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Emergency and State and Local Law Enforcement Systems: Committee Questions Concerning Year 2000 Challenges

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the challenges facing emergency services and state and local law enforcement systems in addressing the year 2000 computing problem. This report responds to congressional questions regarding GAO's April 29, 1999, testimony on the year 2000 readiness status of the nation's law enforcement systems."
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Climate Change: Observations on EPA's April 1999 Climate Change Report

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Change Report, which was submitted to the Senate Committee on Appropriations in April 1999, focusing on the extent to which it: (1) provides a comprehensive explanation of the agency's climate change programs for fiscal year (FY) 2000; (2) justifies requested increases in funding for that fiscal year; (3) exp… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare: Improprieties by Contractors Compromised Medicare Program Integrity

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO determined whether Medicare contractors participated in any improper or questionable practices that contributed to fraud, waste, or abuse in the Medicare federal health insurance program, focusing on: (1) recently completed cases of criminal conduct or False Claims Act violations committed by Medicare contractors; (2) the deceptive contractor activities set forth in tho… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federalism: Comments on S.1214--The Federalism Accountability Act of 1999

Description: A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed S. 1214, the Federalism Act of 1999, focusing on: (1) how often the preambles to covered agencies' final rules issued between April 1, 1996, and December 31, 1998, mentioned the executive order and how often they indicated the agencies had conducted Federalism assessments under the order; (2) what selected agencies have done to implement the requirements… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Department of Energy: Problems in the Management and Use of Supercomputers

Description: A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Department of Energy's (DOE) use, acquisition, and management of its supercomputing resources."
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Management Challenges: GAO's Responses to HUD's Comments

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO responded to the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) statements regarding GAO's designation of HUD's programs as a high-risk area."
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Contractors: Despite Its Efforts, HCFA Cannot Ensure Their Effectiveness or Integrity

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) oversight of its claims administration contractors, focusing on: (1) whether there are weaknesses in HCFA's contractor oversight activities that may make Medicare more vulnerable to fraud, waste, or abuse; and (2) changes in HCFA's contracting authority that may improve its ability to manage its contractors."
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Protection: Factors Contributing to Lengthy Award Times for EPA Grants

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the timeliness of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) grant award process, focusing on the: (1) the number and dollar value of the agency-requested and congressionally directed grants awarded for fiscal years (FY) 1995-1998; (2) median award time for both types of grants, as measured by the number of days between the date of the fiscal year appropriatio… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Indian Trust Funds: Challenges Facing Interior's Implementation of New Trust Asset and Accounting Management System

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the: (1) Department of the Interior's efforts to acquire the Trust Asset and Accounting Management System (TAAMS); (2) results of GAO's evaluation and recommendations to Interior to address its findings; (3) status of TAAMS; and (4) challenges still confronting Interior's implementation of this important system."
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare: HCFA Should Exercise Greater Oversight of Claims Administration Contractors

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) oversight of its Medicare fee-for-service claims administration contractors, focusing on: (1) recently completed cases of criminal conduct or False Claims Act violations committed by Medicare contractors; (2) the deceptive contractor activities set forth in those cases or alleged by investigating agents and former co… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Holographic cosmology and its relevant degrees of freedom

Description: We reconsider the options for cosmological holography. We suggest that a global and time-symmetric version of the Fischler-Susskind bound is the most natural generalization of the holographic bound encountered in AdS and De Sitter space. A consistent discussion of cosmological holography seems to imply an understanding of the notion of ''number of degrees of freedom'' that deviates from its simple definition as the entropy of the current state. The introduction of a more adequate notion of degr… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Dawid, Richard
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Radioactive air emissions notice of construction use of a portable exhauster on single-shell tanks during salt well pumping

Description: This document serves as a notice of construction (NOC), pursuant to the requirements of Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 246-247-060, and as a request for approval to construct, pursuant to 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 61.07, portable exhausters for use on singleshell tanks (SSTs) during salt well pumping. Table 1-1 lists SSTs covered by this NOC. This GOC also addresses other activities that are performed in support of salt well pumping but do not require the application of a porta… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Homan, N. A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mobile Surveillance and Monitoring Robots

