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Tax Administration: IRS Faces Several Challenges as It Attempts to Better Serve Small Businesses

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) reorganization plans, focusing on: (1) what factors, complicate the interactions between small businesses and IRS; and (2) whether IRS' reorganization plans address those factors."
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Information Security: USDA Needs to Implement Its Departmentwide Information Security Plan

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 steps the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking to help ensure departmentwide information systems security."
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Prescription Drugs: Many Factors Affected FDA's Approval of Selected 'Pipeline' Drugs

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 Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) review and approval of drug manufacturers' applications to market seven drugs that would be covered by H.R. 1598 and S.1172, focusing on: (1) the review and approval times for the seven pipeline drugs in comparison with other drugs and the factors that contributed to the time FDA required to approve the th… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Calcite Fluid Inclusion, Paragenetic, and Oxygen Isotopic Records of Thermal Event(s) at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Description: Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is under consideration as a potential high-level radioactive waste repository situated above the water table in 12.7 Ma tuffs. A wealth of textural and geochemical evidence from low-temperature deposits of calcite and silica, indicates that their genesis is related to unsaturated zone (UZ) percolation and that the level of the potential repository has never been saturated. Nonetheless, some scientists contend that thermal waters have periodically risen to the surface dep… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Peterman, B. & Moscati, R.
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Criticality Safety Evaluation Report for the Cold Vacuum Drying (CVD) Facilities Process Water Handling System

Description: This report addresses the criticality concerns associated with process water handling in the Cold Vacuum Drying Facility. The controls and limitations on equipment design and operations to control potential criticality occurrences are identified.
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: KESSLER, S.F.
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Assessment of Available Particle Size Data to Support an Analysis of the Waste Feed Delivery System Transfer System

Description: Available data pertaining to size distribution of the particulates in Hanford underground tank waste have been reviewed. Although considerable differences exist between measurement methods, it may be stated with 95% confidence that the median particle size does not exceed 275 {micro}m in at least 95% of the ten tanks selected as sources of HLW feed for Phase 1 vitrification in the RPP. This particle size is recommended as a design basis for the WFD transfer system.
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: JEWETT, J.R.
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Intra-undulator measurements at VISA FEL

Description: We describe a diagnostics system developed, to measure exponential gain properties and the electron beam dynamics inside the strong focusing 4-m long undulator for the VISA (Visible to Infrared SASE Amplifier) FEL. The technical challenges included working inside the small undulator gap, optimizing the electron beam diagnostics in the high background environment of the spontaneous undulator radiation, multiplexing and transporting the photon beam. Initial results are discussed.
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Murokh, A.; Frigola, P.; Pellegrini, C.; Rosenzweig, J.; Tremaine, A.; Johnson, E. et al.
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LOTIS Upper Limits and the Prompt OT from GRB 990123

Description: GRB 990123 established the existence of prompt optical emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System (LOTIS) has been conducting a fully automated search for this kind of simultaneous low energy emission from GRBs since October 1996. Although LOTIS has obtained simultaneous, or near simultaneous, coverage of the error boxes obtained with BATSE, IPN, XTE, and BeppoSAX for several GRBs, image analysis resulted in only upper limits. The unique gamma-ray prop… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Williams, G. G.; Hartmann, D. H.; Park, H. S.; Porrata, R. A.; Ables, E.; Bionta, R. et al.
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Super-lotis early time optical counterpart measurements

Description: We present an update on our ongoing effort to establish a dedicated observation program with an automated 0.6 meter telescope system that can detect GRB optical signals from 30 s to many hours after the start of the burst. The Super-LOTIS telescope has a 0.8 x 0.8{sup o} field-of-view, is sensitive to V 17 {approx} 19 objects, depending on the integration times, and will be placed at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. This paper presents technical aspects of this telescope and first results fr… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Park, H. S.; Porrata, R. A.; Williams, G. G.; Ables, E.; Band, D. L.; Barthelmy, S. D. et al.
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Effect of Backscattered Electrons on Electron Beam Focus

