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Foreign Affairs: Specific Action Plan Needed to Improve Response to Parental Child Abductions (open access)

Foreign Affairs: Specific Action Plan Needed to Improve Response to Parental Child Abductions

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on international parental child abductions, focusing on the adequacy of federal response to: (1) problems identified with the federal government's response to international parental child abductions; (2) the Department of Justice's (DOJ) use of the 1993 International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act to prosecute abducting parents; and (3) the actions federal agencies plan to take to address the problems."
Date: March 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Administration: IRS' Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic Program (open access)

Tax Administration: IRS' Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic Program

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) implementation of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic program, focusing on: (1) the steps IRS has taken to implement the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic program; (2) the key tax problems facing low-income taxpayers served by the clinics and the reasons for these problems; (3) the role that the program plays in addressing these taxpayers' problems; and (4) other actions IRS or Congress could consider to address the types of tax problems the clinics are facing."
Date: March 24, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Budget: Funding for Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial Initiatives (open access)

Defense Budget: Funding for Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial Initiatives

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) funding for activities sponsored by the Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial during fiscal years 1999 and 2000 and the sources of this funding."
Date: March 16, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
VA Systems Security: Information System Controls at the New Mexico VA Health Care System (open access)

VA Systems Security: Information System Controls at the New Mexico VA Health Care System

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the effectiveness of information system general controls and computer security at the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) New Mexico VA Health Care System (NMVAHCS), focusing on the weaknesses GAO identified at NMVAHCS and the status of corrective actions."
Date: March 24, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Report for the Civil Air Patrol, Incorporated, for Fiscal Years 1996 and 1997 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Report for the Civil Air Patrol, Incorporated, for Fiscal Years 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 Civil Air Patrol, Incorporated, for the fiscal years ended September 30, 1996 and 1997, focusing on whether the audit report complied with the financial reporting requirements of the law."
Date: March 3, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human Capital: Observations on EPA's Efforts to Implement a Workforce Planning Strategy (open access)

Human Capital: Observations on EPA's Efforts to Implement a Workforce Planning Strategy

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its observations on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to determine the workforce it needs to meet its strategic goals and objectives, focusing on: (1) how EPA determines the number of employees and competencies needed to carry out its strategic goals and objectives; and (2) what actions, if any, EPA is taking to improve its workforce planning activities."
Date: March 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Treatment Facilities: Emergency Department Utilization (open access)

Military Treatment Facilities: Emergency Department Utilization

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on whether military active duty service personnel, retirees, and their dependents not enrolled in the Department of Defense's (DOD) TRICARE program, are obtaining nonemergency medical care through Military Treatment Facilities (MTF) emergency departments, focusing on the: (1) services' efforts to determine requirements for MTF emergency departments; (2) type of care emergency departments are providing; and (3) extent to which emergency department patients were TRICARE enrollees."
Date: March 13, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Health Care: TRICARE's Civilian Provider Networks (open access)

Military Health Care: TRICARE's Civilian Provider Networks

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) managed care program, TRICARE, focusing on: (1) DOD's requirements for and oversight of network adequacy; (2) the content and methodology of DOD's July 1999 report to Congress on network adequacy; and (3) the changes to network adequacy requirements that DOD anticipates under its next round of TRICARE contracts, referred to as managed care support 3.0."
Date: March 13, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Executive Guide: Maximizing the Success of Chief Information Officers (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by GAO-01-376G) (open access)

Executive Guide: Maximizing the Success of Chief Information Officers (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by GAO-01-376G)

Guidance issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This publication has been superseded by GAO-01-376G, Executive Guide: Maximizing the Success of Chief Information Officers: Learning From Leading Organizations, February 2001. GAO published a guide: (1) to assist federal agencies in maximizing the success of chief information officers (CIO); and (2) to offer concrete suggestions on what agency executives can do to ensure the effectiveness of their CIO organizations."
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Real Property Maintenance: Management Improvements are Needed to Ensure Adequate Facilities (open access)

Military Real Property Maintenance: Management Improvements are Needed to Ensure Adequate Facilities

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Department of Defense's (DOD) and the military services' management of real property assets, focusing on: (1) principle findings on DOD's strategy for management of real property and how the services determine and prioritize maintenance needs and allocate resources to them; (2) promising practices in facilities maintenance by nonmilitary entities; (3) some barriers that the services face in implementing such practices; (4) GAO's recommendations on how DOD could improve its real property management; and (5) the steps DOD has told GAO it is taking in response to GAO's testimony."
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Civil Rights Division: Fiscal Year 2000 Annual Performance Plan Could Be Improved (open access)

Civil Rights Division: Fiscal Year 2000 Annual Performance Plan Could Be Improved

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division (CRT) fiscal year (FY) 2000 annual performance plan to determine the extent to which the plan had met Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) requirements and related guidance, focusing on: (1) defining expected performance; (2) addressing the crosscutting nature of its programs; and (3) providing confidence that its performance information was credible."
Date: March 30, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
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, health care, human services, justice, general government, and financial and information management for use in congressional review of budget requests."
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Euro: Implications for the United States--Answers to Key Questions (open access)

