"... Relatively little attention has been given to the influence on state
government structure and on organization of statutory and administra-
tive requirements or conditions associated with grants. Such evidence
as there is would indicate that, on the whole, the influence has been a
minor factor. Where it has been observed, however, in most instances,
this influence has been adverse to a state's achieving a major reorgani-
zation of its administrative structure. In a significant number of in-
stances, grants program requirements have prevented states from
implementing plans for regrouping major functions. "

State government should be able to decide its own organization, subject
only to a determination at the federal level that the state administration
is adequately equipped to meet the general goals of grant-in-aid pro-
grams. I urge adoption of this section.

Section 101 will provide me with the type of information I must have
to be fully informed as to federal expenditures made in the State of
Maryland. I should be able to estimate and follow these as clearly as I
keep track of other State revenues.

Section 102 requires that grants be paid to the State Treasurer unless
the state itself has designated someone else to receive the grants. This
provision would end the practice of channeling aid funds directly to
the state administrative agency.

In response to a questionnaire circulated by the subcommittee, Louis
L. Goldstein, Comptroller, and John A. Luetkemeyer, Treasurer for the
State of Maryland, commented on the procedural aspects of the remain-
ing sections of Title I. I ask that their letter to the subcommittee be in-
serted in the record for their observations on these items.

In conclusion, the passage of this omnibus bill will promote a keener
awareness of the need for greater federal-state-local cooperation, and it
will solve some of the problems now apparent in the relationships among
these levels of government.

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