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Boards, Bureaus and Agencies, and then it goes on to set

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up what the function and scope of powers of that depart-

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ment would be.

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Without going into detail, it includes, for

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instance, the furnishing of assistance to. political sub-

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divisions on advice and enforcement of codes and ordinance:

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It includes the rendering of services directly to the

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local units, local governmental units. It provides for

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the supervision and administration of various programs

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of the State.

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It more or less, I think, sets up a chain of

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command where, with the organization of the new Federal

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Department of Urban Affairs, we have something in the

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State of a comparable nature which would then be a

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channelizing and then spreading out from the State Depart-

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ment, or rather, the Department of the State into the

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various local units of government.

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MR. MELVIN: Is this a constitutional provision

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in Pennsylvania?

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THE CHAIRMAN: No. This, actually, as I said,

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was a statute of the General Assembly and I have it in the