§4272 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Create a federal agency to keep working on problems that cross federal, state, and local governments as the nation grows and life gets more complex. The Commission must do seven main things: bring federal, state, and local officials together to deal with shared problems; provide a place to coordinate federal grants and programs that need intergovernmental work; closely review how federal grant programs are run; give technical help to the executive and legislative branches when they check new laws for effects on the federal system; promote early study of new public problems needing cooperation; recommend how to divide functions, duties, and revenues among government levels under the Constitution; and suggest ways to coordinate and simplify tax laws and rules to reduce competition and cut taxpayer burden.

Title 42, §4272

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Because the complexity of modern life intensifies the need in a federal form of government for the fullest cooperation and coordination of activities between the levels of government, and because population growth and scientific developments portend an increasingly complex society in future years, it is essential that an appropriate agency be established to give continuing attention to intergovernmental problems. It is intended that the Commission, in the performance of its duties, will— (1) bring together representatives of the Federal, State, and local governments for the consideration of common problems; (2) provide a forum for discussing the administration and coordination of Federal grant and other programs requiring intergovernmental cooperation; (3) give critical attention to the conditions and controls involved in the administration of Federal grant programs; (4) make available technical assistance to the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government in the review of proposed legislation to determine its overall effect on the Federal system; (5) encourage discussion and study at an early stage of emerging public problems that are likely to require intergovernmental cooperation; (6) recommend, within the framework of the Constitution, the most desirable allocation of governmental functions, responsibilities, and revenues among the several levels of government; and (7) recommend methods of coordinating and simplifying tax laws and administrative practices to achieve a more orderly and less competitive fiscal relationship between the levels of government and to reduce the burden of compliance for taxpayers.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 2372 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

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