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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />double checked it before I came here. The rescission I think has a <br />forty-five-day time period. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Let me ask. Is there anything in either the Senate or <br />the House to in effect override a deferral? <br /> <br />Mr. Crandall: Not that I am informed about, Mr. Chairman. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: It certainly seems logical to me that you would have to <br />have the action of the House or the Senate during the fiscal year <br />involved. Because if you don't wh~then you are getting into another <br />appropriation period. is that right? <br /> <br />Mr. Crandall: Yes. sir. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: And Larry, you have a lot of political know how. What <br />are the chances of getting any enthusiastic support for what I would <br />call overriding the deferral? I guess that is not the proper term. but <br />it expresses what I am interested in. <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: It has been most frustrating to find out what is going on <br />back there in view of these fragmentary messages. As you can see. the <br />President sent a message to Congress in September to defer part of the <br />construction funds for these projects and then on October 31 there was <br />another message which finished off the construction funds. I talked to <br />Congressman Evans' office yesterday and was informed that Congress takes <br />the position that as far as the time is concerned the computation is <br />based on consecutive working days of the Congress and that the time will <br />not expire during this session. The President sent these messages in <br />too late for this Congress and he must resubmit them to the incoming <br />Congress. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: The people that are interested in these projects. as <br />well as the board. want to know what the board and the interested people <br />can do effectively or even to begin to become effective in regard to <br />this. Is our congressional delegation being constantly kept in touch <br />and what is their attitude and so forth? <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: Well. we now have two lame ducks. I don't suppose they <br />care much. I know that various conservancy districts have expressed <br />their concern to the congressional delegation. I have been informed that <br />the congressional delegation in general. with one or two exceptions, has <br />protested these deferrals. But as yet. no resolution has been enacted <br />by the Congress to cancel the deferrals. The only way that we will get <br />anything done is to keep riding the members of the congressional delega- <br />tion for some action in this matter. <br /> <br />Congress intends to adjourn in the very near future and intends to take <br />up the matter of deferrals and rescissions in January. I think letters <br />must go to our new members in the Congress as well as those that are <br />being held over. So far the only person that has kept up with it on <br />the congressional delegation is Congressman Evans. Of course. this is <br />natural because he is a member of the appropriations cOllDllittee. We have <br /> <br />-24- <br />