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Food Safety: Weaknesses in Meat and Poultry Inspection Pilot Should Be Addressed Before Implementation
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced in 1997 that it would modify its meat and poultry slaughter inspection program to make industry more responsible for identifying carcass defects. Before making the change permanent, USDA developed a model to test whether a prevention-oriented inspection system that uses plant personnel to examine each carcass and USDA inspectors to verify that quality standards are met would continue to ensure the safety of meat and poultry products. USDA's pilot project for chickens had several design and methodology problems that compromised the overall validity and reliability of its results. First, the chicken pilot that USDA designed lacked a control group--a critical design flaw that precluded a comparison between the performance of the inspection systems at those plants that volunteered to participate in the pilot and that of plants that did not participate. Second, the chicken plants that volunteered to participate in the baseline measurement phase of the pilot were not randomly selected, and they did not include plants from all chicken-producing areas or plants of all sizes. Third, the pilot project's methodology did not take into account such variables as seasonal …
Date:
December 17, 2001
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Affairs: Internally Displaced Persons Lack Effective Protection
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Internally displaced persons--those forced to flee their homes because of armed conflict and persecution but who remain within their own country--are among the most at-risk, vulnerable populations in the world. Although some protections have been provided to internally displaced persons, international organizations have been unable to fully meet their needs in most locations, partly because of the danger in operating in conflict zones, the presence of personal security risks to aid workers, and the decline in budgetary resources, but also because international organizations have not taken a proactive approach toward protection. Also, international relief workers have not received training on how to incorporate protection considerations and interventions into their assistance activities. In the three countries GAO visited, international organizations do not coordinate their protection actions within the countries in which they operate. Without such coordination, international organizations are unable to share basic information on the location of their protection officers and effective approaches to protection interventions. The U.N. Security Council is one forum in which these matters can be addressed in the context of underlying political and security factors. The U.S. government has no overall policy …
Date:
August 17, 2001
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Radiation Exposure Compensation: Analysis of Justice's Program Administration
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "From 1945 through 1962, the United States conducted a series of aboveground atomic weapons tests. Many people exposed to radiation from this nuclear weapons testing program later developed serious diseases, including cancer. To begin the process of making partial restitution to these victims, the President signed into law the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) in 1990. RECA established the Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund (Trust Fund), criteria for determining claimant eligibility for compensation, and a program (administered by the Attorney General) to process and adjudicate claims under the act. The Department of Justice (DOJ) established the Radiation Exposure Compensation Program (RECP) within its Civil Division to administer its responsibilities under the act. Through the end of fiscal year 2000, RECP received 7,819 applications for compensation. Roughly equal numbers of applications have been approved and denied, awarding compensation to about 46 percent of the claimants and denying compensation to about 46 percent. RECA claims are most often denied because the victim's disease is not eligible for compensation under the RECA program. The costs for administering RECP have fluctuated from the first full year of program implementation, fiscal …
Date:
September 17, 2001
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide Modernization of DOD's Financial Operations
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) does not have a financial management enterprise architecture, and it does not have the management structures in place to effectively develop, implement, and maintain one. DOD has not applied recognized best practices--particularly support and sponsorship by the head of the enterprise and assignment of accountability and commensurate authority--to develop, implement, and maintain a DOD-wide financial management enterprise architecture. Nevertheless, DOD's various components are either spending or planning to spend billions of dollars to acquire new or modify existing financial management systems. In the absence of a complete, enforceable enterprise architecture, such investments are unwise. DOD runs the risk that its components will spend billions of dollars to modify and modernize financial management systems independently from one another, forcing DOD to maintain a system that suffers from duplication, limited interoperability, and unnecessarily costly operations and maintenance. As part of its plan to invest in financial management systems modernization, DOD has tried to use lessons learned from its Year 2000 program. DOD can build upon these actions to ensure that it uses recognized best practices for enterprise architecture management. This approach will allow …
Date:
May 17, 2001
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Former Soviet Union: U.S. Rule of Law Assistance Has Had Limited Impact and Sustainability
Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the U.S. government's rule of law assistance efforts in the new independent states of the former Soviet Union. GAO found that these efforts have had limited impact so far, and results may not be sustainable in many cases. U.S. agencies have had some success in introducing innovative legal concepts and practices in these countries. However, the U.S. assistance has not often had a major, long-term impact on the evolution of the rule of law in these countries. In some cases, countries have not widely adopted the new concepts and practices that the United States has advocated. In other cases, continuation or expansion of the innovations depends on further funding from the U.S. or other donors. In fact, the rule of law appears to have actually deteriorated in recent years in several countries, including Russia and Ukraine, according to the data used to measure the results of U.S. development assistance in the region and a host of U.S. government and foreign officials. This testimony summarizes an April 2001 report (GAO-01-354)."
