This Action Memorandum documents the selected alternative for decommissioning of the Engineering Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory under the Idaho Cleanup Project. Since the missions of the Engineering Test Reactor Complex have been completed, an engineering evaluation/cost analysis that evaluated alternatives to accomplish the decommissioning of the Engineering Test Reactor Complex was prepared and released for public comment. The scope of this Action Memorandum is to encompass the final end state of the Complex and disposal of the Engineering Test Reactor vessel. The selected removal action includes removing and disposing of the vessel at the Idaho CERCLA Disposal Facility and demolishing the reactor building to ground surface.

This report discusses the situation of Afghan refugees and future prospects.

B133 is located in the southwest quadrant inside the 1 square mile site of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The property is about 250 meters from the nearest boundary along Vasco Road. Building 133 is a 1 story steel framed building constructed in 1994 with stainless steel sidings. The facility covers 5,631 gross square feet of space. The building is used to house equipment to heat and cool buildings 132N and 132S. A 1380 volts electrical substation is located outside on the northeast corner, along with 2 diesel generators and a 1000 gallons diesel fuel tank. An evaporative cooling tower is located to the south of B133 to dissipate heat from the chillers located in B133. The inside of the facility is divided into three main rooms housing the cooling system units, the boilers, and the electrical distribution panels. The facility has an automatic sprinkler system installed through out and a Freon alarm located in room 1000. Building 133 is used to supply electrical power, chilled water, and hot water to Bldgs 132 N & S. Primary activities include servicing and maintaining chillers, boilers, and electrical distribution equipment.

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Concerns over financing federal elections have become a seemingly perennial aspect of our political system, long centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs and reliance on interest groups for needed campaign funds. Rising election costs had long fostered a sense in some quarters that spending was out of control, with too much time spent raising funds and elections "bought and sold." This report contains information on the evolution of the current system, campaign finance practices and related issues, policy options to address campaign finance issues, legislative action in the 109th and 110th Congresses, and additional information and figures.

This report describes Campaign Finance Legislation and Activity in the 109th Congress.

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This report examines logistical support contracts for troop support services in Iraq, primarily administered through the United States' Army's Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP).

The widely differing spatial, temporal, and density scales needed to accurately model the fast ignition process and other short-pulse laser-plasma interactions leads to a computationally challenging project that is difficult to solve using a single code. This report summarizes the work performed on a three year LDRD to couple together three independent codes using PYTHON to build a new integrated computational tool. An example calculation using this new model is described.

This report summarizes the provisions affecting charitable contribution deductions of individuals, and then analyzes the incentive such a deduction would create for increased charitable giving beginning with the original proposal for a relatively low cap and then considering other approaches. It does not attempt to estimate other types of societal impacts.

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This report is a brief explanation of how the tax operates,analyzes the arguments for and against the tax.It concludes with an inventory and discussion of alternative policy options.

The report discusses an uncapped exemption and an uncapped exemption targeted at liquidity issues.

This report examines some of Europe's critical energy challenges and EU efforts to coordinate a common European energy strategy. It also includes an overview of broader transatlantic energy security cooperation.

This report provides information about the SEC Regulations and Congressional Proposals on Executive Compensation. Concern about share holder value, corporate governance and social impact of escalating pay for corporate executives has led to controversy.

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Congress has created 20 federal employment-related programs that are aimed at helping people with disabilities obtain jobs. Little is known about the effectiveness and the management of some of these programs. GAO was asked to review four of these programs; the Department of Education (Education) oversees three--Projects with Industry (PWI), Supported Employment State Grants, and Randolph-Sheppard. An independent federal agency, the Committee for Purchase, oversees the fourth, Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD). Specifically, GAO assessed the extent to which (1) performance goals and measures have been established for these programs and (2) the agencies responsible have established adequate oversight procedures. We reviewed program planning and performance information, interviewed agency officials, and visited each of the four programs in four states."

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Joint seabasing is one of several evolving concepts for projecting and sustaining forces without relying on immediate access to nearby land bases and could be the source of billions of dollars of investment. In future security environments, the Department of Defense (DOD) expects to encounter situations of reduced or denied access to areas of operation. Even where forward operating bases are otherwise available, their use may be politically undesirable or operationally restricted. GAO was asked to address the extent to which (1) DOD has employed a comprehensive management approach to joint seabasing, (2) DOD has developed a joint experimentation campaign plan for joint seabasing, and (3) DOD and the services have identified the costs of joint seabasing options. For this review, GAO analyzed joint requirements documents, experimentation efforts, and service acquisition plans."

This report focuses on those international medical graduates (IMGs) who are foreign nationals, hereafter referred to as foreign medical graduates (FMGs).

This report describes the federal programs of importance to the specialty crop sector, and provides the most recent funding information available for them.

This report will summarize basic scientific concepts in genetics and will provide an overview of genetic tests, their main characteristics, and the key policy issues they raise.

This report provides an overview of the insurance losses and national capacities for financing disaster risks of Hurricane Katrina.

This report provides an overview about the Objectives, Options, and Outlook on Importing Prescription Drugs.it also examines the issues,spells out how they are treated from bill to bill, and refer to alternatives to important to ease the burden of prescription drug.

We present calculations and design considerations for a detection system that could be used to observe nuclear resonance fluorescence in {sup 238}U. This is intended as part of an experiment in which a nearly monochromatic beam of light incident on a thin foil of natural uranium resonantly populates the state at 680 keV in {sup 238}U. The beam of light is generated via Compton upscattering of laser light incident on a beam of relativistic electrons. This light source has excellent energy and angular resolution. In the current design study we suppose photons emitted following de-excitation of excited nuclei to be observed by a segmented array of BGO crystals. Monte Carlo calculations are used to inform estimates for the design and performance of this detector system. We find that each detector in this array should be shielded by about 2 cm of lead. The signal to background ratio for each of the BGO crystals is larger than ten. The probability that a single detector observes a resonant photon during a single pulse of the light source is near unity.