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Defense Inventory: Implementation Plans to Enhance Control Over Shipped Items Can Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Each year, the Department of Defense (DOD) ships inventory worth billions of dollars to locations around the world. DOD has had longstanding difficulty tracking this inventory from origin to destination. GAO reviewed six draft plans developed by the four military services, the Defense Logistics Agency, and the U.S. Transportation Command to overcome this problem. The six draft plans have significantly improved… more
Date: November 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Securities Arbitration: Actions Needed to Address Problem of Unpaid Awards

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on issues relating to the arbitration process in the securities industry, focusing on: (1) whether arbitration forums had implemented recommendations made in GAO's 1992 report and whether the changes were effective; (2) how investors fared in award decisions; and (3) the extent to which investors were paid the amounts awarded by arbitration panels." more
Date: June 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Improper Payments: While Enhancements Hold Promise for Measuring Potential Fraud and Abuse, Challenges Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the structural problems that exist in the Medicare claims processing system, focusing on: (1) what the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) proposals have been designed or initiated to measure Medicare improper payments; and (2) the status of these proposals and initiatives and how will they enhance HCFA's ability to comprehensively measur… more
Date: September 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Independent Accountants Identify Financial Management Weaknesses

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report documents GAO's concurrence with the findings of PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) report on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) financial management operations. To effectively monitor and evaluate PwC's work, GAO reviewed PwC's methodology for conducting its work, its collection techniques, resulting analysis, and the draft and final reports. Overall, PwC found significant weaknesse… more
Date: November 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Automobile Fuel Economy: Potential Effects of Increasing the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program standards, focusing on: (1) the impact of increasing CAFE standards on oil consumption, the environment, and automobile safety in the United States; and (2) other issues that affect the CAFE discussion."
Date: August 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Service Programs: Two AmeriCorps Programs' Funding and Benefits

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) reviewed two major AmeriCorps programs--AmeriCorps State/National and AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC); (2) compared cost data for NCCC with similar data from the Department of Labor's Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (CCC) and reasons for any major differences; (3) compared AmeriCorps participant benefits with those afforded entry-level m… more
Date: February 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Lands: Agencies Need to Assess the Impact of Personal Watercraft and Snowmobile Use

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the use of personal watercraft and snowmobile use on federal lands, focusing on: (1) the extent to which personal watercraft and snowmobiles are used in federal units that are managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the National Park Service (NPS), and the Forest Service; (2) the bases for agency decisions to authori… more
Date: September 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Acquisitions: Recent F-22 Production Cost Estimates Exceeded Congressional Limitation

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Air Force F-22 Raptor production cost estimate, focusing on: (1) the status of cost reduction plans, including some plans not yet implemented, and Air Force procedures for reporting on the plans; and (2) a comparison of the 1999 production cost estimates with the congressional cost limitation."
Date: August 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pipeline Safety: The Office of Pipeline Safety Is Changing How It Oversees the Pipeline Industry

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Transportation Office of Pipeline Safety's (OPS) performance in regulating pipeline safety, focusing on: (1) the extent of major pipeline accidents from 1989 through 1998; (2) OPS' implementation of the 1996 Accountable Pipeline Safety and Partnership Act's risk management demonstration program; (3) OPS' inspection and enforcement efforts sinc… more
Date: May 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gender Equity: Men's and Women's Participation in Higher Education

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since Title IX of the Education Amendments was enacted in 1972, women's participation in higher education academic programs has increased significantly. Women's participation in predominantly male fields such as business, law, and medicine has also increased greatly, although changes in other predominantly male fields, such as engineering and physical science, have been smaller. In some predominantly female fi… more
Date: December 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Financial Management: Further Improvements Needed to Establish Adequate Financial Control and Accountability

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO evaluated the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) financial management activities to determine if they are sufficient to resolve financial management weaknesses identified through annual financial statement audits and other management-type reviews of HCFA's Medicare activities."
Date: March 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Drug Abuse Treatment: Efforts Under Way to Determine Effectiveness of State Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the efforts by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and states to provide effective drug abuse treatment programs, focusing on: (1) activities supported by SAMHSA's Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) block grant and Knowledge Development and Application (KDA) grant funds for drug abuse treatment; (2) SAMHSA and sta… more
Date: February 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Space Shuttle: Human Capital and Safety Upgrade Challenges Require Continued Attention

