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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Issues for Congress

Report that examines the issues related to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the state and substance of the negotiations (to the degree that the information is publicly available), the specific areas under negotiation, the policy and economic contexts in which the TPP would fit, and the issues for Congress that the TPP presents.
Date: June 17, 2013
Creator: Fergusson, Ian F.; Cooper, William H.; Jurenas, Remy & Williams, Brock R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Primer (open access)

Social Security Primer

Report that provides an overview of Social Security financing and benefits under current law.
Date: June 17, 2013
Creator: Nuschler, Dawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Aid for Students: Online Resources (open access)

Financial Aid for Students: Online Resources

Report that identifies various online sources for planning and acquiring funds for postsecondary education. This list includes both general and comprehensive sources, as well as those targeted toward specific types of aid and circumstances.
Date: June 17, 2013
Creator: Monagle, Laura L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
High Speed Rail: Learning From Service Start-ups, Prospects for Increased Industry Investment, and Federal Oversight Plans (open access)

High Speed Rail: Learning From Service Start-ups, Prospects for Increased Industry Investment, and Federal Oversight Plans

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) and subsequent appropriations have dramatically increased federal funds available for high speed intercity passenger rail from $120 million in fiscal year 2008 and fiscal year 2009 combined to $10.5 billion available in fiscal year 2010. Other issues, such as developing industry capacity to supply rail equipment and fostering multiyear public support for such systems must be resolved. As part of its efforts to assess Recovery Act initiatives, GAO reviewed (1) how states started or improved passenger rail services in the recent past, (2) rail industry plans to accommodate the increased passenger rail investments, and (3) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) plans to oversee the use of federal intercity passenger rail funds. GAO reviewed federal legislation; interviewed state, industry and federal officials; and reviewed selected literature. GAO is not making any recommendations. The Department of Transportation did not express an overall opinion on a draft of this report. It did provide technical and clarifying comments, which GAO incorporated."
Date: June 17, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elections: DOD Can Strengthen Evaluation of Its Absentee Voting Assistance Program (open access)

Elections: DOD Can Strengthen Evaluation of Its Absentee Voting Assistance Program

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), citizens covered are permitted to register and vote absentee. The Secretary of Defense has the primary responsibility for federal UOCAVA functions, and the Department of Defense's (DOD) Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) facilitates absentee voters' participation in federal elections. Since 2001, the DOD Office of Inspector General and GAO have reviewed FVAP's efforts and recommended improvements to its procedures and the direction FVAP provides to the services. In response to a congressional request, this report evaluates how FVAP (1) addresses its mission and evaluates efforts to conduct it, (2) aligns budget priorities with strategic goals, and (3) implemented DOD Office of Inspector General and GAO recommendations made from 2001 through 2009. GAO analyzed FVAP's performance measures, relevant DOD directives, FVAP's strategic plans, budgets, and past audit reports. Also, GAO interviewed agency officials."
Date: June 17, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drinking Water: Unreliable State Data Limit EPA's Ability to Target Enforcement Priorities and Communicate Water Systems' Performance (open access)

Drinking Water: Unreliable State Data Limit EPA's Ability to Target Enforcement Priorities and Communicate Water Systems' Performance

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The nation's drinking water is among the safest in the world, but contamination has occurred, causing illnesses and even deaths. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has authorized most states, territories, and tribes to take primary responsibility for ensuring that community water systems provide safe water. EPA needs complete and accurate data on systems' compliance with SDWA to conduct oversight. GAO was asked to assess the (1) quality of the state data EPA uses to measure compliance with health and monitoring requirements of the act and the status of enforcement efforts, (2) ways in which data quality could affect EPA's management of the drinking water program, and (3) actions EPA and the states have been taking to improve data quality. GAO analyzed EPA audits of state data done in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and surveyed EPA and state officials to obtain their views on factors that have affected data quality and steps that could improve it."
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Secure Border Initiative: DHS Needs to Follow Through on Plans to Reassess and Better Manage Key Technology Program (open access)

Secure Border Initiative: DHS Needs to Follow Through on Plans to Reassess and Better Manage Key Technology Program

