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Telecommunications: Strong Support for Extending FCC's Auction Authority Exists, but Little Agreement on Other Options to Improve Efficient Use of Spectrum

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The radio-frequency spectrum is a natural resource used to provide an array of wireless communications services, such as television broadcasting, which are critical to the U.S. economy and national security. In 1993, the Congress gave the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authority to use competitive bidding, or auctions, to assign spectrum licenses to commercial users. The Commercial Spectrum Enh… more
Date: December 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mutual Fund Trading Abuses: Lessons Can Be Learned from SEC Not Having Detected Violations at an Earlier Stage

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Recent violations uncovered in the mutual fund industry raised questions about the ethical practices of the industry and the quality of its oversight. A widespread abuse involved mutual fund companies' investment advisers (firms that provide management and other services to funds) entering into undisclosed arrangements with favored customers to permit market timing (frequent trading to profit from short… more
Date: April 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Quality: Improvements to Count Correction Efforts Could Produce More Accurate Census Data

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Census Bureau (Bureau) conducted the Count Question Resolution (CQR) program to correct errors in the count of housing units as well as dormitories and other group living facilities known as group quarters. GAO was asked to assess whether CQR was consistently implemented across the country, paying particular attention to whether the Bureau identified census errors that could have been caused by… more
Date: June 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military and Veterans' Benefits: Enhanced Services Could Improve Transition Assistance for Reserves and National Guard

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 mandated that GAO review whether the transition assistance program (TAP) is meeting the needs of service members leaving the military. GAO (1) assessed TAP administration, including program participation, and (2) identified actions agencies are taking to improve TAP and challenges that remain. TAP serves military personnel with at least 180 day… more
Date: May 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Paperwork Reduction Act: New Approach May Be Needed to Reduce Government Burden on Public

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Americans spend billions of hours each year providing information to federal agencies by filling out information collections (forms, surveys, or questionnaires). A major aim of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) is to balance the burden of these collections with their public benefit. Under the act, agencies' Chief Information Officers (CIO) are responsible for reviewing information collections before the… more
Date: May 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Securing U.S. Nuclear Materials: DOE Needs to Take Action to Safely Consolidate Plutonium

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Plutonium is very hazardous to human health and the environment and requires extensive security because of its potential use in a nuclear weapon. The Department of Energy (DOE) stores about 50 metric tons of plutonium that is no longer needed by the United States for nuclear weapons. Some of this plutonium is contaminated metal, oxides, solutions, and residues remaining from the nuclear weapons producti… more
Date: July 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Perchlorate: A System to Track Sampling and Cleanup Results Is Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Perchlorate, a primary ingredient in propellant, has been used for decades in the manufacture and firing of rockets and missiles. Other uses include fireworks, flares, and explosives. Perchlorate has been found in drinking water, groundwater, surface water, and soil in the United States. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) reviewed studies of perchlorate's health effects and reported in January 2005 … more
Date: May 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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No Child Left Behind Act: Education Could Do More to Help States Better Define Graduation Rates and Improve Knowledge about Intervention Strategies

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "About one third of students entering high school do not graduate and face limited job prospects. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) requires states to use graduation rates to measure how well students are being educated. To assess the accuracy of states' graduation rates and to review programs that may increase these rates, GAO was asked to examine (1) the graduation rate definitions states use and ho… more
Date: September 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hardrock Mining: BLM Needs to Better Manage Financial Assurances to Guarantee Coverage of Reclamation Costs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since the General Mining Act of 1872, billions of dollars in hardrock minerals, such as gold, have been extracted from federal land now managed by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM). For years, some mining operators did not reclaim land, creating environmental, health, and safety risks. Beginning in 1981, federal regulations required all operators to reclaim BLM land distur… more
Date: June 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Internet Protocol Version 6: Federal Agencies Need to Plan for Transition and Manage Security Risks

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Internet protocol (IP) provides the addressing mechanism that defines how and where information such as text, voice, and video move across interconnected networks. Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4), which is widely used today, may not be able to accommodate the increasing number of global users and devices that are connecting to the Internet. As a result, IP version 6 (IPv6) was developed to increa… more
Date: May 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Management: Achieving FFMIA Compliance Continues to Challenge Agencies

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The ability to produce the data needed to efficiently and effectively manage the day-to-day operations of the federal government and provide accountability to taxpayers continues to be a challenge for most federal agencies. To help address this challenge, the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 (FFMIA) requires the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies to implement and maintain fi… more
Date: September 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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No Child Left Behind Act: Most Students with Disabilities Participated in Statewide Assessments, but Inclusion Options Could Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has focused attention on improving the academic achievement of all students, including more than 6 million students with disabilities and requires that all students be assessed. Students with disabilities may be included through accommodations, such as extended time, or alternate assessments, such as teacher observation of student performance. To provide information … more
Date: July 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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State Department: Improvements Needed to Strengthen U.S. Passport Fraud Detection Efforts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Maintaining the integrity of the U.S. passport is essential to the State Department's efforts to protect U.S. citizens from terrorists, criminals, and others. State issued about 8.8 million passports in fiscal year 2004. During the same year, State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security arrested about 500 individuals for passport fraud, and about 300 persons were convicted. Passport fraud is often intended to … more
Date: May 20, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH-TRUCON)

