* § 411. Transportation improvement program. 1. Each transportation coordinating committee shall develop and update annually a transportation coordinating committee transportation improvement program in cooperation with state and local officials, regional and local transit operators, recipients authorized under section five of the Urban Mass Transportation Act (49 USC 1604), and with input from other affected transportation and regional and local planning and implementing agencies. The transportation improvement program shall consist of improvements recommended from the short-range and long-range elements of the transportation plan developed under this article, and continuing or special planning studies.

2. The council shall incorporate the transportation improvement program of transportation coordinating committees annually into an areawide transportation improvement program, including projects of a regional nature recommended by the program, finance, and administration committee as initiated pursuant to title IX of chapter one of the United States code, and shall endorse the program as meeting the requirements of 23 CFR 450 and 49 CFR 613, provided that the program is consistent with plans adopted by the council. Additions, deletions, or any other changes to the transportation improvement program shall not be made by the council except by consensus of its members as defined herein.

3. The transportation improvement program as endorsed by the tri-state regional planning commission for federal fiscal year nineteen hundred eighty-three, shall not be altered by the council except by consensus of council members as defined herein.

* NB Expired June 30, 1983