Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1969 and Related Legislation

INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION ACT OF 1969 AND RELATED LEGISLATION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

S. 60

THE PROGRAM INFORMATION ACT

S. 2035

THE GRANT CONSOLIDATION ACT OF 1969

S. 2479

THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION ACT OF 1969

34-851

SEPTEMBER 9, 10, 12, AND 17, 1969

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COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas, Chairman

HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington
SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina
EDMUND S. MUSKIE, Maine
ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, Connecticut
FRED R. HARRIS, Oklahoma
LEE METCALF, Montana

EUGENE J. MCCARTHY, Minnesota
JAMES B. ALLEN, Alabama

KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota
JACOB K. JAVITS, New York
CHARLES H. PERCY, Illinois

TED STEVENS, Alaska

EDWARD J. GURNEY, Florida

CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland*

JAMES R. CALLOWAY, Chief Counsel and Staff Director
ARTHUR A. SHARP, Staff Editor

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

EDMUND S. MUSKIE, Maine, Chairman

SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina
ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, Connecticut
LEE METCALF, Montana
JAMES B. ALLEN, Alabama

KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota

CHARLES H. PERCY, Illinois

EDWARD J. GURNEY, Florida

CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland**

EDWIN W. WEBBER, Staff Director

ROBERT E. BERRY, Minority Counsel

E. WINSLOW TURNER, General Counsel

LUCINDA T. DENNIS, Administrative Secretary

*Assigned to committee on September 17, 1969, pursuant to S. Res. 256, in place of Senator Griffin. **Assigned to Subcommittee on September 22, 1969, in place of Senator Stevens.

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CONTENTS

Page

Opening statement of the chairman..

Introductory remarks and text of S. 60___

Agency reports-S. 60:

Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations_

Agriculture__

Atomic Energy Commission_

Bureau of the Budget..

Amendments to S. 60_

Civil Aeronautics Board_

Coastal Plains Regional Commission..

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287

District of Columbia Government_

287

Farris Bryant, Chairman, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental

Relations; accompanied by William G. Colman, Executive Director;

and David B. Walker, Assistant Director___

SEPTEMBER 10, 1969

Hon. Raymond P. Shafer, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-

vania, representing the National Governors' Conference... ... ....

Dwight A. Ink, Assistant Director for Executive Management, Bureau of

the Budget; accompanied by Walter W. Hasse, Director, Management

Information Systems Staff; Howard Schnoor, Director, Government

Organization Staff, Office of Executive Management; William Armstrong,

Director, Financial Management Staff, Office of Executive Manage-

ment; and James R. Elder, Management Analyst, Management In-

formation Systems Staff..

SEPTEMBER 12, 1969

Clifford Tuck, president, director, Department of Coordination, Shelby

County, Tenn., on behalf of the National Association of Counties;

accompanied by Lois Blume, Federal State aid coordinator, Nassau

County, N. Y.; Thomas Haga, director, Metropolitan Planning Com-

mission, Genesee County, Mich.; Aileen Lotz, senior administrative

assistant, Dade County, Fla.; and Ralph L. Tabor, director of Federal

Affairs, National Association of Counties..

Hon. W. Russell Arrington, president pro tempore, Illinois State senate;

and Hon. William S. James, president of the Maryland State senate-

statements on behalf of the Council of State Governments; accompanied

by Arlene T. Shadoan, special assistant and Robert M. Rhodes, special

assistant..

SEPTEMBER 17, 1969

Hon. Frank N. Zullo, mayor, Norwalk, Conn., on behalf of the National

League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors _ _.

169

Hon. Elmer Staats, Comptroller General of the United States.

Hon. J. Caleb Boggs, a U.S. Senator from the State of Delaware.

Hon. William V. Roth, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of

Delaware, at large.

174

Wayne F. McGown, president, National Association of State Budget

Officers; accompanied by Dick Seaman, Wisconsin Department of

Administration, Madison; and Arlene T. Shadoan, Council of State

Governments, Washington, D.C.........-

176

179

234

Hon. Louis L. Goldstein, comptroller of the treasury for the State of

Maryland...

244

MATERIAL SUPPLIED FOR THE RECORD BY WITNESSES
Table showing Federal assistance programs for States, localities, and
others with 100 percent Federal funds.

Federal aid to States and localities, 1966-67-

Letter to Senator Muskie from Governor Shafer of Pennsylvania, re the
impact of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 and the steps
Pennsylvania is taking to implement it..

BOB proposed amendment of S. 2035 re aggregation of appropriations_
Chart showing existing practices and joint funding under S. 2479_

112

114

Letters re holding up of projects as a result of problems in Federal funding.
Table showing available Federal programs.

140

192

Page

Testimony of Congressman Roth before House Subcommittee on Inter-

governmental Relations..

Endorsements of Federal program catalog_

Newspapers reporting favorably on Program Information Act--

BOB suggestion re program catalog.