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Water Infrastructure: Information on Financing, Capital Planning, and Privatization

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and water utility industry groups, communities will need as much as $1 trillion during the next 20 years to repair, replace, or upgrade aging drinking water and wastewater facilities; accommodate a growing population; and meet new water quality standards. GAO found that the amount of funds obtained from user charges and other local sources of revenue was … more
Date: August 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Veterans' Benefits: Quality Assurance for Disability Claims and Appeals Processing Can Be Further Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "For fiscal year 2002, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will pay $25 billion in cash disability benefits to 3.3 million disabled veterans and their families. Veterans who are dissatisfied with VA's 57 regional offices' decisions may file appeals with VA's Board of Veteran's Appeals. In about half of such appeals, the Board has either granted the benefits denied or returned the cases to regional offices f… more
Date: August 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Export-Import Bank: Energy Financing Trends Affected by Various Factors

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "From 1990 through 2001, the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) of the United States provided export financing commitments totaling $31 billion to promote the export of U.S. goods and services for use in the energy sector. The energy sector is divided into fossil fuel, renewable, and nuclear energy. Financing is provided through a range of products, including loans and guarantees, export credit insurance, and work… more
Date: September 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Supplemental Security Income: Progress Made in Detecting and Recovering Overpayments, but Management Attention Should Continue

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is the nation's largest cash assistance program for the poor. The program paid $33 billion in benefits to 6.8 million aged, blind, and disabled persons in fiscal year 2001. Benefit eligibility and payment amounts for the SSI population are determined by complex and often difficult to verify financial factors such as an individual's income, resource levels, and liv… more
Date: September 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Nonproliferation: U.S. Efforts to Help Other Countries Combat Nuclear Smuggling Need Strengthened Coordination and Planning

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The worldwide trafficking and smuggling of nuclear material has reportedly increased in recent years. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports 181 confirmed cases of illicit trafficking of nuclear material since 1993. Many of the cases reported by IAEA involved material that could be used to produce a "dirty bomb" that could spread radioactive contamination over a wide area. Nuclear material can b… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Real Property: Better Governmentwide Data Needed for Strategic Decisionmaking

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "For 50 years, the General Services Administration (GSA) has maintained the federal government's real property assets, including military installations, office buildings, laboratories, courthouses, postal facilities, and embassies. Separately, the Department of the Treasury produces annual financial information on these assets. GSA's worldwide inventory is the only central source of detailed information on on t… more
Date: April 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food Stamp Program: Implementation of Electronic Benefit Transfer Systems

Description: A briefing report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Agriculture provided $15 billion in food stamp benefits to 17 million recipients in 2000. Until the mid-1990s, most recipients received paper coupons that they could use to buy food; today, 80 percent of all benefits are provided electronically. Recipients use cards, much like debit cards, to pay for their groceries at the checkout counter, and the costs are deducted from the recipients' mo… more
Date: January 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment

Description: This report provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment -- of the ways that the Supreme Court has interpreted the guarantee of freedom of speech and press to provide no protection or only limited protection for some types of speech.
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Pell Grant Program of the Higher Education Act: Background and Reauthorization

Description: This report reviews how the program works and provides analysis of program funding, recipients (numbers and characteristics), and the role being played by the program in the distribution of federal student aid. It concludes with an examination of several Pell-related issues that may be considered by the 108th Congress in the HEA reauthorization process.
Date: December 16, 2002
Creator: Stedman, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Aviation Safety

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Date: September 16, 2002
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Failure Modeling of Titanium-6Al-4V and 2024-T3 Aluminum with the Johnson-Cook Material Model

Description: A validated Johnson-Cook model could be employed to perform simulations that conform to FAA standards for evaluating aircraft and engine designs for airworthiness and containment considerations. A previous LLNL report [1] described the motivation for using the Johnson-Cook material model in simulations involving engine containment and the effect of uncontained engine debris on aircraft structures. In that report, experimental studies of the deformation and failure behavior of Ti-6Al-4V and 2024… more
Date: September 16, 2002
Creator: Kay, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Use of Electromyogram (EMG) Telemetry to Assess Swimming Activity and Energy Use of Adult Spring Chinook Salmon Migrating through the Tailraces, Fishways, and Forebays of Bonneville Dam, 2000 and 2001

Description: In 2000, PNNL conducted a two-year study for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to investigate energy use and swimming performance of adult spring chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawystcha) migrating upstream through a large hydropower dam on the Columbia River. The investigation involved one year of laboratory study and one year of field study at Bonneville Dam. The objectives of the laboratory study were to 1) measure active rates of oxygen consumption of adult spring chinook salmon at three wat… more
Date: October 16, 2002
Creator: Brown, Richard S.; Geist, David R. & Mesa, Matthew G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Liquid Nitrogen Subcooler ofr Calorimeters LN2 Supply

Description: This note provides calculations of heat load and coil sizing for a LN2 subcooler which will be installed in the liquid nitrogen line going from Dewar 42 to the. Liquid argon calorimeters. This subcooler must improve LN2 quality and facilitate LAr pressure regulation. The system is described in Engineering note 3740.510-EN-382. This note contains the calculations of heat loads/pressure drops of the liquid Nitrogen supply line going from the Dewar 42 to the liquid Argon calorimeters, and also the… more
Date: September 16, 2002
Creator: Sarychev, Michael
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford Site Environmental Surveillance Master Sampling Schedule

Description: Environmental surveillance of the Hanford Site and surrounding areas is conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Sampling is conducted to evaluate levels of radioactive and nonradioactive pollutants in the Hanford environs. The document contains the CY 2002 schedules for the routine collection of samples for the Surface Environmental Surveillance Project (SESP) and Drinking Water Monitoring Project.
Date: January 16, 2002
Creator: Bisping, Lynn E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Root engineering for self-irrigation that exploits soil depth dimension for carbon sequestration.

