PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

After June 30, 1967, any application for a federal loan or grant for certain projects in a metropolitan area must be sent for local review. This covers projects like open-space land work and planning or building hospitals, airports, libraries, water and sewer systems, highways and transportation, law enforcement facilities, and water development and land conservation. Applications must go to the area's areawide planning agency. If a special-purpose local government applies, it must also send the application to the general local governments that have authority where the project will be. An areawide agency is the group set up to do metro or regional planning and is mostly made up of or answerable to local elected officials. Each application must include the reviewers’ comments and a statement that the applicant considered those comments. The comments should say whether the project fits local or regional plans. Federal agencies use those comments only to check compliance with federal law. If an applicant left a plan with the proper local agency for 60 days and got no comments, the applicant can certify that and skip the comments. Major changes to an application need the same review. The Office of Management and Budget can make rules to run this process.

Title 42, §3334

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(a)Review of projects by areawide agency or local government

All applications made after June 30, 1967, for Federal loans or grants to assist in carrying out open-space land projects or for the planning or construction of hospitals, airports, libraries, water supply and distribution facilities, sewerage facilities and waste treatment works, highways, transportation facilities, law enforcement facilities, and water development and land conservation projects within any metropolitan area shall be submitted for review—

(1)to any areawide agency which is designated to perform metropolitan or regional planning for the area within which the assistance is to be used, and which is, to the greatest practicable extent, composed of or responsible to the elected officials of a unit of areawide government or of the units of general local government within whose jurisdiction such agency is authorized to engage in such planning, and

(2)if made by a special purpose unit of local government, to the unit or units of general local government with authority to operate in the area within which the project is to be located.

(b)Comments and recommendations by areawide agency and local government

(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, each application shall be accompanied (A) by the comments and recommendations with respect to the project involved by the areawide agency and governing bodies of the units of general local government to which the application has been submitted for review, and (B) by a statement by the applicant that such comments and recommendations have been considered prior to formal submission of the application. Such comments shall include information concerning the extent to which the project is consistent with comprehensive planning developed or in the process of development for the metropolitan area or the unit of general local government, as the case may be, and the extent to which such project contributes to the fulfillment of such planning. The comments and recommendations and the statement referred to in this paragraph shall, except in the case referred to in paragraph (2) of this subsection, be reviewed by the agency of the Federal Government to which such application is submitted for the sole purpose of assisting it in determining whether the application is in accordance with the provisions of Federal law which govern the making of the loans or grants.

(2)An application for a Federal loan or grant need not be accompanied by the comments and recommendations and the statements referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection, if the applicant certifies that a plan or description of the project, meeting the requirements of such rules and regulations as may be prescribed under subsection (c), or such application, has lain before an appropriate areawide agency or instrumentality or unit of general local government for a period of sixty days without comments or recommendations thereon being made by such agency or instrumentality.

(3)The requirements of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall also apply to any amendment of the application which, in light of the purposes of this subchapter, involves a major change in the project covered by the application prior to such amendment.

(c)Rules and regulations

The Office of Management and Budget, or such other agency as may be designated by the President, is hereby authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as are deemed appropriate for the effective administration of this section.

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1973—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93–83 reenacted amendment by Pub. L. 90–351, inserting “law

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facilities,” after “transportation facilities,”. 1968—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90–351 inserted “law

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facilities,” after “transportation facilities,”.

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Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by law (including reorganization plan) in Bureau of the Budget or Director of Bureau of the Budget transferred to President of United States by section 101 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. section 102 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970 redesignated Bureau of the Budget as Office of Management and Budget.

§3334 Coordination of Federal Aids with Local Governments

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Title 42, §3334

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