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15 Pub. Cont. Newsl. 1 (1979-1980)

handle is hein.journals/procurlw15 and id is 1 raw text is: FEDERAL STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS Copyright © 1979 American Bar Association Martin J. Harty, Editor, 9926 Rand Drive, Burke, VA 22015 - EdVin B. Neill, Assistant Editor THE CHAIRMAN'S LETTER FiveYear Membership Drive The Public Contract Law Section is one of the smaller sections in the ABA. It would improve our standing and our opportunity to express our views within the ABA if we had a larger membership. I am proposing that we aim at doubling our membership within a five- ar period. Ron Perlman is the Chairman of our Membershil Committee. He needs everyone's help. Make it a personal goal for each member to attract five new members this year. The hallmark of our Sec- tion has to be that both government and non-govern- nient lawyers can feel comfortable in debating their views and that they can be assured that the Section's expressions of policy are based on a balanced mem- bership. Our membership is not a clique controlled by any single segment of the public contract bar. For ex- ample, in the Council of' this Section, we have four government lawyers and five private trial practition- ers. Many of our more important committees are chaired by government attorneys. Those attending Council meetings are well aware of the fact that there is free and open debate among both government and non-government attorneys. We come together, really, as professionals studying the objective factors-not as advocates for individual positions. However, tile best way to guarantee balanced representation of all views is to have balanced membership representing all views. We need more government lawyers. We need more lawyers involved in the grants community. We have to make a much greater effort to attract lawyers involved in state and local construction in contracts under grants. Our Section should be one of the stronger sections in the ABA. We reach out to the most important legal issues of' the day from the Weber case to international contracting. We've been in the inflation issue and we certainly are in the middle of' the minority issue. It is hard to believe that young lawyers would not be eager to join our Section. We've ARTICLES Current Developments in Grant Law ... page 2 Annual Meeting Review .............. page 5 Section Directory .................... page II got as mitch solid action as any Section. But we've got to get that lessage across. Limitation of Regulations Our special committee of Trow vom Baur, John Cava- nagh, Overton Currie, Marshall Doke and Paul Dem- bling has moved very quickly to develop a focus in this area. As we have all individually noted, regulations are the bane of our daily lives but there's usually very little that can be done about cutting them back. That appears to be the common assumption. I wonder whether we could not, at least in our field, attack that question with some innovativeness. Many of' you would be surprised, even as calloused as you may already be to the subject of' excessive regulations, to learn of the volume of regulations that are in existence in procurement agencies. For example, following is the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) sur- vey of executive agency procurement regulations which shows the number of issuances, the pages in effect and the number of pages added each year. These are staggering figures that warrant close study -is this problem really irremediable? Government-Wide Overview of Direct Procurement Regulations DiEPA RI IEN I/ DI F F FREN I PA(;ES AGrNCY ISSUAN'IS IN EFFICT Defense 153 30,138 NASA 43 7,449 Agriculture 250 7,147 HEW 02 4,896 rransportation 30 2.090 Interior 45 2,592 Energy 131 2,428 GSA 10 2,415 Justice 20 1,258 Commerce 79 1.089 Labor 6 788 Sub Totals 829 62,890 8 Other Agencies 48 1,680 iotals-rAll Agencies Surveyed 64,570 PAGtS 1)FR YR. 1,859 4,018 I,473 355 790 447 810 205 191 129 21,172 732 2 ,904 (continued Ofn next page) Produced by the ABA Press SECTION OF PUBLIC CONTRACT LAW AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION Vol. 15, No. 1, October 1979 j

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