This report describes how the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program (CMAQ) and enhancement programs function, examines the policy issues surrounding them, and summarizes relevant provisions in major legislation to reauthorize ISTEA in the 105th Congress.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Texas Permanent School Fund's (Fund) financial statements and the Fund's material accounts reported by the Texas Education Agency (Agency) for fiscal year 1997, which are accurately presented in all material respects, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Higher Education Coordinating Board's need to enhance some of its processes for managing information agency-wide to ensure that customers receive the level of services expected, particularly when they have non-routine data requests.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to categories of purchases by health and human services agencies that are exempt from General Services Commission's authority, and testing these purchases for weaknesses in agency-level internal controls, instances of fraud and abuse, and inefficiencies in the purchasing process.

Monthly publication documenting statistics related to economic information in the Mexico-Texas border areas including types of border crossings, employment, customs revenues, and other related data.

Newsletter of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs discussing news and announcements related to the agency and other information regarding community resources and affordable housing in the state.

Congress established the Census Monitoring Board to observe and monitor all aspects of the preparation and implementation of the 2000 decennial census. The method employed by the Census to count over 275 million Americans in 2000.

The 105 Congress has been active on issues involving China. This report, which will be updated as developments occur, tracks pending human rights legislation, including bills concerning: prison conditions and prison labor exports; coercive abortion practices; China’s policies toward religion; and more general human rights issues.

This report provides background on foreign policy sanctions and the events that might necessitate their use, criteria to consider when determining if sanctions are appropriate, approaches that might be effective, and aspects of the use of sanctions that are sometimes overlooked or not considered fully. The report also provides an uncomplicated map of where sanctions policies and options currently may be found in U.S. law.

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This report sketches the constitutional standards that apply to public aid to sectarian schools and especially to programs of indirect assistance such as education vouchers.

'Mercury and other highly-toxic heavy metals such as cadmium and lead are present in many aquatic environments, and the remediation of such environments or the avoidance of heavy-metal contamination in the first place is an area of active interest. In recent years tougher environmental regulations and the high initial cost of new, more effective, and more selective extractants has made the reuse of extractant materials and the minimization of secondary waste volume a focus of their scientific effort. The authors research has involved the investigation of redox-active layered metal chalcogenides as selective, effective, and redox-recyclable extractants for heavy metals from aqueous solution.'

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

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Periodical discussing the legislation related to end-of-life care and decisions. It includes the historic precedents for such legislation, the complex ethical and moral issues surrounding end-of-life care, and possible legal consequences of proposed and existing legislation.

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This report analyzes immigration-related provisions of H.R. 2431, the “Freedom from Religious Persecution Act,” as passed by the House on May 14, 1998, and S. 1868, the “International Religious Freedom Act,” as introduced in the Senate.

Annual report compiling information about required groundwater monitoring activities and cases of contamination by state-regulated activities during the 1997 calendar year. Includes tables with the enforcement status of each case of contamination.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Texas Rehabilitation Commission and the Texas Commission for the Blind's adequate management controls over the Vocational Rehabilitation Program.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to assessing whether the University of Texas - Pan American (University) established the controls necessary to provide educational services, safeguard assets, use resources efficiently, and comply with applicable laws and regulations.

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'The mobility of actinides in surface soils is a key issue of concern at several DOE facilities in arid and semiarid environments, including Rocky Flats, Hanford, Nevada Test Site, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Key sources of uncertainty in assessing Pu mobility are the magnitudes of mobility resulting from three modes of transport: (1) wind erosion, (2) water erosion, and (3) vertical migration. Each of these three processes depend on numerous environmental factors and they compete with one another, particularly for actinides in very shallow soils ({approximately} 1 \265m). The overall goal of the study is to quantify the mobility of soil actinides from all three modes. The authors study is using field measurements, laboratory experiments, and ecological modeling to address these three processes at three DOE facilities where actinide kinetics are of concern: WIPP, Rocky Flats, and Hanford. Wind erosion is being measured with suite of monitoring equipment, water erosion is being studied with rainfall simulation experiments, vertical migration is being studied in controlled laboratory experiments, and the three processes are being integrated using ecological modeling. Estimates for clean up of soil actinides for the extensive tracts of …