The Euro: Implications for the United States--Answers to Key Questions

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the euro, focusing on: (1) what the euro is and why Europe is moving to it now; (2) what the potential effects of the euro are on the dollar; (3) what are the potential monetary policy and exchange rate effects of the euro; (4) what are the euro's implications for U.S. trade and investment with Europe; and (5) what are the implications of the euro for international economic policymaking. GAO noted that: (1) the euro is the new currency being used by 11 of the 15 countries that are members of the European Union (EU); (2) the euro is part of an initiative known as the European Economic and Monetary Union and is designed to more closely link EU's economic policies; (3) a variety of factors will determine whether the emergence of the euro will have a significant impact on the international role of the dollar; (4) over the longer term, several analysts believe that the comparative status of the dollar and euro as international currencies may be affected by potential developments in the euro area payments …
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Park Service: Need to Address Management Problems That Plague the Concessions Program (open access)

Park Service: Need to Address Management Problems That Plague the Concessions Program

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the National Parks Concession Program management problems, focusing on: (1) factors affecting the condition of lodging facilities in the national park system; and (2) options available to address these factors."
Date: March 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Audit: Bureau of the Public Debt's Fiscal Years 1999 and 1998 Schedules of Federal Debt (open access)

Financial Audit: Bureau of the Public Debt's Fiscal Years 1999 and 1998 Schedules of Federal Debt

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO audited the Bureau of the Public Debt's (BPD) Schedules of Federal Debt for the fiscal years that ended September 30, 1999 and 1998."
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Department: Overseas Emergency Security Program Progressing, But Costs Are Increasing (open access)

State Department: Overseas Emergency Security Program Progressing, But Costs Are Increasing

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO described the Department of State's Overseas Emergency Security Program, focusing on: (1) progress that State has made in implementing the program funded by the emergency supplemental appropriations and the challenges State faces in completing the program; and (2) State's long-term capital construction program and its response to a study on overseas presence in follow-on reports."
Date: March 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education Discretionary Grants: Awards Process Could Benefit From Additional Improvements (open access)

Education Discretionary Grants: Awards Process Could Benefit From Additional Improvements

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Education's redesigned discretionary grants process, focusing on: (1) Education's progress in implementing the redesigned awards process; (2) the management controls used to help ensure a fair peer review process and the costs of peer review; and (3) the extent to which grant awards are consistent with the results of peer review and the legislation governing individual grant programs."
Date: March 30, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Financial Management: Further Improvements Needed to Establish Adequate Financial Control and Accountability (open access)

Medicare Financial Management: Further Improvements Needed to Establish Adequate Financial Control and Accountability

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO evaluated the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) financial management activities to determine if they are sufficient to resolve financial management weaknesses identified through annual financial statement audits and other management-type reviews of HCFA's Medicare activities."
Date: March 15, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HUD Reform Act: Information on the Department's Response to the Act's Requirements (open access)

HUD Reform Act: Information on the Department's Response to the Act's Requirements

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the extent to which the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) complied with the HUD Reform Act of 1989 in fiscal years 1997 and 1998, focusing on HUD's actions in response to: (1) title I of the Reform Act, which is the title principally concerned with addressing the ethics, management and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) issues raised during the late 1980s; and (2) four other titles in the act--II, III, VII, and VIII--that address other changes in HUD's management of federally assisted housing."
Date: March 27, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Power Marketing Administrations: Their Ratesetting Practices Compared With Those of Nonfederal Utilities (open access)

Power Marketing Administrations: Their Ratesetting Practices Compared With Those of Nonfederal Utilities

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) power marketing administrations (PMA), focusing on: (1) how the PMAs set their rates to recover costs; (2) how the PMAs' ratesetting practices compare to those of investor-owned and publicly owned utilities; and (3) the impact of the PMAs' ability to defer repayment of portions of their debt on their future competitiveness."
Date: March 30, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Management: Education Faces Challenges in Achieving Financial Management Reform (open access)

Financial Management: Education Faces Challenges in Achieving Financial Management Reform

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the challenges the Department of Education faces in achieving financial management reform, focusing on: (1) Education's fiscal year (FY) 1999 financial audit results in the context of related work GAO has performed; (2) the relationship between the audit findings and the potential for waste, fraud, and abuse; and (3) the status of GAO's ongoing study of the department's grantback account."
Date: March 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human Capital: Strategic Approach Should Guide DOD Civilian Workforce Management (open access)

Human Capital: Strategic Approach Should Guide DOD Civilian Workforce Management

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed civilian personnel downsizing in the Department of Defense (DOD) and a framework that could be useful for approaching its human capital management challenges in the future."
Date: March 9, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chief Information Officers: Implementing Effective CIO Organizations (open access)

Chief Information Officers: Implementing Effective CIO Organizations

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the role of chief information officers (CIO) in the federal government."
Date: March 24, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Information Security: Actions Needed to Address Widespread Weaknesses (open access)

Federal Information Security: Actions Needed to Address Widespread Weaknesses

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed federal information security, focusing on actions federal agencies can take immediately to strengthen their security programs as well as other actions required to make more fundamental and long-term improvements."
Date: March 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library