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Foster Care: HHS Should Ensure That Juvenile Justice Placements Are Reviewed

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 Health and Human Services' (HHS) approval of the Social Security Act's title IV-E reimbursements for foster care placements, focusing on: (1) the number of title IV-E foster care placements made by juvenile justice agencies in fiscal year (FY) 1998 and the amount of federal care funding expended for these placements; (2) how sel… more
Date: June 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Status of Open Recommendations: Improving Operations of Federal Departments and Agencies

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reported on the conclusions and recommendations resulting from its audits and other reviews of federal departments and agencies. GAO provided summary information on the status of all recommendations that have not been fully implemented in the areas of national security, international affairs, community and economic development, health care, human services, justice, general government, and financial and in… more
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Development Schedule Should Be Changed to Reduce Risks

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) Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program, focusing on: (1) the program's acquisition strategy; and (2) whether the strategy is being implemented in a manner that will ensure that the acquisition strategy objectives will be achieved."
Date: May 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sugar Program: Supporting Sugar Prices Has Increased Users' Costs While Benefiting Producers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO estimated the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) sugar program's: (1) costs to domestic sweetener users; (2) benefits to domestic sugar and high-fructose corn syrup producers; and (3) net effects on the U.S. economy--the differences between the costs to users and the benefits to producers that result from artificially high sweetener prices."
Date: June 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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On-Line Trading: Better Investor Protection Information Needed on Brokers' Web Sites

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on on-line trading, focusing on: (1) the growth in on-line trading; (2) the extent to which on-line broker-dealers had experienced trading system delays and outages, including the causes of these problems and their reported effect on investors; and (3) how on-line broker-dealers address investor protection issues related to margin, privacy of inform… more
Date: May 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Acid Rain: Emissions Trends and Effects in the Eastern United States

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on acid rain emissions trends in the eastern United States, focusing on: (1) sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted into the air at the national level; (2) deposition in the eastern United States and in three environmentally sensitive areas; (3) sulfates and nitrates in lakes in the Adirondack Mountains and the prospects for the lakes' recovery … more
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Public Housing: HUD Needs Better Information on Housing Agencies' Management Performance

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To improve its oversight of housing agencies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) implemented its Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS). PHAS provides HUD with a system to measure the performance of its housing agencies. GAO found that the effectiveness of HUD's ability to measure housing agencies' performance under PHAS has not been greatly improved for several reasons. First, HUD does not… more
Date: November 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Assistance: Donation of U.S. Planting Seed to Russia in 1999 Had Weaknesses

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on weaknesses in the donation of U.S. planting seed to Russia in 1999, focusing on: (1) how the seed was procured in the United States; (2) how seeds were distributed and monitored in Russia; and (3) what the process was for selling the seed and distributing the proceeds to agricultural development institutions."
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Security: Vulnerabilities in DOE's Systems for Unclassified Civilian Research

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the security of the Department of Energy's (DOE) unclassified information systems that support its civilian research programs, focusing on: (1) whether DOE's unclassified systems for civilian research are vulnerable to unauthorized access; (2) whether DOE is effectively managing information systems security; and (3) what DOE is doing to address the risk of unau… more
Date: June 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Most Excess Property in Panama Was Disposed of Properly, but Some Control Weaknesses Existed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Panama Canal Treaty called for the United States to transfer control over the Panama Canal to Panama and withdraw U.S. military forces and equipment from Panama. The treaty allowed the U.S. government to remove or dispose of all equipment and supplies acquired by U.S. forces. U.S. plans for withdrawal from Panama required excess property to be processed using disposal procedures that gave the military serv… more
Date: November 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Overseas Investment: The Overseas Private Investment Corporation's Investment Funds Program

Description: A briefing report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's (OPIC) progress in improving the management of its investment funds program, focusing on: (1) how OPIC identifies and approves investment fund concepts and selects fund managers; (2) the funds' performance to date; and (3) the risk levels assigned to the funds."
Date: May 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Treatment of Mercury Contaminated Oil from the Mound Site

Description: Over one thousand gallons of tritiated oil, at various contamination levels, are stored in the Main Hill Tritium Facility at the Miamisburg Environmental Management Project (MEMP), commonly referred to as Mound Site. This tritiated oil is to be characterized for hazardous materials and radioactive contamination. Most of the hazardous materials are expected to be in the form of heavy metals, i.e., mercury, silver, lead, chromium, etc, but transuranic materials and PCBs could also be in some oils… more
Date: November 9, 2000
Creator: Klasson, KT
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Qualification Report: Pore Water Data for Use on the Yucca Mountain Project

Description: Pore water data associated with Data Tracking Number (DTN) No.LL990702804244.100 are referenced in the Analysis and Model Reports (AMRs) prepared to support the Site Recommendation in determining the suitability of the Yucca Mountain, Nevada as a repository for high-level nuclear waste. It has been determined, in accordance with procedure AP-3.15Q Rev. 1, ICN 1, ''Managing Technical Product Inputs'', Attachment 6 , that the DTN-referenced data are used in AMRs that provide a direct calculation … more
Date: June 9, 2000
Creator: Miller, H.; Monks, R.; Warren, C. & Wowak, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biosphere Dose Conversion Factor Percentiles for Radionuclides Identified as Being Potential Contributors to Dose After Ten Thousand Years

