COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

By His Excellency

FRANCIS W. SARGENT

Governor

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 82 

    WHEREAS, the Governor's Advisory Council on Transportation
was formed and has provided valuable assistance in the develop-
ment of a system of efficient, modern transportation; and 

    WHEREAS, the construction of any transportation facility
must be carried out in such a way as to further area and regional
environmental objectives and avoid abuse of vital environmental
resources; and

    WHEREAS, planning, cooperation, and coordination at the 
highest levels are essential to the development of the most
efficient state-wide transportation system possible; and

    WHEREAS, the Secretary of the Executive Office of Trans-
portation and Construction is the appropriate cabinet official to
be responsible for the planning, cooperation and coordination of
both public and private efforts in this regard,

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, Francis W. Sargent, Governor of the
Commonwealth, by virtue of the authority vested in me as supreme 
executive magistrate, do hereby order that Executive Order No. 57,
as most recently amended by Executive Order No. 72, be further
amended as follows:

    By deleting paragraph one and inserting in its place the
following:-- 

    1.  There is hereby created a council to be known as the
Governor's Advisory Council on Transportation consisting of the
Commissioner of the Department of Public Works, the Director of
the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission, the Commissioner of the
Metropolitan Distict Commission, the Chairman of the Massachu-
setts Bay Transportation Authority, the Chairman of the Massachu-
setts Port Authority, and such other representatives as the
Secretary may from time to time designate.  Other public officials
and private representatives of all trasportation modes may also
be invited by the Secretary to participate in the deliberations
of the Council as non-members.  The Secretary of Transportation
and Construction shall be permanent Chairman of the Council and 
shall set the time of each meeting and the agenda therefor.

Given at the Executive Chamber in Boston
this 31st day of August 
in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and seventy-one and of the Indepen-
dence of the United States of America, one
hundred and ninety-sixth.

FRANCIS W. SARGENT
Governor
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

JOHN F. X. DAVOREN
Secretary of the Commonwealth