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  SA 1607. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself, Ms. Murkowski, Ms. Collins, Mr. 
Levin, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Sanders, and Ms. Landrieu) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1813, to 
reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction 
programs, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       Beginning on page 264, strike line 23 and all that follows 
     through page 267, line 9, and insert the following:
       ``(5) Special rules for small metropolitan planning 
     organizations.--
       ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), a 
     metropolitan planning organization subject to this section 
     and chapter 53 of title 49 (as in effect on the day before 
     the date of enactment of the MAP-21) shall continue to be 
     designated as a metropolitan planning organization subject to 
     this section (as amended by that Act) if the metropolitan 
     planning organization--
       ``(i) serves an urbanized area; and
       ``(ii) the population of the urbanized area is more than 
     50,000 individuals and less than 100,000 individuals.
       ``(B) Exception.--Subparagraph (A) shall not apply if the 
     Governor and units of general purpose local government--
       ``(i) agree to terminate the designation described in 
     subparagraph (A); and
       ``(ii) together represent at least 75 percent of the 
     population described in subparagraph (A)(ii), based on the 
     latest available decennial census conducted under section 
     141(a) of title 13, United States Code.
       ``(C) Treatment.--A metropolitan planning organization 
     described in subparagraph (A) shall be treated, for purposes 
     this section and chapter 53 of title 49 as a metropolitan 
     planning organization that is subject to this section (as 
     amended by the MAP-21).
       On page 267, line 10, strike ``(8)'' and insert ``(6)''.
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