31.   Social Security Commissioner Shirley S. Chater said her agency and the Immigration and Naturalization Service are developing pilot projects for a national computerized verification system.

32.   Terry Lee, a spokesman for the air district, said her agency and Mirant did nothing illegal.

33.   The data is used to make claims about the drug in comparison with other anti-infectives, the agency said.

34.   The fine is to be contributed to a nonprofit organization, preferably one that helps drug addicts, the agency said in its statement.

35.   The quality control coordinator for Plante, Joaquin Gomez, disagreed, saying the agency had forged bonds with farmers.

36.   The reporting of such incidents, both agencies said, is voluntary.

37.   The test measures the amount of the AIDS virus in the blood, and it does this task more precisely than other approved techniques, the drug agency said.

38.   The US Airways pilot did report the incident after he returned to his base in Pittsburgh, but that report, too, was mishandled, the agency said.

39.   These workers, the agency said, still faced a slight risk of disease after a two-month course of medicine.

40.   Time and space constraints have made that standard harder to meet on television and radio, the agency said.