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11. Water Pollution Control in Appalachia 

 40 App. U.S.C. 1-2, 203, 205-206, 212 



Sec. 



1. Short title. 



2. Findings and statement of purpose. 



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203. Land stabilization, conservation, and erosion con- 

 trol. 

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205. Mining area restoration. 



206. Water resource survey. 



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212. Sewage treatment works. 



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§1. Short title. 



This Act may be cited as the "Appalachian Re- 

 gional Development Act of 1965". 



Short Title of 1975 Amendment 



Section 101 of Pub L. 94-188. title I. Dec. 31. 1975. 89 

 Stat. 1079, provided that: "This title (which enacted sec- 

 tions 225 and 303 of this Appendix, amended sections 2. 

 101. 102. 105 to 107. 201. 202. 205. 207. 211. 214, 223, 224, 

 302, 401, and 405 of this Appendix, repealed section 3134 

 of Title 42, and enacted provisions set out as notes under 

 sections 2 and 201 of this Appendix! may be cited as 

 the 'Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments 

 of 1975'." 



§ 2. Findings and statement of purpose. 



(a) The Congress hereby finds and declares that 

 the Appalachian region of the United States, while 

 abundant in natural resources and rich in potential, 

 lags behind the rest of the Nation in its economic 

 growth and that its people have not shared properly 

 in the Nation's prosperity. The region's uneven 

 past development, with its historical reliance on a 

 few basic industries and a marginal agriculture, has 

 failed to provide the economic base that is a vital 

 prerequisite for vigorous, self-sustaining growth. 

 The State and local governments and the people 

 of the region understand their problems and have 

 been working and will continue to work purposefully 

 toward their solution. The Congress recognizes the 

 comprehensive report of the President's Appalachian 

 Regional Commission documenting these findings 

 and concludes that regionwide development is feasi- 

 ble, desirable, and urgently needed. It is. therefore, 

 the purpose of this Act to assist the region in meet- 

 ing its special problems, to promote its economic 

 development, and to establish a framework for joint 

 Federal and State efforts toward providing the basic 

 facilities essential to its growth and attacking Its 

 common problems and meeting its common needs 

 on a coordinated and concerted regional basis. The 

 public investments made in the region under this 

 Act shall be concentrated in areas where there is a 

 significant potential for future growth, and where 

 the expected return on public dollars invested will 

 be the greatest. The States will be responsible for 

 recommending local and State projects, within their 

 borders, which will receive assistance imder this Act. 

 As the region obtains the needed physical and trans- 

 portation facilities and develops its human re- 

 sources, the Congress expects that the region will 

 generate a diversified industry, and that the region 



will then be able to support itself, through the 

 workings of a strengthened free enterprise economy. 

 <bi The Congress further finds and declares that 

 while substantial progress has been made toward 

 achieving the foregoing purposes, especially with re- 

 spect to the provision of essential public facilities, 

 much remains to be accomplished, especially with 

 respect to the provision of essential health, educa- 

 tion, and other public services. The Congress recog- 

 nizes that changes and evolving national purposes 

 in the decade since 1965 affect not only the Appala- 

 chian region, but also its relationship to a nation now 

 assigning higher priority to conservation and the 

 quality of life, values long cherished within the 

 region. Appalachia now has the opportunity, in ac- 

 commodating future growth and development, to 

 demonstrate local leadership and coordinated 

 planning so that housing, public services, transport- 

 ation and other community facilities will be pro- 

 vided in a way congenial to the traditions and 

 beauty of the region and compatible with conserva- 

 tion values and an enhanced quality of life for the 

 people of the region. The Congress recognizes also 

 that fundamental changes are occurring in national 

 energy requirements and production, which not only 

 risk short-term dislocations but will undoubtedly 

 result in major long-term effects in the region. It is 

 essential that the opportunities for expanded energy 

 production be used so as to maximize the social and 

 economic benefits and minimize social and environ- 

 mental costs to the region and its people. It is, there- 

 fore, also the purpose of this Act to provide a frame- 

 work for coordinating Federal. State and local ef- 

 forts toward ( 1 ) anticipating the effects of alterna- 

 tive energy policies and practices. (2> planning for 

 accompanying growth and change so as to maximize 

 the social and economic benefits and minimize social 

 and environmental costs, and (3) implementing pro- 

 grams and projects carried out in the region by 

 Federal. State, and local governmental agencies so 

 as to better meet the special problems generated in 

 the region by the Nation's energy needs and 

 policies, including problems of transportation, 

 housing, community facilities, and human services. 

 'As amended Pub. L. 94-188, title I. § 102. Dec. 31, 

 1975, 89 Stat. 1079.) 



Amendments 

 1975 — Pub. L. 94-18S designated existing provisions as 

 subsec. (a) . and added subsec. (b) . 



Report to Congress on Progress Made in the Imple- 

 mentation OF THE Regional Development Act of 

 1975 



Section 122(b) of Pub. L. 94-188 provided that: "The 

 Appalachian Regional Commission shall submit to Con- 

 gress by July 1. 1977. a report on the progress being made 

 on implementing section 2(b) of the Appalachian Re- 

 gional Development Act of 1965 [subsec. (b) of this sec- 

 tion] the energy related enterprise development demon- 

 stration authority in section 302 of such Act [section 302 

 of this Appendix], and other amendments made by this 

 title [see section 101 of Pub. L. 94-188. set out as Short- 

 Title note under section 1 of this Appendix]." 



