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Budget Surpluses: Experiences of Other Nations and Implications for the United States

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the experience of six nations--Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom--with budget surpluses, focusing on: (1) how they achieved budget surpluses and what their fiscal policies were during periods of surplus; (2) how they addressed long-term budgetary pressures; (3) how they adapted their budget process during a p… more
Date: November 2, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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VA Health Care: Food Service Operations and Costs at Inpatient Facilities

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 Veterans Affairs' (VA) food service operations, focusing on: (1) the type and volume of food services VA provides; (2) how VA provides food services; (3) the cost VA incurs; and (4) the revenues VA generates from sales of excess food services."
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Future Years Defense Program: Funding Increase and Planned Savings in Fiscal Year 2000 Program Are at Risk

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 (DOD) Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) for fiscal year 2000, focusing on the: (1) major changes and adjustments in the 2000 FYDP as compared to the 1999 FYDP; and (2) risks that the 2000 FYDP faces that may prevent it from being implemented as planned."
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Health Care: Tri-Service Strategy Needed to Justify Medical Resources for Readiness and Peacetime Care

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) military health system (MHS), focusing on: (1) the need for national capital area (NCA) military treatment facilities (MTF) and DOD's strategy for assessing such needs; (2) identifying any obstacles hindering DOD's ability to make coherent needs assessments; and (3) whether current care coordination among NCA M… more
Date: November 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wildlife Management: Negotiations on a Long-Term Plan for Managing Yellowstone Bison Still Ongoing

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the governmental and nongovernmental plans for managing the Yellowstone National Park bison herd, focusing on the: (1) key elements of the five nongovernmental plans and the government's preferred alternative; (2) strengths and weaknesses of the economic analyses used to support each of these six plans; and (3) status of efforts to issue the environmental impac… more
Date: November 30, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security: Evaluating Reform Proposals

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO analyzed the potential budgetary and economic effects of several Social Security reform proposals."
Date: November 4, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Military Sales: Efforts to Improve Administration Hampered by Insufficient Information

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the foreign military sales program to determine the changes needed to improve the viability of the program, focusing on: (1) whether the foreign military sales program has achieved full recovery of its administrative costs; (2) the Defense Security Cooperation Agency's (DSCA) basis for making administrative account adjustments; and (3) the effectiveness of vari… more
Date: November 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Computers: U.S. Transportation Command's Management of Y2K Operational Testing

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 U.S. Transportation Command's (TRANSCOM) year 2000-related end-to-end testing activities, focusing on TRANSCOM's management of its end-to-end test of its ability to plan and execute joint major theater war (MTW) deployment operations."
Date: November 15, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pesticides: Use, Effects, and Alternatives to Pesticides in Schools

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 use of pesticides in schools, focusing on: (1) what federal requirements govern the use of pesticides in schools; (2) what information exists on the use of pesticides in schools; (3) what data exist on the incidences of short- and long-term illnesses linked to the exposure to pesticides in schools, and to the extent data are available, what d… more
Date: November 29, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IRS Seizures: Limited Progress in Eliminating Asset Management Control Weaknesses

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 Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) progress in eliminating asset management control weaknesses, focusing on: (1) the implementation of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act's mandate to remove revenue officers from the asset sale function; and (2) other internal control weaknesses identified in GAO's 1992 testimony."
Date: November 29, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foster Care: Effectiveness of Independent Living Services Unknown

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 independent living program (ILP), focusing on: (1) the extent of services provided under ILPs; and (2) what is known about the effect of these services on youths' ability to live on their own."
Date: November 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Improved Management Framework Needed to Guide Air Force Best Practice Initiatives

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Air Force's best practices implementation schedule for the acquisition and distribution of secondary inventory items, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the schedule responds to the provisions of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999; and (2) specific elements of a management framework needed for effective implementa… more
Date: November 18, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foster Care: HHS Could Better Facilitate the Interjurisdictional Adoption Process

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on interjurisdictional adoption issues, focusing on the: (1) number of foster children who are available and waiting for an adoptive home to be identified; (2) actions taken by state and county child welfare agencies and nonprofit organizations to improve the adoption process when prospective adoptive families and foster children live in different… more
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Department of Agriculture: Marketing Assistance Loan Program Should Better Reflect Market Conditions

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the effects of the marketing assistance loan program on cash payments to farm producers, focusing on: (1) which producers received cash payments through the program, by type of crop and state; (2) why some producers did not participate in the program; and (3) what types of concerns have been raised about the program's effect on cash payments and potential forfe… more
Date: November 23, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Improvements Needed to Prevent Excess Purchases by the Air Force

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed inventory the Air Force had on contract that was excess to current operating requirements."
Date: November 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Large Bank Mergers: Fair Lending Review Could be Enhanced With Better Coordination

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed large bank holding company mergers and regulatory enforcement of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, focusing on the: (1) fair lending issues raid by consumer and community groups during the application process for six large bank holding company mergers; and (2) Federal Reserve Board's (FRB) consideration of those issues."
Date: November 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Consumer Product Safety Commission: Additional Steps Needed to Assess Fire Hazards of Upholstered Furniture

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) study on whether to set a flammability standard for sofas, chairs, and other upholstered furniture, focusing on the: (1) methodology CPSC used to estimate the magnitude of the fire hazard that the standard would address; and (2) reliability of this methodology for producing sound estimates of the … more
Date: November 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Seized Drugs and Weapons: DEA Needs to Improve Certain Physical Safeguards and Strengthen Accountability

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) controls over seized drugs and weapons, focusing on whether DEA: (1) put in place physical safeguards to control access to and use of drug and weapon evidence; and (2) maintained adequate accountability over such evidence."
Date: November 30, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Export Controls: International Space Station Technology Transfers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) implementation of federal export control regulations for International Space Station technology transfers, focusing on: (1) the licenses granted to NASA to export space station-related technology and commodities and plans to export encryption technology; (2) the results of internal and external assessme… more
Date: November 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Postal Service: Changes Made to Improve Acceptance Controls for Business Mail

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 Postal Service's acceptance controls for business mail, focusing on whether the Service had made the changes GAO recommended previously and whether those changes were working."
Date: November 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Education and Care: Early Childhood Programs and Services for Low-Income Families

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on federal child care funding, focusing on: (1) programs and services funded at the federal and state levels that directly provide early childhood care and education for the general population of low-income children up to age 5; (2) state and local assessments of the relative difficulty low-income parents face in obtaining care for their children; a… more
Date: November 15, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: Implementing DOT's Access to Jobs Program in Its First Year

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Access to Jobs and Reverse Commute program, which provides grants to improve transportation to employment for welfare recipients, focusing on the: (1) Department of Transportation's (DOT) implementation of the Job Access program, particularly its approach for selecting awards in fiscal year (FY) 1999; (2) FY 1999 grantees and their planned … more
Date: November 26, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Inadequate Compliance With Controls for Excess Firearms and Other Sensitive Items

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 Defense's (DOD) procedures for the disposal and destruction of excess firearms, items with national security implications, and pharmaceuticals."
Date: November 29, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IRS Seizures: Needed for Compliance but Processes for Protecting Taxpayer Rights Have Some Weaknesses

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) use of seizure authority, focusing on whether: (1) IRS targeted the most noncompliant taxpayers; (2) IRS brought affected taxpayers into compliance; (3) IRS exercised appropriate discretion in conducting seizures; and (4) IRS' implementation of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 would address any weaknesses found … more
Date: November 29, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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