And last year Congress gave the agency authority to borrow $11 billion, to be paid back from future deposit insurance premiums, to shutter bankrupt S & L's.

The agency authority was constituted on July 1, 1947 and styled "the Vermont Department of Public Safety."

A bill giving the agency authority to punish environmental criminals has passed the senate and is now before Brazil's lower house.

Agencies issue administrative Regulations to implement the details of the "enabling legislation" that gave the agency authority to act.

At the same time, the judge, William L. Osteen Sr. of Federal District Court in Greensboro, denied the agency authority to control cigarette advertising.

A spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department said the bill was not intended to grant the agency authority over other jurisdictions.

These goals were quickly endorsed by some members of Congress, and pending bills would give the agency authority to regulate materials in products and packages.

A Unified Command allows agencies with different legal, geographic, and functional authorities and responsibilities to work together effectively without affecting individual agency authority, responsibility, or accountability.

Following mistreatment by agency authorities, Ulzana breaks out of the San Carlos Indian Reservation with a small war party.

Congress has debated for years giving the energy regulatory commission or some other agency authority to impose rules for users of the transmission grid.