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Financial Audit: Senate Restaurants Revolving Fund for Fiscal Years 2000 and 1999

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO contracted with KPMG Peat Marwick LLP to audit the financial statements of the Senate Restaurants Revolving Fund for fiscal years 2000 and 1999. KPMG found that the statements were fairly presented in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Management fairly stated that internal controls safely guarded assets against loss from unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition; ensured ma… more
Date: March 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Land Management Agencies: Restoring Fish Passage Through Culverts on Forest Service and BLM Lands in Oregon and Washington Could Take Decades

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service manage more than 41 million acres of federal lands in Oregon and Washington, including 122,000 miles of roads that use culverts--pipes or arches that allow water to flow from one side of the road to the other. Many of the streams that pass through these culverts are essential habitat for fish and other aquatic species. More than 10,000 culverts exist on fish… more
Date: November 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IRS Modernization: IRS Should Enhance Its Performance Management System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has made progress in revamping its performance management system. The goals, objectives, and measures that IRS has developed, along with its new strategic planning and budgeting process, are intended to integrate results-oriented management into IRS' daily decision-making. However, as IRS officials acknowledge, extensively revamping a performance management system is a comple… more
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Department of Energy: Opportunities Exist to Improve Los Alamos' Equipment Purchasing Practices

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Energy (DOE) received $13.2 million in supplemental funding to replace equipment lost at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the May 2000 Cerro Grande fire. GAO reviewed the practices used by the contractor that runs the laboratory--the University of California (UC)--to determine whether it can benefit from modified purchasing practices. GAO found that UC can save money by (1) expanding its… more
Date: May 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Women in Management: Analysis of Selected Data From the Current Population Survey

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO analyzed data from the Department of Labor's Current Population Survey (CPS) to better understand the challenges that women face in advancing their careers. Female managers in most of the industries GAO examined had less education, were younger, were more likely to work part-time, and were less likely to be married than were male managers. There was no statistically significant difference between the perce… more
Date: October 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CREEP STRAIN CORRELATION FOR IRRADIATED CLADDING

Description: In an attempt to predict the creep deformation of spent nuclear fuel cladding under the repository conditions, different correlations have been developed. One of them, which will be referred to as Murty's correlation in the following, and whose expression is given in Henningson (1998), was developed on the basis of experimental points related to unirradiated Zircaloy cladding (Henningson 1998, p. 56). The objective of this calculation is to adapt Murty's correlation to experimental points perta… more
Date: January 23, 2001
Creator: Macheret, P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Diagnostic Systems Approach to Watershed Management

Description: The water quality of discharge from the surface water system is ultimately dictated by land use and climate within the watershed. Water quality has vastly improved from point source reduction measures, yet, non-point source pollutants continue to rise. 30 to 40% of rivers still do not meet water quality standards for reasons that include impact from urban storm water runoff, agricultural and livestock runoff, and loss of wetlands. Regulating non-point source pollutants proves to be difficult si… more
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: Davisson, M L
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SEA - A Simplified Employee Assessment

Description: This paper presents a proposal for modifying the current employee annual evaluation process in SCAD. It purports to simplify that process, primarily by breaking up the resultant document into a set of more or less independent components. It claims to reduce the overall time and effort required from each actor.
Date: April 23, 2001
Creator: Busby, L
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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RCRA Assessment Plan for Single-Shell Tank Waste Management Area T at the Hanford Site

Description: A groundwater quality assessment plan was prepared to investigate the rate and extent of aquifer contamination beneath Waste Management Area T at the Hanford Site in Washington State. This plan is an update of a draft plan issued in January 1999, which guided work performed in fiscal year 2000.
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: Hodges, Floyd N. & Chou, Charissa J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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RCRA Assessment Plan for Single-Shell Tank Waste Management Area TX-TY at the Hanford Site

Description: A groundwater quality assessment plan was prepared to investigate the rate and extent of aquifer contamination beneath Waste Management Area TX-TY on the Hanford Site in Washington State. This plan is an update of a draft plan issued in February 1999, which guided work performed in fiscal year 2000.
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: Hodges, Floyd N. & Chou, Charissa J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Subsurface Contaminant Focus Area: Monitored Natural Attenuation (MNA)--Programmatic, Technical, and Regulatory Issues

Description: Natural attenuation processes are commonly used for remediation of contaminated sites. A variety of natural processes occur without human intervention at all sites to varying rates and degrees of effectiveness to attenuate (decrease) the mass, toxicity, mobility, volume, or concentration of organic and inorganic contaminants in soil, groundwater, and surface water systems. The objective of this review is to identify potential technical investments to be incorporated in the Subsurface Contaminan… more
Date: July 23, 2001
Creator: Krupka, Kenneth M. & Martin, Wayne J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Zone of Interaction Between Hanford Site Groundwater and Adjacent Columbia River