Description: Using an induction linac, ETA-II, we are studying the interaction of a 2 kA, 6 MeV electron beam focused to a <2 mm diameter spot on high-Z foils. A focus shift was noticed when changing from 5 mil to 40 mil tantalum foil targets. This shift was subsequently attributed to the effect of a substantial fraction of the incident electron beam backscattering from the target, reducing the net beam current. This fraction varies with the thickness and density of the target. The presence and magnitude… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Falabella, S.; Chen, Y. J.; Houck, T.; McCarrick, J.; Sampayan, S. & Weir, J.
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Dipole septum magnet in the fast kicker system for multi-axis advanced radiography

Description: Here we present designs for a static septum magnet with two adjacent apertures where ideally one aperture has a uniform dipole field and the other zero field. Two designs are considered. One is a true septum magnet with a thin layer of coils and materials separating the dipole field region from the null field region. During the beam switching process, the intense electron beam will spray across this material septum leading to concerns on beam control, vacuum quality, radiation damage, etc. due … more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Wang, L.; Lund, S. M. & Poole, B. R.
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Direct electrochemical conversion of carbon: systems for efficient conversion of fossil fuels to electricity

Description: The direct electrochemical conversion of carbon involves discharge of suspensions of reactive carbon particles in a molten salt electrolyte against an oxygen (air) cathode. (Figure 1). The free energy and the enthalpy of the oxidation reaction are nearly identical. This allows theoretical efficiencies ({Delta}G(T)/{Delta}H) to approach 100% at temperatures from 500 to 800 C. Entropy heat losses are therefore negligible. The activities of the elemental carbon and of the carbon dioxide product ar… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Cooper, J F; Cherepy, N & Krueger, R
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Campaign Finance: Constitutional and Legal Issues of Soft Money

Description: "Soft money" has become one of the major issues in the area of campaign financing in federal elections. The controversy surrounding this issue is due to the perception that soft money may be the largest loophole in the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). Soft money is broadly defined as funds that are raised and spent according to applicable state laws; that would be impermissible, under the FECA, to spend directly in federal elections and that may have an indirect influence on federal electi… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Whitaker, L. Paige
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Massively Parallel Direct Simulation of Multiphase Flow

Description: The authors understanding of multiphase physics and the associated predictive capability for multi-phase systems are severely limited by current continuum modeling methods and experimental approaches. This research will deliver an unprecedented modeling capability to directly simulate three-dimensional multi-phase systems at the particle-scale. The model solves the fully coupled equations of motion governing the fluid phase and the individual particles comprising the solid phase using a newly d… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Cook, Benjamin K.; Preece, Dale S. & Williams, J. R.
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Second ILAW Site Borehole Characterization Plan

Description: The US Department of Energy's Hanford Site has the most diverse and largest amounts of radioactive tank waste in the US. High-level radioactive waste has been stored at Hanford since 1944. Approximately 209,000 m{sup 3} (54 Mgal) of waste are currently stored in 177 tanks. Vitrification and onsite disposal of low-activity tank waste (LAW) are embodied in the strategy described in the Tri-Party Agreement. The tank waste is to be retrieved, separated into low- and high-level fractions, and then i… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Valenta, M. M.; Moreno, J. R.; Martin, M. B.; Ferri, R. E.; Houston, D. G. & Reidel, S. P.
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Open Source Software Licenses for Livermore National Laboratory

Description: This paper attempts to develop supporting material in an effort to provide new options for licensing Laboratory-created software. Where employees and the Lab wish to release software codes as so-called ''Open Source'', they need, at a minimum, new licensing language for their released products. Several open source software licenses are reviewed to understand their common elements, and develop recommendations regarding new language.
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Busby, L.
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China: Ballistic and Cruise Missiles

Description: This CRS report contains three parts. The first part discusses ballistic missiles of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The second discusses the PRC’s cruise missiles. The last section offers concluding observations. Two tables summarize the discussion on current ballistic and cruise missiles in service or under development. The appendix, prepared by Robert Shuey, discusses China’s reported application of global positioning system (GPS) technology to improve the accuracy of its missiles. Thi… more
Date: August 10, 2000
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
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