* § 407. Application for urban mass transportation funds. 1. The department shall, on behalf of the council, make application annually to the urban mass transportation administration and to other federal agencies as may be appropriate, for funds to support the council's planning program. The department shall make such funds, as well as funds received from the federal highway administration, available to the council for its decision on their use and distribution. The department shall be the urban mass transportation administration grant applicant for the central staff, transportation coordinating committee staff, and subregional pass through work elements of the unified planning work program. Applicants for urban mass transportation administration grants to support the transit operators planning and special studies work elements shall be determined annually in the unified planning work program.
2. The council shall authorize the department and others as appropriate, to accept on behalf of the council, the transfer of current grants that have been awarded to the tri-state regional planning commission.
3. The unified planning work program, as endorsed by the tri-state regional planning commission for federal fiscal year nineteen hundred eighty-one (tri-state program year nineteen hundred eighty-one--eighty-two), shall not be altered by the council, except by consensus of the council members as defined herein.
* NB Expired June 30, 1983
* NB There are 2 § 407's
