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[CITE: 42USC2641]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
              CHAPTER 31--PUBLIC WORKS ACCELERATION PROGRAM
 
Sec. 2641. Congressional declaration of purpose

    (a) The Congress finds that (1) certain communities and areas in the 
Nation are presently burdened by substantial unemployment and 
underemployment and have failed to share fully in the economic gains of 
the recovery from the recession of 1960-1961 and (2) action by the 
Federal Government is necessary, both to provide immediate useful work 
for the unemployed and underemployed in these communities and to help 
these communities, through improvement of their facilities, to become 
more conducive to industrial development and better places in which to 
live and work. The Nation has a backlog of needed public projects, and 
an acceleration of these projects now will not only increase employment 
at a time when jobs are urgently required but will also meet 
longstanding public needs, improve community services, and enhance the 
health and welfare of citizens of the Nation.
    (b) The Congress further finds that Federal assistance to stimulate 
public works investment in order to increase employment opportunities is 
most urgently needed in those areas, both urban and rural, which qualify 
as redevelopment areas because they suffer from persistent and chronic 
unemployment and economic underdevelopment, as well as in other areas 
which have suffered from substantial unemployment for a period of at 
least twelve months.

(Pub. L. 87-658, Sec. 2, Sept. 14, 1962, 76 Stat. 542.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 87-658 provided: ``That this Act [enacting this 
chapter and amending section 462 of Title 40, Public Buildings, 
Property, and Works, and section 1492 of this title] may be cited as the 
`Public Works Acceleration Act'.''
