PUBLIC LAW 103-272—JULY 5, 1994 108 STAT. 791 ments of this section. The plan shall be in the form the Secretary considers appropriate and at least shall— (A) identify transportation facilities (including major roadways, mass transportation, and multimodal and intermodal facilities) that should function as an integrated metropolitan transportation system, emphasizing transportation facilities that serve important United States and regional transportation functions; (B) include a financial plan that— (i) demonstrates how the long-range plan can be carried out; (ii) indicates resources from public and private sources reasonably expected to be made available to carry out the plan; and (iii) recommends innovative financing techniques, including value capture, tolls, and congestion pricing, to finance needed projects and programs; ^ (C) assess capital investment and other measures necessary— (i) to ensure the preservation of the existing metropolitan transportation system, including requirements for operational improvements, resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of existing and future major roadways, and operations, maintenance, modernization, and rehabilitation of existing and future mass transportation facilities; and (ii) to use existing transportation facilities most effi- ' ciently to relieve vehicular congestion and maximize the mobility of individuals and goods; and (D) indicate appropriate proposed transportation enhancement activities. (2) When formulating a long-range plan, the metropolitan planning organization shall consider the factors described in subsection (e) of this section as they are related to a 20-year forecast period. (3) In a metropolitan area that is in a nonattainment area for ozone or carbon monoxide under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.), the metropolitan planning organization shall coordinate the development of the long-range plan with the development of the transportation control measures of the State Implementation Plan required by the Act. (4) Before approving a long-range plan, each metropolitan planning organization shall provide citizens, affected public agencies, representatives of mass transportation authority employees, private providers of transportation, and other interested parties with a reasonable opportunity to comment on the plan in a way the Secretary of Transportation considers appropriate. (5) A long-range plan shall be— (A) made readily available for public review; and Public (B) submitted for information purposes to the chief execu- ^formation, tive officer of the State at the time and in the way the Secretary of Transportation establishes. (g) GRANTS. —Under criteria the Secretary of Transportation establishes, the Secretary may make contracts for, and grants to. States, local governmental authorities, and authorities of the States and governmental authorities, or may make agreements with other departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Government, to plan, engineer, design, and evaluate a mass transportation project and for other technical studies, including—
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