Thanks, Roberta, but I don't recall Maine as needing much work.  There
were some states whose public health vets weren't able to attend the
meeting with the vote, and those just needed to know about it and then
they could verify what I sent them on their own.  Most of the work was
just in notifying every state, province, colony, armed forces, etc.  and
finding out how they would observe the Compendium (and that part was a
lot of work and cost a pretty penny), but public health vets as a bunch
almost always are a very logical crew and when they have the data they
need they behave responsibly and constructively.  Even in California the
vet who was their head public health vet at that time bluntly expressed a
wish that science would take precedence over politics for a change (and I
still remember him expressing it that way), and Dr. Charles Rupprecht of
the CDC even spoke to the California bunch, but politics still won out
too much there in their version of observing the Compendium.
 
BTW, our own state, NJ, was great.  It put the Compendium improvements
into effect the very next day after they were passed.
[Posted in FML issue 3915]