1.   But he said the U.S. Atomic Energy Act prohibits the United States from transferring samples of bomb-grade plutonium and uranium even to an international inspection agency.

2.   Currently, the inspection agencies say, Iraq is stopping them from following up fresh intelligence by visiting new sites.

3.   Holbrooke needs to ensure that an independent and credible chief is chosen for the new arms inspection agency that will be created.

4.   In the meantime, Japan circulated the draft reply to the inspection agencies that the council is to debate Monday.

5.   Instead the council began drafting a reply to the inspection agencies.

6.   It has been almost two years since Annan went to Iraq to talk Saddam into a modicum of cooperation with the inspection agency, known as Unscom.

7.   Oversight on quality of construction and adherence to the original plans and to various state building codes is insured by a third-party inspection agency.

8.   Relevant inspection agencies say the Kingdome is legal, although far from up to date.

9.   The French proposal includes monitoring of known Iraqi weapons facilities by a less aggressive inspections agency than the one now headed by Richard Butler.

10.   The head of a bank inspection agency to be created this summer will also have authority to determine which banks may receive payments from the fund.