Facilities Location: Agencies Should Pay More Attention to Costs and Rural Development Act

The U.S. General Accounting Office report concludes that there is little evidence that agencies consider Rural Development Act of 1972 requirements when siting new facilities. The report looked at which agencies had recently selected urban locations other than the District or 10 formerly designated federal regional cities compared to rural areas, whether or not they should have, what lessons the federal government could take from private sector site selection, and which federal functions lend themselves to rural locations.