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Montgomery County Consortium
A consortium of municipal managers and
employees dedicated to providing efficient
and effective services that are in compliance
with municipal, local, state, and federal laws.
Montgomery CountyWorkforce Investment
Board (MCWIB)
A board, which meets every other month,
which seeks to increase awareness of
workforce development issues and
to strengthen the county’s workforce
development system by developing
partnerships with business, government, and
community-based organizations.
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st
Century (MAP-21)
This transportation bill was signed into
law on July 6, 2012. Funding surface
transportation programs at over $105 billion
for fiscal years (FY) 2013 and 2014, MAP-21
is the first long-term highway authorization
enacted since 2005.
Multifamily
Residential buildings that contain more
than one dwelling unit, with units usually
horizontally separated, such as apartments,
including garden-style apartment complexes,
and duplexes.
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer
(MS4) program
This program aims to prevent harmful
pollutants from being washed or
dumped into an MS4, and requires
operators to obtain a NPDES permit
and develop a stormwater management
program. Phase I, issued in 1990,
requires medium and large cities or certain
counties with populations of 100,000 or
more to obtain NPDES permit coverage
for stormwater discharges. Phase II,
issued in 1999, requires regulated small
MS4s in urbanized areas, as well as small
MS4s outside the urbanized areas that are
designated by the permitting authority, to
obtain NPDES permit coverage for their
stormwater discharges.
MunicipalWaste Planning, Recycling, and
Waste Reduction Act (Act 101)
A 1988 act,Act 101 mandates recycling in
the state’s larger municipalities, requires
counties to develop municipal waste
management plans, and provides for grants
to offset expenses.
Municipalities Planning Code (MPC)
(Act 247)
The MPC (Act of 1968, P.L.805, No.247),
as updated, empowers counties and
municipalities, individually or jointly, to plan
their development and to govern the same
by zoning, subdivision and land development
ordinances, and additional tools.
National Flood Insurance Program
A federal program created through
the National Flood Insurance Act of
1968 which enables property owners
in participating communities to
purchase insurance protection from the
government against losses from flooding.
This insurance is designed to provide an
insurance alternative to disaster assistance
to meet the escalating costs of repairing
damage to buildings and their contents
caused by floods.
National Highway System (NHS)
A network of strategic nationwide
highways, including the Interstate Highway
System and other roads serving major
airports, ports, rail or truck terminals,
railway stations, pipeline terminals and
other strategic transport facilities. The
roads within the system were identified
by the United States Department of
Transportation in cooperation with the
states, local officials, and metropolitan
planning organizations and approved by
the United States Congress in 1995.
