MI HCR0050

Requests Congress maintain the current 50,000 urbanized area population threshold for Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) rather than increasing it to 200,000.

Warns that raising the threshold would eliminate approximately 60 percent of the nation's MPOs, including eight in Michigan, and could result in eight states losing all of their MPOs.

Argues that current MPO thresholds enable local government participation in transportation planning and provide communities direct input on federal transportation policies, priorities, and funding decisions.

Notes that smaller communities with significant transportation issues, such as proximity to major trucking and freight corridors, depend on MPOs to advocate their needs outside state transportation bureaucracies.

Directs the Michigan Legislature to transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the U.S. Senate, Speaker of the U.S. House, and Michigan's congressional delegation.