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Combating Terrorism: Action Taken but Considerable Risks Remain for Forces Overseas

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the Department of Defense's (DOD) efforts to protect U.S. forces stationed overseas from terrorist attacks, focusing on: (1) the extent to which DOD has made improvements to its antiterrorism/force protection program overseas; (2) changes in DOD's process for assessing and reporting vulnerability at overseas installations; and (3) the adequacy of antiterrorism… more
Date: July 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Reform: Information on the Archer-Shaw Proposal

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 Archer-Shaw Social Security reform proposal, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the proposal achieves sustainable solvency and how it would affect the U.S. economy and the federal budget; (2) the balance struck between the twin goals of income adequacy (level and certainty of benefits) and individual equity (rates of return on individual co… more
Date: January 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Insurance Regulation: Scandal Highlights Need for Strengthened Regulatory Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO evaluated insurance regulatory oversight and information-sharing in the matter of a highly publicized insurance investment scam exposed in May 1999, focusing on: (1) the alleged scam; (2) the oversight and information-sharing by insurance regulators; and (3) cross-financial-sector coordination issues, including those emanating from the scam relevant to financial regulat… more
Date: September 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Postal Service: Enhancements Needed in Performance Planning and Reporting

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 Postal Service's (USPS) performance measures, reports, and plans, focusing on: (1) how well USPS fiscal year (FY) 1999 performance report addressed USPS' progress toward achieving the goals established by the FY 1999 performance plan; and (2) whether USPS' FY 2001 preliminary performance plan demonstrates continued progress in developing a re… more
Date: September 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Administration: Year 2000 Readiness Efforts Helped Ensure Century Rollover and Leap Year Success

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Social Security Administration's (SSA) final actions to ensure its year 2000 readiness, including the actions it took during the rollover period--December 30,1999, through January 3, 2000, as well as for the February 29 leap year date--to ensure a successful transition to the new century."
Date: April 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Occupational Safety and Health: Government Responses to Beryllium Uses and Risks

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 health safety controls over the use of beryllium, focusing on: (1) beryllium's uses and risks; and (2) key events that illustrate the evolution of the federal government's response to risks posed by beryllium."
Date: May 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Regulation: NRC Staff Have Not Fully Accepted Planned Changes

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 Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) shift to a risk-informed regulation, focusing on the: (1) views of NRC's staff on the quality of the work that NRC performs, the management of and staff's involvement in changes occurring in the agency, and the move to a risk-informed regulatory approach; and (2) status of NRC's efforts to develop a strat… more
Date: January 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Internet Pharmacies: Adding Disclosure Requirements Would Aid State and Federal Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The first Internet pharmacies began online service in early 1999. Public health officials are concerned about Internet pharmacies that do not adhere to state licensing requirements and standards. Public officials are also concerned about the validity of prescriptions and international drugs that are not approved in the United States being sent by mail. The unique qualities of the Internet pose new challenges f… more
Date: October 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Park Service: Agency Should Recover Costs of Validity Examinations for Mining Claims

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 federal costs of conducting validity examinations at three California Desert parks, focusing on whether: (1) data are available on the National Park Service's costs of conducting validity examinations at these parks since 1994; and (2) the Park Service recovers the costs of such examinations from claimants."
Date: September 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mental Health: Community-Based Care Increases for People With Serious Mental Illness

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Between 1987 and 1997, the growth in mental health spending in the United States roughly paralleled the growth in overall health care spending. However, federal mental health spending grew at more than twice the rate of state and local spending. This led to the federal government's share surpassing that of state and local governments, while the share attributable to private sources declined slightly. The abili… more
Date: December 19, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gypsy Field Project in Reservoir Characterization

Description: The objective of the Gypsy Project was to properly calculate seismic attributes and integrate these into a reservoir characterization project. Significant progress was made on the project in four areas. (1) Attenuation: In order for seismic inversion for rock properties or calculation of seismic attributes used to estimate rock properties to be performed validly, it is necessary to deal with seismic data that has had true amplitude and frequency content restored to account for earth filtering e… more
Date: September 19, 2000
Creator: Castagna, John P.; Lamb, William J.; Moreno, Carlos; Young, Roger & Soreghan, Lynn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The raw disk i/o performance of compaq storage works RAID arrays under tru64 unix

Description: We report on the raw disk i/o performance of a set of Compaq StorageWorks RAID arrays connected to our cluster of Compaq ES40 computers via Fibre Channel. The best cumulative peak sustained data rate is l17MB/s per node for reads and 77MB/s per node for writes. This value occurs for a configuration in which a node has two Fibre Channel interfaces to a switch, which in turn has two connections to each of two Compaq StorageWorks RAID arrays. Each RAID array has two HSG80 RAID controllers controll… more
Date: October 19, 2000
Creator: Uselton, A C
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Budget FY2000: A Chronology with Internet Access

Description: This report consists of a chronology with internet access with budget FY 2000.
Date: January 19, 2000
Creator: Watkins, Susan E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Roadmap for Integrating Sustainable Design into Site-Level Operations

