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Defense Modernization Account: Operations and Benefits

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the operations and benefits of the Department of Defense's (DOD) Defense Modernization Account, focusing on: (1) the status of funding and uses of the account; and (2) whether DOD has reported to the six congressional committees on the activities of the account as required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996."
Date: June 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Assistance: U.S. Economic and Democratic Assistance to the Central Asian Republics

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the economic and democratic assistance that the United States has provided to the Central Asian Republics (CAR) of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, focusing on: (1) what the Agency for International Development's (AID) economic and democratic reform initiatives in the CAR were designed to achieve, what has been accompl… more
Date: August 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Space Transportation: Status of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program

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 status of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) X-33 Program, focusing on: (1) whether the X-33 Program is meeting the cost, schedule, and performance objectives established in the X-33 cooperative agreement; (2) how NASA's oversight responsibility was changed by the cooperative agreement; and (3) potential issues NASA ma… more
Date: August 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Juvenile Courts: Reforms Aim to Better Serve Maltreated Children

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed states' and local agencies' efforts to improve the timeliness of judicial decisions concerning the permanent placement of foster children, focusing on: (1) the key problems in the juvenile dependency court system; and (2) state and local responses to these problems."
Date: January 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Forests: Funding the Sawtooth National Recreation Area

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 Sawtooth National Recreation Area's (SNRA) funding, its accomplishments and unmet needs, and on agency actions that have adverse impacts on the area, focusing on: (1) the funds allocated to the SNRA for fiscal years 1993 through 1997; (2) spending for fiscal years 1993 through 1997 to enhance recreation, to preserve conservation values, such … more
Date: February 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Customs Service Modernization: Ineffective Software Development Processes Increase Customs System Development Risks

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Customs Service's software development maturity and improvement activities, focusing on: (1) the maturity of Customs' software development processes; and (2) whether Customs has an effective software process improvement program."
Date: February 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Davis-Bacon Act: Labor Now Verifies Wage Data, but Verification Process Needs Improvement

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the: (1) Department of Labor's response to the House Appropriations Committee's directive that it verify a random sample of employers' wage data submissions and select a sample of submissions for on-site data verification; and (2) likely effect of these efforts on the accuracy and timeliness of Davis-Bacon Act wage determinations."
Date: January 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food Stamp Program: Storeowners Seldom Pay Financial Penalties Owed for 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 the Food and Nutrition Service's (FNS) efforts to maintain the integrity of the Food Stamp Program, focusing on the: (1) dollar amount of the financial penalties, collections, and debt reductions (waivers, adjustments, or write-offs) affecting storeowners violating program regulations during fiscal year (FY) 1993 through FY 1998; (2) effectivenes… more
Date: May 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Superfund: EPA Can Improve Its Monitoring of Superfund Expenditures

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 Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund Program expenditures, focusing on: (1) the relative shares of Superfund expenditures for contractor cleanup work, site-specific support, and non-site-specific support; (2) the activities carried out with the EPA's cleanup support spending, particularly its non-site-specific spending; and (3) E… more
Date: May 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Battlefield Automation: Opportunities to Improve the Army's Information Protection Effort

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Army's development and acquisition plans for command and control systems that will be part of future digitized battlefield units, focusing on the Army protection plan to determine whether it ensures sufficient assessments to test and develop the defensibility of the digitized battlefield against command and control warfare attacks."
Date: August 11, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LHC IRQ cryostat support mechanical performance

Description: The LHC Interaction Region Quadrupoles (IRQ) will be shipped from Fermilab to CERN. The IRQ magnets are supported by glass fiber supports. A prototype cryostat support has been tested under various mechanical forces in order to check its mechanical behavior. These measurements have been made in order to validate a numerical model. A large range of mechanical loads simulates loads due to the shipment of the device, the weight of the cold mass as well as the cool down conditions. Its mechanical p… more
Date: October 11, 1999
Creator: Darve, Ch.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Acquisition Workforce: Issues for Congress

Description: This report discusses recent congressionally mandated reductions in the Department of Defense(DOD) acquisition workforce.
Date: March 11, 1999
Creator: Grasso, Valerie Bailey
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Total System Performance Assessment- License Application Design Selection (LADS) Phase 1 Analysis for Higher Thermal Loa (Feature 26)

Description: The objective of this report is to evaluate the effect of potential changes to the TSPA-VA base case design on long-term repository performance. The design feature that is evaluated in this report is a higher thermal load (Feature 26 or F26). The following paragraph briefly describes the motivation for evaluating higher thermal loading. Higher thermal load has been identified as a design feature that might have a beneficial effect on long-term repository performance. A higher thermal load will … more
Date: June 11, 1999
Creator: Erb, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Total System Performance Assessment-License Application Design Selection (LADS) Phase 1 Analysis of Surface Modification Consisting of Addition of Alluvium (Feature 23a)

Description: The objective of this report is to document the analysis that was conducted to evaluate the effect of a potential change to the TSPA-VA base case design that could improve long-term repository performance. The design feature evaluated in this report is a modification of the topographic surface of Yucca Mountain. The modification consists of covering the land surface immediately above the repository foot-print with a thick layer of unconsolidated material utilizing rip-rap and plants to mitigate… more
Date: June 11, 1999
Creator: Erb, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The kinetic tandem concept: theory and computer simulations of the potential barriers

