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Homeland Security: Voluntary Initiatives Are Under Way at Chemical Facilities, but the Extent of Security Preparedness Is Unknown

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The events of September 11, 2001, triggered a national re-examination of the security of thousands of industrial facilities that use or store hazardous chemicals in quantities that could potentially put large numbers of Americans at risk of serious injury or death in the event of a terrorist-caused chemical release. GAO was asked to examine (1) available information on the threats and risks from terrorism fac… more
Date: March 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Law Enforcement: Better Performance Measures Needed to Assess Results of Justice's Office of Science and Technology

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The mission of the Office of Science & Technology (OST), within the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ), is to improve the safety and effectiveness of technology used by federal, state, and local law enforcement and other public safety agencies. Through NIJ, OST funds programs in forensic sciences, crime prevention, and standards and testing. To support these programs, Congress increase… more
Date: November 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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GAO Performance and Accountability Report, 2003

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Presented is GAO's performance and accountability report for fiscal year 2003. In the spirit of the Government Performance and Results Act, this annual report informs the Congress and the American people about what we have achieved on their behalf. Importantly, GAO received a clean opinion from independent auditors on our financial statements for the 17th consecutive year. The financial information and t… more
Date: November 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Tactical Aircraft: DOD Should Reconsider Decision to Increase F/A-22 Production Rates While Development Risks Continue

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Air Force is developing the F/A-22 aircraft to fly at higher speeds for longer distances, be less detectable, and improve the pilot's awareness of the surrounding situation. The F/A-22 will replace the Air Force's existing fleet of F-15 aircraft. Over the past several years the program has experienced significant cost overruns and schedule delays. Congress mandated that GAO assess the development program a… more
Date: March 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Federal Unemployment Taxes

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "We have performed the procedures contained in the enclosure to this report, which we agreed to perform, solely to assist the Department of Labor in ascertaining whether the net federal unemployment tax (FUTA) revenue distributed to the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, is supported by the underlying records. As agreed with the Inspector General, we evaluated fiscal year… more
Date: November 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Military Aircraft: Observations on DOD's Aerial Refueling Aircraft Acquisition Options

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "During the Senate Armed Services Committee's September 4, 2003 hearing on the Department of Defense's (DOD) proposed lease of 100 Boeing KC-767A aerial refueling aircraft, Congress expressed concern about a significant "bow-wave" funding requirement in future years to pay for leasing and then buying these 100 aircraft at the end of their leases, while continuing efforts to modernize the remainder of the tanker … more
Date: October 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Homeland Security: EPA's Management of Clean Air Act Chemical Facility Data

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The events of September 11, 2001, triggered a national re-examination of the security of many of the nation's critical infrastructures. Following these events, government agencies have struggled to find the right balance between the public's "right to know" and the dangers of inappropriate public disclosure of sensitive information. Professional and trade groups representing critical infrastructure sectors incl… more
Date: March 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Information Security: Improvements Needed in Treasury's Security Management Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of the Treasury relies heavily on information systems--and on the public's trust in its work. Information security is therefore critical to Treasury operations. In support of its annual audit of the government's financial statements, GAO assessed the effectiveness of (1) Treasury's information security controls in protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the department's sy… more
Date: November 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Contracting for Information Technology Services

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Federal agencies spend billions of dollars annually acquiring information technology (IT) services from thousands of contractors using a variety of contracting methods. IT services include computer and telecommunication services, as well as the testing, quality control, installation, and operation of computer equipment. We (1) identified trends in federal spending for IT services from fiscal years 1997 to 2001 … more
Date: February 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Posthearing Questions from the September 9, 2003, Hearing on "Pornography, Technology, and Process: Problems and Solutions on Peer-to-Peer Networks"

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This letter responds a Congressional request that we provide answers to questions relating to our September 9, 2003, testimony. In that testimony, we discussed the availability of child pornography on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks."
Date: November 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Department of Energy: External Regulation Savings in Safety and Health Activities at DOE Science Laboratories

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Energy (DOE) is unusual among federal agencies in that it regulates and inspects its own facilities to protect the safety and health of its workers and of the communities surrounding its vast complex of research laboratories. With few exceptions, all other federal facilities must comply with national standards set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for nuclear safety and by the Occupat… more
Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Forest Service: Information on Decisions Involving Fuels Reduction Activities

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Human activities--especially the federal government's decades-old policy of suppressing all wildland fires--have resulted in dangerous accumulations of brush, small trees, and other vegetation on federal lands. This vegetation has increasingly provided fuel for large, intense wildland fires, particularly in the dry, interior western United States. The scale and intensity of the fires in the 2000 wildland fire s… more
Date: May 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Federal Bureau of Investigation's Comments on Recent GAO Report on its Enterprise Architecture Efforts

