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Park Service: Agency Is Not Meeting Its Structural Fire Safety Responsibilities

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the National Park Service's (NPS) structural fire safety efforts, focusing on: (1) whether national parks are effectively addressing their structural fire safety responsibilities and if not, what are the main reasons; and (2) what improvements, if any, are under way to address identified problems."
Date: May 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food Safety: Controls Can Be Strengthened to Reduce the Risk of Disease Linked to Unsafe Animal Feed

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 risks to human health posed by unsafe feed consumed by food-producing animals, focusing on the: (1) extent to which unsafe feed has been linked to human health problems in the United States; and (2) actions the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) are taking to ensure the safety of animal feed."
Date: September 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pension Plans: Characteristics of Persons in the Labor Force Without Pension Coverage

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: (1) portion of the labor force without pension coverage and how that proportion has changed over the past decade; (2) characteristics of workers in that labor force; and (3) proportion and characteristics of retired people who lack pension income or pension assets."
Date: August 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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BLM and the Forest Service: Land Exchanges Need to Reflect Appropriate Value and Serve the Public Interest

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) and the Forest Service's land exchange programs, focusing on the: (1) agencies' use of land exchanges since 1989; (2) extent to which the agencies ensure that their land exchanges meet exchange requirements; (3) effect of the agencies' recent efforts to improve the management of their exchange programs; and (4) extent to which … more
Date: June 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Administration: IRS Is Working to Improve Its Estimates of Compliance Burden

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 status of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) efforts to improve its estimates of taxpayer compliance burden, focusing on: (1) IRS' overall strategy to improve its methodology for estimating compliance burden; (2) what IRS has done to begin implementing its overall strategy and how IRS expects this to improve its methodology; and (3) whether… more
Date: May 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Customer Service: Human Capital Management at Selected Public and Private Call Centers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed strategies for managing human capital management at selected public and private call centers, focusing on: (1) whether they identify human capital needs as part of developing management strategies and practices to meet missions and goals; (2) implement human capital strategies and practices; and (3) evaluating human capital strategies and practices to continuou… more
Date: August 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Readiness: Air Transport Capability Falls Short of Requirements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the U.S. air mobility forces' readiness to execute the National Military Strategy, focusing on: (1) whether the Air Force's strategic airlift and aerial refueling fleets are capable of meeting the requirements for winning two nearly simultaneous major theater wars; (2) the reasons for any shortfalls in strategic airlift and aerial refueling capability; and (3) … more
Date: June 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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School Meal Programs: Few Outbreaks of Foodborne Illness Reported

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 safety of foods served in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs, focusing on the extent: (1) of foodborne illness outbreaks related to meals served in schools; (2) to which Department of Agriculture (USDA)-donated foods in schools were removed, replaced, or disposed of because of the potential to cause foodborne illness; and… more
Date: February 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Police Corps: Some Problems Resolved, But Most Positions Remain Unfilled

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 Justice's (DOJ) implementation of the Police Corps program under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office and, more recently, the Office of Justice Programs."
Date: February 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Plan to Improve Management of Shipped Inventory Should Be Strengthened

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 Defense's (DOD) plan for tracking inventory shipments, focusing on whether the plan: (1) responds to the provisions of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999; (2) contains the management elements needed for guiding effective implementation; and (3) adequately addresses other underlying weaknesses that led … more
Date: February 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of short pulse laser pumped x-ray lasers

Description: X-ray lasers have been extensively studied around the world since the first laboratory demonstration on the Novette laser at LLNL in 1984. The characteristic properties of short wavelength, high monochromaticity, collimation and coherence make x-ray lasers useful for various applications. These include demonstrations of biological imaging within the water window, interferometry of laser plasmas and radiography of laser-heated surfaces. One of the critical issues has been the high power pump req… more
Date: February 22, 2000
Creator: Dunn, J; Osterheld, A L; Hunter, J R & Shlyaptsev, V N
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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D0 Piping Components

Description: No Description Available.
Date: May 22, 2000
Creator: Dixon, K. & Rucinski, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strontium-90 at the Hanford Site and its Ecological Implications

Description: This document discusses the sampling of strontium-90 on the Hanford Site and any implications it may have to the ecology of the area.
Date: May 22, 2000
Creator: Peterson, Robert E. & Poston, Ted M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Origin of The 871-keV Gamma Ray and the "Oxide" Attribute

Description: This brief paper concludes our study of the origin of the 871-keV observed for many plutonium oxide samples.
Date: March 22, 2000
Creator: Peurrung, Anthony J.; Arthur, Richard J.; Geelhood, Bruce D.; Scheele, Randall D.; Elovich, Robert J. & Pratt, Sharon L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Assessment of Disposal of Selected U.S. Department of Energy Spent Fuel in High Integrity Cans

Description: The purpose of this calculation is to determine the effects on long-term dose from disposing of selected U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) spent nuclear fuel (DSNF) in high integrity cans (HICs). The Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System Management and Operating contractor (CRWMS M&O) prepared the calculation as part of Performance Assessment (PA) activities for the DOE Yucca Mountain Project. DSNF encompasses approximately 2,500 MTHM (metric tons heavy metal) consisting of over 200 f… more
Date: December 22, 2000
Creator: Saulnier, G. J., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lithium Irradiation Experiment

Description: The subject of tritium production in the Antiproton Source Collection lens was raised in the mid-1980s during the design phase of the pbar source. Interest in it has recurred during development of the proton lens and in recent investigations to determine the feasibility of liquid lithium collection lenses for the pbar source and a muon collider project. Calculations for tritium and beryllium 7 production on lithium suffer from a lack of information on medium and high energy cross section data. … more
Date: August 22, 2000
Creator: Leveling, A.F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Initial Cladding Condition

Description: The purpose of this analysis is to describe the condition of commercial Zircaloy clad fuel as it is received at the Yucca Mountain Project (YMP) site. Most commercial nuclear fuel is encased in Zircaloy cladding. This analysis is developed to describe cladding degradation from the expected failure modes. This includes reactor operation impacts including incipient failures, potential degradation after reactor operation during spent fuel storage in pool and dry storage and impacts due to transpor… more
Date: August 22, 2000
Creator: Siegmann, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cold Vacuum Drying facility HVAC system design description

Description: This System Design Description (SDD) addresses the HVAC system for the CVDF. The CVDF HVAC system consists of five subsystems: (1) Administration building HVAC system; (2) Process bay recirculation HVAC system; (3) Process bay local exhaust HVAC and process vent system; (4) Process general supply/exhaust HVAC system; and (5) Reference air system. The HVAC and reference air systems interface with the following systems: the fire protection control system, Monitoring and Control System (MCS), elec… more
Date: September 22, 2000
Creator: Singh, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Single Shell Tank (SST) Interim Stabilization Project Plan

Description: This project plan establishes the management framework for the conduct of the CHG Single-Shell Tank Interim Stabilization completion program. Specifically, this plan defines the mission needs and requirements; technical objectives and approach; organization structure, roles, responsibilities, and interfaces; and operational methods. This plan serves as the project executional baseline.
Date: May 22, 2000
Creator: VLADIMIROFF, D. T. & BOYLES, V. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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