Jasper Packard: “This amendment was accepted last year and I would certainly be anxious to accept it this year. It expresses the very…”

Should the committee receive a revised 302(b) allocation which increases our funding level, then our effort will be to consider increasing funding for the ARC to at least the fiscal year 2000 funding level.

Funding should not be withheld, and this project should not be delayed. Issues raised by the opponents to the project have been adequately addressed during the planning stages and appropriate analyses and project modifications have been…

I understand the idea of an interbasin transfer has been discussed in Northwest Georgia, and I assure the gentleman from Georgia the subcommittee understands the serious nature of any interbasin transfer of this magnitude and would be very…

I appreciate the request of the gentleman. I will certainly work in conference to adequately fund the Spallation Neutron Source and, of course, additional funds if that will help.