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Environmental Protection: More Consistency Needed Among EPA Regions in Approach to Enforcement

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the consistency of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regional offices' enforcement of environmental requirements, focusing on: (1) the extent to which variations exist among EPA's regional offices in the actions they take to enforce environmental requirements; (2) what factors contribute to any variations; and (3) what EPA is doing to … more
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Audit: Bureau of the Public Debt's Fiscal Years 1999 and 1998 Schedules of Federal Debt

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO audited the Bureau of the Public Debt's (BPD) Schedules of Federal Debt for the fiscal years that ended September 30, 1999 and 1998."
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Title I Program: Stronger Accountability Needed for Performance of Disadvantaged Students

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) Title I services at schoolwide and targeted assistance schools; (2) state efforts to hold schools and districts accountable for student achievement; and (3) research and evaluations of Title I and schoolwide programs."
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Consumer Price Index: Update of Boskin Commission's Estimate of Bias

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index's (CPI) updated estimate of CPI bias, focusing on the: (1) methodological changes the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) made to the CPI since December 1996, when the Advisory Commission (also referred to as the Boskin Commission) issued its final report; and (2) opinions of the five former … more
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coast Guard Workforce Mix: Phased-In Conversion of Some Support Officer Positions Would Produce Savings

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Coast Guard's phased-in conversion of some support officer positions, focusing on: (1) how the Coast Guard's current workforce mix compares with the workforce mix of other military services and how the workforce mix has changed since 1991; (2) how many military commissioned officer positions in administrative and support functions offer oppor… more
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Global Health: Summary of Conference on Immunization in Developing Countries

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO issued a report on factors that limit access to vaccines for children in developing countries, focusing on: (1) shifting donor priorities; (2) inadequate infrastructure and insufficient information for decision-making; and (3) the relatively high cost of newer vaccines."
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International Monetary Fund: Status of Efforts to Strengthen Safeguards Over Lending

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided a status report on whether the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) policies provide reasonable assurances that financial resources provided to member countries are adequately safeguarded, focusing on the: (1) appropriate use of IMF resources by borrowers; and (2) accuracy of economic and financial information reported by borrowers, and upon which the IMF makes … more
Date: September 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HIV/AIDS: Use of Ryan White CARE Act and Other Assistance Grant Funds

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on three federal human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) programs--the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990 (CARE Act), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) HIV/AIDS prevention grants, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Housing Opportunities for Persons … more
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Assistance: International Efforts to Aid Russia's Transition Have Had Mixed Results

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, organizations and donors have provided Russia with tens of billions of dollars in economic assistance to helping it transition to a market economy within a democratic state. This transition presents opportunities and challenges to the Russians and to those providing economic assistance. This report focuses on the assistance given to Russia by the International Mo… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Depot Maintenance: Future Year Estimates of Public and Private Workloads Are Likely to Change

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's annual reports on depot maintenance, focusing on how military departments or defense agencies: (1) used funds appropriated annually for depot-level repair and maintenance done by contractor personnel; and (2) reported on estimated funds to be used for performing depot maintenance by public and private sector personnel for fiscal year… more
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pork Industry: Trade Barriers and Other Factors Limit Federal Programs' Potential to Increase Exports

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the effects that the U.S. cargo preference law and federal export assistance programs have on the pork export industry, focusing on the: (1) extent to which other countries' trade practices and the U.S. cargo preference law are impediments to exporting more pork products; (2) extent to which existing federal programs could be used to increase the export of pork… more
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) Report : Hellsgate Project, 1999-2000 Technical Report.

Description: A Habitat Evaluation Procedure (HEP) study was conducted on lands acquired and/or managed (4,568 acres total) by the Hellsgate Big Game Winter Range Wildlife Mitigation Project (Hellsgate project) to mitigate some of the losses associated with the original construction and operation of Grand Coulee Dam and inundation of habitats behind the dams. Three separate properties, totaling 2,224 acres were purchased in 1998. One property composed of two separate parcels, mostly grassland lies southeast … more
Date: May 1, 2000
Creator: Berger, Matthew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recycling of cleach plant filtrates by electrodialysis removal of inorganic non-process elements.

