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.&::::0.::)':1' I fact that we have five projects that will be pending in this next session of Congress for authorization, it's going to require heavy travel to Washington, D. C., to present testi- mony on these-various projects. This situation will continue for many years. If you will note at the back of the book we listed the current water resource development program which is now actually in progress. Every project that's listed there is being actively worked on today. There are many other projects, as you know, which we have not started yet, but the program that you see in the last two pages of your book, the total of those projects exceeds $1 billion. We put that in there so that the Appropriations Committee of the General Assembly could have some idea of what our program is. As you can see from that list, we are building up a substantial backlog of projects. It will require a tremendous effort in the future to get those projects authorized and under con- struction. You will note that we have actually under construction today, projects totally $114 million. $41 million more have been authorized and we believe will be started dur- ing the next two years. Are there any questions on the General Administration part of the budget? I Our big fund is Special Investigative Studies. Now it's not possible to really item- ize this fund because the scope of our inves- tigations depends a great deal - I could say almost entirely - upon the federal budget. The federal budget, the counterpart of this budget, will not be adopted probably until next August. So we are always a little in the dark in pre- paring our budget since we are almost a year ahead of the federal budget in our preparation. But we are acquainted with the requests that have been made by the Bureau of Reclamation for their various programs. Some of the items con- tained in the project investigations we know definitely will occur, particularly the Narrows Project. As you recall, our contract with the