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Federally Assisted Areawide Planning: Need To Simplify Policies
and Practices. GGD-77-24; B-146285. March 28, 1977. 79 pp.
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Intergovernmental Relations and Revenue Sharing:
Federal, State, Area-wide, and Local Coordination (402).
Contact: General Government Div.
Budget Function: General Government: Executive Directio. and
Management (802).
Organization Concerned: Office of Management and Budget.
Congressional Relevance: Congress.
Authority: Intergovernmental Cooperation act of 1968 (42 U.S.C.
4231). Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act
of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 3334). OMB Circular A-95. OMB Circular
A-82.
The Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968
recognized the interrelated nature of most Federal planning
programs and the need to coordinate them, Twenty federally
assisted areawide planning programs, principally in the
districts surrounding Sacramento, California, Atlanta, Georgia,
and Seattle, Wa:.hington, were reviewed to determine whether the
procedures of Circular A-95 of the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) adequately carry out the purposes of the
Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968.
Findings/Conclusions: OMB's encouragement of the use of a single
areawide orqanization to plin or to coordinate planning has not
been effective because: (1) programs were initiated haphazardly
to satisfy particular demands and each program built its own
constituency at the State, areawide, and local level, which made
it difficult for State and local governments to form a
coordinated planning effort; (2) Federal agencies often ignored
the designated comprehensive planning agency; (3) the States
sometimes disregarded their own planning subdivisions in
implementing Federal programs; and (4) Federal agencies had
varying requirements which created impediments to coordinated
planning and made it difficult for one planning organiza.tion to
satisfy all Federal requirements. Recommendations: Congress
should establish a national policy on areawide planning and
provide a basis for strengthening planning focal points at the
areawide level. OMB should: require Federal agencies and
federally funded state agencies to use the designated areawide
comprehensive planning agencies to carry out and coordinate
areawide planning, and to use, to the extent possible, the
planning boundaries designated by the States. (SS)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaabvz0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)