71.   The environmental agency is insisting on steep cuts in emissions, while the Ministry of International Trade and Industry says that is preposterous.

72.   The environmental agency is investigating the omission, spokesman Patrick Shaughnessy said.

73.   The environmental agency presented a plan last week in which the whole building would have been made airtight and decontaminated with chlorine dioxide gas spread through the ventilation system.

74.   The environmental agency recently signaled the states that it would be flexible in enforcing air-pollution rules.

75.   The environmental agency says .

76.   The environmental agency is almost finished preparing a new strategy for coping with the problem, said Robert Perciasepe, the assistant administrator for water programs.

77.   The environmental agency issued them after two years of negotiations among environmental groups, local governments, and other interested parties, and there is little controversy about them.

78.   The environmental agency will be replaced by two newly created agencies, Planning and Development Services and Public Works.

79.   The Interior Department, another environmental agency that has been operating without a final agreement on its budget, would be financed until March.

80.   The proposal was delayed, because critical elements, including the land acquisitions, would have to be approved by state health and environmental agencies.