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Natural Resources Conservation Service: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Program and Financial Accountability (open access)

Natural Resources Conservation Service: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Program and Financial Accountability

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS) efforts to improve its accountability, focusing on the: (1) agency's new approach and the status of its implementation; and (2) extent to which the approach will improve accountability."
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Dollar Coin: Public Perception of Advertising (open access)

New Dollar Coin: Public Perception of Advertising

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed a public opinion survey regarding the United States Mint's promotion of the new dollar coin as the "Golden Dollar," focusing on whether the public: (1) has seen or heard any advertising of the new dollar coin; and (2) believes the new dollar coin contains any gold on the basis of that advertising or the use of the term "Golden Dollar.""
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Administration: IRS' Levy of Federal Payments Could Generate Millions of Dollars (open access)

Tax Administration: IRS' Levy of Federal Payments Could Generate Millions of Dollars

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the status of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) continuous levy program, focusing on: (1) the number of taxpayers that could be subject to a continuous levy, the revenue that might be generated, and the cost to IRS to have the Financial Management Service (FMS) levy the federal payments of those taxpayers; (2) issues that could delay program implementation or otherwise affect revenues from the program; (3) the controls and testing that IRS and FMS have planned to prevent levying taxpayers not subject to levy and to prevent levying payments for more than the taxpayer owes; and (4) changes, if any, IRS and FMS could make to yield increased revenues from the program."
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Veterans' Benefits: Promising Claims-Processing Practices Need to Be Evaluated (open access)

Veterans' Benefits: Promising Claims-Processing Practices Need to Be Evaluated

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Veterans Benefits Administration's (VBA) claims processing procedures, focusing on: (1) practices that individual regional offices believe have helped them improve the accuracy of their disability decisions and remand rates; and (2) VBA's efforts to evaluate and disseminate information on individual regional office practices that hold promise for improving accuracy and remand rates of regional offices nationwide."
Date: April 7, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export Promotion: Federal Agencies' Activities and Resources in Fiscal Year 1999 (open access)

Export Promotion: Federal Agencies' Activities and Resources in Fiscal Year 1999

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on U.S. government programs intended to help businesses promote their products and services in overseas markets, focusing on: (1) the federal agencies involved in promoting exports of U.S. goods and services and the export promotion activities they perform; (2) these agencies' total resources devoted to export promotion in fiscal year (FY) 1999; and (3) the agencies' overseas resources devoted to export promotion during this period."
Date: April 10, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: Bills in the 106th Congress (open access)

Social Security Reform: Bills in the 106th Congress

The Social Security system is projected to have long-range funding problems. Although the system’s income currently exceeds its expenditures, its trust funds are projected to be depleted in 2037. Concern about the problem and a belief that the remedy lies partly in economic growth that could be bolstered by changes to the system have led to introduction of a number of bills incorporating varying degrees of reform. This report describes the funding problem in some detail, summarizes many of the reform bills introduced in the 106th Congress, and provides a list of other related CRS reports.
Date: April 11, 2000
Creator: Koitz, David S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
D.C. Courts: Implementation of Personnel Policies Requires Further Attention From the Courts' Leadership (open access)

D.C. Courts: Implementation of Personnel Policies Requires Further Attention From the Courts' Leadership

A briefing report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the personnel management policies and practices of the District of Columbia Courts, focusing on whether: (1) D.C. Courts' applicable policies for six basic personnel activities or functions--performance evaluation, competitive and noncompetitive promotions, corrective actions, training, classification, and equal employment opportunity (EEO) policies--were consistent with commonly accepted personnel management principles; and (2) D.C. Courts generally adhered to its policies when implementing the six personnel activities or functions."
Date: April 12, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Audit: Senate Restaurants Revolving Fund for Fiscal Years 1999 and 1998 (open access)

Financial Audit: Senate Restaurants Revolving Fund for Fiscal Years 1999 and 1998

