Soil and Water Conservation Issues (open access)

Soil and Water Conservation Issues

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Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Privacy Protection: Mandating New Arrangements to Implement and Assess Federal Privacy Policy and Practice (open access)

Privacy Protection: Mandating New Arrangements to Implement and Assess Federal Privacy Policy and Practice

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Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2004: Legislative Branch (open access)

Appropriations for FY2004: Legislative Branch

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 passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Legislative Branch Appropriations.
Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Dwyer, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee of the Whole: An Introduction (open access)

Committee of the Whole: An Introduction

The House of Representatives uses this parliamentary device to take procedural advantage of a somewhat different set of rules governing proceedings in the Committee than those governing proceedings in the House. The purpose is to expedite legislative consideration. This report briefly reviews the history of the Committee of the Whole, describes the current procedure associated with it, and identifies its procedural advantages.
Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Schneider, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence to Counter Terrorism: Issues for Congress (open access)

Intelligence to Counter Terrorism: Issues for Congress

This report discusses the need for cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence agencies and for human intelligence (humint), the use of agents to gather information, to counter terrorism and the risks associated with humint. Updated May 27, 2003.
Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kosovo: Greek and Turkish Perspectives (open access)

Kosovo: Greek and Turkish Perspectives

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Date: May 27, 1999
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewable Energy: Key to Sustainable Energy Supply (open access)

Renewable Energy: Key to Sustainable Energy Supply

Debate in the 106th Congress over the funding and direction of renewable energy programs will likely focus on the FY2000 spending request, the Administration's Climate Change Technology Initiative (CCTI), and proposals for restructuring the electricity industry. Energy security, a major driver of federal energy efficiency programs in the past, is now somewhat less of an issue. Although the Persian Gulf remains volatile and oil imports make up one-fifth of the balance of trade deficit, low oil prices and uninterrupted supply have dampened concern about the potential for import disruptions.
Date: May 27, 1999
Creator: Sissine, Fred
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Import Terminals: Siting, Safety and Regulation (open access)

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Import Terminals: Siting, Safety and Regulation

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Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Parfomak, Paul W. & Flynn, Aaron M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Act Issues in the 108th Congress (open access)

Clean Water Act Issues in the 108th Congress

In this report several other Clean Water Act issues are likely to receive congressional attention, through oversight hearings and possibly in legislative proposals. Among the topics of interest is whether and how the Administration will revise the current program for restoration of pollution-impaired waters (the Total Maximum Daily Load, or TMDL program), in view of controversy over regulatory changes made during the Clinton Administration and continuing disagreement among states, cities, industry, and environmental advocates about program effectiveness and efficiency.
Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues (open access)

Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues

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Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Tiemann, Mary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Environmental Protection (open access)

The Role of Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Environmental Protection

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Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Schierow, Linda-Jo
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Executive Branch Reorganization and Management Initiatives (open access)

Executive Branch Reorganization and Management Initiatives

This issue brief views reorganization and management as involving the alteration of the program administrative structure and operations of the executive branch for reasons of efficiency, economy, and direction. The underlying issue is who reorganizes or sets management policy—Congress or the President— and by what authority and, also, for what purpose?
Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security: Department Organization and Management - Implementation Phase (open access)

Homeland Security: Department Organization and Management - Implementation Phase

This report mainly discusses about Implementation Phase on Homeland Security of Department Organization and Management .overseeing the implementation of the legislation mandating the new department of homeland security and possible refining it.
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Relyea, Harold C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests (open access)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests

The United States recognized the independence of all the former Soviet republics by the end of 1991, including the South Caucasus states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The United States has fostered these states' ties with the West in part to end the dependence of these states on Russia for trade, security, and other relations. The FREEDOM Support Act of 1992 provides authorization for assistance to the Eurasian states for humanitarian needs, democratization, and other purposes. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the Administration appealed for a national security waiver of the prohibition on aid to Azerbaijan, in consideration of Azerbaijan's assistance to the international coalition to combat terrorism. Azerbaijani and Georgian troops participate in stabilization efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Armenian personnel serve in Iraq.
Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Nichol, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.N. System Funding: Congressional Issues (open access)

U.N. System Funding: Congressional Issues

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Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Bite, Vita
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA): Reauthorization of Title I Job Training Programs (open access)

Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA): Reauthorization of Title I Job Training Programs

Title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) (P.L. 105-220), the country’s chief job training legislation, authorizes several job training programs, including Youth, Adult, and Dislocated Worker Activities; Job Corps; Youth Opportunity Grants; and programs for Native Americans, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and veterans. The funding authorization for WIA programs expires on September 30,2003. On May 8, 2003, the House passed H.R. 1261, the Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act of 2003. In addition to reauthorizing the Title I job training programs, the bill would also reauthorize the adult education and literacy programs and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This report focuses on provisions related to the Title I programs.
Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Lordeman, Ann
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Affirmative Action: Recent Congressional and Presidential Activity (open access)

Affirmative Action: Recent Congressional and Presidential Activity

In recent years, the U.S. Congress and the President have been reevaluating, and proposing changes to, existing affirmative action policies. Multiple bills to restrict affirmative action were introduced in the 104th Congress, but only one limited measure was enacted. Some anti-preference legislation is currently before the 105th Congress. The Clinton Administration has generally opposed efforts to terminate affirmative action programs and, instead, has proposed various reforms.
Date: May 27, 1998
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mining on Federal Lands (open access)

Mining on Federal Lands

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Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Humphries, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Progress (open access)

Proposed High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Progress

This report discusses current findings on the site's geology, hydrology, geochemistry, and tectonic history; reviews the site characterization process that DOE is pursuing; discusses the problems inherent in assessing risk and projecting site suitability; and reviews concerns regarding attempts to model the repository's behavior into the distant millennia.
Date: May 27, 1999
Creator: Mielke, James E
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wireless Technology and Spectrum Demand: Third Generation (3G) and Beyond (open access)

Wireless Technology and Spectrum Demand: Third Generation (3G) and Beyond

Advances in wireless telecommunications technology are converging with Internet technology to foster new generations of applications and services. Presently, the United States and other countries are moving to third-generation (3G) and fourth-generation mobile telephony. The defining feature of these technologies is that transmission speeds are significantly faster than prevailing technologies. A related trend is the growth in use of Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) and WiMAX (an industry designation for a specific broadband standard). This report describes various legislation relating to this expansion and ongoing telecommunications development.
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Moore, Linda K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jordan-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Labor Issues (open access)

Jordan-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Labor Issues

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Date: May 27, 2003
Creator: Bolle, Mary Jane
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized (open access)

Texas Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized

This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of Texas.
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Bea, Keith; Runyon, L. Cheryl & Warnock, Kae M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tennessee Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized (open access)

Tennessee Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized

This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of Tennessee.
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Bea, Keith; Runyon, L. Cheryl & Warnock, Kae M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Utah Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized (open access)

Utah Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized

This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of Utah.
Date: May 27, 2004
Creator: Bea, Keith; Runyon, L. Cheryl & Warnock, Kae M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library