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Defense Trade: Information on U.S. Weapons Deliveries to the Middle East

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. military assistance programs provided $74 billion in military equipment, services, and training to countries in the Middle East from fiscal years 1991 through 2000. The Foreign Military Sales and Foreign Military Financing programs account for about 96 percent of the value of military items in the U.S. delivered to the region. The U.S. weapon systems delivered include F-16 and F/A-18 fighter aircraft;… more
Date: September 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Postal Service: Update on E-Commerce Activities and Privacy Protections

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Management of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) e-commerce program has been fragmented, and implementation of e-commerce initiatives has varied at different business units. Overall, USPS' performance in this area has fallen short of expectations. Last year, the Postmaster General announced a sweeping management restructuring that changed both the reporting structure and program managers. USPS also revised its p… more
Date: December 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Acquisition: Army Transformation Faces Weapon Systems Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Changes in the character and the conduct of warfighting and in the range and the nature of missions call for an Army force that is more responsive and dominant across the full spectrum of operations and requires much less in-theater logistics support. To meet these new demands, the Army is using the latest technology to develop a series of weapon systems that will be lighter than today's heavy force systems bu… more
Date: May 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Department of Energy: Fundamental Reassessment Needed to Address Major Mission, Structure, and Accountability Problems

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Energy (DOE) manages the nation's nuclear weapons production complex, cleans up the environmental legacy from the production of nuclear weapons, and conducts research and development into both energy and basic science. DOE launched several reforms in the 1990s to realign its organizational structure, reduce its workforce, strengthen contracting procedures by competitive awards practices, stre… more
Date: December 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HUD Multifamily Housing: Improved Follow-up Needed to Ensure That Physical Problems Are Corrected

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assists nearly 30,000 privately owned and operated multifamily properties to provide affordable housing for low and moderate income persons. HUD is responsible for ensuring that the owners of HUD-assisted properties provide housing that is decent, safe, sanitary, and in good repair. HUD began its Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) in 1998 to inspect multi… more
Date: June 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Export Promotion: Government Agencies Should Combine Small Business Export Training Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Export Enhancement Act of 1992 created the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee to coordinate the delivery of federal export promotion services and to eliminate the areas of overlap and duplication among federal export promotion programs. The Export Enhancement Act of 1999 reiterated that eliminating duplication was a primary objective. In 1993, Congress recommended that three agencies co-locate their st… more
Date: September 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Audit: U.S. Senate Stationery Room Revolving Fund's Fiscal Year 2000 Financial Statement

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO audited the financial statement for the Senate Stationary Room Revolving Fund for fiscal year 2000. GAO found that (1) the statement is presented fairly in all material respects; (2) although internal control should be improved, the Stationary Room had effective internal controls over financial reporting and compliance with laws and regulations; and (3) there was no reportable noncompliance with selected p… more
Date: December 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare: Payments for Covered Outpatient Drugs Exceed Providers' Costs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Although physicians and other health care providers acknowledge that they can buy drugs for prices lower than Medicare payments, they contend that they need drug payments in excess of their actual costs to compensate for inadequate or nonexistent Medicare payments for administrating the drugs. Physicians are able to obtain Medicare-covered drugs at prices significantly below current Medicare payments, which ar… more
Date: September 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Economic Development: Federal Assistance Programs for American Indians and Alaska Natives

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Despite the recent success of casino gaming and other business ventures undertaken by some Native Americans and Alaska Natives, unemployment and poverty remain widespread in these communities. Many federal programs are available to help Native Americans with economic development, and some tribes are using these programs. Although agencies reported that their programs helped to create and retain jobs, little is… more
Date: December 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Administration: Assessment of IRS' 2001 Tax Filing Season

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO assessed the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) performance in the following five key tax filing season activities: (1) processing individual tax returns and refunds, (2) increasing the extent to which individual income tax returns are filed electronically, (3) answering telephone calls and providing quality telephone service, (4) providing accurate and timely face-to-face assistance at its Taxpayer Assistan… more
Date: December 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare + Choice: Recent Payment Increases Had Little Effect on Benefits or Plan Availability in 2001

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The number of contracts under Medicare's managed care program--Medicare+Choice (M+C)--fell from 340 to 180 between 1998 and 2001. The reduction reflected decisions by some managed care organizations (MCOs) to terminate selected contracts or to discontinue service in some covered areas. Although nearly all MCOs renewed at least some of their Medicare contracts over this period, many reduced the geographic areas… more
Date: November 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Protection: EPA Should Strengthen Its Efforts to Measure and Encourage Pollution Prevention

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Limited quantitative data exists on the extent to which American industry has sought to use pollution prevention methods to reduce pollutants discharged from its facilities. This shortcoming has inhibited the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to monitor and encourage companies' use of pollution prevention measures. Whether to undertake pollution prevention is typically a business decision that i… more
Date: February 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Technology Management: Social Security Administration Practices Can Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Social Security Administration (SSA) needs to identify strengths and weaknesses within its agencywide operational and managerial capabilities to enable the delivery of high-quality customer service in the face of increases in both workloads and in the number of retirements from its experienced workforce. Evaluating SSA's management of information technology (IT) is critical to assess whether the agency is … more
Date: August 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Aircraft: Services Need Strategies to Reduce Cannibalizations

