Ch. 540                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND

(8)  Each private carrier operating in the District;

(9)  Each labor union representing employees engaged
in transit operations in the District; and

(10)  Any other agency that the Secretary determines.
10-204.

Title III

Article VI

14.

(c) The board, in the preparation, revision, alteration or
amendment of a mass transit plan, shall

(1)  Consider data with respect to current and
prospective conditions in the zone, including, without
limitation, land use, population, economic factors affecting
development plans, goals or objectives for the development of the
zone and the separate political subdivisions, transit demands to
be generated by such development, travel patterns, existing and
proposed transportation and transit facilities, impact of transit
plans on the dislocation of families and businesses, preservation
of the beauty and dignity of the nation's capital, factors
affecting environmental amenities and aesthetics and financial
resources;

(2)  Cooperate with and participate in any continuous,
comprehensive transportation planning process cooperatively
established by the highway agencies of the signatories and the
local political subdivisions in the zone to meet the planning
standards now or hereafter prescribed by the federal-aid highway
act; and

(3)  To the extent not inconsistent with or
duplicative of the planning process specified in subparagraph (2)
of this paragraph (c), cooperate with the National Capital
Planning Commission, the National Capital Regional Planning
Council, the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments, the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, the highway
agencies of the signatories, The Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, the Northern Virginia Regional Planning
and Economic Development Commission, the Maryland [State] OFFICE
OF Planning [Department] and the Commission of Fine Arts. Such
cooperation shall include the creation, as necessary, of
technical committees composed of personnel, appointed by such
agencies, concerned with planning and collection and analysis of
data relative to decision-making in the transportation planning
process.

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