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Conservation Reserve Program: Funding Requirements for the Natural Resources Conservation Service's Technical Assistance (open access)

Conservation Reserve Program: Funding Requirements for the Natural Resources Conservation Service's Technical Assistance

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the funding requirements for the technical assistance that the Natural Resources Conservation Service provides to the Conservation Reserve Program, focusing on: (1) the nature and costs of the Conservation Service's technical assistance; (2) the reasons the Conservation Service suspended its technical assistance for the program; (3) budgetary authorities and other statutory requirements that constrain the Conservation Service's performance of technical assistance for the program; and (4) the potential to use contractors to provide this assistance in lieu of the Conservation Service."
Date: August 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: Issues in Comparing Rates of Return With Market Investments (open access)

Social Security: Issues in Comparing Rates of Return With Market Investments

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) examined the estimates of social security's implicit rates of return for different birth years, earning levels, household configurations, and other demographic groupings; (2) examined rates of return available on private market investments; and (3) discussed the issues that arise from comparing social security and market investment returns."
Date: August 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Communications Commission: Implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (open access)

Federal Communications Commission: Implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) new rule on the implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. GAO noted that: (1) the rule would: (a) establish a minimum set of system security and integrity requirements that all telecommunications carriers must follow to ensure compliance with section 105 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act and section 229(b) and (c) of the Communications Act; and (b) require that telecommunications carriers ensure that any interception of communications or access to call-identifying information effected within its switching premises can be activated only in accordance with a court order or other lawful authorization and with the affirmative intervention of an individual officer or employee of the carrier, designated as a 24-hour a day point of contact available to law enforcement officials; and (2) FCC complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Business Tax Compliance Burden (open access)

Small Business Tax Compliance Burden

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the tax compliance burdens of small business taxpayers, focusing on: (1) why the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) compliance burden estimates are not reliable; (2) why the relationship of the no-change rates to audit rates for small businesses and other individuals is difficult to determine; and (3) why IRS has limited information on its interactions with small businesses."
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Consensus on Needed Laboratory Capacity Could Strengthen Surveillance (open access)

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Consensus on Needed Laboratory Capacity Could Strengthen Surveillance

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the nation's infectious diseases surveillance network, focusing on the: (1) extent to which states conduct public health surveillance and laboratory testing of selected emerging infectious diseases; (2) problems state public health officials face in gathering and using laboratory-related data in the surveillance of emerging infectious diseases; and (3) assistance that the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides to states for laboratory-related surveillance and the value of this assistance to state officials."
Date: February 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Securities and Exchange Commission: Amendment to Rule Filing Requirements for Self-Regulatory Organizations Regarding New Derivative Securities Products (open access)

Securities and Exchange Commission: Amendment to Rule Filing Requirements for Self-Regulatory Organizations Regarding New Derivative Securities Products

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) new rule on filing requirements for self-regulatory organizations (SRO) regarding derivative securities products. GAO noted that: (1) the new rule would permit a SRO to list and trade new derivative securities products pursuant to existing self-regulatory organization trading rules; and (2) SEC complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."
Date: January 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality: Problems in the New River and Imperial County, California (open access)

Water Quality: Problems in the New River and Imperial County, California

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined a number of issues concerning water quality problems in the New River and Imperial County in southern California, focusing on the: (1) types and the sources of pollutants entering the New River; (2) agencies and the organizations responsible for monitoring and regulating pollution in the New River; (3) risks to human health and the environment from water pollution in Imperial County; (4) health advisories and the precautions in place to protect the public from pollution in the New River; and (5) actions being taken to reduce the flow of pollutants into the Salton Sea."
Date: August 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reported Medicaid Year 2000 Readiness (open access)

Reported Medicaid Year 2000 Readiness

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO determined: (1) what the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is doing to ensure that the year 2000 computing challenge does not adversely affect the delivery of Medicaid benefits; and (2) the readiness of states to successfully transition to year 2000 for Medicaid."
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Private Disability Insurance: Employer-Sponsored Plans (open access)

Private Disability Insurance: Employer-Sponsored Plans

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reported on private sector employer-sponsored disability insurance plans, focusing on the: (1) number of people in the private sector covered by short-term or long-term employer-sponsored disability insurance; (2) number of short- and long-term disability claims filed each year and the number of initial awards; and (3) average processing time for initial short- and long-term disability claims."
Date: November 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federalism: Implementation of Executive Order 12612 in the Rulemaking Process (open access)

