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Check Relay: Controls in Place Comply With Federal Reserve Guidelines

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses the management of the air transportation network used to move checks from one Federal Reserve office to another. GAO studied the propriety of practices for bidding, awarding, and monitoring contracts and the adequacy of controls to monitor fuel and other payments to vendors. The network was moved to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (FRB Atlanta) in September 1998 and renamed Check Rela… more
Date: December 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Steps the Army Can Take to Improve the Management and Oversight of Excess Ammunition

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report reviews the Department of Defense's (DOD) management practices for demilitarizing excess ammunition. Specifically, GAO evaluates (1) the extent to which the excess ammunition stockpile has been reduced and whether the liability associated with excess ammunition has been fully identified, (2) the Army's reliance on contracted demilitarization and the impact of doing so on government facilities that … more
Date: April 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Buildings: Funding Repairs and Alterations Has Been a Challenge--Expanded Financing Tools Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The General Services Administration (GSA), the federal government's real property manager, it is responsible for identifying, funding, and completing needed repairs and alterations at federal buildings. This report examines (1) GSA's process for assessing and selecting prospectus-level major repair and alteration design projects for funding, (2) the obstacles that impede GSA from satisfying its repair and alte… more
Date: April 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Department of Education: Key Aspects of the Federal Direct Loan Program's Cost Estimates

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Education runs two major federal student loan programs, the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (FDLP) and the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). Under FDLP, students or their parents borrow money directly from the federal government through the schools the students attend. Under FFELP, money is borrowed from private lenders, and the federal government guarantees repayment… more
Date: January 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Business Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS' Customer Account Data Engine Project

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began the Customer Account Data Engine (CADE) project to modernize the agency's outdated and inefficient data management system. This report determines (1) the reported status of CADE and IRS' plans for completing the project, (2) whether IRS is managing the relationship between CADE and the agency's enterprise architecture and current systems environment, (3) whether IRS is … more
Date: June 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Logistics: Actions Needed to Overcome Capability Gaps in the Public Depot System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense's (DOD) policy and practices for developing core depot maintenance capabilities are creating gaps between actual capabilities and those needed for future national defense emergencies and contingencies. If the existing policy is not clarified and current practices continue, the military depots will not have the equipment, facilities, and trained personnel to provide logistics support o… more
Date: October 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Vehicle Safety: Technologies, Challenges, and Research and Development Expenditures for Advanced Air Bags

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a rule requiring vehicle manufacturers to install advanced air bag systems in an increasing number of cars beginning in 2003. This report reviews the development of technologies that vehicle manufacturers plan to use to comply with the advanced air bag rule. GAO found that some advanced air bag technologies are now being installed in vehicle… more
Date: June 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Emergency Medical Services: Reported Needs Are Wide-Ranging, With A Growing Focus on Lack of Data.

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Local emergency medical systems (EMS) have reported substantial needs in such areas as personnel, training, equipment, and the availability of doctors to advise emergency personnel in the field. Federal agencies have supported EMS improvements by acting as facilitators rather then by establishing requirements or providing significant funding. The agencies provide technical assistance, set voluntary standards f… more
Date: October 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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User Fees: DOD Fees for Providing Information Not Current and Consistent

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The National Defense Authorization Act for 2001 authorized the military archives to (1) charge fees to persons requesting information and (2) retain collected fees to help defray costs of providing the information. Although none of the archives has yet implemented a fee, one archive plans to do so by October 2001. The Department of Defense's (DOD) archives and other offices are also authorized under both the U… more
Date: October 12, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Barcelona Process: The European Union’s Partnership with the Southern Mediterranean

Description: This report contains the European Union's partnership with the Southern Mediterranean. It also provides a brief discussion of how the Barcelona Process related to the Middle East peace process, as well as to other U.S. interests.
Date: June 12, 2001
Creator: Linder, Anja & Ruebener, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Afghanistan: Current Issues and U.S. Policy Concerns

Description: The United States and its allies are helping Afghanistan emerge from more than 22 years of warfare, although substantial risk to Afghan stability remains. Before the U.S. military campaign against the orthodox Islamist Taliban movement began on October 7, 2001, Afghanistan had been mired in conflict since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The defeat of the Taliban has enabled the United States and its coalition partners to send forces throughout Afghanistan to search for Taliban and A… more
Date: December 12, 2001
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Results of Tritium Tracking and Groundwater Monitoring at the Hanford Site 200 Area State-Approved Land Disposal Site--Fiscal Year 2001

