i particularly want to thank guillermoo rodriguez, the office of work force development, others in my office, all of whom will be working ash the clock for months to make this legislation work. in fact, it has been, for my office, the top priority that we have worked on because we want to make sure we get it right as we are threading this needle. first let me address some of the key amendments we made to enhance the legislation. to address the ideas of minority and small local small contractors that they have raised. the legislation increases the threshold where the policy would apply from $100,000 to $400,000 to be consistent with the micro set-aside program we approved earlier this year. we made sure that large contractors can use local business enterprises to meet their mandatory staffing goals, which further support the use of our local business enterprise program. our l.b.'s have a greater ability because they are based locally to hire local people. recognizing challenges starting with 30% mandatory by trade and escalating to 50% in two years, we amended the legislation after rev