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VA Health Care: Food Service Operations and Costs at Inpatient Facilities

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 Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) food service operations, focusing on: (1) the type and volume of food services VA provides; (2) how VA provides food services; (3) the cost VA incurs; and (4) the revenues VA generates from sales of excess food services."
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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State Pension Plans: Similarities and Differences Between Federal and State Designs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on the: (1) design components of retirement programs that states offer to their general employees and compared them to the design components of the two principal retirement programs for federal employees; and (2) changes states have considered and made to their retirement programs."
Date: March 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Housing Finance: Budget Savings From the Sale of HUD Loans

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO the reviewed the reasonableness of the: (1) Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) estimates of budgetary savings from the sale of its single-family loans; and (2) model HUD used to estimate savings from the sale of multifamily loans."
Date: July 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Illegal Immigration: Status of Southwest Border Strategy Implementation

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 Attorney General's strategy for reducing and deterring illegal entry along the southwest border, focusing on: (1) the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) progress in implementing the southwest border strategy during fiscal year (FY) 1998; (2) interim results of the strategy; and (3) actions taken on GAO's recommendation that the … more
Date: May 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Passenger Facility Charges: Program Implementation and the Potential Effects of Proposed Changes

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the passenger facility charge program, focusing on: (1) how the program is helping airports fund their capital development; and (2) the potential impact of various proposals to change the program, including the option of making no change."
Date: May 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mass Transit: Status of New Starts Transit Projects With Full Funding Grant Agreements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) new starts program, focusing on identifying those projects that have experienced changes in their baseline cost estimates and the reason for the changes."
Date: August 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foster Care: HHS Could Better Facilitate the Interjurisdictional Adoption Process

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on interjurisdictional adoption issues, focusing on the: (1) number of foster children who are available and waiting for an adoptive home to be identified; (2) actions taken by state and county child welfare agencies and nonprofit organizations to improve the adoption process when prospective adoptive families and foster children live in different… more
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Regulation: Strategy Needed to Regulate Safety Using Information on Risk

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined various issues related to the safe operation of commercial nuclear power plants, focusing on: (1) some of the challenges that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the nuclear power industry could experience in a competitive environment; (2) issues that NRC needs to resolve to implement a risk-informed regulatory approach; and (3) the status of NRC's effo… more
Date: March 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOD Contract Management: Greater Attention Needed to Identify and Recover Overpayments

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO updated its previous report on the Department of Defense's (DOD) overpayments to contractors and subsequent refunds to the Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS), focusing on: (1) DOD's efforts to identify and recover overpayments made through fiscal year (FY) 1998; and (2) whether 13 contractors were retaining overpayments and how quickly overpayments were refunded." more
Date: July 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Administration: Billions in Self-Employment Taxes Are Owed

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) the number and characteristics of self-employed taxpayers who receive social security credit for self-employment earnings when they are delinquent in paying the self-employment taxes on those earnings; (2) why self-employed taxpayers who have not paid their self-employment taxes are allowed to receive social security credit; and (3) any pot… more
Date: February 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Nonproliferation: Concerns With DOE's Efforts to Reduce the Risks Posed by Russia's Unemployed Weapons Scientists

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) efforts to create jobs for displaced former Soviet Union scientists through its Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program, focusing on: (1) the costs to implement the program for fiscal years 1994-98, including the amount of funds received by weapons scientists and institutes; (2) the extent to which the program's projec… more
Date: February 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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House Committee Reports: Required Contents

Description: This report discusses house rules and statutes that detail several substantive requirements for items to be included in reports accompanying bills reported from committees. It provides a table that lists each rule with the requirement and applications.
Date: January 19, 1999
Creator: Schneider, Judy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Accumulator Betatron Core Cooling Scenarios

Description: Scenarios for the Accumulator 4-8 GHz betatron core cooling systems are described. Included are signal and noise calculations, optimum gain values and settings, and total power levels necessary. Comparisons are made to the Run I system performance with both the coaxial line and laser link from A10 to A30.
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: Derwent, Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Accumulator 4-8 GHz Cooling Pickups Impedance Measurements

Description: Impedance measurements for the Accumulator 4-8 GHz cooling pickups are presented for both sum and delta modes. At the low end of the band, the impedance is approximately 4.7 {Omega} (2.3 {Omega}) in sum (difference) mode, falling to approximately 0.75 {Omega} (0.5 {Omega}) in sum (difference) mode at the high end of the band.
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: Derwent, Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Work Plan for Updating Double Shell Tank (DST) SubSystem Specifications (TBR 120.020)

Description: The DST System stores waste from the processing of nuclear material at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The program to dispose of this waste has been divided into several phases with Phase 1 being the demonstration of the waste disposal technology by a private contractor. Subsystem specifications are being prepared providing requirements for the subsystems that are necessary for the continued safe storage of waste in the DST System and the removal of selected waste for processing by the privati… more
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: GRENARD, C.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermal Stabilization Blend Plan

Description: The Blend Plan was written to identify items stored outside of the 213 MBA that will be moved into the MBA for thermal stabilization processing. Product quality oxide items stored in our vaults are found in Appendix B. A table is included in Appendix B which details the isotopic values for the oxide items and calculates the amount of material of any specific run that can be placed in a product can and maintain the 15 watt limit to meet storage vault specifications. There is no chance of exceedi… more
Date: August 19, 1999
Creator: RISENMAY, H.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford emergency management plan - release 15

Description: The Hanford emergency management plan for the US Department of Energy Richland, WA and Office of River Protection. The program was developed in accordance with DOE Orders as well as Federal and State regulations to protect workers and public health and safety.
Date: July 19, 1999
Creator: CARPENTER, G.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Organic end state analysis of tank 241-U-103

Description: This document provides a record of the organic end state analysis of tank 2414-103. Tank 241-U-103 is one of twelve 22.9-meter (75-feet) diameter single-shell tanks in the 241-U Tank Farm in the 200 West Area of Hanford. This tank was built in 1943-1944 and has a capacity of 2,006 kiloliter (E) (530 kilogallon [kgal]). According to Hanlon (1999), tank 241-U-103 currently contains 1840 kL (468 kgal) of waste comprised of 1639 kL (443 kgal) saltcake, 45 kL (12 kgal) sludge, and 49 kL (13 kgal) Su… more
Date: July 19, 1999
Creator: FOWLER, K.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impurity leaching rates of 1000 liter growth tanks

Description: This memo reports on the analysis of some recent measurements of solution impurity levels in the three KDP and one DKDP Pilot Production 1000 liter growth tanks (Tanks B, C, D, & F). Solution samples were taken on a weekly basis during recent crystal growth runs in each tank and were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy (ICP-ES). The solution history for five specific elements, Si, B, Al, Fe and Ca will be analyzed in detail. The first four of these elements are input in… more
Date: February 19, 1999
Creator: Burnham, A; Floyd, R; Robey, H F & Torres, R
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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