that they thought they should have, and that they could not raise themselves.

We cut that down and thought that apparently $50,000,000 would do the job. That was discussed with the Budget. We still have $3,000,000 in authorizations available. We will have about $7,000,000 out of the existing appropriation, and they felt that perhaps a further authorization of $30,000,000 would be sufficient. Such an arrangement would make available $40,000,000, and it was felt that such an amount for the next fiscal year would be sufficient.

That is the bill before you, to provide an increase in our authorization from $500,000,000 to $530,000,000.

Mr. HOLMES. On that point, General, can you file with the committee the report that you have made to the Budget as the result of your interviews with the various Governors, and the correspondence? General FLEMING. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. Is that information given in this document which you have presented to the members of the committee? Mr. FIELD. That is in this document.

All the details are in the

document which has been filed with the committee.

The CHAIRMAN. May I suggest that as it is not so very voluminous, and in order that Members of the House may have the detailed information given in this brochure submitted by the Federal Works Agency, it be incorporated in the hearings.

If there is no objection, that will be done. (There was no objection.)

(The document referred to is as follows:)

FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY BUREAU OF COMMUNITY FACILITIES-JUSTIFICATION FOR INCREASED AUTHORIZATION, TITLE II, LANHAM ACT, AS AMENDED, $3,000,000

PART I. STATUS OF FUNDS, AND PROPOSED LEGISLATION

Title II of the Lanham Act, approved June 28, 1941 (Public Law 137, 77th Cong.), as amended, authorizes appropriations totaling $500,000,000 for a program of public works construction and public services in communities experiencing an abnormal growth of population because of war connected activities. Congress has passed legislation appropriating in all the sum of $497,000,000 under this authorization.

Nearly all of current appropriations will have been allotted by the end of the current fiscal year. A careful study of the situation in war expanded areas shows that certain urgent needs for services will continue under war conditions into the fiscal year 1946. This request to increase the authorization under title II by $3,000,000 is to provide for the needs of the war public services program for the fiscal year 1946.

No increase in authorization in connection with the war public-works program is now being requested, though it will be necessary that funds remaining from current appropriations be made available for use in this connection in the fiscal year 1946. Nor is any increase sought at this time in the authorization under title IV of the Lanham Act which authorizes expenditures for war public works and services in the District of Columbia.

The following is a summary of the legislative action in respect to authorizations and appropriations under titles II and IV of the Lanham Act:

The status of funds under both titles II and IV of the Lanham Act of December 31 1944, and March 31, 1945, plus an estimate of June 30, 1945, is shown in the following financial statements which reflect the cumulative appropriations, allotments, obligations, and expenditures.

The preceding quarterly statements on the status of funds show actual transactions for the months of January, February, and March and give an estimate of the funds which the Bureau expects to allocate, obligate, and expend during the months of April, May, and June. These estimates are based on a careful examination of present operations and on the allotments which will be made promptly now that funds appropriated under the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, Public Law 40, Seventy-ninth Congress, are available for allotment.

It is estimated that the unallotted balance of funds under title II for service projects will be $7,148,101 on June 30, 1945. The unappropriated balance of current authorizations amounts to $3,000,000. The requested increase in authorization of $30,000,000 would provide $28,800,000 for project allotments, after deducting $1,200,000 for administrative expenses. The unallotted balance, plus the unappropriated authorization, plus the requested increase in authorization, would provide approximately $39,000,000. It is believed that an additional amount of $1,000,000 can be secured from funds now ear-marked for construction. Under these conditions about $40,000,000 would then be available for service projects.

In part II of this presentation it will be noted that the estimate of needs for the service projects for the fiscal year 1946 is $50,000,000. In view of the changing war situation, it appears that a number of projects can be discontinued before the end of the fiscal year 1946, and thereby bring the cost of operating the service program for the fiscal year 1946 within the $40,000,000 that would be available if the authorization and appropriation for title II is increased as proposed.

With respect to the limitation on allocations for service projects the present limitation is $85,000,000. The proposed increase to $120,000,000 will provide sufficient additional limitation to adequately meet the requirements for the service program for the fiscal year 1946.

Under the war public-works program of the Bureau, very few new construction projects were approved during the first quarter of this calendar year. The First Deficiency Appropriation Act, Public Law 40, Seventy-ninth Congress, includes $14,200,000 for construction projects under title II. With these funds the Bureau will be able to approve during the remainder of the fiscal year the most urgently needed construction projects as well as to construct during fiscal year 1946 the urgent new projects which may develop. As shown in the statement on status of funds under title II it is estimated that there will remain, on June 30, 1945, an unallotted balance of $8,490,258 for construction projects. This fund will also take care of overruns and contingencies on the present construction program. "A BILL To amend section 204 of title II of the Act entitled 'An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes,' approved October 14, 1940, as amended, so as to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated therein, and for other purposes

"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 204 of the Act entitled 'An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes,' approved October 14, 1940, as amended, is amended by striking out *$500,000,000' and inserting in lieu thereof '$530,000,000'.

"SEC. 2. The last proviso of section 204 of such Act, which limits the amount that may be allocated for contributions to public and private agencies for the maintenance and operation of public works as heretofore amended, is further amended to read as follows: '(b) the total amount allocated for contributions to public and private agencies for the maintenance and operation of public works after July 1, 1943, shall not exceed $120,000,000'.

"SEC. 3. The First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945, approved April 25, 1945, is hereby amended by striking out the words 'June 30, 1945' where they appear therein under the heading War public works (community facilities), and inserting in lieu thereof the words 'June 30, 1946'."

PART II. THE WAR PUBLIC SERVICES PROGRAM.

General purposes and operation of the war public services program.

The war public services program provides financial assistance to communities for the maintenance and operation of community facilities and the provision of essential services in those areas where community life has been greatly expanded by the war.

Federal funds are allotted to assist communities in providing only those services that are directly related and essential to war production and military activity. Where community resources have been insufficient, and the war effort would otherwise have been impeded, Federal funds have been allotted to enable the

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