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the financial statements of the Senate Restaurants Revolving Fund for the period ended September 30, 1999 and 1998. GAO contracted with the independent public accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP to conduct the audit."
Date: April 12, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gun Control: Options For Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (open access)

Gun Control: Options For Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Brady Act's phase I (interim Brady) and phase II (permanent Brady) provisions in preventing the sale of firearms to prohibited individuals, focusing on: (1) how the permanent Brady compares with the interim Brady; (2) under permanent Brady, the advantages and disadvantages of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System's (NICS) background checks conducted by a designated state agency versus by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (3) under permanent Brady, the extent to which default proceeds resulted in firearms being sold to prohibited individuals; and (4) the options policymakers have in preventing or minimizing such transfers."
Date: April 12, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-Level Radioactive Wastes: Department of Energy Has Opportunities to Reduce Disposal Costs (open access)

Low-Level Radioactive Wastes: Department of Energy Has Opportunities to Reduce Disposal Costs

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) management and disposal of its low-level radioactive wastes, focusing on: (1) the factors that influence DOE's decisions about the treatment, storage, and disposal of the wastes; and (2) DOE's costs to treat, store, and dispose of these wastes and the cost-effectiveness of DOE's disposal decisions."
Date: April 12, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral Health: Dental Disease Is a Chronic Problem Among Low-Income Populations (open access)

Oral Health: Dental Disease Is a Chronic Problem Among Low-Income Populations

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the: (1) dental health status of Medicaid beneficiaries and other vulnerable populations; and (2) extent to which these groups have dental coverage and use dental services."
Date: April 12, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
VA Health Care: Changes in Medical Residency Slots Reflect Shift to Primary Care (open access)

VA Health Care: Changes in Medical Residency Slots Reflect Shift to Primary Care

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) changes in medical residency slots, focusing on: (1) VA's goals in realigning its residency program and the goals accomplished so far; (2) the reasons for changes in the number of graduate medical education residency slots; and (3) the views of VA facility and medical school officials on the effect of the changes on resident training and on the potential to train residents at VA community-based outpatient clinics."
Date: April 12, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change: A Survey of Scientific Research and Policy Reports (open access)

Global Climate Change: A Survey of Scientific Research and Policy Reports

This report is intended to guide the reader through U.S. global climate change policy from the passage of the National Climate Program Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-367) through the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) was opened for signatures. It offers a summary of scientific research on global climate change and related U.S. policy and identifies what many consider to be important milestones in the international policy debate on global climate change.
Date: April 13, 2000
Creator: Morrissey, Wayne A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Competitive Contracting: The Understandability of FAIR Act Inventories Was Limited (open access)

Competitive Contracting: The Understandability of FAIR Act Inventories Was Limited

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the implementation of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act of 1998, focusing on: (1) the overall initial implementation of the FAIR Act; (2) the clarity and understandability of five agencies' FAIR Act inventories; (3) the extent to which these agencies exempted commercial activities from competition; and (4) supplemental information that enhanced the understandability of agencies' inventories."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
District of Columbia Government: Performance Report's Adherence to Statutory Requirements (open access)

District of Columbia Government: Performance Report's Adherence to Statutory Requirements

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed whether the District of Columbia's annual performance report contained all the information required by law and, if not, why. This report transmits GAO's comments on the Mayor's performance report for fiscal year (FY) 1999, which was due on March 1, 2000, but was issued on March 7, 2000."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Essential Air Service: Changes in Subsidy Levels, Air Carrier Costs, and Passenger Traffic (open access)

Essential Air Service: Changes in Subsidy Levels, Air Carrier Costs, and Passenger Traffic

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's (DOT) Essential Air Service (EAS) program, focusing on: (1) how DOT applied criteria to establish which communities would receive subsidized air service; (2) changes in the level of subsidies provided to EAS-eligible communities in fiscal year 1999 relative to that provided in 1995; (3) why the level of subsidies changed between 1995 and 1999; and (4) whether DOT applied any of the increase in program funding to rural air safety projects."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
General Services Administration: Leasing Practices in Selected Regions (open access)

