Other programs operate full time and year-round from their own headquarters, mainly attracting young people who have dropped out of school or are taking a break between high school and college, corps spokesmen say.

In many countries that have Roman Catholicism as the official or main religion, the nuncio still holds the decanate and is the corps' spokesman on formal occasions.

The agency will let Mr. Barbara operate the marina while his permit is processed, Andrew L. Miller, a corps spokesman, said.

The Army Corps of Engineers has not set a date for starting that project, and a corps spokesman said production at Rumaila could rise without the water.

Sonar found the channel deeper than the required 18 feet, a corps spokesman, Luke Wilson, said.

At the same time, the corps spokesman indicates that the tunnel project will not cost more than $2 billion.

But Lee Turner, a corps spokesman in Washington State, said the Army did not plan to reconsider its decision to turn over the bones to the Indians.

Another corps spokesman, Wayne Stroupe, said it was still too early to know exactly why the levees of New Orleans failed.

The officers declined to discuss the accusations, a corps spokesman, David W. Hewitt, said today, but in testimony included in the report today, they denied any wrongdoing.

Mr. Hewitt, the corps spokesman, said that officials would redo the analyses that investigators concluded were manipulated.