For instance, the PATH complex's administration, design and insurance costs will total about $620 million, or 28 percent of the project's total, according to federal transportation documents.

But now, because the 2003 Department of Transportation document does not include language about training, pet owners can claim that even untrained puppies are "service animals," Ms. Froling said.

Coincidentally, the day we're sitting at her dining room table - covered with news clippings, family photos and hundreds of pages of downloaded federal transportation documents - would have been Fred's 60th birthday.