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2 ATTACHMENT 1 't Resolution Concerning Senate Bi111164 (An Act to Establish Consolidated Metropolitan Planning Organizations) WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1164 is titled "An Act to Establish Consolidated Metropolitan Planning Organizations Under State Law;" and WHEREAS, the purpose of Senate Bill 1164 is to ensure that Metropolitan Planning Organizations are established under State law in a manner consistent with federal law; and WHEREAS, another stated purpose of Senate Bill 1164 is to encourage better regional planning; and WHEREAS, to the extent possible, in accordance with Senate Bill 1164 only one Metropolitan Planning Organization would be designated for each region; and WHEREAS, two Metropolitan Planning Organizations currently exist in the Triangle Region, the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) and the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO); and WHEREAS, the DCHC MPO is comprised of representatives from the City of Durham, the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough, the Counties of Durham, Orange and Chatham and NCDOT; and WHEREAS,. CAMPO is comprised of representatives from Wake County, the municipalities in Wake County and NCDOT; and WHEREAS, the MPO is responsible for the development of the area's long range Transportation Plan and multi-year Transportation Improvement Program; and WHEREAS, the DCHC MPO and CAMPO currently work cooperatively on regional transportation issues; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners was not consulted before the proposed MPO legislation was introduced; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners is concerned that the philosophy and initiatives of the DCHC MPO would be subsumed or diminished in the context of a regional MPO dominated by Raleigh and Wake County; and WHEREAS, SB 1164 would affect project implementation and air quality conformity issues that may negatively impact Orange County.