The act also laid new significant restrictions on memorial design and approval.

The memorial design itself will clearly need to be re-examined in light of these new cost estimates and security concerns.

I am shocked that there is no space for God within this memorial design.

The memorial design wasn't thrown together in some haphazard way.

"The designs still leave a lot of territory for determining what a specific person's memorial design might be," she said.

During evening discussions, the jury noted that there were really only about four or five basic memorial designs.

That process led them to modify the memorial design in order to meet a budget goal of $500 million.

Reducing the commercial space on the site would allow for different memorial designs, added cultural attractions or residential building.

There might be ways to modify the winning memorial design, he suggested, to add more places for people to sit and congregate.

The latest schedule calls for the winning memorial design to be chosen in January.