Emergency Criteria: How Five States Budget for Uncertainty (open access)

Emergency Criteria: How Five States Budget for Uncertainty

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on how five states budget for uncertainty, focusing on: (1) state criteria designed to control the use of reserve emergency funds; (2) how state criteria compared with criteria being proposed at the federal level; (3) how states determined whether the criteria have been met; (4) whether state criteria contain any escape clauses; and (5) whether states' criteria are useful in controlling costs."
Date: April 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Waste: Process to Remove Radioactive Waste From Savannah River Tanks Fails to Work (open access)

Nuclear Waste: Process to Remove Radioactive Waste From Savannah River Tanks Fails to Work

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Energy's (DOE) efforts to clean up nuclear waste at DOE's Savannah River Site in South Carolina, focusing on: (1) the factors causing the project's delays and cost growth; (2) the effect of the in-tank precipitation process project's suspension on the Savannah River Site's cleanup plans and costs; and (3) DOE's plans for developing an alternative technology for separating high-level waste from the liquid."
Date: April 30, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Business Administration: Review of Selected Personnel Practices (open access)

Small Business Administration: Review of Selected Personnel Practices

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed events related to personnel reassignments, appointments, and activities at the Small Business Administration (SBA)."
Date: April 23, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety: Experiences of Four Countries in Consolidating Their Food Safety Systems (open access)

Food Safety: Experiences of Four Countries in Consolidating Their Food Safety Systems

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the experiences of foreign countries that are consolidating their food safety responsibilities, focusing on the: (1) reasons for and approaches taken to consolidation, the costs and savings, if any, associated with consolidation, and efforts to assess the effectiveness of the revised food safety systems; and (2) lessons that the United States might learn from these countries' experiences in consolidating their food safety functions."
Date: April 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foster Care: Increases in Adoption Rates (open access)

Foster Care: Increases in Adoption Rates

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO determined the source of information states used to derive both the fiscal year (FY) 1998 and the base numbers of finalized foster care adoptions, and identified factors that contributed to the increases in foster care adoptions in 5 states--Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, and Texas."
Date: April 20, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research: Information on International Science and Technology Agreements (open access)

Federal Research: Information on International Science and Technology Agreements

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the U.S. government's international science and technology (S&T) agreements that support and encourage international cooperation in research and development, focusing on the: (1) number of international S&T agreements active during fiscal year (FY) 1997; and (2) number of these agreements that resulted in research projects or other activities."
Date: April 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budget Issues: Budgetary Implications of Selected GAO Work for Fiscal Year 2000 (open access)

Budget Issues: Budgetary Implications of Selected GAO Work for Fiscal Year 2000

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the budgetary implications of selected program reforms discussed in its work but not yet implemented or enacted."
Date: April 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Development: Extent of Federal Influence on 'Urban Sprawl' Is Unclear (open access)

Community Development: Extent of Federal Influence on 'Urban Sprawl' Is Unclear

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the contribution of federal programs and policies to urban sprawl, focusing on: (1) the origins and implications of urban sprawl; (2) evidence that exists on the influence of federal programs and policies on urban sprawl; and (3) regulatory review and coordination mechanisms evaluating and mitigating the effects of federal actions on urban sprawl."
Date: April 30, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Transportation: Progress of MTMC Pilot (open access)

Defense Transportation: Progress of MTMC Pilot

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Military Traffic Management Command's (MTMC) first interim progress report on the Department of Defense's demonstration program (MTMC pilot) to improve personal property shipments of the armed forces, focusing on MTMC's plan for evaluating the: (1) pilot results; and (2) proposed industry alternative called the Commercial-Like Activities for Superior Quality (CLASS) proposal."
Date: April 15, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Welfare Reform: Information on Former Recipients' Status (open access)

Welfare Reform: Information on Former Recipients' Status

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."
Date: April 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assisted Living: Quality-of-Care and Consumer Protection Issues in Four States (open access)

Assisted Living: Quality-of-Care and Consumer Protection Issues in Four States

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on whether consumers are able to make informed choices about their care and about the nature and extent of problems that may be occurring in assisted living, focusing on: (1) residents' needs and the services provided in assisted living facilities; (2) the extent to which facilities provide consumers with information sufficient to help them choose a facility that is appropriate for their needs; (3) state approaches to the oversight of assisted living; and (4) the type and frequency of quality-of-care and consumer protection problems identified by Congress."
Date: April 26, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land Management Systems: Major Software Development Does Not Meet BLM's Business Needs (open access)

Land Management Systems: Major Software Development Does Not Meet BLM's Business Needs

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO recommended actions it believes the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) should take to improve its efforts to develop and deploy its Automated Land and Mineral Record System (ALMRS)."
Date: April 30, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Antimicrobial Resistance: Data to Assess Public Health Threat From Resistant Bacteria Are Limited (open access)

