransportation planning to meet local, regional, state and federal goals\nand objectives.\n 3. The transportation, land use, and economic planning and development\nactivities of public and private agencies within the metropolitan area\nare of such magnitude and complexity and of such potential degrees of\nmutual impact, as to make necessary a formally coordinated,\ncomprehensive, and continuing transportation planning and decision\nprocess carried on cooperatively by local governments and agencies and\nthe state.\n 4. Titles twenty-three and forty-nine of the United States code\nrequire such a transportation planning and programming process for the\nmetropolitan area.\n 5. Since nineteen hundred seventy-five, the Mid-Hudson south, New York\ncity, and Nassau-Suffolk transportation coordinating committees have\nbeen recognized by the state and federal governments as appropriate and\neffective subregional forums for cooperative transportation decision\nmaking by principal elected officials of general purpose local\ngovernments and local, regional, and state transportation agencies.\n 6. The members of the Mid-Hudson south, New York city, and\nNassau-Suffolk transportation coordinating committees have agreed to\njoin together to form the council of transportation coordinating\ncommittees and, acting through the council, to constitute the federally\nrequired metropolitan planning organization for the metropolitan area.\n 7. Pursuant to the federal regulations, the council of transportation\ncoordinating committees has been designated by agreement among the units\nof general purpose local governments and the governor as the\nmetropolitan planning organization responsible, in cooperation with the\nstate and publicly owned operators of mass transportation services, for\ncarrying out the urban transportation planning process specified in 23\nCFR 450 and 49 CFR 613 and other applicable federal regulations.\n 8. It is the purpose of this legislation to delineate the roles and\nresponsibilities and administrative, decision making, and staffing\narrangements for the transportation coordination committees and the\ncouncil to carry out transportation planning and programming to continue\nthe area's qualification for federal transportation assistance.\n * NB Expired June 30, 1983\n * NB There are 2 § 400's\n