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Candidate Recommendation # DON-0002R (open access)

Candidate Recommendation # DON-0002R

Disregard Header and Footer Restriction: Candidate Recommendation # DON-0002R, justification, payback, economic impact on communities, community infrastructure impact, environmental impact, potential competing recommendations, force structure capabilities, military value analysis results, and military values score table.
Date: August 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Candidate #DON-0002R Candidate summary table (open access)

Candidate #DON-0002R Candidate summary table

Disregard Header and Footer Restriction: Candidate recommendation #DON-0002R, Candidate summary table with justification, military value, payback, impacts.
Date: August 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Input - Presentation - The Case for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard - Naval Shipyard Portmouth NH (open access)

Community Input - Presentation - The Case for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard - Naval Shipyard Portmouth NH

The Case for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard NHJME Delegations Meeting With Commissioners Gehman, Hansen and Hill
Date: August 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Input - Little Rock AFB Arkansas American Eagle Communities (open access)

Community Input - Little Rock AFB Arkansas American Eagle Communities

Community Input - Briefing - American Eagle Communities : Bring Home the Dream
Date: August 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Input - Presentation with CD - Presented for the 110th Fighter Wing and Battle Creek ANG Base 29 July 2005 (open access)

Community Input - Presentation with CD - Presented for the 110th Fighter Wing and Battle Creek ANG Base 29 July 2005

Evaluation of the Air Force's Determination of the Military value of the W.K. kellog air Guard Station and the Potential Cost Savings Generated by Its Closing
Date: August 9, 2005
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Coal Technology: Status of Projects and Sales of Demonstrated Technology (open access)

Clean Coal Technology: Status of Projects and Sales of Demonstrated Technology

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Coal Technology Demonstration Program, focusing on the: (1) status of 13 Clean Coal Technology projects that preliminary information indicated could have over $1 million in unspent funds; and (2) extent to which DOE's participants in completed projects have sold demonstrated Clean Coal technologies to coal users."
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Health and Human Services: Amounts Charged to the Department for Events Attended by the President (open access)

Department of Health and Human Services: Amounts Charged to the Department for Events Attended by the President

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO, answering a request from the House Committee on Ways and Means, compiled information concerning amounts charged by the White House for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) events attended by President George W. Bush and charged to any department within HHS."
Date: June 9, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Certification Requirements: Guidance Governing Agency Actions Is Limited (open access)

Certification Requirements: Guidance Governing Agency Actions Is Limited

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the certification requirements of federal agencies, focusing on: (1) the extent and variety of certification activities in the federal government; (2) the extent to which any policies, procedures, or guidance exist governing these activities, either governmentwide or within selected agencies; and (3) an agency certification practice that could serve as an example or best practice for other agencies."
Date: September 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Highlights of a Forum: Financial Literacy: Strengthening Partnerships in Challenging Times (open access)

Highlights of a Forum: Financial Literacy: Strengthening Partnerships in Challenging Times

Other written product issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins ""
Date: February 9, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Business Modernization: Some Progress Made toward Implementing GAO Recommendations Related to NASA's Integrated Financial Management Program (open access)

Business Modernization: Some Progress Made toward Implementing GAO Recommendations Related to NASA's Integrated Financial Management Program

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As we and others have reported in the past, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has fundamental problems with its financial management operations that undermine its external financial reporting ability and thwart its efforts to effectively manage and oversee its major programs. In April 2000, NASA began addressing many of its financial and management challenges through its effort to implement a new integrated financial management system, known as the Integrated Financial Management Program (IFMP), which NASA expects to complete in fiscal year 2008. However, in April and November 2003--3 years into the IFMP implementation effort and with significant investment already made in the program--we issued a series of four reports that detailed weaknesses in NASA's acquisition and implementation strategy for IFMP. Specifically, we reported that NASA had not followed key best practices for acquiring and implementing IFMP and, therefore, was at risk of making a substantial investment in a financial management system that would fall far short of its stated goal of providing meaningful, reliable, and timely information to support effective day-to-day program management and external financial reporting. As part of the four reports we issued on …
Date: September 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Business Transformation: Status of Department of Defense Efforts to Develop a Management Approach to Guide Business Transformation (open access)

Defense Business Transformation: Status of Department of Defense Efforts to Develop a Management Approach to Guide Business Transformation

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This letter formally transmits GAO's findings on the status of the Department of Defense's efforts to develop a management approach to guide business transformation. This work was performed under the authority of the Comptroller General to conduct evaluations on his own initiative and as part of our work for GAO's High Risk Series, January 2009 Update."
Date: January 9, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
General Services Administration Could Better Manage Unexpended Construction Balances and Make Its Budget More Transparent (open access)

General Services Administration Could Better Manage Unexpended Construction Balances and Make Its Budget More Transparent

