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FEMA Cerro Grande Claims: Payments Properly Processed, but Reporting Could Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Cerro Grande Fire Assistance Act (CGFAA) mandated that GAO annually audit all claim payments made to compensate the victims of the Cerro Grande Fire in northern New Mexico. For this third report on this topic, GAO determined whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is now a part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security, (1) paid fire… more
Date: December 24, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EFFECTS OF ALTERNATE ANTIFOAM AGENTS, NOBLE METALS, MIXING SYSTEMS AND MASS TRANSFER ON GAS HOLDUP AND RELEASE FROM NONNEWTONIAN SLURRIES

Description: Gas holdup tests performed in a small-scale mechanically-agitated mixing system at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) were reported in 2006. The tests were for a simulant of waste from the Hanford Tank 241-AZ-101 and featured additions of DOW Corning Q2-3183A Antifoam agent. Results indicated that this antifoam agent (AFA) increased gas holdup in the waste simulant by about a factor of four and, counter intuitively, that the holdup increased as the simulant shear strength decreased (… more
Date: December 24, 2007
Creator: Guerrero, H; Mark Fowley, M; Charles Crawford, C; Michael Restivo, M & Robert Leishear, R
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SLC vertical survey network

Description: During 1984 and 1985 the SLC alignment group established and measured a system of elevation benchmarks (BM's) over the whole of the SLAC site, ranging from the injector area to the NGS horizontal control point (surface monument) AA on the hill to the east of the collider hall outside the radiation fence. Precise elevations are needed in general for survey, alignment, placement, and monitoring of SLC tunnels and components. In particular, precise elevations of the survey instruments, mounted ove… more
Date: December 24, 1985
Creator: Friedsam, H.; Goldsmith, T.; Oren, W.; Pietryka, M.; Pitthan, R.; Pushor, T. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Computational compact torus experiment

Description: We describe a typical 2D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) calculation of rundown of plasma in a coaxial, magnetized gun and injection of the plasma and reconnection of the embedded magnetic fields to form a compact toroidal plasma.
Date: December 24, 1980
Creator: Eddleman, J.L.; McNamara, B.; Nash, J.K.; Shearer, J.W. & Turner, W.C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Water-storage-tube systems. Final report

Description: Passive solar collection/storage/distribution systems were surveyed, designed, fabricated, and mechanically and thermally tested. The types studied were clear and opaque fiberglass tubes, metal tubes with plastic liners, and thermosyphoning tubes. (MHR)
Date: December 24, 1981
Creator: Hemker, P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Consideration of Budgetary Legislation During Presidential Transition Years: A Brief Overview

Description: This report examines the timing of presidential budget submissions during the past five transition years, including submissions by Presidents Jimmy Carter in 1977, Ronald Reagan in 1981, George H.W. Bush in 1989, Bill Clinton in 1993, and George W Bush in 2001 and the timeliness of House and Senate actions in those years regarding the consideration of Budgetary measures.
Date: December 24, 2008
Creator: Keith, Robert & Momoko, Soltis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Health Centers

Description: This report provides an overview of the federal health center program including its statutory authority, program requirements, and appropriation levels. The report then describes health centers in general, where they are located, their patient population, and some outcomes associated with health center use. It also describes some federal programs available to assist health center operations including the FQHC designation for Medicare and Medicaid payments. The report concludes with a brief disc… more
Date: December 24, 2013
Creator: Heisler, Elayne J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SMA DOE Student Fellowship Initiative

Description: Steel companies in many areas of the country have found it increasingly difficult to attract talented recent graduates of college and university engineering and applied science programs to the Electric Arc Furnace iron & steel industry. College student involvement in co-operative programs at steel companies can attract needed talent to the industry. Additionally, certain R & D needs identified in the Steel Industry Technology Roadmap are addressed as co-operative program activities. The Steel M… more
Date: December 24, 2004
Creator: Association, Steel Manufacturers
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Maritime Territorial and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Disputes Involving China: Issues for Congress

Description: This report presents policy and oversight issues for Congress arising from maritime territorial disputes involving China in the South China Sea (SCS), East China Sea (ECS), and an additional dispute over whether China has a right under international law to regulate U.S. and other foreign military activities in its maritime Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Date: December 24, 2014
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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State Sponsors of Acts of International Terrorism--Legislative Parameters: In Brief

