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Packers and Stockyards Programs: Actions Needed to Improve Investigations of Competitive Practices

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) efforts to implement the Packers and Stockyards Act, focusing on: (1) the number and status of investigations conducted by the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) in response to complaints and concerns about anticompetitive activity involving the marketing of cattle and hogs; and (2) factors t… more
Date: September 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biotechnology: Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina

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 pricing of genetically modified seeds, focusing on the: (1) prices of Roundup Ready soybean seeds and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn seeds in the United States and Argentina; and (2) major reasons for the price differences, if any, between the two countries for these seeds."
Date: January 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Assistance: U.S. Funds to Two Micronesian Nations Had Little Impact on Economic Development

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed foreign assistance, focusing on the: (1) use of the Compact of Free Association funding by the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) between fiscal years 1987 and 1998; (2) progress both nations have made in advancing economic self-sufficiency; (3) role of Compact funds in supporting economic progress; and (4) exte… more
Date: September 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Facilities: Further Review of Hawthorne Army Depot Land Management Proposals Needed

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 Defense's use of withdrawn land near Hawthorne, Nevada, focusing on: (1) the status of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) proposal to reduce the amount of withdrawn land near Hawthorne; and (2) possible approaches for addressing the use of this land."
Date: September 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Management: Improvements Needed in NIH's Controls Over Royalty Income

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 deficiencies in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) internal controls over royalty income that is distributed to institutes and inventors."
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Disabled Veterans' Care: Better Data and More Accountability Needed to Adequately Assess Care

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) compliance with the requirements to maintain capacity and access for veterans with special disabilities, focusing on: (1) the accuracy of the conclusions in VA's fiscal year (FY) 1998 annual capacity report; and (2) challenges facing VA in managing its special disability programs."
Date: April 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Power: The Evolution of Preference in Marketing Federal Power

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the role of the Department of Energy's power marketing administrations (PMA), focusing on: (1) how federal legislation and major relevant court cases have, over time, directed the PMAs to give preference to particular customers in purchasing electricity; and (2) the role of preference in the PMAs' electricity sales in light of the restructuring of the electrici… more
Date: April 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Regulatory Coordination: The Role and Functioning of the President's Working Group

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 role and functioning of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, focusing on: (1) whether the issues listed for consideration by the Working Group in Executive Order 12631 have been considered; (2) what additional issues have been considered by the Working Group and how they were identified; and (3) the nature of coordination and c… more
Date: January 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Land Management Agencies: Ongoing Initiative to Share Activities and Facilities Needs Management Attention

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The colocation of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) units provides the best opportunity for the agencies to jointly serve the public, effect operational efficiencies, and improve land management. The Service First Initiative is designed to improve the operations of these two agencies by combining resources and providing "one-stop shopping" services for the public. Since the initiative … more
Date: November 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Administration: IRS' Implementation of the Restructuring Act's Taxpayer Protection and Rights Provisions

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) reviewed the status of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) implementation of the taxpayer protection and rights provisions in title III of its Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998; and (2) determined what, if any, tax administration or other concerns IRS has identified in implementing these provisions."
Date: April 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Estimate of external background radiation interference on a tomography scanner

Description: We have estimated interference from external background radiation for a computed tomography (CT) scanner. Our intention is to estimate the interference that would be expected for the high-resolution SkyScan 1072 desk-top x-ray microtomography system. The SkyScan system uses a Microfocus x-ray source capable of a 10-{micro}m focal spot at a maximum current of 0.1 mA and a maximum energy of 130 kVp. All predictions made in this report assume using the x-ray source at the smallest spot size, maxim… more
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: Roberson, G P & Logan, C M
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Examination of the Effects of Be Grain Size

Description: During the WBS4 review almost a year ago in January, and in more recent discussions of needed capsule characterization, I was struck by three pieces of information related to machined Be capsules: (1) that the speed of sound (and perhaps other properties) in Be grains is markedly different in orthogonal directions, (2) that the grain size in the best refined bulk Be samples is 10 to 15 {micro}m, and that these grains in the best case are randomly oriented, and (3) that we are concerned about ca… more
Date: November 21, 2000
Creator: Cook, R
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Qualification Report: Compostion of J-13 Well Water for Use on the Yucca Mountain Project

Description: The data evaluated in this qualification report have been cited in analysis and model reports (AMRs) in support of the Site Recommendation in determining the suitability of the Yucca Mountain Site for a repository for high level nuclear waste. The AMRs use these hydrochemical data as a basis for modeling the chemical interactions between groundwater and engineered materials, including waste forms, packages and materials in the engineered barrier system J-13 water is also used as a reactant in e… more
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: Steinborn, T.L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Spallation Neutron Source Beam Dump Radiation Shielding Analysis

