This provides a community profile and the information gathered is shared inside the task force, across agency boundaries.
In the days since the shootings, Pentagon officials have faulted the F.B.I., asserting that because it supervises the task force, the agency should have informed the Defense Department about the e-mail messages.
Mr. Bush initially promised to comply, and last December, a task force of agency scientists concluded that emissions do indeed endanger public welfare, that the E.P.A. is required to issue regulations, and that while remedial action could cost industry billions of dollars, the public welfare and the economy as a whole will benefit.
Moreover, the task force told agencies to make sure that wild and native bees weren't left in the lurch.
Composition of commissions, task forces, and agency advisory panels was reviewed to determine whether NIEHS-sponsored investigators participated.
Just last week, he boasted that the White House had formed a task force inside every agency to find and eliminate "job-killing regulations, of which we've had many".
"The C.I.A. took active part in the work of the task force, and the agency's strong counterterrorism knowledge will be key to the conduct of future debriefings," said Paul Gimigliano, a C.I.A. spokesman.
The Obama administration plans to announce on Tuesday that it is setting up a task force within the agency to recommend ways to reveal more information about F.D.A. decisions, possibly including the disclosure of now secret data about drugs and devices under study.
The shooting is under investigation by the Safe Streets Task Force, a multi-agency gang unit.
The task force includes 14 agencies, such as councils, police, housing and rescue services.
A task force of New York City agencies led by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is looking at this issue as it relates to defendants with mental illness.