Description: A comprehensive carbon management program to sequester excess CO{sub 2} includes the maximization of the carbon sink potential of the terrestrial ecosystem. The establishment of sustainable vegetation on semi-arid or damaged land is necessary to increase the carbon inventory in the terrestrial ecosystem, as it is increasing the depth of the soil carbon sink. The availability of water for sustained growth at acceptable costs, when or where precipitation is too scarce or unpredictable, may, howev… more
Date: July 16, 2002
Creator: Gatliff, E. G. & Negri, M. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Spawning Success of Hatchery Spring Chinook Salmon Outplanted as Adults in the Clearwater River Basin, Idaho, 2001.

Description: The study described in this report evaluated spawning distribution, overlap with naturally-arriving spawners, and pre-spawning mortality of spring chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, outplanted as adults in the Clearwater River Subbasin in 2001. Returns of spring chinook salmon to Snake River Basin hatcheries and acclimation facilities in 2001 exceeded needs for hatchery production goals in Idaho. Consequently, management agencies including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Idaho … more
Date: April 16, 2002
Creator: Cramer, Steven P.; Ackerman, Nichlaus & Witty, Kenneth L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ALTERNATE HIGH EFFICIENCY PARTICULATE AIR (HEPA) FILTRATION SYSTEM

Description: In Phase IIA of this project, CeraMem has further developed and scaled up ceramic HEPA filters that are appropriate for use on filtration of vent gas from HLW tanks at DOE sites around the country. This work included procuring recrystallized SiC monoliths, developing membrane and cement materials, and defining a manufacturing process for the production of prototype full sizes HEPA filters. CeraMem has demonstrated that prototype full size filters can be manufactured by producing 9 full size fil… more
Date: August 16, 2002
Creator: Bishop, Bruce; Goldsmith, Robert; Nielsen, Karsten & Paquette, Phillip
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Uncertainty Analysis for the Southern TCE Plume in the C-Area Groundwater Operable Unit

Description: This report documents an uncertainty analysis on a local groundwater flow and transport model for the C-Area Reactor Groundwater Operable Unit. The work is a continuation of the recently completed regional groundwater flow model for C Area (Bills et al. 2000) and the local flow and transport model for the southern C-Area plumes (Fogle and Brewer, 2001). The local flow and transport model is a representation of groundwater flow and contaminant migration through the Upper Three Runs aquifer, sout… more
Date: April 16, 2002
Creator: Brewer, K.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Technical Report, Outstanding Junior Investigator Award for De-fg02-94er40869

Description: This report summarizes the research of the Principal Investigator, his postdoctoral research associates, and his students during the period of the award. The majority of the work concerns the behavior of hadrons containing strange, charm, bottom and top quarks, with a particular focus on the extraction of Cabibbo--Kobayashi--Maskawa matrix elements from experiments performed on such systems.
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Falk, Adam F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FISCAL YEAR 2001 ANNUAL REPORT ON THE UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS OF THE ADVANCED ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS PROGRAM.

Description: The Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) Program was initiated in fiscal year 2001 (FY-01) by the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in partnership with other national laboratories. The AAA Project and the R&D for its underlying science and technology will require a large cadre of educated scientists and trained technicians in the future. In addition, other applications of nuclear science and engineering (e.g., proliferation … more
Date: February 16, 2002
Creator: BELLER, DENIS E
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement Issues for Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings: Productivity and Performance Uncertainties

Description: In previous reports, we have identified two potentially important issues, solutions to which would increase the attractiveness of DOE-developed technologies in commercial buildings energy systems. One issue concerns the fact that in addition to saving energy, many new technologies offer non-energy benefits that contribute to building productivity (firm profitability). The second issue is that new technologies are typically unproven in the eyes of decision makers and must bear risk premiums that… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Jones, D.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long range climate effect of carbon dioxide and sulfate aerosols

Description: The program has led to better climate model components, has developed new and more efficient methods of solving climate model equations and has taken advantage of the new computing technologies thus providing more reliable estimates of potential climate change. The CHAMMP sponsored and the NCAR-CSM (Climate System Model) are complimentary efforts and under this leadership are developing state-of-the-art, high resolution, computationally efficient components thus providing a more realistic simul… more
Date: September 16, 2002
Creator: Washington, Warren M. & Meehl, Gerald A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of dry fractures on matrix diffusion in unsaturated fractured rocks

Description: Matrix diffusion has been recognized as an important mechanism affecting solute transport through unsaturated fractured rock, where a significant fraction of the fracture network remains relatively dry and inactive in conducting liquid flow. This simulation study shows that dry fractures act as strong diffusion barriers to solute transport when such fractures divide the matrix into discrete blocks. Where fracture surface roughness causes some regions of direct contact between matrix blocks sepa… more
Date: January 16, 2002
Creator: Seol, Yongkoo; Liu, Hui Hai & Bodvarsson, Gudmundur S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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