Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§3101 Congressional Declaration of Purpose
Title 42 › CHAPTER 37 — COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND ADVANCE LAND ACQUISITION › § 3101
Summary
Provide Federal grants to communities so their governments can build basic water and sewer systems for orderly growth, build neighborhood social-service facilities, and buy land for future public use.
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Title 42, §3101
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The purpose of this chapter is to assist and encourage the communities of the Nation fully to meet the needs of their citizens by making it possible, with Federal grant assistance, for their governmental bodies (1) to construct adequate basic water and sewer facilities needed to promote the efficient and orderly growth and development of our communities, (2) to construct neighborhood facilities needed to enable them to carry on programs of necessary social services, and (3) to acquire, in a planned and orderly fashion, land to be utilized in the future for public purposes.
Legislative History
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Amendments
1968—Pub. L. 90–448 substituted “in the future for public purposes” for “in connection with the future
Construction
of public works and facilities” in cl. (3).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
of 1970 Amendment Pub. L. 91–431, § 1, Oct. 6, 1970, 84 Stat. 886, provided: “That this Act [amending section 3102 and 3108 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 3108 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Emergency Community Facilities Act of 1970’.”
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42 U.S.C. § 3101
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
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