Mr. Foley said that top officials in the Clinton administration, like Carol Browner, the environmental administrator, and Bruce Babbitt, the interior secretary, were far more aggressive about reaching out to him, even though he is a Republican.
Stephen L. Johnson, the environmental administrator, announced the decision on Wednesday, the day President Bush signed the first major change in vehicle mileage standards passed by Congress in 32 years.
"We would be ready to act immediately," said Donald S. Welsh, environmental administrator of Region 3. Lead poisoning in children can cause learning and behavioral problems, seizures, comas and even death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"The tests begin to become when he has a tough regulatory decision to make and the White House starts leaning on him to go one way or another," Russell E. Train, environmental administrator under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, said.
Mr. Hess, the Pennsylvania environmental administrator, said that the state has no plans to honor New York City's request to give it notice of future inspection blitzes, as that would compromise the effort.
"The cap and trade approach shows us again and again that people do more, and they do it faster, when they have an incentive to do what's in the public interest," Michael O. Leavitt, the new environmental administrator, said on Tuesday in a speech to agency employees.
The first, entitled "survey for evaluating the work environment," which was applied to the company by an environmental administrator specialized in Hygiene and Occupational Health, and which characterized exposure, established groups of similar exposure (GSE), and identified those workers who would receive the breathing air sampling equipment (GIL AIR PLUS pump with its respective sampling train).
"There's only two in North America," said Stan Tenerowicz, environmental affairs administrator of the Springfield Conservation Commission.
She was the environmental protection administrator from 2001 to 2003 and governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001.
But two other nominees easily won confirmation: Gale A. Norton as interior secretary and Christie Whitman as environmental protection administrator.
