Local government agencies

For most of the twentieth century, LDCs, either investor owned or municipally owned, have had exclusive rights or franchises to distribute gas in specified geographic areas. Regardless of ownership, LDCs are regulated, either by state public utility/service commissions or local government agencies, to assure adequate gas supply, dependable service and reasonable prices for consumers. 

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and other federal, state, and local government agencies in the United States may require chemical analyses to determine compliance with air quality, water quality, liquid waste discharge, solid waste disposal, and other environmental regulations. The analytical methods specified for these purposes may be methods in development, methods published by standard-setting organizations, or... 

Criteria documents are developed primarily for the U.S. Department of Labor, but they are also distributed to health professionals, industry, organized labor, public interest groups, and federal state, and local government agencies. More than 140 NIOSH criteria documents are available on the Internet at . Individual documents or the entire set on CD-ROM can be obtained from NTIS. 

There are two reasons for the broadened scope of risk management beyond regulatory actions typically taken previously by federal, state, and local government agencies ... 

A major increase in costs or prices for consuaiers, individual industries, federal, state, or local government agencies, or geographic regions, or... 

Remote and central station fire alarm systems are those monitored by a local government agency or private alarm company respectively. 

Donee any of the eligible entities that receive Federal surplus personal property (i.e., chemicals) through a State Agency for Surplus Property (see definition), for example, a public agency (see definition), a nonprofit tax-exempt educational or public health institution, or a State or local government agency. 

It is not proposed to incorporate local authorities into the data collection and information dissemination system. This has led to some criticism of the proposals by organisations such as the Association of Metropolitan Authorities which has proposed a local authorities Radiation Collation Centre which would act independently of the central government Central Database Facility, Technical Coordination Centre and Information Centre. The local government agencies... 

US Fish and Wildlife Service and other state and local government agencies... 

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that about 30 percent of the professionals who specialize in a branch of statistics work for federal, state, and local government agencies, with the rest in private industry and academic research. Of the statisticians employed by the federal government, the highest numbers were found in the Departments of Commerce, j riculture, and Health and Human Services. 

Better Roads (0006-0208) http //www.betterroads.com (accessed September 1,2010). Randall-Reilly Publishing Co. LLC monthly. Practical articles aimed at highway contractors and state and local government agencies involved in road and bridge engineering and maintenance. 

Many federal, state, provincial, and local government agencies and entities have adopted ethics codes. As with the codes used by businesses, these codes can complement the ethics codes of relevant professional societies. A few varied government organization ethics codes are listed here along with the website addresses for access to the codes. Consider reading at least one to further enhance your understanding of and appreciation for the value of codes. The codes and their websites are ... 

State and Local Government Agencies International Organizations in Health and Nutrition... 

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