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Veterans' Benefits Claims: Further Improvements Needed in Claims-Processing Accuracy

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) regional offices' (RO) accuracy in processing disability claims, focusing on: (1) the extent of improvements made by the Systematic Technical Accuracy Review (STAR) system in measuring claims-processing accuracy; (2) additional efforts needed to strengthen the system; and (3) challenges the Veterans Benefits Administrati… more
Date: March 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Financial Audit: American Battle Monuments Commission's Financial Statements for Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO audited the financial statements of the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) for fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 1998, and 1997. To help fulfill these responsibilities, GAO contracted with KPMG LLP, and independent certified public accounting firm."
Date: March 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Military Housing: Costs of Separate Barracks for Male and Female Recruits in Basic Training

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO determined each military service's costs if required to provide housing for male and female recruits during basic training in separate structures. GAO also: (1) obtained the services' views on housing male and female recruits in separate barracks; and (2) reviewed the services' compliance with the act's requirement to provide separate and secure areas for male and fem… more
Date: March 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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GPHS motion studies for heat pulse intervals of reentries from gravity-assist trajectories. [General Purpose Heat Source Module (GPHS)]

Description: Motion studies of the General Purpose Heat Source Module, GPHS, were conducted in the heat pulse interval associated with entries from earth gravity assist trajectories. The APL six-degree-of-freedom reentry program designated TMAGRA6C was used. The objectives of the studies were to (1) determine the effect of ablation on GPHS motion, and (2) determine whether the GPHS module entering the earth's atmosphere from an earth-gravity-assist trajectory has a preferred orientation during the heat puls… more
Date: March 1, 1990
Creator: Lucero, E. F. & Sharbaugh, R. C.
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Integration of the geological/engineering model with production performance for Patrick Draw Field, Wyoming

Description: The NIPER Reservoir Assessment and Characterization Research Program incorporates elements of the near-term, mid-term and long-term objectives of the National Energy Strategy-Advanced Oil Recovery Program. The interdisciplinary NIPER team focuses on barrier island reservoirs, a high priority class of reservoirs, that contains large amounts of remaining oil in place located in mature fields with a high number of shut-in and abandoned wells. The project objectives are to: (1) identify heterogenei… more
Date: March 1, 1993
Creator: Jackson, S.
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Engineering Solutions to the Long-Term Stabilization and Isolation of Uranium Mill Tailings in the United States

Description: Engineering solutions to the safe and environmentally protective disposal and isolation of uranium mill tailings in the US include many factors. Cover design, materials selection, civil engineering, erosive forces, and cost effectiveness are only a few of those factors described in this paper. The systems approach to the engineering solutions employed in the US is described, with emphasis on the standards prescribed for the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project. Stabilization and isolat… more
Date: March 1, 1995
Creator: Sanders, Donald R. & Lommler, John C.
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Gunnison, Colorado, Subpile Study Report

Description: To protect human health and the environment, the UMTRA project will remediate the uranium mill tailings site at Gunnison, Colorado. There are explicit requirements (i.e., 40 Part CFR Part 192) for the surface remediation of radiologically contaminated soils on UMTRA sites. The removal of subpile sediment to the depth required by 40 CFR Part 192 will leave in place deeper foundation sediment that is contaminated with hazardous constituents other than radium-226 and thorium-230. The Department of… more
Date: March 1, 1994
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Long-Term Surveillance Plan for the Bodo Canyon Disposal Site, Durango, Colorado

Description: This long-term surveillance plan (LTSP) for the Durango, Colorado, Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project disposal site describes the surveillance activities for the Durango (Bodo Canyon) disposal site, which will be referred to as the disposal site throughout this document. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will carry out these activities to ensure that the disposal site continues to function as designed. This LTSP was prepared as a requirement for acceptance under the US Nuclea… more
Date: March 1, 1994
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GPHS motion studies for heat pulse intervals of reentries from gravity-assist trajectories. Aerospace Nuclear Safety Program

Description: Motion studies of the General Purpose Heat Source Module, GPHS, were conducted in the heat pulse interval associated with entries from earth gravity assist trajectories. The APL six-degree-of-freedom reentry program designated TMAGRA6C was used. The objectives of the studies were to (1) determine the effect of ablation on GPHS motion, and (2) determine whether the GPHS module entering the earth`s atmosphere from an earth-gravity-assist trajectory has a preferred orientation during the heat puls… more
Date: March 1, 1990
Creator: Lucero, E. F. & Sharbaugh, R. C.
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Financial Audit: IRS' Fiscal Year 1998 Financial Statements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO examined the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) financial statements for the fiscal year (FY) ending September 30, 1998."
Date: March 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Spray combustion modeling. Final report

Description: Concern over the future availability of high quality liquid fuels or use in furnaces and boilers prompted the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) to consider alternate fuels as replacements for the high grade liquid fuels used in the 1970`s and 1980`s. Alternate fuels were defined to be combinations of a large percentage of viscous, low volatility fuels resulting from the low end of distillation mixed with a small percentage of relatively low viscosity, high volatility fuels yielded by the high en… more
Date: March 1, 1997
Creator: Bellan, J.
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New vision solar system mission study. Final report

Description: The vision for the future of the planetary exploration program includes the capability to deliver {open_quotes}constellations{close_quotes} or {open_quotes}fleets{close_quotes} of microspacecraft to a planetary destination. These fleets will act in a coordinated manner to gather science data from a variety of locations on or around the target body, thus providing detailed, global coverage without requiring development of a single large, complex and costly spacecraft. Such constellations of spac… more
Date: March 1, 1996
Creator: Mondt, J. F. & Zubrin, R. M.
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Performance Assessment of the Direct Disposal in Unsaturated Tuff of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste Owned by Usdoe: Volume 2: Methodology and Results

Description: This assessment studied the performance of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in a hypothetical repository in unsaturated tuff. The results of this 10-month study are intended to help guide the Office of Environment Management of the US Department of Energy (DOE) on how to prepare its wastes for eventual permanent disposal. The waste forms comprised spent fuel and high-level waste currently stored at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) and the Hanford reservations.… more
Date: March 1, 1995
Creator: Rechard, Rob P.
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