In an effort to minimize legal challenges, the environmental agency in 1985 assembled a group of 25 state agencies, worker groups and industry organizations to try to agree on the proposal in advance.
Indeed, the agency had earlier rejected a plan to acquire the same collection of trains, then assembled at a site in Vermont that was also called Steamtown, saying it lacked historic importance.
But the Trump Shuttle's agency, Scali, McCabe, Sloves, has assembled a bevy of notables to stand in for the real estate developer.
Those agencies assemble pools of Government-backed home mortgages that are then sold to the public by Wall Street firms.
A review of the briefing provides clues about how the agency assembled its answer.
Working together, federal agencies have assembled countless pages of government research, data, and reports.
The Peace Corps spokesman, Alexander Sinclair, said that in the last several years his agency had assembled the names and current addresses of 40,000 former volunteers.
It is the latest of the "Future Focus" projects the agency assembles every five years to give its clients a peek at what the world might look like five years hence.
The agency also assembled a team of aviation experts to conduct new tests on the aircraft.
Together the Secret Service, the city police and the other agencies have assembled 18 subcommittees to address everything from training to motorcade route safety to public information.