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Consumer Product Safety Commission: Consumer Education Efforts for Revised Children's Sleepwear Safety Standard

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO examined the type and extent of consumer education that occurred since the revised children's sleepwear safety standard went into effect in January 1997, focusing on three voluntary point-of-sale practices that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and others recognize as important for informing consumers about the new standard."
Date: June 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: Assessing the Effectiveness of Various Welfare-to-Work Approaches

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed research on the effectiveness of various welfare-to-work approaches, focusing on: (1) the effectiveness of a rapid employment approach, an education-based approach, and a combination of these two approaches in improving employment-related outcomes for welfare recipients and other low-income women with children; and (2) the effect of welfare recipients' educat… more
Date: September 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Combating Terrorism: Analysis of Potential Emergency Response Equipment and Sustainment Costs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO determined the potential cost of equipping and maintaining the capability of cities to respond to a terrorist incident involving a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear device (CBRN), focusing on the: (1) views of federal, state, and local officials on equipment they believed would provide various levels of capability to respond to a CBRN incident; and (2) po… more
Date: June 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries: Further Outreach and Administrative Simplification Could Increase Enrollment

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 level of enrollment in the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) program and the Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB) program, focusing on: (1) the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of: (a) Medicare beneficiaries who enroll as a QMB or SLMB; and (b) Medicare beneficiaries who qualify for QMB or SLMB but do not enroll; (… more
Date: April 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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District of Columbia: Private Use of Official Vehicles

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the District of Columbia's compliance with Public Law 105-100, focusing on whether: (1) any District employees were authorized, as of September 1998, to take home official vehicles; and (2) these employees were aware of the statutory restriction on using District government vehicles for other than official business, including home-to-work transportation."
Date: April 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Postal Service: Changes Made to Improve Acceptance Controls for Business Mail

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 Postal Service's acceptance controls for business mail, focusing on whether the Service had made the changes GAO recommended previously and whether those changes were working."
Date: November 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Acquisition Reform: NASA's Internet Service Improves Access to Contracting Information

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS), focusing on: (1) whether NAIS is an effective mechanism for disseminating procurement information to industry, including small businesses; and (2) the status of efforts to develop a governmentwide electronic procurement information system similar to NAIS."
Date: February 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Reserve Has Established Effective Year 2000 Management Controls for Internal Systems Conversion

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Reserve System's (FRS) efforts to remedy the year 2000 problem for its internal computer systems."
Date: April 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transportation Infrastructure: Impacts of Utility Relocations on Highway and Bridge Projects

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO assessed the impact that delays in relocating utilities are having on the delivery and cost of federal-aid highway and bridge projects, focusing on the: (1) extent to which states are experiencing such delays and the causes and impacts of the delays; (2) number of states that are compensating construction contractors for the added costs incurred on their projects beca… more
Date: June 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak's Progress in Improving Its Financial Condition Has Been Mixed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO followed up on its report on Amtrak's financial performance, focusing on: (1) Amtrak's overall financial performance in fiscal year (FY) 1998; (2) the prospects for Amtrak to meet its financial goals for operating self-sufficiency outlined in its most recent strategic business plan; and (3) the extent to which current and anticipated federal funding and recently enacted… more
Date: July 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memo to Skip Laitner of EPA: initial comments on 'The internetbegins with coal'

Description: This memo explores the assumptions in Mark P. Mills' report titled 'The Internet Begins with Coal' that relate to current electricity use 'associated with the Internet'. We find that Mills has significantly overestimated electricity use, in some cases by more than an order of magnitude. We adjust his estimates to reflect measured data and more accurate assumptions, which reduces Mills' overall estimate of total Internet-related electricity use by about a factor of eight.
Date: December 9, 1999
Creator: Koomey, Jonathan G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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RIP Input Tables From WAPDEG for LA Design Selection: Repository Horizon Elevation- 2- Leel AML 50% and Near Maximum

Description: The purpose of this calculation is to document the WAPDEG version 3.09 (CRWMS M&O 1998b). Software Routine Report for WAPDEG (Version 3.09) simulations used to analyze waste package degradation and failure under the repository exposure conditions characterized by a two-tier thermal loading repository design. Also documented is the post-processing of these results into tables of waste-package-degradation-time histories suitable for use as input into the Integrated Probabilistic Simulator for… more
Date: August 9, 1999
Creator: Bullard, B.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Novel ultrasound scintillator

Description: This development project addressed the need for a faster, less expensive method of transmission ultrasound. It utilized the principle of frustrated total internal reflection to transduce acoustic pressure into optical modulation. These data were acquired an entire 2D plane at a time. This report described the modeling and verification of a final sensor design.
Date: February 9, 1999
Creator: Ashby, E; Ciarlo, D; Kallman, J S & Thomas, G
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary Report of Laboratory Critical Experiment Analyses Performed for the Disposal Criticality Analysis Methodology

Description: This report, ''Summary Report of Laboratory Critical Experiment Analyses Performed for the Disposal Criticality Analysis Methodology'', contains a summary of the laboratory critical experiment (LCE) analyses used to support the validation of the disposal criticality analysis methodology. The objective of this report is to present a summary of the LCE analyses' results. These results demonstrate the ability of MCNP to accurately predict the critical multiplication factor (keff) for fuel with dif… more
Date: September 9, 1999
Creator: Scaglione, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scenarios for the Hanford immobilized Low-Activity waste (ILAW) performance assessment

Description: The purpose of the next version of the Hanford Immobilized Low-Activity Tank Waste (ILAW) Performance Assessment (ILAW PA) is to provide an updated estimate of the long-term human health and environmental impact of the disposal of ILAW and to compare these estimates against performance objectives displayed in Tables 1,2, and 3 (Mann 1999a). Such a radiological performance assessment is required by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Orders on radioactive waste management (DOE 1988a and DOE 1999a). … more
Date: September 9, 1999
Creator: Mann, F. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance objectives for the Hanford immobilized low-activity waste (ILAW) performance assessment

Description: Before low-level waste may be disposed of, a performance assessment must be written and then approved by the DOE (DOE 1988a DOE 1999a). The performance assessment is to determine whether ''reasonable assurance'' exists that the performance objectives of the disposal facility will be met. The DOE requirements for waste disposal (DOE 1988a DOE 1999a) require the protection of public health and safety; and the protection of the environment. Although quantitative limits are sometimes stated (for ex… more
Date: September 9, 1999
Creator: Mann, F. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Master Equipment List for the RAPID Project

Description: The Respond and Pump in Days (RAPID) project was initiated to pump part of the contents of tank 241-SY-101 into tank 241-SY-102. This is the Master Equipment List (MEL) for this project document.
Date: September 9, 1999
Creator: Hickman, G. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Hanford Site Transuranic (TRU) Waste Characterization QA Project Plan

Description: The Transuranic Waste Characterization Quality Assurance Program Plan required each US Department of Energy (DOE) site that characterizes transuranic waste to be sent the Waste Isolation Pilot Plan that addresses applicable requirements specified in the QAPP.
Date: September 9, 1999
Creator: Greager, T. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy R&D in the United States

Description: In 1997, the US public and private sectors invested $205.7 billion in R&D. Private sector investments in R&D increased 34% between 1990 and 1997; over the same period the federal government decreased its expenditures by 15% in real terms. Projections of outyear federal budgets indicate the federal government will continue to reduce its investments in R&D for the foreseeable future. Defense R&D continues to be the largest area of concentration for federal government's R&D inv… more
Date: August 9, 1999
Creator: Dooley, J.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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