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Information Technology: DLA Should Strengthen Business Systems Modernization Architecture and Investment Activities

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) plays a critical role in supporting America's military forces worldwide. DLA employs about 28,000 civilian and military workers at about 500 sites in all 50 states and 28 countries; in round numbers, it manages 4 million supply items and processes 30 million annual supply distribution actions. This report reviews DLA's efficiency and effectiveness in managing it is Business S… more
Date: June 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Protection: Improved Inspections and Enforcement Would Better Ensure the Safety of Underground Storage Tanks

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The states and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot ensure that all active underground storage tanks have the required leak-, spill-, and overfill-protection equipment installed, nor can they guarantee that the installed equipment is being properly operated and maintained. Although the states and EPA regions focus most of their limited resources on monitoring active tanks, empty or inactive tanks c… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Elections: Voting Assistance to Military and Overseas Citizens Should Be Improved

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The narrow margin of victory in the 2000 presidential election aroused concern about the reliability of voting machines; the training of polling place workers; and the extent to which local jurisdictions accepted ballots from members of the military, their dependents, or citizens living abroad. The Federal Voting Assistance program developed several useful tools for voters and Voting Assistance Officers, but … more
Date: September 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bureau of Reclamation: Water Marketing Activities and Costs at the Central Valley Project

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses the water marketing activities of the Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project and their associated costs. Water marketing costs have risen significantly since 1989, but GAO found no evidence that the costs were associated with activities other than normal operation and maintenance activities that are recoverable from water customers under applicable law. GAO reviewed the informatio… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Immigration Benefits: Several Factors Impede Timeliness of Application Processing

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress, the media, and immigrant advocacy groups have criticized the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for its inability to provide immigrants with timely decisions on their applications for such benefits as naturalization and legal permanent residence. INS continues to experience significant problems managing its application workload despite years of increasing budgets and staff. Automation impr… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Department of Veterans Affairs: Improved Measures Needed to Assess Supplemental Loan Servicing Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) Loan Guaranty Program, which guarantees mortgage loans for qualified lenders, provides additional assistance to those who face financial hardship and possible foreclosure. This report discusses VA's supplemental loan servicing program. GAO (1) assesses VA's implementation of its policies and procedures for servicing troubled loans and (2) analyzes VA's measures for ass… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Parks: Significant Progress Made in Preserving the Presidio and Attaining Financial Self-Sufficiency

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Presidio Trust--a wholly owned government corporation--was created in 1996 to manage a large part of the Presidio grounds using sound principles of land use planning and management while maintaining the area's scenic beauty and historic and natural character. The Trust is responsible for leasing, maintaining, rehabilitating, repairing, and improving the property it controls. The Trust must become financial… more
Date: October 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food Assistance: WIC Faces Challenges in Providing Nutrition Services

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) serves almost half of all infants and about one-quarter of all children between one and four years of age in the United States. The WIC program faces the following challenges: (1) coordinating its nutrition services with health and welfare programs undergoing considerable change, (2) responding to health and demographic changes i… more
Date: December 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Workforce Investment Act: Better Guidance Needed to Address Concerns Over New Requirements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "A competitive national economy depends on providing individuals with marketable skills and employers with access to qualified workers. In the past, the nation's job training system was fragmented and did not serve job seekers or employers well. The Workforce Investment Act in 1998 created a system that links employment, education, and training services to better match workers and labor market trends. The act r… more
Date: October 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Identification of Process Hazards and Accident Scenarios for Site 300 B-Division Firing Areas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Description: This report describes a hazard and accident analysis conducted for Site 300 operations to support update of the ''Site 300 B-Division Firing Areas Safety Analysis Report'' (SAR) [LLNL 1997]. A significant change since the previous SAR is the construction and the new Contained Firing Facility (CFF). Therefore, this hazard and accident analysis focused on the hazards associated with bunker operations to ensure that the hazards at CFF are properly characterized in the updated SAR. Hazard tables we… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: Lambert, H & Johnson, G
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sugar Policy Issues

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Date: September 4, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The WTO Doha Ministerial: Results and Agenda for a New Round of Negotiations

Description: Trade ministers from 142 member countries of the World Trade Organizations met in Doha, Qatar, issuing a ministerial declaration, along with two statements on developing country concerns.
Date: December 4, 2001
Creator: Cooper, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Need for a Biotechnology Revolution Focused on Energy and Climate Change