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The General Services Administration (GSA) is the federal government's principal real estate agent, with responsibilities including constructing, leasing, and maintaining a variety of facilities--such as office buildings, courthouses, border stations, and laboratories--that it rents to federal agencies. GSA's construction projects, which can span several years, are authorized to carry forward fund balances from year to year in its construction and facility accounts for these projects. GSA is responsible for keeping track of and managing these balances to ensure that any unexpended funds that remain after projects are completed are redirected to other construction project needs within the agency. GSA is required to identify construction projects that are estimated to cost in excess of established thresholds and obtain congressional approval for them. Funding for these projects exists in two accounts: (1) Construction and Acquisition and (2) Repairs and Alterations. For the purposes of this report, we refer to them as GSA's construction accounts. Additionally, the studies required for construction projects are among the items funded in the Building Operations account and we decided to include this account in our review. For purposes of this report, we refer to this …
Date: May 9, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Financial Statement Audit Report for the Military Chaplains Association of the United States of America for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2003 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Financial Statement Audit Report for the Military Chaplains Association of the United States of America for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2003

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the audit reports covering the financial statements of the Military Chaplains Association of the United States of America for fiscal years 2004 and 2003. GAO found no reportable instances of noncompliance. The audit reports include the auditors' opinions that the financial statements of the corporation were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles."
Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Cigarette Sales: Giving ATF Investigative Authority May Improve Reporting and Enforcement (open access)

Internet Cigarette Sales: Giving ATF Investigative Authority May Improve Reporting and Enforcement

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "State and federal officials are concerned that as Internet cigarette sales continue to grow and as states' cigarette taxes increase, so will the amount of lost state tax revenue due to noncompliance with the Jenkins Act. The act requires any person who sells and ships cigarettes across a state line to a buyer, other than a licensed distributor, to report the sale to the buyer's state tobacco tax administrator. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is responsible for enforcing the Jenkins Act, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the primary investigative authority. However, GAO found that DOJ and FBI headquarters officials did not identify any actions taken to enforce the Jenkins Act with respect to Internet cigarette sales. Since 1997, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) has begun three investigations of Internet cigarette vendors for cigarette smuggling that included the investigation of potential Jenkins Act violations. Overall, seven of nine selected states have made some effort to promote Jenkins Act compliance by Internet cigarette vendors by contacting Internet vendors and U.S. Attorneys' Offices, but they produced few results. GAO's Internet search efforts identified 147 website …
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Emissions: Status of Regulatory Activities and Permitting on Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf (open access)

Air Emissions: Status of Regulatory Activities and Permitting on Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012, amended the Clean Air Act to transfer regulatory authority for air emissions on the outer continental shelf (OCS) off Alaska's north coast, including the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Department of the Interior. Since the act was passed on December 23, 2011, there has been limited activity subject to air emission regulations or permitting on the OCS off Alaska's north coast, according to officials at the EPA and Interior. EPA officials stated that, before the act was passed, EPA had issued to Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc. and Shell Offshore, Inc., collectively, three air emission permits for drilling and other activities on the OCS off Alaska's north coast. Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is responsible for reviewing and approving plans for exploration, development, and production activities; this process includes projections of air emissions. According to a BOEM official, after the act passed, Shell conducted exploratory drilling on the OCS off Alaska's north coast in 2012, but it did so under its existing air emissions permits from EPA. Ancillary activities, such as surveys of the …
Date: January 9, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Disability: Improving Notices to Denied Claimants (open access)

Social Security Disability: Improving Notices to Denied Claimants

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "On December 17, 2008, GAO issued a report concerning our findings on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) collection of medical evidence in the disability determination process. In the course of our review, an issue arose that was outside the scope of our work but is important to how SSA communicates its disability determinations to claimants. During this review, we examined a limited random selection of electronic folders for initial disability determinations for fiscal year 2007. The folders included notices sent to each denied claimant to explain the reasons for the denial of their claim and the evidence used to make the determination. Our findings related to these notices and current SSA policy regarding them is the subject of this report. This report also contains a recommendation that warrants SSA management's consideration."
Date: January 9, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Activities Panel: Use of Numerical Goals (open access)

Commercial Activities Panel: Use of Numerical Goals

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed two competitive sourcing initiatives to determine whether they are consistent with the sourcing principles recommended by the Commercial Activities Panel. GAO found that, based on their current design, the administration's "performance target" and the fiscal year 2003 Treasury and General Government Appropriations bill, are not fully consistent with the sourcing principles adopted by the Panel. The most relevant recommended principle concerning these initiatives is that sourcing policy should "avoid arbitrary full-time equivalent (FTE) or other arbitrary numerical goals." The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum in March 2001, setting goals for a percentage of agencies' FTE positions that are to be subjected to public-private competition or directly converted to contractor performance. This OMB initiative is not consistent with the Panel's recommended principles. There is no evidence to indicate that its numerical FTE goals were based on considered research and sound analysis. Any related goals should be based on a review of historical data on sourcing activity in the public and private sectors combined with an analysis of current and emerging market trends."
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Agency: Findings of Significant Contribution and Rulemaking on Section 126 Petitions for Purposes of Reducing Interstate Ozone Transport (open access)

