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Justice Impact Evaluations: One Byrne Evaluation Was Rigorous; All Reviewed Violence Against Women Office Evaluations Were Problematic

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Discretionary grants awarded under the Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA) Byrne Program help state and local governments make communities safe and improve criminal justice. Discretionary grants awarded under BJA's Violence Against Women Office (VAWO) programs are aimed at improving criminal justice system responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) aw… more
Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Government: Challenges to Effective Adoption of the Extensible Markup Language

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Extensive markup language (XML) is a flexible, nonproprietary set of standards designed to facilitate the exchange of information among disparate computer systems using Internet protocols. Although XML's technical standards, such as specifications for tagging, exchanging, and displaying information, have largely been worked out by commercial standards setting organizations and are in use, equally important bu… more
Date: April 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: Tribal TANF Allows Flexibility to Tailor Programs, but Conditions on Reservations Make It Difficult to Move Recipients into Jobs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act gives Native American Indian tribes the option to administer Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs, either alone or as part of a consortium with other tribes, rather than receiving benefits and services from state TANF programs. Because of the difficult economic circumstances on many reservations, the law also gives trib… more
Date: July 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Fraud and Abuse: DOJ Continues to Promote Compliance with False Claims Act Guidance

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Justice (DOJ) recovered more than $1.2 billion in health care fraud cases in fiscal year 2001. The False Claims Act bolstered DOJ's recoveries and enabled the government to seek damages and penalties against providers who knowingly submitted fraudulent bills to Medicare, Medicaid, or other government programs. In the late 1990s, industry representatives voiced concerns that DOJ had over zeal… more
Date: April 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tactical Aircraft: F-22 Delays Indicate Initial Production Rates Should Be Lower to Reduce Risks

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The F-22 aircraft is designed to be less detectable, capable of flying at higher speeds for longer distances, and able to provide the pilot with substantially improved awareness of the surrounding situation than the F-15 it will replace. The Air Force began the F-22 development program in 1991 and plans to complete it by March 2004. In 1998, following repeated increases in the program's estimated development c… more
Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: With TANF Flexibility, States Vary in How They Implement Work Requirements and Time Limits

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress created the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant to replace the previous welfare program and help welfare recipients transition into employment. To this end, states are required to enforce work requirements, and face financial penalties if a minimum percentage of adults receiving cash assistance do not participate in work or work-related activities each year. This federal partici… more
Date: July 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Personnel: Oversight Process Needed to Help Maintain Momentum of DOD's Strategic Human Capital Planning

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) has, in the past, lacked a strategic approach to human capital management. In April 2002, DOD issued two human capital strategic plans for military personnel. One plan addresses military personnel management and policies; the second addresses quality of life issues affecting service members and their families. As a follow-on to its recent work on benefits for military personnel,… more
Date: December 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SSA Disability: Enhanced Procedures and Guidance Could Improve Service and Reduce Overpayments to Concurrent Beneficiaries

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In calendar year 2001, the Social Security Administration (SSA) paid cash benefits of $60 billion to more than six million working-age adults with disabilities and eligible family members under its Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program, and $20 billion to more than 3.5 million working-age adults with disabilities under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Some beneficiaries, known as con… more
Date: September 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alaska's North Slope: Requirements for Restoring Lands After Oil Production Ceases

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses the nature and extent of dismantlement, removal, and restoration requirements for oil industry activities that are occurring on both federal and state lands located on the North Slope of the state of Alaska. The state of Alaska, which owns the lands where most of the North Slope's current oil production occurs, has adopted general dismantlement, removal, and restoration requirements that… more
Date: June 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Workforce Investment Act: Interim Report on Status of Spending and States' Available Funds

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 made sweeping changes to federal employment and training programs. The act sought to unify previously fragmented programs and create a more comprehensive workforce investment system by bringing together most federally funded employment and training services into a single service delivery system known as the one-stop center system. The administration has twice proposed… more
Date: September 5, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Power Systems Development Facility Gasification Test Run TC07

Description: This report discusses Test Campaign TC07 of the Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (KBR) Transport Reactor train with a Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation (Siemens Westinghouse) particle filter system at the Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) located in Wilsonville, Alabama. The Transport Reactor is an advanced circulating fluidized-bed reactor designed to operate as either a combustor or a gasifier using a particulate control device (PCD). The Transport Reactor was operated as a pressurized… more
Date: April 5, 2002
Creator: Southern Company Services
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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WIPP Facility Work Plan for Solid Waste Management Units and Areas of Concern

Description: his 2002 Facility Work Plan (FWP) has been prepared as required by Module VII,Permit Condition VII.U.3 of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Hazardous Waste Facility Permit, NM4890139088-TSDF (the Permit) (New Mexico Environment Department [NMED], 1999a), and incorporates comments from the NMED received onDecember 6, 2000 (NMED, 2000a). This February 2002 FWP describes the program-matic facility-wide approach to future investigations at Solid Waste Management Units (SWMU) and Areas of Conce… more
Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TREATMENT OF PLUTONIUM- AND URANIUM-CONTAMINATED OIL FROM ROCKY FLATS ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY SITE

