40 U.S.C. § 8701 — Findings and purposes

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Congress found that the D.C. region needs coordinated planning across federal, state, and local governments. This chapter creates a central planning agency to coordinate federal and D.C. development plans. The goal is comprehensive planning that balances local rights with public health, safety, and orderly growth.

(a) Findings — Congress found that: (1) having the seat of government in D.C. created a metro region reaching into Maryland and Virginia; (2) effective, ongoing comprehensive regional planning matters to the federal government; (3) where federal installations are placed has shaped, and will keep shaping, the region's development; (4) a central planning agency is needed to coordinate the many federal and D.C. agencies' development activities so they fit general goals; (5) growing shared interests between government levels call for coordinated planning of both federal and local development, for order and economy; (6) some development problems cross state lines and need federal-state-local collaboration for fairness and effective action; and (7) this chapter's tools and procedures will help give Congress the information and advice it needs for legislation. (b) Purposes — (1) In general — Except for sections 8733–8736, this chapter aims to (A) secure comprehensive physical-development planning for the National Capital and surrounding area; (B) let the surrounding area's planning agencies take part in that planning; and (C) set up the agency and procedures needed to run the related federal and D.C. government functions. (2) Objective — The general goal, except for sections 8733–8736, is to let the right agencies plan the federal establishment's development at the seat of government in a way that (A) fits the National Capital's nature and role while respecting neighboring states' and local governments' rights to their own proper controls; and (B) best promotes public health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare, plus efficient and economical development, based on present and future needs.

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(a)Findings.—

Congress finds that—

(1)

the location of the seat of government in the District of Columbia has brought about the development of a metropolitan region extending well into adjoining territory in Maryland and Virginia;

(2)

effective comprehensive planning is necessary on a regional basis and of continuing importance to the federal establishment;

(3)

the distribution of federal installations throughout the region has been and will continue to be a major influence in determining the extent and character of development;

(4)

there is needed a central planning agency for the National Capital region to coordinate certain developmental activities of the many different agencies of the Federal and District of Columbia Governments so that those activities may conform with general objectives;

(5)

there is an increasing mutuality of interest and responsibility between the various levels of government that calls for coordinate and unified policies in planning both federal and local development in the interest of order and economy;

(6)

there are developmental problems of an interstate character, the planning of which requires collaboration between federal, state, and local governments in the interest of equity and constructive action; and

(7)

the instrumentalities and procedures provided in this chapter will aid in providing Congress with information and advice requisite to legislation.

(b)Purposes.—

(1)In general.—

The purposes of this chapter (except sections 8733–8736) are—

(A)

to secure comprehensive planning for the physical development of the National Capital and its environs;

(B)

to provide for the participation of the appropriate planning agencies of the environs in the planning; and

(C)

to establish the agency and procedures requisite to the administration of the functions of the Federal and District Governments related to the planning.

(2)Objective.—

The general objective of this chapter (except sections 8733–8736) is to enable appropriate agencies to plan for the development of the federal establishment at the seat of government in a manner—

(A)

consistent with the nature and function of the National Capital and with due regard for the rights and prerogatives of the adjoining States and local governments to exercise control appropriate to their functions; and

(B)

which will, in accordance with present and future needs, best promote public health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, and the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1216.)

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2002Enacted · Pub. L. 107-217 · 116 Stat. 1216

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