80 STAT.]
PUBLIC LAW 8 9 - 7 7 4 - N O V. 6, 1966
"Adoption of Mass Transit Plan "15. (a) Before a mass transit plan is adopted, altered, revised or amended, the Board shall transmit such proposed plan, alteration, revision or amendment for comment to the following and to such other agencies as the Board shall determine: "(1) the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and the Washington Suburban Transit Commission; " (2) the governing bodies of the Counties and Cities embraced within the Zone; " (3) the highway agencies of the Signatories; "(4) the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission; "(5) the W a s h i n ^ o n Metropolitan Council of Governments; " (6) the National Capital Planning Commission; "(7) The National Capital Regional Planning Council; "(8) the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission; "(9) the Northern Virginia Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission; "(10) the Maryland State Planning Department; and "(11) the private transit companies operating in the Zone and the Labor Unions representing the employees of such companies and employees of contractors providing service under operating contracts. "Information with respect thereto shall be released to the public. A copy of the proposed mass transit plan, amendment or revision, shall be kept at the oflB^ce of the Board and shall be available for public inspection. After thirty days' notice published once a week for two successive weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the Zone, a public hearing shall be held with respect to the proposed plan, alteration, revision or amendment. The thirty days' notice shall begin to run on the first day the notice appears in any such newspaper. The Board shall consider the evidence submitted and statements and comments made at such hearing and may make any changes in the proposed plan, amendment or revision which it deems appropriate and such changes may be made without further hearing. "ARTICLE
VII
"FINANCING
"Policy "16. With due regard for the policy of Congress for financing a mass transit plan for the Zone set forth in Section 204(g) of the National Capital Transportation Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 537), it is hereby ^o use 664. declared to be the policy of this Title that, as far as possible, the payment of all costs shall be borne by the persons using or benefiting from the Authority's facilities and services and any remaining costs shall be equitably shared among the federal, District of Columbia and participating local governments in the Zone. The allocation among such governments of such remaining costs shall be determined by agreement among them and shall be provided in the manner hereinafter specified. "Plan of Financing "17. (a) The Authority, in conformance with said policy, shall prepare and adopt a plan for financing the construction, acquisition, and
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