(b) The staff of the Council shall include an Executive Director, from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, and one individual appointed by each member of the Council. (c) Upon request of the chairman of the Council, each Federal agency shall, to the extent permitted by law and within available funds, furnish information, data, and reports needed by the Council to accomplish the purposes of this order. (d) All Federal officials, in carrying out their statutory responsibilities and programs, shall be mindful of the objectives of this order, shall take into account any advice given by the Council under Section 102 (b) herein, and shall take such measures, consistent with their authorities and available funds, as will assist in protecting and enhancing the outdoor recreation opportunities and the natural beauty of the Nation. SEC. 105. Construction. Nothing in this order shall be construed as subjecting any function vested by law in, or assigned pursuant to law to, any Federal agency or the head thereof to the authority of any other agency or officer or as abrogating or restricting any such function in any manner. SEC. 106. Prior orders. Executive Order No. 11017 of April 27, 1962, Executive Order No. 11069 of November 28, 1962, and Executive Order No. 11218 of April 24, 1965, are hereby superseded. PART II. CITIZENS' ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RECREATION AND NATURAL BEAUTY SEC. 201. Establishment. There is hereby established the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Recreation and Natural Beauty (hereinafter referred to as the "Committee") which shall be composed of not more than 12 members appointed by the President. Appointments to membership on the Committee shall be for two years initially, but for staggered terms thereafter, except that the chairman of the Committee shall be appointed by the President to serve until his successor is appointed. SEC. 202. Duties and responsibilities. (a) The Committee shall advise both the President and the Council on matters relating to (1) outdoor recreation and the beautification of our Nation's cities and countryside, (2) the correlation of natural beauty and outdoor recreation activities by Federal agencies and bureaus, and (3) local, State, and private outdoor recreation and natural beauty activities. (b) The Committee shall advise and assist the Council in the evaluation of the progress made in carrying out the functions of the Council and recommend to the Council, as necessary, action to accelerate such progress. (c) The Committee may, on its own motion, request information relating to the functions set forth in Section 202 (a), above, and initiate consideration of items which relate to those functions. SEC. 203. Expenses. Members of the Committee shall receive no compensation from the United States by reason of their services under this order but may, subject to law, be allowed travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence. LYNDON B. JOHNSON. THE WHITE HOUSE, May 4, 1966. WORKABLE PROGRAM FOR COMMUNITY See: Page No. Exceptions from, low-rent housing in private accommodations--Sec. 23 (f), United States Housing Act of 1937---. 206 287 215 Provisions governing-Sec. 101 (c), Housing Act of 1949_. See also: APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Page No. 659 Federal Development Committee for Appalachia, Executive Order 11209-- EXCERPTS FROM APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1965 [Public Law 89-4, 79 Stat. 5; 6–8; 10-11; 16; 18; 21; 23] SEC. 2. The Congress hereby finds and declares that the Appalachian region of the United States, while abundant in natural resources and rich in potential, lags behind the rest of the Nation in its economic growth and that its people have not shared properly in the Nation's prosperity. The region's uneven past development, with its historical reliance on a few basic industries and a marginal agriculture, has failed to provide the economic base that is a vital prerequisite for vigorous, self-sustaining growth. The State and local governments and the people of the region understand their problems and have been working and will continue to work purposefully toward their solution. The Congress recognizes the comprehensive report of the President's Appalachian Regional Commission documenting these findings and concludes that regionwide development is feasible, desirable, and urgently needed. It is, therefore, the purpose of this Act to assist the region in meeting its special problems, to promote its economic development, and to establish a framework for joint Federal and State efforts toward providing the basic facilities essential to its growth and attacking its common problems and meeting its common needs on a coordinated and concerted regional basis. The public investments made in the region under this Act shall be concentrated in areas where there is a significant potential for future growth, and where the expected return on public dollars invested will be the greatest. The States will be responsible for recommending local and State projects, within their borders, which will receive assistance under this Act. As the region obtains the needed physical and transportation facilities and develops its human resources, the Congress expects that the region will generate a diversified industry, and that the region will then be able to support itself, through the workings of a strengthened free enterprise economy. SEC. 101. (a) There is hereby established an Appalachian Regional Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission") which shall be composed of one Federal member, hereinafter referred to as the "Federal Cochairman", appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and one member from each participating State in the Appalachian region. The Federal Cochairman shall be one of the two Cochairmen of the Commission. Each State member may be the Governor, or his designee, or such other person as may be provided by the law of the State which he represents. The State members of the Commission shall elect a Cochairman of the Commission from among their number. SEC. 102. In carrying out the purposes of this Act, the Commission shall (1) develop, on a continuing basis, comprehensive and coordinated plans and programs and establish priorities thereunder, giving due consideration to other Federal, State, and local planning in the region; (2) conduct and sponsor investigations, research, and studies, including an inventory and analysis of the resources of the region, and, in cooperation with Federal, State, and local agencies, sponsor demonstration projects designed to foster regional productivity and