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42 U.S.C. § 7505a — Maintenance plans
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**(a) Plan revision** Each State which submits a request under [section 7407(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7407/d&num=0&edition=prelim) for redesignation of a nonattainment area for any air pollutant as an area which has attained the national primary ambient air quality standard for that air pollutant shall also submit a revision of the applicable State implementation plan to provide for the maintenance of the national primary ambient air quality standard for such air pollutant in the area concerned for at least 10 years after the redesignation. The plan shall contain such additional measures, if any, as may be necessary to ensure such maintenance.
**(b) Subsequent plan revisions** 8 years after redesignation of any area as an attainment area under [section 7407(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7407/d&num=0&edition=prelim), the State shall submit to the Administrator an additional revision of the applicable State implementation plan for maintaining the national primary ambient air quality standard for 10 years after the expiration of the 10-year period referred to in subsection (a).
**(c) Nonattainment requirements applicable pending plan approval** Until such plan revision is approved and an area is redesignated as attainment for any area designated as a nonattainment area, the requirements of this part shall continue in force and effect with respect to such area.
**(d) Contingency provisions** Each plan revision submitted under this section shall contain such contingency provisions as the Administrator deems necessary to assure that the State will promptly correct any violation of the standard which occurs after the redesignation of the area
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**(a) Plan revision** Each State which submits a request under [section 7407(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7407/d&num=0&edition=prelim) for redesignation of a nonattainment area for any air pollutant as an area which has attained the national primary ambient air quality standard for that air pollutant shall also submit a revision of the applicable State implementation plan to provide for the maintenance of the national primary ambient air quality standard for such air pollutant in the area concerned for at least 10 years after the redesignation. The plan shall contain such additional measures, if any, as may be necessary to ensure such maintenance.
**(b) Subsequent plan revisions** 8 years after redesignation of any area as an attainment area under [section 7407(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7407/d&num=0&edition=prelim), the State shall submit to the Administrator an additional revision of the applicable State implementation plan for maintaining the national primary ambient air quality standard for 10 years after the expiration of the 10-year period referred to in subsection (a).
**(c) Nonattainment requirements applicable pending plan approval** Until such plan revision is approved and an area is redesignated as attainment for any area designated as a nonattainment area, the requirements of this part shall continue in force and effect with respect to such area.
**(d) Contingency provisions** Each plan revision submitted under this section shall contain such contingency provisions as the Administrator deems necessary to assure that the State will promptly correct any violation of the standard which occurs after the redesignation of the area as an attainment area. Such provisions shall include a requirement that the State will implement all measures with respect to the control of the air pollutant concerned which were contained in the State implementation plan for the area before redesignation of the area as an attainment area. The failure of any area redesignated as an attainment area to maintain the national ambient air quality standard concerned shall not result in a requirement that the State revise its State implementation plan unless the Administrator, in the Administrator’s discretion, requires the State to submit a revised State implementation plan.
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary shall ensure that the plans and specifications for each proposed highway project under this chapter provide for a facility that will—
(1) adequately serve the existing and planned future traffic of the highway in a manner that is conducive to safety, durability, and economy of maintenance; and
(2) be designed and constructed in accordance with criteria best suited to accomplish the objectives described in paragraph (1) and to conform to the particular needs of each locality.
**(b)** The geometric and construction standards to be adopted for the Interstate System shall be those approved by the Secretary in cooperation with the State transportation departments. Such standards, as applied to each actual construction project, shall be adequate to enable such project to accommodate the types and volumes of traffic anticipated for such project for the twenty-year period commencing on the date of approval by the Secretary, under [section 106 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title23-section106&num=0&edition=prelim), of the plans, specifications, and estimates for actual construction of such project. Such standards shall in all cases provide for at least four lanes of traffic. The right-of-way width of the Interstate System shall be adequate to permit construction of projects on the Interstate System to such standards. The Secretary shall apply such standards uniformly throughout all the States.
