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Government Transparency: Efforts to Improve Information on Federal Spending

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other federal agencies have taken steps to improve federal spending data available on USAspending.gov. This effort to publicly display comprehensive data arose from the federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, which required OMB to establish a free, publicly accessible website containing data on federal awards and subawards. OMB launched USAspe… more
Date: July 18, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trade Adjustment Assistance: Commerce Program Has Helped Manufacturing and Services Firms, but Measures, Data, and Funding Formula Could Be Enhanced

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "First, we found that the four changes mandated by the 2009 legislation contributed to improvements in program operations and increased participation: (1) Creation of director and other full-time positions: The creation of a director and other full-time positions for the program resulted in reduced firm certification processing times for petitions. (2) New annual reporting on performance measures: EDA has subm… more
Date: November 14, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proliferation Security Initiative: Agencies Have Adopted Policies and Procedures but Steps Needed to Meet Reporting Requirement and to Measure Results

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "U.S. agencies have adopted interagency guidance documents that establish PSI policies and procedures and have submitted annual reports; however, these reports do not contain expenditure data for all agencies as required by law. The agencies produced documents that contain general PSI policies and procedures. In addition, DOD and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) d… more
Date: March 27, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Freedom of Information Act: Key Website Is Generally Reliable, but Action Is Needed to Ensure Completeness of Its Reports

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Justice’s (Justice) website called FOIA.gov presents data from agencies’ annual Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reports. Agencies submit their annual reports to Justice in print and in electronic form and Justice posts the electronic data onto the website. For fiscal year 2010, the data GAO reviewed on the website were generally consistent with the data in the agencies’ print version… more
Date: June 28, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Small Business Lending: Opportunities Exist to Improve Performance Reporting of Treasury's Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has made progress in developing guidance and procedures to monitor participants' compliance with requirements for the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) and the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) programs. In response to GAO's previous recommendation on SBLF monitoring, Treasury has developed procedures for monitoring SBLF participant compliance… more
Date: December 5, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Antibiotics: FDA Needs to Do More to Ensure That Drug Labels Contain Up-to-Date Information

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "FDA has not taken sufficient steps to ensure that antibiotic labels contain up-to-date breakpoints. FDA designates certain drugs as “reference-listed drugs” and the sponsors of these drugs play an important role in ensuring the accuracy of drug labels. Reference-listed drugs are approved drug products to which generic versions are compared. As of November 2011, FDA had not yet confirmed whether the brea… more
Date: January 31, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trade Adjustment Assistance: Commerce Program Has Helped Manufacturing and Services Firms, but Measures, Data, and Funding Formula Could Improve

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Changes to the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Firms program mandated by the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act led to program improvements and increased participation, but participation declined when the legislative changes lapsed and the program faced funding uncertainty. The changes resulted in reduced time to certify firms, new performance reporting, and increased participation.… more
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Occupational Radiation Exposure at Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors and Other Facilities 2010, Prepared for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, May 2012

Description: This report summarizes the occupational exposure data that are maintained in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Radiation Exposure Information and Reporting System (REIRS). The bulk of the information contained in the report was compiled from the 2010 annual reports submitted by five of the seven categories of NRC licensees subject to the reporting requirements of 10 CFR 20.2206. Because there are no geologic repositories for high-level waste currently licensed and no NRC-licensed l… more
Date: July 7, 2012
Creator: McCormick, D. E. Lewis D. A. Hagemeyer Y. U.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Procedure for Determination of Degradation Acceptance Criteria for Structures and Passive Components in Nuclear Power Plants

Description: The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) has been collaborating with Brookhaven National Laboratory since 2007 to develop a realistic seismic risk evaluation system which includes the consideration of aging of structures and components in nuclear power plants (NPPs). This collaboration program aims at providing technical support to a five-year KAERI research project, which includes three specific areas that are essential to seismic probabilistic risk assessment: (1) probabilistic seis… more
Date: January 30, 2012
Creator: Nie, J.; Braverman, J.; Hofmayer, C.; Choun, Y-S.; Hahm, D. & Choi, I-K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pathways to Commercial Success: Technologies and Products Supported by the Fuel Cell Technologies Program

Description: The purpose of the project described in this report is to identify and document the commercial and emerging (projected to be commercialized within the next 3 years) hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and products that resulted from Department of Energy support through the Fuel Cell Technologies (FCT) Program in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) undertook two efforts simultaneously to accomplish this project. The first effo… more
Date: September 28, 2012
Creator: Weakley, Steven A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2010

Description: Annual report of the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) describing the program and data collection. It also presents information on air quality and recorded concentrations of pollutants such as ozone, sulfur, gases, and other elements of concern.
Date: April 2012
Creator: AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2012

Description: Annual report of the U.S. Good Neighbor Environmental Board describing the organization's activities, goals, and recommendations for further development along the U.S.-Mexico border region. This report focuses on water supply, water quality, and water treatment.
Date: December 2012
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Report of the University of North Texas: For the year ended August 31, 2012

Description: Financial report for the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas contains information about revenues and expenditures for the organization during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. It includes general statements, schedules of accounts broken down by category, and other supplementary notes.
Date: 2012
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Financial Report of the University of North Texas at Dallas: For the year ended August 31, 2012

Description: Financial report for the University of North Texas at Dallas contains information about revenues and expenditures for the organization during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. It includes general statements, schedules of accounts broken down by category, and other supplementary notes.
Date: November 2012
Creator: University of North Texas at Dallas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Financial Report of the University of North Texas System Administration: For the year ended August 31, 2012

Description: Financial report for the University of North Texas System Administration contains information about revenues and expenditures for the organization during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. It includes general statements, schedules of accounts broken down by category, and other supplementary notes.
Date: November 2012
Creator: University of North Texas System. Administration.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Financial Report of the University of North Texas Health Science Center: For the year ended August 31, 2012

Description: Financial report for the University of North Texas Health Science Center contains information about revenues and expenditures for the organization during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. It includes general statements, schedules of accounts broken down by category, and other supplementary notes.
Date: November 2012
Creator: University of North Texas. Health Science Center at Fort Worth.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Financial Report of the University of North Texas System Administration: For the year ended August 31, 2012

Description: Financial report for the University of North Texas System Administration contains information about revenues and expenditures for the organization during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. It includes general statements, schedules of accounts broken down by category, and other supplementary notes.
Date: November 2012
Creator: University of North Texas System. Administration.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Financial Report of the University of North Texas Health Science Center: For the year ended August 31, 2012

Description: Financial report for the University of North Texas Health Science Center contains information about revenues and expenditures for the organization during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. It includes general statements, schedules of accounts broken down by category, and other supplementary notes.
Date: November 2012
Creator: University of North Texas. Health Science Center at Fort Worth.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Financial Report of the University of North Texas at Dallas: For the year ended August 31, 2012

Description: Financial report for the University of North Texas at Dallas contains information about revenues and expenditures for the organization during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. It includes general statements, schedules of accounts broken down by category, and other supplementary notes.
Date: November 2012
Creator: University of North Texas at Dallas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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