Establishes a new offshore safety office within the Interior Department.

Workers in the Labor Department's mine and safety office received a call on Friday morning from a man who said: "You guys are all dead.

He said the answer would await an investigation by the Coast Guard's marine safety office.

The Maintenance Building houses the public safety offices, receiving station, and maintenance facilities.

But he pecked at his own phone and called Selene's safety office to make certain they started bringing everybody in from the surface.

But as he read the reports of the water board and the maintenance department and the safety office, the words blurred into meaningless symbols before his eyes.

The reorganization also produced a new safety office, reporting directly to the administrator.

Without a robust, independent safety office, the concerns had nowhere to go.

The safety office was created as a result of the shuttle disaster.

"There is no question that in certain corridors there is a problem," said Frederick Wright, who directs the agency's safety office.