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Department of Energy: Views on the Progress of the National Nuclear Security Administration in Implementing Title 32

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO discusses the progress the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has made in implementing title 32 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000. Title 32 established NNSA as a semiautonomous agency within the Department of Energy (DOE) with responsibility for the nation's nuclear weapons, nonproliferation, and naval reactors programs. GAO found that the agency is making progress in im… more
Date: April 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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U.S. Postal Service: Transformation Challenges Present Significant Risks

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the challenges facing the U.S. Postal Service. Overall the Service faces major challenges that collectively call for a structural transformation if it is to remain viable in the 21st century. The Service's financial outlook has worsened, and it is not clear how the Service will address its mounting financial difficulties and other challenges. These challenges include (1) reduced net income, … more
Date: April 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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VA Information Technology: Important Initiatives Begun, Yet Serious Vulnerabilities Persist

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Although the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) has taken actions to improve many of its information technology (IT) management processes, it continues to face substantive challenges that, if left incomplete, could disrupt existing progress and threaten the viability of its existing and future IT spending. VA has yet to fill its full-time department chief information officer vacancy since the position's creation t… more
Date: April 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Bureau of Reclamation: Water Marketing Activities and Costs at the Central Valley Project

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses the water marketing activities of the Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project and their associated costs. Water marketing costs have risen significantly since 1989, but GAO found no evidence that the costs were associated with activities other than normal operation and maintenance activities that are recoverable from water customers under applicable law. GAO reviewed the informatio… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Department of Veterans Affairs: Improved Measures Needed to Assess Supplemental Loan Servicing Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) Loan Guaranty Program, which guarantees mortgage loans for qualified lenders, provides additional assistance to those who face financial hardship and possible foreclosure. This report discusses VA's supplemental loan servicing program. GAO (1) assesses VA's implementation of its policies and procedures for servicing troubled loans and (2) analyzes VA's measures for ass… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Environmental Protection: Improved Inspections and Enforcement Would Better Ensure the Safety of Underground Storage Tanks

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The states and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot ensure that all active underground storage tanks have the required leak-, spill-, and overfill-protection equipment installed, nor can they guarantee that the installed equipment is being properly operated and maintained. Although the states and EPA regions focus most of their limited resources on monitoring active tanks, empty or inactive tanks c… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Government Auditing Standards: Independence (Exposure Draft)

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO presented an exposure draft of the its revised government auditing standards to audit officials and others interested in government auditing standards, which summarized proposed changes to financial auditing standards."
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Immigration Benefits: Several Factors Impede Timeliness of Application Processing

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress, the media, and immigrant advocacy groups have criticized the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for its inability to provide immigrants with timely decisions on their applications for such benefits as naturalization and legal permanent residence. INS continues to experience significant problems managing its application workload despite years of increasing budgets and staff. Automation impr… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Wetlands Protection: Assessments Needed to Determine Effectiveness of In-Lieu-Fee Mitigation

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "More than half the estimated 220 million acres of marshes, bogs, swamps, and other wetlands in the United States during the colonial times, have disappeared, and others have become degraded. This decline is due, primarily, to farming and development. Developers whose projects may harm wetlands must, according to environmental regulations, first avoid and then minimize adverse impacts to wetlands to the extent … more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Workers' Compensation: Action Needed to Reduce Payment Errors in SSA Disability and Other Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses how workers' compensation (WC) benefits affect benefit programs run by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and other agencies. GAO (1) examines the effects of WC benefits on SSA programs, focusing on SSA's progress in administering the WC offset provision; (2) discusses other federal programs whose benefit payments are also affected by WC benefits; and (3) discusses ways to address f… more
Date: May 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Federal Research and Development: Contributions to and Results of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Research and development are major factors in the growth and progress of industry and the national economy. However, basic research done by the nation's research institutions--universities and colleges, federal laboratories, and nonprofit research centers--may not translate into marketable technologies. To link the ideas and resources of the research institutions with the commercialization experience of small b… more
Date: June 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Information Technology: DLA Should Strengthen Business Systems Modernization Architecture and Investment Activities

