Annual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved motorcycles in Texas during calendar year 1998, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.

Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge is proposing to acquire a 706-acre property located in Stevens County, Washington. The new acquisition would be called the Kaniksu Unit. A habitat evaluation was conducted on the property using the Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) methodology (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1980). Evaluation species were black-capped chickadee, mallard, ruffed grouse and white-tailed deer. Life requisites evaluated were food and reproduction for black-capped chickadee, food, cover, and reproduction for mallard, available winter browse for white-tailed deer and fall-to-spring cover for ruffed grouse.

This report addresses Legislative Branch Appropriations for FY2000 passed on June 10, 1999.

Booklet with charts listing all accidents involving school buses for calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving multiple vehicles during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving tractor trailers during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving trains during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving pickup trucks during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving military drivers during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving single vehicles during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving pedestrians during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving pedalcyclists during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas at railroad crossings during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving trucks during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving mopeds during the calendar year 1998.

Annual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents in Texas involving DWI (driving while impaired) during calendar year 1998, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed federal programs created to address the needs of at-risk and delinquent youths, focusing on: (1) identifying at-risk and delinquent youth programs that included mentoring as a type of service; (2) who administers the programs; (3) the objectives of the programs; and (4) the authorizing legislation for the programs."

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reported on the Department of the Treasury's decision to change the calculation of the interest rates used since 1980 to determine the investment returns for a number of government trust funds, including Social Security and Medicare, focusing on: (1) how and why Treasury changed its rules for calculating interest rates in 1980 and 1998; (2) the effects of these changes on the unified budget and on the financial status of Social Security and Medicare trust funds; and (3) what other trust funds were affected by Treasury's decision."

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) identified census tracts in medium-sized to large cities that met specific poverty criteria; and (2) provided additional information on each census tract."

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on year 2000 readiness of State Employment Security Agencies' (SESA) unemployment insurance benefits and tax systems and determined the reported status of whether these systems have been independently verified and validated for year 2000 compliance. GAO also determined whether SESAs have submitted contingency plans for continuity of business operations."

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on the potential for shortfalls in the performance of two radomes, one for the F-15 Eagle and one for the F-16 Falcon, focusing on whether replacement radomes, bought for spares and supplied by vendors other than the original manufacturer, met the Air Force's specifications for the original radomes."

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Social Security Administration's (SSA) new rule on the effective date of application for Supplemental Security Income benefits. GAO noted that: (1) the rule implements section 204 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which changes the date a social security application is effective so that the earliest month for which benefits can be paid is the month following the month in which the application is filed; (2) previously, benefits were prorated for the month in which the application was filed; (3) the rule makes changes concerning emergency advance payments, interim assistance reimbursements, and in the definition of eligible spouse; and (4) SSA complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on families no longer receiving welfare, focusing on: (1) the extent to which states have reported information on the condition of families who have left welfare in the following key areas: (a) economic status; (b) family composition; and (c) family and child well-being; (2) generalizable state studies on what is known about the status of former welfare families in the key areas; and (3) federal and state efforts to improve the usefulness of the data obtained through these state efforts."

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the potential threat to the public's health from antimicrobial resistant bacteria, focusing on: (1) what is known about the public health burden--in terms of illnesses, deaths and treatment costs--due to antimicrobial resistance; (2) potential future burden, given what is known about the development of resistance in microbes and usage of antimicrobials; and (3) federal efforts to gather and provide information about resistance."