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Southwest Retort, Volume 52, Number 6, February 2000 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 52, Number 6, February 2000

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: February 2000
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computer Security: Reported Appropriations and Obligations for Four Major Initiatives (open access)

Computer Security: Reported Appropriations and Obligations for Four Major Initiatives

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on fiscal years 1998 through 2000 appropriations and obligations for four major computer security initiatives, including: (1) the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC); (2) the Department of Defense's (DOD) Joint Task Force on Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND); (3) the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Computer Incident Response Capability (FedCIRC); and (4) GSA's Federal Intrusion Detection Network (FIDNet)."
Date: February 28, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
IRS Restructuring Act Implementation (open access)

IRS Restructuring Act Implementation

Correspondence 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) efforts to implement provisions of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, focusing on: (1) what can be done to ensure that levies and seizures are done in accordance with the law; (2) IRS' balanced performance measurement system of evaluating employees; (3) the misuse of enforcement statistics in evaluating IRS employees; (4) the impact of information management systems deficiencies on IRS work and on taxpayers' rights; (5) IRS' implementation of the Restructuring Act taxpayer protections; (6) problems with IRS' sale and custody of seized property; and (7) what can be done to ensure that seizure authority is appropriately used."
Date: February 28, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare: Methodology to Identify and Measure Improper Payments in the Medicare Program Does Not Include All Fraud (open access)

Medicare: Methodology to Identify and Measure Improper Payments in the Medicare Program Does Not Include All Fraud

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the methodology used to estimate the $12.6 billion in Medicare improper payments, as reported by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) for fiscal year (FY) 1998, focusing on whether the methodology included tests to detect improper payments resulting from fraudulent and abusive schemes in the Medicare program."
Date: February 4, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internal Revenue Service: Preparing Substitute for Returns for Individuals (open access)

Internal Revenue Service: Preparing Substitute for Returns for Individuals

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Substitute for Return (SFR) program at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)."
Date: February 17, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insurers' Ability to Pay Catastrophe Claims (open access)

Insurers' Ability to Pay Catastrophe Claims

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the insurance industry's capacity to pay natural catastrophe claims, focusing on: (1) comparing available data on industry financial resources to estimates of potential insured losses that would result from natural catastrophes of various magnitudes; (2) two recent studies of capacity; and (3) factors that may affect the stability of insurer capacity over time."
Date: February 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motor Fuels: Gasoline Price Spikes in Oregon in 1999 (open access)

Motor Fuels: Gasoline Price Spikes in Oregon in 1999

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the extent to which retail gasoline prices in Oregon spiked from January through August 1999 and the factors that accounted for the spikes."
Date: February 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gun Control: Implementation of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (open access)

Gun Control: Implementation of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on a wide variety of topics related to the permanent provisions (phase II) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, focusing on: (1) statistics on background checks, denials, and appeals; (2) enforcement actions; (3) the National Instant Criminal Background Check System's (NICS) operations; and (4) pawnshop issues."
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
GAO Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (open access)

GAO Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for fiscal year (FY) ended September 30, 1999, is supported by the underlying records."
Date: February 25, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export Controls: National Security Risks and Revisions To Controls on Computers (open access)

Export Controls: National Security Risks and Revisions To Controls on Computers

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its recent reports on export controls for high performance computers, focusing on how the executive branch: (1) assesses the national security risks associated with the export of high performance computers going to countries of concern; and (2) determines when the exports of computers at existing performance levels can no longer be controlled."
Date: February 28, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Personnel: First-Term Recruiting and Attrition Continue to Require Focused Attention (open access)

Military Personnel: First-Term Recruiting and Attrition Continue to Require Focused Attention

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed ways that the Department of Defense (DOD) and the services are attempting to address their recent enlistment shortfalls and to reduce the attrition rate of their first-term enlisted personnel."
Date: February 24, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Infrastructure Protection: National Plan for Information Systems Protection (open access)

Critical Infrastructure Protection: National Plan for Information Systems Protection

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed national security legal authorities related to infrastructure protection, focusing on the administration's National Plan for Information Systems Protection."
Date: February 11, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Care: State Requirements for Background Checks (open access)