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Secure Border Initiative (SBI) is intended to help secure the 6,000 miles of international borders that the contiguous United States shares with Canada and Mexico. The program, which began in November 2005, seeks to enhance border security and reduce illegal immigration by improving surveillance technologies, raising staffing levels, increasing domestic enforcement of immigration laws, and improving physical infrastructure along the nation's borders. Within SBI, the Secure Border Initiative Network (SBInet) is a multibillion dollar program that includes the acquisition, development, integration, deployment, and operation of surveillance technologies--such as unattended ground sensors and radar and cameras mounted on fixed and mobile towers--to create a "virtual border fence." In addition, command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) software and hardware are to use the information gathered by the surveillance technologies to create a real-time picture of what is transpiring within specific areas along the border and transmit the information to command centers and vehicles."
Date: June 17, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Management: The Challenges of Managing Electronic Records (open access)

Information Management: The Challenges of Managing Electronic Records

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Federal agencies are increasingly using electronic means to create, exchange, and store information, and in doing so, they frequently create federal records: that is, information, in whatever form, that documents government functions, activities, decisions, and other important transactions. As the volume of electronic information grows, so does the challenge of managing electronic records. Both federal agency heads and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) have responsibilities for managing federal records. As requested, after providing some context about records management in the federal government and the roles of federal agencies and NARA, this testimony describes the challenges of electronic records management and potential means of addressing these challenges. In preparing this testimony, GAO relied primarily on its previous work, supplemented by analysis of publicly available documents."
Date: June 17, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physical Security of the U.S. Power Grid: High-Voltage Transformer Substations (open access)

Physical Security of the U.S. Power Grid: High-Voltage Transformer Substations

This report discusses the electric power industry which consists of electric power grid of over 200,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines.
Date: June 17, 2014
Creator: Parfomak, Paul W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Building and Facility Security: Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

Federal Building and Facility Security: Frequently Asked Questions

This report discusses the security of federal government buildings and facilities that affect not only the daily operations of the federal government but also the health, well-being, and safety of federal employees and the public.
Date: June 17, 2014
Creator: Reese, Shawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salaries of Members of Congress: Recent Actions and Historical Tables (open access)

Salaries of Members of Congress: Recent Actions and Historical Tables

The report contains information on congressional pay procedure and recent adjustments. It includes historical information on pay rates since 1789; the adjustments projected by the Ethics Reform Act as compared to actual adjustments in Member pay; details on past legislation enacted with language prohibiting the annual pay adjustment; and Member pay in constant and current dollars since 1992.
Date: June 17, 2014
Creator: Brudnick, Ida A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses (open access)

Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses

Report that analyzes U.S. and international sanctions against Iran and provides examples of companies and countries that conduct business with Iran, based on a wide range of open-source reporting.
Date: June 17, 2013
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Rulemaking Process: An Overview (open access)

The Federal Rulemaking Process: An Overview

The purpose of this report is to provide Congress with an overview of the federal rulemaking process and a brief discussion of the major laws and executive orders that prescribe the procedures agencies are to apply when promulgating regulations.
Date: June 17, 2013
Creator: Carey, Maeve P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 238, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 2011 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 238, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 2011

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 236, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 236, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 17, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 2010 (open access)

Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 2010

Weekly newspaper from Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 17, 2010
Creator: Judson, Mary Henkel
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 237, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 237, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 17, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 17, 2015 (open access)

Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Newman, Doris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hyperbolic metamaterials: new physics behind a classical problem (open access)

Hyperbolic metamaterials: new physics behind a classical problem

This article summarizes earlier theories in the Clemmow's prescription for transformation of the electromagnetic field in hyperbolic media and provides a review of recent developments in this active research area.
Date: June 17, 2013
Creator: Drachev, Vladimir P.; Podolskiy, Viktor A. & Kildishev, Alexander V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 24, Pages 3667-3744, June 17, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 24, Pages 3667-3744, June 17, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 2010 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 2010

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 17, 2010
Creator: Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 2011 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 2011

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 625, Chapter 477 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 625, Chapter 477

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to notice of staff leasing services company workers' compensation claim and payment information; providing an administrative violation.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 627, Chapter 237 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 627, Chapter 237

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to a fee collected by a district clerk for certain certified copies.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History