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Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities
This report summarizes legal authorities regarding access by the government, for either foreign intelligence or law enforcement purposes, to information related to telephone calling patterns or practices. Where pertinent, it also discusses statutory prohibitions against accessing or disclosing such information, along with relevant exceptions to those prohibitions.
Date:
February 2, 2009
Creator:
Bazan, Elizabeth B.; Liu, Edward C. & Stevens, Gina
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Management Preparedness Standards: Overview and Options for Congress
This report provides Emergency an Overview and Options for Congress on Emergency Management Preparedness Standards which includes major recommendations like adoption and use of emergency response standards, mutual aid provisions, private sector preparedness.
Date:
February 4, 2005
Creator:
Bea, Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Hurricane Katrina Relief
None
Date:
February 28, 2006
Creator:
Bea, Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defense Cleanup and Environmental Programs: Authorization and Appropriations for FY2003
The Department of Defense (DOD) administers five environmental programs in response to various requirements under federal environmental laws. These programs include environmental cleanup, environmental compliance, pollution prevention, environmental technology, and conservation. Additionally, the Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for managing defense nuclear waste and cleaning up contaminated nuclear weapons sites. The Administration requested a total of $11.17 billion for these programs in FY2003, about $390 million more than the FY2002 funding level of $10.78 billion. Some of the ongoing issues associated with these programs are the adequacy, cost, and pace of cleanup, whether DOD and DOE adequately comply with environmental laws and regulations, and the extent to which environmental requirements encroach upon military readiness.
Date:
February 3, 2003
Creator:
Bearden, David M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Environmental Education Act of 1990: Overview, Implementation, and Reauthorization Issues
This report presents an overview of the National Environmental Education Act of 1990, discusses appropriations, examines Environmental Protection Agency (EPA's) implementation of the act, and analyzes potential issues for reauthorization that may be considered in the 109th Congress.
Date:
February 27, 2006
Creator:
Bearden, David M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Environmental Education Act of 1990: Overview, Implementation, and Reauthorization Issues
None
Date:
February 26, 2002
Creator:
Bearden, David M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Environmental Education Act of 1990: Overview, Implementation, and Reauthorization Issues
None
Date:
February 26, 2002
Creator:
Bearden, David M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Natural Resources and Environment Function in the FY2003 Federal Budget: An Overview of Programs and Funding
None
Date:
February 10, 2003
Creator:
Bearden, David M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Agency: Highlights of the President's FY2007 Request
Title II of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY2006 (P.L. 109-54, H.R. 2361) provides $7.73 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), subject to an across-the-board rescission of 0.476%. Section 439 of Title IV indicates that the rescission is to be applied proportionately among each account, program, project, and activity specified in the law, accompanying reports, and the President’s budget request. The total FY2006 EPA appropriation includes an additional $80 million in unobligated funds “rescinded” from past appropriations, as noted in the following table. P.L. 109-54 provides more funding for EPA than the Administration’s FY2006 request of $7.52 billion, but less than the FY2005 appropriation of $8.03 billion.
Date:
February 21, 2006
Creator:
Bearden, David M. & Esworthy, Robert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Streamlining Provisions in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: Status of Implementation
This report describes the environmental documents required for highway projects, discusses the average amount of time to complete this documentation, summarizes the environmental streamlining provisions under TEA-21, and examines administrative and legislative actions taken to implement these requirements.
Date:
February 6, 2003
Creator:
Bearden, David M. & Luther, Linda G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Animal Identification: Overview and Issues
This report provides information about animal identification and proposed solutions. Livestock industry groups, animal health officials, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been working to establish a nationwide identification (ID) system capable of quickly tracking animals from birth to slaughter, to deal with animal diseases and/or to satisfy foreign market specifications. Some consumer groups are among those who believe ID also would be useful for food safety or retail labeling purposes.