Antimicrobial Resistance: Data to Assess Public Health Threat From Resistant Bacteria Are Limited

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."
Date: April 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated, for 1995, 1996, and 1997 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Review of the Financial Statement Audit Reports for the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated, for 1995, 1996, and 1997

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the audit report covering the financial statements of the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated, for the fiscal years ended December 31, 1995, 1996, and 1997, focusing on whether the audit report complied with the financial reporting requirements of the law."
Date: April 30, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Results Act: Observations on the Postal Service's Preliminary Performance Plan for Fiscal Year 2000 (open access)

The Results Act: Observations on the Postal Service's Preliminary Performance Plan for Fiscal Year 2000

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Postal Service's Preliminary Performance Plan for fiscal year (FY) 2000."
Date: April 30, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accounting Standards: Treatment of Asset-Backed Securities (open access)

Accounting Standards: Treatment of Asset-Backed Securities

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on whether the greater discretion allowed to banks as opposed to securities broker/dealers under accounting standards and practices may have resulted in less transparency in the value of asset-backed securities held by banks, focusing on: (1) mortgage-backed securities (MBS); (2) the accounting treatment applied to securities (including MBS) held by banks and broker/dealers; and (3) the accounting for securities holdings by the six largest bank holding companies and whether such holdings might have affected the transparency of financial statements."
Date: April 14, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 2001 (open access)

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 2001

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) new rule on the average fuel economy standards for light trucks. GAO noted that: (1) NHTSA interprets section 322 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1999 as requiring it to prescribe the same light truck corporate average fuel economy standard for model year 2001 that applies to model year 2000; (2) accordingly, the rule continues the 20.7 miles per gallon standard for 2001; (3) this is the same interpretation NHTSA has applied for the three preceding model years and Congress has continued to insert the same language in the yearly Appropriations Acts and has not objected to NHTSA's interpretation; and (4) NHTSA complied with the applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."
Date: April 22, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulatory Flexibility Act: Agencies' Interpretations of Review Requirements Vary (open access)

Regulatory Flexibility Act: Agencies' Interpretations of Review Requirements Vary

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO updated its previous reports on agencies' use of the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions to publish final rule notices, focusing on: (1) how many agencies had no Agenda entries that were characterized as Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) of 1980, section 610 reviews, whether agencies are interpreting the review requirements consistently, and why certain agencies that appeared subject to the requirements had no entries; (2) how many of the section 610 review entries in these Agendas appeared to meet the notification requirements in subsection 610(c); (3) if the section 610 review entries did not appear to meet the statutory requirements, why certain agencies' entries were characterized as section 610 reviews; and (4) whether any federal agencies had revised their section 610 review plans."
Date: April 2, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Western National Forests: A Cohesive Strategy is Needed to Address Catastrophic Wildfire Threats (open access)

Western National Forests: A Cohesive Strategy is Needed to Address Catastrophic Wildfire Threats

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) the extent and seriousness of forest-health-related problems in national forests in the interior West; (2) the status of efforts by the Forest Service to address the most serious of these problems; and (3) barriers to successfully addressing these problems and options for overcoming them."
Date: April 2, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulatory Reform: Comments on S. 746--The Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999 (open access)

Regulatory Reform: Comments on S. 746--The Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed S.746, the Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999, focusing on: (1) the effectiveness of previous regulatory reform initiatives; (2) agencies' cost-benefit analysis practices and the trigger for the analytical requirements; (3) peer review of agencies' regulatory analyses; and (4) the transparency of the regulatory development and review process."
Date: April 21, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection: Status of EPA's Efforts to Create a Central Information Office (open access)

Environmental Protection: Status of EPA's Efforts to Create a Central Information Office

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) information management initiatives, focusing on the: (1) status of EPA's efforts to create a central office responsible for information management, policy, and technology issues; and (2) major challenges that the new office needs to address to achieve success in collecting, using, and disseminating environmental information."
Date: April 13, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration Benefits: Applications for Adjustment of Status Under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 (open access)

Immigration Benefits: Applications for Adjustment of Status Under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the number of Haitian nationals who have applied and been approved for adjustment of their status to legal permanent residence."
Date: April 21, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Postal Service: Subcommittee Questions Concerning Year 2000 Challenges Facing the Service (open access)

U.S. Postal Service: Subcommittee Questions Concerning Year 2000 Challenges Facing the Service

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the challenges facing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in addressing the year 2000 problem."
Date: April 23, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Management Letter: American Battle Monuments Commission's Financial Statement Audit for Fiscal Year 1998 (open access)

Management Letter: American Battle Monuments Commission's Financial Statement Audit for Fiscal Year 1998

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided suggestions for improving internal controls and operations at the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). The suggestions are provided by KPMG LLP, an independent public accounting firm GAO contracted with to conduct the audit of ABMC's consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1998. GAO concurs with KPMG's suggestions."
Date: April 8, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library