Description: This report describes the FY 2000 results of a Science and Technology investigation of the groundwater/river interface at the Hanford Site. The investigation focused on (1) a 2-D simulation of water flowpaths beneath the shoreline region under the influence of a transient river stage, and (2) mixing between groundwater and river water.
Date: October 23, 2001
Creator: Peterson, Robert E. & Connelly, Michael P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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RCRA Groundwater Quality Assessment Report for Waste Management Area S-SX (November 1997 through April 2000)

Description: This report updates a continuing groundwater quality assessment for single-shell tank Waste Management Area S-SX at the Hanford Site. This report covers November 1997 through April 2000. Major new findings include the following: groundwater contamination continues to persist in both the northern half of the Waste Management Area as well as the southern half; evaluation of changes in water table elevations indicates a gradual shift in the direction of groundwater flow from the southeast to a mor… more
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: Johnson, Vernon G. & Chou, Charissa J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Emittance Growth Due to Steering Errors for the 8 GeV AP3-P1 Lattice

Description: During 8 GeV antiproton transfers between the Accumulator to the Main Injector, the antiprotons must travel through four separate beam lines, AP3, AP1, P2, and P1. The AP1, P1, and P2 transfer lines are also used for 120 GeV antiproton production so that many of the magnet strings must accommodate a large range of excitation current. This note will quantify the relationship between emittance dilution for 8 GeV antiprotons injected into the Main Injector and variations in the excitation currents… more
Date: January 23, 2001
Creator: McGinnis, Dave
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Berkeley Off-line Radioisotope Generator (BORG)

Description: Development of chemical separations for the transactinides has traditionally been performed with longer-lived tracer activities purchased commercially. With these long-lived tracers, there is always the potential problem that the tracer atoms are not always in the same chemical form as the short-lived atoms produced in on-line experiments. This problem is especially severe for elements in groups 4 and 5 of the periodic table, where hydrolysis is present. The long-lived tracers usually are store… more
Date: July 23, 2001
Creator: Sudowe, Ralf & Patin, Joshua B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES AND ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES FOR VISION 21 ENERGY PLANTS

Description: To complete project planning, various project groups conducted several meetings and teleconferences. As a result a draft project management plan was written and circulated. The plan will be finalized in a project kick off meeting to be held on January 16, 2001 in Lebanon, NH, which will be attended by all project participants (Task 1.0). Various project personnel have been trained in the use of Fluent and Aspen Plus, which completes all the training tasks except for Aspen Plus and IDL training … more
Date: January 23, 2001
Creator: Madhava Syamlal, Ph.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Implications of the Drift Scale Heater Test at Yucca Mountain for Epithermal Mineralization

Description: An 8-year long, drift scale heater test (DST) is currently underway at the underground Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The host rock for the DST is a highly fractured, welded tuff. The rock has {approx}10% matrix porosity 90% filled with water. After a little more than two years of heating, the temperature at the drift wall reached {approx}200 C and has been maintained at that temperature for the past {approx}1.5 years. Gas and water (both vapor and liquid) have been c… more
Date: July 23, 2001
Creator: Conrad, Mark E. & Sonnenthal, Eric L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final technical report for Interagency Agreement No. DE-AI02-98ER62683: Development of a functional genomics approach to use radiation-induced changes in gene expression to monitor for low dose and low dose-rate exposures

Description: Microarray analysis and other molecular biology techniques were used to investigate the regulation of gene expression following ionizing radiation exposure.
Date: October 23, 2001
Creator: Albert J. Fornace, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT CEMENT

Description: The objective of this project is to develop an improved ultra-lightweight cement using ultra-lightweight hollow glass spheres (ULHS). Work reported herein addresses tasks performed in the fourth quarter as well as the other three quarters of the past year. The subjects that were covered in previous reports and that are also discussed in this report include: Analysis of field laboratory data of active cement applications from three oil-well service companies; Preliminary findings from a literatu… more
Date: October 23, 2001
Creator: Sabins, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development and use of GREET 1.6 fuel-cycle model for transportation fuels and vehicle technologies.

Description: Since 1995, with funds from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Transportation Technologies (OTT), Argonne National Laboratory has been developing the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation (GREET) model. The model is intended to serve as an analytical tool for use by researchers and practitioners in estimating fuel-cycle energy use and emissions associated with alternative transportation fuels and advanced vehicle technologies. Argonne released th… more
Date: August 23, 2001
Creator: Wang, M. Q.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES AND ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES FOR VISION 21 ENERGY PLANTS

Description: To complete project planning, various project groups conducted several meetings and teleconferences. As a result a draft project management plan was written and circulated. The plan will be finalized in a project kick off meeting to be held on January 16, 2001 in Lebanon, NH, which will be attended by all project participants (Task 1.0). Various project personnel have been trained in the use of Fluent and Aspen Plus, which completes all the training tasks except for Aspen Plus and IDL training … more
Date: January 23, 2001
Creator: Madhava Syamlal, Ph.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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