Commissioner Bud Selig told a meeting of the Associated Press Sports Editors on Thursday that management officials implicated in the Mitchell Report may escape fines and suspensions in lieu of community service.

Last week, when Major League Baseball and its union announced an enhanced drug policy, the official position was that any fines imposed on management would be donated to the Partnership For a Drug-Free America and the Taylor Hooton Foundation.

Selig also agreed that he would not discipline any of the active players named in the report. Instead those players would do community service and a $200,000 contribution would be made by the union to an anti-drug charitable, educational or research organization.

"I don't use the word 'amnesty,'" Selig said Thursday. "I don't think there is amnesty because I think that whatever they're doing, they're doing something as a result of what they did. And the club officials and the clubs will be treated in exactly the same manner. That would be unfair if they weren't."

The new agreement enacts all of the recommendations made by former Sen. George Mitchell in his report released late last year that analyzed the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport.

Mitchell also recommended in the report that Selig forgo any discipline of the active players noted. That group was just a small portion of the 89 players mentioned.

"Don Fehr [the union's executive director] has said this, and I won't disagree with him, just the announcement of all their names was punishment enough," Selig said. "Whatever has happened has happened. I want our players to do public service. I want our club people to do public service. ... I said to myself, if we can take and use our sport to educate people on the dangers -- and particularly the players named in the report, but other players who are willing to do it -- ... public service and doing a lot of hours of public-service work are more important than any draconian penalty."

As far as management is concerned, Giants chairman Peter Magowan and general manager Brian Sabean are the most prominent officials mentioned. In the report, former head team trainer Stan Conte said that he had brought a clubhouse culture of possible steroid use to Sabean's attention, but nothing was ever done about it.

By rule, the Giants were supposed to report even an alleged incident of drug use to the attention of the Commissioner's Office or risk a sizable fine.

A Giants official reached in San Diego where his club was playing the Padres on Thursday night said that there had been no contact from the Commissioner's Office about the issue, although Magowan disclosed during Spring Training that he and Sabean have both been interviewed.

During the session, Selig and Rob Manfred, MLB's executive vice president of labor relations and human resources, said that the sport is continuing to seek a test for human growth hormone and will monitor the World Anti-Doping Association's claim that a blood test will be utilized at the Olympics in Beijing this summer.

"Right now, you can't buy a blood-test kit to do an HGH test," Manfred said.

"They took 2,000 tests four years ago," Selig added. "We've never seen the results. No one's ever seen the results."

MLB and the National Football League have funded research at a UCLA lab headed by Dr. Donald Catlin, who has been trying to find a valid urine test to no avail for several years.