An issue raised by the letter was whether the agency should ever use such data.
Each agency uses the money where the need is greatest.
Some agencies accept blood from people with certain risk factors and use it for research.
But this was the first time, so far as he knew, that the Agency had used it for a cover legend.
Many Government and nonprofit agencies use 800 numbers to provide a wide range of information.
The agency did not use medical data on pilots at the time, proponents of change point out.
The agency should use a portion of this money to focus states' attention on the urgent need to provide quality child care.
And the chief of police responded that "we cannot account for what other agencies were using".
Had anyone known that the Columbia was in trouble, he said, the agency would have used all its resources to find a solution.