Description: The CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH-TRUCON) document describes the inventory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CH-TRU waste within the transportation parameters specified by the Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Authorized Methods for Payload Control (CH-TRAMPAC). The CH-TRAMPAC defines the allowable payload for the Transuranic Package Transporter-II (TRUPACT-II) and HalfPACT packagings. This document is a catalog of TRUPACT-II and HalfPACT authorized contents and a description of the metho… more
Date: November 20, 2005
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Hydrogen for Peak Electricity Production and Spinning Reserve

Description: Nuclear energy can be used to produce hydrogen. The key strategic question is this: ''What are the early markets for nuclear hydrogen?'' The answer determines (1) whether there are incentives to implement nuclear hydrogen technology today or whether the development of such a technology could be delayed by decades until a hydrogen economy has evolved, (2) the industrial partners required to develop such a technology, and (3) the technological requirements for the hydrogen production system (rate… more
Date: January 20, 2005
Creator: Forsberg, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SciDAC - The Scientific Data Management Center (http://sdmcenter.lbl.gov)

Description: In SciDAC SDM project, the main assignment to the Georgia Institute of Technology team (according to the proposed work) is to develop advanced information extraction and information integration technologies on top of the XWRAP technology originated from Georgia Tech [LPH01]. We have developed XWRAPComposer technology to enable the XWRAP code generator to generate Java information wrappers that are capable of extraction of data from multiple linked pages. These information wrappers are used as g… more
Date: June 20, 2005
Creator: Pu, Ling Liu Calton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Survey Report for the ETTP: Environmental Management Waste Management Facility (EMWMF) Haul Road Corridor, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Description: This report summarizes the results of environmental surveys conducted within the corridor of a temporary haul road (''Haul Road'') to be constructed from East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) to the Environmental Management Waste Management Facility (EMWMF) located just west of the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12). Environmental surveys were conducted by natural resource experts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who routinely assess the significance of various project activities on the Oak … more
Date: December 20, 2005
Creator: Peterson, M. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Probing the Universe with Mirrors That Trick Light

Description: For astrophysicists, stargazing may be different than for most people, who are content to admire a star's beauty or possibly make a wish. More than a few astrophysicists wish they could be closer to the stars--or to at least have more sophisticated probing instruments--to understand more about the universe. Astrophysicists study x-rays originating from our Sun, stars, and supernova remnants to understand the extreme physical processes occurring there. In recent years, Livermore researchers have… more
Date: September 20, 2005
Creator: Hazi, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radiation Detection Center on the Front Lines

Description: Many of today's radiation detection tools were developed in the 1960s. For years, the Laboratory's expertise in radiation detection resided mostly within its nuclear test program. When nuclear testing was halted in the 1990s, many of Livermore's radiation detection experts were dispersed to other parts of the Laboratory, including the directorates of Chemistry and Materials Science (CMS); Physics and Advanced Technologies (PAT); Defense and Nuclear Technologies (DNT); and Nonproliferation, Arms… more
Date: September 20, 2005
Creator: Hazi, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2005 Closure Assessments for WMA-C Tank Farms: Numerical Simulations

Description: In support of CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Inc.'s (CHG) closure of the Hanford Site Single-Shell Tank (SST) Waste Management Area (WMA) tank farms, numerical simulations of flow and solute transport were executed to investigate different potential contaminant source scenarios that may pose long-term risks to groundwater from the closure of the C Tank Farm. These simulations were based on the initial assessment effort (Zhang et al., 2003), but implemented a revised approach that examined a range of … more
Date: September 20, 2005
Creator: Freedman, Vicky L.; Zhang, Z. F.; Waichler, Scott R. & Wurstner, Signe K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH-TRUCON)

Description: The CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH-TRUCON) document describes the inventory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CH-TRU waste within the transportation parameters specified by the Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Authorized Methods for Payload Control (CH-TRAMPAC). The CH-TRAMPAC defines the allowable payload for the Transuranic Package Transporter-II (TRUPACT-II) and HalfPACT packagings. This document is a catalog of TRUPACT-II and HalfPACT authorized contents and a description of the metho… more
Date: June 20, 2005
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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527 Political Organizations: Legislation in the 109th Congress

Description: The 109th Congress is examining the role of groups organized under section of the Internal Revenue Code(IRC) that are involved in federal elections, but are not operating under the requirements and restrictions of federal election law.
Date: June 20, 2005
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Beneficiary Cost-Sharing Under the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Description: This report analyzes how the cost-sharing and premium provisions under Part D would affect the amount that a beneficiary would pay annually for prescription drugs. In addition, this report gives examples of how annual cost-sharing would differ for beneficiaries with various levels of total prescription drug spending in 2006 under the plan's standard benefit.
Date: January 20, 2005
Creator: Hahn, Jim
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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