[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Air Depot North Island, California, June 6, 2005] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Air Depot North Island, California, June 6, 2005]

Memorandum of Meeting with Naval Air Depot North Island staff regarding a briefing and tour of the Naval Air Depot.
Date: June 5, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Book from BRAC Commission Visit to Fort Monmouth, NJ dtd 3 Jun 2005 (open access)

Base Visit Book from BRAC Commission Visit to Fort Monmouth, NJ dtd 3 Jun 2005

Base Visit Book from BRAC Commission Visit to Fort Monmouth, NJ dtd 3 Jun 2005. Document includes commissioner agenda, base summary sheet, economic impact, recommendations, media input, demographics, and environmental scenarios.
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter from  Gayla Brumfield to Commission regarding Closure of Cannon AFB (open access)

Letter from Gayla Brumfield to Commission regarding Closure of Cannon AFB

Letter from concerned citizen and business owner Gayla Brumfield regarding the closure of Cannon AFB
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter from Greg Stimack to Commission regarding Closure of Cannon AFB (open access)

Letter from Greg Stimack to Commission regarding Closure of Cannon AFB

Letter from concerned citizen Greg Stimack regarding the closure of Cannon AFB
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
NAS JRB Willowgrove Community Petition dtd 1 June 2005 (open access)

NAS JRB Willowgrove Community Petition dtd 1 June 2005

NAS JRB Willowgrove Community Petition dtd 1 June 2005. Signed petition from the Horsham, PA community regarding the closure of NAS Willowgrove.
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from McGregor Gray to Anthony Principi - June 6, 2005] (open access)

[Letter from McGregor Gray to Anthony Principi - June 6, 2005]

Letter from McGregor Gray to Anthony Principi in support of Naval Air Station Brunswick.
Date: June 6, 2005
Creator: Gray, McGregor
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letters from Mercedes Agogerio to the BRAC - June 20, 2005] (open access)

[Letters from Mercedes Agogerio to the BRAC - June 20, 2005]

Letters from Mercedes Agogerio to members of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) pleading on behalf of Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico.
Date: June 20, 2005
Creator: Agogerio, Mercedes
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Sheldon I. Cohen to the BRAC - June 16, 2005] (open access)

[Letter from Sheldon I. Cohen to the BRAC - June 16, 2005]

Letter from Sheldon Cohen to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC). He urged the individual commissioners to cancel the recommendation to relocate the hearing offices of the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals to Fort Meade, Maryland.
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: Cohen, Sheldon I.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
80 Letters in Support of Cannon Air Force Base (open access)

80 Letters in Support of Cannon Air Force Base

Eighty copies of a form letter (some with slight variations) signed by community members in Curry and Roosevelt Counties, New Mexico and sent to the U.S. Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) in support of Cannon Air Force Base.
Date: June 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
521 form letters from concerned community members surrounding Niagara Falls Air Force Base in Niagara Falls, New York (open access)

521 form letters from concerned community members surrounding Niagara Falls Air Force Base in Niagara Falls, New York

Community Correspondence – 521 form letters from concerned community members surrounding Niagara Falls Air Force Base in Niagara Falls, New York. The first four pages are text searchable examples of the letters that are contained in the document.
Date: June 29, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, June 23, 2005] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, June 23, 2005]

Memorandum of meeting with officials at Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews AFB, Maryland, that included a briefing and tour of the facilities and provided an overview of the hospital's mission and quality of service.
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Air Station Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, June 24, 2005, Part 1] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Air Station Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, June 24, 2005, Part 1]

First part of memorandum of meeting with the Horsham-Willow Grove Chamber of Commerce and community representatives regarding the Naval Air Station Willow Grove, PA, including business cards of the attendees.
Date: June 24, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: China Lake, California, June 28, 2005] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: China Lake, California, June 28, 2005]