General Services Administration: Leasing Practices in Selected Regions

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the process used by the Public Buildings Service (PBS) to procure leased space for federal agencies, focusing on the: (1) approaches 3 of the General Services Administration's 11 regional offices use to lease space, including how each region determines an agency's space requirements, identifies and assesses potential space, and communicates with actual offerors; and (2) effect of solicitation practices on competition."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid and SCHIP: Comparisons of Outreach, Enrollment Practices, and Benefits (open access)

Medicaid and SCHIP: Comparisons of Outreach, Enrollment Practices, and Benefits

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Medicaid program and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), focusing on the differences between both programs with regard to outreach, application and eligibility determination, screening and enrollment, and benefits."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Administration: IRS' Low-Dollar Notices Sent to Individual Taxpayers (open access)

Tax Administration: IRS' Low-Dollar Notices Sent to Individual Taxpayers

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) computer-generated low-dollar notices, focusing on notices involving: (1) amounts due of less than $5; and (2) refunds of less than $1."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Administration: Multiple Collection Notices Sent to Individual Taxpayers (open access)

Tax Administration: Multiple Collection Notices Sent to Individual Taxpayers

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) multiple collection notices, focusing on: (1) how many individual taxpayers were sent multiple notices to collect the same tax assessment, particularly after IRS received full payment of the assessment; and (2) IRS' reasons for sending collection notices after receiving full payment."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Telecommunications: GSA's Estimates of FTS2001 Revenues Are Reasonable (open access)

Telecommunications: GSA's Estimates of FTS2001 Revenues Are Reasonable

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the General Services Administration's (GSA) estimates of the Federal Technology Service (FTS) 2001 revenues and the implications of allowing other service providers to compete in the FTS 2001 market, focusing on: (1) the percentage of FTS 2001 contracts that are minimum revenue guarantees (MRG); (2) when MRGs are likely to be satisfied; (3) the factors that could significantly alter the estimates of total program revenue and corresponding timeframes for satisfying MRGs; and (4) how competition could affect the estimates."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Whistleblower Protection: VA Did Little Until Recently to Inform Employees About Their Rights (open access)

Whistleblower Protection: VA Did Little Until Recently to Inform Employees About Their Rights

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 Veterans Affairs' (VA) whistleblower protection, focusing on the: (1) actions VA has taken since October 29, 1994--the enactment of the 1994 Whistleblower Protection Act amendments--to inform its employees about their rights to protection against reprisal when reporting misconduct; (2) extent to which VA employees are aware of their rights to such protection; (3) extent to which VA employees are willing to report misconduct in VA operations, should they become aware of it; and (4) number and disposition of whistleblower reprisal complaints filed by VA employees with agencies responsible for providing whistleblower protection."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Pollution: Status of Implementation and Issues of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (open access)

Air Pollution: Status of Implementation and Issues of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, focusing on: (1) the status of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) implementation of the requirements established by the 1990 amendments; and (2) views from state governments, local programs, industries that are regulated under the act, and environmental advocacy groups (collectively referred to as stakeholders) on the issues that have either helped or hindered the implementation of the 1990 amendments."
Date: April 17, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bid Protests: Characteristics of Cases Filed in Federal Courts (open access)

Bid Protests: Characteristics of Cases Filed in Federal Courts

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on small business bid protests that have been filed in district courts and the United States Court of Federal Claims (COFC) since the Administration Dispute Resolution Act took effect on December 31, 1996, focusing on the: (1) number of bid protest cases filed in the U.S. district courts and COFC between January 1, 1997, and April 30, 1999, that were filed by small businesses, the type of agencies involved, and the amount of the procurement at issue; (2) perceived advantages and disadvantages for small businesses filing bid protest cases in each judicial forum; and (3) characteristics of district court and COFC bid protest cases, particularly those filed by small businesses, that could be used to assess these perceived advantages and disadvantages."
Date: April 17, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library