51.   The government agency chiefly responsible today for promoting acceptance of the metric system is the National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the National Bureau of Standards.

52.   The National Marine and Fisheries Service, the federal agency responsible for tracking and protecting the turtle populations, says shrimping kills hundreds of the marine animals every year.

53.   The NTSB is the federal agency responsible for investigating airline accidents but has no authority to adopt safety rules.

54.   The Preservation Board, the state agency responsible for the Capitol, has jurisdiction over only the public areas of the building.

55.   The police and the state agency responsible for the child declined to release the name of the grandmother, citing confidentiality regulations.

56.   The Residential Utilities Consumer Office, the state agency responsible for representing citizen interests before the commission, did not oppose the split.

57.   The secretary of state or other state agency responsible for establishing your corporation must be notified, too.

58.   The scandal has virtually paralyzed the agency responsible for reworking those loans and resuscitating banks.

59.   The simple answer is to file a complaint with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, the agency responsible for enforcing the housing code.

60.   The space program still earns great public admiration, but the agency responsible for it seems perpetually under fire.