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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO; before 1973, the American Association of State Highway Officials, AASHO), among many other functions, is the organization in charge of assigning designations for United States Numbered Highway System (U.S. Highways) through its Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering (USRN), a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Highways (SCOH) or the Executive Committee. The committee handles numbering for the Interstate Highway System in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). In recent years, USRN also handles numbering assignments for the United States Bicycle Route System.
Member state departments of transportation request approval for changes (additions, deletions, extensions, relocations, etc.) to AASHO/AASHTO at the organization's biannual meetings. The committee meets to consider the requests at a spring or summer meeting (usually in June) and the annual meeting (October or November). USRN then forwards its decisions to SCOH or the EC for ratification and a report or minutes is ultimately published detailing the results.
The table below is adapted from the USRN Application Database with Meeting Minutes and Application Results provided by AASHTO and contains the decisions from additional documents in AASHTO's Route Numbering Archive. Currently, reports or minutes from AASHO/AASHTO from 1927 through 1988 are hosted in PDF format on Wikimedia Commons; due to copyright restrictions, reports or minutes from 1989 through the present are hosted on AASHTO's websites only. Many of the documents on Commons are also transcribed to Wikisource, and the goal is to eventually transcribe all of the available documents.
The reports or minutes detailing these decisions can be cited in Wikipedia articles using the {{AASHTO minutes}} citation template; it will generate a full citation for the documents in its coding and will link to the Wikisource transcription (if validated) or the PDF on Commons. For newer documents, the template links to a copy on AASHTO's website along with archival copies at the Internet Archive, where available.