"Due to the enormous volume of clearance work and other difficulties attendant upon the beginning of a new administration, combined with an abbreviated transition period, this process took longer than either Mr. Rove or I would have wished, or than it would have taken at other times during a presidential term, " Gonzales wrote.

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The HPS has issued its standard, Surface and Volume Radioactivity Standards for Unconditional Clearance.

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