Description: Two previous Analysis and Modeling Reports (AMRs) Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Systems Management and Operating Contractor (CRWMS M&O 2000a and CRWMS M&O 2000b) provided abstractions of the biosphere dose conversion factors (BDCFs) for those radionuclides determined (CRWMS M&O 1999a) to be of potential importance for the initial ten thousand years after closure of the repository. To continue predictions of dose beyond ten thousand years requires abstractions of the BDCFs fo… more
Date: November 9, 2000
Creator: Smith, A. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy and Environmental Issues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: An Annotated Guide to Information Resources

Description: Energy and environmental problems undermine the potential for sustained economic development and contribute to political and economic instability in the strategically important region surrounding the Caspian and Black Seas. Many organizations supporting efforts to resolve problems in this region have found that consensus building--a prerequisite for action--is a difficult process. Reaching agreement on priorities for investment, technical collaboration, and policy incentives depends upon inform… more
Date: October 9, 2000
Creator: Gant, K.S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enhancement of Equilibrium Shift in Dehydrogenation Reactions Using a Novel Membrane Reactor Semi-Annual Report: September 1999-February 2000

Description: In our previous report we reported technical difficulties encountered in the fabrication of tubular membrane reactor using our Pd-ceramic composite membranes. Although the membrane is highly selective to hydrogen but in test runs we observed leakage of hydrogen from the end-seals and metallic fittings. This was a serious problem. An attempt to improve the seal by tightening was not helpful but resulted in cracks and breakage of the ceramic tube. To test the equilibrium conversion and equilibriu… more
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: Ilias, Shamsuddin & King, Franklin G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Phasing of Debuncher Stochastic Cooling Transverse Systems

Description: With the higher frequency of the cooling systems in the Debuncher, a modified method of making transfer functions has been developed for transverse systems. (Measuring of the momentum systems is unchanged.) Speed in making the measurements is critical, as the beam tends to decelerate due to vacuum lifetime. In the 4-8 GHz band, the harmonics in the Debuncher are 6,700 to 13,400 times the revolution frequency. Every Hertz change in revolution frequency is multiplied by this harmonic number and b… more
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: Pasquinelli, Ralph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radiatio Detector Characterization at APO While Stacking pbars in 1999

Description: The Main Injector provided beam for pbar stacking for the first time in 1999 over the period 12/20 to 12/21. The purpose of this memo is to record some observations on the response of various radiation detectors as a function of beam on the pbar targel. The detectors include a Scarecrow in the APO Vault, a Chipmunk just upstream of the APO vault, and a Chipmunk in the water cage adjacent to the Pulsed Magnet pump skid in the water systems cage. In addition, there are air monitors, one sampling … more
Date: February 9, 2000
Creator: Leveling, A.F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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In-Drift Microbial Communities

Description: As directed by written work direction (CRWMS M and O 1999f), Performance Assessment (PA) developed a model for microbial communities in the engineered barrier system (EBS) as documented here. The purpose of this model is to assist Performance Assessment and its Engineered Barrier Performance Section in modeling the geochemical environment within a potential repository drift for TSPA-SR/LA, thus allowing PA to provide a more detailed and complete near-field geochemical model and to answer the ke… more
Date: November 9, 2000
Creator: Jolley, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Workshop on Molecule Assisted Recombination and Other Processes in Fusion Divertor Plasmas

Description: A brief proceedings of the two-day Workshop on Molecule Assisted Recombination and Other Processes in Fusion Divertor Plasmas, organized by the ORNL Controlled Fusion Atomic Data Center on September 8-9, 2000, is presented. The conclusions and recommendations of the workshop regarding the topics discussed and the collaboration of the U.S. fusion research and atomic physics communities are also summarized.
Date: November 9, 2000
Creator: Janev, R.K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transportation Energy Data Book (Edition 20)

Description: The ''Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 20'' is a statistical compendium prepared and published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) under contract with the Office of Transportation Technologies in the Department of Energy (DOE). Designed for use as a desk-top reference, the data book represents an assembly and display of statistics and information that characterize transportation activity, and presents data on other factors that influence transportation energy use. The purpose of thi… more
Date: October 9, 2000
Creator: Davis, S.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Second Annual Maintenance, Inspection, and Test Report for PAS-1 Cask Certification for Shipping Payload B

Description: The Nuclear Packaging, Inc. (NuPac), PAS-1 cask is required to undergo annual maintenance and inspections to retain certification in accordance with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Certificate of Compliance USA/9184B(U) (Appendix A). The packaging configuration being tested and maintained is the NuPac PAS-1 cask for Payload B. The intent of the maintenance and inspections is to ensure the packaging remains in unimpaired physical condition. Two casks, serial numbers 2162-026 and 2162-027, were m… more
Date: October 9, 2000
Creator: KELLY, D.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Carbon Dioxide, Hydrographic, and Chemical Data Obtained During the R/V Hesperides Cruise in the Atlantic Ocean

Description: This data documentation discusses the procedures and methods used to measure total carbon dioxide (TCO{sub 2}), total alkalinity (TALK), and pH at hydrographic stations during the R/V Hesperides oceanographic cruise in the Atlantic Ocean (Section A5). Conducted as part of the Work Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), the cruise began in Cadiz, Spain, on July 14, 1992, and ended in Miami, Florida, on August 15, 1992. Measurements made along WOCE Section A5 included CTD pressure, temperature, sal… more
Date: June 9, 2000
Creator: Millero, F.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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