**(c) Design Criteria for National Highway System.—**
(1) **In general.—** — A design for new construction, reconstruction, resurfacing (except for maintenance resurfacing), restoration, or rehabilitation of a highway on the National Highway System (other than a highway also on the Interstate System) shall
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**(a) Policy.—** It is in the national interest—
(1) to encourage and promote the safe and efficient management, operation, and development of surface transportation systems that will serve the mobility needs of people and freight, foster economic growth and development within and between States and urbanized areas better connect housing and employment,,11 So in original. Probably should be “urbanized areas, better connect housing and employment,”. and take into consideration resiliency needs while minimizing transportation-related fuel consumption and air pollution through metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes identified in this chapter; and
(2) to encourage the continued improvement and evolution of the metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes by metropolitan planning organizations, State departments of transportation, and public transit operators as guided by the planning factors identified in subsection (h) and section 135(d).
**(b) Definitions.—** In this section and section 135, the following definitions apply:
(1) **Metropolitan planning area.—** — The term “metropolitan planning area” means the geographic area determined by agreement between the metropolitan planning organization for the area and the Governor under subsection (e).
(2) **Metropolitan planning organization.—** — The term “metropolitan planning organization” means the policy board of an organization established as a result of the designation process under subsection (d).
(3) **Nonmetropolitan area.—** — The term “nonmetropolitan area” means a geographic area outside designated metropolitan planning areas.
(4) **Nonmetropolitan local official.—** — The term “nonmetropolitan local official” means elected and appointed officials of general purpose loca
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**(a) Responsibility of each State for air quality; submission of implementation plan** Each State shall have the primary responsibility for assuring air quality within the entire geographic area comprising such State by submitting an implementation plan for such State which will specify the manner in which national primary and secondary ambient air quality standards will be achieved and maintained within each air quality control region in such State.
**(b) Designated regions** For purposes of developing and carrying out implementation plans under [section 7410 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7410&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(1) an air quality control region designated under this section before December 31, 1970, or a region designated after such date under subsection (c), shall be an air quality control region; and
(2) the portion of such State which is not part of any such designated region shall be an air quality control region, but such portion may be subdivided by the State into two or more air quality control regions with the approval of the Administrator.
**(c) Authority of Administrator to designate regions; notification of Governors of affected States** The Administrator shall, within 90 days after December 31, 1970, after consultation with appropriate State and local authorities, designate as an air quality control region any interstate area or major intrastate area which he deems necessary or appropriate for the attainment and maintenance of ambient air quality standards. The Administrator shall immediately notify the Governors of the affected States of any designation made under this subsection.
**(d) Designations**
(1) **Designations generally**
(A) *Submission by Governors of initial designatio
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**(a) , (b) Repealed. Pub. L. 101–549, title I, § 110(4), Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2470**
**(c) Activities not conforming to approved or promulgated plans**
(1) No department, agency, or instrumentality of the Federal Government shall engage in, support in any way or provide financial assistance for, license or permit, or approve, any activity which does not conform to an implementation plan after it has been approved or promulgated under [section 7410 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7410&num=0&edition=prelim). No metropolitan planning organization designated under [section 134 of title 23](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title23-section134&num=0&edition=prelim), shall give its approval to any project, program, or plan which does not conform to an implementation plan approved or promulgated under [section 7410 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7410&num=0&edition=prelim). The assurance of conformity to such an implementation plan shall be an affirmative responsibility of the head of such department, agency, or instrumentality. Conformity to an implementation plan means—
(A) conformity to an implementation plan’s purpose of eliminating or reducing the severity and number of violations of the national ambient air quality standards and achieving expeditious attainment of such standards; and
(B) that such activities will not—
(i) cause or contribute to any new violation of any standard in any area;
(ii) increase the frequency or severity of any existing violation of any standard in any area; or
(iii) delay timely attainment of any standard or any required interim emission reductions or other milestones in any
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**(a) Definitions.—** In this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) **Airport, commercial service airport, and public agency.—** — The terms “airport”, “commercial service airport”, and “public agency” have the meaning those terms have under section 47102.