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) plays a critical role in supporting America's military forces worldwide. DLA employs about 28,000 civilian and military workers at about 500 sites in all 50 states and 28 countries; in round numbers, it manages 4 million supply items and processes 30 million annual supply distribution actions. This report reviews DLA's efficiency and effectiveness in managing it is Business S… more
Date: June 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Elections: Voting Assistance to Military and Overseas Citizens Should Be Improved

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The narrow margin of victory in the 2000 presidential election aroused concern about the reliability of voting machines; the training of polling place workers; and the extent to which local jurisdictions accepted ballots from members of the military, their dependents, or citizens living abroad. The Federal Voting Assistance program developed several useful tools for voters and Voting Assistance Officers, but … more
Date: September 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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GAO: Making a Difference for Congress and the Nation; Join Us

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This is an insert to GAO's publication, Serving the Congress and the Nation, describing the agency mission, work environment, and career opportunities at GAO."
Date: September 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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GAO: Making a Difference for Congress and the Nation; Professional Development Program

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This is an insert to GAO's publication, Serving the Congress and the Nation, describing the role, functions, and responsibilities of GAO's Professional Development Program team."
Date: September 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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GAO: Making a Difference for Congress and the Nation; Strategic Plan Framework

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This is an insert to GAO's publication, Serving the Congress and the Nation, describing the goals, functions, and responsibilities of GAO's Strategic Plan framework."
Date: September 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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2000 Census: Better Productivity Data Needed for Future Planning and Budgeting

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Nonresponse follow-up was the most expensive and labor-intensive of all Census 2000 operations. The Census Bureau spent $1.2 billion and used more than 500,000 enumerators to obtain census information from 42 million nonresponding households in less than 10 weeks. Because of this colossal workload, even small variations in productivity had significant cost implications. Workload and enumerator productivity hav… more
Date: October 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Human Capital: Attracting and Retaining a High-Quality Information Technology Workforce

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Federal agencies face few tasks more critical than attracting, retaining, and motivating people. As our society has moved from the industrial age to the knowledge age, the success or failure of federal agencies can depend on having the right number of people with the right mix of knowledge and skills. This is especially true in the information technology (IT) area, where widespread shortfalls in human capital have u… more
Date: October 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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National Parks: Significant Progress Made in Preserving the Presidio and Attaining Financial Self-Sufficiency

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Presidio Trust--a wholly owned government corporation--was created in 1996 to manage a large part of the Presidio grounds using sound principles of land use planning and management while maintaining the area's scenic beauty and historic and natural character. The Trust is responsible for leasing, maintaining, rehabilitating, repairing, and improving the property it controls. The Trust must become financial… more
Date: October 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Workforce Investment Act: Better Guidance Needed to Address Concerns Over New Requirements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "A competitive national economy depends on providing individuals with marketable skills and employers with access to qualified workers. In the past, the nation's job training system was fragmented and did not serve job seekers or employers well. The Workforce Investment Act in 1998 created a system that links employment, education, and training services to better match workers and labor market trends. The act r… more
Date: October 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Workforce Investment Act: New Requirements Create Need for More Guidance

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Workforce Investment Act was passed in 1998 to unify a fragmented employment and training system. The act sought to change the workforce development system by streamlining the delivery of employment and training services, enabling job seekers to make informed choices among training providers and course offerings and enhancing the private-sector role. During the early stages of the act's implementation, state and… more
Date: October 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Food Assistance: WIC Faces Challenges in Providing Nutrition Services

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) serves almost half of all infants and about one-quarter of all children between one and four years of age in the United States. The WIC program faces the following challenges: (1) coordinating its nutrition services with health and welfare programs undergoing considerable change, (2) responding to health and demographic changes i… more
Date: December 4, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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