Mr. CANNON. Have you told the contractor up to this time the amount available? Mr. DOMINY. A 30-day notice has been issued on the tunnel. On the dam the 30-day notice has not been given because we have sufficient funds to carry. it into April. Mr. CANNON. Don't you think you should have informed them of the amount that would be available so they could make their plans in advance? Mr. DOMINY. They have been informed. Mr. CANNON. You have told us they have not been informed. Mr. DEXHEIMER. They were told in September of the amount available for earnings under their contract. Mr. CANNON. Since that time the amount has been increased. Mr. CANNON. But not that they would have to live within that amount? Mr. DEXHEIMER. No; we do not tell them that. RESERVE Mr. CANNON. How much has been put in reserve? Mr. GOLZÉ. $2,442,161 is in reserve, sir. Mr. CANNON. And what do you estimate your unobligated balance will be as of June 30, 1958, in this appropriation? Mr. GoLzE. That is the June 30, 1958, unobligated balance for the construction and rehabilitation appropriation as shown in the Budget of the United States for 1959. Mr. CANNON. The budget tabulation we have shows $3,156,282. Mr. GoLzÉ. The $3,156,282 you quote includes unobligated balances of appropriations other than for construction and rehabilitation. Of this amount $2,442,161 is construction and rehabilitation, $514,121 is general investigations, and $200,000 is O. and M. Mr. CANNON. What do you estimate your unobligated balance will be on June 30, 1958? Mr. GOLZÉ. $2,442,161 in the construction and rehabilitation fund. However, I want to point out that $2 million of this amount is for the loan program-Public Law 130. Mr. CANNON. What do you estimate will be the unobligated balance for the entire program of the Bureau of Reclamation on June 30, 1958? You do not seem to have that available just now, but the budget officer has already submitted a tabulated statement, and the amount in that statement is $4,656,282. Mr. GOLZE. That is correct, sir, but it includes the June 30, 1958, unobligated balance of all appropriations as shown in the United States budget for 1959. This is $1.5 million more, which represents the unobligated balance for the upper Colorado River Basin fund. Mr. Kirwan. Mr. KIRWAN. No questions. Mr. CANNON. Mr. Riley. Mr. RILEY. No questions. Mr. CANNON. Mr. Magnuson. Mr. MAGNUSON. No questions. ADMINISTRATION OF TRINITY CONTRACTS Mr. JENSEN. I have some questions I want to supply and ask be answered in the record. Mr. CANNON. They will be included in the record and we will ask that you supply answers for the transcript. (The matter referred to follows:) TRINITY RIVER DIVERSION PROJECT The Bureau in its testimony on page 442 of the hearings on the fiscal year 1958 budget said the funds provided in the budget for Trinity would permit the contractor to "make progress satisfactory to complete it within the program schedules." Is it not a fact that the Bureau knew at that time that the contractor's scheduled or probable rate of progress would be in excess of that to be provided by the funds scheduled to be available? The Commissioner further testified as follows, page 442, of the hearings on the fiscal year 1958 budget: "Mr. DEXHEIMER. I would also like to point out that the money we have in this year's budget proposed for 1958 is not sufficient to meet the payments that the contractors have asked us to set up under the contracts already awarded on the Trinity River." The record indicates that the Bureau had $10,175,000 in fiscal year 1957 and $17,107,000 in fiscal year 1958 for the Trinity River diversion project. 1. What allocations were made of these funds to the various contracts or items of construction or work items at the beginning of each of these years? (See cols. 4 and 7, exhibit No. 1.) 2. What revision or revisions of these allocations have since been made? (See cols. 4 and 7, exhibit No. 1.) 3. What is present status of funds under each such allocation? (See cols. 6 and 9, exhibit No. 1.) 4. What contracts have been entered into on the Trinity River diversion project and what reservations of funds and/or revisions thereof have been made to each such contract? (See cols. 1, 5, and 8, exhibit No. 1.) 5. What is the date of each of these contracts and when was notice to proceed given on each? (See cols. 2 and 3, exhibit No. 1.) 6. What is the proposed allocation to the various contracts and/or items of work of the requested $10 million of supplemental funds? (See col. 10, exhibit No. 1.) 7. What total amount of the funds available in each of the 2 years, fiscal year 1957 and fiscal year 1958, have been or are expected to be used for salaries and expenses of Bureau personnel? (See bottom line of figures, exhibit No. 1.) |