Description: A removal method for plutonium and uranium has been tested at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS). This alternative treatment technology is applicable to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) organics (mainly used pump oil) contaminated with actinides. In our studies, greater than 70% removal of the actinides was achieved. The technology is based on contacting the oil with a sorbent powder consisting of a surface modified mesoporous material. The SAMMS (Self-Assembled Monolayers on … more
Date: December 5, 2002
Creator: Klasson, K. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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WIPP Facility Work Plan for Solid Waste Management Units and Areas of Concern

Description: This 2002 Facility Work Plan (FWP) has been prepared as required by Module VII, Permit Condition VII.U.3 of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Hazardous Waste Facility Permit, NM4890139088-TSDF (the Permit) (New Mexico Environment Department [NMED], 1999a), and incorporates comments from the NMED received on December 6, 2000 (NMED, 2000a). This February 2002 FWP describes the programmatic facility-wide approach to future investigations at Solid Waste Management Units (SWMU) and Areas of Con… more
Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A SPICE Model and Electrostatic Field Analysis of the MOS Turn-Off Thyristor

Description: This paper presents a circuit model and an electrostatic field analysis with an approximate model of the SDM170HK MOS turn-off thyristor (MTO) fabricated by Silicon Power Corporation. The circuit model consists of five cells, each containing two bipolar junction transistors and three resistors. The turn-off feature of the MTO was simulated by inserting an array of 21 Fairchild FDS6670A MOSFET importable sub-circuit components between the cathode and the turn-on gate. The model was then used to … more
Date: August 5, 2002
Creator: Kelly, D. Q.; Mayhall, D. J.; Wilson, M. J. & Lahowe, D. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2001. February 2002

Description: This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Federal Grand Jury

Description: This report is a brief general description of the federal grand jury, with particular emphasis on its more controversial aspects—relationship of the prosecutor and the grand jury, the rights of grand jury witnesses, grand jury secrecy, and rights of targets of a grand jury investigation.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Time-Resolved Emittance Characterization of an Induction Linac Beam using Optical Transition Radiation

Description: An induction linac is used by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to perform radiographic testing at the Flash X-ray Radiography facility. Emittance characterization is important since x-ray spot size impacts the resolution of shadow-graphs. Due to the long pulse length, high current, and beam energy, emittance measurement using Optical Transition Radiation is an attractive alternative for reasons that will be described in the text. The utility of OTR-based emittance measurement has been wel… more
Date: November 5, 2002
Creator: Le Sage, G P
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of the Radiochemistry of Near-Field Water Samples at the Nevada Test Site Applied to the Definition of a Hydrologic Source Term

Description: Effective management of available groundwater resources and strategies for remediation of water impacted by past nuclear testing practices depend on knowledge about the migration of radionuclides in groundwater away from the sites of the explosions. A primary concern is to assess the relative mobilities of the different radionuclide species found near sites of underground nuclear tests and to determine the concentration, extent, and speed of this movement. Ultimately the long term transport beh… more
Date: July 5, 2002
Creator: Smith, D K
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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D-Zero Collison Hall Ventilation Measurements

Description: This engineering note documents air velocity measurements taken on September 5, 2002 for the D-Zero collision hall. These measurements were done after changes were made to the building dampers, DM-1, DM-2, and DM-14 such that the collision hall would be at a slight positive pressure. Measurements were made by Pete Simon and Mike Sarychev. They systematically took velocity measurements across the duct cross sections. Their raw measurements are included.
Date: September 5, 2002
Creator: Rucinski, Russell A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reconciliation Report

Description: Reconciliation report with an ending account balance of $836.54 reconciled for the period ending on March 29, 2002.
Date: June 5, 2002
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Qualification Tests for the Air Sampling System at the 296-Z-7 Stack, Addendum 1

Description: This addendum report documents tests performed to verify that the stack flow monitoring system for the 296-Z-7 ventilation exhaust stack meets the applicable regulatory criteria regarding stack flow measurement accuracy. These criteria ensure that the stack flow measurements have sufficient accuracy for use in estimating stack emissions. The tests performed demonstrated that operability and accuracy requirements were met.
Date: February 5, 2002
Creator: Glissmeyer, John A. & Maughan, A. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design Evolution Study - Aging Options

Description: The purpose of this study is to identify options and issues for aging commercial spent nuclear fuel received for disposal at the Yucca Mountain Mined Geologic Repository. Some early shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel to the repository may be received with high-heat-output (younger) fuel assemblies that will need to be managed to meet thermal goals for emplacement. The capability to age as much as 40,000 metric tons of heavy metal of commercial spent nuclear he1 would provide more flexib… more
Date: April 5, 2002
Creator: McDaniel, P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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