1.   A Senate committee approved legislation last week to require storage of the spent fuel in an interim facility in Nevada.

2.   I take issue with the view that district ethics committees are superfluous once central committees have approved a multicentre project.

3.   The committee also approved payment towards a monument.

4.   The committee approved the application for the estate off Dinsdale Close without commenting on the request.

5.   Six bungalows look set to be built on land off at Dean Gardens, Shildon, after Sedgefield District Council development committee approved the planning application yesterday.

6.   The transport committee yesterday approved plans to build another boat.

7.   Already, a House committee has approved legislation to create a commission for recommending which parks ought to be sold or transferred to the states.

8.   And by March, the United Nations headquarters committee approved a site in both Westchester County, N.Y., and Fairfield County, Conn.

9.   And in recent days, administration officials have begun strenuously objecting to a provision that had largely gone unnoticed when the bill was approved by the committee.