# Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform
> **US Department of Transportation** · Final rule. · Published 2016-12-20 · Effective 2017-01-19 · 81 FR 93448
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-30478
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Transportation
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 93448
- **CFR reference:** 23 CFR 450
- **Publication date:** 2016-12-20
- **Effective date:** 2017-01-19
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. FHWA-2016-0016
## Abstract

This final rule revises the transportation planning regulations to promote more effective regional planning by States and metropolitan planning organizations (MPO). The goal of the revisions is to better align the planning regulations with statutory provisions concerning the establishment of metropolitan planning area (MPA) boundaries and the designation of MPOs.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/20/2016-30478/metropolitan-planning-organization-coordination-and-planning-area-reform)
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