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... NCHRP LRD 76 57 recipient.647 Title III of SAFETEA-LU greatly enlarged the role of public transportation in Indian country with the Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program (Tribal Transit Program) .648 Significantly, the Act explicitly defined "recipients" to include a state or Indian tribe that receives a federal transit program grant from the federal government.649 The Act provided for $45 million for Indian tribe transit grants for fiscal years 2005 to 2009.650 The change of words from "mass" to "public" reflects the broader applicability of transit systems beyond urban areas.651 The former planning requirements were amended,652 and required that the state's general public transportation planning process consider the concerns of Indian tribal governments and federal land management agencies that have jurisdiction over land within the state boundaries.653 The Act further required the development of a 20-year, long-range transportation plan that provides for the development and implementation of the intermodal transportation system of the state.

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