31.   Board officials said Friday that they would let the documents they had released speak for themselves.

32.   Board officials said that they believe that no schools have bought the program, but that they cannot be certain because the decision is up to individual schools.

33.   Board officials said the engineering study was in its final review but was not ready for release.

34.   Board officials said they were afraid the Almontes might try to leave the country.

35.   Board officials said they were trying to negotiate a contract in the face of a tight budget.

36.   Board officials said they would more aggressively pursue the legislation that would allow them to recover the aid, none of which has been disbursed.

37.   Board officials say investigators for other agencies, sometimes working shoulder-to-shoulder with NTSB investigators, receive traditional time-and-a-half overtime.

38.   Board officials say the competition will speed up delivery of freight.

39.   Board officials and Ben-Veniste also disagreed on whether there was federal money available to finance removal of the lead.

40.   Board officials attributed that to a faulty estimate of how many ballots were left to be counted.