31.   In the United States, the agencies responsible for managing the spectrum have never been busier.

32.   It also reveals lax enforcement by the federal Office of Pipeline Safety, the agency responsible for making sure pipelines are safe and environmentally sound.

33.   Most Americans who are wrongly imprisoned have no hope of collecting damages from the public officials or agencies responsible for the mistake.

34.   Officials with the State Department, the agency responsible for refugee admissions, did not return calls for comment on Thursday.

35.   On the bank loans, the package also calls for Resolution and Collection Corp., the government agency responsible for buying bad loans, to accelerate its purchases.

36.   One amendment, for example, shifted money from the agency responsible for enforcing the recent increase in the minimum wage, which most Republicans opposed.

37.   Other government agencies invested in roads, though the Roads Department is agency responsible for the maintenance of Federal highways.

38.   President Bush also asked Congress to boost the budgets of government agencies responsible for combatting terrorism at home and overseas.

39.   Right now, he said, the Hudson River Park Conservancy, the state agency responsible for the plan, has no binding powers.

40.   Reorganizing counterintelligence operations represents the latest step in the long and often troubled relationship between the agencies primarily responsible for catching spies, the FBI and the CIA.