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2010 Census: Population Measures Are Important for Federal Funding Allocations

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The decennial census is a constitutionally-mandated activity that produces critical data used to apportion congressional seats, redraw congressional districts, and allocate billions of dollars in federal assistance. This testimony discusses (1) the various measures of population used to allocate federal grant funds (2) how the accuracy of the population count and measurement of accuracy have evolved and the U… more
Date: October 29, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Agricultural Disaster Assistance

Description: This report discusses the ongoing major USDA disaster programs designed to help crop producers recover from the financial effects of natural disasters — federal crop insurance, noninsured assistance program (NAP) payments, and emergency disaster loans.
Date: May 29, 2007
Creator: Chite, Ralph M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Airport Finance: Observations on Planned Airport Development Costs and Funding Levels and the Administration's Proposed Changes in the Airport Improvement Program

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "To address the strain on the aviation system, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed transitioning to the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). To fund this system and to make its costs to users more equitable, the Administration has proposed fundamental changes in the way that FAA is funded. As part of the reauthorization, the Administration proposes major changes in the … more
Date: June 29, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Annual Report of the International Nuclear Energy Research Initiative Osmose Project (FY06).

Description: The goal of the OSMOSE program is to measure the reactivity effect of minor actinides in known neutron spectra of interest to the Generation-IV reactor program and other programs and to create a database of these results for use as an international benchmark for the minor actinides. The results are then compared to calculation models to verify and validate integral absorption cross-sections for the minor actinides. The OSMOSE program includes all aspects of the experimental program--including t… more
Date: August 29, 2007
Creator: Klann, R. T.; Hudelot, J. P.; Drin, N.; Zhong, Z.; Division, Nuclear Engineering & Atomique, Commissariat a l'Energie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Anthrax Detection: DHS Cannot Ensure That Sampling Activities Will Be Validated

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In September and October 2001, contaminated letters laced with Bacillus anthracis were sent through the mail to two U.S. senators and members of the media. Postal facilities in New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere became heavily contaminated. The anthrax incidents highlighted major gaps in civilian preparedness to detect anthrax contamination in buildings. GAO was asked to describe and assess federal a… more
Date: March 29, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Automated Inadvertent Intruder Application

Description: The Environmental Analysis and Performance Modeling group of Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) conducts performance assessments of the Savannah River Site (SRS) low-level waste facilities to meet the requirements of DOE Order 435.1. These performance assessments, which result in limits on the amounts of radiological substances that can be placed in the waste disposal facilities, consider numerous potential exposure pathways that could occur in the future. One set of exposure scenarios, … more
Date: May 29, 2007
Creator: Koffman, L.; Patricia Lee, P.; Jim Cook, J. & Elmer Wilhite, E.
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Broadband Internet Regulation and Access: Background and Issues

Description: This report discusses broadband Internet, examining what it is and the various technologies that allow for its transmission. Broadband or high-speed Internet access is provided by technologies that give users the ability to send and receive data at volumes and speeds far greater than access over traditional telephone lines; it also provides a continuous, "always on" connection (no need to dial-up) and a "two-way" capability, that is, the ability to both receive (download) and transmit (upload) … more
Date: May 29, 2007
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A. & Kruger, Lennard G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Characterization of Gatewell Orifice Lighting at the Bonneville Dam Second Powerhouse and Compendium of Research on Light Guidance with Juvenile Salmonids

Description: The goal of the study described in this report is to provide U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) biologists and engineers with general design guidelines for using artificial lighting to enhance the passage of juvenile salmonids into the collection channel at the Bonneville Dam second powerhouse (B2). During fall 2007, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers measured light levels in the field at one powerhouse orifice through which fish must pass to reach the collection channel… more
Date: December 29, 2007
Creator: Mueller, Robert P. & Simmons, Mary Ann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Characterization of Niobium Oxide Films Deposited by High Target Utilization Sputter Sources

Description: High quality, refractory metal, oxide coatings are required in a variety of applications such as laser optics, micro-electronic insulating layers, nano-device structures, electro-optic multilayers, sensors and corrosion barriers. A common oxide deposition technique is reactive sputtering because the kinetic mechanism vaporizes almost any solid material in vacuum. Also, the sputtered molecules have higher energies than those generated from thermal evaporation, and so the condensates are smoother… more
Date: January 29, 2007
Creator: Chow, R; Ellis, A D; Loomis, G E & Rana, S I
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Characterization of the Structure of Cation-DopedBacteriogenic Uranium Oxides using X-Ray Diffraction

Description: Remediation of uranium contamination in subsurface groundwater has become imperative as previous research and manufacturing involving radionuclides has led to contamination of groundwater sources. A possible in situ solution for sequestration of uranium is a bacterial process in which Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 reduces the soluble (and thus mobile) U(VI) oxidation state into the less mobile UO{sub 2} crystalline phase. However, the long term stability of the UO2 compound must be studied as oxid… more
Date: August 29, 2007
Creator: Stahlman, Jonathan M. & /SLAC, /Carnegie Mellon U.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities — Background and Issues for Congress

Description: Concern has grown in Congress and elsewhere about China's military modernization. The topic is an increasing factor in discussions over future required U.S. Navy capabilities. The issue for Congress addressed in this report is: How should China's military modernization be factored into decisions about U.S. Navy programs?
Date: May 29, 2007
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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China Spallation Neutron Source Design

Description: The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is an accelerator-based high-power project currently in preparation under the direction of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The complex is based on an H- linear accelerator, a rapid cycling proton synchrotron accelerating the beam to 1.6 GeV, a solid tungsten target station, and five initial instruments for spallation neutron applications. The facility will operate at 25 Hz repetition rate with a phase-I beam power of about 120 kW. The major chal… more
Date: January 29, 2007
Creator: Wei, J.
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