---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 5306"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "5306"
heading: "Private enterprise participation in metropolitan planning and transportation improvement programs and relationship to other limitations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/5306"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — General and Intermodal Programs"
  - "Chapter 53 — Public Transportation"
---

# §5306. Private enterprise participation in metropolitan planning and transportation improvement programs and relationship to other limitations

- (a) **Private Enterprise Participation.—** A plan or program required by section [5303](/usc/49/5303.md), [5304](/usc/49/5304.md), or [5305](/usc/49/5305.md) of this title shall encourage to the maximum extent feasible, as determined by local policies, criteria, and decisionmaking, the participation of private enterprise. If equipment or a facility already being used in an [urban area](/usc/49/5302.md?p=23) is to be acquired under this chapter, the program shall provide that it be improved so that it will better serve the transportation needs of the area.
- (b) **Relationship to Other Limitations.—** Sections 5303–5305 of this title do not authorize—
  - (1) a metropolitan planning organization to impose a legal requirement on a transportation facility, provider, or project not eligible under this chapter or [title 23](/usc/23.md); and
  - (2) intervention in the management of a transportation authority.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 109–59, title III, § 3008, Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1568.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 5306(a) | 49 App.:1607(o). | July 9, 1964, Pub. L. 88–365, 78 Stat. 302, § 8(o); added Nov. 6, 1978, Pub. L. 95–599, § 305(b), 92 Stat. 2743; Apr. 2, 1987, Pub. L. 100–17, § 310, 101 Stat. 227; restated Dec. 18, 1991, Pub. L. 102–240, § 3012, 105 Stat. 2105. |
| 5306(b) | 49 App.:1607(m). | July 9, 1964, Pub. L. 88–365, 78 Stat. 302, § 8(m); added Nov. 6, 1978, Pub. L. 95–599, § 305(b), 92 Stat. 2743; Apr. 2, 1987, Pub. L. 100–17, § 310, 101 Stat. 227; restated Dec. 18, 1991, Pub. L. 102–240, § 3012, 105 Stat. 2104; Oct. 6, 1992, Pub. L. 102–388, § 502(g), 106 Stat. 1566. |

In subsection (a), the words “(through modernization, extension, addition, or otherwise)” are omitted as surplus.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2005—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–59 inserted “, as determined by local policies, criteria, and decisionmaking,” after “feasible”.