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Grants Management: EPA Has Made Progress in Grant Reforms but Needs to Address Weaknesses in Implementation and Accountability

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has faced challenges for many years in managing its grants, which constitute over one-half of the agency's budget, or about $4 billion annually. EPA awards grants through 93 programs to such recipients as state and local governments, tribes, universities, and nonprofit organizations. In response to concerns about its ability to manage grants effectively, EPA iss… more
Date: May 12, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Veterans' Disability Benefits: VA Can Improve Its Procedures for Obtaining Military Service Records

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Ranking Democratic Member, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, asked GAO to determine (1) whether VA's internal assessments indicate its regional offices are complying with the requirements of the Veterans Claims Assistance Act (VCAA) of 2000 for obtaining military service records for veterans' disability compensation claims and (2) whether VBA could improve its procedures for obtaining military s… more
Date: December 12, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Credit Cards: Increased Complexity in Rates and Fees Heightens Need for More Effective Disclosures to Consumers

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "With credit card penalty rates and fees now common, the Federal Reserve has begun efforts to revise disclosures to better inform consumers of these costs. Questions have also been raised about the relationship among penalty charges, consumer bankruptcies, and issuer profits. GAO examined (1) how card fees and other practices have evolved and how cardholders have been affected, (2) how effectively these … more
Date: September 12, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Insular Areas: Economic, Fiscal, and Financial Accountability Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. insular areas of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), face long-standing economic, fiscal, and financial accountability challenges. GAO was requested to identify and report on the (1) economic challenges facing each government, including the effect of changing tax and trade laws on their economies; (2) fiscal conditio… more
Date: December 12, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International Financial Crime: Treasury's Roles and Responsibilities Relating to Selected Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Money laundering and terrorist financing can severely affect the nation's economy and also result in loss of lives. To combat these transnational crimes, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and its component bureau, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), have key roles. Section 330 of the USA PATRIOT Act encourages the federal government to engage foreign jurisdictions in negotiations to ensu… more
Date: May 12, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve the Accuracy and Reliability of Investment Information

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Each year, agencies submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a Capital Asset Plan and Business Case--the exhibit 300--to justify each request for a major information technology (IT) investment. The exhibit's content should reflect controls that agencies have established to ensure good project management, as well as showing that they have defined cost, schedule, and performance goals. It is th… more
Date: January 12, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design and Evaluation of Ionic Liquids as Novel CO2 Absorbents

Description: Progress from the fourth quarter 2005 activity on the project ''Design and Evaluation of Ionic Liquids as Novel CO{sub 2} Absorbents'' is provided. Major activities in three areas are reported: compound synthesis, property measurement and molecular modeling. Last quarter we reported the first ever experimental measurement of SO{sub 2} solubility in an ionic liquid. We showed that SO{sub 2} was very soluble in the ionic liquid 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide ([hmim… more
Date: January 12, 2006
Creator: Maginn, Edward J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of the DRAGON Code for VHTR Design Analysis.

Description: This letter report summarizes three activities that were undertaken in FY 2005 to gather information on the DRAGON code and to perform limited evaluations of the code performance when used in the analysis of the Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) designs. These activities include: (1) Use of the code to model the fuel elements of the helium-cooled and liquid-salt-cooled VHTR designs. Results were compared to those from another deterministic lattice code (WIMS8) and a Monte Carlo code (MCNP). … more
Date: January 12, 2006
Creator: Taiwo, T. A. & Kim, T. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design and Sensor-Based COntrol for Hyper-Redundant Mechanisms

Description: Toxic materials in DOE sites pose a significant threat to DOE personnel who must inspect these locations. Working in confined spaces further complicates the situation especially when the workers must wear heavy and cumbersome protective suits.
Date: May 12, 2006
Creator: Choset, Howie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CO2 Sequestration and Recycle by Photosynthesis

Description: Hydrocarbon oxygenate synthesis from photocatalytic reactions of CO{sub 2} and H{sub 2}O over various catalysts is a very attractive process. However, the formation rate of the hydrocarbons and oxygenates is significantly lower than conventional catalysis. One possible reason for the low rate of product formation is the presence of oxidation sites which reoxidize the products back to CO{sub 2} and H{sub 2}O. For further improvement of catalytic activity for the reduction process, it is essentia… more
Date: February 12, 2006
Creator: Chuang, Steven S.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SLUDGE BATCH 4 SIMULANT FLOWSHEET STUDIES: PHASE II RESULTS

Description: The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) will transition from Sludge Batch 3 (SB3) processing to Sludge Batch 4 (SB4) processing in early fiscal year 2007. Tests were conducted using non-radioactive simulants of the expected SB4 composition to determine the impact of varying the acid stoichiometry during the Sludge Receipt and Adjustment Tank (SRAT) process. The work was conducted to meet the Technical Task Request (TTR) HLW/DWPF/TTR-2004-0031 and followed the guidelines of a Task Technical… more
Date: September 12, 2006
Creator: Stone, M & David Best, D
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINUOUS SOLVENT EXTRACTION PROCESSES FOR COAL DERIVED CARBON PRODUCTS

Description: The purpose of this DOE-funded effort is to develop continuous processes for solvent extraction of coal for the production of carbon products. The largest applications are those which support metals smelting, such as anodes for aluminum smelting and electrodes for arc furnaces. Other carbon products include materials used in creating fuels for the Direct Carbon Fuel Cell, metals smelting, especially in the aluminum and steel industries, as well as porous carbon structural material referred to a… more
Date: May 12, 2006
Creator: Kennel, Elliot B.; Bergen, R. Michael; Carpenter, Stephen P.; Dadyburjor, Dady; Katakdaunde, Manoj; Magean, Liviu et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cleanup Verification Package for the 618-3 Burial Ground

