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PUBLIC LAW 90-578-OCT. 17, 1968

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expiration of the fourth calendar year following the year of enactment of such Act, and prior to the expiration of each fourth calendar year thereafter. STUDIES BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF FEDERAL GRANT-IN-AID PROGRAMS

SEC. 602. (a) Upon request of any committee having jurisdiction over a grant-in-aid program, the Comptroller General shall make a study of such program to determine among other relevant matters, the extent to which— (1) such program conflicts with or duplicates other grant-inaid programs; and (2) more effective, efficient, economical, and uniform administration of such program can be achieved by changing certain requirements and procedures applicable thereto, (b) I n reviewing grant-in-aid programs the Comptroller General shall consider, among other relevant matters, and the budgetary, accounting, reporting and administrative procedures applicable to such programs. Reports on such studies, together with recommenda- c^gres*s^.*^° tions, shall be submitted by the Comptroller General to the Congress. Reports on expiring programs should, to the extent practicable, be submitted in the year prior to the date set for their expiration. STUDIES BY ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL

RELATIONS

SEC. 603. Upon request of any committee having jurisdiction over a grant-in-aid program, the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (established by Public Law 86-380, as amended) shall con- ^^ ^*°*- ^°3' duct studies of the intergovernmental relations aspects of such program 5o*usc 1501 including (1) the impact of such program, if any, on the structural 1509. organization of State and local governments and on Federal-State-local liscal relations, and (2) the coordination of Federal administration of such program with State and local administration thereof, and shall c^^^esV° report its findings and recommendations to such committee and to the °"^'"^^^" Congress. PRESERVATION OF HOUSE A N D SENATE COMMITTEE JURISDICTION

SEC. 604. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the jurisdiction of committees under the rules of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Approved October 16, 1968.

Public Law 90-578 AN ACT

October 17, 1968

To abolish the office of United States commissioner, to establish in place thereof within the judicial branch of the Government the office of United States magistrate, and for other purposes.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may Federal Magisbe cited as the "Federal Magistrates Act"'.

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