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Immigration Detainers: Legal Issues

Description: Report that surveys the various authorities governing immigration detainers, including the standard detainer form (Form I-247) sent by ICE to other law enforcement agencies. The report also discusses key legal issues raised by immigration detainers.
Date: August 31, 2012
Creator: Manuel, Kate M.
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Force Structure: Army and Marine Corps Efforts to Review Nonstandard Equipment for Future Usefulness

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In summary, the Army and the Marine Corps have taken steps to determine the future usefulness of nonstandard equipment but have not finalized all of the decisions on whether to add such equipment to unit authorization documents. As of November 2011, the Army had reviewed 409 equipment systems through its Capabilities Development for Rapid Transition process, determining that about 11 percent of that equiā€¦ more
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Inspectors General: HUD Office of Inspector General Resources and Results

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "During the 5-year period from fiscal year 2007 through 2011, the Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentĀ’s (HUD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) had budget and staffing resources that were consistent with other OIGs, and a monetary return for each budget dollar which exceeded the average return for Cabinet-level OIGs. During the 5-year period, the HUD OIG had total budgetary resources ranging fromā€¦ more
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Anthrax: DHS Faces Challenges in Validating Methods for Sample Collection and Analysis

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "A workgroupĀ—led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and made up of DHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Ā—has attempted to address GAOĀ’s recommendations to (1) validate environmental sampling methods for detecting Bacilluā€¦ more
Date: July 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Privacy: Federal Law Should Be Updated to Address Changing Technology Landscape

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Technological developments since the Privacy Act became law in 1974 have changed the way information is organized and shared among organizations and individuals. Such advances have rendered some of the provisions of the Privacy Act and the E-Government Act of 2002 inadequate to fully protect all personally identifiable information collected, used, and maintained by the federal government. For example, GAO hasā€¦ more
Date: July 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Medical Devices: FDA Should Expand Its Consideration of Information Security for Certain Types of Devices

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Several information security threats exist that can exploit vulnerabilities in active implantable medical devices, but experts caution that efforts to mitigate information security risks may adversely affect device performance. Threats to active devicesĀ—that is, devices that rely on a power source to operateĀ—that also have wireless capability can be unintentional, such as interference from electromagnetā€¦ more
Date: August 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Terrorist Watchlist: Routinely Assessing Impacts of Agency Actions since the December 25, 2009, Attempted Attack Could Help Inform Future Efforts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In July 2010, the federal government finalized guidance to address weaknesses in the watchlist nominations process that were exposed by the December 2009 attempted attack and to clarify how agencies are to nominate individuals to the watchlist. The nominating agencies GAO contacted expressed concerns about the increasing volumes of information and related challenges in processing this information. Neverā€¦ more
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Managing for Results: GAO's Work Related to the Interim Crosscutting Priority Goals under the GPRA Modernization Act

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The act requires that OMB develop federal government priority goals (crosscutting goals) and a federal government performance plan, which is to be updated annually and released concurrently with the PresidentĀ’s budget. Specifically, it requires OMB, starting with the 2015 budget and in coordination with agencies and in consultation with the Congress, to developĀ—every 4 yearsĀ—long-term, outcome-oriented gā€¦ more
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Additional Opportunities Exist to Streamline Support Functions at NNSA and Office of Science Sites

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Support function costs at NNSA and Science sites for fiscal years 2007 through 2011 are not fully known because DOE changed its data collection approach beginning in 2010 to improve its data and, as a result, does not have complete and comparable cost data for all years. In fiscal years 2007 through 2009, total support costs for NNSA and Science sites grew from $5 billion to about $5.5 billion (nominal ā€¦ more
Date: January 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Megaports Initiative Faces Funding and Sustainability Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As of August 2012, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) had completed 42 of 100 planned Megaports projects in 31 countries and, as of December 2011, NNSA had spent about $850 million on the Megaports Initiative (Initiative). NNSAā€™s Initiative has equipped these seaports with radiation detection equipment, established training programs for foreign personnel, and created a sustainability prā€¦ more
Date: October 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nonpoint Source Water Pollution: Greater Oversight and Additional Data Needed for Key EPA Water Program

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Under section 319 of the Clean Water Act, state-selected projects to reduce nonpoint source pollution have helped restore more than 350 impaired water bodies since 2000, but other projects have encountered significant challenges. According to GAO survey results, 28 percent of projects did not achieve all objectives originally identified in the project proposal (e.g., implementing the desired number of pā€¦ more
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Human Rights: State Department Followed an Extensive Process to Prepare Annual Country Reports

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "State has an extensive process designed to make the country reports on human rights as comprehensive, objective, and uniform as possible. This process includes annually issuing detailed instructions, consulting and assessing information from multiple sources, and collaboratively and iteratively drafting and reviewing the reports. State issues instructions for preparing the country reports each year, outlā€¦ more
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Observations on the Coast Guard's and the Department of Homeland Security's Fleet Studies

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Fleet Mix Phase One, which was not cost constrained, indicated that the planned program of record does not fully meet long-term strategic goals and found that, to meet these goals, the Coast Guard requires a fleet that could cost as much as $65 billion to acquire, which is about $40 billion more than the $24.2 billion program of record. Coast Guard officials stated that the analysis supports the continueā€¦ more
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Drug Pricing: Research on Savings from Generic Drug Use

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Our review identified articles that used varying approaches to estimate the savings associated with generic drug use in the United States. One group of studies estimated the savings in reduced drug costs that have accrued from the use of generics. For example, a series of studies estimated the total savings that have accrued to the U.S. health care system from substituting generic drugs for their brand-ā€¦ more
Date: January 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Freedom of Information Act: Additional Actions Can Strengthen Agency Efforts to Improve Management

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The major components of the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Justice, and Health and Human Services have taken a variety of actions to improve management of their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) programs. To reduce their backlogs of outstanding requests, agencies have taken actions that include regularly reporting to management, mobilizing extra resources, and streamlining procedures for resā€¦ more
Date: July 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Infrastructure: DOD Did Not Fully Address the Supplemental Reporting Requirements in Its Energy Management Report

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Our analysis showed that DODĀ’s Fiscal Year 2010 Annual Energy Management Report fully addressed two, did not address one (issue 4), and partially addressed five of the eight expanded reporting requirements. In some cases, it was difficult to determine the extent to which DOD had addressed an issue because information related to a specific reporting requirement was fragmented or scattered throughout the rā€¦ more
Date: January 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Defense Acquisitions: Further Action Needed to Improve DOD's Insight and Management of Long-term Maintenance Contracts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "At the departmental level, neither the Department of Defense (DOD) nor the individual military departments know the extent to which weapon system programs rely on long-term maintenance contracts. DOD policy requires DOD and the military departments to approve acquisition strategies and lifecycle sustainment plans, which include information on contractor support, but DOD officials reported that they do nā€¦ more
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Endangered Sea Turtles: Better Coordination, Data Collection, and Planning Could Improve Federal Protection and Recovery Efforts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The services have coordinated some sea turtle protection efforts, including jointly developing recovery plans, and they established a memorandum of understanding in 1977 to define their roles in joint administration of their efforts. Nevertheless, neither the memorandum nor the services have clearly defined how and when the services are to coordinate; also, the services do not consistently share informaā€¦ more
Date: January 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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