TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEES, TO CHANGE THE AMOUNT THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ANNUALLY TRANSFERS FROM THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND TO THE DONOR COUNTIES FROM NINE AND ONE HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS, AND TO RENUMBER SECTIONS AS APPROPRIATE. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: SECTION 1. Section 57-1-370(B) of the 1976 Code is amended to read: Concerning the development, content, and implementation “(B) of the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, the commission must: (1) develop a process for consulting with nonmetropolitan local officials, with responsibility for transportation, that provides an opportunity for their participation in the development of the longrange Statewide Transportation Plan and the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program; (2) approve the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program and ensure that it is developed pursuant to federal laws and regulations and approve an updated Statewide Transportation Improvement Program from time to time as permitted by and in the manner required by federal laws or regulations; (3) develop and revise the transportation plan for inclusion in the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, for each nonmetropolitan planning area in consultation with local officials with responsibility for transportation; (4) work in consultation with each metropolitan planning organization to develop and revise a transportation improvement program for each metropolitan planning area; (5) select from the approved Statewide Transportation Improvement Program the transportation projects undertaken in nonmetropolitan areas in consultation with the affected nonmetropolitan local officials with responsibility for transportation; (6) select projects to be undertaken, in consultation with each metropolitan planning organization, from the metropolitan planning approved transportation improvement plan in organization’s
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEES, TO CHANGE THE AMOUNT THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ANNUALLY TRANSFERS FROM THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND TO THE DONOR COUNTIES FROM NINE AND ONE HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS, AND TO RENUMBER SECTIONS AS APPROPRIATE. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: SECTION 1. Section 57-1-370(B) of the 1976 Code is amended to read: “(B) Concerning the development, content, and implementation of the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, the commission must: (1) develop a process for consulting with nonmetropolitan local officials, with responsibility for transportation, that provides an opportunity for their participation in the development of the longrange Statewide Transportation Plan and the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program; (2) approve the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program and ensure that it is developed pursuant to federal laws and regulations and approve an updated Statewide Transportation Improvement Program from time to time as permitted by and in the manner required by federal laws or regulations; (3) develop and revise the transportation plan for inclusion in the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, for each nonmetropolitan planning area in consultation with local officials with responsibility for transportation; (4) work in consultation with each metropolitan planning organization to develop and revise a transportation improvement program for each metropolitan planning area; (5) select from the approved Statewide Transportation Improvement Program the transportation projects undertaken in nonmetropolitan areas in consultation with the affected nonmetropolitan local officials with responsibility for transportation; (6) select projects to be undertaken, in consultation with each metropolitan planning organization, from the metropolitan planning organization’s approved transportation improvement plan in
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