Federal Air Quality Laws Governing State and Regional Transportation Planning
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Legal Research Digest 31: Federal Air Quality Laws Governing State and Regional Transportation Planning provides an overview of legal requirements, identifying key provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) that now govern state and regional transportation planning and their interrelationship. The reader should gain an understanding of the federal statutory framework and the regulatory requirements applicable to both state and regional transportation planning.
This report should be useful to state transportation directors, attorneys, planners, environmental specialists, public information specialists, policy staff, and right-of- way officials. The report is organized as follows:
(I) Introduction;
(II) The Clean Air Act and the Requirement for State Implementation Plans;
(III) Overview of the Transportation Planning Process;
(IV) Conformity;
(V) ISTEA Environmental Programs Relating to Air Quality;
(VI) Conclusion; Endnotes; and
Appendix A--Glossary of Acronyms.
This Summary Last Modified On: 3/30/2014