Chapter 41, Subchapter II, Section 3334, Subsection (a) · 42 U.S.C. Chapter 41 — DEMONSTRATION CITIES AND METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

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(a)All applications made after June 30, 1967, for Federal loans or grants to assist in carrying out open-space land projects or for the planning or construction of hospitals, airports, libraries, water supply and distribution facilities, sewerage facilities and waste treatment works, highways, transportation facilities, law enforcement facilities, and water development and land conservation projects within any metropolitan area shall be submitted for review—

(1)to any areawide agency which is designated to perform metropolitan or regional planning for the area within which the assistance is to be used, and which is, to the greatest practicable extent, composed of or responsible to the elected officials of a unit of areawide government or of the units of general local government within whose jurisdiction such agency is authorized to engage in such planning, and

(2)if made by a special purpose unit of local government, to the unit or units of general local government with authority to operate in the area within which the project is to be located.

United States Government work; public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

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Areawide agency
means an official State, metropolitan, regional, or district agency empowered under State or local laws or under an interstate compact or agreement to perform comprehensive planning in an area, an organization of the type referred to in section 701(g) 1 of the Housing Act of 1954;
Areawide development
means all projects or programs for the acquisition, use, and development of open-space land;
Areawide development project
means a project assisted or to be assisted under section 702 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 [42 U.S.C. 3102];
Armed Forces
has the meaning given the term “armed forces” in section 101(a) of title 10;
civilian employee
has the meaning given the term “employee” in section 2105(a) of title 5;
Comprehensive planning
includes the following, to the extent directly related to area needs or needs of a unit of general local government: (A) preparation, as a guide for long-range development, of general physical plans with respect to the pattern and intensity of land use and the provision of public facilities, including transportation facilities;
Hospital
means any public health center or general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, or other type of hospital and related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses’ home and training facilities, and central service facilities normally operated in connection with hospitals, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care.
Metropolitan area
means a standard metropolitan statistical area as established by the Office of Management and Budget, subject however to such modifications and extensions as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate for the purposes of this subchapter.
nonappropriated fund instrumentality employee
means a civilian employee who—
Secretary
means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Special purpose unit of local government
means any special district, public-purpose corporation, or other limited-purpose political subdivision of a State, but shall not include a school district.
State
means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the United States, or an agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing.
Unit of general local government
means any city, county, town, parish, village, or other general-purpose political subdivision of a State.
United States
means the several States and the District of Columbia.