growth; (3) review and study, in cooperation with the agency involved, Federal, State, and local public and private programs and, where appropriate, recommend modifications or additions which will increase their effectiveness in the region; (4) formulate and recommend, where appropriate, interstate compacts and other forms of interstate cooperation, and work with State and local agencies in developing appropriate model legislation; (5) encourage the formation of local development districts; (6) encourage private investment in industrial, commercial, and recreational projects; (7) serve as a focal point and coordinating unit for Appalachian programs; (8) provide a forum for consideration of problems of the region and proposed solutions and establish and utilize, as appropriate, citizens and special advisory councils and public conferences; and (9) advise the Secretary of Commerce on applications for grants for administrative expenses to local development dis tricts. RECOMMENDATIONS SEC. 103. The Commission may, from time to time, make recommendations to the President and to the State Governors and appropriate local officials with respect to (1) the expenditure of funds by Federal, State, and local departments and agencies in the region in the fields of natural resources, agriculture, education, training, health and welfare, and other fields related to the purposes of this Act; and (2) such additional Federal, State, and local legislation or administrative actions as the Commission deems necessary to further the purposes of this Act. LIAISON BETWEEN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE COMMISSION SEC. 104. The President shall provide effective and continuing liaison between the Federal Government and the Commission and a coordinated review within the Federal Government of the plans and recommendations submitted by the Commission pursuant to sections 102 and 103. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES OF THE COMMISSION SEC. 105. (a) For the period ending on June 30 of the second full Federal fiscal year following the date of enactment of this Act, the administrative expenses of the Commission shall be paid by the Federal Government. Thereafter, such expenses shall be paid equally by the Federal Government and the States in the region. The share to be paid by each State shall be determined by the Commission. The Federal Cochairman shall not participate or vote in such determination. No assistance authorized by this Act shall be furnished to any State or to any political subdivision or any resident of any State, nor shall the State member of the Commission participate or vote in any determination by the Commission while such State is delinquent in payment of its share of such expenses. (b) Not to exceed $2,200,000 of the funds authorized in section 401 of this Act shall be available to carry out this section. ADMINISTRATIVE POWERS OF COMMISSION SEC. 106. To carry out its duties under this Act, the Commission is authorized to (3) request the head of any Federal department or agency (who is hereby so authorized) to detail to temporary duty with the Commission such personnel within his administrative jurisdiction as the Commission may need for carrying out its functions, each such detail to be without loss of seniority, pay, or other employee status. APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT HIGHWAY SYSTEM SEC. 201. (a) The Secretary of Commerce (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Secretary") is authorized to assist in the construction of an Appalachian development highway system serving the Appalachian region (the length of which shall not exceed two thousand three hundred and fifty miles. In addition thereto, there are authorized to be constructed not in excess of one thousand miles of local access roads, that will serve specific recreational, residential, commercial, industrial, or other like facilities or will facilitate a school consolidation program). The system, in conjunction with the Interstate System and other Federal-aid highways in the region will provide a highway system which will open upon an area or areas with a developmental potential where commerce and communication have been inhibited by lack of adequate access. The provisions of title 23, United States Code, that are applicable to Federal-aid primary highways, and which the Secretary determines are not inconsistent with this Act, shall apply to the Appalachian development highway system, and the local access roads. * (g) To carry out this section, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated $840,000,000. * SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS SEC. 212. (a) In order to provide facilities to assist in the prevention of pollution of the region's streams and to protect the health and welfare of its citizens, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare1 is authorized to make grants for the construction of sewage treatment works in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 466 et seq.), without regard to any provisions therein relating to appropriation authorization ceilings or to allotments among the States. Grants under this section shall be made solely out of funds specifically appropriated for the purpose of carrying out this Act, and shall not be taken into account in the computation of the allotments among the States pursuant to any other provision of law. PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION SEC. 223. A program and projects authorized under any section of this title shall not be implemented until (1) the Commission has consulted with the appropriate official or officials concerned with such program and projects as may be designated by the Governor or Governors of the State or States involved and has obtained the recommendations of such official or officials with respect to such program and projects and (2) plans with respect to such program and projects have been recommended by the Commission and have been submitted to and approved or modified by the President or such Federal officer or officers as the President may designate. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS SEC. 401. In addition to the appropriations authorized in section 201 for the Appalachian development highway system, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the period ending June 30, 1967, to be available until expended, not to exceed $252,400,000 to carry out this Act. TERMINATION SEC. 405. This Act shall cease to be in effect on July 1, 1971. 1 The functions under sec. 212 were transferred to the Secretary of the Interior by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1966, effective May 10, 1966. |