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Photograph taken during daylight of a woman, child and dog in a Dog Ears exhibit tent. Caption: "Fred, a companion dog for the hearing-impaired, delivers a demonstration wake-up call to Peter Huang, 9, a third-grader at Northern Hill Elementary School in Edmond."
Date: October 10, 1999
Creator: Argo, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Report for the United Service Organizations, Incorporated, for 1996 and 1997 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Report for the United Service Organizations, Incorporated, for 1996 and 1997

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the audit report covering the financial statements of the United Service Organizations, Incorporated, for the years ended December 31, 1996 and 1997, focusing on whether the audit report complied with the financial reporting requirements of the law."
Date: May 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeownership: Cancellation and Termination Provisions of the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 (open access)

Homeownership: Cancellation and Termination Provisions of the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998, focusing on the: (1) act's cancellation and termination provisions for private mortgage insurance; (2) act's high-risk provisions; (3) effect high-risk provisions would have on mortgage lenders; and (4) number and characteristics of residential mortgage loans that are considered high risk and are therefore excluded from the routine cancellation and termination provisions."
Date: December 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Acquisitions: Achieving B-2A Bomber Operational Requirements (open access)

Defense Acquisitions: Achieving B-2A Bomber Operational Requirements

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the total acquisition costs of the Air Force's B-2A bomber program through completion of the production program, focusing on the: (1) deficiencies in achieving B-2A operational requirements; and (2) status of acquisition costs."
Date: June 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FWS: Migratory Bird Hunting; Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations on Certain Federal Indian Reservations and Ceded Lands for the 1999-2000 Early Season (open access)

FWS: Migratory Bird Hunting; Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations on Certain Federal Indian Reservations and Ceded Lands for the 1999-2000 Early Season

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 migratory bird hunting regulations on certain federal Indian reservations and ceded lands for the 1999-2000 early season. GAO noted that: (1) the rule would prescribe special early-season hunting regulations for certain tribes on federal Indian reservations, off-reservation trust lands, and ceded lands; and (2) FWS complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."
Date: September 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interparliamentary Group Review Procedures (open access)

Interparliamentary Group Review Procedures

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO performed procedures to assist the House Committee on International Relations in evaluating the extent to which five House interparliamentary groups' financial records appropriately reflected their cash receipts and disbursements and fund balance for the years ended December 31, 1997 and 1998."
Date: September 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food and Drug Administration: Status of Actions to Address Property Control Weaknesses (open access)

Food and Drug Administration: Status of Actions to Address Property Control Weaknesses

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO followed up on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) efforts to implement GAO's recommendations addressing FDA's property control weaknesses."
Date: August 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aviation: Comparison of Airline 'Customer Service Commitment' With Contracts of Carriage and Federal Law (open access)

Aviation: Comparison of Airline 'Customer Service Commitment' With Contracts of Carriage and Federal Law

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO compared airlines' contracts of carriage with the Air Transport Association's (ATA) Customer Service Commitment."
Date: September 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing for Results: Answers to Hearing Questions on Quality Management (open access)

Managing for Results: Answers to Hearing Questions on Quality Management

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on quality management in the federal government, focusing on: (1) whether a vigorous quality management program should be implemented in addition to the strategic planning framework mandated by the Government Performance and Results Act; (2) whether the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has the necessary resources and institutional knowledge to implement a quality management initiative; (3) whether the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) initiative should be located in an agency like OMB; (4) whether there were other quality management programs that were initiated by previous administrations; (5) how information in agency strategic plans, annual performance plans, and performance reports can be used to identify and facilitate improvements in the quality processes; (6) whether agencies can successfully integrate total quality management and the Results Act to address management problems; (7) how Congress can best use agencies' strategic and performance plans to identify the degree to which agencies have implemented quality management; and (8) how the Results Act provides for employee involvement."
Date: September 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coast Guard: Review of Administrative and Support Functions (open access)

Coast Guard: Review of Administrative and Support Functions

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Coast Guard's major administrative and support functions, focusing on: (1) areas of possible budget savings; and (2) if additional opportunities for cost savings exist."
Date: March 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Depot Maintenance: Status of the Navy's Pearl Harbor Pilot Project (open access)

Depot Maintenance: Status of the Navy's Pearl Harbor Pilot Project

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the Navy's progress in implementing the Pearl Harbor Pilot project, focusing on: (1) the preliminary results of the Pearl Harbor Pilot on improving performance of maintenance activities; (2) the usefulness of the pilot as a model for future consolidations; and (3) issues related to financial and organizational structures for such consolidations."
Date: September 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid and Special Education: Coordination of Services for Children With Disabilities Is Evolving (open access)

Medicaid and Special Education: Coordination of Services for Children With Disabilities Is Evolving

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the mechanisms of coordination between Medicaid and the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), focusing on: (1) how Medicaid and IDEA interact to meet the needs of low-income school-aged children with disabilities; and (2) issues that have arisen in coordinating Medicaid and IDEA services in schools."
Date: December 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
IRS Management: Challenges Facing the National Taxpayer Advocate (open access)

