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Single-Use Medical Devices: Little Available Evidence of Harm From Reuse, but Oversight Warranted

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the practice of single-use device (SUD) reprocessing in the United States, focusing on the: (1) extent of SUD reprocessing; (2) health risks associated SUD with reprocessing; (3) cost savings from reprocessing; and (4) Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) oversight of SUD reprocessing."
Date: June 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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World Trade Organization: U.S. Experience in Dispute Settlement System: The First Five Years

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the World Trade Organization's (WTO) dispute settlement system, focusing on: (1) how WTO members have used the new dispute settlement system; and (2) the impact of these cases on foreign trade practices and U.S. laws and regulations, and their overall commercial effects."
Date: June 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Child Welfare: New Financing and Service Strategies Hold Promise, but Effects Unknown

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the progress made by states and localities as they develop new financing, service-delivery, and accountability strategies for child welfare programs, focusing on: (1) the financial and service-delivery changes states and localities have made in their managed care initiatives; (2) how they are measuring the initiatives' outcomes; and (3) what is known about the effec… more
Date: July 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Congressional Oversight: Challenges for the 21st Century

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the importance of congressional oversight and the challenges that face the 21st century."
Date: July 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Global Health: Framework for Infectious Disease Surveillance

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the global infectious disease surveillance framework, (with particular emphasis on its operations in developing countries), focusing on: (1) functions involved in infectious disease surveillance and response framework."
Date: July 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Information Technology Management: Small Business Administration Needs Policies and Procedures to Control Key IT Processes

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Small Business Administration's (SBA) management of information technology (IT), focusing on five key areas: (1) investment management; (2) architecture; (3) software development and acquisition; (4) information security; and (5) human capital management."
Date: July 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Managing for Results: Continuing Challenges to Effective GPRA Implementation

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993, focusing on: (1) how the present phase of GPRA implementation will assist Congressional oversight and decisionmaking; and (2) the steps needed to maximize the usefulness of GPRA for Congress and the executive branch."
Date: July 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Small Business Administration: Steps Taken to Better Manage Its Human Capital, but More Needs to Be Done

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Small Business Administration's (SBA) efforts to identify its current and future workforce needs, budget for them and manage them strategically."
Date: July 20, 2000
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Small Business: SBA Could Better Focus Its 8(a) Program to Help Firms Obtain Contracts

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Small Business Administration's (SBA) 8(a) program's progress in developing small businesses that are owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, focusing on: (1) the extent to which firms are obtaining federal contracts; (2) how SBA tracks the training and assistance provided to firms; and (3) how firms view the program."
Date: July 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: Additional Water Quality Projects May Be Needed and Could Increase Costs

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Army Corps of Engineers' Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, focusing on: (1) the role of the Corps' Plan in addressing the major water quality concerns in Florida's ecosystem; and (2) modifications that may be needed as the Corps implements the Plan after it has been authorized by Congress."
Date: September 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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District of Columbia: Adolescent AIDS Prevention Program

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the District of Columbia's (D.C.) Adolescent Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Prevention Program, focusing on: (1) statistics on the specific schools that are participating in this program; (2) how the schools were selected to participate in the program; (3) the source and amount of funding identified in the D.C. government budget; (4) statistics on sex… more
Date: September 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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DOD Personnel: More Accurate Estimate of Overdue Security Clearance Reinvestigations Is Needed

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Department of Defense's (DOD) backlog of overdue personnel security reinvestigations, focusing on: (1) how DOD estimates estimates the backlog; (2) the soundness of DOD's backlog estimates; and (3) DOD's plans to address the backlog problem."
Date: September 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Federal Communications Commission: Installment Payment Financing for Personal Communications Services (PCS) Licensees

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) new rule on installment payment financing for Personal Communications Services (PCS) licensees. GAO noted that: (1) the rule would modify the FCC's rules that will apply to Auction No. 35, the next broadband PCS C and F block auction, as well as any subsequent auctions of C and F licenses, including any spec… more
Date: September 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Food Safety: Overview of Food Safety and Inspection Service and Food and Drug Administration Expenditures

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed food safety expenditures by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), focusing on: (1) the amount of resources available to FSIS and FDA for food safety activities; (2) how these resources were expended by the agencies; and (3) how much the states, territories, and District of Columbia expended on food safety activitie… more
Date: September 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Regulatory Flexibility Act: Implementation in EPA Program Offices and Proposed Lead Rule

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances' (OPPTS) implementation of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), focusing on the: (1) guidance that OPPTS and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) three other major program offices have used during the past 10 years to determine whether their proposed rules could be certified as not having a signi… more
Date: September 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Securities Pricing: Trading Volumes and NASD System Limitations Led to Decimal-Trading Delay

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the progress that the securities industry has made toward the implementation of decimal pricing for U.S. stocks, focusing on: (1) what were the specific reasons that the Nasdaq market was not ready for the July 3, 2000, implementation date and how the National Association of Securities Dealers', Inc. (NASD) decimal-trading preparations compared with those of th… more
Date: September 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Title I Preschool Education: More Children Served, but Gauging Effect on School Readiness Difficult

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 Elementary and Secondary Education Act's Title I program for preschool education, focusing on: (1) the extent to which title I funds are used to support education or developmentally appropriate activities for preschool children, aged birth to 5 years; and (2) what is known about the effectiveness of title I-funded programs for preschool child… more
Date: September 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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The Challenge of Data Sharing: Results of a GAO-Sponsored Symposium on Benefit and Loan Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Data sharing among federal agencies that run federal benefit and loan programs is important for determining the eligibility of applicants and beneficiaries. A GAO symposium on data sharing highlighted various issues facing federal agencies in their efforts to prevent abuse of federal programs. Symposium speakers focused on the number of program dollars saved by interagency data exchanges. Agencies using comput… more
Date: October 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Hazardous Waste: Effect of Proposed Rule's Extra Cleanup Requirements Is Uncertain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed several amendments to its 1993 Corrective Action Management Unit (CAMU) rule. The CAMU rule currently allows agencies to set aside part of their hazardous waste site to deposit wastes without triggering the requirements of the Recovery Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). EPA's action is in response to a lawsuit alleging that the CAMU rule would allow for the… more
Date: October 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Immigration Benefits: Fourth Report Required by the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 authorizes Haitian nationals and their dependents to apply to change their status to legal permanent residence. This report, the fourth done in response to the act, contains a breakdown on the numbers of Haitians who applied and the number who were approved as asylum applicants, parolees, children without parents, orphaned children, abandoned children, or as … more
Date: October 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Internet Privacy: Federal Agency Use of Cookies

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "A cookie is a short string of text, not a program, that is sent from a web server to a web browser when the browser accesses a web page. GAO reviewed 65 federal web sites to determine: (1) which of the selected federal sites were using cookies, (2) the type of cookies used, and (3) whether the privacy policy disclosed that the site may or does use cookies."
Date: October 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Managing for Results: Federal Managers' Views Show Need for Ensuring Top Leadership Skills

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Through the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), Congress has sought to improve federal management and instill a greater focus on results. Congress and the executive branch recognize, however, that performance improvements do not take place merely because a set of management requirements has been put in place. In 1997 and 2000, GAO surveyed agencies' progress towards establishing a focus on results. … more
Date: October 20, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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