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GGD-78-6 1 (1978-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaawsv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUENT RESURE 05128 - (B06856121 Changes Needed ia the Relocation Act To Achieve gore Uniform Treatment of Per3ons Displaced by Federal Programs. GGD-78-6; B-148044. March 8, 1978. 36 pp. + 3 appendices (23 pp.). Report to the Congress; b7 Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General. Issue Area: Domestic Rousing and Community Development: Assisting Urban Communities to Prevent and Eliminate Blight and Deterioration (401); Intergovernenmtal Relations and Revenue Sharing: Administration of the Assintance System (2102);Land Use Planning and Control (2300). Contact: General Government Div. Budget Function: Ganeral agve-nment: Executive Direction and Management (802). Orqanization Concerned: Department of sousing and Urban DevelopmiYnt; Department of Transportation; General Services Administ-.'ation; Office of Management and Budget. Co'iqressional Relevance: Fouse Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Authority: iniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisiftion Policies act (42 U.S.C. 4601). OKB Circular A-103. Denoustration cities aud etropolitan Development Acjt of 1966. Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Housing Act of 1949. The relocation act is -tended to provide for aniform and equitable treatment ot persons displaced from their homes, businesses, or farms by Federal and federilly assisted programs. Fiudings/Conclusions: Some displaced persons are receiving little or no relocation assistance becau3e the coverage provided by the act is limited. Vhea Federal financial assistance is provided to organizaticns other than State agencies, few relocation benefits are provided because of the belief that the act does not apply under these conditions. Businesses may suffer because the benefits are not provided to pay fcz increased costs at a replacement site. The Rousing and Community Development Act of 1974 decreased coverage under the relocation act because of agency and court interpretations that the benefits are mot required to be paid to displaced persons when there is no acquisition of property. although the act calls for coordination among agencies, each issues its own regulations with the result that benefits have differed under comparable conditions. The Relocation Assistance Implementation Committee has been nable to brinq about the uniformity prescribed by the act because it lacks authority to rule on differencen in agencies* positicas. Recommendations: The Congress should: consider hether the act should cover all displacements cause3 by Fedex 2. or federally assisted acquisition and nouacquirition projects; consider providing additional benefits to displaced businesses; and amend the act to require the President to issue a single set of relocation regulations and to designate a central organization

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