[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR470.103]

[Page 120]
 
                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 470--HIGHWAY SYSTEMS--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart A--Federal-aid Highway Systems
 
Sec. 470.103  Definitions.

    Except as otherwise provided in this part, terms defined in 23 
U.S.C. 101(a) are used in this part as so defined.
    Consultation means that one party confers with another identified 
party and, prior to taking action(s), considers that party's views.
    Cooperation means that the parties involved in carrying out the 
planning, programming and management systems processes work together to 
achieve a common goal or objective.
    Coordination means the comparison of the transportation plans, 
programs, and schedules of one agency with related plans, programs, and 
schedules of other agencies or entities with legal standing, and 
adjustment of plans, programs, and schedules to achieve general 
consistency.
    Federal-aid highway systems means the National Highway System and 
the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense 
Highways (the ``Interstate System'').
    Federal-aid highways means highways on the Federal-aid highway 
systems and all other public roads not classified as local roads or 
rural minor collectors.
    Governor means the chief executive of the State and includes the 
Mayor of the District of Columbia.
    Metropolitan planning organization (MPO) means the forum for 
cooperative transportation decisionmaking for the metropolitan planning 
area in which the metropolitan transportation planning process required 
by 23 U.S.C. 134 and 49 U.S.C. 5303-5305 must be carried out.
    Responsible local officials means--
    (1) In urbanized areas, principal elected officials of general 
purpose local governments acting through the Metropolitan Planning 
Organization designated by the Governor, or
    (2) In rural areas and urban areas not within any urbanized area, 
principal elected officials of general purpose local governments.
    State means any one of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, 
Puerto Rico, or, for purposes of functional classification of highways, 
the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, or the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Marianas.