As used in this part:

1. (1)

   1. (A) “Interchange Justification Report (IJR)” means the document that is transmitted to the Federal Highway Administration along with the request for new or revised freeway access.
   2. (B) The IJR supports the request and is the document that is reviewed by the Arkansas Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration;
2. (2) “Locked gate access for right-of-way maintenance” means the access granted by the Arkansas Department of Transportation to the adjacent property owner for access to the highway right-of-way, but not the main lanes, for the purpose of mowing the part of the right-of-way that is outside the area that is typically mowed;
3. (3) “Locked gate access to/from the main lanes” means the specific access rights granted by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, with Federal Highway Administration approval, to allow non-Arkansas Department of Transportation personnel access to an adjacent property;

4. (4)

   1. (A)

      1. (i) “Request”, for new or revised freeway access, means the process of asking the Federal Highway Administration for granting approval.
      2. (ii) If the proposing entity is other than the Arkansas Department of Transportation, the request goes to the Arkansas Department of Transportation first.
   2. (B) “Request” for a finding of engineering and operational acceptability is typically stated in a letter that accompanies the Interchange Justification Report (IJR).
   3. (C) “Request” for final approval is a separate letter;

5. (5)

   1. (A) “Review” means the process the Arkansas Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration follow to determine whether the request meets the eight (8) Federal Highway Administration policy requirements.
   2. (B) This occurs by reviewing the IJR during the engineering and operational acceptability review step, and later during the final approval step;
6. (6) “Transportation management area (TMA)” means an urbanized area with a current population more than two hundred thousand (200,000) as determined by the latest census, or other area when the TMA designation is requested by the Governor and the MPO, and officially designated by the Administrators of the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration;

7. (7)

   1. (A) “Urban area” means an urbanized area or an urban place as designated by the United States Bureau of the Census having a population of five thousand (5,000) or more and not within any urbanized area, within boundaries to be fixed by responsible state and local officials in cooperation with each other, subject to approval by the United State Secretary of Transportation.
   2. (B) Such boundaries shall encompass, at a minimum, the entire urban place designated by the United States Bureau of the Census; and

8. (8)

   1. (A) “Urbanized area” means an area with a population of fifty thousand (50,000) or more designated by the United States Bureau of the Census, within boundaries to be fixed by responsible state and local officials in cooperation with each other, subject to approval by the United States Secretary of Transportation.
   2. (B) Such boundaries shall encompass, at a minimum, the entire urbanized area as designated by the United States Bureau of the Census.

Codification Notes: “MPO” means metropolitan planning organization.