Afton Alps, Inc. v. United States

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HEANEY, Circuit Judge, by designation.

Congress enacted the Public Works and Economic Development Act, 79 Stat. 552, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3121-3226, on August 26, 1965. In its prologue section to the operative provisions of the Act, Congress declared:

* * * [T]hat the maintenance of the national economy at a high level is vital to the best interests of the United States, but that some of our regions, counties, and communities are suffering substantial and persistent unemployment and underemployment; * * * that to overcome this problem the Federal Government, in cooperation with the…