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NADO Issues Action Alert on Upcoming House-Senate Conference of Surface Transportation Reauthorization
SPECIFIC ACTION NEEDED:
Urge your Senators and Representatives to support the House language for state DOT “cooperation” with non-metropolitan local officials in the statewide transportation planning process (including the establishment of Regional Transportation Planning Organizations for areas outside of MPOs),…
ACTION ALERT: HUD CDBG Program
Rep. Brady (D-PA) Circulates Letter to Increase Funding for CDBG in FY2013
The FY2013 appropriations process has begun! Similar to last year’s process, Members of Congress are allowed to submit Programmatic Requests and Language Requests to the Appropriations Subcommittees regarding…
Surface Transportation Bills Moving Ahead
The House and Senate are moving full steam ahead on completing multi-year reauthorization bills for the nation’s federal surface transportation programs for highways, freight, transit, safety and other related issues.
As part of the SAFETEA-LU rewrite process, the Senate is…
Federal Update for South Carolina State Association
NADO Executive Director Matthew Chase was the luncheon keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Association of Regional Councils. The conference is attended each year by more than 250 state legislators, county and city elected officials, regional…
NADO Releases Special Edition of NADO News at Annual Training Conference
On October 8, at the 2011 Annual Training Conference held in Miami, FL, NADO released a special edition of NADO News, “A Review of Federal Legislative Activity Impacting Regional Development Organizations,” highlighting federal community and economic development policy issues and…
President Obama Announces the American Jobs Act
On September 8, before a Joint Session of Congress, President Obama outlined his new plan to create jobs and boost the economy. In his proposal, The American Jobs Act, the President calls for greater investment in the nation’s infrastructure and…
NADO Provides Legislative Update to Members
On September 8, the NADO legislative team provided a federal policy and legislative status report to NADO members through a national conference call. The purpose of the call was to provide NADO members with the latest news from Capitol…
Census Bureau Defines “Urban Areas” for 2010 Census
On August 24, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of the Census announced the final criteria for defining urban areas for the 2010 Census. The criteria will be used in identifying areas that will qualify for designation as urbanized areas…
OMB Memo Establishes Expectations for FY2013 Spending
On August 17, Jacob Lew, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), released a memo directing all Federal department and agency heads to begin work on their FY2013 budget requests. The memo, intended to provide agencies with guidelines…
RPO Bill Introduced in House
On April 14, 2011, Representative Tim Walz (D-MN) and Representative Richard Hanna (R-NY) introduced H.R. 1565 (http://thomas NULL.loc NULL.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H NULL.R NULL.1565:), a bill to incorporate Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs) into the statewide transportation planning process.
Previously, on March 17,…