DEAR Ma. ARNETT: As members of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and others concerned with the legal services program. we urge you to utilize. and obligate existing funds appropriated for fiscal year 1973 and funds that we expect the Congress to appropriate for fiscal year 1974. to continue the current support centers at least through December 31. 1973. or until a national legal services corporation can be established. As :-ou know. the sixteen support centers throughout the Nation currently funded by the Office of Economic Opportuniey provide essential specialized legal assistance for legal services attorneys and their clients. thus serving as the vertebrae of the entire program. in such crucial areas as employment. migrant and other law. The Economic Opportunity Act Amendments of 1972. signed into law by the President on September 19. 1972. provides that of the authorized amounts in each of the fiscal years 1973 and 1974. the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity shall "reserve and make available" not less than $71.5 million for legal services programs. On October 81. 1972. the President signed into law (P.L. 92607) the Supplemental Appropriations Act. 1973. appropriating $71.5 million for legal services for the current fiscal year 1973.