31.   Patrick Crimmins, a commission spokesman, said the agency went beyond the call of duty in seeking public comment.

32.   Reginald Welch, a commission spokesman, said officials of the agency were prohibited by law from discussing any case.

33.   Safety commission spokesman Ken Giles declined to say how long it took to investigate these or other products before they were pulled from shelves and the public was notified.

34.   Safety commission spokesman Rick Frost said the agency is most concerned about the gap between the moving stair and the sidewall on an escalator.

35.   Tamara Young-Allen, a commission spokesman, said on Friday that the commission would continue to support the negotiations in Mount Vernon.

36.   The commission is still studying just what process it must follow to approve the requests from Austin and San Antonio, said Patrick Crimmins, a commission spokesman.

37.   The decline is like clockwork, according to commission spokesman Rob Schlichting.

38.   The hearing before an administrative judge is the start of a lengthy permitting process by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, said Terry Hadley, a commission spokesman.

39.   The state commission ruled that it did not have to honor the Ontario suspension because it came from a foreign country, said James Knight, a commission spokesman.

40.   Welch, the commission spokesman, said most of the complaints that that the commission heard involved private employers.