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Internal Revenue Service: Interim Results of the 2007 Tax Filing Season and the Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) tax filing season performance is a key indicator of how well IRS serves taxpayers. This year's filing season was expected to be risky because of tax system changes, including the telephone excise tax refund (TETR). IRS's fiscal year (FY) 2008 budget request shows its spending proposal for taxpayer service, enforcement, and Business Systems Modernization (BSM). The re… more
Date: April 3, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interstate Compacts: An Overview of the Structure and Governance of Environment and Natural Resource Compacts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Interstate compacts are legal agreements between states that are designed to resolve concerns that transcend state lines, such as allocating interstate waters. While some compacts assign their administration to existing state agencies, compacts requiring greater coordination among states may establish an interstate agency, typically called a commission, to administer their provisions. Congress must give… more
Date: April 3, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Management: Long-standing Financial Systems Weaknesses Present a Formidable Challenge

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 (FFMIA) requires the 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies to implement and maintain financial management systems that comply substantially with (1) federal financial management systems requirements, (2) federal accounting standards, and (3) the U.S. Government Standard General Ledger (SGL). FFMIA also requires GAO to report annually on t… more
Date: August 3, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food Stamp Program: Use of Alternative Methods to Apply for and Maintain Benefits Could Be Enhanced by Additional Evaluation and Information on Promising Practices

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "One in 12 Americans participates in the federal Food Stamp Program, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). States have begun offering individuals alternatives to visiting the local assistance office to apply for and maintain benefits, such as mail-in procedures, call centers, and on-line services. GAO was asked to examine: (1) what alternative methods states are using to increase program … more
Date: May 3, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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300 Area Building Retention Evaluation Mitigation Plan

Description: Evaluate the long-term retention of several facilities associated with the PNNL Capability Replacement Laboratory and other Hanfor mission needs. WCH prepared a mitigation plan for three scenarios with different release dates for specific buildings. The evaluations present a proposed plan for providing utility services to retained facilities in support of a long-term (+20 year) lifespan in addition to temporary services to buildings with specified delayed release dates.
Date: July 3, 2007
Creator: McBride, D. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Damage threshold of inorganic solids under free-electron-laser irradiation at 32.5 nm wavelength

Description: We exposed samples of B4C, amorphous C, chemical-vapor-deposition (CVD)-diamond C, Si, and SiC to single 25 fs-long pulses of 32.5 nm free-electron-laser radiation at fluences of up to 2.2 J/cm{sup 2}. The samples were chosen as candidate materials for x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) optics. We found that the threshold for surface-damage is on the order of the fluence required for thermal melting. For larger fluences, the crater depths correspond to temperatures on the order of the critical te… more
Date: December 3, 2007
Creator: Hau-Riege, S.; London, R. A.; Bionta, R. M.; McKernan, M. A.; Baker, S. L.; Krzywinski, J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessing the Performance of 5mm White LED Light Sources forDeveloping-Country Applications

Description: Some white light-emitting diode (LED) light sources haverecently attained levels of efficiency and cost that allow them tocompete with fluorescent lighting for off-grid applications in thedeveloping world. Additional attributes (optics, size, ruggedness, andservice life) make them potentially superior products. Enormousreductions in energy use and greenhouse-gas emissions are thus possible,and system costs can be much lower given the ability to downsize thecharging and energy storage components… more
Date: May 3, 2007
Creator: Mills, Evan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mixed Alcohol Synthesis Catalyst Screening

Description: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are conducting research to investigate the feasibility of producing mixed alcohols from biomass-derived synthesis gas (syngas). PNNL is tasked with obtaining commercially available or preparing promising mixed-alcohol catalysts and screening them in a laboratory-scale reactor system. Commercially available catalysts and the most promising experimental catalysts are provided to NREL for testing using a s… more
Date: September 3, 2007
Creator: Gerber, Mark A.; White, James F. & Stevens, Don J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long-Term US Industrial Energy Use and CO2 Emissions

Description: We present a description and scenario results from our recently-developed long-term model of United States industrial sector energy consumption, which we have incorporated as a module within the ObjECTS-MiniCAM integrated assessment model. This new industrial model focuses on energy technology and fuel choices over a 100 year period and allows examination of the industrial sector response to climate policies within a global modeling framework. A key challenge was to define a level of aggregatio… more
Date: December 3, 2007
Creator: Wise, Marshall A.; Sinha, Paramita; Smith, Steven J. & Lurz, Joshua P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scalable Equation of State Capability

Description: The purpose of this techbase project was to investigate the use of parallel array data types to reduce the memory footprint of the Livermore Equation Of State (LEOS) library. Addressing the memory scalability of LEOS is necessary to run large scientific simulations on IBM BG/L and future architectures with low memory per processing core. We considered using normal MPI, one-sided MPI, and Global Arrays to manage the distributed array and ended up choosing Global Arrays because it was the only co… more
Date: December 3, 2007
Creator: Epperly, T W; Fritsch, F N; Norquist, P D & Sanford, L A
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Confirmatory Survey Results for the Emergency Operations Facility (EOF) at the Connecticut Yankee Haddam Neck Plant, Haddam, Connecticut

Description: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requested that the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) perform a confirmatory survey on the Emergency Operations Facility (EOF) at the Connecticut Yankee Haddam Neck Plant (HNP) in Haddam, Connecticut
Date: July 3, 2007
Creator: Adams, W. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remaining Sites Verification Package for the 1607-F4 Sanitary Sewer System, Waste Site Reclassification Form 2004-131

Description: The 1607-F4 waste site is the former location of the sanitary sewer system that serviced the former 115-F Gas Recirculation Building. The system included a septic tank, drain field, and associated pipeline that were in use from 1944 to 1965. The 1607-F4 waste site received unknown amounts of sanitary sewage from the 115-F Gas Recirculation Building and may have potentially contained hazardous and radioactive contamination. In accordance with this evaluation, the verification sampling results su… more
Date: December 3, 2007
Creator: Dittmer, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Stabilized Spheromak Fusion Reactors

Description: The U.S. fusion energy program is focused on research with the potential for studying plasmas at thermonuclear temperatures, currently epitomized by the tokamak-based International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) but also continuing exploratory work on other plasma confinement concepts. Among the latter is the spheromak pursued on the SSPX facility at LLNL. Experiments in SSPX using electrostatic current drive by coaxial guns have now demonstrated stable spheromaks with good heat conf… more
Date: April 3, 2007
Creator: Fowler, T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluated Decay Data for 206TI.

