City of Beaver Falls v. Economic Development Administration

OPINION

WEBER, Chief Judge.

This is a suit by the City of Beaver Falls, a municipal corporation in the State of Pennsylvania, against the Economic Development Administration of the United States Department of Commerce, and certain administrative officers of said Department, claiming that the defendants failed to administer properly the Public Works Employment Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. § 6701 et seq. as amended).

The general scheme of the statute was to provide a scheme for funding by the federal government of local public works projects to be initiated by state, county, and local government units…