COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS JOHN A. BLATNIK, Minnesota, Chairman ROBERT E. JONES, Alabama WILLIAM H. HARSHA, Ohio JOHN C. KLUCZYNSKI, Illinois JAMES R. GROVER, JR., New York JIM WRIGHT, Texas JAMES C. CLEVELAND, New Hampshire DON H. CLAUSEN, California FRANK M. CLARK, Pennsylvania FRED M. SCHWENGEL, Iowa ED EDMONDSON, Oklahoma M. G. (GENE) SNYDER, Kentucky ROGER H. ZION, Indiana CLARENCE E. MILLER, Ohio WILMER D. MIZELL, North Carolina JAMES J. HOWARD, New Jersey JOHN H. TERRY, New York GLENN M. ANDERSON, California CHARLES THONE, Nebraska LAMAR BAKER, Tennessee PROFESSIONAL STAFF LESTER EDELMAN, Counsel JAMES L. OBERSTAR, Administrator STAFF ASSISTANTS ERLA S. YOUMANS, Minority Executive Staff Assistant CYNTHIA J. VAN SANT RICHARD C. BARNETT BRENDA G. JONES EMILY B. LOOSIER LINDA L. WILLIAMS TOBY J. STEIN JOSEPH A. ITALIANO, Editorial Assistant KF27 P855 1976 SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT JIM WRIGHT, Texas, Chairman ROBERT E. JONES, Alabama JAMES C. CLEVELAND, New Hampshire JOHN C. KLUCZYNSKI, Illinois WILLIAM H. HARSHA, Ohio KENNETH J. GRAY, Illinois JAMES R. GROVER, JR., New York FRANK M. CLARK, Pennsylvania DON H. CLAUSEN, California ED EDMONDSON, Oklahoma M. G. (GENE) SNYDER, Kentucky ROGER H. ZION, Indiana JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Arkansas WILMER D. MIZELL, North Carolina ROBERT A. ROE, New Jersey JOHN H. TERRY, New York CHARLES THONE, Nebraska WALTER R. MAY, Chief Counsel JOSEPH R. BRENNAN, Engineer Consultant (II) CONTENTS Page 358 460 Atkeson, Timothy B., General Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality- Accompanied by: Ed Edstrom, Chief of Protocol, NATAPROBU. Burmeister, W. J., President, American Association of State Highway J. C. Dingwall, State Highway Engineer of Texas and First Vice D. H. Stevens, Chairman, Highway Commission of Maine and Past Alfred E. Johnson, Executive Director of AASHO. Carroll, Thomas E., Assistant Administrator for Planning and Manage- ment. Environmental Protection Agency ---- Accompanied by: Alexander J. Greene, Director, Grants Administra- Cassady, E. Michael, Executive Vice President, Water Resources Con- Cleveland, Hon. James C., Representative in Congress from the State of Fagan, Charles A. III, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Develop ment, Department of Commerce---- Conroy, Gerry, Deputy Chief Counsel. Karras, George T., Director, Office of Public Works. Cahill, Daniel J., Director, Office of Business Development. Corrigan, John E., Director, Office of Equal Opportunity. Dunne, Thomas P., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary. Reiss, Philip, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary. Gigoux, J. J. (Jim), Executive Director, Southern Colorado Economic Gray, Hon. Kenneth J., Representative in Congress from the State of Kleppe, Thomas S., Administrator, Small Business Administration -- Accompanied by: John A. Knebel, General Counsel, Accompanied by: Irwin Reisler, Acting Chief, Planning Division. Kunzig, Robert L., Administrator, General Services Administration ----- Wilbur Sanders, Deputy Commissioner of the Public Buildings William E. Casselman, General Counsel. William A. Butts, Acting Assistant Administrator for Administra- Aaron Woloshin, Director of Environmental Affairs. Thomas Gherardi, Director of Congressional Affairs. Lincoln, George A., Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness--- 557 313 Accompanied by: James L. Lewis, Chief, Disaster Assistance Division. Richard Murray, Acting General Counsel. Robert F. Kearney, Acting Comptroller. Gordon Gillis, Congressional Liaison. (III) 9 fera Page 368 512 571 260 5 191 153 231 577 Miller, Burton F., Executive Vice President, American Road Builders Ray W. Burgess, Director of Public Works, Baton Rouge, La. Belair, Md. ment Administration - Agency tation Accompanied by: Chuck Lamborn, Assistant Director of Planning. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Trans- Stephen Wood, Office of Chief Counsel. MATERIAL RECEIVED FOR THE RECORD Appalachian Regional Commission---- Forms--Applications for permit to discharge or work in navigable waters and their tributaries ---H.R. 8976, 92d Congress, first session-Mr. Cleveland's bill to provide for termination of the authorization for certain rivers and harbors and flood control projects. President, Water Resources Congress--- Table A and chart A-Average preauthorization time require ments for projects authorized in 1965 and 1970..--- ments for navigation and flood control projects authorized in 1970.- quirements for construction of projects authorized in 1958. ning and construction -- funded projects--- projects Economic Development Administration: City of Walsenburg, Colo., EDA listing, April 8, 1971, of 13 application deficiencies ect; comment on alleged application deficiencies.. program als, denials - 258 259 244 313 316 318 320 322 323 240 256 431 431 451 507 497 459 458 459 459 460 460 434 428 519 440 473 Economic Development Administration-Continued of EDA project for city of West Frankfort, III.--- issuance tive assistant to Mr. Gray, re contacts with EDA regarding said project----- trative assistant to Mr. Gray, re contacts with EDA regard ing said project... 1971, article, $1.1 million for sewage project---- sentatives of various agencies re a proposed meeting on regional socioeconomic development planning and implementation --Letter, June 18, 1971, Mr. C. Allan Blomquist, Director, Pueblo Regional Planning Commission, to Mr. Gigoux, re uniform red tape, cash flow crisis, overly specific criteria.-- hawk Valley Economic Development District, New York, to Mr. Sal- action and positive action programs, restrictions on travel, etc.---Newsletter, September, 1971, of the Soil Conservation District, Mosca, Colo., critical of the Southern Colorado Economic Development District A. Public Works Application Review Process.. stages Actions chase orders)-- a $10 million office building-- 4. East coast project_$13 million.. Miniature and Instrument Precision Ball Bearings, Chronology--- gency Preparedness; includes charts and graphs--- Reply to questions submitted by Mr. Cleveland.-- Prepared statement of Mr. Fred Eaton, Deputy Director - Chart, 10 basic Federal-Aid highway program requirements (enacted prior to 1950) 478 479 480 481 483 485 485 488 489 489 490 490 490 398 399 400 401 409 549 521 554 227 66 Roads-Continued Chart, 23 basic Federal-Aid Highway Program requirements (total basic requirements as of June, 1971)-Chronology, I-95, Franconia Notch, N.H., with letter dated May 12, 1971, from Mr. R. H. Whitaker, Commissioner, New Hampshire De partment of Public Works and Highways, to Mr. Cleveland -HEW, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, grant redtape Houston Post news article relating to Mr. Dingwall's experience with information Letter, June 18, 1971, from AASHO with supplemental material to Mr. Burmeister's prepared statement (Re: Advance Acquisition of Right-of-Way) State Highway Engineer, to Mr. A. E. Johnson, Executive Director, attached Highway Engineer, to Mr. A. E. Johnson, Executive Director, Amer ican Association of State Highway Officials, re. TOPICS program.Letter, June 18, 1971, from Mr. J. C. Dingwall, Texas Highway Engi neer, to Chairman Wright, with listing of draft environmental state ments and negative environmental declarations--- Engineer, to Mr. Brent Cameron of the Office of Honorable K. Gunn statements Department of Highways, to Honorable Nick Begich, Member of Congress, re, inter alia, environmental statements. ---- Iowa State Highway Commission, to Mr. F. C. Turner, Federal High- mental impact statements... Mr. D. H. Stevens, Chairman, Maine State Highway Commission--- Highway project---- hearings and location approval ; Federal Highway Administration.Policy and Procedure Memorandum 90-1, August 24, 1971, implement ing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 as it relates to Appendices to Mr. Turner's statement : process (C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, section and Airways Development Act of 1970.------ Federal Register, April 23, 1971.. plementing DOT Order 5610.1. V. Location Litigation, 5/20/71.-- Association of State Highway Officials.-- for Traffic Safety Programs, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Baton Rouge, La--- 137 127 89 78 294 6 12 18 27 41 100 154 372 |