Airport Improvement Program (open access)

Airport Improvement Program

This issue brief discusses the Airport Improvement Program and its complement, the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC). After a brief history of federal support for airport construction and improvement, the report describes AIP funding, its source of revenues, the impact of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (FAIR21, P.L. 106-181), funding distribution, the types of projects the program funds, and AIP and PFC policy issues.
Date: February 26, 2001
Creator: Kirk, Robert S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Nutrition and WIC Programs: Background and Funding (open access)

Child Nutrition and WIC Programs: Background and Funding

About a dozen federally supported child nutrition programs and related activities – including school meal programs and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (the WIC program) – reach over 37 million children and almost 2 million lower-income pregnant and postpartum women. Total FY2002 spending on these efforts was $15.1 billion. FY2003 spending is projected at an estimated $15.9 billion under the Agriculture Department appropriations portion (Division A) of the FY2003 Consolidated Appropriations Resolution (P.L. 108-7; H.Rept. 108-10; enacted February 20,2003). And the Administration anticipates spending $16.3 billion under its FY2004 budget.
Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Richardson, Joe
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Privacy Act: Emerging Issues and Related Legislation (open access)

The Privacy Act: Emerging Issues and Related Legislation

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Date: February 26, 2002
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Tort Reform Legislation: Constitutionality and Summaries of Selected Statutes (open access)

Federal Tort Reform Legislation: Constitutionality and Summaries of Selected Statutes

This report considers the constitutionality of federal tort reform legislation, such as the products liability and medical malpractice reform proposals that have been introduced for the last several Congresses.
Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality: Implementing the Clean Water Act (open access)

Water Quality: Implementing the Clean Water Act

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Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NATO Expansion: Cost Issues (open access)

NATO Expansion: Cost Issues

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Date: February 26, 1998
Creator: Ek, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) Reauthorization and the 106th Congress (open access)

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) Reauthorization and the 106th Congress

Authorization of the Surface Transportation Board (Board or STB), successor agency to the Interstate Commerce Commission, ended September 30, 1998. The FY2000 budget request is $16 million, $2.6 million of which could be offset by user fees which would become available at the beginning of FY2001. The Senate Commerce Committee scheduled a hearing for March 3, 1999, to consider S. 90, a bill to reauthorize the STB. The CRS report discusses the Board and selected public policy issues associated with its authority, activities, and reauthorization.
Date: February 26, 1999
Creator: Thompson, Stephen J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2003: Transportation and Related Agencies (open access)

Appropriations for FY2003: Transportation and Related Agencies

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the Subcommittees on Transportation of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Peterman, David Randall & Frittelli, John F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Human Resources Management (open access)

Homeland Security: Human Resources Management

This report provides information about the Human Resources Management of Homeland Security. It discusses the provisions of P.L. 107-296 as they relate to human resources management. It does not discuss provisions of the law that relate to labor-management relations and collective bargaining.
Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Schwemle, Barbara L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Insurance Coverage: Characteristics of the Insured and Uninsured Populations in 2000 (open access)

Health Insurance Coverage: Characteristics of the Insured and Uninsured Populations in 2000

Nearly one out of seven Americans were without health insurance for all of 2000. This was the second consecutive annual decrease in the percentage of uninsured people. The largest gain in health insurance coverage was in the employment-based coverage. This report examines the characteristics of both the insured and the uninsured populations in the United States.
Date: February 26, 2002
Creator: Peterson, Chris L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act (open access)

Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act

This report discusses how and when the USA PATRIOT ACT P.L. 107-56 applies to libraries and bookstores under Section 215 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act. A reply to House Judiciary Committee from The Justice Department notes that the use of Section 215 has been sparse or nonexistent.
Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multilateral Development Banks: Issues for the 108th Congress (open access)

Multilateral Development Banks: Issues for the 108th Congress

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Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Sanford, Jonathan E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Land Management: Appeals and Litigation (open access)