Description: Long-term nuclear material storage will require in-vault data verification, sensor testing, error and alarm response, inventory, and maintenance operations. System concept development efforts for a comprehensive nuclear material management system have identified the use of a small flexible mobile automation platform to perform these surveillance and maintenance operations. In order to have near-term wide-range application in the Complex, a mobile surveillance system must be small, flexible, and… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Kimberly, Howard R. & Shipers, Larry R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High-Efficiency, Low-Voltage, Compound Semiconductor Devices for Microwave and MM-Wave Power Amplifiers

Description: Improvements in the last decade in InP materials growth, device processing techniques, characterization, and circuit design have enabled solid-state power performance through 122 GHz. Although originally targeted for low-noise and power performance at mm-wave frequencies (>30 GHz), InP HEMTs could become the preferred device for frequencies as low as 800 MHz. This investment has benefited the microwave frequency regime with higher efficiency and power densities at lower operating voltages. S… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Chao, P.C.; Hietala, V.M.; Kong, W. & Sloan, Lynn R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laboratory Directed Research and Development 1998 Annual Report

Description: The Laboratory's Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program encourages the advancement of science and the development of major new technical capabilities from which future research and development will grow. Through LDRD funding, Pacific Northwest continually replenishes its inventory of ideas that have the potential to address major national needs. The LDRD program has enabled the Laboratory to bring to bear its scientific and technical capabilities on all of DOE's missions, particularly… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Hughes, Pam & eds., Sheila Bennett
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermochemistry of YBa(2)Cu(3-x)M(x)O(y) (M=Ni,Zn)

Description: Many studies have investigated the behavior of transition metal dopants in the YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7{minus}{delta}} 123 superconductors. Much of this research has focused on the effects of metal ions such as Co, Fe, Zn, Ni when they are substituted for the copper ions at Cu(1) and Cu(2) sites, commonly referred to as the chain and plane sites, respectively. Trivalent ions such as Co{sup +3} and Fe{sup +3}have been shown to behave similarly in their substitution effects, displaying site pre… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Licci, Francesca; Navrotsky, Alexandra & Rodriguez, Mark A.
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A large volume 2000 MPA air source for the radiatively driven hypersonic wind tunnel

Description: An ultra-high pressure air source for a hypersonic wind tunnel for fluid dynamics and combustion physics and chemistry research and development must provide a 10 kg/s pure air flow for more than 1 s at a specific enthalpy of more than 3000 kJ/kg. The nominal operating pressure and temperature condition for the air source is 2000 MPa and 900 K. A radial array of variable radial support intensifiers connected to an axial manifold provides an arbitrarily large total high pressure volume. This conf… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Constantino, M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tank 241-SY-101 surface level rise remediation test and evaluation plan for transfer system

Description: The purpose of this testing and evaluation plan (TEP) is to provide the high level guidance on testing requirements for ensuring that the equipment and systems to be implemented for remediation of the SY-101 waste level rise USQ are effective.
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: BAUER, R.E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Notice of construction work in tank farm waste transfer pit 244-TX double contained receiver-tank

Description: The following description and any attachments and references are provided to the Washington State Department of Health (WDOH), Division of Radiation Protection, Air Emissions & Defense Waste Section as a notice of construction (NOC) in accordance with Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 246-247, Radiation Protection - Air Emissions. WAC 246-247-060, ''Applications, registration, and licensing'', states ''This section describes the information requirements for approval to construct, modify, and… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Hill, J. S.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Direct Measurement of A{sub c} using Inclusive Charm Tagging at the SLD Detector

Description: We report a new measurement of A{sub c} using data obtained by SLD in 1993-98. This measurement uses a vertex tag technique, where the selection of a c hemisphere is based on the reconstructed mass of the charm hadron decay vertex. The method uses the 3D vertexing capabilities of SLD's CCD vertex detector and the small and stable SLC beams to obtain a high c-event tagging efficiency and purity of 28% and 82%, respectively. Charged kaons identified by the CRID detector and the charge of the reco… more
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Abe, K
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Distinguishing Indirect Signatures Arising From New Physics at the NLC

Description: Many sources of new physics can lead to shifts in the Standard Model predictions for cross sections and asymmetries at the NLC below their direct production thresholds. In this talk we discuss some of the tools that are useful for distinguishing amongst these new physics scenarios. R-parity violation and extensions of the Standard Model gauge structure are two typical non-minimal realizations of supersymmetry which provide us with an important test case to examine.
Date: July 14, 1999
Creator: Rizzo, Thomas G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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