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Regulatory Burden: Some Agencies' Claims Regarding Lack of Rulemaking Discretion Have Merit

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed federal agencies' assertions that certain private-sector regulatory concerns were, at least in part, attributable to underlying statutes, focusing on: (1) the amount of discretion the underlying statutes gave the rulemaking agencies in developing the regulatory requirements that the agencies had said were attributable to the underlying statutes; (2) whether the… more
Date: January 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Meat and Poultry: Improved Oversight and Training Will Strengthen New Food Safety System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) efforts to improve the safety of meat and poultry products, focusing on whether: (1) the system adopted by USDA in its regulations is consistent with the seven Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles endorsed by the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods; (2) the HACCP tra… more
Date: December 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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VA Information Systems: The Austin Automation Center Has Made Progress in Improving Information System Controls

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO assessed the effectiveness of information system general controls at the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Austin Automation Center (AAC)."
Date: June 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOD Animal Research: Controls on Animal Use Are Generally Effective, but Improvements Are Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the Department of Defense's (DOD) management and oversight of its animal research programs, focusing on the extent projects funded or performed by DOD utilizing animals: (1) were directed toward military objectives; (2) unnecessarily duplicated other research; and (3) incorporated alternatives that reduced, replaced, or refined the use of animals."
Date: July 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Telecommunications: The Changing Status of Competition to Cable Television

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) the status of competition in the subscription television market; (2) the extent to which ownership ties between cable companies and program suppliers may be affecting the development of competition; and (3) key factors that may influence the development of competition in the future."
Date: July 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Budget: Observations on the Air Force Flying Hour Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Air Force's budget formulation process for its flying hour program for fiscal years (FY) 1997 through 1999, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the Air Force has flown the hours requested in its budget; (2) the process that the Air Force uses to determine flying hour requirements; (3) how the requirements and specific cost factors are used to develop the b… more
Date: July 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food Stamp Program: Households Collect Benefits for Persons Disqualified for Intentional Program Violations

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on households collecting Food Stamp benefits for persons disqualified for intentional program violations, focusing on: (1) how many individuals were included as members of food stamp households in four states while disqualified from the program in calendar year 1997 and estimated the value of the benefits that were improperly issued to those househo… more
Date: July 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Air Force Logistics: C-17 Support Plan Does Not Adequately Address Key Issues

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Air Force's C-17 logistics support plan, focusing on the: (1) C-17's core logistics capabilities; (2) cost effectiveness of the planned support strategy; and (3) Air Force's implementation of the plan under current law."
Date: July 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Phase C Flygt Mixer Test Results

Description: The Savannah River Site (SRS) teamed with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and ITT Flygt Corporation to conduct a test program evaluating shrouded axial propeller mixers (Flygt mixers) for heel removal in SRS Tank 19. SRS is identifying and investigating techniques to remove sludge heels from waste tanks such as Tank 19.
Date: June 8, 1999
Creator: Poirier, M.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ingestion Pathway Consequences of a Major Release from SRTC

Description: The food ingestion consequences due to radioactive particulates of an accidental release, scenario 1-RD-3, are evaluated for Savannah River Technology Center. The sizes of land areas requiring the protective action of food interdiction are calculated. The consequences of the particulate portion of the release are evaluated with the HOTSPOT model and an EXCEL spreadsheet for particulates.
Date: June 8, 1999
Creator: Blanchard, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Holidays: Evolution and Application

Description: This report discusses the history of each federal holiday and explains its rationale where a public record exists.
Date: February 8, 1999
Creator: Stathis, Stephen W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Second and Third Quarters Hanford Seismic Report for Fiscal Year 1999

Description: Hanford Seismic Monitoring provides an uninterrupted collection of high-quality raw and processed seismic data from the Hanford Seismic Network (HSN) for the U.S. Department of Energy and its contractors. Hanford Seismic Monitoring also locates and identifies sources of seismic activity and monitors changes in the historical pattern of seismic activity at the Hanford Site.
Date: October 8, 1999
Creator: Hartshorn, Donald C.; Reidel, Stephen P. & Rohay, Alan C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development and Design of a User Interface for a Computer Automated Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning System

Description: A user interface is created to monitor and operate the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system. The interface is networked to the system's programmable logic controller. The controller maintains automated control of the system. The user through the interface is able to see the status of the system and override or adjust the automatic control features. The interface is programmed to show digital readouts of system equipment as well as visual queues of system operational statuses. It al… more
Date: October 8, 1999
Creator: Anderson, B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Orientation imaging microscopy investigation of the compression deformation of a [011] ta single crystal

Description: High-purity tantalum single crystal cylinders oriented with [110] parallel to the cylinder axis were deformed 10, 20, and 30 percent in compression. The samples were subsequently sectioned for characterization using Orientation Imaging Microscopy (O&I) along two orthogonal sectioning planes: one in the plane containing [001] and [110] (longitudinal) and the other in the plane containing [1{anti 1}0] and[110] (transverse). To examine local lattice rotations, the Euler angles relative to a refere… more
Date: January 8, 1999
Creator: Adams, B L; Campbell, G H; King, W E; Lassila, D H; Stolken, J S; Sun, S et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reactivation of an Idle Lease to Increase Heavy Oil Recovery through Application of Conventional Steam Drive Technology in a Low Dip Slope and Reservoir in the Midway-Sunset Field, San Jaoquin Basin, California

