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Civil Fines and Penalties Debt: Review of CMS' Management and Collection Processes

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report focuses on the debt collection processes and procedures used by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The primary reason for the growth of CMS' civil monetary penalties (CMP) receivables was the expansion of fraud and abuse detection activities from fiscal year 1995 through fiscal year 1997 that significantly increased reported fraud … more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2000 Census: Coverage Evaluation Interviewing Overcame Challenges, but Further Research Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As part of its Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (ACE), the U.S. Census Bureau interviewed people across the country to develop an estimate of the number of persons missed, counted more than once, or otherwise improperly counted in the 2000 census. In conducting the interviews, which took place in person or over the phone, Census faced several challenges, including (1) completing the operation on schedule, (2) … more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Export Controls: Reengineering Business Processes Can Improve Efficiency of State Department License Reviews

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. defense industry and some foreign government purchasers have expressed concern that the U.S. export control process is unnecessarily burdensome. Defense industry officials contend that extended reviews of export license applications by the State Department have resulted in lost sales and are harming the nation's defense industry. The State Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls is responsible f… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility of In Situ Redox Manipulation of Subsurface Sediments for RDX Remediation at Pantex

Description: This laboratory study was conducted to assess RDX (hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5 triazine) abiotic degradation by chemically reduced sediments and other geochemical aspects of the application of this technology to remediation of RDX contamination in groundwater at the U.S. DOE Pantex facility...
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Szecsody, James E.; Fruchter, Jonathan S.; Mckinley, Mark A.; Resch, Charles T. & Gilmore, Tyler J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford Immobilized LAW Product Acceptance Testing: Tanks Focus Area Results

Description: Immobilizing low-activity waste (LAW) stored at Hanford site will result in approximately 200 000 m3 of waste glass. It must be demonstrated that this glass can adequately retain radionuclides and prevent contamination of the surrounding environment. A study is being performed to determine the effect of glass composition on its capability to withstand the conditions in the Hanford site burial scenario. To predict the long-term corrosion behavior of waste glass, it is necessary to study the comp… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Vienna, John D.; Hrma, Pavel R.; Jiricka, Antonin; Smith, Donald E.; Lorier, Troy H.; Reamer, Irene A. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enhanced Oil Recovery with Downhole Vibration Stimulation in Osage County, Oklahoma

Description: This Technical Quarterly Report is for the reporting period September 30, 2001 to December 31, 2001. The report provides details of the work done on the project entitled ''Enhanced Oil Recovery with Downhole Vibration Stimulation in Osage County Oklahoma''. The project is divided into nine separate tasks. Several of the tasks are being worked on simultaneously, while other tasks are dependent on earlier tasks being completed. The vibration stimulation well was permitted as Well 111-W-27, sectio… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Brett, J. Ford & Westermark, Robert V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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In-Situ Sampling and Characterization of Naturally Occurring Marine Methane Hydrate Using the D/V JOIDES Resolution

Description: The primary accomplishments during the first quarter were to mobilize materials and supplies to meet the deployment schedule for equipment and activities, as proposed under the DOE/NETL cooperative agreement with JOI, with initial testing and use of specialized tools and equipment on Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 201. As a requirement of the award, two copies of a technical feasibility report entitled ''Preliminary Evaluation of Existing Pressure/Temperature Coring Systems'' were delivered t… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Rack, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Field Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Miscible Flooding in the Lansing-Kansas City Formation, Central Kansas Progress Report

Description: Progress is reported for the period from October 1, 2001 to December 31, 2001. Technical design and budget for a larger (60-acre) CO{sub 2} demonstration project are being reviewed by the US DOE for approval. While this review process is being conducted, work is proceeding on well testing to obtain reservoir properties and on the VIP reservoir simulation model to improve model prediction and better understand the controls that certain parameters exert on predicted performance. Testing of presen… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Byrnes, Alan; Willhite, G. Paul; Green, Don; Dubois, Martin; Pancake, Richard; Carr, Timothy et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Improved Radiation Dosimetry/Risk Estimates to Facilitate Environmental Management Of Plutonium Contaminated Sites

Description: Currently available radiation dosimetry/health-risk models for inhalation exposure to radionuclides are based on deterministic radiation intake and deterministic radiation doses (local and global). These models are not adequate for brief plutonium (Pu) exposure scenarios related to Department of Energy (DOE) decontamination/decommissioning (D&D) operations because such exposures involve the stochastic-intake (StI) paradigm. For this paradigm, small or moderate numbers of airborne, pure, hig… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Scott, B.R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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New Silicotitanate Waste Forms; Development and Characterization

Description: The objective of this program is to identify new waste forms and disposal strategies specific to crystalline silicotitanate (CST) secondary waste generated from Cs and Sr ion exchange processes. Waste forms developed in this work will offer an alternative to current disposal plans. The goals of the program are to reduce the costs associated with CST waste disposal, to minimize the risk of contamination to the environment during CST processing, and to provide DOE with technical alternatives for … more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Balmer, Mari Lou; nenoff, Tina; Navrotsky, Alexandra & Su, Yali
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High Resolution Prediction of Gas Injection Process Performance for Heterogeneous Reservoirs Quarterly Report

Description: This report outlines progress in the first quarter of the second year of the DOE project ''High Resolution Prediction of Gas Injection Process Performance for Heterogeneous Reservoirs''. The application of the analytical theory for gas injection processes, including the effects of volume change on mixing, has up to now been limited to fully self-sharpening systems, systems where all solution segments that connect the key tie lines present in the displacement are shock fronts. In the following r… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Orr, Franklin M., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fundamental Chemistry And Thermodynamics Of Hydrothermal Oxidation Processes

