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93 Triangle to develop a regional plan . He distributed a handout, which provided an overview of the MPO . MPO were created by the federal government in 1950s and follow a " 3 - C " process : Cooperative , Coordinating , and Continuing . They were formed for the transportation entities to coordinate their current and future activities . With the two recent authorization bills , " ISTEA " and "TEA 21 , " the cooperative process is more important because we now have a schedule of activities needing to be accomplished within a certain timeframe . Under the original legislation , MPOs were asked to create three products : Long - Range Transportation Plan ( LRTP ) : a 20 - year plan , which as result of ISTEA and TEA 21 has to be " multi - modal " including public transportation , rail , bikes , sidewalks , etc . The plan needs to show how much revenue will be generated and how it should be used . The long - range transportation LL . plan is the foundation for the overall regional pialIning . • Planning Work Program Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP ) Saunders explained that in order for a project to qualify for the Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP ) , the project must be in the LRTP . Thus the importance of the LRTP was defined including enabling recognition of inefficiencies in the community . The LRTP has to be updated and reviewed every three years , which presents the opportunity to review assumptions for the forecasting 20 years out and to see if adjustments or changes are needed . For example , " Is the community growing at the proposed rates ? , " or ` Has the emphasis of the community or economics impacts shifted another way ? " The NC General Assembly recently adopted legislation , which recognized MPOs for the first time and included language about how MPOs could be merged or separated . The DCHC MPO is composed of two committees , the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC ) and the Technical Coordinating Committee (TCC ) . The TAC is a policy body composed of representatives from whole counties or portions of counties that the census anticipates will be urbanized within 20 years . The TCC is made of staff from local . governments , NCDOT and the MPO . Tools used to accomplish goals include the a ) Prospectus , a document that spells out the duties of the MPO ; b ) Memorandum of Understanding , a legal document signed by each jurisdiction ; and c ) By- Laws , which describe the operation of the MPO , including officer elections , voting arrangements , etc . DRAFT CFE 10/09/00 Minutes Page 2 of 10 L :\Carol\CFEMIN\OCT2000CFErevised by rich . doc