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Major Management Challenges and Risks: An Executive Summary

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As part of its Performance and Accountability Series, GAO provided information on the major management challenges and program risks facing federal agencies."
Date: February 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Medicare Fraud and Abuse: Early Status of DOJ's Compliance With False Claims Act Guidance

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on: (1) the Department of Justice's (DOJ) implementation of its False Claims Act guidance; and (2) DOJ's U.S. Attorneys' Offices' involvement in DOJ's national health care initiatives."
Date: February 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Scheduling of the 2000 Decennial Census

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO studied the impact of delaying the 2000 Decennial Census and options to ensure its success, focusing on: (1) the basis for the scheduling of Census Day and the timeframe for reporting population counts to the President, Congress, and the states; and (2) the requirements driving states' needs for census data by specific dates."
Date: February 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Public-Private Partnerships: Key Elements of Federal Building and Facility Partnerships

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the key elements of partnerships between the federal government and the private sector that were formed to help the government acquire and operate federal real estate and facilities more efficiently and effectively, focusing on the experiences of six federal partnerships formed by the: (1) National Park Service; (2) Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); and (3)… more
Date: February 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Social Security Reform: Implications for Women

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed: (1) how women currently fare under social security; (2) how they might be affected by some of the proposed changes in benefits to restore solvency; and (3) how women might fare under a system restructured to include individual accounts."
Date: February 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Supplemental Security Income: Long-Standing Issues Require More Active Management and Program Oversight

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, focusing on: (1) the problem areas that currently pose the greatest risk to the SSI program; (2) the Social Security Administration's (SSA) recent efforts to improve the SSI program; and (3) additional actions that should be taken."
Date: February 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Government Management: Observations on OMB's Management Leadership Efforts

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its observations on the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) efforts to carry out its responsibilities to set policy and oversee the management of the executive branch, focusing on: (1) OMB's wide-ranging management responsibilities and the question of whether to integrate or separate management and budget functions; (2) the effectiveness of OMB's management lead… more
Date: February 4, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Strategy Needed to Develop a Risk-Informed Safety Approach

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the actions the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has taken to move from its traditional regulatory approach to an approach that considers risk in conjunction with engineering analyses and operating experience-termed risk-informed regulation, focusing on the: (1) issues that NRC needs to resolve to implement a risk-informed regulatory approach; (2) status of NRC's… more
Date: February 4, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Recreation Fees: Demonstration Program Successful in Raising Revenues but Could Be Improved

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the recreational fee demonstration program, focusing on: (1) ensuring that future revenues can be applied to the agencies' highest priority unmet needs; (2) coordinating fees between agencies at demonstration sites that are close to each other; (3) being more innovative in setting fees; and (4) assessing the effect of fees on specific segments of the population."
Date: February 4, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases: Consensus on Needed Laboratory Capacity Could Strengthen Surveillance

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the nation's infectious diseases surveillance network, focusing on the: (1) extent to which states conduct public health surveillance and laboratory testing of selected emerging infectious diseases; (2) problems state public health officials face in gathering and using laboratory-related data in the surveillance of emerging infectious diseases; and (3) assistan… more
Date: February 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Welfare Reform: Status of Awards and Selected States' Use of Welfare-to-Work Grants

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information about: (1) welfare-to-work formula and competitive grants awarded to, or declined by, states for fiscal year (FY) 1998; (2) how selected grantees are planning to use these funds; and (3) how selected grantees plan to meet welfare-to-work requirements to better integrate the states' workforce development services with other human services for welfare… more
Date: February 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Financial Management: Forest Service's Efforts to Achieve Financial Accountability

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Forest Service's progress in improving the reliability of its accounting and financial data."
Date: February 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Acquisition Reform: NASA's Internet Service Improves Access to Contracting Information

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS), focusing on: (1) whether NAIS is an effective mechanism for disseminating procurement information to industry, including small businesses; and (2) the status of efforts to develop a governmentwide electronic procurement information system similar to NAIS."
Date: February 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Western National Forests: Nearby Communities Are Increasingly Threatened By Catastrophic Wildfires

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the wildfire hazards faced by communities located adjacent to national forests in the dry, inland portion of the Western United States, focusing on: (1) the extent and seriousness of threats posed by national forest wildfires to nearby communities in the interior West; (2) agency efforts to address them; and (3) barriers to successfully implementing these efforts."
Date: February 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Airport Financing: Annual Funding As Much As $3 Billion Less Than Planned Development

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed airport funding issues, focusing on: (1) the amount airports are spending on capital development and the sources of those funds; (2) comparing airports' plans for development with current funding levels; and (3) what effect will various proposals to increase or make better use of existing funding have on airports' ability to fulfill their capital development plans."
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Government Management: Addressing High Risks and Improving Performance and Accountability

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the major challenges faced by the government in improving its performance and strengthening accountability, focusing on agencies' need to: (1) adopt an effective results orientation; (2) improve the use of information technology to achieve results; (3) strengthen financial management decision-making and accountability; and (4) build, maintain, and marshal the human … more
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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IRS Management: Challenges Facing the National Taxpayer Advocate

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the challenges facing the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Office of the Taxpayer Advocate, focusing on IRS' need to: (1) address complex staffing and operational issues within the Advocate's Office; (2) strengthen efforts within the Advocate's Office to determine the causes of taxpayer problems; and (3) develop performance measures that the National Taxpayer Advoca… more
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Social Security and Minorities: Current Benefits and Implications of Reform

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed minorities and Social Security, focusing on: (1) how minorities currently fare under social security; (2) how they might be affected by some of the proposed changes in benefits to restore the program's solvency; and (3) how minorities might fare under a system restructured to include individual accounts."
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Status of Open Recommendations: Improving Operations of Federal Departments and Agencies

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reported on the conclusions and recommendations resulting from its audits and other reviews of federal departments and agencies. GAO provided summary information on the status of all recommendations that have not been fully implemented in the areas of national security, international affairs, community and economic development, natural resources, human resources, justice, general government, and financial… more
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Coast Guard: Key Budget Issues for Fiscal Years 1999 and 2000

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Coast Guard's budgets for fiscal years 1999 and 2000, focusing on the: (1) Coast Guard's progress in justifying the Deepwater Replacement Project and addressing GAO's concerns about its affordability; (2) Coast Guard's plans for spending its fiscal year (FY) 1999 emergency funds; and (3) budget strategies the agency may have to consider in the future to address … more
Date: February 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Customs Service Modernization: Ineffective Software Development Processes Increase Customs System Development Risks

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Customs Service's software development maturity and improvement activities, focusing on: (1) the maturity of Customs' software development processes; and (2) whether Customs has an effective software process improvement program."
Date: February 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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