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Office of Chief Counsel
of the Economic Development Administration
Welcome
The Office of Chief Counsel of the Economic Development Administration
(OCC/EDA) serves the legal needs of EDA, a national leader in community-based
economic development. EDA invests in economically distressed communities
to enable increased private investment and higher-skill, higher-wage jobs.
We invite you to visit EDA's website to learn more about its programs
and activities. OCC/EDA is staffed with four personnel in the Washington
headquarters of EDA (the Chief Counsel, two Attorney-Advisors and one
Paralegal), Regional Counsels in each of EDA's six regional offices and
an additional Attorney Advisor in EDA’s Philadelphia regional office.
OCC/EDA provides counsel on all EDA program-related matters, including
pre-and post-approval project reviews and grant property management issues.
Most of EDA's program responsibility has been delegated to its regional
offices, and most project legal reviews take place there. Regional attorneys
provide advice to regional EDA staff, referring matters to OCC/EDA headquarters
or to OGC offices as appropriate. The regional office attorneys also handle
regional Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, legal aspects of
audit matters before they are referred to headquarters, and grant project
legal issues such as adequacy of title, form and content of security instruments
and covenants, and interpretations of specific project conditions.
Office Description
Headquarters attorneys manage EDA legal policy and the legal aspects of
legislative and regulatory drafting and interpretation. In addition, the
OCC/EDA headquarters staff processes audit appeals and resolutions, handles
all denials of FOIA documents requests, responds to Departmental and EDA
headquarters FOIA and Privacy Act requests, assists in debt collection
and loan and grant property management matters, reviews project awards,
correspondence, and other activities that take place in headquarters and
generally advises EDA senior management on all aspects of EDA's responsibilities.
In Washington, D.C., OCC/EDA attorneys are located in Room 7005, Main
Commerce Building, 1401 Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington DC,
20230
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Office Contact:
Barry Bird
bbird@eda.doc.gov
202/482-4687 Voice
202/482-5671 Fax
Visit EDA's Web site:
EDA
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