Description: This paper utilizes the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory?s Integrated Assessment modeling tools to draw out concepts that should be considered when examining purpose-grown biomass as a low-emissions energy source and/or as a key technology for addressing climate change. The paper concludes that using biomass as a significant element of our future energy system will be an enormous undertaking that will transform the global energy and agricultural system. Further, large-scale biomass energy … more
Date: June 4, 2001
Creator: Dooley, James J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Swing-Down of 21-PWR Waste Package

Description: The objective of this calculation is to determine the structural response of the waste package (WP) swinging down from a horizontally suspended height. The WP used for that purpose is the 21-Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) WP. The scope of this document is limited to reporting the calculation results in terms of stress intensities. This calculation is associated with the WP design and was performed by the Waste Package Design group in accordance with the ''Technical Work Plan for: Waste Package… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: Scheider, A.K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Solubility and Surface Adsorption Characteristics of Metal Oxides to High Temperature

Description: The interaction of high temperature aqueous solutions with mineral surfaces plays a key role in many aspects of fossil, geothermal and nuclear energy production. This is an area of study in which the subsurface geochemical processes that determine brine composition, porosity and permeability changes, reservoir integrity, and fluid flow rates overlap with the industrial processes associated with corrosion of metal parts and deposition of solids in pipes and on heat exchanger surfaces. The sorpti… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: Wesolowski, D. J.; Machesky, M. L.; Ziemniak, S. E.; Xiao, C.; Palmer, D. A.; Anovitz, L. M. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heavy Neutral Beam Probe for Edge Plasma Analysis in Tokamaks

Description: The Heavy Neutral Beam Probe (HNBP) developed initially with DOE funding under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was installed on the Tokamak de Varennes (TdeV) at the CCFM. This diagnostic was designed to perform fundamental measurements of edge plasma properties. The hardware was capable of measuring electron density and potential profiles with high spatial and temporal resolution. Fluctuation spectra for these parameters were obtained with HNBP for transport studies.
Date: January 4, 2001
Creator: Castracane, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmentally-Induced Malignancies: An In Vivo Model to Evaluate the Health Impact of Chemicals in Mixed Waste

Description: Occupational and environmental exposure to organic ligands, solvents, fuel hydrocarbons, and polychlorinated biphenyls are linked with increased risk of hematologic malignancies. DOE facilities and waste sites in the U.S. are contaminated with mixtures of potentially hazardous chemicals such as metals, organic ligands, solvents, fuel hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls and radioactive isotopes. A major goal of this project was to establish linkage between chemical/radiation exposure and ind… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: Pallavicini, Maria
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Slicing of silicon ingots with reduced kerf. Final report (Phase II)

Description: The Fixed Abrasive Slicing Technique (FAST) has been developed as an effective wafering technique by combining the advantages of diamond as an abrasive like internal diamond (ID), a reciprocating bladehead as in Multi-Blade Slurry (MBS) and wire slicing as in multiwire slicing (MWS) techniques. During the development stage, it was necessary to develop a slicer, bladepacks and the technique. It was recognized that high pressures were required between the diamond abrasive and the crystal to achie… more
Date: January 4, 2001
Creator: Schmid, F.; Smith, M.; Schmid, K. & Khattak, C.P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOE SBIR Phase I Grant No. DE-FG02-00ER83067, ''A Flexible and Economical Automated Nucleophilic [{sup 18}F]Fluorination synthesis System for PET Radiopharmaceuticals.'' Final Technical Report

Description: Phase I Final Report. A prototype manual remote synthesis system based on the unit operations approach was designed, constructed, and functionally tested. This general-purpose system was validated by its configuration and initial use for the preparation of the PET radiopharmaceutical [F-18]FLT using [F-18]fluoride ion.
Date: August 4, 2001
Creator: Padgett, Henry C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of a Robust Model-Based Water Level Controller for U-Tube Steam Generator

Description: Poor control of steam generator water level of a nuclear power plant may lead to frequent nuclear reactor shutdowns. These shutdowns are more common at low power where the plant exhibits strong non-minimum phase characteristics and flow measurements at low power are unreliable in many instances. There is need to investigate this problem and systematically design a controller for water level regulation. This work is concerned with the study and the design of a suitable controller for a U-Tube St… more
Date: September 4, 2001
Creator: Basher, A. M. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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