Date:
February 19, 2009
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Farm and Food Support Under USDA’s Section 32 Program
This report provides information about the Farm and Food Support Under USDA’s Section 32 Program which is funded by a permanent appropriation of 30% of previous year' s custom receipts to support the farm sector.
Date:
February 15, 2008
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Farm and Food Support Under USDA’s Section 32 Program
None
Date:
February 23, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Farm and Food Support Under USDA's Section 32 Program
The 110th Congress in June 2008 passed a new omnibus farm bill (P.L. 110-246). Provisions in this new law now spell out more explicitly how the Secretary is to use the annual Section 32 appropriation. Section 32 of the act of August 24, 1935 (P.L. 74-320 as amended; 7 U.S.C. 612c) authorizes a permanent appropriation equal to 30% of annual U.S. customs receipts.
Date:
February 20, 2009
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The “Farm Bill” in Brief
This report briefly discusses federal farm support, food assistance, agricultural trade, marketing, and rural development policies are governed by a variety of separate laws. Many of these laws periodically have been evaluated, revised, and renewed through an omnibus, multi-year farm bill. These policies can be and sometimes are modified through free-standing authorizing legislation, or as part of other laws.
Date:
February 2, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Farm Commodity Programs: A Short Primer
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is required by law to subsidize approximately two dozen specified agricultural commodities. Several permanent statutes provide the basic authority for these subsidies; more recent multi-year farm bills shape their operation and funding levels. The most recent omnibus farm bill is the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (P.L.107-171). However, Congress since FY1989 has also passed 30 appropriations, authorization, or farm disaster acts adding approximately $53 billion in supplemental funding for USDA farm and related programs (through October 2004). This report will not be updated.
Date:
February 7, 2005
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Humane Treatment of Farm Animals: Overview and Issues
This report provides an overview and issues of the humane treatment of farm animals.
Date:
February 1, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. - EU Poultry Dispute
This report discusses the European Union (EU) refusal to accept U.S. imports of poultry treated with antimicrobial rinses. Prior to 1997, when the prohibition took effect, U.S. exports of broiler and turkey meat to the 15 countries that then constituted the EU were reported to total nearly 32,000 MT with a value of $44.4 million.
Date:
February 4, 2009
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Food and Agricultural Imports: Safeguards and Selected Issues
The issue was explored at numerous congressional hearings in 2007 and 2008, and Members of Congress introduced a variety of bills to modify or overhaul the current system. Some sought broad reforms in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) oversight of both food and drug safety, including of imports.
Date:
February 2, 2009
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Food and Agricultural Imports: Safeguards and Selected Issues
None
Date:
February 13, 2008
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Biotechnology in Animal Agriculture: Status and Current Issues
This report describes several scientifically emerging animal biotechnologies that are raising a variety of questions concerning risks to humans, animals, and the environment, as well as ethical concerns. The report examines applications of the technologies and discusses major issues that may arise.
Date:
February 11, 2009
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S. & Cowan, Tadlock
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Biotechnology in Animal Agriculture: Status and Current Issues
This report provides information about the Status and Current Issues in Biotechnology in Animal Agriculture which has rapid advances.
Date:
February 21, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S. & Cowan, Tadlock
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Food Safety System: A Primer
Numerous federal, state, and local agencies share responsibilities for regulating the safety of the U.S. food supply, which many experts say is among the safest in the world. Nevertheless, critics view this system as lacking the organization and resources to adequately combat foodborne illness, which sickens an estimated 76 million people and kills an estimated 5,000 each year in this country. The 110th Congress may face calls for a review of federal food safety agencies and authorities, and proposals for reorganizing them. Among the issues likely to arise are whether reform can improve oversight, and the cost to industry, consumers, and taxpayers. This report provides a brief introduction to the system and the debate on whether reorganization is needed.
Date:
February 7, 2007
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S. & Porter, Donna V.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Nonproliferation Issues
None
Date:
February 11, 2003
Creator:
Behrens, Carl E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library