42 U.S.C. § 3133 — Coordination

(a) The Secretary^* must coordinate preparing and carrying out comprehensive economic-development strategies under this chapter with federal agencies running other programs, States, economic development districts, Indian tribes, and other suitable planning and development organizations.

(b) (1) To do so, or for another economic-development purpose, the Secretary may convene meetings with those federal, state^*, local, tribal, district, and organizational participants. (2)(A) In addition, within one year after January 4, 2025, and at least every two years after that, the Secretary must meet with the Regional Commissions to advance (a). (B) Attendees must be the Secretary acting through the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development as chair; the Regional Commissions' Federal Cochairpersons or designees; and their State Cochairpersons or designees. (C) The meeting purposes include improving EDA-Commission coordination, reducing duplicated efforts, developing best practices^* and strategies for regional economic development, and any other purpose the Secretary finds appropriate. (D) When applicable and following (C), within one year after a meeting the Secretary must prepare and publicly release a report that at minimum describes planned EDA and Commission actions to improve coordination or reduce duplication and their implementation timeline, and any best practices and strategies developed.