Superfund Fact Book (open access)

Superfund Fact Book

The Superfund program is the principal federal effort for cleaning up inactive hazardous waste sites and protecting public health and the environment from releases of hazardous substances. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) established the program, and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) amended it. This report is a compendium of data and other pertinent information about CERCIA and the Superfund program, followed by a glossary.
Date: March 3, 1997
Creator: Reisch, Mark & Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unfunded Mandate Reform Act: A Brief Summary (open access)

Unfunded Mandate Reform Act: A Brief Summary

The Unfunded Mandate Reform Act of 1995 (S. 1; H.R. 5) responds to the concerns of many State and local officials with regard to costs placed upon them by "unfunded mandates." Generally, unfunded mandates are responsibilities or duties placed on one level of government by another without paying the costs of carrying out such responsibilities or duties.
Date: March 17, 1995
Creator: Osbourn, Sandra S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of 501(c )(3) and 501(c )(4) Organizations (open access)

Comparison of 501(c )(3) and 501(c )(4) Organizations

This paper briefly compares the differences between tax-exempt organizations described in Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) and those described in section 501(c)(4). Although some organizations can qualify as either a 501(c)(3) or a 501(c)(4) organization, there are two outstanding differences between the two categories which may make one type of exemption more desirable than the other: deductibility of contributions and ability to lobby without significant limits.
Date: March 24, 1995
Creator: Morris, Marie B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Excise Taxes on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Gasoline: History and Inflation Adjusted Rates (open access)

Excise Taxes on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Gasoline: History and Inflation Adjusted Rates

This report provides inflation adjusted excise tax rates for alcohol, tobacco, and gasoline products. The base for computation is November 1951; the adjustments show what the tax rates would be if they had been increased to reflect inflation. All of the above cited commodities had rate increases effective for that date under the Revenue Act of 1951. Just as the Congress was prepared to lower excise tax rates because of peacetime conditions, plans had to be revised as a result of the start of the Korean War. Thus, the Revenue Act of 1951 was born out of revenue needs due to increased military expenditures.
Date: March 7, 1997
Creator: Talley, Louis Alan & Cashell, Brian W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-U.S. Trade: The Structural Impediments Initiative (open access)

Japan-U.S. Trade: The Structural Impediments Initiative

On May 25, 1989, President Bush proposed that the United States undertake the Structural Impediments Initiative (SII), a series of discussions with Japan to address certain fundamental Japanese economic policies and business practices that the United States claims impede U.S. exports and investments. The SII was, in part, a Bush Administration response to the stubborn U.S. trade deficit and other problems that have caused friction in the U.S. trading relationship with Japan. It was also a response to congressional pressure to deal more aggressively with Japanese unfair trade practices and to calls from critics to adopt a "managed" trade policy toward Japan.
Date: March 15, 1993
Creator: Cooper, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Section 301: Its Operation and Prospects for Future Use by the United States (open access)

Section 301: Its Operation and Prospects for Future Use by the United States

Sections 301 through 309 of the Trade Act of 1974 (as amended), commonly referred to as Section 301, is one of principal means by which the United States addresses "unfair" foreign barriers to U.S. exports and enforces U.S. rights under trade agreements.
Date: March 9, 1995
Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Free Trade Partners and U.S. Interests: What's Next? (open access)

Regional Free Trade Partners and U.S. Interests: What's Next?

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Date: March 13, 1995
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Services Trade with Japan (open access)

Financial Services Trade with Japan

The 1995 U.S.-Japan Financial Services Agreement further liberalizes aspects of Japan's financial markets, particularly in asset management, corporate securities, cross-border financial services, and in providing greater transparency for administrative procedures. Implementation will have to be monitored, however, and some issues still remain unresolved.
Date: March 24, 1995
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Implications for the United States (open access)

Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Implications for the United States

