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Transportation Assistance Act

The Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 revised federal funding of mass transit established in the Urban Mass Transportation Act and the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act. It replaced the funding formulae with a block grant[?] for operating costs. It also set up a new formula to distribute moneys to public transit based on need rather than population.

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