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<br />Two more advanced documents with detailed in-
<br />formation on potential impacts and programs to deal
<br />with them are:
<br />
<br />Evaluation of Power Facilities: A Reviewer's Hand-
<br />book, prepared by Berkshire County (Mass.) Regional
<br />Planning Commission. Covers all impacts to be con-
<br />sidered by local community, including environmen-
<br />tal, physical, social, economic and fiscal in several
<br />hundred pages. Sponsored by research grant from
<br />the Office of PolicV OelJelopment and Research of
<br />HUD. Published in April 1974. 37B pages. Order
<br />Number: PB.239 221 - $10.25
<br />
<br />Obtain
<br />from:
<br />
<br />NTIS (National Technical Information
<br />Service), Springfield, Virginia 22151.
<br />
<br />Management & Control of Growth, by Urban land
<br />Institute. The issues, techniques, problems and
<br />trends of growth management in a three-volume
<br />reference work, with articles by 140 authors.
<br />Separate chapters on land use techniques, and State
<br />housing and land use policies. Assisted by a grant
<br />from the Office of Policy Development and Re-
<br />search of HUD. 1975. $22.50 for set.
<br />
<br />Obtain
<br />from:
<br />
<br />Urban land Institute, 1200. 18th Street,
<br />N.W" Washin9ton, D.C. 20036.
<br />
<br />B, FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR
<br />PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
<br />
<br />These are programs which provide funds to states,
<br />areawide districts, cities and counties to study potential
<br />impacts, draw up growth pol icies and plans, prEpare
<br />land use and housing plans, plan for the provision of
<br />specific services and figure out how to pay for them.
<br />No monies are provided under these programs to either
<br />build or operate public facilities. That comes later.
<br />
<br />NOTE: The numbers in parentheses, for example
<br />(14.203), for the HUD 701 Comprehensive Planning
<br />Program indicates the program number in the
<br />Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, by the
<br />Office of Management and Budget.
<br />Obtain the 1975 version from the Superintendent
<br />of Documents, Government Printing Office, Wash.
<br />ington, D.C. 20402. $17.00 for looseleaf text and
<br />changes during the year.
<br />
<br />HUD 701 Comprehensive Planning Program (14.203)
<br />
<br />HUD provides funds to States, area wide planning
<br />organizations, and local governments to support com-
<br />prehensive planning and for specific plans for growth,
<br />land use and housing. The purposes are general e_nough
<br />
<br />that this money can easily be used for studying and
<br />responding to a broad range of project impacts. Here
<br />are a few points to keep in mind:
<br />
<br />Most of the money for smaller communities, such
<br />as those we focus on in this publication, will be
<br />allocated by the States, not by HUD;
<br />The emphasis is very much on regional planning at
<br />the sub-State level;
<br />The HUD 701 Act requires that all agencies receiving
<br />funds. have land use and housing elements developed
<br />by 1977;
<br />These elements must be coordinated with the area-
<br />wide planning being supported by the 208 waste-
<br />water planning program of the Environmental Pro-
<br />tection Agency, and the Coastal Zone Management
<br />program of Department of Commerce.
<br />
<br />701 funds are allocated under five categories (with
<br />FY '75 amount)
<br />
<br />1) Statewide planning
<br />2) large cities (over 50,000 pop.) and urban
<br />counties
<br />3) Metro areawide planning organizations
<br />41 Non-metropolitan areawide districts
<br />51 Local assistance, to counties and towns under
<br />50,000 population
<br />
<br />The funds under categories 4 and 5, of most con-
<br />cern to rural impacted communities, are allocated by
<br />HUD to the States, which then make the decisions
<br />on who gets how much. Each State has a designated
<br />agency {listed in Table 2} making that allocation,
<br />based on published criteria. Factors considered
<br />include past performance, capability, coordination and
<br />implementation.
<br />The amount of money available to a community or
<br />areawide district is not sufficient under this process to
<br />do all the needed planning. The 701 funds, therefore,
<br />should be used to package or support a coordinated
<br />planning effort using other funds available from State
<br />counterpart agencies of EDA, EPA and CZM, and from
<br />regional commissions.
<br />Recent HUD 701 grants for local assistance, all
<br />given throu9h the State, include: $69,000 to Big Horn
<br />County, Montana; $92,000 to Butte County. South
<br />Dakota; $61.000 to Carbon. County, Utah; and
<br />$27,000 to Campbell CountY, Wyoming. Non.metro
<br />grants have included a total of $199,000 to the lewis
<br />& Clark 1805 Planning District in North Dakota; and
<br />$96,000 to the Tri.County Council for Southern
<br />Maryland, which includes Calvert County.
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