Description: The Hanford Site 200 Area Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF) processes contaminated liquids derived from Hanford Site facilities. The clean water generated by these processes is occasionally enriched in tritium, and is discharged to the 200 Area State Approved Land Disposal Site (SALDS). Groundwater monitoring for tritium and other constituents is required by the state-issued permit at 22 wells surrounding the facility. During FY 2001, tritium activities in the SALDS proximal well 699-48-77A inc… more
Date: October 12, 2001
Creator: Barnett, D. Brent & Rieger, Joanne T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Material Balance Assessment for Double-Shell Tank Waste Pipeline Transfer

Description: PNNL developed a material balance assessment methodology based on conservation of mass for detecting leaks and mis-routings in pipeline transfer of double-shell tank waste at Hanford. The main factors causing uncertainty in these transfers are variable property and tank conditions of density, existence of crust, and surface disturbance due to mixer pump operation during the waste transfer. The methodology was applied to three waste transfers from Tanks AN-105 and AZ-102.
Date: March 12, 2001
Creator: Onishi, Yasuo; Wells, Beric E.; Hartley, Stacey A. & Enderlin, Carl W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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External Criticality Risk of Immobilized Plutonium Waste Form in a Geologic Repository

Description: This purpose of this technical report is to provide a comprehensive summary of the waste package (WP) external criticality-related risk of the Plutonium Disposition ceramic waste form, which is being developed and evaluated by the Office of Fissile Materials Disposition of the United States Department of Energy (DOE). Potential accumulation of the fissile materials, {sup 239}Pu and {sup 235}U, in rock formations having a favorable chemical environment for such actions, requires analysis because… more
Date: March 12, 2001
Creator: McClure, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Explosive Potential Analysis of AB Process-Final Report

Description: A need arose to define the hazards associated with the operation of a process. The process involved the evolution of a hydrogen gas stream from thermal decomposition of uranium hydride at approximately 400 C into the interior of a purged argon-filled glove box. Specific hazards of interest included the potential reaction severity of the evolved hydrogen with atmospheric oxygen, either downstream in the vent system or inside the box in the event of serious air inleakage. Another hazard might be … more
Date: October 12, 2001
Creator: Bullock, J. S.; Giles Jr., G. E.; Wendel, M. W. & Sulfredge, C. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proposal to DOE Basic Energy Sciences: Ultrafast X-ray Science Facility at the Advanced Light Source

Description: We propose to develop a true user facility for ultrafast x-ray science at the Advanced Light Source. This facility will be unique in the world, and will fill a critical need for the growing ultrafast x-ray research community. The development of this facility builds upon the expertise from long-standing research efforts in ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy and the development of femtosecond x-ray sources and techniques at both the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at U.C. Berkeley. In particu… more
Date: December 12, 2001
Creator: Schoenlein, Robert W.; Falcone, Roger W.; Abela, R.; Alivisatos, A. P.; Belkacem, A.; Berrah, N. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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WATER AS A REAGENT FOR SOIL REMEDIATION

Description: SRI International conducted experiments in a two-year, two-phase process to develop and evaluate hydrothermal extraction technology, also known as hot water extraction (HWE) technology, to separate petroleum-related contaminants and other hazardous pollutants from soil and sediments. In this process, water with added electrolytes (inexpensive and environmentally friendly) is used as the extracting solvent under subcritical conditions (150-300 C). The use of electrolytes allows us to operate rea… more
Date: November 12, 2001
Creator: Jayaweera, Indira S.; Marti-Perez, Montserrat; Diaz-Ferrero, Jordi & Sanjurjo, Angel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of 5-cm Centrifugal Contactor Hydraulic and Mass Transfer Performance for Caustic-Side Solvent Extraction of Cesium

Description: A test program has been conducted in which the use of pilot-scale centrifugal solvent extraction contactors for cesium removal from an alkaline waste stream has been successfully demonstrated. The program was designed specifically to evaluate the use of centrifugal contactors having 5-cm-diam rotors for the removal of cesium from alkaline high-level waste (HLW) that was generated and is being stored at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS). The removal of cesium from this wa… more
Date: September 12, 2001
Creator: Birdwell, J.F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MULTI-PARTICLE DYNAMICS IN TRIBOELECTROSTATIC SYSTEMS

Description: Using state-of-the-art flow/particle visualization and animation techniques, the time-dependent statistical distributions of charged-particle swarms exposed to external fields (both electrostatic and flow) are analyzed. We found that interparticle interaction and drag forces mainly influenced swarm dispersion in a Lagrangian reference frame, whereas the ''average'' particle trajectory was affected primarily by the external electric field.
Date: July 12, 2001
Creator: Jhon, Myung S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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