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RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC
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The Honorable David 0. Meeker, Jr.
Assistant Secretary for Community
  Planning and Development
Department of Housing and Urban
  Development


February 20, 1974


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Dear Mr. Meeker:


     The General Accounting Office made a
Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) 701
program to evaluate the use made of grant
overall administration of the program.


survey of the Department of
Comprehensive Planning Grants
funds by recipients and HUD's


     The survey was performed at HUD headquarters, Chicago and Kansas
City regional offices; Columbus, Louisville, and St. Louis area offices;
and at 13 selected grantees in Ohio, Kentucky, and Missouri.

     Our survey showed that coordination between State and Interstate
regional planning agencies needs to be reemphasized, and unnecessary
updating of housing studies has occurred in Missouri.  Details of our
observations are presented below.

NEED TO REEMPHASIZE COORDINATION REQUIREMENTS

     The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Planning Authority (OKI) is
an interstate agency responsible for 701 planning for the Cincinnati
Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area.  This area includes three
counties in northern Kentucky--Campbell, Kenton, and Boone.  With its
1972 fiscal year 701 funds, OKI contracted with a consultant to per-
form a housing study of Campbell and Kenton and performed internally
a housing study of Boone.

     During the same time period, the State of Kentucky spent about
$3,300 of Federal funds on a housing study for the same three counties.
According to the OKI consultant, the Kentucky study duplicated, in
various degrees, the housing study made by the consultant of Campbell
and Kenton counties.


UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING  OFFICE
         WASHINGTON,  D.C. 20548

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