Texas Register, Volume 38, Number 16, Pages 2429-2570, April 19, 2013 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 38, Number 16, Pages 2429-2570, April 19, 2013

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prescription Drugs: Comparison of DOD and VA Direct Purchase Prices (open access)

Prescription Drugs: Comparison of DOD and VA Direct Purchase Prices

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "When GAO compared prices paid by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for a sample of 83 drugs purchased in the first calendar quarter of 2012, DOD's average unit price for the entire sample was 31.8 percent ($0.11 per unit) higher than VA's average price, and DOD's average unit price for the subset of 40 generic drugs was 66.6 percent ($0.04 per unit) higher than VA's average price. However, VA's average unit price for the subset of 43 brand-name drugs was 136.9 percent ($1.01 per unit) higher than DOD's average price. These results were consistent with each agency obtaining better prices on the type of drugs that made up the majority of its utilization: generic drugs accounted for 83 percent of VA's utilization of the sample drugs and brand-name drugs accounted for 54 percent of DOD's utilization of the sample drugs. DOD officials told GAO that in certain circumstances they are able to obtain competitive prices for brand-name drugs--even below the prices for generic equivalents--and therefore will often preferentially purchase brand-name drugs."
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing For Results: Agencies Should More Fully Develop Priority Goals under the GPRA Modernization Act (open access)

Managing For Results: Agencies Should More Fully Develop Priority Goals under the GPRA Modernization Act

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For 102 agency priority goals (APGs) for 2012 to 2013 that GAO reviewed, agencies implemented three GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (the act) requirements. Agencies identified (1) a target level of performance within a 2-year time frame; (2) how their APGs contribute to their strategic goals; and (3) an agency official responsible for achieving each APG. These represent important accomplishments, but information about other requirements is incomplete:"
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State Taxation of Internet Transactions (open access)

State Taxation of Internet Transactions

This report intends to clarify significant issues in the remote sales tax collection debate, beginning with a description of state and local sales and use taxes. Congress has a role in this issue because interstate commerce, in most cases, falls under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Maguire, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Security Assistance Reform: "Section 1206" Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Security Assistance Reform: "Section 1206" Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background on the pre-Section 1206 status of security assistance authorities and the factors contributing to the enactment of Section 1206, which provides the Secretary of Defense with authority to train and equip foreign military forces and foreign maritime security forces. It then sets out the purposes of the legislation and scope of its activities, restrictions on its use, the DOD-State Department planning process, and funding. It concludes with a discussion of issues for Congress.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Serafino, Nina M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form SPAC Instruction Guide: Specific-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form SPAC Instruction Guide: Specific-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form SPAC, for specific-purpose committee campaign finance reporting.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Review
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form MCEC Instruction Guide: Monthly Filing County Executive Committee Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form MCEC Instruction Guide: Monthly Filing County Executive Committee Campaign Finance Report

instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form MCEC, for monthly filing county executive committee campaign finance reporting.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form C/OH Instruction Guide: Candidate/Officeholder Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form C/OH Instruction Guide: Candidate/Officeholder Campaign Finance Report

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form C/OH, for candidate/officeholder campaign finance reporting.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Review
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form GPAC Instruction Guide: General-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form GPAC Instruction Guide: General-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form GPAC, for general-purpose committee campaign finance reporting.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form JC/OH Instruction Guide: Judicial Candidate/Officeholder Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form JC/OH Instruction Guide: Judicial Candidate/Officeholder Campaign Finance Report

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form JC/OH, for judicial candidate/officeholder campaign finance reporting.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form CEC Instruction Guide: County Executive Committee Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form CEC Instruction Guide: County Executive Committee Campaign Finance Report

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form CEC, for County Executive Committee campaign finance reporting.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form MPAC Instruction Guide: Monthly Filing General-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form MPAC Instruction Guide: Monthly Filing General-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission for MPAC, for monthly filing general-purpose committee campaign finance reporting.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form GTA Instruction Guide: Appointment of a Campaign Treasurer by a General-Purpose Committee (open access)

Form GTA Instruction Guide: Appointment of a Campaign Treasurer by a General-Purpose Committee

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form GTA, for reporting the appointment of a campaign treasurer by a general-purpose committee.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form JSPAC Instruction Guide: Judicial Specific-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form JSPAC Instruction Guide: Judicial Specific-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form JSPAC, for judicial specific-purpose committee campaign finance reporting.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Review
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form SC C/OH Instruction Guide: State/County Chair Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form SC C/OH Instruction Guide: State/County Chair Campaign Finance Report

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form SC C/OH, a campaign finance reporting form for state/county chair candidates or officeholders.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Review
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form SC SPAC Instruction Guide: State/County Chair Specific-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report (open access)

Form SC SPAC Instruction Guide: State/County Chair Specific-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report

Instructional guide for state/county chair specific-purpose committee campaign finance reporting form SC SPAC from the Texas Ethics Commission.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Review
System: The Portal to Texas History
Common Questions About Postage and Stamps (open access)

Common Questions About Postage and Stamps

This report provides information about the Common Questions About Postage and Stamps where congressional staff may learn more about these topics.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Kosar, Kevin R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional or Federal Charters: Overview and Enduring Issues (open access)

Congressional or Federal Charters: Overview and Enduring Issues

This report is categorized into three categories: (I) What is a Congressional or Federal Charter?, (II) Congress's Use of Charters, (III) Enduring Issues. It further discusses Title 36 Corporations' Membership Practices, Title 36 Corporations and "Political Activities", Confusion Over which Corporations are Governmental and Private and The Federal Management of Corporations.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Kosar, Kevin R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The U.S. Export Control System and the President’s Reform Initiative (open access)

The U.S. Export Control System and the President’s Reform Initiative

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Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
REGULATION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND WATER USE IN A OZARK FOREST: PROPOSING A NEW STRATEGICALLY LOCATED AMERIFLUX TOWER SITE IN MISSOURI (open access)

REGULATION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND WATER USE IN A OZARK FOREST: PROPOSING A NEW STRATEGICALLY LOCATED AMERIFLUX TOWER SITE IN MISSOURI

by June 14, 2004, the MOFLUX site was fully instrumented and data streams started to flow. A primary accomplished deliverable for the project period was the data streams of CO{sub 2} and water vapor fluxes and numerous meteorological variables (from which prepared datasets have been submitted to the AmeriFlux data archive for 2004-2006, Additionally, measurements of leaf biochemistry and physiology, biomass inventory, tree allometry, successional trends other variables were obtained.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Pallardy, Stephen G
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modularity and adaptability (open access)

Modularity and adaptability

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Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Banks, J W
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD (open access)

Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD

This is the final report for this project.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Orginos, Konstantinos
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library