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 Senator CAREY. General, did not the House allow you all that you asked for
except for these five projects: Passamaquoddy; the Atlantic-Gulf ship canal;
Conchas Dam, N. Mex.; Blue Stone Reservoir, W. Va.; and Sardis Reservoir,
Miss.?
 General MABKHAM. They allowed all that our approved estimate contained.
 Senator MoADoo. You mean $100,000,000?
 General MAn KHA. Yes.
 Senator McADoo. I see that the amount proposed in the Budget estimate is
$88,961,000. That is shown here on page 34, in the first category.
 General MABzHAM. In the first category, Senator?
 Senator McADoo. In the first category. Is that what would apply?
 General MARKHAM. No; because we have four categories.
 Senator MoAmoo. I understand that, but this is the first.
 General MaBKHaM. That is the first category, $88,961,000.
 Senator McADoo. Now, in another category on page 35, you come down to the
$129,000,000 all told. Is that right?
 General PILLerwr. Which $29,000,000 was thrown out by the House.
 Senator McAnoo. I understand that. This is the second category, the one
that the House cut out.
 General PI.LSBUr. That is right
 General MARKHAM. Yes, sir; the others remain in.
 Senator RusasL. I would like to ask a question, if you do not mind.
 Senator McAnoo. Yes.
 Senator Russm.t Now, General, I understand that you could go outside of
this list of projects here on pages 34 and 35 and adopt one of these other
projects, as a substitute?
 General MAwrnu. No; not adopt it, but reduce the amount and extend it
into any class of projects which Congress has authorized, if it appeared in our
judgment and discretion that navigation interests demanded the expenditure
there at that particular time.
 Senator Russ.L That is a reduction, a reduction of the amount of work to
be done or the amount of money that it actually takes to complete the work as
compared with the amount that you have asked for or which has been appro-
priated.
 General MAKBHAM. Both. I can explain that.
 Senator RUSSeL. Then you could take one of these projects, and divide the
money, and you can only complete half of that, and take those funds and apply
them somewhere else?
 General MARKHAM. That is right.
 Senator RUSSe L. I do not see how you could do that.
 Senator MoADoo. That is, as long as you do not exceed the Budget allowance.
 General MARKHAM. We would not exceed the $100,000,000.
 Senator Russml. I am not talking about your exceeding it. I am talking
about transferring it.
 General MARKHAM. It is a question of a guess to some extent. We may have
5 or 10 percent, or something of that sort of a spread.
 And that will be applied to other projects which Congress has authorized, to
meet the needs of navigation which is determined at the time of distribution of
the funds.
 Senator COP.HAND. I want to ask General Markham why he is talking about
$100,000,000, when the bill says $138,677,899.
 General Pu Lssm Y. The other $38,677,899 is for maintenance, operations,
wreck removals, and so forth.
 Senator CoPAND. That is, you have $100,000,000 for new work?
 General PLEuasuer. For new work.
 Senator COPL.AND. And $38,677,899 for maintenance; is that right?
 General MARKHAM. That is right
 Senator COPELAND. Now, I have asked you this before, but I want to ask it
again-
 Senator FrzroHzL Mr. Chairman, may I clear up that reduction and how
much it enters into your estimates?
 Senator COP.AND. Yes.
 General MARKHAM. About $45,000,000. Is that right, Captain Clay?
 Captain CLAY. Yes, sir.
 Senator FrLtoaH General, Just a minute. Mr. Parks in his report says
that the estimates for 1987 were $168,000,000.
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