Memorandum of meeting with China Lake, CA community representatives to gather information regarding the proposed realignments for Naval facilities at China Lake.
Date: June 28, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Base Ventura County, California, June 29, 2005] (open access)

[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Base Ventura County, California, June 29, 2005]

Memorandum of meeting between Navy Officials and BRAC Officials concerning BRAC actions affecting Point Mugu Naval Base, Ventura County, CA.
Date: June 29, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Email Correspondence between BRAC Deputy General Counsel and WSO BRAC Clearinghouse - June 2005] (open access)

[Email Correspondence between BRAC Deputy General Counsel and WSO BRAC Clearinghouse - June 2005]

E-mail correspondence between the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) Deputy General Counsel and the Department of Defense Clearinghouse regarding information on the legal advice the Department of Defense received regarding the authority of the Department to make and implement certain recommendations affecting the Air National Guard.
Date: June 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter from JoAnn Johnson to Commission regarding Closure of Cannon AFB (open access)

Letter from JoAnn Johnson to Commission regarding Closure of Cannon AFB

Letter from concerned citizen JoAnn Johnson cocerning the closure of Cannon AFB, New Mexico
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter from James P. Cassidy  to Commission Regarding Closure of Cannon AFB (open access)

Letter from James P. Cassidy to Commission Regarding Closure of Cannon AFB

Letter from concerned citizen James P. Cassidy regarding the closing of Cannon Air Force Base.
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare: Concerns Regarding Plans to Transfer the Appeals Workload from SSA to HHS Remain (open access)

Medicare: Concerns Regarding Plans to Transfer the Appeals Workload from SSA to HHS Remain

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Medicare--the federal health insurance program that covers the nation's elderly and disabled--annually processes over 1 billion medical claims for services provided to beneficiaries. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), administers the Medicare program with the assistance of its claims administration contractors. These contractors are charged with processing and paying claims that are properly submitted and that are for medically necessary and covered services. The contractors also deny payment for claims considered invalid, incomplete, or otherwise improper. Medicare beneficiaries and providers have the right to appeal denied claims through a multilevel administrative process that includes a decision by an administrative law judge (ALJ). In fiscal year 2004, CMS's contractors denied over 158 million Medicare claims, about 5 million of which resulted in the initiation of appeals. In the same year, about 113,000 denied claims were appealed to ALJs. Two federal agencies--HHS and the Social Security Administration (SSA)--play a role in resolving Medicare appeals, but neither agency manages the entire process. In recent years, the Medicare appeals process has been the subject of widespread concern because of …
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
DOD Problem Disbursements: Long-standing Accounting Weaknesses Result in Inaccurate Records and Substantial Write-offs (open access)

DOD Problem Disbursements: Long-standing Accounting Weaknesses Result in Inaccurate Records and Substantial Write-offs

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Over the years, the Department of Defense (DOD) has recorded billions of dollars of disbursements and collections in suspense accounts because the proper appropriation accounts could not be identified and charged. DOD has also been unable to resolve discrepancies between its and Treasury's records of checks issued by DOD. Because documentation that would allow for resolution of these payment recording problems could not be found after so many years, DOD requested and received legislative authority to write off certain aged suspense transactions and check payment differences. The conference report (H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 107-772) that accompanied the legislation (Pub. L. No. 107-314) required GAO to review and report on DOD's use of this write-off authority."
Date: June 2, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare: Drug Purchase Prices for CMS Consideration in Hospital Outpatient Rate-Setting (open access)

Medicare: Drug Purchase Prices for CMS Consideration in Hospital Outpatient Rate-Setting

