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Brownfields and Superfund Issues in the 108th Congress
This report discusses recent development and background issues, superfund issues, revenue issues, comprehensive reauthorization, and legislation regarding superfund program.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Reisch, Mark
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues
This report contains information regarding the Safe Drinking Water Act. Amendments to the act, drinking water infrastructure funding, and drinking water security are among topics discussed in this report.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Tiemann, Mary
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Saudi Arabia: Reform and U.S. Policy
This report provides an overview of the reform issue in Saudi Arabia, and issues surrounding U.S. policies to support liberalization in Saudi Arabia.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Sharp, Jeremy M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act: An Abridged Comparison of the Criminal Law and Procedure Provisions of H.R. 10 and S. 2845 as Passed by Their Respective Houses
This report provides a brief description of the substantive criminal law and procedures provisions of the House-passed version of H.R. 10.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Doyle, Charles
System:
The UNT Digital Library
POWs and MIAs: Status and Accounting Issues
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Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Goldich, Robert L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Border Security: Inspections Practices, Policies, and Issues
Some argue that this reorganization of border inspections has been long needed and is resulting in a more streamlined and efficient set of procedures at the border with a clear, single, chain of command. Others warn that the different types of inspections are quite complex in their own right and that the reorganization is exacerbating the conflicting priorities at the border, ultimately resulting in many more people and goods being sent to secondary inspections. This report, discusses a range of legal, administrative, and policy issues that are emerging with the implementation of the unified border inspections.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Wasem, Ruth Ellen; Lake, Jennifer E.; Seghetti, Lisa M.; Monke, James & Viña, Stephen R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Defending U.S. Airspace
This report discusses about Air Defense Challenge, Command & Control, Intercept and Surveillance.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Bolkcom, Christopher
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Visa Issuances: Policy, Issues, and Legislation
This report opens with an overview of visa issuances, with sections on procedures for aliens coming to live in the United States permanently and on procedures for aliens admitted for temporary stays. It includes a discussion of visa screening policies, including inadmissibility, databases, an analysis of visa refusals, biometric visas and other major visa policy procedures. Summaries of key laws revising visa policy enacted in the 107th Congress follows. The final section analyzes selected issues in the 108th Congress, notably the 9/11 Commission recommendations, visa revocation and removal, new technologies, potential impact on business, and other security concerns.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Wasem, Ruth Ellen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aviation Security-Related Findings and Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission
In response to the 9/11 Commission’s aviation security-related recommendations, two bills — H.R. 5121 and H.R. 10 — introduced in the House contain several provisions to enhance aviation security. Additionally, floor amendments to S. 2845, the National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004, contain numerous aviation security provisions, many of which address 9/11 Commission recommendations related to aviation safety. S. 2845 was passed (96-2) by the Senate on October 6, 2004. The House passed H.R. 10 on October 8 by a vote of 282-134. A conference has been requested to resolve numerous differences between H.R. 10 and S. 2845.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Elias, Bartholomew
System:
The UNT Digital Library