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "On September 25, 2003, we issued our report on efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to develop a corporate blueprint--commonly called an enterprise architecture--to guide and constrain its information technology (IT) systems modernization. (This report is available on GAO's Web site at www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-959.) We provided the FBI with a draft of this report on August 22, 2003, req… more
Date: November 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Medicaid and SCHIP: States Use Varying Approaches to Monitor Children's Access to Care

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Over 25 million children have health insurance coverage through Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Coverage alone, however, does not guarantee that services will be available or that children will receive needed care. GAO was asked to evaluate states' efforts to facilitate and monitor access to primary and preventive services for children in these jointly funded federal-state pr… more
Date: January 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Food-Processing Security: Voluntary Efforts Are Under Way, but Federal Agencies Cannot Fully Assess Their Implementation

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The events of September 11, 2001, have placed added emphasis on ensuring the security of the nation's food supply. GAO examined (1) whether FDA and USDA have sufficient authority under current statutes to require that food processors adopt security measures, (2) what security guidelines FDA and USDA have provided to industry, and (3) what security measures food processors have adopted."
Date: February 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Hospital Emergency Departments: Crowded Conditions Vary among Hospitals and Communities

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Hospital emergency departments are a major part of the nation's health care safety net. Emergency departments report being under increasing pressure, with the number of visits nationwide increasing from an estimated 95 million in 1997 to an estimated 108 million in 2000. GAO was asked to provide information on emergency department crowding, including the extent hospitals located in metropolitan areas are exper… more
Date: March 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Tax Administration: IRS and TIGTA Should Evaluate Their Processing of Employee Misconduct under Section 1203

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Section 1203 of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 outlines conditions for firing IRS employees for any of 10 acts of misconduct covering taxpayer and employee rights and tax return filing requirements. Both IRS and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) have responsibilities related to section 1203. Because of concerns that section 1203 may have a ch… more
Date: February 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: Long-Term Financing Risks to Single-Employer Insurance Program Highlight Need for Comprehensive Reform

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "More than 34 million workers and retirees in 30,000 single-employer defined benefit pension plans rely on a federal insurance program managed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to protect their pension benefits, and the program's long-term financial viability is in doubt. Over the last decade, the program swung from a $3.6 billion accumulated deficit (liabilities exceeded assets), to a $10.1 billion … more
Date: October 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Results-Oriented Cultures: Creating a Clear Linkage between Individual Performance and Organizational Success

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government is in a period of profound transition and faces an array of challenges and opportunities to enhance performance, ensure accountability, and position the nation for the future. High-performing organizations have found that to successfully transform themselves, they must often fundamentally change their cultures so that they are more results-oriented, customer-focused, and collaborative in… more
Date: March 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Vehicle Donations: Benefits to Charities and Donors, but Limited Program Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Donating a vehicle to charity enables a donor to support a charitable cause, dispose of an unwanted vehicle, and receive a tax benefit. More charities are turning to vehicle donation programs as a means for raising funds. As a result, our objectives were to: (1) determine the number of charities with vehicle donation programs, and the number of taxpayers claiming deductions for vehicle donations; (2) compare t… more
Date: November 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Workforce Training: Employed Worker Programs Focus on Business Needs, but Revised Performance Measures Could Improve Access for Some Workers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Although training for employed workers is largely the responsibility of employers and individuals, the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) allowed state and local entities to use federal funds for training employed workers. Similarly, welfare reform legislation created Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grants and gave states greater flexibility to design training services for TANF clients to help… more
Date: February 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Financial Management: Effective Implementation of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 Is Key to Reducing the Government's Improper Payments

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Subcommittee on Government Efficiency and Financial Management, House Committee on Government Reform asked GAO to testify on the implementation of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (PL 107-300) and related Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance, and on GAO's strategies to reduce improper payments."
Date: July 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Hazardous Materials: EPA's Cleanup of Asbestos in Libby, Montana, and Related Actions to Address Asbestos-Contaminated Materials

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Between 1979 and 1998, the number of deaths in Libby, Montana from asbestosis--a lung disease that progressively restricts breathing and can be fatal--was 40 to 80 times higher than the average for the United States. Vermiculite ore--containing high concentrations of asbestos--was mined at Libby between 1923 and 1990, and accounted for most of the world's vermiculite. Mining, processing, or any disturbance of … more
Date: April 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Civil Penalties: Agencies Unable to Fully Adjust Penalties for Inflation Under Current Law

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Civil penalties are an important element of regulatory enforcement, allowing agencies to punish violators appropriately and to serve as a deterrent to future violations. In 1996, Congress enacted the Inflation Adjustment Act to require agencies to adjust certain penalties for inflation. GAO assessed federal agencies' compliance with the act and whether provisions in the act have prevented agencies from keeping… more
Date: March 14, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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