Description: This brief report provides information on legislation that authorizes the designation of any foreign government as a state sponsor of acts of international terrorism. It addresses the statutes and how they each define acts of international terrorism; establish a list to limit or prohibit aid or trade; provide for systematic removal of a foreign government from a list, including timeline and reporting requirements; authorize the President to waive restrictions on a listed foreign government; and… more
Date: December 24, 2014
Creator: Rennack, Dianne E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background and Issues for Congress

Description: The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a relatively inexpensive Navy surface combatant equipped with modular "plug-and fight" mission packages for countering mines, small boats, and diesel-electric submarines, particularly in littoral (i.e., near-shore) waters. This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the Navy's LCS program.
Date: December 24, 2014
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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State, Foreign Operations Appropriations: A Guide to Component Accounts

Description: This report briefly discusses the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs appropriations legislation generally and then provides a short description of the various funding accounts as they appear in Division I, "Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2012," of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (P.L. 112-74).
Date: December 24, 2013
Creator: Tarnoff, Curt & Tiersky, Alex
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hazardous Waste Sites: State Cleanup Practices

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) identified practices that are both used in selected state programs at sites that may be contaminated enough to qualify for long-term cleanup under the Superfund program and that are believed by state officials to reduce the time and expense of cleanups; and (2) obtained the views of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), environmentalists, and other stakeholder… more
Date: December 24, 1998
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Calculation of the Aerodynamic Loading of Flexible Wings of Arbitrary Plan Form and Stiffness

Description: "A method is presented for calculating the aerodynamic loading, the divergence speed, and certain stability derivatives of wings and tail surfaces of arbitrary plan form and stiffness. Provision is made for using either stiffness curves and root-rotation constants or influence coefficients in the analysis. Computing forms, tables of numerical constants required in the analysis, and an illustrative example are included to facilitate calculations by means of the method" (p. 1).
Date: December 24, 1948
Creator: Diederich, Franklin W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigation of an NACA 4-(5)(05)-041 Four-Blade Propeller With Several Spinners at Mach Numbers Up to 0.90

Description: Report presenting an investigation to determine the aerodynamic characteristics of an NACA 4-(5)(05)-041 four-blade propeller in combination with NACA 1-series and extended cylindrical spinners for a range of blade angles. Results regarding variation of propeller thrust coefficient, power coefficient, efficiency, tip Mach number, characteristics of the propeller in combination with different spinners, and maximum efficiency are provided.
Date: December 24, 1952
Creator: Reynolds, Robert M.; Buell, Donald A. & Walker, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Correlation of Buffet Boundaries Predicted From Wind-Tunnel Tests With Those Measured During Flight Tests on the F8F-1 and X-1 Airplanes -Transonic-Bump Method

Description: Memorandum presenting testing of semispan wing-fuselage models of the F8F-1 and X-1 airplanes in the 16-foot high-speed wind tunnel utilizing the transonic-bump method. The variations of lift coefficient with angle of attack and Mach number and pitching-moment coefficient with lift coefficient at various Mach numbers are presented for the models. The buffet boundaries were found to be in reasonable agreement with those determined from flight tests of full-scale airplanes.
Date: December 24, 1952
Creator: Martin, Andrew & Reed, James F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effect of horizontal-tail span and vertical location on the aerodynamic characteristics of an unswept tail assembly in sideslip

Description: "An investigation has been conducted in the Langley stability tunnel on a vertical-tail model with a stub fuselage in combination with various horizontal tails to determine the effect of horizontal-tail span and vertical location of the horizontal tail relative to the vertical tail on the aerodynamic characteristics of an unswept tail assembly in sideslip. The results of the investigation indicated that the induced loading carried by the horizontal tail produced a rolling moment about the point… more
Date: December 24, 1952
Creator: Riley, Donald R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility of Proton Radiography for Mesoscale Radiography.

Description: The power of sufficiently-energetic proton beams to penetrate high atomic number (Z) metals, together with the potential for high-dynamic-range measurements, enabled by the roughly linear energy loss mechanism in the material, makes ion beam imaging complementary to x-ray techniques and, in many cases, it is superior. Specifically, x-ray imaging is poor in an object that contains both low- and high-Z materials. This is because the energetic x-rays required to penetrate high-Z material(s) intera… more
Date: December 24, 2003
Creator: Bench, G.; Felter, T.; Martz, H. & Antolak, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Filibusters and Cloture in the Senate

Description: No Description Available.
Date: December 24, 2014
Creator: Beth, Richard S. & Heitshusen, Valerie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues

Description: This report includes information such as background, summary, and possible reauthorization issues of the Higher Education Act.
Date: December 24, 2003
Creator: Stedman, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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