you will see that rapidly in the next few months. >> beech grove station facility, if it were not for the chairman working with the members of that area, we are talking about major downsizing and sending people to delaware, now that we have the funds for fixing the facility, we did our job. i think that is the way it should work. >> yes, ma'am. >> thank you. >> mr. bozeman, it is your time. >> in your testimony, you said that the effort by of the states was proving to be a challenge. how will dot will insure -- how will the dot insure -- >> what we have done with the effort is that this is something that the state dot paws were not used to. in their first response to provide the certification, when we received those, we received a revised -- a variety of responses. there were contingencies and other things that we didn't feel complied with the law. we provided additional guidance to the to states. we received conforming certification back from all but one state. just recently, we should guidance to our state divisions to go sit down with each of the state dot's to review with the stat

chairman, i want to mention the fact that beach grove station facility, if it wasn't for the chairman and working with that area, we were talking about doing a major downsizing and sending the people to delaware. now, you know, that we've gotten the funds we're fixing up that facility. and so we did our job and i really think that's the way it should work. >> yes, ma'am. >> thank you very much and i yield back the balance of my time. >> mr. boesman. you now get your time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. in 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 qu