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Financial Management: Extending the Financial Statements Audit Requirement of the CFO Act to Additional Federal Agencies

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress is considering expanding the number of federal agencies required to prepare audited financial statements to include all executive branch agencies that have budget authority of $25 million or more. The Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 builds on the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act by encouraging agencies to have systems that generate timely, accurate, and useful information with which t… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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VA Health Care: Changes Needed to Improve Resource Allocation to Health Care Networks

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spent $21 billion in fiscal year 2001 to treat 3.8 million veterans--most of whom had service-connected disabilities or low incomes. Since 1997, VA has used the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) system to allocate most of its medical care appropriation. GAO found that VERA has had a substantial impact on network resource allocations and workloads. VERA shifted $921… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Tax Administration: Continued Progress Modernizing IRS Depends on Managing Risks

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In light of the fourth anniversary of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, which established Congress' expectation that IRS modernize to better meet taxpayer needs, GAO gave an overview of IRS's current performance and resources and then assessed the progress that IRS has made modernizing and the risks to continued progress. Overall, IRS has seen increased workload, decreased staf… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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A Comparison of Methods Used to Evaluate Intakes of Transuranics Influenced by Chelation Therapy

Description: A comparison of methods is used to evaluate the intake of transuranics influenced by chelation therapy. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the mechanistic method by using it to validate Hall's method and Jech's method. This is accomplished by using the mechanistic method to generate a known set of data suitable for benchmarking all three methods.
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: La Bone, T.
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Power levels in office equipment: Measurements of new monitors and personal computers

Description: Electronic office equipment has proliferated rapidly over the last twenty years and is projected to continue growing in the future. Efforts to reduce the growth in office equipment energy use have focused on power management to reduce power consumption of electronic devices when not being used for their primary purpose. The EPA ENERGY STAR[registered trademark] program has been instrumental in gaining widespread support for power management in office equipment, and accurate information about th… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Roberson, Judy A.; Brown, Richard E.; Nordman, Bruce; Webber, Carrie A.; Homan, Gregory H.; Mahajan, Akshay et al.
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Yb Thin-Disk Laser Results

Description: Thin-disk laser configurations have recently been demonstrated at cw output povters exceeding 1 kW [1]. Thin-disk lasers enable the generation of high average power by minimizing the distance over which waste heat is transported. A disk-laser of transverse dimensions significantly larger than its thickness will sustain laser output with intensity proportional to the thermal flux it dissipates. The fracture strength of the laser material limits the maximum temperature difference of a credible de… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Zapata, L E; Beach, R A; Mitchell, S & Payne, S A
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Thermal and Chemical Analyses of Silicone Polymers for Component Engineering Lifetime Assessments

Description: Accurate predictions of a polymer component's functional lifetime at best arc tenuous when one has only relatively short term chemical or mechanical property data to extrapolate. We have analyzed a series of silica-filled siloxanes to determine the chemical and microstructural signatures of aging, and we are incorporating these data into rational methodologies for assessing a component's lifetime measured against as-designed engineering properties. We are monitoring changes in mechanical proper… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Balazs, B & Maxwell, R S
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Revised Hydrogeology for the Suprabasalt Aquifer System, 200-West Area and Vicinity, Hanford Site, Washington

Description: The primary objective of this study was to refine the conceptual groundwater flow model for the 200-West Area and vicinity. This is the second of two reports that combine to cover the 200 Area Plateau, an area that holds the largest inventory of radionuclide and chemical waste on the Hanford Site.
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Williams, Bruce A.; Bjornstad, Bruce N.; Schalla, Ronald & Webber, William D.
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The Cleaning of OAB Universal Covers - An Origin of Smut in Aluminum Alloys

Description: The smut that appeared on the universal covers after the OAB cleaning process consists of sub-micron size aluminum particles originating from the machining of these parts prior to cleaning. The rigorous gross and precision cleanings with Brulin in the OAB cleaning process could not completely wash these fine particles away from the surfaces. However, applying a phosphoric acid etch before the cleaning helped to remove these fine aluminum particles. Experimental results again showed that an acid… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Shen, T
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Elevated tritium levels at the World Trade Center

Description: Traces of tritiated water (HTO) were detected at [the]World Trade Center (WTC) ground zero after the 9/11/01 terrorist attack. A method of ultralow-background liquid scintillation counting was used after distilling HTO from the samples. A water sample from the WTC sewer, collected on 9/13/01, contained 0.174 plus or minus 0.074 (2s) nCi/L of HTO. A split water sample, collected on 9/21/01 from the basement of WTC Building 6, contained 3.53 plus or minus 0.17 and 2.83 plus or minus 0.15 nCi/L, r… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Semkow, Thomas M.; Hafner, Ronald S.; Parekh, Pravin P.; Wozniak, Gordon J.; Haines, Douglas K.; Husain, Liaquat et al.
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Nanodiamonds: Their Structure and Optical Properties

Description: Nanometer sized diamond is a constituent of diverse systems ranging from interstellar dusts and meteorites [1] to carbonaceous residues of detonations [2] and diamond-like films [3-5]. Many of the properties of bulk diamond have been well understood for decades, those of nanodiamond are mostly unexplored. We present a combined theoretical and experimental study showing that diamond has unique properties not only as a bulk material but also at the nanoscale, where size reduction and surface reco… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Raty, J.-Y.; van Buuren, T. & Galli, G.
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Applying a decision process for long-term stewardship planning at a US Department of Energy site.

Description: Long-term stewardship (LTS) can be defined as the system of activities needed to protect human health and the environment from hazards left remaining at a site as a result of a cleanup decision. Although the general consensus has been that remediation decisions and LTS decisions should be made conjointly, the general practice has been to separate them. This bifurcation can result in LTS plans that are difficult to implement and enforce and disproportionately costly for the benefit they provide.… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Hocking, E. K. & Smiley, S. L.
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Geothermal Technologies Program Geoscience and Supporting Technologies 2001 University Research Summaries

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Wind and Geothermal Technologies (DOE) is funding advanced geothermal research through University Geothermal Research solicitations. These solicitations are intended to generate research proposals in the areas of fracture permeability location and characterization, reservoir management and geochemistry. The work funded through these solicitations should stimulate the development of new geothermal electrical generating capacity through increasing scientifi… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Creed, R.J. & Laney, P.T.
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Reactive carbon from life support wastes for incinerator flue gas cleanup-System Testing

Description: This paper presents the results from a joint research initiative between NASA Ames Research Center and Lawrence Berkeley National lab. The objective of the research is to produce activated carbon from life support wastes and to use the activated carbon to adsorb and chemically reduce the NO{sub x} and SO{sub 2} contained in incinerator flue gas. Inedible biomass waste from food production is the primary waste considered for conversion to activated carbon. Results to date show adsorption of both… more
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Fisher, John W.; Pisharody, Suresh; Moran, Mark J.; Wignarajah, Kanapathipillai; Xu, X.H.; Shi, Yao et al.
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Legislative Issues

Description: This report discusses the ongoing debate about whether or not to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for energy development. The report discusses arguments for and against such development and focuses especially on related pieces of legislation that directly affects the future of the ANWR.
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: Corn, M. Lynne; Gelb, Bernard A. & Baldwin, Pamela
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