They said the Authority should have formally reviewed the environmental impact before approving the plans.
Senior advisers have not formally reviewed the idea and no proposal has been sent to the President's desk, the aides said.
A spokesman for the bureau declined to comment on the survey, but said it had not been formally reviewed by the agency's top officials.
Individuals not directly involved in a potential collaboration should formally review the proposal at some stage in the negotiation process.
Regulations now require that Federal employees be formally reviewed every year to determine if they are performing satisfactorily, he said.
Each strategy should be reviewed formally (with quantification) against the predetermined criteria.
The initial results were favorable, and a full-scale mockup was formally reviewed in March 1949.
If the department formally reviewed the Maine plan, "the secretary's ruling would be presumptively valid," he said.
The policy is to be formally reviewed later this year by Ireland's Department of Finance.
For example, defense lawyers have questioned whether documents in the chaplain's baggage were truly classified, and that is now being formally reviewed.