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Farm Service Agency: Updated Status of the Multibillion-Dollar Farm Loan Portfolio

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Farm Service Agency (FSA) within the Department of Agriculture provides financial assistance to farmers and ranchers who are unable to obtain commercial credit at reasonable rates and terms. FSA provides direct government-funded loans and repayment guarantees on farm loans made by commercial lenders. During the 1990s, GAO issued a series of reports highlighting the substantial financial risk associated wit… more
Date: January 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Weapons of Mass Destruction: State Department Oversight of Science Centers Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since 1994, the United States has appropriated $227 million to support two multilateral science centers in Russia and Ukraine. The science centers pay scientists who once developed nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile systems for the Soviet Union to conduct peaceful research. By employing scientists at the science centers, the United States seeks to reduce the risks that these scientists could… more
Date: May 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: Challenges in Maintaining a Federal-State Fiscal Partnership

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant represents an opportunity to re-examine the fiscal balance between the federal government and the states in providing services to needy families. Since the enactment of federal welfare reform, there has been much discussion of the fiscal implications of these sweeping changes in national welfare policy. A particularly content… more
Date: August 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Affairs: Changes to Germany's Implementation of the Hague Child Abduction Convention

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "During the last several years, the United States has criticized Germany's handling of international parental child abduction cases that have been filed by U.S. parents. Both the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government have criticized Germany for not fully and consistently following the criteria and procedures established under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Ch… more
Date: April 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Best Practices: DOD Teaming Practices Not Achieving Potential Results

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO examined how best practices could help the Department of Defense (DOD) maximize the benefits of integrated product teams in its development of weapon systems. GAO conducted eight case studies--three from leading commercial firms; four from DOD programs experiencing cost, schedule, and performance problems; and one from a DOD program that has been meeting its objectives. GAO found that effective integrated… more
Date: April 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical and Biological Defense: Improved Risk Assessment and Inventory Management Are Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) believes it is increasingly likely that an adversary will use chemical or biological weapons against U.S. forces to degrade superior U.S. conventional warfare capabilities, placing servicemembers' lives and effective military operations at risk. To reduce the effects of such an attack on military personnel, DOD has determined the quantity of chemical and biological protective su… more
Date: September 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicaid and SCHIP: States' Enrollment and Payment Policies Can Affect Children's Access to Care

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "States provide health care coverage to low-income uninsured children largely through two federal-state programs--Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Medicaid was established in 1965 to provide health care coverage to low-income adults and children. Medicaid expenditures for health services to 22.3 million children totaled $32.4 billion in 1998. Congress established SCHIP in 1997… more
Date: September 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Anti-Money Laundering: Efforts in the Securities Industry

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To disguise illegally obtained funds, money launderers have traditionally targeted banks, which accept cash and arrange domestic and international fund transfers. However, criminals seeking to hide illicit funds may also be targeting the U.S. securities markets. Although few documented cases exist of broker-dealer or mutual fund accounts being used to launder money, law enforcement agencies are concerned that … more
Date: October 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Army War Reserve Spare Parts Requirements Are Uncertain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "According to the current National Military Strategy the United States should be prepared to fight and win two nearly simultaneous wars in different parts of the world. Military policy calls for each of the services to acquire and maintain enough war material inventories to sustain a two-war scenario until the industrial base can resupply our armed forces. Because of limitations in the Army's process for determ… more
Date: May 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Health Care: Continued Management Focus Key to Settling TRICARE Change Orders Quickly

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Under TRICARE, the Department of Defense's (DOD) managed care program, military-operated hospitals and clinics are supplemented by contracted civilian services. Since the inception of TRICARE, DOD has made many changes to these contracts via contract change orders. Since July 1997, when GAO reported that DOD was trying to improve its change order process, the backlog of change orders has continued to grow. Thi… more
Date: April 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nursing Workforce: Emerging Nurse Shortages Due to Multiple Factors

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The nation's hospitals and nursing homes rely heavily on the services of nurses. Concerns have been raised about whether the current and projected supply of nurses will meet the nation's needs. This report reviews (1) whether evidence of a nursing shortage exists, (2) the reasons for current nurse recruitment and retention problems, and (3) what is known about the projected future supply of and demand for nur… more
Date: July 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Private Pensions: Issues of Coverage and Increasing Contribution Limits for Defined Contribution Plans

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Proposals to expand pension coverage and promote pension savings have recently received much attention. In the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, for example, Congress raised statutory limits on tax-deferred pension contributions and benefits and made other changes to the law governing qualified pension plans. Some believe that increasing these limits will encourage employers to start n… more
Date: September 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.N. Peacekeeping: Executive Branch Consultations With Congress Did Not Fully Meet Expectations in 1999-2000

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Presidential Decision Directive 25 states that U.S. involvement in international peacekeeping operations must be selective and effective. Toward this end, the directive established guidance that U.S. officials must consider before deciding whether to support proposed operations, including whether the operations advanced U.S. interests, had realistic criteria for ending the operations, and had appropriate force… more
Date: September 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Juvenile Justice: Better Documentation of Discretionary Grant Monitoring Is Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provides block grants and discretionary funding to help states and communities prevent juvenile delinquency and improve their juvenile justice systems. OJJDP has specific program monitoring and documentation requirements for its discretionary grants. These monitoring requirements include having the grant manager make quarterly telephone calls, u… more
Date: October 10, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reconciliation Report

Description: Reconciliation report with an ending account balance of $1,043.54 reconciled for the period ending on November 30, 2001.
Date: December 10, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Deposit Summary

Description: Deposit summary of $24.00 made on December 10, 2001.
Date: December 10, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Chromium Toxicity Test for Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Using Hanford Site Groundwater: Onsite Early Life-Stage Toxicity Evaluation

Description: The objective of this study was to evaluate site-specific effects for early life-stage (eyed eggs to free swimming juveniles) fall chinook salmon that might be exposed to hexavalent chromium from Hanford groundwater sources. Our exposure conditions included hexavalent chromium obtained from Hanford groundwater wells near the Columbia River, Columbia River water as the diluent, and locally adapted populations of fall chinook salmon. This report describes both a 96-hr pretest using rainbow trout … more
Date: July 10, 2001
Creator: Patton, Gregory W.; Dauble, Dennis D.; Chamness, Michele A.; Abernethy, Cary S. & McKinstry, Craig A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Stewardship Contracting for the National Forests

Description: This report discusses the advantages and limitations of proposed approaches to stewardship contracting to reduce threats to national forests exacerbated by unnaturally high amounts of biomass.
Date: August 10, 2001
Creator: Gorte, Ross W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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