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District of Columbia: National Museum of American Music (open access)

District of Columbia: National Museum of American Music

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the non-profit and non-partisan Federal City Council's (FCC) proposal to use the current site of the Washington Convention Center for the National Museum of American Music (NMAM). The FCC proposal which is now in the conceptual stage anticipates that NMAM will be located at the existing Convention Center site and that it will be part of a major mixed-use complex that includes retail, entertainment, and performance venues. The total estimated cost for FCC's mixed-use proposal is $1.1 billion, with $172.5 million attributed to the music museum. The proposal estimates that the District would receive annual land rent of $13 million, equivalent to a seven-percent return on the estimated land value of $183 million. FCC spent $300,000 in federal appropriations on the project management services provided by the Smithsonian Institution. The District of Columbia has not yet considered any proposals for the use of the Convention Center site. The Mayor has established a task force to study the possible uses for the site, and it is developing a process to both solicit and evaluate independently generated proposals for the site."
Date: March 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Veterans' Benefits: Quality Assurance for Disability Claims Processing (open access)

Veterans' Benefits: Quality Assurance for Disability Claims Processing

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and veterans service organizations have all raised concerns about the accuracy of claims processing in the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). In 1998, VBA launched its systematic technical accuracy review (STAR) system to better measure the accuracy of claims processing. The system determines accuracy rates for (1) the nation as a whole, (2) each VBA service delivery network, and (3) each VBA regional office. GAO reported in 1999 that the accuracy rates for claims processing at regional offices was being determined by regional staff who themselves were involved in processing claims and who reported to managers responsible for claims processing. This arrangement did not meet either the government's internal control standard calling for the segregation of key duties or the performance audit standard calling for organizational independence for those who review and evaluate program performance. Congress subsequently required VBA to institute a quality assurance program that met government standards. VBA plans to modify the STAR system by October 1, 2001, to bring it into compliance with the standards on the segregation of duties and organizational independence. All STAR reviews will be done by …
Date: August 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Voting Age Population to Registered Voters in the 40 Largest U.S. Counties (open access)

Comparison of Voting Age Population to Registered Voters in the 40 Largest U.S. Counties

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report compares data on the number of registered voters for the 40 largest counties in the United States with estimates of voting age populations for those jurisdictions. GAO found that none of the counties have voter registration numbers that exceed the number of eligible voting age residents."
Date: March 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motor Fuels: Gasoline Prices in Oregon (open access)

Motor Fuels: Gasoline Prices in Oregon

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This correspondence provides information on (1) factors affecting retail gasoline prices in Oregon, including transportation costs, taxes, costs of full service, and other supply and demand conditions and (2) how gasoline price trends in Portland, Oregon, compare with trends in other West Coast cities. GAO identified several factors affecting gasoline prices in Oregon, including (1) higher-than-average costs associated with transporting gasoline from refiners to consumers because Oregon has no refining capability and a greater proportion of its gasoline demand comes from rural driving, (2) higher-than-average state gasoline taxes, and (3) a prohibition on self-service gasoline stations. GAO also found that although Portland's gas prices differ from those of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, all four cities responded similarly to rapid price changes. Retail prices in all four cities follow similar patterns with respect to major periods of price increases and decreases."
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Audit: Senate Restaurants Revolving Fund for Fiscal Years 2000 and 1999 (open access)

Financial Audit: Senate Restaurants Revolving Fund for Fiscal Years 2000 and 1999

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO contracted with KPMG Peat Marwick LLP to audit the financial statements of the Senate Restaurants Revolving Fund for fiscal years 2000 and 1999. KPMG found that the statements were fairly presented in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Management fairly stated that internal controls safely guarded assets against loss from unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition; ensured material compliance with laws and regulations; and ensured that there were no material misstatements in the financial statements. KPMG found no reportable noncompliance with selected provisions of the laws and regulations it tested."
Date: March 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land Management Agencies: Restoring Fish Passage Through Culverts on Forest Service and BLM Lands in Oregon and Washington Could Take Decades (open access)

Land Management Agencies: Restoring Fish Passage Through Culverts on Forest Service and BLM Lands in Oregon and Washington Could Take Decades

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service manage more than 41 million acres of federal lands in Oregon and Washington, including 122,000 miles of roads that use culverts--pipes or arches that allow water to flow from one side of the road to the other. Many of the streams that pass through these culverts are essential habitat for fish and other aquatic species. More than 10,000 culverts exist on fish-bearing streams in Oregon and Washington, but the number that impede fish passage is unknown. Ongoing agency inventory and assessment efforts have identified nearly 2,600 barrier culverts, but agency officials estimate that more than twice that number may exist. Although the agencies recognize the importance of restoring fish passage, several factors inhibit their efforts. Most significantly, the agencies have not made enough money available to do all the necessary culvert work. In addition, the often lengthy process of obtaining federal and state environmental clearances and permits, as well as the short seasonal "window of opportunity" to do the work, affects the agencies' ability to restore fish passages quickly. Furthermore, the shortage of experienced engineering staff limits …
Date: November 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anthrax Vaccine: Changes to the Manufacturing Process (open access)

