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Grassroots Conservation of Biological Diversity in the United States (open access)

Grassroots Conservation of Biological Diversity in the United States

This report examines the technological and institutional aspects of biological data relevant to maintaining biological diversity in the United States focusing primarily on Federal data collection efforts.
Date: February 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (open access)

Hearing Impairment and Elderly People

This OTA background paper discusses the prevalence of hearing impairment and its impact on elderly people; hearing devices and services that may benefit them; and problems in the service delivery system that limit access to these devices and services.
Date: May 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Space stations and the law: selected legal issues (open access)

Space stations and the law: selected legal issues

This report suggests that Congress need not wait for the completion of the current governmental negotiations in order to begin an examination of the legal issues resulting from space station development and operation. In the near term, Congress could: 1) begin to identify those Federal and State laws which already apply to space station activities and those that Congress believes should apply; 2) begin to resolve questions of power sharing between Federal and State laws and Federal and State courts as they relate to space station activities; and 3) monitor the space station negotiations to ensure that the final space station agreements protect the fundamental rights and interests of U.S. citizens and support U.S. policies, including those related to commercial activities in space.
Date: August 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supercomputers: government plans & policies (open access)

Supercomputers: government plans & policies

This background paper was requested by the House Committee on Science and Technology. Within the past 2 years, there has been a notable expansion in the Federal supercomputer programs and this increase prompted the committee’s request for a review of issues of resource management, networking, and the role of supercomputers in basic research.
Date: March 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library