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National Gambling Impact Study Commission: Selected Operational Practices

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed selected operational practices of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC), focusing on: (1) whether NGISC is subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and, if so, whether NGISC followed FACA with respect to three specific meetings; (2) what contracting procedures were used in NGISC's award of three major contracts; (3) why NGISC contrac… more
Date: April 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Agent Orange: Actions Needed to Improve Communications of Air Force Ranch Hand Study Data and Results

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the conduct and findings of the Air Force's Ranch Hand study on the long-term health effects of exposure to herbicides, such as Agent Orange, in Vietnam, and assessed the study's impact on determinations of veterans' compensation, focusing on: (1) whether the study's findings and data have been properly and promptly reported and disseminated; (2) the statistica… more
Date: December 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Agency Performance Plans: Examples of Practices That Can Improve Usefulness to Decisionmakers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) identified and described practices that were applied in some federal agencies' 1999 performance plans that might, if consistently applied, improve the usefulness of all agencies' annual performance plans; and (2) provided examples from agencies' fiscal year 1999 performance plans that illustrate each practice."
Date: February 26, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Inspectors General: Views on Semiannual Reporting

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the semiannual reporting requirements contained in the Inspector General (IG) Act of 1978, focusing on the: (1) composition of the semiannual reports; and (2) views of a range of individuals--IGs, agency managers, and congressional staff--on the usefulness of the reports and what modifications, if any, should be made to the semiannual reporting requirements."
Date: August 25, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Illegal Aliens: Significant Obstacles to Reducing Unauthorized Alien Employment Exist

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) enforcement of workplace immigration laws."
Date: July 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security and Minorities: Current Benefits and Implications of Reform

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed minorities and Social Security, focusing on: (1) how minorities currently fare under social security; (2) how they might be affected by some of the proposed changes in benefits to restore the program's solvency; and (3) how minorities might fare under a system restructured to include individual accounts."
Date: February 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Reform: Administrative Costs for Individual Accounts Depend on System Design

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the costs of administering individual social security accounts and their effect on account accumulations and benefits, focusing on: (1) the factors that influence administrative costs; (2) the estimates that are available for administrative costs associated with individual accounts; and (3) how administrative costs might affect the accumulation of savings in in… more
Date: June 18, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Managers in the Federal Government

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on establishing core competencies for financial managers in the federal government. This document highlights the knowledge, skills, and abilities that financial managers should develop in order to perform their functions effectively."
Date: October 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Illegal Aliens: Significant Obstacles to Reducing Unauthorized Alien Employment Exist

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Attorney General's strategy for enforcing workplace immigration laws, focusing on: (1) the effectiveness of the employment verification process in preventing employers from hiring unauthorized aliens; (2) the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) efforts to improve the employment verification process; (3) the level of effort INS and the Departmen… more
Date: April 2, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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