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Hurricane Katrina: Strategic Planning Needed to Guide Future Enhancements Beyond Interim Levee Repairs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Hurricane Katrina's storm surge and floodwaters breached levees and floodwalls causing billions of dollars of property damage, and more than 1,300 deaths. Under the Comptroller General's authority to conduct reviews on his own initiative, GAO reviewed the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) (1) progress in repairing damage to hurricane protection projects by June 1, 2006; (2) plans and estimated costs to ma… more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Welfare: Improving Social Service Program, Training, and Technical Assistance Information Would Help Address Long-standing Service-Level and Workforce Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Despite substantial federal and state investment, states have not been able to meet all outcome measures for children in their care. Given the complexity of the challenges that state child welfare agencies face, GAO was asked to determine (1) the primary challenges state child welfare agencies face in their efforts to ensure the safety, well-being, and permanent placement of the children under their sup… more
Date: October 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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United Nations: Additional Efforts Needed to Increase U.S. Employment at U.N. Agencies

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Congress continues to be concerned about the underrepresentation of U.S. professionals in some UN organizations and that insufficient progress has been made to improve U.S. representation. In 2001, GAO reported that several UN agencies fell short of their targets for U.S. representation and had not developed strategies to employ more Americans. This report reviews (1) U.S. representation status… more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hurricane Katrina: Comprehensive Policies and Procedures Are Needed to Ensure Appropriate Use of and Accountability for International Assistance

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In response to Hurricane Katrina, countries and organizations donated to the United States government cash and in-kind donations, including foreign military assistance. The National Response Plan establishes that the Department of State (DOS) is the coordinator of all offers of international assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is re… more
Date: April 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Freight Railroads: Industry Health Has Improved, but Concerns about Competition and Capacity Should Be Addressed

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Staggers Rail Act deregulated the freight rail industry, relying on competition to set rates, and allowed for differential pricing (charging higher rates to those more dependent on rail). The act gave the Surface Transportation Board (STB) authority to develop remedies for shippers "captive" to one railroad and set a threshold for shippers to apply for rate relief. GAO was asked to review (1) change… more
Date: October 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Catastrophic Disasters: Enhanced Leadership, Capabilities, and Accountability Controls Will Improve the Effectiveness of the Nation's Preparedness, Response, and Recovery System

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Hurricane Katrina was the largest, most destructive natural disaster in our nation's history. The problems experienced in responding to Katrina resulted in a number of investigations--by congressional committees, the White House Homeland Security Council, and others--regarding the preparations for and response to Katrina. GAO assisted the congressional investigations and, under the Comptroller General's… more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Internal Revenue Service: Status of Recommendations from Financial Audits and Related Financial Management Reports

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In its role as the nation's tax collector, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a demanding responsibility in annually collecting over $2 trillion in taxes, processing hundreds of millions of tax and information returns, and enforcing the nation's tax laws. Since its first audit of IRS's financial statements in fiscal year 1992, GAO has identified a number of weaknesses in IRS's financial management o… more
Date: June 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Disaster Relief: Governmentwide Framework Needed to Collect and Consolidate Information to Report on Billions in Federal Funding for the 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region of the United States and caused billions of dollars in damage. Hurricanes Rita and Wilma further exacerbated damage to the region. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was tasked with the primary role of managing the federal relief and recovery efforts. This review was performed under the Comp… more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Steps Remain in Incorporating Lessons Learned from Other Satellite Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to procure the next generation of geostationary operational environmental satellites, called the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R series (GOES-R). This new series is considered critical to the United States' ability to maintain the continuity of data required for weather forecasting through the year 2028. GAO was asked … more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Force Structure: Army Needs to Provide DOD and Congress More Visibility Regarding Modular Force Capabilities and Implementation Plans

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Army considers its modular force transformation its most extensive restructuring since World War II. Restructuring units from a division-based force to a modular brigade-based force will require an investment of over $52 billion, including $41 billion for equipment, from fiscal year 2005 through fiscal year 2011, according to the Army. Because of broad congressional interest in this initiative, GAO … more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Border Security: US-VISIT Program Faces Strategic, Operational, and Technological Challenges at Land Ports of Entry

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program to collect, maintain, and share data on selected foreign nationals entering and exiting the United States at air, sea and land ports of entry (POEs). These data, including biometric identifiers like digital fingerprints, are to be used to screen persons against watch lists,… more
Date: December 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rebuilding Iraq: Status of Competition for Iraq Reconstruction Contracts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since 2003, Congress has appropriated more than $20 billion through the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF) to support Iraq rebuilding efforts. The majority of these efforts are being carried out through contracts awarded by the Departments of Defense (DOD) and State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). When awarding IRRF-funded contracts for $5 million or more noncompetitiv… more
Date: October 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Support Enforcement: More Focus on Labor Costs and Administrative Cost Audits Could Help Reduce Federal Expenditures

