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Tax Administration: Multiple Collection Notices Sent to Individual Taxpayers (open access)

Tax Administration: Multiple Collection Notices Sent to Individual Taxpayers

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) multiple collection notices, focusing on: (1) how many individual taxpayers were sent multiple notices to collect the same tax assessment, particularly after IRS received full payment of the assessment; and (2) IRS' reasons for sending collection notices after receiving full payment."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Competitive Contracting: The Understandability of FAIR Act Inventories Was Limited (open access)

Competitive Contracting: The Understandability of FAIR Act Inventories Was Limited

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the implementation of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act of 1998, focusing on: (1) the overall initial implementation of the FAIR Act; (2) the clarity and understandability of five agencies' FAIR Act inventories; (3) the extent to which these agencies exempted commercial activities from competition; and (4) supplemental information that enhanced the understandability of agencies' inventories."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Fisheries: Entry of Fishermen Limits Benefits of Buyback Programs (open access)

Commercial Fisheries: Entry of Fishermen Limits Benefits of Buyback Programs

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) fisheries buyback programs, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the buyback programs have affected fishing capacity; (2) potential ways the buyback programs can be made more effective; and (3) NMFS' efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of buyback programs."
Date: June 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Justice: Information on the Office of Professional Responsibility's Operations (open access)

Department of Justice: Information on the Office of Professional Responsibility's Operations

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Office of Professional Responsibility's (OPR) operations, focusing on: (1) how OPR conducts its inquiries into allegations of misconduct by Department of Justice attorneys; (2) to what extent OPR's workload, as well as budget, have changed; (3) the possible range of disciplinary actions and procedures if employee misconduct is found; (4) OPR's oversight relationship with similar offices in other Justice components; (5) the degree to which OPR has implemented GAO's prior recommendations; and (6) how OPR is monitoring and implementing the Hyde Attorneys Fees Amendment and the Citizens Protection Act."
Date: August 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
District of Columbia Government: Performance Report's Adherence to Statutory Requirements (open access)

District of Columbia Government: Performance Report's Adherence to Statutory Requirements

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed whether the District of Columbia's annual performance report contained all the information required by law and, if not, why. This report transmits GAO's comments on the Mayor's performance report for fiscal year (FY) 1999, which was due on March 1, 2000, but was issued on March 7, 2000."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Administration: Paying Attorneys Who Represent Disability Applicants (open access)

Social Security Administration: Paying Attorneys Who Represent Disability Applicants

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO discussed issues involving the Social Security Administration's (SSA) process for paying attorneys representing applicants for disability benefits, focusing on three areas of the attorney payment process: (1) the process itself, including the costs of processing the payments; (2) possible changes to the way the user fee is charged; and (3) changes being considered for the attorney fee payment process overall."
Date: June 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2000 Census: Update on Essential Operations (open access)

2000 Census: Update on Essential Operations

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its recent reports on the status of key census taking operations, focusing on such essential activities as: (1) outreach and promotion; (2) field follow-up operations; and (3) data capture."
Date: March 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Slotting Fees: Effort to Study the Use of These Payments in the Grocery Industry (open access)

Slotting Fees: Effort to Study the Use of These Payments in the Grocery Industry

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its effort to study the use of slotting fees in the grocery industry, focusing on GAO's: (1) planned approach and methodology; and (2) reasons for not being able to perform the study."
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fire Management: Lessons Learned From the Cerro Grande (Los Alamos) Fire (open access)

Fire Management: Lessons Learned From the Cerro Grande (Los Alamos) Fire

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the circumstances surrounding the Los Alamos wildfire, focusing on: (1) the events leading up to the prescribed fire and how it was managed; and (2) what fire management policies or practices need to be improved."
Date: August 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fire Management: Lessons Learned From the Cerro Grande (Los Alamos) Fire and Actions Needed to Reduce Fire Risks (open access)

Fire Management: Lessons Learned From the Cerro Grande (Los Alamos) Fire and Actions Needed to Reduce Fire Risks

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the circumstances surrounding the Los Alamos wildfire, focusing on: (1) the events leading up to the prescribed fire and how it was managed; and (2) what fire management policies or practices need to be improved."
Date: August 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Security: Security Issues At DOE and Its Newly Created National Nuclear Security Administration (open access)

Nuclear Security: Security Issues At DOE and Its Newly Created National Nuclear Security Administration

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its recent reports concerning the Department of Energy's (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) security programs to protect against theft, sabotage, espionage, terrorism, and other risks to national security at its facilities, focusing on: (1) oversight of safeguards and security programs at DOE; and (2) security issues with NNSA."
Date: March 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fish and Wildlife Service: Weaknesses in the Management of the Endangered Species Program Workload at the Carlsbad, California Field Office (open access)

Fish and Wildlife Service: Weaknesses in the Management of the Endangered Species Program Workload at the Carlsbad, California Field Office

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the implementation of the Endangered Species Act by the Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) field office in Carlsbad, California, focusing on: (1) how the Carlsbad office tracks its workload of consultations and habitat conservation plans (HCP); (2) to what extent the office is complying with FWS guidelines for completing formal consultations and HCP processing; and (3) the causes for delay when time frames are exceeded."
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contract Management: DOD's Anthrax Vaccine Manufacturer Will Continue to Need Financial Assistance (open access)