Description: Sustainable Design recognizes that products and processes are interdependent with the environmental, economic, and social systems surrounding them and implements measures to prevent an unsustainable compromise to these systems.
Date: April 19, 2000
Creator: Peterson, Keith L. & Dorsey, Judy A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Area Monitoring Dosimeter Program for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Results for CY 1999

Description: In January 1993, PNNL established an area monitoring dosimeter program in accordance with Article 514 of the DOE Radiological Control Manual. This program was to minimize the number of areas requiring issuance of personnel dosimeters and to demonstrate that doses outside Radiological Buffer Areas are negligible. In accordance with 10 CFR Part 835.402 (a)(1)-(4) and Article 511.1 of the DOE Standard Radiological Control, personnel dosimetry shall be provided to 1) radiological workers who are li… more
Date: September 19, 2000
Creator: Bivins, Steven R. & Stoetzel, Gregory A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Component Development - Advanced Fuel Cells for Transportation Applications

Description: Report summarizes results of second phase of development of Vairex air compressor/expander for automotive fuel cell power systems. Project included optimizing key system performance parameters, as well as reducing number of components and the project cost, size and weight of the air system. Objectives were attained. Advanced prototypes are in commercial test environments.
Date: June 19, 2000
Creator: Butler, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of Base-Case Particle Tracking Results of the Base-Case Flow Fields (ID:U0160)

Description: The purpose of this analysis is to provide insight into the unsaturated-zone (UZ) subsystem performance through particle tracking analyses of the base-case flow fields. The particle tracking analyses will not be used directly in total-system performance-assessment (TSPA) calculations per se. The objective of this activity is to evaluate the transport of radionuclides through the unsaturated zone and to determine how different system parameters such as matrix diffusion, sorption, water-table ris… more
Date: January 19, 2000
Creator: Ho, C. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Calcite Precipitation and Trace Metal Partitioning in Groundwater and the Vadose Zone: Remediation of Strontium-90 and Other Divalent Metals and Radionuclides in Arid Western Environments

Description: Radionuclide and metal contaminants are present in the vadose zone and groundwater throughout the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) weapons complex. Demonstrating in situ immobilization of these contaminants in vadose zones or groundwater plumes is a cost-effective remediation strategy. However, the implementation of in situ remediation requires definition of the mechanism that controls sequestration of the contaminants. One such mechanism for metals and radionuclides is co-precipitation of these… more
Date: July 19, 2000
Creator: Smith, Robert W.; Colwell, F. S.; Ingram, Jani C.; Ferris, F. Grant & Reysenbach, Anna-Louise
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Release Storage and Disposal Program Product Sampling Support

Description: This document includes recommended capabilities and/or services to support transport, analysis, and disposition of Immobilized High-Level and Low-Activity Waste samples as requested by the US DOE-Office of River Protection (DOE-ORP) as specified in the Privatization Contract between DOE-ORP and BNFL Inc. In addition, an approved implementation path forward is presented which includes use of existing Hanford Site services to provide the required support capabilities.
Date: July 19, 2000
Creator: CALMUS, R.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Whitey SCHe Ball Valves Provide Test Port Isolation

Description: These valves are 1/4-inch ball valves fabricated of 316 stainless steel. Packing is TFE (standard). They are used as normally closed isolation valves for test ports in the SCHe System between the gage root valve and the pressure indicator.
Date: October 19, 2000
Creator: Miska, C. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FY 2000 Tanks Focus Area Corrosion Monitoring Technical Committee Meeting Summary Report

Description: The primary purpose of the annual meeting between the corrosion monitoring personnel at the various DOE sites is to facilitate communications and promote technology transfer between the two sites. The close communications and good spirit of teamwork being exhibited between the parties representing the Hanford and Savannah River Sites has helped the Savannah River Site effort avoid many of the problems encountered during the initial development effort at Hanford. Similar benefits can be expected… more
Date: July 19, 2000
Creator: Norman, E. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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As-Built Verification Plan Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister Storage Building MCO Handling Machine

Description: This as-built verification plan outlines the methodology and responsibilities that will be implemented during the as-built field verification activity for the Canister Storage Building (CSB) MCO HANDLING MACHINE (MHM). This as-built verification plan covers THE ELECTRICAL PORTION of the CONSTRUCTION PERFORMED BY POWER CITY UNDER CONTRACT TO MOWAT. The as-built verifications will be performed in accordance Administrative Procedure AP 6-012-00, Spent Nuclear Fuel Project As-Built Verification Pla… more
Date: October 19, 2000
Creator: SWENSON, C.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interface Control Document Between the Double Shell Tank (DST) system and the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF)

Description: This Interface Control Document (ICD) describes interfaces between the Double-Shell Tanks (DST) System and Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF) (figure 1). WESF is currently operational as a storage facility for cesium and strontium capsules. This ICD covers current operational interfaces and those envisioned during Terminal Clean Out (TCO) activities in the future. WESF and the DST System do not have a direct physical interface. The waste will be moved by tank trailer to the 204-AR … more
Date: April 19, 2000
Creator: HOFFERBER, G.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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