Description: This project reactivates ARCO's idle Pru Fee lease in the Midway-Sunset field, California and conducts a continuous steamflood enhanced oil recovery demonstration aided by an integration of modern reservoir characterization and simulation methods. Cyclic steam was used to reestablish baseline production within the reservoir characterization phase of the project completed in December 1996. During the demonstration phase begun in January 1997, a continuous steamflood enhanced oil recovery is test… more
Date: July 8, 1999
Creator: Schamel, Steven
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pintle Rod Qualification Test Plan and Report for Roll Pin Relocation

Description: A roll pin in the end of the pintle rod in core samplers needs to be moved upward to avoid potential interference with another part (the release disk) during installation of the retainer ring. This test plan/report is intended to demonstrate that the sampler valve closes normally and the pintle release mechanism operates normally with the new roll pin location.
Date: November 8, 1999
Creator: Boger, R. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Milestone Report for High NA Optics Development International Sematech Project L1TH 112 Milestone4a: Specification Package for the Polished Mirror Substrate M1

Description: The key task in initiating the fabrication of mirror substrates for the new High NA Camera is in preparing the specification package that details the substrate geometry and the specifications for the optical surface. This specification package has been completed for substrate M1, and the vendor has begun optical fabrication. In addition, mounting hardware has been designed and fabricated, and substrates have been bonded to the kinematic mounts. The design of the secondary substrate, M2, is unde… more
Date: October 8, 1999
Creator: Taylor, J. S. & Hale, L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fuel Fracture (Crumbling) Safety Impact (OCRWM)

Description: The safety impact of experimentally observed N Reactor fuel sample fracture and fragmentation is evaluated using an average reaction rate enhancement derived from data from thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) experiments on fuel samples. The enhanced reaction rates attributed to fragmentation were within the existing safety basis.
Date: December 8, 1999
Creator: Duncan, D. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CROSS DRIFT ALCOVE/NICHE UTILITIES ANALYSIS

Description: The purpose of this analysis is to provide the design basis and general arrangement requirements of the non-potable water, waste water, compressed air and ventilation (post excavation) utilities required in support of the Cross Drift alcoves and niches.
Date: July 8, 1999
Creator: Goodin, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of integrated mechanistically-based degradation-mode models for performance assessment of high-level waste containers

Description: A key component of the Engineered Barrier System (EBS) being designed for containment of spent-fuel and high-level waste at the proposed geological repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada is a two-layer canister. In this particular design, the inner barrier is made of a corrosion resistant material (CRM) such as Alloy 825, 625 or C-22, while the outer barrier is made of a corrosion-allowance material (CAM) such as A516 Gr 55, a carbon steel, or Monel 400. At the present time, Alloy C-22 and A516 G… more
Date: February 8, 1999
Creator: Bedrossian, P.; Estill, J.; Farmer, J.; Hopper, R.; Horn, J.; Huang, J. S. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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YUCCA MOUNTAIN SITE CHARACTERIZATION PROJECT EAST-WEST DRIFT SYSTEM SAFETY ANALYSIS

Description: The purpose of this analysis is to systematically identify and evaluate hazards related to the design of the Yucca Mountain Project Exploratory Studies Facility (ESF) East-West Cross Drift. This analysis builds upon prior ESF System Safety Analyses and incorporates TS Main Drift scenarios, where applicable, into the East-West Drift scenarios. This System Safety Analysis (SSA) focuses on the personnel safety and health hazards associated with the engineered design of the East-West Drift. The ana… more
Date: June 8, 1999
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Simulation of damage evolution and accumulation in vanadium

Description: Energetic atoms which have been knocked off their lattice sites by neutron or ion irradiation leave a trail of vacancies and interstitials in their wake. Most of these defects recombine with their opposites within their own collision cascade. Some fraction, however, escape to become freely migrating defects (FMD) in the bulk of the material. The interaction of FMD with the microstructure has long been linked to changes in the macroscopic properties of materials under irradiation. We calculate t… more
Date: February 8, 1999
Creator: Alonso, E; Caturla, M J; Diaz De La Rubia, T & Perlado, M J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Improved Oil Recovery in Mississippian Carbonate Reservoirs of Kansas -- Near-Term -- Class 2

Description: This report describes progress during the third year of the project entitled ''Improved Oil Recovery in Mississippian Carbonate Reservoirs in Kansas''. This project funded under the Department of Energy's Class 2 program targets improving the reservoir performance of mature oil fields located in shallow shelf carbonate reservoirs. The focus of this project is development and demonstration of cost-effective reservoir description and management technologies to extend the economic life of mature r… more
Date: July 8, 1999
Creator: Carr, Timothy R.; Green, Don W. & Willhite, G. Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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