Description: Preliminary shielding calculations were performed to establish the dimensions of the radiation shielding surrounding the three Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) beam stops. Steel shielding thicknesses were sized to give dose levels of 1, 2, and 5 mrem/h at the top of the shield, and, to provide enough shielding along the sides and bottom of the beam dump so that soil activation is not a problem. It was concluded that 144 in. of steel shielding is needed above the beam stop. The thickness of the c… more
Date: February 21, 2000
Creator: Johnson, J. O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Colloid-Associated Radionuclide Concentration Limits: ANL

Description: The purpose and scope of this report is to describe the analysis of available colloidal data from waste form corrosion tests at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to extract characteristics of these colloids that can be used in modeling their contribution to the source term for sparingly soluble radioelements (e.g., Pu). Specifically, the focus is on developing a useful description of the following waste form colloid characteristics: (1) composition, (2) size distribution, and (3) quantification… more
Date: December 21, 2000
Creator: Mertz, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nominal Performance Biosphere Dose Conversion Factor Analysis

Description: The purpose of this report was to document the process leading to development of the Biosphere Dose Conversion Factors (BDCFs) for the postclosure nominal performance of the potential repository at Yucca Mountain. BDCF calculations concerned twenty-four radionuclides. This selection included sixteen radionuclides that may be significant nominal performance dose contributors during the compliance period of up to 10,000 years, five additional radionuclides of importance for up to 1 million years … more
Date: December 21, 2000
Creator: Wasiolek, M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of Burnable Absorbers on PWR Spent Nuclear Fuel

Description: Burnup credit is an ongoing issue in designing and licensing transportation and storage casks for spent nuclear fuel (SNF). To address this issue, in July 1999, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Spent Fuel Project Office, issued Interim Staff Guidance-8 (ISG-8), Revision 1 allowing limited burnup credit for pressurized water reactor (PWR) spent nuclear fuel (SNF) to be used in transport and storage casks. However, one of the key limitations for a licensing basis analysis as stipulat… more
Date: August 21, 2000
Creator: O'Leary, P.M. & Pitts, M. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ANALYSIS OF OIL-BEARING CRETACEOUS SANDSTONE HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS, EXCLUSIVE OF THE DAKOTA SANDSTONE, ON THE JICARILLA APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, NEW MEXICO

Description: A goal of the Mesaverde project was to better define the depositional system of the Mesaverde in hopes that it would provide insight to new or by-passed targets for oil exploration. The new, detailed studies of the Mesaverde give us a better understanding of the lateral variability in depositional environments and facies. Recognition of this lateral variability and establishment of the criteria for separating deltaic, strandplain-barrier, and estuarine deposits from each other permit developmen… more
Date: May 21, 2000
Creator: Ridgley, Jennie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technical Baseline Summary Description for the Tank Farm Contractor

Description: This document is a revision of the document titled above, summarizing the technical baseline of the Tank Farm Contractor. It is one of several documents prepared by CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Inc. to support the U.S. Department of Energy Office of River Protection Tank Waste Retrieval and Disposal Mission at Hanford.
Date: April 21, 2000
Creator: TEDESCHI, A.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evolution of Surface Structure and Phase Separation in GaInAsSb

Description: Atomic force microscopy was used to study changes in the surface step structure of GaInAsSb layers with varying degrees of phase separation. The layers were grown by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy on (001) GaSb substrates with 2{sup o} miscut angles toward (-1-11)A, (1-11)B, and (101). Alloy decomposition was observed by contrast modulations in plan-view transmission electron microscopy, and broadening in x-ray diffraction and photoluminescence peaks. GaInAsSb layers with a minimal degree o… more
Date: August 21, 2000
Creator: Vineis, C. J.; Wang, C. A. & Calawa, D. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Whitey SCHE Gauge and Root Valves

Description: These valves are 1/2 inch ball valves fabricated of 316 stainless steel. Packing is TFE (standard). They are used as isolation valves for pressure instrumentation in the SCHe System between the helium bottle supply manifolds and safety class helium pressure instrumentation, and in lower pressure SCHe supply line.
Date: June 21, 2000
Creator: Van Katwijk, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final report: DOE Grant ''Development of focusing monochromators for neutron scattering instruments'' (DE-FG02-96ER45599)

Description: Bent crystal monochromators were developed for the neutron scattering community: (1) doubly focusing bulk silicon, for high-resolution neutron diffraction; (2) doubly focusing multi-wafer silicon, for residual stress instruments; (3) silicon-wafer: (a) with pneumatic spherical bending, (b) with mechanical cylindrical bending, (c) with mechanical two-dimensional bending, for high-resolution three-axis spectrometry; (4) doubly focusing multi-wafer silicon, for epithermal (eV range) neutrons; (5) … more
Date: March 21, 2000
Creator: Popovici, Mihai P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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