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Financial Management: Information on Agencies' Fiscal Years 1997 and 1998 FFMIA Remediation Plans

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on agencies' fiscal years 1997 and 1998 Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA) remediation plans."
Date: January 27, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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VA Student Financial Aid: Potential Effect of Providing Education Tax Benefit Eligibility to Students Receiving VA Assistance

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the eligibility for education tax benefits for students receiving financial assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), focusing on: (1) the major differences between VA's process of approving courses of study and the Department of Education's process of certifying schools; and (2) the number of VA students and schools that could be a… more
Date: January 27, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Leadership and Partnerships Result in Limited Rollover Disruptions

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the change of century rollover, focusing on: (1) the reporting structure established by the government to obtain information on year 2000-related failures during the rollover period; (2) examples of year 2000 errors and their resolution; and (3) lessons from the year 2000 effort that can be carried forward to improve the management of information technology activiti… more
Date: January 27, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Nuclear Weapons: Challenges Remain for Successful Implementation of DOE's Tritium Supply Decision

Description: 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) decision to select a commercial reactor for the production of tritium and to designate an accelerator to function as a backup, focusing on: (1) whether the cost estimates used by the Secretary of Energy during the process of selecting between the tritium production technology options were comparable and adequately… more
Date: January 28, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Superfund: Analysis of Costs at Five Superfund Sites

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO analyzed the costs of operating five Superfund cleanup sites, focusing on: (1) what portion of the total funds the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spent on each site was used to pay contractors for remedial actions as opposed to other activities and how the contractors spent these funds; and (2) whether the actual cost for remedial actions differed from the estima… more
Date: January 28, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Veterans' Benefits: Independent Review Could Improve Credibility of Radiation Exposure Estimates

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) use of "radiation dose reconstruction" as a tool for determining veterans' eligibility for benefits, focusing on: (1) studies that assessed the validity of dose reconstruction for estimating veterans' radiation exposure and discussing the issue with experts in the field and other knowledgeable individuals; (2) what activities a… more
Date: January 28, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Human Capital: Key Principles From Nine Private Sector Organizations

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO identified the private sector's key principles for strategically and effectively managing their human capital to provide federal agencies with information and examples to help them improve their human capital management."
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Medicare Subvention Demonstration: Enrollment in DOD Pilot Reflects Retiree Experiences and Local Markets

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on enrollment in the Department of Defense's (DOD) pilot Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO) for military retirees, focusing on: (1) how successful the demonstration has been in enrolling eligible beneficiaries; (2) what influenced retirees to join DOD's pilot HMOs; and (3) what factors accounted for differences in enrollment rates acro… more
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Occupational Safety and Health: Federal Agencies Identified as Promoting Workplace Safety and Health

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the federal agencies who regulate workplace safety and health, focusing on the: (1) key federal agencies responsible for promoting workplace safety and health, specifically on those that have regulatory and enforcement authority or otherwise significantly assist in the enforcement process; and (2) federal laws and regulations that serve as the bas… more
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Postal Issues: The Department of State's Implementation of Its International Postal Responsibilities

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed how the Department of State has implemented its new responsibilities for U.S. policy regarding U.S. participation in the Universal Postal Union (UPU)."
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Telecommunications: Update on State-Level Cramming Complaints and Enforcement Actions

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information from state and federal agencies on the number of cramming complaints nationwide, focusing on: (1) determining whether they were seeing an increase or decrease in cramming complaints during 1999; (2) learning whether they were taking additional actions to protect consumers from cramming; and (3) obtaining updated information about their enforcement a… more
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Adverse Drug Events: Substantial Problem but Magnitude Uncertain

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its report on adverse drug events (ADE), focusing on the: (1) different types and causes of ADEs; (2) evidence on the overall incidence and cost of ADEs in the United States; and (3) measures that have been proposed to reduce the number and severity of ADEs."
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Budget Issues: Effective Oversight and Budget Discipline Are Essential--Even in a Time of Surplus

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed selected performance challenges within federal agencies and programs and possible changes to congressional oversight models to help address such problems, focusing on: (1) the federal services that could be better provided by the private sector; (2) the federal subsidies to individuals, business, or states and local governments are no longer needed or are poorly tar… more
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Consumer Price Index: Update of Boskin Commission's Estimate of Bias

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index's (CPI) updated estimate of CPI bias, focusing on the: (1) methodological changes the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) made to the CPI since December 1996, when the Advisory Commission (also referred to as the Boskin Commission) issued its final report; and (2) opinions of the five former … more
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Core Financial System Requirements: Checklist for Reviewing Systems Under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (Superseded by GAO-05-225G)

Description: Guidance issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This publication has been superseded by GAO-05-225G, Core Financial System Requirements: Checklist for Reviewing Systems under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act, February 2005. GAO published a guide to assist agencies and internal auditors in maintaining their financial management systems in compliance with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996."
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comments on the National Plan for Information Systems Protection

Description: A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the National Plan for Information Systems Protection, focusing on: (1) a detailed overview of the plan; (2) opportunities for sharpening the plan's proposals for improving the federal government's security programs; and (3) the challenges facing the government in building the public-private partnerships necessary for comprehensive infrastructure protecti… more
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Pork Industry: Trade Barriers and Other Factors Limit Federal Programs' Potential to Increase Exports

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the effects that the U.S. cargo preference law and federal export assistance programs have on the pork export industry, focusing on the: (1) extent to which other countries' trade practices and the U.S. cargo preference law are impediments to exporting more pork products; (2) extent to which existing federal programs could be used to increase the export of pork… more
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Social Security Reform: Evaluation of the Gramm Proposal

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the potential budgetary and economic effects of Senator Phil Gramm's social security reform proposal, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the proposal achieves sustainable solvency and how it would affect the economy and federal budget; (2) the balance struck between the twin goals of income adequacy and individual equity; and (3) how readily suc… more
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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VA Systems Security: Information System Controls at the North Texas Health Care System

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the weaknesses of the North Texas Health Care System's (NTHCS) information system general controls and the status of corrective actions taken to mitigate these weaknesses."
Date: February 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Department of the Navy: Breakdown of In-Transit Inventory Process Leaves It Vulnerable to Fraud

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO followed up on its previous report on the Navy's in-transit inventory management system, focusing on: (1) determining what happened to the 34 shipments the Navy could not account for; (2) confirming that the Navy actually had receipt information for the 45 shipments that it could not account for in the previous report; and (3) Navy initiatives that address some of the s… more
Date: February 2, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Gulf War Illnesses: Basic Questions Unanswered

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the expenditures by the Departments of Defense (DOD), Veterans Affairs (VA), and Health and Human Services (HHS) on Gulf War veterans' illnesses, focusing on the : (1) amount of money that these three departments spent in fiscal years 1997 and 1998 on research and investigation into Gulf War veterans' illnesses and health concerns; (2) results of the research and in… more
Date: February 2, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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IRS Restructuring Act: Implementation Under Way but Agency Modernization Important to Success

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) progress in implementing the taxpayer rights and protection mandates of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 and IRS' ongoing efforts to modernize its organizational structure, performance management system, and information systems."
Date: February 2, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges in Modernizing the Agency

Description: A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the challenges the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) faces in continuing to provide for the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic in U.S. airspace, focusing on the: (1) key areas that have hampered FAA's ability to achieve desired outcomes; (2) various proposals for restructuring FAA; and (3) next steps for FAA and Congress to take to en… more
Date: February 3, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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