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More monkeys on Mondays, twice the tigers on Tuesdays (open access)

More monkeys on Mondays, twice the tigers on Tuesdays

News release about discounts on Dallas Zoo tickets with DART light rail tickets.
Date: March 20, 2000
Creator: Lyons, Morgan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Usuarios de DART ahorrarán desde abril 50% en la admisión al Zoológico los lunes y martes (open access)

Usuarios de DART ahorrarán desde abril 50% en la admisión al Zoológico los lunes y martes

News release about discounts on Dallas Zoo tickets with DART light rail tickets.
Date: March 20, 2000
Creator: Lyons, Morgan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Financial Management: USDA Faces Major Financial Management Challenges (open access)

Financial Management: USDA Faces Major Financial Management Challenges

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the financial management issues facing the Department of Agriculture (USDA), focusing on problems in the areas of: (1) implementing the Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA) of 1990 and related accounting standards; (2) reconciling its Fund Balance with Treasury accounts; (3) addressing weaknesses in the Forest Service's financial accounting and reporting; (4) correcting certain other material internal control weaknesses; and (5) complying with some key laws and regulations."
Date: March 21, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-199 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-199

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 member of the Gilmer Volunteer Fire Department may simultaneously serve on a city council (RQ-0131-JC)
Date: March 21, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-200 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-200

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 chapter 110 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code exempts a religious post-secondary educational institution from regulation by the Higher Education Coordinating Board (RQ-0134-JC)
Date: March 21, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-201 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-201

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 the Department of Licensing and Regulation may require applicants for a boxing license to submit to HIV testing as a condition of licensure (RQ-0137-JC)
Date: March 21, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-202 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-202

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 the Port of Bay City Authority of Matagorda County is authorized to accept the conveyance of certain easements from the United State Army Corps of Engineers for the purpose of conveying them to the private property owners whose fee interests are encumbered by the easements (RQ-0143-JC)
Date: March 21, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chemical and Biological Defense: Observations on Nonmedical Chemical and Biological R&D Programs (open access)

Chemical and Biological Defense: Observations on Nonmedical Chemical and Biological R&D Programs

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its recent reports on the coordination of federal nonmedical research and development programs that address chemical and biological threats, focusing on: (1) the similarities among nonmedical research and development programs; and (2) how coordination mechanisms may ineffectively address potential duplication, research gaps, and opportunities for collaboration."
Date: March 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Energy: Views on Proposed Civil Penalties, Security Oversight, and External Safety Regulation Legislation (open access)

Department of Energy: Views on Proposed Civil Penalties, Security Oversight, and External Safety Regulation Legislation

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its views on three bills designed to improve worker and nuclear facility safety and health as well as to enhance security for the Department of Energy (DOE)."
Date: March 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing for Results: Challenges in Producing Credible Performance Information (open access)

Managing for Results: Challenges in Producing Credible Performance Information

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the challenges federal agencies face in producing credible performance information, focusing on: (1) a governmentwide perspective on the credibility of agencies' performance information based on GAO's assessment of agencies' performance plans; (2) the challenges agencies face in producing credible performance data; and (3) how agencies can use their performance reports to address data credibility issues."
Date: March 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing for Results: Using GPRA to Help Congressional Decisionmaking and Strengthen Oversight (open access)

Managing for Results: Using GPRA to Help Congressional Decisionmaking and Strengthen Oversight

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the House Committees' use of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 to inform their decisionmaking and oversight, focusing on: (1) an overview of the implementation of the GPRA across the executive branch and why the government is at a critical stage in GPRA's implementation; (2) how the House has used GPRA to improve programmatic oversight and decisionmaking and to conduct oversight over selected agencies' efforts to implement the Act; and (3) ways that GPRA can be used to address some of the critical program and management issues confronting the federal government."
Date: March 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prescription Drug Benefits: Applying Private Sector Management Methods to Medicare (open access)

Prescription Drug Benefits: Applying Private Sector Management Methods to Medicare

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed issues related to a potential Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit, focusing on: (1) the factors contributing to the rise in prescription drug spending and the impact of the rise in spending on Medicare beneficiaries; (2) the methods private insurers have developed to manage these rising costs; and (3) whether and how Medicare can adapt these methods to control spending, should an outpatient prescription drug benefit be added to Medicare."
Date: March 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Space Shuttle: Human Capital Challenges Require Management Attention (open access)