Description: Hydrothermal oxidation (HTO) is a promising technology for the treatment of aqueous-fluid hazardous and mixed waste streams. Waste streams identified as likely candidates for treatment by this technology are primarily aqueous fluids containing hazardous organic compounds, and often containing inorganic compounds including radioisotopes (mixed wastes). These wastes are difficult and expensive to treat by conventional technologies (e.g. incineration) due to their high water content; in addition, … more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Simonson, J.M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Basic Engineering Research for D&D of R Reactor Storage Pond Sludge: Electrokinetics, Carbon Dioxide Extraction, and Supercritical Water Oxidation

Description: Large quantities of mixed low level waste (MLLW) that fall under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) exist and will continue to be generated during D&D operations at DOE sites across the country. Currently, the volume of these wastes is approximately 23,500 m3, and the majority of these wastes (i.e., almost 19,000 m3) consist of PCBs and PCB-contaminated materials. Further, additional PCB-contaminated waste will be generated during D&D operations in the future. The standard process … more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Matthews, Michael A.; Bruce,David; Davis,Thomas; Thies, Mark; Weidner, John & White, Ralph
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Utilization of Kinetic Isotope Effects for the Concentration of Tritium

Description: The objective of this project was the development of methods for concentrating tritium in water based on large primary isotope effects in catalytic redox processes. Basic research was conducted to develop the chemistry of a complete cyclic process. The general methodology developed in this work will be applicable to a number of DOE waste streams, and as a consequence of the process tritium could be incorporated in an organic polymer or other solid waste form which will prevent its ready transpo… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Brown, Gilbert M. & Meyer, Thomas J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Nostoc punctiforme Genome

Description: Nostoc punctiforme is a filamentous cyanobacterium with extensive phenotypic characteristics and a relatively large genome, approaching 10 Mb. The phenotypic characteristics include a photoautotrophic, diazotrophic mode of growth, but N. punctiforme is also facultatively heterotrophic; its vegetative cells have multiple development alternatives, including terminal differentiation into nitrogen-fixing heterocysts and transient differentiation into spore-like akinetes or motile filaments called h… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Meeks, John C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High-Throughput Analysis With 96-Capillary Array Electrophoresis and Integrated Sample Preparation for DNA Sequencing Based on Laser Induced Fluorescence Detection

Description: The purpose of this research was to improve the fluorescence detection for the multiplexed capillary array electrophoresis, extend its use beyond the genomic analysis, and to develop an integrated micro-sample preparation system for high-throughput DNA sequencing. The authors first demonstrated multiplexed capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) and micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) separations in a 96-capillary array system with laser-induced fluorescence detection. Migration times of… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Xue, Gang
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant CY 2000 Site Environmental Report

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Carlsbad Field Office and Westinghouse TRU Solutions, LLC (WTS) are dedicated to maintaining high quality management of Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) environmental resources. DOE Order 5400.1, General Environmental Protection Program, and DOE Order 231.1, Environmental, Safety, and Health Reporting, require that the environment at and near DOE facilities be monitored to ensure the safety and health of the public and the environment. This Waste Isolatio… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions, LLC & Environmental Science and Research Foundation, Inc.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CALLA ENERGY BIOMASS COFIRING PROJECT

Description: The Calla Energy Biomass Project, to be located in Estill County, Kentucky is to be conducted in two phases. The objective of Phase I is to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of cofiring biomass-based gasification fuel-gas in a power generation boiler. Waste coal fines are to be evaluated as the cofired fuel. The project is based on the use of commercially available technology for feeding and gas cleanup that would be suitable for deployment in municipal, large industrial and utili… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN TRICHLOROETHYLENE INDUCED LIVER CANCER: IMPORTANCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP

Description: Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a common contaminant of groundwater as a result of poor disposal practices of the past. As a consequence, this solvent is the focus of many clean-up operations of uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. TCE is carcinogenic in both mice and rats, but at different sites, the liver and kidney, respectively (NCI 1976; NTP 1988; NTP 1990). Liver tumor induction in mice has been the tumor most critical from the standpoint of environmental regulation (Bull 2000). Under the propo… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Bull, Richard J. & Thrall, Brain D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermospray Mass Spectrometry Ionization Processes: Fundamental Mechanisms for Speciation, Separation and Characterization of Organic Complexants in DOE Wastes

Description: The overall objective of this research was to develop and enhance our understanding of the identity of major organic complexant species and their products with metals in aqueous mixtures such as those found in DOE radioactive tank wastes. Our approach to achieving this objective was a series of incremental studies involving cooperative efforts at ORNL and at the University of Minnesota. Investigations at ORNL characterized soft ionization mass spectrometry processes for the complexant species b… more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Bostick, Debra T.; Caton, John E. & Carr, Mabbott, Gary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Umatilla River Basin Anadromous Fsh Habitat Enhancement Project : 2000 Annual Report.

Description: The Umatilla River Basin Anadromous Fish Habitat Enhancement Project continued to identify impacted stream reaches throughout the Umatilla River Basin for habitat improvements during the 2000 project period. Public outreach efforts, biological and physical monitoring, and continued development of a Umatilla River Basin Watershed Assessment assisted the project in fostering public cooperation, targeting habitat deficiencies and determining habitat recovery measures. Habitat enhancement projects … more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: Shaw, R. Todd
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reducing VOC Press Emission from OSB Manufacturing

Description: Current regulations require industry to meet air emission standards with regard to particulates, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) and other gases. One of many industries that will be affected by the new regulations is the wood composites industry. This industry generates VOCs, HAPs, and particulates mainly during the drying and pressing of wood. Current air treatment technologies for the industry are expensive to install and operate. As regulations become more … more
Date: December 31, 2001
Creator: McGinnis, Gary D.; WIlliams, Laura S.; Monte, Amy E.; Niemi, Brett A. & Flicker, Thomas M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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