Public Comment Period
DVRPC invites the public to review and comment on the DRAFT Transportation Conformity Demonstration: Draft Update: Connections 2050 Long-Range Plan, Draft FFY 2026 TIP for New Jersey, and FFY 2025 TIP for Pennsylvania. This conformity finding was developed in cooperation with DVRPC’s planning partners and the Transportation Conformity Interagency Consultation Group. We have opened a public comment period (ending 5:00 pm local time on September 5, 2025) to allow the public an opportunity to comment on the draft conformity finding.
Draft Connections 2050 Plan for Greater Philadelphia
Draft FFY2026 TIP for New Jersey
There will be two public information sessions for this conformity finding, one in-person and one hybrid:
In-person only meeting:
Tuesday, August 5, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Hosted at Mullica Hill Library: https://www.gcls.org/mullica-hill-branch/
Registration via: https://bit.ly/4k7LP8O or by visiting DVRPC’s events calendar at: https://www.dvrpc.org/calendar/.
Hybrid meeting:
Thursday, August 7, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Hosted at DVRPC’s offices: https://www.dvrpc.org/directions/
190 N Independence Mall West
Floor 8
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Registration for in-person and online attendees via: https://bit.ly/43vV9wr or by visiting DVRPC’s events calendar at: https://www.dvrpc.org/calendar/.
DVRPC Conference room
190 N Independence Mall W
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Directions: https://www.dvrpc.org/directions/
The meeting presentations will be recorded and posted on the DVRPC website for additional access to the public.
Public comments must be submitted in writing in order to be incorporated into the public record. DVRPC encourages the public to submit comments on the Draft Transportation Conformity Demonstration: Draft Connections 2050 Long-Range Plan, FFY2025 TIP for Pennsylvania, and Draft FFY2026 TIP for New Jersey by submitting comments on this webpage; by email to airconformity@dvrpc.org; or by mailing to DVRPC at the address at the bottom of this page, Attention: Conformity Comments. If you are unable to submit comments by these standards, please contact DVRPC at (215) 592-1800 for assistance. After consideration of public comment, the DVRPC Board may adopt the conformity determination with any recommended changes at its September 27, 2025, meeting.
The Federal Clean Air Act and the transportation planning provisions of Title 23 and Title 49 of the United States Code are intended to ensure that integrated transportation and air quality planning occurs in the areas that do not or previously have not met the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). These areas, known as nonattainment or maintenance areas respectively, require a process to demonstrate that transportation projects included in the region’s Long-Range Plan (Plan) or Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) will not impede a region’s progress towards meeting or maintaining the federal air quality standards.
Transportation conformity is the federally mandated analytical process through which Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) demonstrate that the transportation investments, strategies, and programs included in the Plan and TIPs are consistent with air quality goals established in State Implementation Plans (SIP) for achieving the NAAQS. Conformity demonstrations show that emissions from projects in transportation plans and programs do not exceed the SIP targets ("budgets") for emissions from mobile sources.
The nine-county DVRPC planning area is part of the:
- Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City Ozone Nonattainment Area
- Philadelphia-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE PM2.5 Maintenance Area
- New York - Northern New Jersey - Long Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 Maintenance Area
- Delaware County PM2.5 Maintenance Area
On July 25, 2024, the DVRPC Board adopted the “Transportation Conformity Determination: Connections 2050 Long-Range Plan and FY 2025 TIP for Pennsylvania”. This is the current transportation conformity determination for the Pennsylvania portion of the region. The “Transportation Conformity Determination: Connections 2050 Long-Range Plan, FY 2023 TIP for Pennsylvania, and FY 2024 TIP for New Jersey”, adopted in September 2023, remains the current conformity document for the New Jersey portion of the region.
Adopted Conformity Documents
The DVRPC Board adopted the following documents in September 2023 and July 2024. Combined these documents demonstrate transportation conformity for:
- the Connections 2050 Long-Range Plan,
- the FY 2024-2027 TIP for New Jersey, and
- the FY 2025-2028 TIP for Pennsylvania
View the Transportation Conformity Determination: Connections 2050 Long-Range Plan and FY 2025 TIP for Pennsylvania and Executive Summary.
View the Transportation Conformity Determination: Connections 2050 Long-Range Plan, FY 2024 New Jersey and FY 2023 Pennsylvania TIPs and Executive Summary.
DVRPC procedures for developing a Transportation Conformity Determination are detailed in each conformity report. Further information on these procedures are available here:
PENNDOT Project Review and Classification Guidelines for Regional Air Quality Conformity
DVRPC Transportation Conformity Standard Operating Procedures for the New Jersey Subregion
For more information on transportation conformity, visit the FHWA or EPA webpages.
Title VI Compliance
DVRPC fully complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related nondiscrimination mandates in all activities. For more information about DVRPC’s Title VI Program or to obtain a Title VI Complaint Form, visit www.dvrpc.org/GetInvolved/TitleVI, or contact DVRPC’s ADA and Title VI Compliance Officer Shoshana Akins by calling 215-592-1800 or via email at public_affairs@dvrpc.org.
La DVRPC cumple plenamente con el Título VI de la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964, y con los reglamentos relacionados contra la discriminación en todas sus actividades. Para obtener más información acerca del programa del Título VI de la DVRPC o para recibir un formulario de queja del Título VI, visite www.dvrpc.org/GetInvolved/TitleVI o comuníquese con la encargada de cumplimiento con la ADA y el Título VI de la DVRPC, Shoshana Akins al 215-592-1800 o por correo electrónico a través de public_affairs@dvrpc.org.
特拉华谷地区规划委员会 (DVRPC) 开展的所有活动均完全符合 1964 年《民权法案》第六章以及相关非歧视性法规的要求。有关 DVRPC 第六章计划的更多信息，或者欲获取《第六章投诉表》，请访问 www.dvrpc.org/GetInvolved/TitleVI，或者致电 215-592-1800 或发送电子邮件至 public_affairs@dvrpc.org 联系 DVRPC 的 ADA 和第六章合规官 Shoshana Akins。
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