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Defense Infrastructure: Additional Information Is Needed to Better Explain the Proposed 100,000-Acre Expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2007, the Army announced that the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) had approved its request to expand its Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado, by acquiring up to an additional 418,577 acres. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 required the Army to address 29 provisions related to the expansion in a report to Congress. In July 2008, the Army reported that, although it … more
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Defense Infrastructure: Army's Approach for Acquiring Land Is Not Guided by Up-to-Date Strategic Plan or Always Communicated Effectively

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Recently, the Army forecast that it would experience a 4.5-million-acre training land shortfall by 2013 and proposed to purchase additional land adjacent to certain existing training ranges. In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Army's approach for acquiring training land. This report (1) evaluates the Army's approach to the acquisition of training land, (2) describes the Army's consi… more
Date: January 13, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Media Contracts: Activities and Financial Obligations for Seven Federal Departments

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government contracts with public relations firms, advertising agencies, media organizations, and individual members of the media to provide, among other things, messages about its programs and services. As we have reported, there is a lack of accurate governmentwide information on these contracts. Seven federal departments account for nearly all the obligated federal dollars for public relat… more
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Medicare: Payment Changes Are Needed for Assistants-at-Surgery

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Medicare pays for assistant-atsurgery services under both the hospital inpatient prospective payment system and the physician fee schedule. Payments under the physician fee schedule are limited to a few health professions. In 2001, Congress directed GAO to report on the potential impact on the Medicare program of allowing physician fee schedule payments to Certified Registered Nurse First Assistants for assist… more
Date: January 13, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Medicare: Sponsors' Management of the Prescription Drug Discount Card and Transitional Assistance Benefit

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) added a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, which became effective January 1, 2006. To assist Medicare beneficiaries with their prescription drug costs until the new benefit became available, the MMA also required the establishment of a temporary program, the Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card and Transi… more
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Military Base Closures: Updated Status of Prior Base Realignments and Closures

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As the Department of Defense (DOD) prepares for the 2005 base realignment and closure (BRAC) round, questions continue to be raised about the transfer and environmental cleanup of unneeded property arising from the prior four BRAC rounds and their impact on cost and savings and on local economies. This report, which is being issued to the defense authorization committees that have oversight responsibili… more
Date: January 13, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Public Service Announcement Campaigns: Activities and Financial Obligations for Seven Federal Departments

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Government-sponsored public service announcement (PSA) campaigns are prepackaged messages generally placed for free through various media to promote designated government activities, programs, or services. Although PSAs may be placed for free, PSA campaigns may still incur financial obligations for production. GAO was mandated to provide information about federal PSA campaign activities by a House Appro… more
Date: January 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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U.S. Coast Guard National Pollution Funds Center: Improvements Are Needed in Internal Control Over Disbursements

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund (Fund) is a $1 billion fund that has two major components: the Emergency Fund and the Principal Fund. The Emergency Fund is used for paying for federal removal actions and the initiation of natural resource damage assessments by designated federal, state, or Indian tribe officials, resulting from oil spills or the substantial threat of oil spills to the waters or shorelines of… more
Date: January 13, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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