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' ' • _.:�-��;: <br /> � <br /> ' �����,' <br /> ICoo�erative Agreement Empovvering <br /> The Decatur Urbanized Transportation Study (DUATS) <br /> October 2010 <br /> This cooperative agreement is made and entered into by the following jurisdictions within the <br /> State of Illinois: City of Decatur, Decatur Park District, Village of Forsyth, Village of Mt. Zion, <br /> Macon County Regional Planning Commission, Macon County Board, and State of Illinois <br /> acting by and through the Illinois Department of Transportation. This Agreement seeks to <br /> continue the longstanding and successful cooperative intergovernmental framework previously <br /> created for the purpose of coordinating transportation, land use and other related infrastructure <br /> planning in the Decatur Metropolitan Planning Area(MPA). <br /> WITNESSETH THAT <br /> WHEREAS 23 U.S.C. Section 134 requires that each urbanized area with a population of <br /> 50,000 or more, as a condition to the receipt of Federal capital, transportation or <br /> operating assistance, have a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive <br /> transportation planning process that results in plans and programs consistent with <br /> the comprehensively planned development of the urbanized area; and <br /> WHEREAS the Governor of Illinois has designated the Macon County Regional Planning <br /> Commission (MCRPC) as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) <br /> responsible for carrying out the 23 U.S.C. Section 134 and 49 U.S.C. Section <br /> 5303 planning requirements for the area in cooperation with the State; and <br /> WHEREAS the MCRPC oversaw the Decatur Urbanized Area Transportation Study (DUATS) <br /> as it performed comprehensive transportation planning for the MPA, in <br /> accordance with the above said Federal laws between 1964 and 2006; and <br /> WHEREAS by Intergovernmental Agreement, said comprehensive transportation planning <br /> activities and the Lead Agency role were formally transferred to the City of <br /> Decatur, IL, Department of Economic & Urban Development, now the <br /> Department of Development Services, on March 21, 2006, and <br /> WHEREAS as the Lead Agency, said Department of Development Services is functionally the <br /> MPO for all administrative, planning and transportation related activities within <br /> the Decatur MPA, <br /> IT IS NOW, THEREFORE, AGREED AMONG THE PARTIES HEREIN THAT: <br /> DUATS Interno>>e�•j�rnenlcrl Agrcemet�t, October?010 <br />