40 U.S.C. § 15504: Program development criteria

Summary

The Commission must use procedures that, as much as possible, consider six things when choosing and ranking projects for help. It must weigh how the project fits regional development; local income and rates of poverty, unemployment, and people leaving the area; the applicant’s financial resources and project financing; the project’s priority compared with competing projects; whether it will create lasting jobs, higher incomes, or economic growth; and whether it has clear ways to measure results and spending.

Title 40, §15504

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In considering programs and projects to be provided assistance by a Commission under this subtitle, and in establishing a priority ranking of the requests for assistance provided to the Commission, the Commission shall follow procedures that ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, consideration of— (1)

(2)the per capita income and poverty and unemployment and outmigration rates in an area;

(3)the financial resources available to the applicants for assistance seeking to carry out the project, with emphasis on ensuring that projects are adequately financed to maximize the probability of successful economic development;

(4)the importance of the project or class of projects in relation to the other projects or classes of projects that may be in competition for the same funds;

(5)the prospects that the project for which assistance is sought will improve, on a continuing rather than a temporary basis, the opportunities for employment, the average level of income, or the economic development of the area to be served by the project; and

(6)the extent to which the project design provides for detailed outcome measurements by which grant expenditures and the results of the expenditures may be evaluated.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning after June 18, 2008, see section 14217(d) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 15101 of this title.

§15504 Program Development Criteria