In the preliminary review, the federal agency found severe failures in several areas.
The Environmental Protection Agency released a preliminary report today that found severe flaws in several Ohio environmental programs, some of which were supervised by a former official who has been nominated to become the agency's top enforcement officer.
At the hospital, doctors found severe blunt-force trauma all over Deng's head, back and torso.
The delegation also found severe overcrowding, as well as unsafe housing and inadequate food, water and medical care.
The Children's Partnership released a study last week that found "severe gaps" in Internet content geared to the needs of low-income and immigrant groups in America, although those groups are gaining access in increasing numbers to the Internet.
In a letter addressed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Henry A. Waxman, of California, the committee's chairman, cited a recent report by federal inspectors who found severe problems with fire alarm systems, water supply and construction.
But the E.P.A.'s scientists and two outside experts who examined the issue for the agency all found severe shortcomings in the company's studies, especially the lack of data provided on the exposure of workers to atrazine.
A researcher at Johns Hopkins University in the USA gave monkeys and baboons three moderate doses of what he claimed to be MDMA, and found severe impacts on levels of dopamine (a neurotransmitter) in the animals.
Several reviews of biosecurity at the Army lab in Frederick, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, found severe problems that dated to long before the anthrax attacks.
"In the last 25 years, the committee and the National Audit Office have repeatedly found severe shortcomings in the commission's performance, particularly in relation to investigation and enforcement," the report said.
The commissioner of parks and recreation, Henry J. Stern, said yesterday that the East River Park promenade, which skirts the river from East 14th to Montgomery Streets, was shut down last week after an inspection found severe deterioration in most of the wooden pilings that support the esplanade.
