Progress and Problems in Giving Rural Areas First Priority when Locating Federal Facilities, Multiagency: Report to the Congress

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U.S. General Accounting Office, 1976 - Public buildings - 32 pages
 

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Page 1 - ... as practicable, departmental policies and procedures with respect to the location of new offices and other facilities in areas or communities of lower population density in preference to areas or communities of high population densities. The President is hereby requested to submit to the Congress not later than September 1 of each fiscal year a report reflecting the efforts during the immediately preceding fiscal year of all executive departments and agencies in carrying out the provisions of...
Page 8 - Material consideration shall be given to the efficient performance of the missions and programs of the executive agencies and the nature and function of the facilities involved, with due regard for the convenience of the public served and the maintenance and improvement of safe and healthful working conditions for employees...
Page 1 - In addition to the county, or counties, containing such a city or cities, contiguous counties are included in an SMSA if, according to certain criteria, they are essentially metropolitan in character and...
Page 2 - The official definition of a rural area under the business and industrial loan program is that " 'rural' and 'rural area' may include all territory of a State, the Commonwealth of Puerto and the Virgin Islands, that is not within the outer boundary of any city having a population of 50,000 or more and its immediately adjacent urbanized and urbanizing areas with a population density of more than...
Page 2 - rural area" may Include all territory of a State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, that is not within the outer boundary of any city having a population of fifty thousand or more and its immediately adjacent urbanized and urbanizing areas with a population density of more than one hundred persons per square mile, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture according to the latest decennial census of the United States...
Page 1 - Congress hereby directs the heads of all executive departments and agencies of the Government to establish and maintain...
Page 9 - ... (4) Suitable privately owned space shall be acquired only when satisfactory Government-owned space is not available, and only at rental charges which are consistent with prevailing rates in the community for comparable facilities; "(5) Space planning and assignments shall take into account the objective of consolidating agencies and constituent...
Page 8 - ... to assign and reassign space of all executive agencies in Governmentowned and leased buildings in and outside the District of Columbia upon a determination by the Administrator that such assignment or reassignment is advantageous to the Government in terms of economy, efficiency, or national security.
Page 31 - ... the realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family * * *." This goal was reaffirmed in the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 (sections 2 and 1601; 12 USC 1701t and 42 USC 1441a) . 3. By virtue of the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended; the Federal Property and Administrative Pervices Act of 1949, as amended; and Reorganization Plan No.
Page 9 - Proposed developments shall be to the greatest extent practicable consistent with State regional, and local plans and programs; and Governors, local elected officials, and regional comprehensive planning agencies shall be consulted in the planning of such developments.

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