It is the purpose of this subchapter to promote more harmonious intergovernmental relations and to encourage sound planning, zoning, and land use practices by prescribing uniform policies and procedures whereby the Administrator shall acquire, use, and dispose of land in urban areas in order that urban land transactions entered into for the General Services Administration or on behalf of other Federal agencies shall, to the greatest extent practicable, be consistent with zoning and land-use practices and shall be made to the greatest extent practicable in accordance with planning and development objectives of the local governments and local planning agencies concerned.
(June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title VIII, §802, as added Pub. L. 90–577, title V, §501, Oct. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 1104.)
Section 801 of act June 30, 1949, as added Oct. 16, 1968, Pub. L. 90–577, title V, §501, 82 Stat. 1104, provided that: “This title [enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the ‘Federal Urban Land-Use Act’.”