A bill to promote the vitality of communities by encouraging comprehensive State strategies of increased and better-coordinated State assistance and State-initiated governmental reforms, which focus primarily upon those communities experiencing distress or decline, and by facilitating the coordination of Federal actions and activities to complement and enhance such strategies, and for other purposes.
State Community Conservation and Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to contract to make and to make grants to States to assist in the implementation and execution of State community conservation and development strategies approved in accordance with the procedures of this Act. Stipulates that grants made pursuant to this Act shall serve as an incentive to States to implement and execute such strategies, and shall not be used by States to reduce existing levels of State assistance to distressed or declining communities.
States that an application for a grant under this Act shall: (1) set forth a comprehensive State community conservation and development strategy; and (2) describe the process used for involving the legislature, the State's communities, and organizations of elected officials in the development of such strategy, and include other specified information.
Directs the Secretary to establish the criteria to be used in the evaluation of and the awarding of grants for State community conservation and development strategies. Requires that communities be afforded an opportunity to object to any proposed plans before approval is granted by the Secretary.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
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