(1) The office of state planning and budgeting shall:

(a) Repealed.

(b) Stimulate and encourage state agencies to engage in long-range and short-range planning in their respective areas of responsibility with the assistance of the office of the state architect;

(c) Review and coordinate the planning efforts of state agencies, including the relationship of such efforts with federal and local governmental programs;

(d) Furnish the office of the state architect and the state agencies with data, projections, and other technical assistance needed to discharge the state agencies' planning responsibilities and coordinate the exchange of relevant reports, data, and projections among state agencies;

(e) From time to time, conduct public hearings to encourage maximum public understanding and agreement as to factual data and assumptions upon which projections and analyses are based and also to receive suggestions as to types of projections and analyses that are needed;

(f) Participate in comprehensive interstate planning and other activities related thereto;

(g) Make studies and inquiries relevant to state planning of the resources of the state and of the problems of agriculture, industry, and commerce, as well as population and urban growth, local government, and related matters affecting the development of the state;

(h) Prepare, and from time to time revise, an inventory, in collaboration with the appropriate state and federal agencies, of the public and private natural resources, of major public and private works, and of other facilities and information which are deemed of importance in planning for the development of the state, not pertaining to cartography;

(i) Supply to the public available information developed pursuant to this subsection (1);

(j) Accept and receive grants and services relevant to state planning from the federal government, other state agencies, local governments, and private and civic sources;

(k) Act as reviewing authority or otherwise provide cooperative services under any federal-state planning programs.

(2) The office of state planning and budgeting shall exercise careso as not to duplicate the projections from data of state agencies and nonstate agencies and shall utilize such projections to the maximum extent possible.