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STAT.]
PUBLIC LAW 90-2i22-DEC. 23, 1967
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porting facilities designed to assist participants including the elderly poor— ' 1) to secure and retain meaningful employment; ^2) to attain an adequate education; " (3) to make better use of available income; "(4) to provide and maintain adequate housing and a suitable " living environment; "(5) to undertake family planning, consistent with personal and family goals, religious and moral convictions; "(6) to obtain services for the prevention of narcotics addiction, alcoholism, and the rehabilitation of narcotic addicts and alcoholics; "(7) to obtain emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the need for health services, nutritious food, housing, and employment-related assistance; "(8) to remove obstacles and solve personal and family problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency; "(9) to achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community; and "(10) to make more frequent and effective use of other programs related to the purposes of this title. H e may also provide financial assistance to other public or private nonprofit agencies to aid them in planning for the establishment of a community action agency. "(b) If the Director determines that a limited purpose project or program involving activities otherwise eligible under this section is needed to serve needs of low-income families and individuals in a community and no community action agency has been designated for that community pursuant to section 210, or where a community action ^"'^' P- 69i. agency gives its approval for such a program to be funded directly through a public or private nonprofit agency or organization, he may extend financial assistance for that project or program to a public or private nonprofit agency which he finds is capable of carrying out the project in an efficient and effective manner consistent with the purpose of this title. "(c) The Director shall prescribe necessary rules or regulations governing applications for assistance under this section to assure that every reasonable effort is made by each applicant to secure the views of local public officials and agencies in the community having a direct or substantial interest in the application and to resolve all issues of cooperation and possible duplication prior to its submission. " (d) After July 1, 1968, the Director shall require, as a condition of Financial assistance, that each community action agency has adopted a sys- condit^n.^' tematic approach to the achievement of the purposes of this title and to the utilization of funds provided under this part. Such systematic approach shall encompass a planning and implementation process which seeks to identify the problems and causes of poverty in the community, seeks to mobilize and coordinate relevant public and private resources, establishes program priorities, links program components with one another and with other relevant programs, and provides for evaluation. The Director may, however, extend the time for such requirement to take into account the length of time a program has been in operation. He shall also take necessary steps to assure the participation of other Federal agencies in support of the development and implementation of plans under this subsection. "(e) I n order to promote local responsibility and initiative, the Director shall not establish binding national priorities on funds authorized by this section, but he shall review each application for
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