23 CFR § 810.300 - Purpose.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t23/s810.300"
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title: "23 CFR § 810.300 - Purpose."
title_number: 23
title_name: "Highways"
section_number: "810.300"
section_name: "Purpose."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION"
part_number: "810"
part_name: "MASS TRANSIT AND SPECIAL USE HIGHWAY PROJECTS"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "23 U.S.C. 137, 142, 149 and 315; sec. 4 of Pub. L. 97-134, 95 Stat. 1699; secs. 118, 120, and 163 of Pub. L. 97-424, 96 Stat. 2097; 49 CFR 1.48(b) and 1.51(f)."
regulatory_source: "50 FR 33917, Aug. 22, 1985, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "810"
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# 810.300 Purpose.

The purpose of this subpart is to implement 23 U.S.C. 142(a)(2), which allows the Urban Mass Transportation Administrator, by delegation of the Secretary, to approve nonhighway public mass transit projects as Federal-aid urban system projects.