The collected samples are sent to designated state-owned labs for testing.
There are 28 groups that currently are designated by the State Department as international terrorist organizations.
It is also the first to be designated as a state visit because the Pope was invited by the Queen rather than the Church.
In 1993, the U.S. designated Sudan a state sponsor of terrorism.
State law gives electric utilities, including Georgia Power, exclusive rights to serve customers in designated areas of the state.
From Bristol, a state-designated music trail known as the Crooked Road zigzags through the wooded hillsides and meadows of South Virginia, past white picket fences and trout-filled creeks along the North Carolina border.
So far, organizers have succeeded in getting the Reform Party or a designated candidate certified for 21 state ballots.
In New Jersey, the Reform Party hopes to succeed with a suit challenging a requirement that prospective political parties get 10% of the cumulative vote in the General Assembly elections before they can be designated as political parties in the state.
But state authorities say that is not possible in a wilderness area, as the state's beaches are designated.
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In California, county offices of education as well as the state board of education are designated as charter authorizers.
The bill, written by State Representative Pete Schneider and designated HB 864, passed resoundingly in both chambers of the legislature in the House of Representatives by a floor vote of 100-0, and the Senate by a tally of 35-0.
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In September 2012, the US government removed the PMOI from the state department's list of designated terrorist organisations, in part because of its co-operation in the move to Camp Hurriya.
El Hammam was designated as a terrorist leader by the U.S. State Department two weeks ago.
Already, 55 of Kentucky's 120 counties are federally designated as medically underserved, and an estimated 484, 000 more state residents may be seeking medical care next year.
Thanks to the parks movement, Niagara has enjoyed public protection since the 1880s when it became a state park, and just four years ago, the US designated Niagara Falls a heritage area under the National Park Service.
His designated successor, Mark Carney, said last week that the Report was "state of the art" when it first came out in 1993.
After Hatfill was designated a "person of interest, " he lost his job at Louisiana State University, where he was helping train first-responders to handle a bioterrorism attack, and had his apartment searched three times.
The Energy Department is giving state officials and other interested groups 60 days to weigh in on its designated zones.
Even with the Energy Department's designated transmission zones, the idea is that utility companies will first seek approval from state authorities to site a power line.
Some state programs also legislate mandatory renewable portfolio standards that require electric utility companies to purchase designated amounts of energy from wind, solar and bio-fuel providers, typically at premium costs that are passed on to customers.
Requests are submitted to the Director-General by the Member State, through the National Commission for UNESCO, or where there is no National Commission, through a designated government channel.
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