2241 A RESOLUTION BY THE TRANSPORTATION POLICY BOARD OF THE WEST
MEMPHIS AREA METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION ADOPTION TO
SUPPORT THE TRI-STATE CMAQ PERFORMANCE MEASURE TARGETS
COVERING THE MEMPHIS TN-MS-AR URBANIZED AREA
Resolution No. 2 2 / 1
WHEREAS, the West Memphis Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is the
organization responsible for planning an efficient transportation system in the West Memphis
Metropolitan Planning Area and for the appropriate use of federal transportation funding in the
area; and
WHEREAS, in 2012 Congress passed the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21"Century (MAP-
21) and Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act that mandates the establishment of a
performance and outcome-based program for transportation decisions; and
WHEREAS, State DOT's and MPO's are required to establish targets on measures identified in 23
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)490; and
WHEREAS, 23 CFR Part 490—Subpart G—the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ)
Performance Measures, requires single, unified targets to be established, by the Memphis MPO, the
West Memphis MPO, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), the Mississippi
Department of Transportation (MDOT), and the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT),
which applies to the entirety of the tri-state Memphis,TN, MS, AR Urbanized Area for two
measures—the annual hours of Peak Hour Excessive Delay (PHED) percapita, and the percent of
Non-Single Occupancy Vehicles (SOV) travel, as depicted in Table 1, attached to this resolution;
and
WHEREAS, the Memphis MPO, the West Memphis MPO, TDOT, MDOT, and ArDOT, held
regularly scheduled meetings to coordinate efforts and establish single, unified targets for the tri-
state area; and
WHEREAS, the Policy and Technical Committee has reviewed the updated 4-year targets (2021)
and has recommended approval of the CMAQ Performance Measure Targets for the Tri-State
Memphis, TN, MS, AR Urbanized Area to the Transportation Policy Board (TPB);
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Transportation Policy Board of the West
Memphis Area Metropolitan Planning Organization does hereby approve that the West Memphis
Area MPO will support the CMAQ targets, as depicted in Table 1, for the Tri-State area, which
will be reported to the FHWA no later than October 1, 2020, by the State DOTs.
Resolution duly passed on 3412. 20
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Mayor Marco McClendon, Chairman
West Memphis Area Metropolitan Planning Organization RECEIVED
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