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An Assessment of Human Resources at the Texas Water Development Board (open access)

An Assessment of Human Resources at the Texas Water Development Board

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Texas Water Development Board's management of human resources in traditional functional areas of staffing, compensation, training, performance appraisals, and employee relations. Additionally, employee and management perception of human resources is examined.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit of the Office of the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner Fiscal Year 1999 Financial Statements (open access)

An Audit of the Office of the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner Fiscal Year 1999 Financial Statements

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the financial statements for the Office of the Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner (Commission), which fairly and accurately represent the financial position and results of operations of the Commission.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit on Community and Technical Colleges' Enrollment Reporting (open access)

An Audit on Community and Technical Colleges' Enrollment Reporting

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the enrollment data reported by 50 public community college districts and 7 technical colleges (colleges), which are in compliance with reporting requirements for the purpose of receiving state appropriations.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Hawaiian Monk Seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 1998 (open access)

The Hawaiian Monk Seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 1998

The following report provides the findings of a 1998 field study over the Hawaiian monk seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. These studies evaluate the status and trends of monk seal populations, natural history traits (survival, reproduction, growth, behavior, and feeding habits), and the success of various activities designed to facilitate population growth.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Johanos, Thea C. & Baker, Jason D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Quarterly Report of Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for the Quarter Ending February 29, 2000 (open access)

A Quarterly Report of Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for the Quarter Ending February 29, 2000

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to information on the number of state employees and the number of consultants and contract individuals who perform services for state government.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report to Congress (open access)

Report to Congress

Final report of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce describing their activities and findings regarding the development of electronic commerce and its impact on the U.S. economy. The report includes sections on the background of electronic commerce, domestic tax issues, and international tax issues.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Review of the Water Development Board's Fee Structure for the State Participation Program (open access)

A Review of the Water Development Board's Fee Structure for the State Participation Program

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Water Development Board's State Participation fees were consistent with the authorizing legislation.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rural Land Values in the Southwest: Second Half, 1999 (open access)

Rural Land Values in the Southwest: Second Half, 1999

Technical report that analyzes estimated trends and values of land markets in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Results indicate general market conditions and lack of information for certain panelists effects the report.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Gilliland, Charles E. & Faulk, Kylie
System: The Portal to Texas History
School Performance Review of Austin Independent School District (ISD), April 2000 (open access)

School Performance Review of Austin Independent School District (ISD), April 2000

A performance review of the Austin Independent School District (ISD) to assess the use of state funds in different areas of the school system.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: April 2000 (open access)

Texas Construction and Maintenance Report: April 2000

Monthly report documenting contracts for road construction and maintentance in Texas, organized by county and district. It includes information about each project including contractor, dates, costs, and other relevant data.
Date: April 1, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Construction Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Real Estate Center Trends, Volume 13, Number 7, April 2000 (open access)

Texas Real Estate Center Trends, Volume 13, Number 7, April 2000

Monthly report of the Texas A & M University Real Estate Center on statistics, recent news, and developments related to real estate.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Texas A & M University. Real Estate Center.
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: February - March 2000 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: February - March 2000

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: April 3, 2000
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medicaid in Schools: Improper Payments Demand Improvements in HCFA Oversight (open access)

Medicaid in Schools: Improper Payments Demand Improvements in HCFA Oversight

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on states' practices regarding Medicaid reimbursement of school-based administrative activities, focusing on: (1) the extent to which school districts and states claim Medicaid reimbursement for school-based health services and administrative activities; (2) the appropriateness of methods states use to establish bundled rates for school-based health services and to assess the costs of administrative activities that their schools may claim as reimbursable; (3) states' retention of federal Medicaid reimbursement for services provided by schools and schools' practice of paying contingency fees to private firms; and (4) the adequacy of the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) oversight of state practices regarding school-based claims, including safeguards employed to ensure appropriate billing for health services and administrative activities."
Date: April 5, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Dependents: Services Provide Limited Confidentiality in Family Abuse Cases (open access)

Military Dependents: Services Provide Limited Confidentiality in Family Abuse Cases

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the policies, procedures, and practices of the military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between military dependents and counselors, therapists, and other service providers regarding family abuse, focusing on the: (1) extent of reported spousal and child abuse within the military; (2) degree to which dependent conversations about family abuse are subject to disclosure; and (3) nature of Department of Defense (DOD) efforts to address the confidentiality of dependent communications."
Date: April 5, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration: A Land Acquisition Plan Would Help Identify Lands That Need to Be Acquired (open access)