Description: Water use in the pulp and paper industry is very significant, and the U.S. pulp and paper industries as well as other processing industries are actively pursuing water conservation and pollution prevention by in-process recycling of water. Bleach plant effluent is a large portion of the water discharged from a typical bleached kraft pulp mill. The recycling of bleach plant effluents to the kraft recovery cycle is widely regarded as an approach to low effluent bleached kraft pulp production. The… more
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Tsai, S. P.; Pfromm, P.; Henry, M. P.; Fracaro, A. T.; Swanstrom, C. P.; Moon, P. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Optimization and geophysical inverse problems

Description: A fundamental part of geophysics is to make inferences about the interior of the earth on the basis of data collected at or near the surface of the earth. In almost all cases these measured data are only indirectly related to the properties of the earth that are of interest, so an inverse problem must be solved in order to obtain estimates of the physical properties within the earth. In February of 1999 the U.S. Department of Energy sponsored a workshop that was intended to examine the methods … more
Date: October 1, 2000
Creator: Barhen, J.; Berryman, J.G.; Borcea, L.; Dennis, J.; de Groot-Hedlin, C.; Gilbert, F. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Neutron and Gamma-Ray Detectors Based on Quantum Dots

Description: Through this funded project, our research group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has pioneered and been successful in preparing and evaluating the performance of prototypes of neutron, alpha, and gamma-ray detectors based on various types of nanoparticles. These include organic fluors [2,5-diphenyloxazole (PPO) and 1,4-bis-2-(5-phenyloxazolyl)-benzene (POPOP)]-doped polystyrene and polyvinyltoluene nanoparticles, highly crystalline inorganic ZnS-capped CdSe, ZnS, three-component CdSxSe1-x, … more
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: Dai, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Microfabricated Instrumentation for Chemical Sensing in Industrial Process Control

Description: The monitoring of chemical constituents in manufacturing processes is of economic importance to most industries. The monitoring and control of chemical constituents may be of importance for product quality control or, in the case of process effluents, of environmental concern. The most common approach now employed for chemical process control is to collect samples which are returned to a conventional chemical analysis laboratory. This project attempts to demonstrate the use of microfabricated s… more
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: Ramsey, J. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CERTS customer adoption model

Description: This effort represents a contribution to the wider distributed energy resources (DER) research of the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS, http://certs.lbl.gov) that is intended to attack and, hopefully, resolve the technical barriers to DER adoption, particularly those that are unlikely to be of high priority to individual equipment vendors. The longer term goal of the Berkeley Lab effort is to guide the wider technical research towards the key technical problems by… more
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: Rubio, F. Javier; Siddiqui, Afzal S.; Marnay, Chris & Hamachi,Kristina S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Second Generation PFBC Systems R&D

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Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: Robertson, Archie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remote-Handled Transuranic Content Codes

Description: Each content code uniquely identifies the generated waste and provides a system for tracking theprocess and packaging history. Each content code begins with a two-letter site abbreviation thatdesignates the physical location of the RH-TRU waste. The site-specific letter designations for eachof the DOE sites are provided in Table 2. All TRU waste generating/storage sites are included inTable 2 for completeness. Not all of the sites listed in Table 2 have generated/stored RH-TRU waste.
Date: November 1, 2000
Creator: Solutions, Washington TRU
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Using Allele-Specific PCR with Molecular Beams as a Means for Genotyping the Diallelic Indels

Description: The first Specific Aim for this grant was to identify and characterize an average of 500 human insertion/deletion polymorphisms per grant year (1500 total). This task was carried out entirely at MMRF. They substantially exceeded this goal by confirming about 2,300 diallelic indels. Complete characterization information for these polymorphisms is available from the Marshfield web site. A manuscript describing results for the first 2,000 diallelic indels was published earlier this year in the Ame… more
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: Doktycz, M.J. & Weber, J.L. (Marshfield Medical Research Foundation)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) Report; Yakama Nation Wildlife Management Areas, Technical Report 1999-2000.

Description: Construction of the Dalles, Bonneville, McNary, and John Day Dams on the Columbia River by the federal government resulted in a substantial loss of riparian bottomland along the Columbia River. Impacts associated with the Mid-Columbia Projects were assessed for several wildlife species using the Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USDI-FWS 1980). The studies documented the loss of riparian habitat and established a baseline against which mitigati… more
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: Raedeke, Kenneth & Raedeke, Dorothy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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