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Congress established federal standards for the child support enforcement program (CSE) in 1975. State agencies administer the program and the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) oversees it. The CSE program provides several services, including collecting child support payments from noncustodial parents--those who are not the primary caregivers-… more
Date: July 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Telecommunications: Full Adoption of Sound Transition Planning Practices by GSA and Selected Agencies Could Improve Planning Efforts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "With the current governmentwide telecommunications contracts set to expire, the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Technology Service (FTS) and its customer agencies must prepare to transition their services to a new contract vehicle. The previous federal effort to transition telecommunications services proved to be a large, complex task. GAO was asked to determine to what extent (1) select… more
Date: June 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Acquisitions: Further Management and Oversight Changes Needed for Efforts to Modernize Cheyenne Mountain Attack Warning Systems

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center houses numerous complex computer systems for tracking air, missile, and space events that could threaten homeland security or undermine military operations in theater. To ensure this mission can be met, the systems require ongoing upgrades. The most recent upgrade program--the Combatant Commanders' Integrated Command and Control System (CCIC2S)--was initiated in 2… more
Date: July 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Administration: Little Evidence of Procedural Errors in Collection Due Process Appeal Cases, but Opportunities Exist to Improve the Program

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As a result of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, taxpayers facing liens or levies can request a Collection Due Process (CDP) appeal hearing with IRS's Office of Appeals (Appeals). By 2005, CDP cases represented about one-quarter of Appeals' workload. GAO was asked to provide information on (1) whether the IRS Collection function (Collection) erred in processing lie… more
Date: October 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Elections: The Nation's Evolving Election System as Reflected in the November 2004 General Election

Description: A chapter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The 2004 general election was the first presidential election that tested substantial changes states made to their election systems since the 2000 election, including some changes required by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). HAVA required some major changes in the nation's elections processes, not all which had to be implemented by the November 2004 election. HAVA addressed issues of people, p… more
Date: June 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Endangered Species: Many Factors Affect the Length of Time to Recover Select Species

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (the services) are responsible for administration and implementation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The act generally requires the services to develop recovery plans for endangered and threatened species--species facing extinction or likely to face extinction, respectively. Recovery plans identify threats to the species… more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Integrity Program: Agency Approach for Allocating Funds Should Be Revised

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since 1990, GAO has considered Medicare at high risk for fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. The Medicare Integrity Program (MIP) provides funds to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS--the agency that administers Medicare--to safeguard over $300 billion in program payments made on behalf of its beneficiaries. CMS conducts five program integrity activities: audits; medical reviews of cl… more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Numerical modeling of water injection into vapor-dominatedgeothermal reservoirs

Description: Water injection has been recognized as a powerful techniquefor enhancing energy recovery from vapor-dominated geothermal systemssuch as The Geysers. In addition to increasing reservoir pressures,production well flow rates, and long-term sustainability of steamproduction, injection has also been shown to reduce concentrations ofnon-condensible gases (NCGs) in produced steam. The latter effectimproves energy conversion efficiency and reduces corrosion problems inwellbores and surface lines.This r… more
Date: November 6, 2006
Creator: Pruess, Karsten
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of Argonne's Glass Furnace Model to Longhor Glass Corporation Oxy-Fuel Furnace for the Production of Amber Glass.

Description: The objective of this project is to apply the Argonne National Laboratory's Glass Furnace Model (GFM) to the Longhorn oxy-fuel furnace to improve energy efficiency and to investigate the transport of gases released from the batch/melt into the exhaust. The model will make preliminary estimates of the local concentrations of water, carbon dioxide, elemental oxygen, and other subspecies in the entire combustion space as well as the concentration of these species in the furnace exhaust gas. This i… more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: Golchert, B.; Shell, J.; Jones, S.; Systems, Energy; Consulting, Shell Glass & Group, Anheuser-Busch Packaging
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Accurate iterative analytic solution of theKapchinskij-Vladimirskij equations for the case of a matched beam

Description: The well-known Kapchinskij-Vladimirskij (KV) equations are difficult to solve in general, but the problem is simplified for the matched-beam case with sufficient symmetry. They show that the interdependence of the two KV equations is eliminated, so that only one needs to be solved--a great simplification. They present an iterative method of solution which can potentially yield any desired level of accuracy. The lowest level, the well-known smooth approximation, yields simple, explicit results w… more
Date: August 6, 2006
Creator: Anderson, Oscar A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Climate Research Facility Operations Quarterly Report.

Description: Individual raw data streams from instrumentation at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Climate Research Facility (ACRF) fixed and mobile sites are collected and sent to the Data Management Facility (DMF) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for processing in near real time. Raw and processed data are then sent daily to the ACRF Archive, where they are made available to users. For each instrument, we calculate the ratio of the actual number of data records received da… more
Date: September 6, 2006
Creator: Sisterson, D. L. & Sciences, Decision and Information
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of the Neutral B Meson-B Bar Meson Oscillation Frequency Using Dilepton Events at BABAR

Description: This dissertation describes the measurement of the B{sup 0}{bar B}{sup 0} oscillation frequency {Delta}m{sub d} with a sample of 122 x 10{sup 6} B{bar B} pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. A fully inclusive approach is used to select dilepton events in which B meson decays semileptonically and the lepton's charge is employed to identify the flavor of each B meson. The oscillation frequency {Delta}m{sub d} is extr… more
Date: June 6, 2006
Creator: Chao, Ming & /UC, Irvine
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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