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Embassy Construction: Better Long-term Planning Will Enhance Program Decision-making

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The State Department has determined that about 80 percent of overseas U.S. diplomatic facilities lack adequate security and may be vulnerable to terrorist attack. In September 1998, State expanded its capital construction program to accelerate replacing its most vulnerable embassies and consulates by acquiring sites and preparing plans at 10 priority locations. This report summarizes (1) the status of the 10 p… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Skilled Nursing Facilities: Services Excluded From Medicare's Daily Rate Need to be Reevaluated

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress and the Health Care Financing Administration recognized that certain services needed to be excluded from the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS) rate to help ensure beneficiary access to appropriate care and to financially protect the SNFs that take care of high-cost patients. The criteria used to identify services--high cost, infrequently provided during a SNF stay and lik… more
Date: August 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lyme Disease: HHS Programs and Resources

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have conducted an increasingly broad range of research and educational activities related to Lyme disease. CDC has instituted a system for the surveillance of Lyme disease, helped to standardize diagnostic testing, conducted and funded basic research on Lyme disease and on its prevention, and developed patient and … more
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Administration: Information Systems Could Improve Processing Attorney Fee Payments in Disability Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To ensure that people claiming disability insurance benefits can obtain legal representation at a fair price, the Social Security Act requires that the Social Security Administration (SSA) regulate the fees that attorneys charge people to represent their disability claims before the agency. Inefficiencies in the current process increase both the time it takes to pay the attorney fees and the costs of administr… more
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Protection: Wider Use of Advanced Technologies Can Improve Emissions Monitoring

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To protect human health and safeguard the environment,the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates pollution generated by sewage treatment plants, power generation plants, chemical manufacturers, and pulp and paper mills. Monitoring is a key component of these efforts. Many of the technologies that are now being used to monitor environmental conditions have been in existence for decades. In recent year… more
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Audit: U.S. Senate Gift Shop Revolving Fund's Fiscal Year 2000 Financial Statement

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO audited the fiscal year 2000 financial statement for the Senate Gift Shop Revolving Fund for fiscal year 2000. GAO found (1) the statement is presented fairly in all material respects; (2) although internal control should be improved, the Gift Shop had effective internal controls over financial reporting and compliance with laws and regulations; and (3) no reportable noncompliance with selected provisions … more
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Contract Management: Excess Payments and Underpayments Continue to Be a Problem at DOD

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the amount of excess payments and underpayments made by the Department of Defense (DOD) to its contractors during fiscal year 1999. The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)--Columbus Center, Ohio reports that contractors repaid $670 million in fiscal year 1999 and closer to a billion dollars--$901 million--in fiscal year 2000. The higher amount for fiscal year 2000 reflects the inclusion … more
Date: February 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Depot Maintenance: Key Financial Issues for Consolidations at Pearl Harbor and Elsewhere Are Still Unresolved

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 1998, the Navy consolidated the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and the Naval Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Hawaii. Because of concerns about some aspects of the consolidation, the Navy began a test project, commonly called the Pearl Harbor pilot, to determine if integrating the management, operations, and funding of the shipyard and the intermediate maintenance facility can result in greater efficiency… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Money Laundering: Oversight of Suspicious Activity Reporting at Bank-Affiliated Broker-Dealers Ceased

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) to determine how it might affect oversight to ensure the securities industry's compliance with anti-money laundering requirements. Specifically, GAO examined (1) how federal bank regulators were overseeing suspicious activity report (SAR) compliance for broker-dealers under their jurisdiction before and after GLBA and (2) what actions the Securities and Exchange C… more
Date: March 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS' Third Expenditure Plan

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report reviews the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) third expenditure plan for its systems modernization project. GAO found that the plan satisfied the conditions specified in Treasury's 1998 and 1999 appropriations acts and that IRS was making progress towards satisfying Congress' direction on the Custodial Accounting Project (CAP) and Security and Technology Infrastructure Release (STIR) Project. Althou… more
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Procurement: Better Guidance and Monitoring Needed to Assess Purchases of Environmentally Friendly Products

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government buys about $200 billion worth of goods and services each year. Through its purchasing decisions, the federal government can signal its commitment to preventing pollution, reducing solid waste, increasing recycling, and stimulating markets for environmentally friendly products. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to i… more
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Emergency Care: EMTALA Implementation and Enforcement Issues

