51.   Papakrasas admitted concealing information about the release of the asbestos from residents and from federal disaster and environmental agencies.

52.   Ryan had accused the environmental agency of failing to consider the impact the new requirement would have.

53.   She sang in the Wilsonville Baptist Church choir and worked for a county environmental agency.

54.   She stressed that the work was done by the government as a landlord, not as an environmental agency.

55.   Some federal environmental agencies supported that approach.

56.   State environmental agencies, financed partly with federal grants, issue most of the permits required by federal laws governing air and water pollution and disposal of hazardous waste.

57.   Still, Regula says, splitting with the Republican leadership over the vote on the environmental agency was not a close call.

58.   That is because the environmental agency does not regulate indoor smoke and because local governments have wide discretion to set their own regulatory agendas.

59.   The accord means that the environmental agency has settled pollution cases in the last few years with companies that make up more than half the wood products industry.

60.   The base had already proposed a cleanup plan, though one the environmental agency deemed inadequate.