Abstract
Abstract This article discusses the implementation of environmental and historic reviews in the UDAG (Urban Development Action Grant) program. In 1979 local controversies over charges of excessive demolition or inappropriate scale delayed a series of UDAG supported economic development projects. Research shows UDAG has been funding, overall, considerable rehabilitation and preservation activity. The central problem is not a new federal bulldozer, but rather adjustments of federal standards and procedures for assessing environmental quality in a program designed to attract the private sector and facilitate local decision making. Changes in the last months of the Carter administration in program administration, regulation, and legislation emphasized more careful attention to historic preservation planning in UDAG projects by the cities and “expeditious action” in federal review. As an example in the ongoing debate about federal standards in decentralized programs, the events are instructive regardless of the fate of the UDAG program.
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