Environmental Protection Agency: Findings of Significant Contribution and Rulemaking on Section 126 Petitions for Purposes of Reducing Interstate Ozone Transport

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new rule on reducing interstate ozone transport of nitrogen oxides. GAO noted that: (1) in accordance with section 126 of the Clean Air Act, the rule contains EPA's final action on petitions filed by eight northeastern states seeking to mitigate significant transport of nitrogen oxides, one of the main precursors of ground-level ozone, across state lines; (2) in the rule, EPA determines that portions of six of the petitions are technically meritorious; (3) those portions will be automatically deemed granted or denied at certain later dates pending actions by the states and EPA regarding state submittals in response to the final nitrogen oxides state implementation plan call; and (4) EPA complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."
Date: June 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Coalition Support and International Donor Commitments (open access)

Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Coalition Support and International Donor Commitments

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In March 2003, a U.S.-led multinational force began operations in Iraq. At that time, 48 nations, identified as a "coalition of the willing," offered political, military, and financial support for U.S. efforts in Iraq, with 38 nations other than the United States providing troops. In addition, international donors met in Madrid in October 2003 to pledge funding for the reconstruction of Iraq's infrastructure, which had deteriorated after multiple wars and decades of neglect under the previous regime. This testimony discusses (1) the troop commitments other countries have made to operations in Iraq, (2) the funding the United States has provided to support other countries' participation in the multinational force, and (3) the financial support international donors have provided to Iraq reconstruction efforts. This testimony is based on GAO's prior work and data collected for this hearing. Although we reviewed both classified and unclassified documents, the information in this statement is based only on unclassified documents. We completed this work in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards."
Date: May 9, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: Early Action Would be Prudent (open access)

Social Security Reform: Early Action Would be Prudent

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Social Security is the foundation of the nation's retirement income system, helping to protect the vast majority of American workers and their families from poverty in old age. However, it is much more than a retirement program, also providing millions of Americans with disability insurance and survivors' benefits. Over the long term, as the baby boom generation retires and as Americans continue to live longer and have fewer children, Social Security's financing shortfall presents a major program solvency and sustainability challenge that is widening as time passes. The House Committee on Ways and Means asked GAO to discuss the need for Social Security reform. This testimony addresses the nature of Social Security's long-term financing problem and why it would be prudent for Congress to take action sooner rather than later. This testimony also notes the broader context in which reform proposals should be considered and the criteria that GAO has recommended as a basis for analyzing any Social Security reform proposals."
Date: March 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forest Service: Scope and Methodology Used to Determine Number of Appeals and Legal Challenges of Fiscal Year 2001 Fuel Reduction Projects (open access)

Forest Service: Scope and Methodology Used to Determine Number of Appeals and Legal Challenges of Fiscal Year 2001 Fuel Reduction Projects

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress appropriated $205 million to the Forest Service for fiscal year 2001 to reduce hazardous accumulated fuels. In an effort to put as much of these appropriated monies on the ground as quickly as possible in fiscal year 2001, the Forest Service identified and funded those hazardous fuel reduction projects for which it had completed the necessary environmental analyses. As of July 2001, the Forest Service had completed the necessary environmental analyses to implement 1,671 hazardous fuel reduction projects in fiscal year 2001. Of those, 20 had been appealed, and none had been litigated. Appellants included environmental groups and individuals."
Date: July 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Financial Statement Audit Report for the Reserve Officers Association of the United States for Fiscal Year 2005 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Financial Statement Audit Report for the Reserve Officers Association of the United States for Fiscal Year 2005

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the audit reports covering the financial statements of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States for fiscal year 2005. GAO found no reportable instances of noncompliance. The audit reports included the auditors' opinions that the financial statements of the corporation were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting standards."
Date: March 9, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fiscal Year 2013 Agreed-Upon Procedures: Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund (open access)

Fiscal Year 2013 Agreed-Upon Procedures: Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO performed the procedures contained in the enclosures to this report, which it agreed to perform solely to assist the Department of Transportation's Inspector General in ascertaining whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF) and the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2013, is supported by the underlying records. GAO was not engaged to perform, and did not perform, an examination, the objective of which would have been to express an opinion on the amount of net excise taxes distributed to the AATF and the HTF during fiscal year 2013. Accordingly, GAO does not express such an opinion. This report is solely for the use of the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation and should not be used by those who have not agreed to the procedures or have not taken responsibility for the sufficiency of the procedures for their purposes."
Date: December 9, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Audit: Office of Financial Stability (Troubled Asset Relief Program) Fiscal Years 2012 and 2011 Financial Statements (open access)

Financial Audit: Office of Financial Stability (Troubled Asset Relief Program) Fiscal Years 2012 and 2011 Financial Statements

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO found (1) the financial statements are presented fairly, in all material respects, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles; (2) the Office of Financial Stability (OFS) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2012; and (3) no reportable noncompliance in fiscal year 2012 with provisions of laws and regulations GAO tested."
Date: November 9, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library