(2) **Eligible agency.—** — The term “eligible agency” means a public agency that controls a commercial service airport.
(3) **Eligible airport-related project.—** — The term “eligible airport-related project” means any of the following projects:
(A) A project for airport development or airport planning under subchapter I of chapter 471.
(B) A project for terminal development described in section 47119(a).
(C) A project for costs of terminal development referred to in subparagraph (B) incurred after August 1, 1986, at an airport that did not have more than .25 percent of the total annual passenger boardings in the United States in the most recent calendar year for which data is available and at which total passenger boardings declined by at least 16 percent between calendar year 1989 and calendar year 1997.
(D) A project for airport noise capability planning under section 47505.
(E) A project to carry out noise compatibility measures eligible for assistance under section 47504, whether or not a program for those measures has been approved under section 47504.
(F) A project for constructing gates and related areas at which passengers board or exit aircraft. In the case of a project required to enable additional air service by an air carrier with less than 50 percent of the annual passenger boardings at an airport, the project for constructing gates and related areas may include structural foundations and floor systems, exterior building walls and load-bearing interior columns or walls, wind
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**(a) Policy.—** It is in the national interest—
(1) to encourage and promote the safe and efficient management, operation, and development of resilient surface transportation systems that will serve the mobility needs of people and freight and foster economic growth and development within and between States and urbanized areas and better connect housing and employment, while minimizing transportation-related fuel consumption and air pollution through metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes identified in this chapter; and
(2) to encourage the continued improvement and evolution of the metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes by metropolitan planning organizations, State departments of transportation, and public transit operators as guided by the planning factors identified in subsection (h) and section 5304(d).
**(b) Definitions.—** In this section and section 5304, the following definitions apply:
(1) **Metropolitan planning area.—** — The term “metropolitan planning area” means the geographic area determined by agreement between the metropolitan planning organization for the area and the Governor under subsection (e).
(2) **Metropolitan planning organization.—** — The term “metropolitan planning organization” means the policy board of an organization established as a result of the designation process under subsection (d).
(3) **Nonmetropolitan area.—** — The term “nonmetropolitan area” means a geographic area outside designated metropolitan planning areas.
(4) **Nonmetropolitan local official.—** — The term “nonmetropolitan local official” means elected and appointed officials of general purpose local government in a nonmetropolitan area with responsibility for transportation.
(5) **Regional transportation planning orga
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 7504
[probably means the first 3 sentences of this note] and
shall take appropriate steps to designate those areas
failing to attain either or both of such standards as
nonattainment areas within the meaning of part D of
title I of the Clean Air Act.’’
§ 7504. Planning procedures
(a) In general
For any ozone, carbon monoxide, or PM–10
nonattainment area, the State containing such
area and elected officials of affected local gov-
ernments shall, before the date required for sub-
mittal of the inventory described under sections
7511a(a)(1) and 7512a(a)(1) of this title, jointly re-
view and update as necessary the planning pro-
cedures adopted pursuant to this subsection as
in effect immediately before November 15, 1990,
or develop new planning procedures pursuant to
this subsection, as appropriate. In preparing
such procedures the State and local elected offi-
cials shall determine which elements of a re-
vised implementation plan will be developed,
adopted, and implemented (through means in-
cluding enforcement) by the State and which by
local governments or regional agencies, or any
combination of local governments, regional
agencies, or the State. The implementation plan
required by this part shall be prepared by an or-
ganization certified by the State, in consulta-
tion with elected officials of local governments
and in accordance with the determination under
the second sentence of this subsection. Such or-
ganization shall include elected officials of local
governments in the affected area, and represent-
atives of the State air quality planning agency,
the State transportation planning agency, the
metropolitan planning organization designated
to conduct the continuing, cooperative and com-
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