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The White House: Allegations of Damage During the 2001 Presidential Transition

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Damage, theft, vandalism, and pranks occurred in the White House complex during the 2001 presidential transition. Several Executive Office of the President (EOP) staff claim that they observed (1) messy offices containing excessive trash or personal items, (2) numerous prank signs containing derogatory and offensive statements about the president, (3) government property that was damaged, and (4) missing items… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Space Surveillance Network: New Way Proposed To Support Commercial and Foreign Entities

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Government, commercial, and foreign entities rely almost exclusively on information generated by the United States space surveillance network to reduce the risk of space collisions when launching and operating their respective space missions. The network is maintained and operated by the Air Force Space Command; surveillance data is processed and an unclassified portion is sent to the National Aeronautics and S… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Contract Management: Roles and Responsibilities of the Federal Supply Service and Federal Technology Service

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the roles and responsibilities of the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Supply Service (FSS) and Federal Technology Service (FTS). Specifically, (1) the possible impact of the current FSS/FTS overlap on the prices paid for and quality of the services provided customer agencies by FSS and FTS, (2) whether the use of streamlined practices and procedures could result in savings and incre… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Has Been Established but It is Premature to Evaluate its Effectiveness

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Title I of the Global AIDS and Tuberculosis Relief Act provided for the creation of a trust fund to be administered by the World Bank to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The act mandates that the Comptroller General of the United States submit a report to Congress evaluating the effectiveness of the fund within 2 years of enactment of the statute. In January 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and M… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Homeland Security: Key Elements to Unify Efforts Are Underway but Uncertainty Remains

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The issue of homeland security crosscuts numerous policy domains, impinging on the expertise and resources of every level of government, the private sector, and the international community. GAO found that although combating terrorism crossed organizational boundaries, it did not sufficiently coordinate the activities of the 40 federal entities involved, resulting in duplication and gaps in coverage. The homela… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Delaware River Deepening Project: Comprehensive Reanalysis Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' February 1992 Final Interim Feasibility Study and Environmental Impact Statement reported that deepening the Delaware River ship channel from 40 to 45 feet was economically justified and environmentally feasible. However, GAO found that it does not provide a reliable basis for deciding whether to proceed with the project. GAO identified several miscalculations, invalid assumpt… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Preparedness: Integrating New and Existing Technology and Information Sharing into an Effective Homeland Security Strategy

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Federal, state, and local governments, and the private sector, are taking steps to strengthen the safety and security of the American people, including actions to strengthen border and port security, airport security, health and food security and to protect critical infrastructure. There are date, information-sharing, and technology challenges facing the country in developing and implementing a national preparedness… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High Frequency Electromagnetic Impedance Imaging for Vadose Zone and Groundwater Characterization

Description: Accurate description of transport pathways on the gross scale, the location of contamination, and characterization of heterogeneity within the vadose zone, are now realized as vital for proper treatment, confinement and stabilization of subsurface contamination at Department of Energy (DOE) waste sites. Electromagnetic (EM) methods are ideal for these tasks since they are directly sensitive to the amount of fluid present in porous media, as well as fluid composition. At many DOE sites it is nec… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: Newman, Gregory A.; Nichols, Edward; Alumbaugh, David L. & Hoversten, G. Michael
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tank Waste Transport Stability: Summary of Slurry and Salt-Solution Studies for FY 2001

Description: Despite over 50 years of experience in transporting radioactive tank wastes to and from equipment and tanks at the Department of Energy's Hanford, Savannah River, and Oak Ridge sites, waste slurry transfer pipelines and process piping become plugged on occasion. At Hanford, several tank farm pipelines are no longer in service because of plugs. At Savannah River, solid deposits in the outlet line of the 2H evaporator have resulted in an unplanned extended downtime. Although waste transfer criter… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: Welch, T. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proposal for Qualification of Gas-Generating Radioactive Payloads for Transportation within a Type B Package

Description: Characterization data describing radioactive materials (RAM) in storage are likely those associated with the processes that produced the materials or with the mission for which they were produced. Along with impurity data, often absent or unknown as a result of post-processing storage environment is moisture content. Radiolysis of moisture may lead to a hydrogen flammability hazard within a closed volume such as a storage can or a transportation package. This paper offers a practical means of q… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: Houghtaling, T.K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strain Gage Test Results of Band-Type Locking Rings for a Typical Drum Type Radioactive Material Package

Description: Band type closure rings are commonly used for securing the drum lid on radioactive material packages of lower weight classifications. Lid installation is achieved by placing the band around the perimeter of the lidded drum and tightening the single bolt in stages until a designated torque value is obtained. The band is subjected to heavy rapping with a soft hammer during installation to equilibrate the band strains around the drum perimeter. The study described here investigated the strain dist… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: McKeel, C. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Railroad Regulation: Changes in Freight Railroad Rates from 1997 through 2000

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 and the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 gave freight railroads increased freedom to price their services according to market conditions. A number of shippers are concerned that freight railroads have used these pricing freedoms to unreasonably exercise their market power in setting rates for shippers with fewer alternatives to rail transportation. This re… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Combustion in Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engines: Experiments and Detailed Chemical Kinetic Simulations

Description: Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines are being considered as an alternative to diesel engines. The HCCI concept involves premixing fuel and air prior to induction into the cylinder (as is done in current spark-ignition engine) then igniting the fuel-air mixture through the compression process (as is done in current diesel engines). The combustion occurring in an HCCI engine is fundamentally different from a spark-ignition or Diesel engine in that the heat release occurs as a g… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: Flowers, D L
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preparation of NIF Scale Poly ((alpha)-METHYLSTYRENE) Mandrels

Description: All planned National Ignition Facility (NIF) capsule targets except machined beryllium require a plastic mandrel upon which the ablator is applied. This mandrel must at least meet if not exceed the symmetry and surface finish requirements of the final capsule. The mandrels are produced by a two-step process. In the first step a thin-walled poly({alpha}-methylstyrene)(P{alpha}MS) shell is produced using microencapsulation techniques. This shell is overcoated with 10 to 15 {micro}m of glow discha… more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: Takagi, M.; Cook, R.; McQuillan, B.; Elsner, F.; Stephens, R.; Nikroo, A. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design of the DARHT-II Downstream Beamline

Description: This paper describes the design of the downstream beam transport line for the second axis of the Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT-II) Facility. The DARHT-II project is a collaboration between LANL, LBNL and LLNL. DARHT II is a 18.4-MeV, 2000-Amperes, 2-{micro}sec linear induction accelerator designed to generate short bursts of x-rays for the purpose of radiographing dense objects. The downstream beam transport line is approximately 22-meter long region extending from the end of … more
Date: June 7, 2002
Creator: Westenskow, G. A.; Bertolini, L. R.; Chen, Y. J.; Fessenden, T. J.; Paul, A. C. & Watson, J. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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