Space Shuttle: Human Capital Challenges Require Management Attention

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the human capital challenges facing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) space shuttle program, focusing on: (1) the results of studies on the impact of workforce reductions; (2) NASA's actions following these workforce assessments; (3) challenges NASA faces in the anticipated heavy workload imposed by the International Space Station; and (4) a structured approach NASA can take to analyze human capital challenges."
Date: March 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection Agency: Comparing Annual Budgets for Science and Technology (open access)

Environmental Protection Agency: Comparing Annual Budgets for Science and Technology

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) budget justification for the Science and Technology account; and (2) presented observations on EPA's budget justifications for fiscal years (FY) 1999, 2000, and 2001."
Date: March 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export Controls: National Security Risks and Revisions to Controls on Computer Systems (open access)

Export Controls: National Security Risks and Revisions to Controls on Computer Systems

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its recent reports concerning the 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: March 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Care Access: Programs for Underserved Populations Could Be Improved (open access)

Health Care Access: Programs for Underserved Populations Could Be Improved

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the effectiveness of the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) two safety-net programs--the Community and Migrant Health Center program and the National Health Service Corps--to improve access to medically underserved populations."
Date: March 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Disability Insurance: Raising the Substantial Gainful Activity Level for the Blind (open access)

Social Security Disability Insurance: Raising the Substantial Gainful Activity Level for the Blind

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the substantial gainful activity (SGA) level established for blind beneficiaries of Social Security Disability Insurance (DI), focusing on the: (1) differences in employment circumstances affecting people with blindness compared with those affecting people with other disabilities; and (2) potential impact of changes in SGA levels on the DI program and on the Social Security trust funds."
Date: March 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality: Identification and Remediation of Polluted Waters Impeded by Data Gaps (open access)

Water Quality: Identification and Remediation of Polluted Waters Impeded by Data Gaps

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the data that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the states have for making critical water quality decisions required by the Clean Water Act, focusing on: (1) the adequacy of the data for identifying waters for states' 303(d) lists; (2) the adequacy of data for developing total maximum daily loads (TMDL) for those waters; and (3) key factors that affect the states' abilities to develop TMDLs."
Date: March 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laboratory Research: State of Tennessee Exempts DOE's Spallation Neutron Source Project From Sales and Use Taxes (open access)

Laboratory Research: State of Tennessee Exempts DOE's Spallation Neutron Source Project From Sales and Use Taxes

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the tax expenses associated with building the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) project, focusing on whether it would be less expensive to build the project at any of the participating national laboratories."
Date: March 24, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiography and ultrasonic calculation workbooks: installation and use (open access)

Radiography and ultrasonic calculation workbooks: installation and use

The radiography and ultrasonic calculation workbooks are intended to assist Level I, II and III NDE personnel in calculations used in routine job applications. These workbooks are an upgraded version of Microsoft Excel{reg_sign} spreadsheets, which were originally set up in October 1988, using a Macintosh Plus{reg_sign} computer and Microsoft Excel{reg_sign} version 1.5. A description of these was released as ''Computerized Calculations for Radiography and Ultrasonics'', UCRL-JC-105419 in November 1990 and published in Materials Evaluation, Volume 49/Number 4, in April 1991. Over the years as Microsoft improved the capabilities of the Excel program to include the abilities to make sketches and to have multiple tabbed pages in a document called a ''workbook'' we have now modified the calculation spreadsheets to include these enhancements. Following is a short description on how to install and use these workbooks on a Macintosh or PC.
Date: March 24, 2000
Creator: Rikard, D & Dolan, K
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Interplay between Climate Change, Forests, and Disturbances (open access)

The Interplay between Climate Change, Forests, and Disturbances

Climate change affects forests both directly and indirectly through disturbances. Disturbances are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems, and climate change can alter these natural interactions. When disturbances exceed their natural range of variation, the change in forest structure and function may be extreme. Each disturbance affects forests differently. Some disturbances have tight interactions with the species and forest communities which can be disrupted by climate change. Impacts of disturbances and thus of climate change are seen over a broad spectrum of spatial and temporal scales. Future observations, research, and tool development are needed to further understand the interactions between climate change and forest disturbances.
Date: March 25, 2000
Creator: Dale, Virginia H.; Joyce, Linda A.; McNulty, Steve & Neilson, Ronald P.
System: The UNT Digital Library