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Crop Insurance: Additional Actions Could Further Improve Program's Financial Soundness

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 Agriculture's (USDA) crop insurance program, focusing on whether USDA: (1) has set adequate insurance rates to achieve the legislative requirement of actuarial soundness; (2) appropriately reimburses participating crop insurance companies for their administrative costs; and (3) has established methodologies in the revenue insurance plan… more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Defense Acquisition: Best Commercial Practices Can Improve Program Outcomes

Description: A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the best practices that can improve the way the Department of Defense (DOD) buys major weapon systems."
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Federal Research: Peer Review Practices at Federal Science Agencies Vary

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO studied the peer review and other quality assurance processes that federal agencies use in conducting scientific research and development, focusing on: (1) defining what is meant by peer review; (2) describing the federal government's peer review policy; (3) describing the peer review practices of 12 federal agencies that conduct scientific research; (4) describing othe… more
Date: March 17, 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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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, Child Restraint Systems, and Child Restraint Anchorage Systems

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) new rule on federal motor vehicle safety standards for child restraint systems. GAO noted that: (1) the rule establishes a new federal standard that requires motor vehicle manufacturers to provide motorists with a new way of installing child restraints; (2) vehicles will be equipped with child… more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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National Park Service: Concerns About the Implementation of Its Employee Housing Policy

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the National Park Service's employee housing program, focusing on: (1) what the Park Service's efforts to implement the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996--one purpose of which was to move the agency to eliminate unnecessary government housing and rely more on the private sector to supply housing for employees; and (2) what impact the action is li… more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Contract Management: DOD Is Examining Opportunities to Further Use Recovery Auditing

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) expanded programs concerning recovery auditing."
Date: March 17, 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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Truck Safety: Effectiveness of Motor Carriers Office Hampered by Data Problems and Slow Progress on Implementing Safety Initiatives

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the safety of large commercial trucks on the nation's highways, focusing on: (1) recent increases in the number of crashes involving large trucks; (2) the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Motor Carrier and Highway Safety's (OMCHS) need to better understand the factors that contribute to such crashes; and (3) OMCHS' need for better data and quicker action o… more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare: Progress to Date in Implementing Certain Major Balanced Budget Act Reforms

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the implementation and impact of the Medicare provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA), focusing on: (1) the Medicare Choice program, particularly the payment method and consumer information efforts; and (2) prospective payment systems (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and home health agencies (HHA) in Medicare's traditional fee-for-service progr… more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Defense Acquisition: Progress of the F-22 and F/A-18E/F Engineering and Manufacturing Development Programs

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Air Force's F-22 and the Navy's F/A-18E/F engineering and manufacturing (EMD) programs."
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Personal Bankruptcy: Methodological Similarities and Differences in Three Reports on Debtors' Ability to Pay

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the principal methodological similarities and differences of three reports on bankruptcy debtors' ability to pay their debts. The three reports were issued by the Credit Research Center, Ernst & Young, and Creighton University/American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)."
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Nuclear Safety: The Convention on Nuclear Safety

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Convention on Nuclear Safety, focusing on the: (1) Convention's scope and objectives; (2) process for reviewing compliance with the Convention; (3) dissemination of information related to the Convention's proceedings; and (4) costs to implement the Convention."
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Urban Waste Grease Resource Assessment

Description: This study collected and analyzed data on urban waste grease resources in 30 randomly selected metropolitan areas in the United States. Two major categories (yellow grease feedstock collected from restaurants by rendering companies; and grease trap wastes from restaurants, which can either be pumped into tank trucks for disposal or flow through municipal sewage systems into wastewater treatment plants) were considered in this study.
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: Wiltsee, G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Use of Activated Charcoal for Rn-220 Adsorption for Operations Associated with the Uranium Deposit in the Auxiliary Charcoal Bed at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Facility

Description: Measurements have been collected with the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of activated charcoal for the removal of {sup 220}Rn from process off-gas at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A series of bench-scale tests were performed at superficial flow velocities of 10, 18, 24, and 33 cm s{sup -1} (20, 35, 47, and 65 ft min{sup -1}) with a continuous input concentration of {sup 220}Rn in the range of 9 x 10{sup 3} pCi L{sup -1}. In addition, two te… more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: Coleman, R.L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Validating the role of AFVs in voluntary mobile source emission reduction programs.

Description: Late in 1997, EPA announced new allowances for voluntary emission control programs. As a result, the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Cities and other metro areas that have made an ongoing commitment to increasing participation by alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) in local fleets have the opportunity to estimate the magnitude and obtain emission reduction credit for following through on that commitment. Unexpectedly large reductions in key ozone precursor emissions in key locations and time… more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: Santini, D. J. & Saricks, C. L.
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A comprehensive study of fracture patterns and densities in the Geysers geothermal reservoir using microearthquake shear-wave splitting tomography. [Quarterly progress report 03/16/1998 - 06/15/1998]

Description: We completed the process of identifying shear-wave splitting in the Geyser area. A total of 2700 observations were recorded with about 1700 observations from the 1988 data and about 1000 observations from 1994. Fast polarization direction map in Figure 1 shows that most of the stations in the Geyser area display consistent direction throughout the main field, between 0{degree} azimuth to 40{degree} azimuth. Some exemptions to the consistent crack alignment (fast polarization direction) can be s… more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: Malin, P.E. & Shalev, E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design package for fuel retrieval system fuel handling tool modification

Description: This is a design package that contains the details for a modification to a tool used for moving fuel elements during loading of MCO Fuel Baskets for the Fuel Retrieval System. The tool is called the fuel handling tool (or stinger). This document contains requirements, development design information, tests, and test reports.
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: TEDESCHI, D.J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Surficial bioturbation and rapid benthic remineralization in the Cape Hatteras shelf/slope region. Final report

Description: This is a final report for the DOE of grant DE-FG02-92ER61464 ''Surficial bioturbation and rapid benthic remineralization in the Cape Hatteras shelf slope region''. Over the past 6 years we have participated in a multidisciplinary field study called the Ocean margins Program (OMP) to examine the importance of continental margins in the global carbon cycle. Specifically, we have focused on the southern portion of the Mid-Atlantic Bight between Cape Hatteras and Chesapeake Bay where a large flux … more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: Aller, Robert C.; Aller, Josephine Y.; Lee, C. & Cochran, J. Kirk
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fall 1998 200 East area biological vector contamination report

Description: The purpose of this report is to document the investigation into the cause of the spread of radioactive contamination in September and October 1998 at the Hanford Site's 200 East Area and its subsequent spread to the City of Richland Landfill; identify the source of the contamination; and present corrective actions. The focus and thrust of managing the incident was based on the need to accomplish the following, listed in order of importance: (1) protect the health and safety of the Site workers… more
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: Connell, D. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scenarios for the Hanford Immobilized Low-Activity Waste (ILAW) performance assessment

Description: Scenarios describing representative exposure cases associated with the disposal of low activity waste from the Hanford Waste Tanks have been defined. These scenarios are based on guidance from the Department of Energy, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and previous Hanford waste disposal performance assessments.
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: MANN, F.M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance objectives for the Hanford Immobilized Low-Activity Waste (ILAW) performance assessment

Description: Performance objectives for the disposal of low activity waste from Hanford Waste Tanks have been developed. These objectives have been based on DOE requirements, programmatic requirements, and public involvement. The DOE requirements include regulations that direct the performance assessment and are cited within the Radioactive Waste Management Order (DOE Order 435.1). Performance objectives for other DOE complex performance assessments have been included.
Date: March 17, 1999
Creator: MANN, F.M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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