§ 2304. — Procedures applicable to formulation and implementation of transportation plans and projects developed pursuant to plans.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC2304]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 43--PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS FOR NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
AREAS
Sec. 2304. Procedures applicable to formulation and
implementation of transportation plans and projects developed
pursuant to plans
(a) Public notice and meeting
The Secretary shall, during the formulation of any transportation
plan authorized pursuant to section 2302 of this title--
(1) give public notice of intention to formulate such a plan by
publication in the Federal Register and in a newspaper or periodical
having general circulation in the vicinity of the affected unit of
the national park system;
(2) following such notice hold a public meeting at a location or
locations convenient to the affected unit of the National Park
System.
(b) Notice and opportunity to comment given to State and local
governments; report to Congressional committees
Prior to the implementation of any project developed pursuant to the
transportation plan formulated pursuant to subsection (a) of this
section, the Secretary shall--
(1) establish procedures, including but not limited to public
meetings, to give State and local governments and the public
adequate notice and an opportunity to comment on the proposed
transportation project; and
(2) submit, when the proposed project would involve an
expenditure in excess of $100,000 in any fiscal year, a detailed
report to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the
United States Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the
United States House of Representatives. The Secretary may proceed
with the implementation of such plan only after sixty days (not
counting days on which the Senate or House of Representatives has
adjourned for more than three consecutive days) have elapsed
following submission of the plan.
(Pub. L. 95-344, title III, Sec. 304, Aug. 15, 1978, 92 Stat. 479; Pub.
L. 103-437, Sec. 6(d)(18), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4584.)
Amendments
1994--Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural
Resources'' for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' after ``Committee on''.
Change of Name
Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated
as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21
of Title 2, The Congress.
