Impact of Selected Cross-Cutting National Policy Requirements on State and Local Governments

The federal government has enacted statutes on such issues as equal employment opportunity, citizen participation, and equal delivery of program benefits to further certain national policy objectives. Currently proposed legislation addresses the problem of administering federal regulations. The bill is intended to produce greater uniformity of program requirements that must be met by grant recipients. Requirements such as, citizen participation, equal employment opportunity, planning, and environmental quality, would be standardized as far as possible so that a recipient would not be asked to comply with different regulations of each administering agency.