Lilly acknowledges that it decided to finance the programs in response to state efforts to cut costs.

Rather, like the results of an earlier study in 2002, they are intended to help state efforts to concentrate on and reduce pollutants.

An array of national conservative groups is helping the state efforts.

Drug companies have generally resisted state efforts to expand their purchasing power.

The list is the latest state effort to get parents to pay what they owe in child support.

"We look forward to continued results of state efforts to use the flexibility and resources provided by welfare reform."

Moreover, the group says, federal assistance is not supposed to substitute for state efforts.

They asserted that it would undermine state efforts to help poor people.

These include mandatory Federal plans for cleaning the air when state efforts are not sufficient.

Five members are still said to be opposed to the state effort.