Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a county prosecutor in Maryland who says that he will ask the Justice Department for evidence against former Spiro Agnew. Also, authorities who says that three persons who are dead and an unknown number are missing after a huge snow slide buried a service station and a café.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of rescue parties which continue digging through snow in search of more possible victims of an avalanche near Vancouver, British Columbia.

This report reviews those legal issues. First, it suggests that legislation related to cross-border facility permitting is unlikely to raise significant constitutional questions, despite the fact that such permits have traditionally been handled by the executive branch alone pursuant to its constitutional "foreign affairs" authority. Next, it observes generally that state oversight of pipeline siting decisions does not appear to violate existing federal law or the Constitution. Finally, the report suggests that State Department's implementation of the existing authority to issue presidential permits appears to allow for judicial review of its National Environmental Policy Act determinations.