Contract Management: DOD's Anthrax Vaccine Manufacturer Will Continue to Need Financial Assistance

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the contractual relationship between the Department of Defense (DOD) and BioPort Corporation for production of the anthrax vaccine, focusing on: (1) the financial assistance DOD provided BioPort in 1999; and (2) additional financial assistance DOD is providing BioPort in 2000."
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
F-22 Aircraft: Development Cost Goal Achievable If Major Problems Are Avoided (open access)

F-22 Aircraft: Development Cost Goal Achievable If Major Problems Are Avoided

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Air Force's engineering and manufacturing development program for the F-22 aircraft, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the F-22 development program is meeting its performance, schedule, and cost goals; (2) whether the Air Force is likely to complete the development program as planned without exceeding the cost limitation established by the act; and (3) whether GAO had access to sufficient information to make informed judgments on matters covered in this report."
Date: March 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bureau of Indian Affairs: Use of Highway Trust Fund Resources (open access)

Bureau of Indian Affairs: Use of Highway Trust Fund Resources

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) use of federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF) money for Indian reservation roads, focusing on: (1) what percentage of fiscal years 1999 and 1998 HTF contract authority available to BIA was obligated for: (a) management costs directly related to specific projects within a program for construction, repair, and improvement of roads; and (b) program management and oversight costs not directly related to specific projects; (2) whether BIA spent more than 6 percent of the contract authority allocated to its Midwest and Western Regional Offices on non-project-related program management costs for those offices; (3) whether the annual 6 percent statutory limitation on the use of HTF contract authority for road program management costs applies only to non-project-related management costs; and (4) whether the project-related costs that BIA bears for individual tribes should be paid from HTF contract authority or from BIA's annual appropriations for managing Indian programs or construction."
Date: August 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Credit Reform: HUD's Fiscal Year 2000 Credit Subsidy Budget Estimates Were Reasonable, But Could Have Been Improved (open access)

Credit Reform: HUD's Fiscal Year 2000 Credit Subsidy Budget Estimates Were Reasonable, But Could Have Been Improved

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on the Federal Housing Administration's credit subsidy budget estimates used to formulate the President's fiscal year (FY) 2000 budget to determine whether: (1) these estimates were reasonable; and (2) any changes need to be made to the credit subsidy estimation process to ensure that future budget estimates are reasonable."
Date: January 14, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Statistical Methodologies Used in U. S. Army Ordnance and Explosive Work (open access)

Evaluation of Statistical Methodologies Used in U. S. Army Ordnance and Explosive Work

Oak Ridge National Laboratory was tasked by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center (Huntsville, AL) to evaluate the mathematical basis of existing software tools used to assist the Army with the characterization of sites potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO). These software tools are collectively known as SiteStats/GridStats. The first purpose of the software is to guide sampling of underground anomalies to estimate a site's UXO density. The second purpose is to delineate areas of homogeneous UXO density that can be used in the formulation of response actions. It was found that SiteStats/GridStats does adequately guide the sampling so that the UXO density estimator for a sector is unbiased. However, the software's techniques for delineation of homogeneous areas perform less well than visual inspection, which is frequently used to override the software in the overall sectorization methodology. The main problems with the software lie in the criteria used to detect nonhomogeneity and those used to recommend the number of homogeneous subareas. SiteStats/GridStats is not a decision-making tool in the classical sense. Although it does provide information to decision makers, it does not require a decision based on that information. SiteStats/GridStats provides information that is supplemented by visual inspections, land-use …
Date: February 14, 2000
Creator: Ostrouchov, G
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Collapse Surface for Perforated Plates with Triangular Patterns for Ligament Efficiencies Between 0.05 and 0.50 (open access)

A Collapse Surface for Perforated Plates with Triangular Patterns for Ligament Efficiencies Between 0.05 and 0.50

Collapse surfaces are developed for thick perforated plates containing a triangular penetration pattern with ligament efficiencies of 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.5 using elastic-perfectly plastic FEA analysis. The FEA data was fit to a fourth-order collapse function which is appropriate for the development of an equivalent solid elastic-perfectly plastic plasticity model for perforated plates with triangular penetration patterns. This type of model can be conveniently used to develop a limit load capability for perforated plate analysis. It was shown that the fourth-order function is reasonable for ligament efficiencies between 0.15 to 0.5. Comparing the fourth-order collapse function to FEA data suggests that an alternate collapse function is needed for ligament efficiencies less than 0.15. A linear interpolation method was shown to be appropriate for ligament efficiencies between 0.15 and 0.5.
Date: December 14, 2000
Creator: Gordon, D.P. Jones and J.L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 2000 (open access)

Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 2000

Weekly newspaper from Bogata, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 14, 2000
Creator: Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 2000 (open access)

Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 2000

Weekly newspaper from Bogata, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 151, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 2000 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 151, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 2000

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 14, 2000
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 151, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 2000 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 151, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 2000

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 14, 2000
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Global Climate Change: The Energy Tax Incentives in the President’s FY2001 Budget (open access)

Global Climate Change: The Energy Tax Incentives in the President’s FY2001 Budget

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Date: March 14, 2000
Creator: Laser, Salvatore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Crop Insurance: Issues in the 106th Congress (open access)

Federal Crop Insurance: Issues in the 106th Congress

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Date: January 14, 2000
Creator: Chite, Ralph M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library