Child Care: State Requirements for Background Checks

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information for each state about the background checks it requires to be conducted on its regulated child care providers."
Date: February 28, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Responses to Questions Concerning Long-Term Capital Management and Related Events (open access)

Responses to Questions Concerning Long-Term Capital Management and Related Events

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information concerning Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), its near failure, and its subsequent recapitalization in September 1998."
Date: February 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of the Navy: Breakdown of In-Transit Inventory Process Leaves It Vulnerable to Fraud (open access)

Department of the Navy: Breakdown of In-Transit Inventory Process Leaves It Vulnerable to Fraud

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO followed up on its previous report on the Navy's in-transit inventory management system, focusing on: (1) determining what happened to the 34 shipments the Navy could not account for; (2) confirming that the Navy actually had receipt information for the 45 shipments that it could not account for in the previous report; and (3) Navy initiatives that address some of the specific control issues associated with in-transit inventory."
Date: February 2, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internal Controls: DOD Records Retention Practices Hamper Accountability (open access)

Internal Controls: DOD Records Retention Practices Hamper Accountability

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the Navy's records retention and financial disbursements, focusing on the Navy's application of a Department of Defense (DOD) Financial Management Regulation (FMR) which calls for copies of disbursing officer records to be destroyed after 1 year."
Date: February 4, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges in Modernizing the Agency (open access)

Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges in Modernizing the Agency

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the challenges the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) faces in continuing to provide for the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic in U.S. airspace, focusing on the: (1) key areas that have hampered FAA's ability to achieve desired outcomes; (2) various proposals for restructuring FAA; and (3) next steps for FAA and Congress to take to ensure that the agency can address its challenges effectively and efficiently."
Date: February 3, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Securities Exchange Act: Review of Reporting Under Section 10A (open access)

Securities Exchange Act: Review of Reporting Under Section 10A

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the reporting procedures under Section 10A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934."
Date: February 4, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drug Control: U.S. Efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean (open access)

Drug Control: U.S. Efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on efforts to reduce the flow of drugs into the United States, focusing on the: (1) nature of the drug threat facing the United States; (2) way in which the international drug control strategy of the United States addresses the nature of the drug threat; and (3) obstacles that foreign governments and the United States face in reducing the drug threat."
Date: February 18, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Business Administration: Status of Mandated Planning for Loan Monitoring System (open access)

Small Business Administration: Status of Mandated Planning for Loan Monitoring System

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the status of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) efforts to complete the mandated planning actions for the development of its loan monitoring system."
Date: February 24, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Budget: Visibility and Accountability of O&M Fund Movements (open access)

Defense Budget: Visibility and Accountability of O&M Fund Movements

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) fiscal year (FY) 2001 budget as it relates to readiness needs, focusing on: (1) identifying the aggregated differences between the amounts Congress initially designated for the operation and maintenance (O&M) subactivities and those DOD reported as obligated for the same subactivities; (2) identifying those O&M subactivities where DOD obligated funds differently than congressionally initially designated in each year of the 5-year period GAO examined (1994 through 1998); and (3) assessing information available to Congress to track DOD's movement of funds among O&M subactivities."
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: Evaluation of the Nick Smith Proposal (open access)

Social Security Reform: Evaluation of the Nick Smith Proposal

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO analyzed the potential budgetary and economic effects of Nick Smith's proposal to reform Social Security."
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
GAO Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Federal Unemployment Taxes (open access)

GAO Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Federal Unemployment Taxes

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed whether the net federal unemployment tax (FUTA) revenue distributed to the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1999, is supported by the underlying records."
Date: February 25, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: Evaluation of the Gramm Proposal (open access)

Social Security Reform: Evaluation of the Gramm Proposal

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the potential budgetary and economic effects of Senator Phil Gramm's social security reform proposal, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the proposal achieves sustainable solvency and how it would affect the economy and federal budget; (2) the balance struck between the twin goals of income adequacy and individual equity; and (3) how readily such changes could be implemented, administered, and explained to the public."
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library