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National Ignition Facility: Management and Oversight Failures Caused Major Cost Overruns and Schedule Delays

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 Department of Energy's (DOE) National Ignition Facility (NIF), focusing on the: (1) magnitude of NIF's cost and schedule overruns; (2) reasons for these cost and schedule problems; (3) effects of NIF's cost and schedule on other weapons and science programs; and (4) DOE's and Lawrence Livermore's actions to correct these problems."
Date: August 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Affairs: Status of U.S. Parental Child Abductions to Germany, Sweden, and Austria

Description: A briefing report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed international parental child abduction issues, focusing on German, Swedish, and Austrian handling of U.S. cases."
Date: September 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Acquisitions: Antiarmor Weapons Master Plan Does Not Identify Potential Excesses or Support Planned Procurements

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 (DOD) Antiarmor Master plan, focusing on whether it provided the data and analyses necessary to: (1) identify excess antiarmor weapons currently in the inventory or under development; and (2) support current acquisition plans."
Date: May 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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State Department: Overseas Emergency Security Program Progressing, But Costs Are Increasing

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO described the Department of State's Overseas Emergency Security Program, focusing on: (1) progress that State has made in implementing the program funded by the emergency supplemental appropriations and the challenges State faces in completing the program; and (2) State's long-term capital construction program and its response to a study on overseas presence in follow-o… more
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HUD Inspections: Steps Needed to Address Uncertainty in Inspection Scores

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) created the Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) to conduct physical inspections of HUD's public and multifamily housing properties to determine whether the properties are safe, decent, and in good repair. Although REAC uses sampling to select units and buildings for inspection, it did not, at the time of GAO's review, routinely calculate the sampling error… more
Date: November 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Forest Service Roadless Areas: Potential Impact of Proposed Regulations on Ecological Sustainability

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Forest Service manages about 192 million acres of land that make up the National Forest System. The agency has proposed to make ecological sustainability its top priority in an attempt to sustain a flow of products, services, and values from the national forests and grasslands. One of the most debated issues is the role of roads, especially in areas that are now roadless. This report summarizes GAO's findi… more
Date: November 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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VA Information Systems: Computer Security Weaknesses Persist at the Veterans Health Administration

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed information system general controls over financial and sensitive veteran medical information maintained by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), focusing on: (1) specific computer security weaknesses GAO identified at the New Mexico and North Texas health care systems in conjunction with the audit of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) fiscal year (FY… more
Date: September 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Home Health Care: Prospective Payment System Could Reverse Recent Declines in Spending

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on Medicare home health care's recent declines in spending, focusing on: (1) the declines in service use underlying the changes in spending; (2) the extent of the changes in use across beneficiaries, home health agencies (HHA), and locations; and (3) identify any implications these new patterns of home health use have for the impact of the prospecti… more
Date: September 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Advertising Contracts: Agencies Have Discretion in Setting Work Scope and Requirements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed federal advertising contracts awarded to advertising firms, focusing on: (1) the discretion that federal agencies have in determining a contract's scope of work and the contractor requirements for awarding advertising contracts; (2) whether contractor requirements in the solicitations for contracts were consistent with the scope of work described in the solicit… more
Date: September 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOD Competitive Sourcing: Some Progress, but Continuing Challenges Remain in Meeting Program Goals

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 (DOD) progress in implementing its A-76 program and the impact of strategic sourcing on the program, focusing on: (1) progress DOD has made in achieving its A-76 goals and the extent to which strategic sourcing is affecting these goals; and (2) the extent to which savings from A-76 and strategic sourcing are likely to be achieved."
Date: August 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOD Competitive Sourcing: Savings Are Occurring, but Actions Are Needed to Improve Accuracy of Savings Estimates

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 (DOD) competitive sourcing activities, focusing on: (1) the extent to which actual savings have been achieved or can be expected as a result of competitions; and (2) DOD's efforts to improve processes for identifying and tracking changes to cost and savings estimates."
Date: August 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Public Housing: Implementation Status of Selected Provisions of the 1998 Reform Act

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 was intended to give the nation's public housing agencies greater flexibility to manage their public housing or tenant-based section 8 programs. In the two years since the legislation was passed, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has provided sufficient guidance for housing agencies to begin making use of their expanded discretionary authori… more
Date: December 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS' August 2000 Interim Spending Plan

