City departments must cooperate with the Oahu transportation planning group

(a) Officers and department heads of the city shall cooperate, in a timely and satisfactory manner, with the Oahu metropolitan planning organization and provide whatever pertinent or necessary report, information, or data required or requested by the Oahu metropolitan planning organization in the preparation and updating of the Oahu regional transportation plan, short-range transit plan, and other planning documents required under federal law or regulation. (b) (1) All projects for which the department of transportation services or department of planning and permitting desires assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, or the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973 or any other federal act, program, or regulations involving or affecting the Oahu metropolitan planning organization shall be initiated by submission of the proposed project to the council for its prior approval. Upon approval by the council, the project description, along with all required accompanying data, shall be forwarded to the Oahu metropolitan planning organization for appropriate review and action. (2) Only proposed projects approved by the department of transportation services shall be submitted to the council. The director of transportation services shall coordinate the submission to the council of projects proposed by the department of transportation services and department of planning and permitting. The director of transportation services shall forward proposed projects approved by the council to the Oahu metropolitan planning organization. If the director of transportation services is not the mayor’s appointee, the director shall forward the proposed projects approved by the council to the Oahu metropolitan planning organization through the mayor’s appointee. (c) In addition, any department desiring to implement a transportation project not requiring federal funds shall so inform the Oahu metropolitan planning organization so that such project may be included in the Oahu regional transportation plan, short-range transit plan, or other appropriate planning document. )