Description: The Kinetic Tandem fusion plasma confinement concept is a member of the class of open magnetic confinement systems whose magnetic topology is that of a tube of magnetic flux open at both ends. In open-ended systems the central problem is that of limiting the rate of plasma losses out the ends. In a conventional tandem mirror system end-plugging is accomplished by the generation of positive potential barriers within special short mirror cells located at each end of a long central confinement cel… more
Date: February 11, 1999
Creator: Byers, J A & Post, R F
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dimensional Stability and Microstructure Evolution in Irradiated Systems with Complex Kinetics

Description: We use a combination of molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to explore the role of temperature and dose rate on damage accumulation in a model system with complex kinetics. We describe the accumulation of He-vacancy (HeV) complexes as well as vacancy and interstitial clusters as a function of irradiation temperature, dose, and dose rate. We show that nucleation of stable HeV complexes (voids and bubbles) at low temperature and flux takes place at extremely low doses. We also … more
Date: October 11, 1999
Creator: Diaz de la Rubia, T.; Caturla, M. & Fluss, M.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Retrieval Sluicing System Campaign Number 3 Solids Volume Transferred Calculation

Description: This report with the attached tables provide supporting documentation for completing Performance Agreement TWR 1.2.2, C-106 Sluicing, Performance Expectation. The calculations summarized in the tables were performed using process control procedures and strategies as documented in engineering procedure HFN-SD-WM-PROC-021, Section 23.0, Rev. 2C, subsection 4.4, ''Calculation of Sludge Transferred.'' Four methods are described including: (1) Mass transfer based on Mass Flow Meter; (2) Mass transfe… more
Date: October 11, 1999
Creator: CAROTHERS, K.G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Desorption Kinetics of H2O, H2, CO, and CO2 from Silica Reinforced Polysiloxane

Description: We performed temperature programmed desorption up to 500K on silica-reinforced polysiloxane in both solid and foamed forms (M9787 and M9750 respectively). Our data show that H{sub 2}O was the dominant desorbing species in both forms of silicone (on the order of 100 {micro}g of physisorbed water and 900 {micro}g of chemisorbed water per gram of polymer), which are expected to be very hydrophilic when dehydrated. Detailed studies of the TPD spectra of H{sub 2}O from the silicones and from the fum… more
Date: August 11, 1999
Creator: Dinh, L. & Balooch, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Canister storage building compliance assessment SNF project NRC equivalency criteria - HNF-SD-SNF-DB-003

Description: This document presents the Project's position on compliance with the SNF Project NRC Equivalency Criteria--HNF-SD-SNF-DE-003, Spent Nuclear Fuel Project Path Forward Additional NRC Requirements. No non-compliances are shown The compliance statements have been reviewed and approved by DOE. Open items are scheduled to be closed prior to project completion.
Date: August 11, 1999
Creator: Black, D. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interface Control Document Between the Tank Farm System and the Central Waste Complex (CWC) or the Low Level Burial Ground

Description: This Interface Control Document (ICD) describes the interface between the Tank Farm System and the Central Waste Complex (CWC) or the Low-Level Burial Ground (LLBG). The Tank Farm System generates solid waste during operations. These facilities do not have a direct physical interface since the waste will be moved by truck to the CWC or LLBG. The purpose of the ICD process is to formalize working agreements between the River Protection Project (RPP) Tank Farm System and organization/companies in… more
Date: November 11, 1999
Creator: MAY, T.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quarterly Review of 241SY101 Mixer Pump Data 10/1998 Thru 12/1998

Description: This report presents data obtained on 241-SY-101 pump performance. The period covered is October 1 through December 31, 1998. During the quarter: (1) There was an indication of a 7.0-inch increase in the waste level at riser 1A, and an average growth rate of 0.076 inches per day; (2) There was an indication of a 2.3-inch increase in the waste level at riser 1C; (3) This riser was flushed with water several times, which would lower the level of the crust at this location; (4) Gases continued to … more
Date: May 11, 1999
Creator: Conner, J. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of seismic events in and near Kuwait

Description: Seismic data for events in and around Kuwait were collected and analyzed. The authors estimated event moment, focal mechanism and depth by waveform modeling. Results showed that reliable seismic source parameters for events in and near Kuwait can be estimated from a single broadband three-component seismic station. This analysis will advance understanding of earthquake hazard in Kuwait.
Date: May 11, 1999
Creator: Harris, D B; Mayeda, K M; Rodgers, A J & Ruppert, S D
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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In Situ Remediation of {sup 137}Cs Contaminated Wetlands Using Naturally Occurring Minerals

Description: Cesium-137 has contaminated a large area of the wetlands on the Savannah River Site. Remediation of the contaminated wetlands is problematic because current techniques destroy the sensitive ecosystem and generate a higher dose to workers. To address this problem, we proposed a non-trusive, in situ technology to sequester 137Cs in sediments. One intention of this study was to provide information regarding a go/no go decision for future work. Since the proof-of-concept was successful and several … more
Date: August 11, 1999
Creator: Kaplan, D.I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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