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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 38 — Public Works and Economic Development

§ 3194. Administration, operation, and maintenance

Statutory text

The Secretary shall approve Federal assistance under this chapter only if the Secretary is satisfied that the project for which Federal assistance is granted will be properly and efficiently administered, operated, and maintained.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965

    Pub. L. 89–136 title V § 504 · 79 Stat. 552

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 3194

    (Pub. L. 89–136, title V, § 504, as added Pub. L. 105–393, title I, § 102(a), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3610.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 89–136, title V, § 504, as added Pub. L. 105–393, title I, § 102(a), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3610.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 504. program development criteria In developing recommendations for programs and projects for future regional economic development, and in establishing within those recommendations a priority ranking for such programs and projects, the Secretary shall encourage each regional commission to follow procedures that will insure consideration of the following factors: (1) the relationship of the project or class of projects to overall regional development including its location in an area determined by the State to have a significant potential for growth; (2) the population and area to be served by the project or class of projects including the relative per capita income and the unemployment rates in the area; (3) the relative financial resources available to the State or political subdivisions or instrumentalities thereof which seek to undertake the project; (4) the importance of the project or class of projects in relation to other projects or classes of projects which may be in competition for the same funds; (5) the prospects that the project, on a continuing rather than a temporary basis, will improve the opportunities for employment, the average level of income, or the economic and social development of the area served by the project.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 3194, Pub. L. 89–136, title V, § 515, as added Pub. L. 94–188, title II, § 204, , 89 Stat. 1088, related to energy demonstration projects and programs, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–35, title XVIII, § 1821(a)(8), , 95 Stat. 766, effective .

A prior section 504 of Pub. L. 89–136 was classified to section 3184 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–35, § 1821(a)(8).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 105 of Pub. L. 105–393, set out as a note under section 3121 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 89–136, title V, § 504, as added Pub. L. 105–393, title I, § 102(a), , 112 Stat. 3610.)

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