§6735 Program Studies and Recommendations; Evaluation; Countercyclical Study

Summary

The Comptroller General must study how emergency support grants affect State and local governments and the national economy. He must work with the Congressional Budget Office and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations while doing this. He must send his report and any recommendations to Congress within one year after July 22, 1976. All federal officers must give him any information he reasonably asks for. The Congressional Budget Office and the Advisory Commission must also study how the federal government can help stabilize the economy during fast growth and high inflation by using programs aimed at States and localities. They must compare different ways to measure the problem, look at how recessions affect State and local spending, work with the Comptroller General, and report to Congress within two years after July 22, 1976, including the Comptroller General’s views. The Secretary, working with the Secretary of Commerce, must study three things and report to Congress by March 1, 1978: whether funding could be tied more closely to drops in private real wages and salaries; whether other factors like relative tax effort should be part of the allocation method; and whether reliable data exist for Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and whether those territories should be included in the regular allocation system used for the States.