IRS Management: Challenges Facing the National Taxpayer Advocate

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the challenges facing the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Office of the Taxpayer Advocate, focusing on IRS' need to: (1) address complex staffing and operational issues within the Advocate's Office; (2) strengthen efforts within the Advocate's Office to determine the causes of taxpayer problems; and (3) develop performance measures that the National Taxpayer Advocate needs to manage operations and measure effectiveness."
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Health Care: DOD Needs to Improve Its Monitoring of Claims Processing Activities (open access)

Defense Health Care: DOD Needs to Improve Its Monitoring of Claims Processing Activities

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Department of Defense's (DOD) monitoring of health care claims processing activities, focusing on: (1) GAO's preliminary findings on claims processing timeliness and accuracy; and (2) the effectiveness of a commercially available software program to edit TRICARE claims."
Date: March 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Facilities: Alternative Land Uses Could Save Water at Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada (open access)

Federal Facilities: Alternative Land Uses Could Save Water at Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on alternative land uses that could save water at Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada, focusing on: (1) the aviation safety and operational requirements for the runway protection zone at Fallon Naval Air Station (NAS); (2) the alternative land use strategies Fallon NAS identified in response to congressional direction and how it evaluated them; and (3) the land use strategies at five military facilities and two commercial airports that operate in similar environments."
Date: December 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status of Open Recommendations: Improving Operations of Federal Departments and Agencies (open access)

Status of Open Recommendations: Improving Operations of Federal Departments and Agencies

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reported on the conclusions and recommendations resulting from its audits and other reviews of federal departments and agencies. GAO provided summary information on the status of all recommendations that have not been fully implemented in the areas of national security, international affairs, community and economic development, natural resources, human resources, justice, general government, and financial and information management for use in congressional review of budget requests."
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foster Care: Effectiveness of Independent Living Services Unknown (open access)

Foster Care: Effectiveness of Independent Living Services Unknown

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the independent living program (ILP), focusing on: (1) the extent of services provided under ILPs; and (2) what is known about the effect of these services on youths' ability to live on their own."
Date: November 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FWS: Migratory Bird Hunting--Final Frameworks for Early-Season Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations and Early Seasons and Bag and Possession Limits for Certain Migratory Game Birds (open access)

FWS: Migratory Bird Hunting--Final Frameworks for Early-Season Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations and Early 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 early-season migratory bird hunting. GAO noted that: (1) the rule would establish the early-seasons frameworks from which states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands may select dates and other options available to them for the 1999-2000 migratory bird hunting season; and (2) FWS complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."
Date: September 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Energy: DOE's Nuclear Safety Enforcement Program Should Be Strengthened (open access)

Department of Energy: DOE's Nuclear Safety Enforcement Program Should Be Strengthened

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) nuclear safety enforcement program, focusing on: (1) the enforceable nuclear safety rules DOE has issued; (2) which DOE facilities and contractors are covered by these rules; (3) DOE's enforcement of the nuclear safety rules; and (4) whether there is a continued need for exempting certain contractors from paying penalties for violating nuclear safety rules."
Date: June 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Credits: Reasons for Cost Differences in Housing Built by For-Profit and Nonprofit Developers (open access)

Tax Credits: Reasons for Cost Differences in Housing Built by For-Profit and Nonprofit Developers

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the characteristics of the residents and properties that have benefited from the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, focusing on assessing the impact of variations in characteristics such as the type or location of the property or the type of tenants served."
Date: March 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Force Depot Maintenance: Analysis of Its Financial Operations (open access)

Air Force Depot Maintenance: Analysis of Its Financial Operations

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the financial operations of the Air Force depot maintenance activity group, focusing on the: (1) Air Force depot maintenance activity group's price increase between fiscal year (FY) 1994 and FY 1999 and the primary reasons for it; (2) activity group's financial losses during FY 1994 through FY 1998 and the primary reasons for them; and (3) Air Force's methods for recovering these losses."
Date: December 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gender Issues: Medical Support for Female Soldiers Deployed to Bosnia (open access)

Gender Issues: Medical Support for Female Soldiers Deployed to Bosnia

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on whether adequate medical services were available to service members deployed to the field, focusing on the: (1) availability of data collected on female soldiers' health care needs in Bosnia; and (2) views of health care officials and female soldiers on female-specific services and health-related issues in Bosnia."
Date: March 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public Education: Title I Services Provided to Students With Limited English Proficiency (open access)

Public Education: Title I Services Provided to Students With Limited English Proficiency

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) how many students with limited English proficiency are being served through targeted and schoolwide Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs; (2) how students with limited English proficiency are being served through targeted and schoolwide Title I programs; (3) how many Title I teachers in schools serving students with limited English proficiency are bilingual or have other specialized training in teaching these students; and (4) what accommodations do states allow for students with limited English proficiency in taking academic assessments, including offering tests in their native language, and to what extent are these students participating in academic assessments."
Date: December 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Balanced Budget Act: Any Proposed Fee-for-Service Payment Modifications Need Thorough Evaluation (open access)

Balanced Budget Act: Any Proposed Fee-for-Service Payment Modifications Need Thorough Evaluation

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the effect of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) on the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program, focusing on the: (1) payment reforms for providers under the fee-for-service portion of the program; and (2) changes made to skilled nursing facility (SNF) and home health agency (HHA) payment policies."
Date: June 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library