Sec. 3. Purposes
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The purposes of this Act are— to strengthen rural, suburban, and urban economies by enabling communities to establish goals for the future and to chart a course for achieving such goals; to promote local leadership by encouraging communities to develop innovative solutions that reflect the unique economic assets and needs of the communities; to maximize returns on Federal funding of housing, transportation, and other infrastructure projects through the coordination of Federal grant programs, regulations, and requirements, by reducing the number of duplicative Federal programs and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of programs and policies of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other Federal agencies, as appropriate; and to ensure that Federal funding supports locally defined long range development goals.