Date:
May 17, 2001
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Customs Service: Observations on Selected Operations and Program Issues
Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses three issues on selected U.S. Customs Service programs and operations. First, concerning the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), a more capable import processing system designed to replace Customs' current aging and error-prone system, GAO concluded that Customs' plan constituted a reasonable first step on a complex, long-term modernization program. Pursuant to its obligation to review ACE expenditures, GAO plans to continue monitoring Customs' ongoing modernization efforts. Second, GAO found that Customs' Office of Regulations and Rulings headquarters did not issue the majority of its rulings in a timely manner. Finally, GAO found that if proposed legislation on Customs officers' night pay had been in effect during fiscal year 1999, the officers would have received about $6 million in night differential pay. Furthermore, across the five ports GAO reviewed, the impact on officers' pay varied widely because of the differences in shift patterns."
Date:
July 17, 2001
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Intellectual Property: Information on the Federal Framework and DOD's Other Transaction Authority
Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The research and development environment has changed dramatically during lst several decades. The government is no longer in the driver's seat, but it still needs access to research and technology advances. At the same time, its effort to compete for access must be balanced against a range of commercial, economic, legal, and other interests. The vehicles discussed in this testimony (the Bayh-Dole Act and Department of Defense "other transaction" authority) are among the tools that the government can use to attract new players to the research and development arena and to maintain access to advances. However, effective use of these tools requires good training and a greater exercise of reasoned discretion among program officials and contracting officers. The Defense Department has taken a very good first step in developing appropriate guidance. However, the next steps are more critical: providing the training and assurances that the guidance will be appropriately implemented."
Date:
July 17, 2001
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Residential Energy Assistance: Effectiveness of Demonstration Program as Yet Undetermined
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Rising prices for natural gas, electricity, and other fuels have made it even harder for low-income families to pay their utility bills. By the end of fiscal year 2000, the Office of Community Services had awarded $30 million in Residential Energy Assistance Challenge Option (REACH) program grants to 24 states and 12 tribal organizations to fund 54 separate projects to help meet the home energy (heating and cooling) needs of low-income households. These grants ranged from $50,000 to $1.6 million. Most of the 54 REACH projects have educated low-income clients about home energy efficiency through group workshops or on individual home visits. Many REACH projects have involved energy-related repairs to homes and budget counseling, and three state REACH projects are developing consumer cooperatives to purchase electricity or bulk fuels, such as heating oil. However, some REACH projects have included social services not directly related to meeting home energy needs. The legislation authorizing REACH identifies the following three performance goals for individual REACH projects, (1) reduce the energy costs of participating households, (2) increase the regularity of home energy bill payments, and (3) increase energy suppliers' contributions …
Date:
August 17, 2001
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Today Cedar Hill (Duncanville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 2001
Weekly newspaper published in Duncanville, Texas that includes local Cedar Hill, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 17, 2001
Creator:
Crooks, Kristi
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 2001
Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 17, 2001
Creator:
Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 2001
Weekly newspaper from Bogata, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 17, 2001
Creator:
Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-370
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county may pay accrued vacation or compensatory time to two sheriff’s deputies if, when the time accrued, the county did not permit such payments, and related question (RQ-0324-JC)
Date:
April 17, 2001
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-440
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission rule requiring owners of surface-irrigation on-site sewage facilities to have ongoing maintenance contracts is authorized(RQ-0400-JC).
Date:
December 17, 2001
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-441
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a podiatrist's statutory authority to treat a "disease, disorder, physical injury, deformity or ailment of the human foot," Tex. Occ. Code Ann. § 202.001(a)(4) (Vernon 2001), includes authority to treat "the tibia and fibula in their articulation with the talus, . . . inclusive of all soft tissues. . . that insert into the tibia and fibula in their articulation with the talus," and related question (RQ-0404-JC)
Date:
December 17, 2001
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-442
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a teacher who retires from employment with a school district and later wishes to return to full-time employment as a certified teacher with the school district, qualifies for the continuous-employment exception to the statutory prohibition on nepotistic hiring by a school district, see Tex. Gov't Code Ann. §§ 573.041, .062 (Vernon 1994) (RQ-0413-JC)
Date:
December 17, 2001
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 2001
Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 17, 2001
Creator:
Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program: How are State Allotments Determined?
This report discusses the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which is a block grant program under which the federal government provides states annual grants to operate multi-component home energy assistance programs for needy households.
Date:
April 17, 2001
Creator:
Abbey, Craig W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 17, 2001
Weekly newspaper from Sulphur Springs, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 17, 2001
Creator:
Keys, Scott & Alsobrook, Bruce
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 66, Ed. 1 Friday, August 17, 2001
Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 17, 2001
Creator:
Smith, W. Leon
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 83, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 17, 2001
Creator:
Smith, W. Leon
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 2001
Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 17, 2001
Creator:
Smith, W. Leon
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Semi-weekly newspaper from Seminole, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 17, 2001
Creator:
Dow, M. Gene & Fisher, David
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 2001
Weekly newspaper from Hondo, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 17, 2001
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 70, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 17, 2001
Semiweekly newspaper from Seminole, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 17, 2001
Creator:
Dow, M. Gene & Fisher, David
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History