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Show Starr reveals strategy Future strategy of obtaining impact funding for the proposed MX missile system was revealed to the state's MX working group meeting in Cedar City Sept. 24. Ralph Starr, coordinator of the Four-rC'ou:.!; Four-rC'ou:.!; MX Policy Miwd, outlined the many-faceted plan to get the Federal money, and some problems the state was likely to face. Some of Starr's obervations: --There should be one "pot" of money put together for capital outlay (construction) (con-struction) and operation and maintenance main-tenance of those constructed facilities. --There should be a "one-agency approach" ap-proach" t to approving impact funding for specific projects. Starr said he would like to see a single review team, composed possibly of representatives from several different Federal agencies. agen-cies. --A "master capital improvement list" should be put together on the local or state level, and individual applications for funding should be discouraged. --"Congress will want to establish a ' my funding ceiling, while the Working Group will want to establish a funding floor." -Requests for impact funding should be "conservative," with projects only related to MX impact submitted. Ken Olsen, director cf the state's MX Working Group, also reported at the meeting that bill language authorizing impact aid had been approved by a House-Senate conference Sept. 23. . The bill combined what Olsen called "the best of both worlds," with "permanent "per-manent funding authority," and "streamlined funding ability." Olsen said the latter would allow improvement im-provement of the funding procedure, if desired. The bill, Olsen said, would soon return to both floors of Congress, where he expected quick passage. "The outcome was just right, and we feel really good about it," Olsen continued. con-tinued. "The Representatives and Senators from both states worked hard on it. |