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

ON

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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WASHINGTON: 1969

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COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas, Chairman

*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.

(II)

CONTENTS

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.

District of Columbia Government.

287

General Accounting Office..

49

General Services Commission_

51

Health, Education, and Welfare.

52

Housing and Urban Development 1

288

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

Hon. Eimer 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

129

152

169

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..

97

BOB proposed amendment of S. 2035 re aggregation of appropriations_
Chart showing existing practices and joint funding under S. 2479....
Letters re holding up of projects as a result of problems in Federal funding-
Table showing available Federal programs..

112

114

140

192

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Endorsements of Federal program catalog - -

193

Newspapers reporting favorably on Program Information Act_

194

BOB suggestion re program catalog_-

197

The Program Information Act as Congressman Roth would recommend