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ID-78-12 1 (1978-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaawob0001 and id is 1 raw text is: * U~~3SV3138/i5 5 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNI-EO STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 2054 B-126652 -///1//I/11/I/1//I!I///IiII111111 Do Viet °:mae ILl40 The Honorable Clair W. Burgener oe po 1C L1...0_ House of Representatives Dear Mr. Burgener: By letters of June 27 and July 12, 1977, you reqaezted our opinion as to whether certain parts of the regulationr issued by the Lconomic Development Administration (ILDA) to irar ont rou d II of funding under the Local Public WVorks Capital DL-,,'ioprrent znd Investmcnt Act of 176, title I of Pub. L. No. 94-3.39, 90 Stat. 99e, as amended by the Public V orks Fniployrient At of 1977, title I of Pub. L. No. 95-23, 91 Stat. 116, are in accordance with these authorizing statutes and their legislative histories. More speciically, you expressed concern regarding the regu- lations pertaining to school district participation because These regulations mak rural school districts incligible to apply for any funds under Round U unless the school distzicts serve 'thc cntir- county'. Since school district boundaries in the State af >t-lifornia are not coterminous w ith county boundaries, you asscrt that 1,.8 California school districts having 203 pcndin ? applications totilling $221, 540, 0G4 are ineli'i'le under current regulatior. , You Eag- gest that such a reW,!t is contrary to legislative intent since Con- gress made it quite slear that school districts wcre to participate in the f-inding by iir.uding spccifiz l.--ag e in both the statute and a joint exrlanatory statement of the Conferehce Committee requiring that project applications for school districts be accorded equal pri- ority with those of general purpose local governments under the Act. For the reasons stated hereafter, we conclude that thq relevant regulations are consistent wita the aut-orizing legislation, and we do not believe that they proclude eligibility of rural school districts In C--,1ifornia that do not serve th entire county. A brief summary of the program mey be helpful before discussing the pertinent regulations in order to plece-them-in perspective. The purpose of round II funding (LPW grants) under the Local Fablic Works Capital Development and Inve-trent Act of 197,. as amended, as expressed by the Secretary of Commerce, in letters discussed during the course of the Senate debate, is to target aid to econonii- cally depressed areas of greatest need to improve the N- tion's ccute RELEASED

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