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "All military services routinely use cannibalization to maintain aircraft. The adverse effects of cannibalizations include (1) higher maintenance costs due to increased mechanics' workloads, (2) morale and personnel retention problems, and (3) taking expensive aircraft out of service for long periods of time. The services have many reasons for cannibalizing aircraft and strong incentives for continuing to do so… more
Date: November 21, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Benefits Are Not Paid for the Month of Death: A Fact Sheet

Description: Social security benefits are not paid for the month in which a recipient dies. Legislation is routinely introduced that would either pay the full amount of the benefits for the month of death or pro-rate the benefits based on the proportion of the month that the recipient was alive.
Date: March 21, 2001
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Influence of the In-Situ Clad Staining on the Corrosion of Zircaloy in PWR Water Environment

Description: Zircaloy cladding tubes strain in-situ during service life in the corrosive environment of a Pressurized Water Reactor for a variety of reasons. First, the tube undergoes stress free growth due to the preferential alignment of irradiation induced vacancy loops on basal planes. Positive strains develop in the textured tubes along prism orientations while negative strains develop along basal orientations (Reference (a)). Second, early in life, free standing tubes will often shrink by creep in the… more
Date: June 21, 2001
Creator: Kammenzind, B.F., Eklund, K.L. and Bajaj, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Credit Union Deposit Insurance: Purpose, Management, and Policy Issues

Description: This report discusses various issues surrounding federal deposit insurance. A key concern is maintaining a balance between providing the benefits of deposit insurance and promoting sound management practices at banks, thrifts, and credit unions.
Date: May 21, 2001
Creator: Smale, Pauline H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Revised Magnitude and Distance Amplitude Correction (MDAC2) Procedure for Regional Seismic Discriminants: Theory and Testing at NTS

Description: The Magnitude and Distance Amplitude Correction (MDAC; Taylor and Hartse, 1998; Taylor et al., 2002) procedure for correcting regional seismic amplitudes for seismic event identification has been modified to include more realistic earthquake source models and source scaling. In the MDAC2 formulation we generalize the Brune (1970) earthquake source spectrum to use a more physical apparent stress model that can represent non-constant stress-drop scaling. We also event include a parameter that all… more
Date: December 21, 2001
Creator: Walter, W R & Taylor, S R
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Surface Dynamics during Environmental Degradation of Crystal Surfaces

Description: Using in situ optical microscopy and scattering measurements, we have followed the evolution of surface morphology during etching and measured surface etching rates as a function of humidity and undersaturation. From our experiments to date we have developed the following picture of etch pit formation on KDP crystal surfaces. Pit formation is characterized by a nucleation and growth process: the introduction of water creates a condition of undersaturation at the crystal surface. The equilibrium… more
Date: February 21, 2001
Creator: Whitman, P; DeYoreo, J; Land, T; Miller, E; Suratwala, T; Thorsness, C et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Deposit Summary

Description: Deposit summary of $10.00 made on March 21, 2001
Date: March 21, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Test Summary Report INEEL Sodium-Bearing Waste Vitrification Demonstration RSM-01-1

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory is storing large amounts of radioactive and mixed wastes. Most of the sodium-bearing wastes have been calcined, but about a million gallons remain uncalcined, and this waste does not meet current regulatory requirements for long-term storage and/or disposal. As a part of the Settlement Agreement between DOE and the State of Idaho, the tanks currently containing SBW are to be taken out of service by December … more
Date: May 21, 2001
Creator: Goles, Ronald W.; Perez, Joseph M.; Macisaac, Brett D.; Siemer, Darryl D. & Mccray, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of the Recent ARF1 Calibration Measurements to the Pbar RF Curve Loading Console Application (P2)

Description: The P2 console application (Antiproton Source RF Files) calculates frequency and voltage curves from a sequence of command statements input by the user. P2 initially calculates these curves in terms of the actual frequencies and voltages required on the RF cavity as a function of time. These curves are then converted to the appropriate low-level drive voltages that will cause the RF system high-level electronics to generate the required frequency and voltage ramps. The low-level drive ramps are… more
Date: April 21, 2001
Creator: Werkema, Steve
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low-Temperature, Anode-Supported High Power Density Solid Oxide Fuel Cells With Nanostructured Electrodes

Description: A simple, approximate analysis of the effect of differing cathode and anode areas on the measurement of cell performance on anode-supported solid oxide fuel cells, wherein the cathode area is smaller than the anode area, is presented. It is shown that the effect of cathode area on cathode polarization, on electrolyte contribution, and on anode resistance, as normalized on the basis of the cathode area, is negligible. There is a small but measurable effect on anode polarization, which results fr… more
Date: June 21, 2001
Creator: Virkar, Anil V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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