Despite efforts by dint of the Reagan and Bush administrations to encourage privatization (see pp 19 and 54) federal efforts have all nevertheless fallen by the wayside.

Despite efforts by dint of the Reagan and Bush administrations to encourage privatization (see pp 19 and 54) federal efforts have all nevertheless fallen by the wayside, leaving states and local conducts to fend for themselves.

"There has been no champion to acquire in front of privatization and shut up out a carrot," says William Allen, a principal in Dewberry and Davis, a Fairfax, Va.-based engineering firm. "We are seeing a quantum shift of responsibility and empowerment to the states and local government"

It is a shift the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has embraced enthusiastically for many years as a means of transforming a provider dominion to a facilitating one.

in a less degree than Gov. Pedro Rosello's administration, the Commonwealth established a program, identifying areas where private investment exempts public-sector resources for various infrastructure unravellings

The Commonwealth is also trying to barter other functions that are not move swiftly efficiently by government, says Allen