The first tests on the Macondo well blowout preventer by DNV technicians is scheduled to begin Monday, if the federal Chemical Safety Board does not follow through with a threat to go to court to block the tests

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The safety board -- a tiny federal agency with 40 employees and a $10 million annual budget -- says it is being treated unfairly by the joint US Coast Guard-Bureau of Ocean Energy Management panel investigating the loss of the Deepwater Horizon. The BOP is being housed at NASA's Michoud facility outside New Orleans.