a picture of some houses that are approximately the size of the house those being proposed for 89 answerd 93. this is not muggers -- this is not belgrade avenue, and to compare them is they're wrong. -- is very wrong. i have lived on the grave of a new 40 years. i love the street. -- i have lived on belgrade's avenue and 40 years. i love the street because it is everybody's street. people come from all over the neighborhood to exercise. taurus, walking down the street. we have met with every did tourists -- tourists come walking down the street. to say it should be compared with clarendon st. is wrong. the proposed houses would begin to destroy the character. they would take away a big chunk of green space but sits in the center of the street. let me show you were one of the houses would be going toup. this is a big green area that would simply be gone, changing the nature of the street. from here you can see up the hillside. you can see additional trees. there is a creek, and it would be replaced by a very large and expensive mansions and would also kick of a working-class people who liv

the $493,000 that you requested for this last year and we talked about it at this hearing last year answerd i thank you for th increase. unfortunately this money still barely dents the remaining cost share of more than $190 million. we've discussed before the local partners have prepaid 99.7% of their share. so they're just waiting for the federal portion. and the delay is holding up economic development in the region. so my question really is what is your plan to make sure this project get completed in a timely way or that it even ever gets completed. >> senator franken, let me first of all let me say thank you for being such a great advocate for a great project that is very deserving of additional money. and frankly because of the fact that your water users, local communities, have stepped up to the plate, have put up their cost share, we were able to prioritize this project and have put in as much money as we possibly can in these very tough budget times. as i said, it's a squeeze budget with some painful decisions. if we didn't have the constra t constraints we're sffacing, we would put