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Debt Collection: Treasury Faces Challenges in Implementing Its Cross-Servicing Initiative

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 challenges facing the Financial Management Service (FMS) in implementing the cross-servicing provision of the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996."
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food and Nutrition Service: Food Stamp Program--Recipient Claim Establishment and Collection Standards

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Food and Nutrition Service's (FNS) new rule on the Food Stamp Program's recipient claim establishment and collection standards. GAO noted that: (1) the final rule aims to improve claims management in the Food Stamp Program while providing state agencies increased flexibility in their efforts to increase claims collection; (2) the final rule incorpor… more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Groundwater Quality Assessment for Waste Management Area U: First Determination

Description: As a result of the most recent recalculation one of the indicator parameters, specific conductance, exceeded its background value in downgradient well 299-W19-41, triggering a change from detection monitoring to groundwater quality assessment program. The major contributors to the higher specific conductance are nonhazardous constituents (i.e., sodium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, sulfate, and bicarbonate). Nitrate, chromium, and technetium-99 are present and are increasing; however, they are … more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Hodges, Floyd N. & Chou, Charissa J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Improving DOE-2's RESYS routine: User defined functions to provide more accurate part load energy use and humidity predictions

Description: In hourly energy simulations, it is important to properly predict the performance of air conditioning systems over a range of full and part load operating conditions. An important component of these calculations is to properly consider the performance of the cycling air conditioner and how it interacts with the building. This paper presents improved approaches to properly account for the part load performance of residential and light commercial air conditioning systems in DOE-2. First, more acc… more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Henderson, Hugh I.; Parker, Danny & Huang, Yu J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Handling Practices for the Plutonium Immobilization Plant

Description: Solid waste handling operations refers to all activities associated with the segregation, collection, packaging, assay, storage, and removal of solid radioactive waste from radiological facilities. The Plutonium Immobilization Plant (PIP) is expected to generate the following types of radiological waste, as defined in WSRC Manual 1S, ''Waste Acceptance Criteria'': Low level waste; Mixed hazardous waste; TRU waste; and Mixed TRU waste. Historically, waste handling activities have been demanding … more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Severynse, T.F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A joint U.S.-China demonstration energy efficient office building

Description: In July 1998, USDOE and China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) signed a Statement of Work to develop a demonstration energy-efficient office building and demonstration center in Beijing that will eventually house the Administrative Center for China's Agenda 21 (ACCA21). The statement calls for the Chinese side to be responsible for the basic construction of the 13,000 m{sup 2} 9-story building, the US side for technical assistance and the incremental costs of the energy efficiency im… more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Zimmerman, Mary Beth; Huang, Yu JoeWatson, Rob; Shi, Han; Judkoff, Ron & She rman, Micah
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Latin American Technology Initiative (LAT). Final technical report

Description: This report explains why Monterrey, Mexico was chosen for the site of the Alternative Fuels Trade Mission (April 12-14, 2000), identifies some of the opportunities and challenges for U.S. businesses in Monterrey, identifies useful resources for U.S. companies doing business in Mexico, and details the process, execution, and results leading from the Trade Mission.
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Gallegos, Rolando
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Presidential Travel: DOD Airlift Cost for White House Foreign Travel

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 (DOD) costs for fixed-wing cargo airlift, passenger airlift, and aerial refueling for foreign trips by the President, Vice President, and First Lady and for White House-directed trips."
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Front page of 'The Washington Blade', August 4, 2000]

Description: The front page of the LGBT newspaper 'The Washington Blade' with various articles on it. At the top are "D.C. Gay liaison fired", "Over the rainbow", and "Double whammy". Below are sections of three other articles titled "Something about Mary", "'We shut them out'", and "Working the lavender tranches". The majority of articles are about the gay and lesbian response to recent Republican policies and political events.
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: The Washington Blade
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Development of an Alternative Treatment Scheme for Sr/TRU Removal: Permanganate Treatment of AN-107 Waste

Description: A number of Hanford tanks received waste containing organic complexants, which increase the volubility of Sr-90 and transuranic (TRU) elements. Wastes from these tanks require additional pretreatment to remove Sr-90 and TRU for immobilization as low activity waste (Waste Envelope C). The baseline pretreatment process for Sr/TRU removal was isotopic exchange and precipitation with added strontium and iron. However, studies at both Battelle and Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC) have shown t… more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Hallen, R. T.; Bryan, S. A. & Hoopes, F. V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Establishment of the International Power Institute. Final technical report

Description: The International Power Institute, in collaboration with American industries, seeks to address technical, political, economic and cultural issues of developing countries in the interest of facilitating profitable transactions in power related infrastructure projects. IPI works with universities, governments and commercial organizations to render project-specific recommendations for private-sector investment considerations. IPI also established the following goals: Facilitate electric power infr… more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Coles, Julius E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Student Internship Program Report

Description: This is the author's third summer working at Sandia National Laboratories in organization 5712. He is a physics major at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His work at Sandia began during his senior year at Eldorado High School, when he worked part time and received school credit for participating in the internship program. During that time and two ensuing summers he worked on a variety of projects. These experiences included testing a number of optical-electronic systems, performing such tasks … more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: CASSIDY,TIMOTHY A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (Fifth Edition)

Description: For the first time in many decades, consumers are being given a choice of who supplies their electric power and how that power is generated. One of these choices is to support electricity generation from more environmentally beneficial energy sources. The term green power generally refers to electricity supplied from renewable energy sources. By some estimates, nearly one-quarter of all U.S. consumers will have the option to purchase green power by the year 2000, either from their regulated uti… more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Swezey, B. & Bird, L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A proliferation resistant hexagonal tight lattice BWR fueled core for increased burnup and reduced fuel storage requirements. Annual progress report: August, 1999 to July, 2000 [DOE NERI]

Description: (OAK/B204) A proliferation resistant hexagonal tight lattice BWR fueled core for increased burnup and reduced fuel storage requirements. Annual progress report: August, 1999 to July, 2000 [DOE NERI]
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Takahashi, Hiroshi; Rohatgi, Upendra & Downar, T. J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ninth Workshop on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Materials and Processes: Extended Abstracts and Papers of the Workshop, 9-11 August 1999, Breckenridge, Colorado

Description: Since 1997, the PV sales have exceeded 100 MW/yr with > 85% of the production coming from silicon photovoltaics (Si-PV). As the PV demands increase in the new millennium, there will be a host of challenges to Si-PV. The challenges will arise in developing strategies for cost reduction, increased production, higher throughput per manufacturing line, new sources of low-cost Si, and introduction of new manufacturing processes for cell fabrication. At the same time, newer thin-film technologies,… more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Sopori, B. L.; Gee, J.; Kalejs, J.; Saitoh, R.; Stavola, M.; Swanson, D. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Groundwater Quality Assessment for Waste Management Area U: First Determination

Description: Waste Management Area U (TWA U) is located in the 200 West Area of the Hanford Site. The area includes the U Tank Farm, which contains 16 single-shell tanks and their ancillary equipment and waste systems. WMA U is regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) as stipulated in 40 CFR Part 265, Subpart F, which is incorporated into the Washington State dangerous waste regulations (WAC 173-303400) by reference. Groundwater monitoring at WMA U has been guided by an inte… more
Date: August 4, 2000
Creator: Hodges, FN & Chou, CJ
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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