Federal Land Management: Appeals and Litigation

The Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior each currently have a system of administrative appeals for moat agency land management decisions. Critics assert that administrative and judicial appeals are stopping or unacceptably slowing the decision-making processes and the use of federal lands and resources; that many appeals are "frivolous" and brought for the purpose of frustrating rather than improving land management actions, and that appeals greatly increase the costs of management
Date: February 26, 1997
Creator: Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Presidential and Vice Presidential Terms and Tenure (open access)

Presidential and Vice Presidential Terms and Tenure

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Date: February 26, 2001
Creator: Neale, Thomas H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Environmental Education Act of 1990: Overview, Implementation, and Reauthorization Issues (open access)

National Environmental Education Act of 1990: Overview, Implementation, and Reauthorization Issues

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Date: February 26, 2002
Creator: Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Space Launch Vehicles: Government Activities, Commercial Competition, and Satellite Exports (open access)

Space Launch Vehicles: Government Activities, Commercial Competition, and Satellite Exports

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Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Country Applicability of the U.S. Normal Trade Relations (Most-Favored-Nation) Status (open access)

Country Applicability of the U.S. Normal Trade Relations (Most-Favored-Nation) Status

The United States accords permanent normal-trade-relations (NTR) (formerly called most-favored-nation (MFN)) treatment to all its trading partners except four countries to which it is denied by law and 11 countries whose NTR status is temporary and subject to the conditions of Title IV of the Trade Act of 1974.
Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Pregelj, Vladimir N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues (open access)

China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues

Congress has long been concerned about whether U.S. policy advances the national interest in reducing the role of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles that could deliver them. China has taken some steps to mollify U.S. concerns about its role in weapons proliferation. Skeptics question whether China's cooperation in weapons nonproliferation has warranted President Bush's pursuit of stronger bilateral ties. This report discusses the national security problem of China's role in weapons proliferation and issues related to the U.S. policy response, including legislation, since the mid-1990s.
Date: February 26, 2003
Creator: Kan, Shirley A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

DOJ/Antitrust: International Competition Policy Advisory Committee

The International Competition Policy Advisory Committee (ICPAC) was formed in November 1997 to address the global antitrust problems of the 21st Century.
Date: February 26, 1998
Creator: DOJ/ATR International Competition Policy Advisory Committee
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 285th week of the war, 167th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Allies Widen Kleve-Goch Salient, Red Army Drives on Danzig, Americans Land on Iwo and Corregidor - Tokyo Hammered Maps: European war [Berlin including surrounding area and 2 insets] -- Pacific war [South Pacific and insets of Tokyo and Iwo]. Back: Text, photograph, and map highlight the big three Crimea conference. "President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Stalin meeting on the shores of the Black Sea, fully agreed on plans and policies that are designed to bring a secure peace to the World." Highlights are: the defeat of Germany; liberation; peace security and freedom for all; remove the causes of war.
Date: February 26, 1945
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Highway and Transit Program Reauthorization Legislation in the 2nd Session, 108th Congress (open access)

Highway and Transit Program Reauthorization Legislation in the 2nd Session, 108th Congress

This report discusses significant legislative provisions in the two principal bills that are likely to be the subject of congressional discussion in the coming weeks and months to reauthorize federal highway, highway safety, and transit programs.
Date: February 26, 2004
Creator: Fischer, John W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Precise Measurement of Heat of Combustion with a Bomb Calorimeter (open access)

Precise Measurement of Heat of Combustion with a Bomb Calorimeter

From Introduction: "This Monograph describes methods and apparatus used at the National Bureau of Standards in connection with several series of investigations of heats of combustion of aircraft fuels [4, 5, 6, 7]."
Date: February 26, 1960
Creator: Jessup, R. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 35, Number 9, Pages 1523-1830, February 26, 2010 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 35, Number 9, Pages 1523-1830, February 26, 2010

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: February 26, 2010
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 24, Number 9, Pages 1287-1508, February 26, 1999 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 24, Number 9, Pages 1287-1508, February 26, 1999

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: February 26, 1999
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History