Most state inspection programs are run through state agriculture departments.

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There's something called a national bridge inspection program, and they run these inspections.

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Indeed after spending several years of watching them at close quarters I have come to the conclusion that it is they who own and run the park, and us human gawkers are the beasts under inspection.

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If this sounds familiar, it bears an uncanny resemblance to the line ElBaradei and his colleague, Hans Blix, the then-head of the UN weapons inspection program in Iraq, employed to excuse Iraqi non-compliance in the run-up to war last Spring.

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But it is the inspection process itself which is likely to make the most difference: it is now clear what a well-run council can achieve, and where the badly run ones are going wrong.

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