Ministers of the 29 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have struggled since 1995 to negotiate a Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). Negotiations on many aspects of a final agreement have progressed rapidly, but OECD members have been unable to resolve numerous thorny issues before the latest deadline set for the OECD Ministerial meeting in April 1998. U.S. negotiators have indicated that they will not sign the present agreement without significant changes and oppose establishing another deadline.
Date: March 18, 1998
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa: Trade and Development Initiatives by the Clinton Administration and Congress (open access)

Africa: Trade and Development Initiatives by the Clinton Administration and Congress

In February 1997, the Clinton Administration submitted the second of five annual reports on the Administration's Comprehensive Trade and Development Policy for Africa as required by section 134 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (House Document 103-3415, Vol. 1.). On April 24, 1997, members of the African Trade and Investment Caucus introduced a bill, H.R. 1432, on U.S.-Africa trade and investment issues. In his State of the Union address in January 1998, President Clinton called on Congress to pass the trade legislation.
Date: March 2, 1998
Creator: Dagne, Theodore S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amtrak: Background and Selected Public Policy Issues (open access)

Amtrak: Background and Selected Public Policy Issues

This report discusses the financial troubles of Amtrak, its request for federal financial operating assistance, the Amtrack Reform and Accountability Act of 1997, Amtrak's Strategic Business Plan for FY1999-2002, Amtrak's operating losses, and other rail passenger services that might emerge in the absence of Amtrak, should the company fail.
Date: March 2, 1999
Creator: Thompson, Stephen J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chinese Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Policies: Implications and Options for the United States (open access)

Chinese Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Policies: Implications and Options for the United States

since the mid-1950s, China has made strong efforts within its limited economic and technical capabilities to develop a modest nuclear force and related delivery systems in order to: help deter superpower or regional aggression and intimidation;
Date: March 25, 1994
Creator: Sutter, Robert G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
MTBE in Gasoline: Clean Air and Drinking Water Issues (open access)

MTBE in Gasoline: Clean Air and Drinking Water Issues

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Date: March 24, 1998
Creator: McCarthy, James E. & Tiemann, Mary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid: Recent Trends in Beneficiaries and Spending (open access)

Medicaid: Recent Trends in Beneficiaries and Spending

This report discusses medicaid and recent trend is beneficiaries and spending.
Date: March 27, 1992
Creator: King, Kathleen; Rimkunas, Richard & Nuschler, Dawn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry

The Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry was created by President Clinton to "advise the President on changes occurring in the health care system and recommend such measures as may be necessary to promote and assure health care quality and value, and protect consumers and workers in the health care system."
Date: March 13, 1998
Creator: President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child care : the need for federal-state-local coordination (open access)

Child care : the need for federal-state-local coordination

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses child care and the need for federal-state-local coordination.
Date: March 1994
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characteristics of federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments : grants funded FY 1991 (open access)

Characteristics of federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments : grants funded FY 1991

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses characteristics of federal grant-in-aid programs to state and local governments.
Date: March 1992
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
State laws governing local government structure and administration (open access)

State laws governing local government structure and administration

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses state laws governing local government structure and administration.
Date: March 1993
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax and expenditure limits on local governments (open access)

Tax and expenditure limits on local governments

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses tax and expenditure limits on local governments.
Date: March 1995
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The role of federal mandates in intergovernmental relations : a preliminary ACIR report for public review and comment. (open access)

The role of federal mandates in intergovernmental relations : a preliminary ACIR report for public review and comment.

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses the role of federal mandates.
Date: March 26, 1996
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Local revenue diversification : rural economies (open access)

Local revenue diversification : rural economies

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses local revenue diversification.
Date: March 1990
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 5, No. 5, Pages 1093 to 1572, February 26 - March 9, 1990 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 5, No. 5, Pages 1093 to 1572, February 26 - March 9, 1990

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: March 1990
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 5, No. 6, Pages 1573 to 1878, March 12 - March 23, 1990 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 5, No. 6, Pages 1573 to 1878, March 12 - March 23, 1990

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: March 1990
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 6, No. 5, Pages 1217 to 1447, February 25 - March 8, 1991 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 6, No. 5, Pages 1217 to 1447, February 25 - March 8, 1991

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: March 1991
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library