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, commuter vanpool providers), foster economic growth and development, and takes into consideration resiliency needs, while minimizing transportation-related fuel consumption and air pollution, and encourages continued development and improvement of metropolitan transportation planning processes guided by the planning factors set forth in 23 USC §134(h) and 49 USC §5303(h) (23 CFR 450.306). PSRC is the MPO for the Central Puget Sound Region. J. Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) means the federally required multimodal transportation plan addressing no less than a 20-year planning horizon that is developed, adopted,and updated by the MPO (i.e.,PSRC)through the metropolitan transportation planning process for the metropolitan planning area(23 CFR 450.104, 450.320 and 450.322). Such a plan shall lead to the safe and efficient development, management, and operation of an integrated multimodal transportation system that facilitates the efficient, economic movement of people and goods (23 CFR 450.300 and 450.322). The MTP is also the same plan required by the State of Washington Growth Management Act(GMA) and state legislation for Regional Transportation Planning Organizations, which refers to such a plan as a Regional Transportation Plan(RCW 47.80.030). K. Project Selection means the procedures followed by PSRC, WSDOT, and local general purpose governments, including public transportation operators,to advance projects from the first four years of an approved Regional Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), and/or State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)to implementation, consistent with federal regulations (23 CFR 450.104, 23 CFR 450.220, 23 CFR 450.324, and 23 CFR 450.330). L. Public Transportation System Plan means the long-range general comprehensive transit plan for public transit service as required by the state for the establishment and ongoing funding of Sound Transit and LPTAs. Such a comprehensive public transit plan includes, but is not limited to, levels of service that can be reasonably provided within service benefit area, identification of funding requirements, and impact of a transportation program on other LPTAs operating within that county or adjacent counties. M. Regionally Significant Project means a transportation project(other than projects that may be grouped in the TIP and/or STIP or exempt projects as defined in EPA's transportation conformity regulation(40 CFR 93.101 and 23 CFR 450.104)that is on a facility that serves regional transportation needs (such as access to and from the area outside the region; major activity centers in the region; major planned developments such as new retail malls, sports complexes, or employment centers; or transportation terminals) and would normally be included in the modeling of the metropolitan area's transportation network. At a minimum,this includes all principal arterial highways and all fixed guideway transit facilities that offer an alternative to regional highway travel. MOU-Puget Sound Regional Council/Local Public Transit Agencies and Sound Transit Page 4