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the workforce and safety issues facing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its shuttle program, focusing on the: (1) impact of workforce reductions on the shuttle program; (2) challenges NASA faces in addressing workforce issues; and (3) status of planned shuttle safety and supportability upgrades."
Date: August 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternative Minimum Tax: An Overview of Its Rationale and Impact on Individual Taxpayers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the alternative minimum tax (AMT) system, focusing on: (1) the rationale for establishing AMT; (2) how AMT affects taxpayers' tax liability; (3) the expected increase in AMT coverage and additional tax liability and the major reasons for the increase; and (4) the impact of the projected increase in AMT coverage on taxpayers' compliance burden and… more
Date: August 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Government: Government Paperwork Elimination Act Presents Challenges for Agencies

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA) and how it enables citizens to interact with the federal government electronically, focusing on: (1) the status of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) efforts to develop guidance implementing GPEA; and (2) major challenges or impediments that might affect successful GPEA implementation."
Date: September 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Nonproliferation: Implications of the U.S. Purchase of Russian Highly Enriched Uranium

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 1993, the United States agreed to buy 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium from Russia. This uranium was extracted from dismantled nuclear weapons over a 20-year period. USEC, Incorporated, (the company that acts as an executive agent for the United States) paid Russia about $1.6 billion for more than 3,000 metric tons of low enriched uranium blended from highly enriched uranium. Five of these deliver… more
Date: December 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Air Force Depot Maintenance: Budgeting Difficulties and Operational Inefficiencies

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the financial and management issues related to the depot maintenance activity group of the Air Force Working Capital Fund."
Date: August 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Water Quality: Key EPA and State Decisions Limited by Inconsistent and Incomplete Data

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Water Quality Inventory, focusing on whether: (1) the information in EPA's National Water Quality Inventory is reliable and representative of water quality conditions nationwide; and (2) available data are sufficient to allow state officials to make key decisions about activities required by t… more
Date: March 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rural Housing: Options for Optimizing the Federal Role in Rural Housing Development

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on rural housing programs, focusing on: (1) the physical condition of today's rural housing and rural households' access to affordable housing credit; (2) the rural housing programs offered by the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Housing Service (RHS) and the ways in which RHS' programs have adapted to changes in the level of federal housing… more
Date: September 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aviation Competition: Issues Related to the Proposed United Airlines-US Airways Merger

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In May 2000, two of the nation's largest airlines, United Airlines and US Airways, proposed merging. As part of the agreement, United and US Airways also proposed divesting some of the US Airways' assets at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to create an airline to be known as DC Air. The Justice Department is now reviewing the proposal to determine if the merger would violate U.S. antitrust laws and, i… more
Date: December 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cooperative Threat Reduction: DOD's 1997-98 Reports on Accounting for Assistance Were Late and Incomplete

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) calendar years 1997 and 1998 accounting reports for the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, which provides assistance to the former Soviet Union, focusing on each report's: (1) compliance with its respective deadline for submission to Congress; and (2) accuracy and completeness."
Date: March 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Indian Trust Funds: Improvements Made in Acquisition of New Asset and Accounting System But Significant Risks Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the Department of the Interior's effort to acquire and develop its new Trust Asset and Accounting Management System (TAAMS), focusing on: (1) actions Interior has taken in response to GAO's previous reviews and recommendations; and (2) the business and technical risks and challenges still confronting Interior as it begins to deploy TAAMS."
Date: September 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Forest Service Planning: Better Integration of Broad-Scale Assessments Into Forest Plans Is Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Forest Service's ecosystem planning efforts, including the Great Lakes Ecological Assessment, focusing on the: (1) views of the Forest Service, other federal agencies, and GAO on key elements that broad-scale ecosystem based assessments should contain to maximize their value to the forest planning process; (2) extent to which the Forest Service has incorpor… more
Date: February 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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