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<br />have not been able to determine. We are not unaware of the <br /> <br />domination of the Office of Management and Budget in the prepara- <br /> <br />tion of the proposed principles, although the Water Resources <br /> <br />Planning Act gives that agency no such authority. The ironic <br /> <br />comedy of the five year limitation is that the Office of Manage- <br /> <br />ment and Budget can, and is. making it impossible to get project <br /> <br />construction started within the five year period. <br /> <br />Insulated and protected from normal democratic procedures, <br /> <br />the administrative branches of this government are rapidly assuming <br /> <br />the total executive, judicial and legislative functions separately <br /> <br />reserved by the Constitution. <br /> <br />If the laws enacted by Congress can <br /> <br />be ignored and rejected by the shadowy fourth body of administra- <br /> <br />tive government, the question remains as to why we bother with the <br /> <br />elective process in the first place. <br /> <br />During the past decade, ten multi-purpose water resource <br /> <br />and flood control projects have been authorized by the Congress <br /> <br />for construction in the state of Colorado, on which construction <br /> <br />has not yet started. Because of past fiscal limitations, there is <br /> <br />no way that construction on seven of these projects can be started <br /> <br />within the proposed five year time limit. With a little more help <br /> <br />from the Office of Management and Budget, the other three projects <br /> <br />can also be pushed into the never ending cycle of re-analysis. <br /> <br />Cumulatively. over 200 years of planning effort and several <br /> <br />-7- <br />