While criticizing New York City Transit for inadequate communication plans, it applauded Metro-North for the work of its formal emergency task force on developing policies and managing emergencies (although it did note that Metro-North could do more to provide alternatives during emergencies).
In January 2005 the formal grassroots task forces, called Grupo de Trabajo Comunitario (community working group), were created in each of the 16 intervention circumscriptions.
The organizations seeking the information maintain that the formal list of the task force's members -- the vice president, six cabinet members and four other government officials -- did not tell the whole story, and that energy industry officials were so closely involved with the deliberations as to have become de facto members.
The task force finding put a formal end to a tumultuous affair with implications that went far beyond the simple question of whether Sanchez or Dornan had won the right to represent a suburban slice of Orange County.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will receive the formal order Friday to deploy a Marine air-ground task force and a Marine battalion to Afghanistan, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.
Giselle Barry, a spokeswoman for Mr. Markey, said the congressman would send a formal letter to the agencies on Friday calling for the task force.
Lawyers for the Torricelli campaign have also filed formal complaints to the Justice Department and in federal court, accusing the task force of leaking confidential grand jury material to reporters.
Members of the Pentagon task force that reviewed the document said it described no formal alliance being reached between Mr. bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence.
The attention focused on sexual assault allegations through student protests and the White House task force on campus rape has also led to more formal complaints.
Those should be inspected using the more "formal" procedures that are in place for the plants' original safety equipment, the task force recommended.
But members of the task force said the public comments fell on deaf ears; no formal revisions were made to the draft criteria before district leaders finalized them at the end of November.
