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02'. ') 00 11 c. ATTA~...MENT C Circular No. A-95 SECTION 204 OF THE DEMONSTRATION CITIES AND METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1966 Section 204 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, as amended (Public Law 89-754, 80 Stat. 1263; Public Law 90- 351, 82 Stat. 208) provides that: "(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, libra- ries, water supply and distribution facilities, sewerage facili- ties and waste treatment works, highways, transportation facilities, law enforcement facilities, and water development and land conser- vation 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 practi- cable 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. "(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsec- tion, each application shall be accompanied (A) by the comments and recommendations with respect to the project involved by the areawide agency and governing bodies of the units of general local government to which the application has been submitted for review, and (B) by a statement by the applicant that such comments and recommendations have been considered prior to formal submission of the application. Such comments shall include information con- cerning the extent to which the project is consistent with compre- hensive planning developed or in the process of development for the metropolitan area or the unit of general local government, as the case may be, and the extent to which such project contri- butes to the fulfillment of such planning. The comments and recommendations and the statement referred to in this paragraph shall, except in the case referred to in paragraph (2) of this subsection, be reviewed by the agency of the Federal Government to which such application is submitted for the sole purpose of assisting it in determining whether the application is in accord- ance with the provisions of Federal law which govern the making of the loans or grants. (No. A-95)