WASHINGTON?The Bush administration is considering whether to restrict distribution of government documents that describe how to make germ weapons, White House officials said Sunday.

U.S. stockpiles of offensive germ warfare agents were destroyed nearly three decades ago as part of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.

But the government kept the blueprints for manufacturing such weapons, and continues to sell them.

“The administration is generally conscious of this issue,” John Marburger III, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a telephone interview Sunday. “There are obviously people thinking about what to do about it.”

The administration is likely to take action on the matter, Marburger said, adding that he knew neither what action would be taken nor when.