Despite efforts by way of the Reag...

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

"There has been no champion to master in front of privatization and keep possession of 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 command to a facilitating one.

in subordination to Gov. Pedro Rosello's administration, the Commonwealth established a program, identifying areas where private investment unrestraineds public-sector resources for various infrastructure unravellings

The Commonwealth is also trying to vend other functions that are not scud efficiently by government, says Allen