Mr. Chairman, it is not unusual for the Department of Transportation to work cooperatively with another department within our government, particularly in an area where they have expertise that may not exist in that department. We do not want to duplicate the engineering expertise, for example, in Transportation in every department. That would be costly.
There was a budget of $28,000 for DOT travel and accommodation costs, and that is what that is meant to cover. I do not expect in these cases that DOT would ask that the salary and time for the individuals would be assigned to this project. We are all one government. Thank you.