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093301 1 (1972-08-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxdn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O16 330 1 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE 1 WASHINGTON, DC 20548 GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION AUG-1 7 1972 D BEST DOCUMENT AVAILABLE Dear Mr. Podesta: The General Accounting Office surveyed the Economic Development Administration's (EDA) funded industrial park projects in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. We identified 46 sites relating to industrial parks in the Commonwealth. We also surveyed two EDA economic development districts in Kentucky. We visited the former Huntington Regional Office, two economic development districts, and various industrial sites in the Commonwealth. Although our survey was limited in scope, we have some observations on two areas which we are reporting for your consideration. NEED TO CLARIFY INDUSTRIAL PARK PROJECTS The EDA Huntington Regional Office did not have an inventory of industrial parks in its region nor did it have records concerning the parks' development or occupancy. We obtained an inventory of the Huntington region's industrial parks at EDA headquarters but the inventory was incomplete and inaccurate. An EDA official informed us that a complete and accurate inventory of industrial parks is difficult to obtain because EDA classifies its projects according to their primary purpose and many projects are multi-purpose in nature. If the indus- trial park is not the primary purpose of the project, it is not classified as an industrial park. We visited 17 industrial park sites where the site was used by the applicant as justification for applying for EDA public works grants. Most of the grants were for water or sewage systems to service the site rather than for actual site development. Of the 17 sites, seven had some site devel- opment--such as land cleared and graded, access roads, and utilities-and all seven sites had at least one tenant. An additional five sites had land cleared but no other site development was completed or planned. The remaining five '7j3

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