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has tried unsuccessfully to modernize its information systems. To prevent a repeat of past mistakes, Congress legislated explicit controls over IRS spending on systems modernization. Congress did so by creating Senate and House appropriations subcommittees, which specified four conditions. IRS has satisfied some, but not all, of the conditions set out by its appropriations su… more
Date: November 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical Weapons Disposal: Improvements Needed in Program Accountability and Financial Management

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the financial management of the Department of Defense's (DOD) Chemical Demilitarization Program, focusing on whether: (1) the program will meet the Chemical Weapons Convention timeframes within the costs projected; (2) obligations and liquidations of funds appropriated for the program have been adequately managed; and (3) the management structure of the prog… more
Date: May 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SURFING: A Program for Precise Determination of Sample Position in Stress Measurements Via Neutron Diffraction

Description: Precise determination of the specimen position relative to the sampling volume for texture and stress measurements by neutron diffraction is difficult or sometimes impossible using only optical devices due to large or irregular sample dimensions and/or complicated shape of the sampling volume. The knowledge of the shape and size of the sampling volume allows development of a general mathematical model for the intensity variation with a parallelogram-shape sampling volume moving from outside to … more
Date: August 8, 2000
Creator: Wang, D.-Q.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Multiphase fluid flow and subsequent geochemical transport invariably saturated fractured rocks: 1. Approaches

Description: Reactive fluid flow and geochemical transport in unsaturated fractured rocks has received increasing attention for studies of contaminant transport, groundwater quality, waste disposal, acid mine drainage remediation, mineral deposits, sedimentary diagenesis, and fluid-rock interactions in hydrothermal systems. This paper presents methods for modeling geochemical systems that emphasize: (1) involvement of the gas phase in addition to liquid and solid phases in fluid flow, mass transport and che… more
Date: August 8, 2000
Creator: Xu, Tianfu & Pruess, Karsten
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Terascale simulations for heavy ion inertial fusion energy

Description: The intense ion beams in a heavy ion Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) driver and fusion chamber are non-neutral plasmas whose dynamics are largely dominated by space charge. We propose to develop a ''source-to-target'' Heavy Ion Fusion (HIF) beam simulation capability: a description of the kinetic behavior of this complex, nonlinear system which is both integrated and detailed. We will apply this new capability to further our understanding of key scientific issues in the physics of ion beams for IF… more
Date: June 8, 2000
Creator: Friedman, A.; Cohen, R. H.; Grote, D. P.; Sharp, W. M.; Celata, C. M.; Lee, E. P. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of Fire on Soil Seed Banks on the Hanford Site

Description: The Hanford wildfire in the summer of 2000 destroyed much of the vegetation on the Hanford Site, often resulting in soil erosion and dust storms. The 200 W Area has been affected by dust storms, and a re-vegetation project has been planned for the area to the west, the source of much of the dust. To determine if the seed bank in this area had been damaged by the fire, inhibiting natural re-growth, soil samples were collected from three burned areas and watered to see how much seedling emergence… more
Date: September 8, 2000
Creator: Baker, Sarah E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus Custom Summary Report

Description: Custom summary report with a net income of -$451.30 for the period ending on June 8, 2000. Included is a general ledger of all the financial transactions as of June 8, 2000. Also, a list of Texas Stonewall Democratic Caucus members with addresses and other contact information.
Date: June 8, 2000
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Analysis of the Hydrologic Response Associated with Shutdown and Restart of the 200-ZP-1 Pump-and-Treat System

Description: A number of programs have been implemented on the Hanford Site that utilize the pumping and treatment of contaminated groundwater as part of their remediation strategy. Often the treated water is reinjected into the aquifer at injection well sites. The implementation of remedial pump and treat systems, however, results in hydraulic pressure responses, both areally and vertically (i.e., with depth) within the pumped aquifer. The area within the aquifer affected by the pump and treat system (i.e.… more
Date: September 8, 2000
Creator: Spane, Frank A. & Thorne, Paul D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Statistical Evaluation of Effluent Monitoring Data for the 200 Area Treated Effluent Disposal Facility

Description: This report updates the original effluent variability study for the 200 Area Treated Effluent Disposal Facility (TEDF) and provides supporting justification for modifying the effluent monitoring portion of the discharge permit. Four years of monitoring data were evaluated and used to statistically justify changes in permit effluent monitoring conditions. As a result, the TEDF effluent composition and variability of the effluent waste stream are now well defined.
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: Chou, Charissa J. & Johnson, Vernon G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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