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AGREEMENT NO. 0-00-97 page 2 of 9 effective until it is adopted by both the Department of Transportation and the municipal governing board."; and, WHEREAS, Section 134(a) of Title 23 United States Code states: "It is in the national interest to encourage and promote the development of transportation systems, embracing various modes of transportation in a manner which will efficiently maximize mobility of people and goods within and through urbanized areas and minimize transportation-related fuel consumption and air pollution. To accomplish this objective the Metropolitan Planning Organizations, in cooperation with the State, shall develop transportation plans and programs for urbanized areas of the State. Such plans and programs shall provide for the development of transportation facilities (including pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities) which will function as an inter-modal transportation system for the State, the metropolitan areas, and the Nation. The process for developing such plans and programs shall provid~ for consideration of all modes of transportation and shall be continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive to the degree appropriate, based on the complexity of the transportation problems."; and, WHEREAS, a transportation planning process includes the operational procedures and working arrangements by which short and long-range transportation plans are soundly conceived and developed and continuously evaluated in a manner that will: 1. Assist governing bodies and official agencies in determining courses of action and in formulating attainable capital improvement programs in anticipation of community needs; and, 2. Guide private individuals and groups in planning their decisions which can be important factors in the pattern of future development and redevelopment of the area; and, WHEREAS, it is the desire of these agencies that a Memorandum of Understanding dated December 6, 1985, which established a continuing, comprehensive, cooperative transportation planning process, be revised and updated so as to continue to comply with 23 U.S.C. 134; and Sections 3(a) (2), 4(a), 5(g) (1), and 5(1) of the Federal Transit Act of 1964, as amended, (49 U.S.C. 1602(a) (2), 1603(a), 1604(g) (1), and 1604(1)). NOW THEREFORE the following Memorandum of Understanding is made. Section 1. It is hereby agreed that the CITY OF CONCORD, CITY OF KANNAPOLIS, TOWN OF CHINA GROVE, TOWN OF LANDIS, TOWN OF HARRISBURG, CABARRUS COUNTY, ROWAN COUNTY, and the NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION in cooperation with the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, will participate in a continuing transportation planning process with responsibilities and undertakings as related in the following paragraphs: