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[CITE: 42USC3101]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
      CHAPTER 37--COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND ADVANCE LAND ACQUISITION
 
Sec. 3101. Congressional declaration of purpose

    The purpose of this chapter is to assist and encourage the 
communities of the Nation fully to meet the needs of their citizens by 
making it possible, with Federal grant assistance, for their 
governmental bodies (1) to construct adequate basic water and sewer 
facilities needed to promote the efficient and orderly growth and 
development of our communities, (2) to construct neighborhood facilities 
needed to enable them to carry on programs of necessary social services, 
and (3) to acquire, in a planned and orderly fashion, land to be 
utilized in the future for public purposes.

(Pub. L. 89-117, title VII, Sec. 701, Aug. 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 489; Pub. 
L. 90-448, title VI, Sec. 603(a), Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 533.)


                               Amendments

    1968--Pub. L. 90-448 substituted ``in the future for public 
purposes'' for ``in connection with the future construction of public 
works and facilities'' in cl. (3).


                      Short Title of 1970 Amendment

    Pub. L. 91-431, Sec. 1, Oct. 6, 1970, 84 Stat. 886, provided: ``That 
this Act [amending sections 3102 and 3108 of this title and enacting 
provisions set out as a note under section 3108 of this title] may be 
cited as the `Emergency Community Facilities Act of 1970'.''