Description: This cleanup verification package documents completion of remedial action for the 618-3 Solid Waste Burial Ground, also referred to as Burial Ground Number 3 and the Dry Waste Burial Ground Number 3. During its period of operation, the 618-3 site was used to dispose of uranium-contaminated construction debris from the 311 Building and construction/demolition debris from remodeling of the 313, 303-J and 303-K Buildings.
Date: September 12, 2006
Creator: Appel, M. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Visualization of Fiber Structurein the Left and Right Ventricleof a Human Heart

Description: The human heart is composed of a helical network of musclefibers. Anisotropic least squares filtering followed by fiber trackingtechniques were applied to Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging(DTMRI) data of the excised human heart. The fiber configuration wasvisualized by using thin tubes to increase 3-dimensional visualperception of the complex structure. All visualizations were performedusing the high-quality ray-tracing software POV-Ray. The fibers are shownwithin the left and right v… more
Date: July 12, 2006
Creator: Rohmer, Damien; Sitek, Arkadiusz & Gullberg, Grant T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pilot Demonstration of Technology for the Production of High Value Materials from the Ultra-Fine (PM 2.5) Fraction of Coal Combustion Ash

Description: During this reporting period, efforts focused on improving our understanding of the basic operating principles of the lamella classifier. It was determined from testing that product grade is primarily a function of the classifier configuration and operation and the feed grade has relatively minor influence. Additionally, within the range of the testing conducted, the feed density did not seem to have an impact of the yield. Thus, the product composition will not be strongly influenced by the va… more
Date: May 12, 2006
Creator: Robl, T.L.; Groppo, J.G. & Rathbone, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development and analysis of a compact low-conversion ratio fast burner reactor.

Description: This report explores design options for compact fast burner reactors that can achieve low conversion ratios. Operational characteristics and whole-core reactivity coefficients are generated and contrasted with low conversion ratio designs of previous studies. A compact core point design is then selected and detailed reactivity coefficients are displayed and discussed. The effectiveness of fast spectrum systems for actinide transmutation has been well documented. The key advantage of the fast sp… more
Date: May 12, 2006
Creator: Smith, M. A. & Hill, R. N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Hazard Categorization for the Remediation of Six 300-FF-2 Operable Unit Solid Waste Burial Grounds

Description: This report provides the final hazard categorization (FHC) for the remediation of six solid waste disposal sites (referred to as burial grounds) located in the 300-FF-2 Operable Unit (OU) on the Hanford Site. These six sites (618-1, 618-2, 618-3, 618-7, 618-8, and 618-13 Burial Grounds) were determined to have a total radionuclide inventory (WCH 2005a, WCH 2005d, WCH 2005e and WCH 2006b) that exceeds the DOE-STD-1027 Category 3 threshold quantity (DOE 1997) and are the subject of this analysis.… more
Date: December 12, 2006
Creator: Ludowise, J. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Shape-selective catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch chemistry : iron-containing particulate catalysts. Activity report : January 1, 2001 - December 31, 2004.

Description: Argonne National Laboratory is carrying out a research program to create, prepare, and evaluate catalysts to promote Fischer-Tropsch (FT) chemistry--specifically, the reaction of hydrogen with carbon monoxide to form long-chain hydrocarbons. In addition to needing high activity, it is desirable that the catalysts have high selectivity and stability with respect to both mechanical strength and aging properties. It is desired that selectivity be directed toward producing diesel fraction component… more
Date: May 12, 2006
Creator: Cronauer, D. & Engineering, Chemical
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remaining Sites Verification Package for the 100-B-22:1 Pipelines and Associated Soils, Waste Site Reclassification Form 2005-042

Description: The 100-B-22:1 pipelines and associated soils were part of the 100-B Area water treatment facilities. The 100-B-22:1 waste site is limited to those pipelines that interconnected the 185-B Filter House, the 126-B-2 Clearwells, the 185-B Deaeration Plant, and the 190-B Process Pumphouse. None of the 100-B-22:1 pipelines carried environmentally significant contamination. In accordance with the historical information and field observations of this evaluation, the results support a reclassification … more
Date: September 12, 2006
Creator: Dittmer, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Biennial Environmental Compliance Report

Description: This Biennial Environmental Compliance Report (BECR) documents compliance with environmental regulations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a facility designed and authorized for the safe disposal of transuranic (TRU) radioactive waste. This BECR covers the reporting period from April 1, 2004, to March 31, 2006. As required by the WIPP Land Withdrawal Act (LWA) (Public Law [Pub. L.] 102-579, as amended by Pub. L. 104-201), the BECR documents United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DO… more
Date: October 12, 2006
Creator: Services, Washington Regulatory and Environmental
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Nutrition and WIC Programs: Background and Recent Funding

Description: This report provides information about the Background and Funding on Child Nutrition and WIC Programs. child nutrition programs provide free meals to lower-income children.The CACFP subsidies meals and snacks served by children.
Date: July 12, 2006
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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S. 2557, “Oil and Gas Industry Antitrust Act of 2006”: Brief Legal Analysis

Description: This report analyzes ways to improve antitrust laws through S.557. These include, but are not limited to: mitigating regional shortages of oil petroleum and natural gas products, creating a federal task force to analyze information-sharing in the industry, and make U.S. antitrust laws applicable to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Date: May 12, 2006
Creator: Rubin, Janice E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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