Anthrax Vaccine: Changes to the Manufacturing Process

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The original anthrax vaccine was developed in the 1950s and was first produced on a large scale by Merck. The BioPort Corporation in Michigan is now the sole facility in the United States capable of producing the vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licenses biological products and their production facilities. The manufacturer is required to comply with current good manufacturing practices, which regulate personnel, buildings, equipment, production controls, records, and other aspects of the vaccine manufacturing process. When there is a major change in the manufacturing process, the manufacturer must submit evidence to FDA showing that the change does not have any adverse effects. The manufacturer must also ensure that the quality of the product is maintained. In the case of the anthrax vaccine, the Michigan facility did not notify FDA of several changes to the manufacturing process in the early 1990s, and no specific studies were done to confirm that vaccine quality was not affected. FDA inspections found several deficiencies, many of which were not corrected in a timely manner."
Date: October 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
IRS Modernization: IRS Should Enhance Its Performance Management System (open access)

IRS Modernization: IRS Should Enhance Its Performance Management System

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has made progress in revamping its performance management system. The goals, objectives, and measures that IRS has developed, along with its new strategic planning and budgeting process, are intended to integrate results-oriented management into IRS' daily decision-making. However, as IRS officials acknowledge, extensively revamping a performance management system is a complex task that takes years to complete. GAO identified several opportunities to enhance IRS' performance management system, including clarifying goals and objectives, improving the linkages between measures, objectives, and goals, and developing fewer but more specific action items. Such enhancements could increase managerial accountability and create stronger incentives for frontline employees to achieve IRS' goals and objectives."
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Energy: Opportunities Exist to Improve Los Alamos' Equipment Purchasing Practices (open access)

Department of Energy: Opportunities Exist to Improve Los Alamos' Equipment Purchasing Practices

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Energy (DOE) received $13.2 million in supplemental funding to replace equipment lost at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the May 2000 Cerro Grande fire. GAO reviewed the practices used by the contractor that runs the laboratory--the University of California (UC)--to determine whether it can benefit from modified purchasing practices. GAO found that UC can save money by (1) expanding its supply sources to include suppliers such as the General Services Administration and the Internet; (2) establishing mandatory maximum performance standards for computer purchases to avoid unjustified, costly, and unnecessary capabilities; and (3) increasing its use of a standard brand of computer and computer-related equipment to maximize volume discounts with selected suppliers."
Date: May 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women in Management: Analysis of Selected Data From the Current Population Survey (open access)

Women in Management: Analysis of Selected Data From the Current Population Survey

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO analyzed data from the Department of Labor's Current Population Survey (CPS) to better understand the challenges that women face in advancing their careers. Female managers in most of the industries GAO examined had less education, were younger, were more likely to work part-time, and were less likely to be married than were male managers. There was no statistically significant difference between the percent of management positions filled by women and the percent of all positions filled by women for five of the 10 industries GAO examined. In addition, in 1995 and 2000, full-time female managers earned less than full-time male managers, after controlling for education, age, marital status and race."
Date: October 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Maintenance: Sustaining Readiness Support Capabilities Requires a Comprehensive Plan (open access)

Defense Maintenance: Sustaining Readiness Support Capabilities Requires a Comprehensive Plan

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In addition to the end of the Cold War and the resulting military force structure downsizing, three events have shaped the depot maintenance environment. First, the base realignment and closure process has reduced DOD's Cold War era infrastructure from 38 military depots to 19. Second, as recommended in various studies, DOD has increasingly relied on defense contractors for depot maintenance and related logistics activities. Third, depot maintenance personnel have been cut by 59 percent, the third highest percent of any category of DOD personnel. DOD has not effectively managed the restructuring of its depot maintenance and related programs. In its earlier and ongoing reviews of defense maintenance and related logistics issues, GAO has identified several management weaknesses in the areas of policy, planning, recapitalization, human capital issues, financial management, performance of maintenance programs, and meeting legislative requirements. As GAO's recent performance accountability report on defense issues notes, logistics activities represent a key management challenge. Maintenance is an important part of those activities, and DOD is at a critical point with respect to the future of its maintenance programs that is linked to its overall logistics strategic plan."
Date: March 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Infrastructure: Funding Trends and Federal Agencies' Investment Estimates (open access)

U.S. Infrastructure: Funding Trends and Federal Agencies' Investment Estimates

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the (1) federal government's role in ensuring a sound public infrastructure and (2) estimates of future investment requirements developed by seven federal agencies: the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the General Services Administration, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. GAO found that the federal government exerts an important influence on infrastructure investment and development. The seven agencies GAO reviewed each estimate billions of dollars for future investment in infrastructure. The estimates focused on investment in the areas of water resources, hydropower, water supply, wastewater treatment, airports, highways, mass transit, and public buildings. Although these estimates encompass major areas of public infrastructure, they cannot be easily compared or simply "added up" to produce a national estimate of infrastructure investment needs. GAO did not independently verify the seven agencies' investment estimates, but it did rely on past reviews of these data by GAO and others that examined the soundness and completeness of the methodology and data used to develop the estimates. This testimony summarized the July 2001 report (GAO-01-835) and the February 2000 report (RCED/AIMD-00-35)."
Date: July 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human Subjects Research: HHS Takes Steps to Strengthen Protections, But Concerns Remain (open access)

