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Airport Improvement Program (open access)

Airport Improvement Program

This issue brief discusses the Airport Improvement Program and its complement, the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC). After a brief history of federal support for airport construction and improvement, the report describes AIP funding, its source of revenues, the impact of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (FAIR21, P.L. 106-181), funding distribution, the types of projects the program funds, AIP and PFC policy issues, and the allowable use of AIP funds for airport security purposes.
Date: July 1, 2002
Creator: Kirk, Robert S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crime Control: The Federal Response (open access)

Crime Control: The Federal Response

Under the federal system in the United States, the states and localities traditionally have held the major responsibility for prevention and control of crime and maintenance of order. For most of the Republic’s history, “police powers” in the broad sense were reserved to the states under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. Many still hold that view, but others see a string of court decisions in recent decades as providing the basis for a far more active federal role. Several bills are discussed in this report that address issues related to crime, juvenile justice, and school violence.
Date: July 1, 2002
Creator: O'Bryant, JoAnne & Seghetti, Lisa M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality: Implementing the Clean Water Act (open access)

Water Quality: Implementing the Clean Water Act

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Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NATO Enlargement: The Process and Allied Views (open access)

NATO Enlargement: The Process and Allied Views

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Date: July 1, 1997
Creator: Gallis, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers (open access)

Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers

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Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): State Grant Formulas (open access)

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): State Grant Formulas

CRS Report for Congress entailing information about state grant formulas regarding the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA). Topics include, characteristics of state formula grants, IDEA State Grant Formulas, funding, etc..
Date: July 1, 2002
Creator: Apling, Richard N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Financing (open access)

Campaign Financing

This is one report in the series of reports that discuss the campaign finance practices and related issues. Concerns over financing federal elections have become a seemingly perennial aspect of our political system, centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs and reliance on interest groups for needed campaign funds. The report talks about the today’s paramount issues such as perceived loopholes in current law and the longstanding issues: overall costs, funding sources, and competition.
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. National Science Foundation: An Overview (open access)

U.S. National Science Foundation: An Overview

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Date: July 1, 1998
Creator: Matthews, Christine M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration: An Overview and FY1999 Budget Analysis (open access)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration: An Overview and FY1999 Budget Analysis

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Date: July 1, 1998
Creator: Radzanowski, David P. & Rowberg, Richard E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2003: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (open access)

Appropriations for FY2003: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, consolidated, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittees.
Date: July 1, 2002
Creator: Irwin, Paul M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Coast Guard Operations - Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Homeland Security: Coast Guard Operations - Background and Issues for Congress

This report discusses about background and issues on Homeland Security Coast Guard Operations which is led by a federal maritime homeland security including port security.
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meat and Poultry Inspection Issues (open access)

Meat and Poultry Inspection Issues

This report discusses the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) responsibility for inspecting most meat, poultry, and processed egg products for safety, wholesomeness, and proper labeling while detailing the results of congressional action in reducing the presence of pathogens and food-borne illness in facilities and food products.
Date: July 1, 2002
Creator: Rawson, Jean M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taiwan: Recent Developments and U.S. Policy Choices (open access)

Taiwan: Recent Developments and U.S. Policy Choices

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Date: July 1, 2002
Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
South Korea-U.S. Economic Relations: Cooperation, Friction, and Future Prospects (open access)

South Korea-U.S. Economic Relations: Cooperation, Friction, and Future Prospects

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Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
World Health Organization: A Fact Sheet (open access)

World Health Organization: A Fact Sheet

The World Health Organization (WHO), established in 1948, is the U.N. System's authority on international public health issues. It assists governments in improving national health services and in establishing worldwide standards for foods, chemicals, and biological and pharmaceutical products. WHO concentrates on preventive rather than curative programs, including efforts to eradicate endemic and other widespread diseases, stabilize population growth, improve nutrition, sanitation, and maternal and child care. WHO works through contracts with other agencies and private voluntary organizations.
Date: July 1, 1996
Creator: McHugh, Lois B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medical Malpractice Liability Reform: Legal Issues and Fifty-State Survey of Caps on Punitive Damages and Noneconomic Damages (open access)

Medical Malpractice Liability Reform: Legal Issues and Fifty-State Survey of Caps on Punitive Damages and Noneconomic Damages

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Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statutory Offices of Inspector General: Establishment and Evolution (open access)

Statutory Offices of Inspector General: Establishment and Evolution

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Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Kaiser, Frederick M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polar Research: U.S. Policy and Interests (open access)

Polar Research: U.S. Policy and Interests

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Date: July 1, 1996
Creator: Mielke, James E
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Space Launch Vehicles: Government Activities, Commercial Competition, and Satellite Exports (open access)

Space Launch Vehicles: Government Activities, Commercial Competition, and Satellite Exports

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Date: July 1, 2002
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Satellite Television: Provisions of SHVIA and LOCAL, and Continuing Issues (open access)

Satellite Television: Provisions of SHVIA and LOCAL, and Continuing Issues

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Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Communications: Meeting Public Safety Spectrum Needs (open access)

Emergency Communications: Meeting Public Safety Spectrum Needs

This report has two main sections. In the first section “Identifying Public Safety Needs,” some of the organizations involved with public safety telecommunications are introduced, and key activities dealing with wireless and spectrum issues are summarized. The second main section, “Spectrum for Public Safety,” is organized by the major spectrum bands where public safety wireless communications are in use or planned. These are at: 100-512 MHz; 700 MHz; 800 MHz; 900 MHz and 4.9 GHz. Ultra-wide band (UWB), that broadcasts across a broad range of frequencies, is also discussed. The final section of this report recaps recent activities and legislation in the 107th and 108th Congresses regarding public safety and spectrum use.
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Moore, Linda K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadband Internet Access: Background and Issues (open access)

Broadband Internet Access: Background and Issues

From a public policy perspective, the goals are to ensure that broadband deployment is timely, that industry competes fairly, and that service is provided to all sectors and geographical locations of American society. The federal government -- through Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) -- is seeking to ensure fair competition among the players so that broadband will be available and affordable in a timely manner to all Americans who want it. While the FCC's position is not to intervene at this time, some assert that legislation is necessary to ensure fair competition and timely broadband deployment. One proposal would ease certain legal restrictions and requirements, imposed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, on incumbent telephone companies who provide high speed data (broadband) access. Another proposal would compel cable companies to provide "open access" to competing Internet service providers.
Date: July 1, 2003
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A. & Kruger, Lennard G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Funding Issues and Activities (open access)

The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Funding Issues and Activities

This report presents funding issues and activities of the federal networking and information technology research and development program.
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Figliola, Patricia Moloney
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Privacy: Overview and Pending Legislation (open access)

Internet Privacy: Overview and Pending Legislation

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Date: July 1, 2002
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library