FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Washington (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Washington

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: West Virginia (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: West Virginia

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Wyoming (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Wyoming

This In Focus provides an overview of the assistance provided to Wyoming by the FEMA DRF (Disaster Relief Fund) from 2002-2013.
Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Illinois (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Illinois

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Nebraska (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Nebraska

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Maryland (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Maryland

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: New Jersey (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: New Jersey

This report discusses the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) that is managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and is the primary source of funding used to provide assistance following a major disaster declaration.
Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: McCarthy, Francis X.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China as the World’s “Largest Economy” (open access)

China as the World’s “Largest Economy”

Various media have recently reported that China has overtaken the United States to become the world’s largest economy (a position the United States had held at least since 1913), based on estimates of purchasing power parity (PPP) measurements and projections made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This report examines the data and its policy implications.
Date: January 29, 2015
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Medical Device Excise Tax: Economic Analysis (open access)

The Medical Device Excise Tax: Economic Analysis

This report reviews the issues surrounding the medical devices tax within the framework of basic principles surrounding the choice of commodities to tax under excise taxes. The next section describes the tax and its legislative origins. After that, the report analyzes the arguments for retaining and repealing the tax.
Date: January 9, 2015
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G. & Lowry, Sean
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Business Administration and Job Creation (open access)

Small Business Administration and Job Creation

The Small Business Administration (SBA) administers several programs to support small businesses, including loan guaranty programs, disaster loan programs, management and technical assistance training programs, and federal contracting programs. Congressional interest in these programs has increased in recent years, primarily because they are viewed as a means to stimulate economic activity, create jobs, and assist in the national economic recovery. This report examines the economic research on net job creation to identify the types of businesses that appear to create the most jobs.
Date: January 29, 2015
Creator: Dilger, Robert J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wilderness: Overview and Statistics (open access)

Wilderness: Overview and Statistics

In 1964, the Wilderness Act established a national system of congressionally designated areas to be preserved in a wilderness condition: “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” This report provides a brief history of wilderness, describes what wilderness is, identifies permitted and prohibited uses in wilderness areas, and provides data on the 109.8 million acres of designated wilderness areas as of January 1, 2015.
Date: January 12, 2015
Creator: Hoover, Katie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Kentucky (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Kentucky

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Vermont (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Vermont

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: New York (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: New York

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Utah (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Utah

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Montana (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Montana

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Nevada (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Nevada

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: South Carolina (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: South Carolina

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Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Benefits and Services for People with Low Income: Programs and Spending, FY2008-FY2013 (open access)

Federal Benefits and Services for People with Low Income: Programs and Spending, FY2008-FY2013

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Date: January 15, 2015
Creator: Spar, Karen & Falk, Gene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FHA Single-Family Mortgage Insurance: Recent Policy Changes and Proposed Legislation (open access)

FHA Single-Family Mortgage Insurance: Recent Policy Changes and Proposed Legislation

This report describes recent policy changes made by FHA and recent legislative proposals that would make additional changes to FHA's single-family program. For the most part, this report does not go into detail about the features of FHA-insured loans, FHA's market role, or its financial status, except as necessary to describe implemented or proposed policy changes.
Date: January 29, 2015
Creator: Jones, Katie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baseline Bioacoustic Characterization for Offshore Renewable Energy Development in the North Carolina and Georgia Wind Planning Areas (open access)

Baseline Bioacoustic Characterization for Offshore Renewable Energy Development in the North Carolina and Georgia Wind Planning Areas

This is a study on technologies developments for harnessing energy from the ocean environment. Technological improvements in offshore renewable energy like wind and hydrokinetic captured energy. Passive acoustics allow researchers to analyze how the construction and use of such technologies affect marine species.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Rice, Aaron N.; Morano, Janelle L.; Hodge, Kristin B.; Muirhead, Charles A.; Frankel, Adam S.; Feinblatt, Michael et al.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Budget Board Texas State Government Effectiveness and Efficiency Report: Selected Issues and Recommendations (open access)

Legislative Budget Board Texas State Government Effectiveness and Efficiency Report: Selected Issues and Recommendations

Report on the effectiveness and efficiency of Texas state government with selected issues and recommendations.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of Rapid, Cement-Based Repair Materials for Transportation Structures: Final Report (open access)

Development of Rapid, Cement-Based Repair Materials for Transportation Structures: Final Report

Report on development of rapid cement based repair materials for transportation structures.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Dornak, Mitchell; Zuniga, Jose; Garcia, Anthony; Drimalas, Thano & Folliard, Kevin J.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0001 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0001

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an independent school district may use the certified estimate of property tax values to adopt a tax rate after adopting its budget (RQ-1211-GA).
Date: January 20, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History