the chair of the waste water subcommittee michael hammond, virginia holmes, the owner of pet camp, ands. espanola jackson. the task force was very diligent. they volunteered their time. the net monthly with us in the evenings at the southeast treatment plant for two or three hours. we went on technical tours. they worked on behalf of the community in their neighborhood to try to further the implementation of the project. the objective of the task force was to provide a fair and open review process to continue to develop the process. it was to solicit local community thinking, sentiments, and concerns. they brought the facilities from 17 down to two. they identified the key issues for evaluation. those were cost, schedule, visual, architectural, and community benefits for the future. the group culminated their work on the digester task force report. you each have one of those in your pocket. it is a heavy document. it includes all of the agendas. the agendas and topics were set by the committee members. some of the meetings were battering for staff. when something was not clear or under

virginia's remarks. at this time i'd like to recognize for two minutes the gentlelady from the district of columbia, miss eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. norton: i want to thank chairman lynch and mr. sarbanes for this important bill which takes telework from policy to practice. what progress we have made in telework we owe largely to members of this region, but especially to mr. wolf. with the telework enhancement act takes telework all the way from a piece of policy lying on the -- on paper to be picked up at will or not picked up to a real practice of savings and productivity flowing directly to the federal government. the bill converts telework from a passive to an affirmative policy of the federal government. along with all the productivity and savings that have been documented to occur. it essentially makes going to work by telework the functional equivalent of getting on the road or getting on a crowded metro car. although this will be implemented nationwide, the two snowstorms in this region to the shock of private and public entities alike and to telework admit