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<br />MR. GOSLIN: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />II <br /> <br />1615 <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman, members of the Board and <br />quests, I'd like to explain first a little <br />about these supplemental appropriation bills. <br />Ordinarily in January there will be what is <br />called the second supplemental appropriation <br />bill for fiscal 1960 before the Congress. In <br />ordinary circumstances that bill will contain <br />items for which additional appropriations for <br />fiscal 1960 are needed. At the same time there <br />will be before Congress a budget request for ap- <br />propriations for fiscal 1961. Fiscal 1961 be- <br />gins next July 1. <br /> <br />Now obviously we are going to try, just as <br />hard as we can, to get a budget item in the <br />President's budget in January. That would be <br />for fiscal 1961. If you are going after a sup- <br />plemental appropriation for fiscal 1960, and <br />incidentally I think it is a good idea, because <br />we want to get this project started just as soon <br />as possible, where you do not already have some <br />appropriations for the project, I think you would <br />be expected to have some special purpose for that <br />supplemental appropriation. At least that's the <br />way the Bureau of the Budget seems to look upon <br />that type of appropriation. <br /> <br />In the case of Curecanti, I think we can <br />develop a good reason for a supplemental appro- <br />priation. In the project area up there, there <br />are a lot of people who right at the present <br />.time don't know exactly what to do. They can't <br />sell their property very well because they don't <br />know if, or when, Curecanti is going to get <br />started; they don't want to add a lot of capital <br />investments: to their property for the same rea- <br />son. They might put in a big capital investment <br />up there and not get paid fully for it, so I <br />think in the Curecanti project area we have what <br />might be called in some terms 'hardship cases' <br />and a supplemental appropriation might be re- <br />quested from Congress on the grounds that funds <br />are needed for the purchase of lands from people <br />in the area to alleviate hardship cases. If you <br />wish to call it that. Now that gives you a good <br />reason. <br /> <br />I think you all get the idea that asking <br />for a supplemental appropriation from Congress <br />entails some difficulty, also some very good <br />reasons for that appropriation. But there is <br />no reason, as I said before, why we shouldn't <br />try to build up a case along those lines if this <br />