Human Subjects Research: HHS Takes Steps to Strengthen Protections, But Concerns Remain

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "At the federal level the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking to better protect human subjects in biomedical research by enhancing the visibility of its human subjects protection activities, improving its monitoring of compliance with relevant regulations by institutions and investigators, and strengthening enforcement of those regulations. HHS has also issued new guidance and is collecting information to improve oversight and monitoring at the institutional level. HHS activities directed at the investigator level consist largely of educational efforts to heighten investigators' awareness of and compliance with ethical policies and practices in conducting research. Overall, HHS' actions appear promising, but GAO has some concerns about the pace and scope of HHS' efforts to ensure the safety and protection of participants in clinical trials."
Date: May 23, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Guide to Statistical Adjustment: How it Really Works. (open access)

A Guide to Statistical Adjustment: How it Really Works.

Congress established the Census Monitoring Board to observe and monitor all aspects of the preparation and implementation of the 2000 decennial census. After the completion of the 200 census, many thoughtful parties continue a sincere debate over the implementation of statistical adjustment as a means of increasing the accuracy of the census and for its use in redistricting and the allocation of government funds and services. On March 1, 2001, the Census Bureau's Executive Steering Committee overseeing the post-census evaluation phase, the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.), recommended against adjusting the count. Reasonable people, including leading statisticians, have reviewed the statistical adjustment methodology and have raised legitimate questions. This report attempts to put that methodology into perspective and add to what will be further debate and discussion on how all of us as shareholders can continue to work together to ensure the most accurate census possible.
Date: May 23, 2001
Creator: U.S. Census Monitoring Board – Congressional Members
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
CREEP STRAIN CORRELATION FOR IRRADIATED CLADDING (open access)

CREEP STRAIN CORRELATION FOR IRRADIATED CLADDING

In an attempt to predict the creep deformation of spent nuclear fuel cladding under the repository conditions, different correlations have been developed. One of them, which will be referred to as Murty's correlation in the following, and whose expression is given in Henningson (1998), was developed on the basis of experimental points related to unirradiated Zircaloy cladding (Henningson 1998, p. 56). The objective of this calculation is to adapt Murty's correlation to experimental points pertaining to irradiated Zircaloy cladding. The scope of the calculation is provided by the range of experimental parameters characterized by Zircaloy cladding temperature between 292 C and 420 C, hoop stress between 50 and 630 MPa, and test time extending to 8000 h. As for the burnup of the experimental samples, it ranges between 0.478 and 64 MWd/kgU (i.e., megawatt day per kilogram of uranium), but this is not a parameter of the adapted correlation.
Date: January 23, 2001
Creator: Macheret, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Today Cedar Hill (Duncanville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 2001 (open access)

Today Cedar Hill (Duncanville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 2001

Weekly newspaper published in Duncanville, Texas that includes local Cedar Hill, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 23, 2001
Creator: Crooks, Kristi
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Betty Jane Williams to Maxine Flournoy, February 23, 2001] (open access)

[Letter from Betty Jane Williams to Maxine Flournoy, February 23, 2001]

Letter from Betty Jane Williams to WASP President Maxine Flournoy discussing the decision to pay Mildred Carter's expenses to attend the WASP's next national conference. During WWII, Carter had applied to join the WASP but was denied because the government excluded African-American women from serving in the program. Williams disagrees with the action taken at the October business meeting and urges the WASP to rescind their offer to pay Carter's expenses.
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: Williams, Betty Jane
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 2001 (open access)

Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 2001

Weekly newspaper from Bogata, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 23, 2001
Creator: Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 152, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 2001 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 152, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 2001

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 23, 2001
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-379 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-379

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 licensed acupuncturist may perform "spinal manipulation" (RQ-0308-JC)
Date: May 23, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-380 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-380

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 district attorney subject to the Professional Prosecutors Act may serve as a legal officer in the Air Force Reserve and related questions (RQ-0326-JC)
Date: May 23, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-381 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-381

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 an "optometric glaucoma specialist" may use that designation as his sole professional title(RQ-0329-JC).
Date: May 23, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-383 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-383

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 without violating article 3 section 53 of the Texas Constitution a county may pay group-health-insurance premiums for retirees for whom ,at the time they retired , the county did not provide such benefits and related questions.(RQ-0334-JC).
Date: May 23, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-384 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-384

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 "joint clerk" who performs the duties of both the district clerk and the county clerk is entitled to complete the term of office to which elected when the county population exceeds eight thousand persons after the release of the 2000 United States Census of Population(RQ-0339-JC).
Date: May 23, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History