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 1986, Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) in response to reports that some emergency rooms across the country had refused to treat indigent and uninsured patients or had inappropriately transferred them to other hospitals, a practice known as "patient dumping." EMTALA requires hospitals that participate in Medicare to provide a medical screening examination to any p… more
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Department of Transportation: Status of Achieving Key Outcomes and Addressing Major Management Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 requires agencies to produce annual performance reports. GAO reviewed the Department of Transportation's (DOT) performance reports for fiscal years 2000 and 2002 to assess its progress in achieving selected key outcomes in important mission areas. This report (1) assesses the progress DOT has made in accomplishing these outcomes and the strategies the agency h… more
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal and State Initiatives to Integrate Acute and Long-Term Care: Issues & Profiles

Description: This report discusses the efforts of the federal and state initiatives to integrate acute and long-term care, with a n eye toward providing Congress with the necessary information with which to consider future action in the area.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Miller, Edward Alan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Housing Issues in the 106th Congress

Description: This report summarizes current housing issues, cites legislative proposals, and in some cases, presents brief pro/con discussions.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: Bourdon, E. Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Economic Globalization and a Nuclear Renaissance

Description: The phenomenon of globalization has become increasingly well recognized, documented, and analyzed in the last several years. Globalization, the integration of markets and intra-firm competition on a worldwide basis, involves complex behavioral and mindset changes within a firm that facilitate global competition. The changes revolve around efficient information flow and rapid deployment of technology. The objective of this report is to examine the probable characteristics of a global nuclear ren… more
Date: October 22, 2001
Creator: Wood, Thomas W.; Johnson, Wayne L. & Parker, Brian M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Noise Performance of the Debuncher Stchastic Cooling Systems

Description: A careful measurement of the system noise performance for all 12 Debuncher stochastic cooling systems has been performed. The opportunity to make the measurement was due to a pickup tank warm up to fix a bad preamplifier. A HP power meter and spectrum analyzer were used to measure the noise power and spectral characteristics of each system. Signals were monitored in the tunnel at the medium level transfer switch, before any variable gain devices. Noise power levels observed ranged between -10 t… more
Date: March 22, 2001
Creator: Pasquinelli, Ralph J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Optimization of the 8 GeV AP3-P1 Lattice for Antiproton Transfers

Description: During 8 GeV antiproton transfers between the Accumulator to the Main Injector, the antiprotons must travel through four separate beam lines, AP3, AP1, P2, and P1. This note describes the optimization of a single lattice that describes these beam lines for 8 GeV antiproton transfers from the Accumulator to the Main Injector and 8 GeV proton transfers from the Main Injector to the Accumulator.
Date: January 22, 2001
Creator: McGinnis, Dave
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FEA Analysis of AP-0 Target Hall Collection Lens (Current Design)

Description: The AP-0 Target Hall Collection Lens is a pulsed device which focuses anti-protons just downstream of the Target. Since the angles at which the anti-protons depart the Target can be quite large, a very high focusing strength is required to maximize anti-proton capture into the downstream Debuncher Ring. The current design of the Collection Lens was designed to operate with a focusing gradient of 1,000 T/m. However, multiple failures of early devices resulted in lowering the normal operating gra… more
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: Hurh, P.G. & Tang, Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interfacial phenomena on selected cathode materials

Description: We have carried out a series of surface studies of selected cathode materials. Instrumental techniques such as Raman microscopy, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and atomic force microscopy were used to investigate the cathode surfaces. The goal of this study was to identify detrimental processes which occur at the electrode/electrolyte interface and can lead to electrode degradation and failure during cycling and/or storage at elevated temperatures.
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: Kostecki, Robert; Matsuo, Yoshiaki & McLarnon, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of Prototype Superconducting Magnetic Quadrupolesfor the High Current Transport Experiment

Description: Later phases of the High Current Transport Experiment (HCX) at LBNL will employ superconducting magnetic quadrupole lenses to focus an intense, heavy-ion beam over approximately 50 lattice periods (100 quadrupoles). Here they present a characterization of a baseline quadrupole design suitable for transporting a single, low-energy ({approx} 2 MeV), high-current ({approx} 800 mA) heavy-ion (K{sup +}) beam that will be provided from an existing injector and beam matching section. For optimal perfo… more
Date: February 22, 2001
Creator: Lund, Steven M.; Sabbi, GianLuca & Seidl, Peter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nanoscale fabrication and modification of selected battery materials

Description: Carbon is an integral part of many battery electrodes. We explored the use of semiconductor-processing techniques that involve photolithography to pattern photoresists and subsequent pyrolysis to form carbon microstructures that function as microelectrodes. In this study, we describe the status of the fabrication of carbon microelectrodes obtained by pyrolysis of photoresist. Electrochemical nanometer-scale patterning of the surface of a conducting lithium manganese oxide (LiMn{sub 2}O{sub 4}) … more
Date: June 22, 2001
Creator: Kostecki, Robert; Song, Xiang Yun; Kinoshita, Kim & McLarnon, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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