M 1966/ /REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 5 OF 1966/ (National Capital Regional Planning Council) 67-574 HEARING BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION AUGUST 9, 1966 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1966 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS WILLIAM L. DAWSON, Illinois, Chairman CHET HOLIFIELD, California L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD, Pennsylvania FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN, Rhode Island JOHN G. DOW, New York HENRY HELSTOSKI, New Jersey FLORENCE P. DWYER, New Jersey CHRISTINE RAY DAVIS, Staff Director MILES Q. ROMNEY, Associate General Counsel J. P. CARLSON, Minority Counsel WILLIAM H. COPENHAVER, Minority Professional Staff EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION SUBCOMMITTEE CHET HOLIFIELD, California JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois ELMER W. HENDERSON, Counsel LOUIS I. FREED, Investigator II CONTENTS J 66.2 489 6643 84551 Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Reorganiza- Lohman, Dr. John B., chairman, Northern Virginia Regional Planning Seidman, Harold, Assistant Director for Management and Organization, Bureau of the Budget- Sickles, Hon. Carlton R., a Representative in Congress from the State of Maryland-- Tuchtan, Achilles M., chairman, board of directors, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; accompanied by Frank J. Lastner, vice chairman; Walter A. Scheiber, executive director; and John J. Bosley, general counsel and deputy executive director.. Woods, R. F., Acting Chairman, National Capital Regional Planning Council; accompained by George H. F. Oberlander, Ďirector.......... Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by Babson, Frederick A., Chairman, National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, statement_ Duke, Brig. Gen. C. M., president, Metropolitan Council of Governments, statement__ Hanson, Royce, associate professor of government, American Uni- Rowe, Mrs. James H., Jr., Chairman, National Capital Planning III REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 5 OF 1966 (National Capital Regional Planning Council) TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1966 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room 2203, Rayburn Office Building, Hon. William L. Dawson (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives William L. Dawson, Chet Holifield, Henry S. Reuss, Benjamin S. Rosenthal, and John N. Erlenborn. Also present: Elmer W. Henderson, subcommittee counsel, and J. P. Carlson, minority counsel. Chairman DAWSON. We shall now proceed to the consideration of Reorganization Plan No. 5 submitted to the Congress by the President on June 29. If no disapproval resolution is passed, this plan will go into effect on September 8. Thus far, no disapproval resolution has been introduced. The purpose of Reorganization Plan No. 5 is to abolish the National Capital Regional Planning Council. This Council was established by statute in 1952 to prepare a comprehensive development plan for the Capital and the surrounding areas. Its functions will be carried out to a considerable extent by the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments and the National Capital Planning Commission This agency, according to the President, is no longer needed and is thereby being dispensed with. It is estimated that an annual savings of $25,000 should result from this reorganization. (Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1966 follows:) [H. Doc. No. 456, 89th Cong., 2d sess.] MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 5, PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1949, AS AMENDED To the Congress of the United States: I am transmitting Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1966, prepared in accordance with the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended. The time has come to recognize the readiness of local governments in the Washington area to undertake a role which is properly and rightfully theirs. To that end, I am submitting a reorganization plan to abolish the National Capital Regional Planning Council. Comprehensive regional planning is vital to the orderly development of our metropolitan areas. Nowhere is it more important than in the National Capital region. 1 |