Closing level crossings is, however, a mandated task for Network Rail, which must weigh up the competing calls for faster trains, lower running costs, a safe railway and the needs of people living alongside it.
Mr. Hilts also draws attention to formidable obstacles, including what the officials say is inadequate staffing to carry out mandated tasks and legislation that stripped the agency of "all meaningful regulation of herbal remedies and food supplements, so the safety and quality of these are now constantly in doubt".
Next, the goal-setting, steering and management control mechanisms are described, followed by a cross-check of mandated tasks and objectives and the associated performance indicators.
So exactly that is the flexibility that we are looking for and that we are hoping to achieve to be able to implement immediately if the situation on the ground allows us to resume the mandated tasks.
Newsom, who spent a year interning in the office of California Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy while an undergraduate at Santa Clara University, knew full well what the position entailedoutside of a few legally mandated tasks like serving on the University of California Board of Regents, it was whatever he wanted it to be.
The legislature's only mandated task is to produce a two-year balanced budget.
More scathing is a unanimous report from a congressionally mandated task force, the National Defense Panel.
A panel of high-level experts was appointed with the mandated task of presenting recommendations for reform to the 59th General Assembly in 2004.
Suzy DeFrancis, a Red Cross spokeswoman, said that the group and its chapters and blood regions had received federal and state money in the past for specific projects but that it had not sought dedicated money for a federally mandated task.
These arguments, it must be said, serve Crowley's purpose, for they constitute a prima facie case for the detailed studies and program development he identifies as the mandated task of the FEA.
Whatever value ordinarily lies in focusing exclusively on the 'plain words [of the] civil rights legislation originating in the post-Civil War days,' post, at 649, is certainly eclipsed by the need to examine carefully alterations produced by the revisers, whose congressionally mandated task was to preserve, not to change, the meaning of the federal statutes.