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Medicare pays hospitals for drugs that beneficiaries receive as part of their treatment in hospital outpatient departments. Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) uses an outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) to pay hospitals fixed, predetermined rates for services. These services include drugs given to beneficiaries in outpatient settings. When OPPS was first developed as directed by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the rates for hospital outpatient services and drugs were based on hospitals' 1996 median costs. However, these rates prompted concerns that payments to hospitals would not reflect the cost of newly introduced pharmaceutical products--drugs, biologicals, and radiopharmaceuticals--used to treat, for example, cancer, rare blood disorders, and other serious conditions. In turn, congressional concerns were raised that beneficiaries might lose access to some of these products if hospitals avoided providing them because of a perceived shortfall in payments. In response to these concerns, the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 authorized pass-through payments, which are a way to augment, on a temporary basis, the OPPS payments for newly introduced pharmaceutical products …
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Management Report: Opportunities for Improvements in FDIC's Internal Controls and Accounting Procedures (open access)

Management Report: Opportunities for Improvements in FDIC's Internal Controls and Accounting Procedures

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In February 2005, we issued our opinions on the calendar year 2004 financial statements of the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF), the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF), and the FSLIC Resolution Fund (FRF). We also issued our opinion on the effectiveness of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) internal controls as of December 31, 2004, and our evaluation of FDIC's compliance with significant provisions of selected laws and regulations for the three funds for the year ended December 31, 2004. The purpose of this report is to discuss issues identified during our audits of the 2004 financial statements regarding accounting procedures and internal controls that could be improved, and to recommend improvements to address these issues. Although these issues were not material in relation to the financial statements, we believe they warrant management's attention."
Date: June 10, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federally Chartered Corporation: Financial Statement Audit Report for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America for Fiscal Year 2003 (open access)

Federally Chartered Corporation: Financial Statement Audit Report for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America for Fiscal Year 2003

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the audit reports covering the financial statements of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America, for fiscal year 2003. GAO found no reportable instances of noncompliance. The audit reports included the auditors' opinions that the financial statements of the corporation were presented fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles."
Date: June 10, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mail Order Pharmacies: DOD's Use of VA's Mail Pharmacy Could Produce Savings and Other Benefits (open access)

Mail Order Pharmacies: DOD's Use of VA's Mail Pharmacy Could Produce Savings and Other Benefits

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "There has been long-standing congressional interest in whether the Department of Defense (DOD) could use the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) system as a cost-effective alternative to beneficiaries picking up outpatient refill prescriptions at DOD military treatment facilities (MTF). To evaluate this possibility, DOD and VA conducted a pilot program in fiscal year 2003 in which a VA CMOP provided outpatient pharmaceutical refill services to DOD beneficiaries served through three MTFs. GAO was asked to estimate cost savings that could be achieved if DOD used VA's CMOP instead of MTF pharmacies for outpatient refill prescriptions, and what other benefits were achieved at the three pilot sites. To estimate potential cost savings and determine what other benefits were achieved, GAO reviewed pilot and pharmacy program documentation and interviewed DOD and VA officials responsible for purchasing and dispensing drugs. GAO also compared drug and administrative costs of dispensing outpatient refills through the fiscal year 2003 pilot program with the costs of dispensing the refills at the three DOD MTFs that participated in the pilot."
Date: June 22, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elections: Additional Data Could Help State and Local Elections Officials Maintain Accurate Voter Registration Lists (open access)

Elections: Additional Data Could Help State and Local Elections Officials Maintain Accurate Voter Registration Lists

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Reports of ineligible persons registering to vote raised concerns about state processes for verifying voter registration lists. States base voter eligibility generally on the voter's age, U.S. citizenship, mental competence, and felon status. Although states run elections, Congress has authority to affect the administration of elections. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) sets a deadline for states to have a statewide voter registration list and list verification procedures. For this report, GAO selected seven states (AZ, CA, MI, NY, TX, VA, and WI) to represent a range of characteristics relevant to voter registrations, such as whether a statewide voter list existed prior to HAVA. This report discusses how these states verify voter registration eligibility; the challenges they face in maintaining accurate voter lists; the progress toward implementing HAVA registration requirements; and identifies federal data sources that might be used to help verify voter registration eligibility."
Date: June 10, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library