Federalism: Implementation of Executive Order 12612 in the Rulemaking Process

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the implementation of Executive Order 12612 on federalism, focusing on: (1) how often the preambles to covered agencies' final rules issued between April 1, 1996, and December 31, 1998, mentioned Executive Order 12612 and how often they indicated that the agencies had conducted federalism assessments under the order; (2) what selected agencies have done to implement the requirements of Executive Order 12612; and (3) what the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has done to oversee federal agencies' implementation of Executive Order 12612 in the rulemaking process."
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
IRS Customer Service: Management Strategy Shows Promise But Could Be Improved (open access)

IRS Customer Service: Management Strategy Shows Promise But 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 Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) efforts to improve customer service."
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Service Privatization: Ethics and Accountability Challenges in State Contracting (open access)

Social Service Privatization: Ethics and Accountability Challenges in State Contracting

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on states' social service contracting, focusing on: (1) the extent to which state government employees have moved to positions at social service contractors and the impact such movement has had on the management of publicly provided social services; (2) determining the relative success in winning contracts by contractors who hired state employees and contractors who did not; (3) state ethics laws, policies, and enforcement approaches that address the employment of former state employees and other related issues; and (4) state practices for holding contractors accountable for achieving program results through contracted services."
Date: April 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Training: Over $1.5 Billion Federal Funds Invested in Many Programs (open access)

Teacher Training: Over $1.5 Billion Federal Funds Invested in Many Programs

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its work concerning federally funded teacher training programs, focusing on the: (1) number of agencies and the programs they administer that support teacher training, along with some general characteristics of these programs; and (2) funding provided by these programs."
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Schools And Libraries Program: Actions Taken to Improve Operational Procedures Prior to Committing Funds (open access)

Schools And Libraries Program: Actions Taken to Improve Operational Procedures Prior to Committing Funds

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Schools and Libraries Corporation's progress in implementing GAO's July 16, 1998, recommendations for improving its procedures and internal controls."
Date: March 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Trade: Changes Made to Market Access Program, but Questions Remain on Economic Impact (open access)

Agricultural Trade: Changes Made to Market Access Program, but Questions Remain on Economic Impact

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Agriculture's implementation of legislative reforms to the Market Access Program (MAP) and their impact on program participation."
Date: April 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare: Access to Home Oxygen Largely Unchanged; Closer HCFA Monitoring Needed (open access)

Medicare: Access to Home Oxygen Largely Unchanged; Closer HCFA Monitoring Needed

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on Medicare beneficiaries' access to home oxygen equipment, focusing on: (1) changes in access to home oxygen for Medicare patients since the payment reduction mandated by the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 took effect; and (2) actions taken by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to fulfill the BBA requirements and respond to GAO's November 1997 recommendations."
Date: April 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fish and Wildlife Service: Migratory Bird Hunting-Final Frameworks for Late-Season Migratory Bird Hunting and Late Seasons and Bag and Possession Limits for Certain Migratory Game Birds (open access)

Fish and Wildlife Service: Migratory Bird Hunting-Final Frameworks for Late-Season Migratory Bird Hunting and Late Seasons and Bag and Possession Limits for Certain Migratory Game Birds

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) new rule on late-season migratory bird hunting. GAO noted that: (1) the rule would establish the late-season frameworks from which states may select dates and other options available to them for the 1999-2000 migratory bird hunting season; (2) after receiving this information, FWS will publish the selections as the final regulations for the current hunting season; (3) the late seasons bag and possession limits rule prescribes hunting seasons, hours, areas, and daily bag limits and possession limits for specific game birds; and (4) FWS complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Commodity Exchange Act: Issues Related to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Reauthorization (open access)

The Commodity Exchange Act: Issues Related to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Reauthorization

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on issues related to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) reauthorization, focusing on issues related to derivatives that are traded on-exchange as well as those that are privately negotiated off-exchange, or over-the-counter (OTC)."
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Care: Fraud Schemes Committed by Career Criminals and Organized Criminal Groups and Impact on Consumers and Legitimate Health Care Providers (open access)

Health Care: Fraud Schemes Committed by Career Criminals and Organized Criminal Groups and Impact on Consumers and Legitimate Health Care Providers

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the proliferation of Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance fraud on the part of criminals and organized criminal groups, focusing on: (1) the makeup and prior activities of such groups; (2) how organized criminal groups created medical entities or used legitimate medical entities or individuals to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers; (3) schemes used by such groups to commit health care fraud; and (4) the impact that illegal activity by such groups has on consumers and legitimate health care providers."
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1999 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1999

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 5, 1999
Creator: Stevens, Shontta
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1999 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1999

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: March 5, 1999
Creator: Dorman, Billie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 5, 1999 (open access)

Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 5, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: Retherford, Bill R.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Mannford Star (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 5, 1999 (open access)

The Mannford Star (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 5, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 5, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 150, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1999 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 150, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1999
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History