South Florida Ecosystem Restoration: A Land Acquisition Plan Would Help Identify Lands That Need to Be Acquired

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the importance of land acquisition to the success of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Initiative, focusing on: (1) what the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force did to identify and acquire lands needed to accomplish the goals of the initiative from 1996 through 1999; and (2) what the Department of the Interior did to help ensure that it maximized the acreage purchased--that is, bought as much land as possible, with $200 million in Farm Bill grants."
Date: April 5, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
CFTC and SEC: Issues Related to the Shad-Johnson Jurisdictional Accord (open access)

CFTC and SEC: Issues Related to the Shad-Johnson Jurisdictional Accord

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the issues the two have in relation to the Shad-Johnson Jurisdictional Accord, focusing on: (1) the extent to which U.S. securities, foreign futures, and over-the-counter (OTC) markets trade stock-based derivatives that are economically similar to the futures prohibited from trading by the accord; (2) the potential effect of the accord trading prohibitions on derivatives market participants; (3) concerns about calls to repeal the accord trading prohibitions; and (4) jurisdictional and other approaches to addressing these concerns."
Date: April 6, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fishery Management: Problems Remain With National Marine Fisheries Service's Implementation of the Magnuson-Stevens Act (open access)

Fishery Management: Problems Remain With National Marine Fisheries Service's Implementation of the Magnuson-Stevens Act

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) compliance with three provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, focusing on the requirements for NMFS to: (1) use the best available scientific information for fishery management; (2) take into account the economic importance of fishery resources to fishing communities as it adopts measures to manage fishery resources; and (3) identify essential fish habitat, the adverse impacts on that habitat, and the actions needed to conserve and enhance that habitat and also develop a consultation process designed to protect that habitat from adverse impacts."
Date: April 6, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
World Bank: Management Controls Stronger, but Challenges in Fighting Corruption Remain (open access)

World Bank: Management Controls Stronger, but Challenges in Fighting Corruption Remain

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the World Bank's management controls."
Date: April 6, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acquisition Reform: DOD's Guidance on Using Section 845 Agreements Could be Improved (open access)

Acquisition Reform: DOD's Guidance on Using Section 845 Agreements Could be Improved

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) authority, which was established under Section 845 of the Fiscal Year 1994 National Defense Authorization Act, to use nonstandard contracting approaches to procure research and development services, focusing on: (1) the extent to which DOD has used Section 845 agreements; (2) the benefits reported from their use; (3) how DOD tailored these agreements to address issues normally governed by standard contract provisions; and (4) recent DOD efforts to provide additional guidance on their use."
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combating Terrorism: How Five Foreign Countries Are Organized to Combat Terrorism (open access)

Combating Terrorism: How Five Foreign Countries Are Organized to Combat Terrorism

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed five foreign countries' efforts to combat terrorism, focusing on: (1) how other governments are organized to combat terrorism; and (2) how they allocate their resources to combat terrorism."
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
District of Columbia: Issues Related to the Youngstown Prison Report and Lorton Closure Process (open access)

District of Columbia: Issues Related to the Youngstown Prison Report and Lorton Closure Process

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed issues related to the closing of the Lorton correctional facilities that house felon inmates from the District of Columbia and the transfer of these inmates to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), focusing on: (1) the D.C. Department of Corrections' response to the Office of the Corrections Trustee's 1999 recommendations on the Youngstown prison facility; (2) BOP's efforts to comply with the privatization requirements of the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997; and (3) any challenges concerning the closing of Lorton faced by the District of Columbia and BOP as December 31, 2001, the statutory date for closing all of Lorton, nears."
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Home Health Care: Prospective Payment System Will Need Refinement as Data Become Available (open access)

Medicare Home Health Care: Prospective Payment System Will Need Refinement as Data Become Available

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) research on a home health prospective payment system (PPS), focusing on: (1) the objectives, findings, and costs of the research and demonstration projects HCFA has funded that were related to the design of the PPS; and (2) how these projects contributed to the proposed PPS design and which design decisions were based on incomplete information."
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Debt: Who Bears Its Burden? (open access)

The National Debt: Who Bears Its Burden?

This report discusses the burden of a national debt and who bears that burden, which is a matter of Congressional concern since the gross national debt of the United States stands at some $5.5 trillion dollars.
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: Makinen, Gail E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Debt: Who Bears Its Burden? (open access)

The National Debt: Who Bears Its Burden?

This report discusses the burden of a national debt, the view among economists, the federal budget deficits, and the financial burden that future generations will inherit, a larger privately owned capital stock and a higher level of income.
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: Makinen, Gail
System: The UNT Digital Library