PAGE 1 REMARKS BY HONORABLE FARRIS BRYANT DIRECTOR OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PLANNING AT THE DELAWARE GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE ON FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS DOVER, DELAWARE JANUARY 26, 1967 PAGE 2 2. To ensure coordination in orocess and purpose. That means putting<' the Governor in the co-pilot's seat. While the President and the Governors are setting our course, the rest of us can keen the ashtrays clean, & and tigers in our tanks. We have with us today a distinguishv group of Federal officials. They know their jobs. We hope this meeting, and the fallout from it, will enable dthem to achieve a broader understanding of state problems than can be secured from dealing exclusively with their t special areas of concern. I recognize the competence of Governor Terry's staff. With such a PAGE 3 10 leader, it could not be otherwise. ie hope that they will acquire a better insight into the underlying reasons for Federal procedures. If this chemistry works, we will develop administrative initiatives that will make possible the -oordination we all seek. May I introduce the Federal Te am: HAROL SEIDMAN, Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget; DEAN W. COSTON, Deputy Under Secretary, ]epartment of Health, Education and Welfare; PAGE 4 11 DR. BERTRAM BROWN, Deputy Director, National Institute of Mental Health; JONATHAN LINDLEY, Deputy Asistanrt Secretary of Commerce; HERBERT J. KRAMER, Assistnt Director, Office of Economic Opportunity; JAMES E. THORNTON and BYRON G. ALLEN, Assistants to the Secretary of Agriculture; PHILIP E. RYAN, Assistant to the Director for Intergovernmental Relations, Department of Housing and Urban Development; PAGE 5 12 JAMES M. QUIGLEY, Commissioner, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. -In addition, ROBERT Y. PHILLIPS, ID director of Emergency Operations for OEP will discuss Disaster Relief; .RAYMION N. SNEAD, Information systems Specialist with the National resource Evaluation Center will brief [s on State Data Comparability; CHARLES E. LATHEY, Special assistant to the Director of elecommunications Management will discuss his specialty. PAGE 6 13 Also here from my staff are: HUGH GALLAGHER, Director of Liaison; Sa -WALTER L. WAZAN, Assistant for Federal-State Relations; EMMET F. RIORDAN, Director of Information; and our Assistant Director of Information, JOHN COLEMAN. I would end on this note. There was a time when Americans enjoyed parallel citizenship under governments which served different levels of need Federal and State. Today we have parallt citizenship under governments serving in the same areas of need. Federal grants have risen from $30 million PAGE 7 l I 14 annually in 1920 to nearly $15 billion Today. If we ars t. use these funds wisely and well, if we are to develop Programs most responsive to the needs of the people, if we are to keep pace With as era of enormous change, we nest innovate and create the 'institutional means to master our age in freedom. In the final analysis, Success will depend on the States and the competence shown by them, as it always has. We are here today in the first jState of the Nation to begin that process. PAGE 8 I'm happy to be here. It is fitting that we begin this series of meetings with the leadership of Delaware. As the first State of the Union -your delegate having been the first to sign the Constitution -Delaware is the most appropriate place to begin this effort to mak e Federalism creative in this twentieth century. It is fitting for another reason. Governor Terry has been foremost among the Governors in aiding and using this Federal Government. He has served on the Highway Safety Committee and the National Resources Committee of the Governors' Conference -two posts which gave him deep insight into the problems of Federalism today. He is a PAGE 9 2 ember of the Constitutional Revisions nd Governmental Reorganization committee of the same Governors' onference. He is in the thick of ationwide efforts to simplify and treamline our Federal-State elationships. The problems themselves are Iramatically demonstrated in the tatistics of Federal-State relations :oday. At the present time, more :han 400 authorities exist for grant )rograms. At least 160 have been idded since 1960. More than 1,000 iew Federal development districts, reas and regions have been funded. PAGE 10 3 A survey in a single county showed that Federal programs were administered by 125 separate Federal bureaus and div is ions. Here in Delaware, a relatively small State, governor Terry and his administrative family must live and work with 65 separate Federal grant programs providing almost 35 million dollars, and affecting every city and county of the State. There are two separate problems: One -the obvious problem -is budgetary. The other -less obvious, and more important and difficult -is the administrative. PAGE 11 4 either of these problems is "political," for they are common for Republicans and Demoorats. Neither of these problems is "deliberate," for they are the un intended result of many separate actions by the Congress in the pursuit of diverse but good goals. Neither of these problems finds a natural or obvious solution within the framework of our established institutions and practices. One thing is clear! if we are to find a solution, a methodology must be formulated to insure the coordination of diverse claims, programs and administrations with related PAGE 12 activities, shared concerns and similar resoasibilities within the State. It follows "as the night the day" that this cannot be done ecept through the office and persas af the Gcernr. Esseslial to their solutions is adequate "communications." The President in addressing the Federal department heads on November 11, 1966, and in his State of the Union message January 1 0, placed great emphasis pon that idea. He said in part: "The 88th and 89th Conresses enacted mare social and economic legi slatian than any two Congresse in our history. But all of this PAGE 13 6 legislation will come to nothing unless it reaches the people. "Federal energy is essential. But it is not enough. Only a total working partnership among Federal, State and local governments can succeed. The test of that partnership will he the concern of each public organization, each private institution, and each responsible citizen... "We intend to work with the States and localities to do exactly that." And just a few days ago, President Johnson reaffirmed these sentiments in his Budget Message to the Congress. He said, in part: PAGE 14 1 7 "Our agenda must give high priority to a stronger and more effective federal system of governmen t inathe United States. To meet urgent and growing needs, the Federal Government is providing a wide range of programs to assist State and local governments. Now the chief task is to manage these programs efficiently at every level of government to assure the most efective public services... "Another aspect of the problem of intergovernmental cooperation has been the process of consultation with elected officials of State and local governments on matters concerning the development and administration of PAGE 15 6 ederal assistance programs. overnors and local chief executives re responsible for the management of heir units of government. The ederal Government should take all ractical steps to increase the role 6f these executives in the administration of federally aided programs..." We are here today to implement those ideas. Our objectives are sim eole: 1. To establish adequate communications. We want to be sure that we are all on the same frequency, that our earphones are plugged in, and that everyone who should be heard has a working microphone.