Description: Evaluated decay data for the {sup 206}Tl nuclide are presented, including recommended values for the half-life, {beta}- and {gamma}-ray emission energies and probabilities. Data on X-ray radiations, Auger and conversion electron energies and emission probabilities are also tabulated. Carefully evaluated data for radioactive nuclides refer to complex nuclear level schemes and tables of numerical values, which quantify fundamental nuclear structure information such as level energies and quantum n… more
Date: January 3, 2007
Creator: Kondev, F. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Demand Responsive Lighting: A Scoping Study

Description: The objective of this scoping study is: (1) to identify current market drivers and technology trends that can improve the demand responsiveness of commercial building lighting systems and (2) to quantify the energy, demand and environmental benefits of implementing lighting demand response and energy-saving controls strategies Statewide. Lighting systems in California commercial buildings consume 30 GWh. Lighting systems in commercial buildings often waste energy and unnecessarily stress the el… more
Date: January 3, 2007
Creator: Rubinstein, Francis & Kiliccote, Sila
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CRITICALITY CURVES FOR PLUTONIUM HYDRAULIC FLUID MIXTURES

Description: This Calculation Note performs and documents MCNP criticality calculations for plutonium (100% {sup 239}Pu) hydraulic fluid mixtures. Spherical geometry was used for these generalized criticality safety calculations and three geometries of neutron reflection are: {sm_bullet}bare, {sm_bullet}1 inch of hydraulic fluid, or {sm_bullet}12 inches of hydraulic fluid. This document shows the critical volume and critical mass for various concentrations of plutonium in hydraulic fluid. Between 1 and 2 ga… more
Date: October 3, 2007
Creator: WD, WITTEKIND
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impacts of China's Current Appliance Standards and LabelingProgram to 2020

Description: The report summarizes the history and nature of China sstandardsand labeling program in the Introduction in Section 1. Trends indomestic production, exports, penetration rates, unit energy consumptionand the history of S&L technical levels by product are discussed ingreat detail in Section 2. The national energy impactsanalysis found inSection 3 concludes that overall China s standards and labeling programsreduce total electricity consumption in 2020 by an annual 106 TWh, or 16percent of what w… more
Date: March 3, 2007
Creator: Fridley, David; Aden, Nathaniel; Zhou, Nan & Lin, Jiang
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development and Integration of Single-Asperity Nanotribology Experiments & Nanoscale Interface Finite Element Modeling for Prediction and Control of Friction and Damage in Micro- and Nano-mechnical Systems

Description: This report describes the accomplishments of the DOE BES grant entitled "Development and Integration of Single-Asperity Nanotribology Experiments & Nanoscale Interface Finite Element Modeling for Prediction and Control of Friction and Damage in Micro- and Nano-mechnical Systems". Key results are: the determination of nanoscale frictional properties of MEMS surfaces, self-assembled monolayers, and novel carbon-based films, as well as the development of models to describe this behavior.
Date: March 3, 2007
Creator: Carpick, R. W. & Plesha, M. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scalable File Systems for High Performance Computing Final Report

Description: Simulations of mode I interlaminar fracture toughness tests of a carbon-reinforced composite material (BMS 8-212) were conducted with LSDYNA. The fracture toughness tests were performed by U.C. Berkeley. The simulations were performed to investigate the validity and practicality of employing decohesive elements to represent interlaminar bond failures that are prevalent in carbon-fiber composite structure penetration events. The simulations employed a decohesive element formulation that was veri… more
Date: October 3, 2007
Creator: Brandt, S A
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remaining Sites Verification Package for the 100-F-26:10, 1607-F3 Sanitary Sewer Pipelines (182-F, 183-F, and 151-F Sanitary Sewer Lines), Waste Site Reclassification Form 2007-028

Description: The 100-F-26:10 waste site includes sanitary sewer lines that serviced the former 182-F, 183-F, and 151-F Buildings. In accordance with this evaluation, the verification sampling results support a reclassification of this site to Interim Closed Out. The results of verification sampling show that residual contaminant concentrations do not preclude any future uses and allow for unrestricted use of shallow zone soils. The results also demonstrate that residual contaminant concentrations are protec… more
Date: December 3, 2007
Creator: Dittmer, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Evaluation of Whole Body Counting Facilities in the Marshall Islands (2002-2005)

Description: The United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) has recently implemented a series of strategic initiatives to address long-term radiological surveillance needs at former U.S. nuclear test sites in the Marshall Islands (https://eed.llnl.gov/mi/). Local atoll governments have been actively engaged in developing shared responsibilities for protecting the health and safety of resettled and resettling population at risk from exposure to elevated levels of residual fallout contamination in the envi… more
Date: April 3, 2007
Creator: Kehl, S R; Hamilton, T; Jue, T & Hickman, D
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Postal Reform

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Date: January 3, 2007
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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