mr. boesman. you now get your time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. your testimony, you said that the -- that the maintenance of effort by the states was proving to be a challenge. how will d.o.t. ensure that states are continuing to use the recovery act's money that they're getting to supplement rather than use it to plan state expenditures that will be done anyway. >> what we've done with the maintenance, this is a provision that the state d.o.t.s were not used to. so in their first response to providing the certification and maintenance of effort. when we received those, we received a variety of responses. some with contingencies on them and other qualifications that we did not feel complied with the law. the secretary made the determination to go back out and offer additional guidance to each of the states and a request for them to reevaluate and resubmit their certifications. we received conforming certifications back from all but one state, and just recently, we issued guidance to our state divisions to go and sit down with each of the state d.o