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RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF CONGESTION MITIGATION AND AIR QUALITY FUNDING ALLOCATION TO ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA FOR THE PROPOSED WATERSTONE PARK AND RIDE FACILITY AND THE PROPOSED INTRA - HILLSBOROUGH TRANSIT ROUTE PROJECT WHEREAS, the United States Congress included requirements in Section 176(c) of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, Public Law 101 -549, November 15, 1990, for federally assisted transportation programs to ensure the timely implementation of transportation control measures as specified in the state air quality implementation plans and to provide the highest priority for funding to implement these transportation control measures; and WHEREAS, the United States Congress assured the compliance with these transportation control measures through the provision of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Program and Categorical Funds in the hntermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), Public Law 102 -240, December 18, 1991, and through its reauthorization of the CMAQ Program and Categorical Funds in the Transportation Equity Act of'the Twenty First Century (TEA -21), Public Law 95 -198, .Tune 6, 1998; and WHEREAS, the CMAQ program has been officially transcribed into federal surface transportation regulations and policies under Title 23, Chapter 1, Section 149 of the 1Jnited States Code; and WHEREAS, the primary purpose of the CMAQ Program has been to fund transportation projects and programs in air quality non - attainment and maintenance area which will reduce transportation related emissions; and WHEREAS, the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration have been directed through federal programs to recommend to state transportation departments and local transportation planning organizations the identification of transportation control measures and related projects to provide alternatives to single occupancy vehicle use and to reduce vehicle miles of travel; and