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[Letter from Sheldon I. Cohen to the BRAC - June 16, 2005]

Description: Letter from Sheldon Cohen to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC). He urged the individual commissioners to cancel the recommendation to relocate the hearing offices of the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals to Fort Meade, Maryland.
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: Cohen, Sheldon I.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
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Financial Management: Thousands of Civilian Agency Contractors Abuse the Federal Tax System with Little Consequence

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Tax abuses by contractors working for the Department of Defense, on which GAO previously reported, have led to concerns about similar abuses by those hired by civilian agencies. GAO was asked to determine if similar problems exist at civilian agencies and, if so, to (1) quantify the amount of unpaid federal taxes owed by civilian agency contractors paid through the Financial Management Service (FMS), (2… more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Review of DOD's Report on Budgeting for Exchange Rates for Foreign Currency Fluctuations

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) expends a significant amount of funds overseas, particularly from its Operation and Maintenance (O&M) and Military Personnel (MILPERS) appropriations. As the rate of overseas currencies fluctuates on a daily basis, such fluctuations have an impact on the various expenditures that DOD makes. For budgeting purposes, DOD establishes foreign currency exchange rates to determin… more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Elderly Housing: Federal Housing Programs and Supportive Services

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "According to a congressionally established bipartisan commission, decreased investment in affordable housing and an elderly population that is projected to grow from about 12 percent of the population in 2002 to 20 percent by 2030 are likely to increase the number of elderly who must spend large portions of their incomes on housing. Moreover, according to this commission, more than one-third of the elderly te… more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Medicare: More Specific Criteria Needed to Classify Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Medicare classifies inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) using the "75 percent rule." If a facility can show that during a 12-month period at least 75 percent of its patients required intensive rehabilitation for 1 of 13 listed conditions, it may be classified as an IRF and paid at a higher rate than for less intensive rehabilitation in other settings. Because this difference can be substantial, it is im… more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Management: Thousands of Civilian Agency Contractors Abuse the Federal Tax Systems with Little Consequence

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Tax abuses by contractors working for the Department of Defense, which GAO previously reported on, have led to concerns about similar abuses by those hired by civilian agencies. GAO was asked to determine if similar problems exist at civilian agencies and, if so, to (1) quantify the amount of unpaid federal taxes owed by civilian agency contractors paid through the Financial Management Service (FMS), (2) dete… more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Reform: Preliminary Lessons from Other Countries' Experiences

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Many countries, including the United States, are grappling with demographic change and its effect on their national pension systems. The number of workers for each retiree is falling in most developed countries, straining the finances of national pension programs, particularly where contributions from current workers fund payments to current beneficiaries--known as a "pay-as-you-go" (PAYG) system. Although de… more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Technology Management: Census Bureau Has Implemented Many Key Practices, but Additional Actions Are Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the leading source of high quality data about the American people and the economy. This information is used to determine congressional and state legislative districts and to distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds each year. Information technology (IT) plays a critical role in the bureau's ability to carry out its missions by supporting data… more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Value Guidance to Joint Cross-Service Groups (JCSG)

Description: Disregard Restriction Header and Footer- Memo from Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics) Michael Wynne to the Chairmen of the Joint Cross-Service Group regarding the process of assessing the military value of the infrastructure in question.
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Establishment of the Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group

Description: Disregard Restriction Header and Footer- Memo from Acting Under Secretary of Defense Michael Wynne (Acquisitions, Technology and Logistics) to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Security and Information Operations) estalishing the Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group and naming its members.
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
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Alternate Membership to the Infrastructure Steering Group (ISG)

Description: Disregard Restriction Header and Footer- Memo from Acting Under Secretary Michael Wynne (Acquisitions, Technology and Logistics) to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment) and the Army Vice chief of Staff regarding requests to add alternate positions to the Infrastructure Steering Group (ISG)
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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BRAC 2005 IJCSG Principals Meeting

Description: Memorandum from Carol A. Haave, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, regarding discussions about analyasis of capacity data, military value and scenario development options for realigment and closure development.
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Community Climate System Model Project from an Interagency Perspective

Description: In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will publish its Fourth Assessment Report of the Scientific Basis of Climate Change (AR4). A significant portion of the AR4 will be the analysis of coupled general circulation model (GCM) simulations of the climate of the past century as well as scenarios of future climates under prescribed emission scenarios. Modeling groups worldwide have contributed to AR4, including three from the U.S., the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) p… more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: Bader, D C; Bamzai, A; Fein, J; Patrinos, A & Leinen, M
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events from the MACHO Collaboration

Description: The authors present a catalog of 450 relatively high signal-to-noise microlensing events observed by the MACHO collaboration between 1993 and 1999. The events are distributed throughout the fields and, as expected, they show clear concentration toward the Galactic center. No optical depth is given for this sample since no blending efficiency calculation has been performed, and they find evidence for substantial blending. In a companion paper they give optical depths for the sub-sample of events… more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: Thomas, C. L.; Griest, K.; Popowski, P.; Cook, K. H.; Drake, A. J.; Minniti, D. et al.
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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis Of Plastic Capsule Materials Exposed To Deuterium-Tritium (DT) Gas

Description: Planar samples of varying thicknesses of both CH and CD glow discharge polymer have been measured with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy before and after exposure to deuterium-tritium (DT) gas at elevated temperature and pressure. Planar samples of polyimide films made from both hydrogenated and deuterated precursors have also been examined by FTIR before and after DT exposure. The post-exposure FTIR spectra demonstrated no measurable exchange of hydrogen with deuterium or tritium … more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: Schoonover, J R; Steckle, Jr., W P; Elliot, N; Ebey, P S; Nobile, A; Nikroo, A et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of Microbial and Phosphate Amendments on the Bioavailability of Lead (Pb) in Shooting Range Soil

Description: Heavy metals including lead (Pb) are released continually into the environment as a result of industrial, recreational, and military activities. Lead ranked number two on the CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances and was identified as a major hazardous chemical found on 47% of USEPA's National Priorities List sites (Hettiarachchi and Pierzynski 2004). In-situ remediation of lead (Pb) contaminated soils may be accomplished by changing the soil chemistry and structure with the application … more
Date: June 16, 2005
Creator: Brigmon, Robin; Wilson, Christina; Knox, Anna; Seaman, John & Smith, Garriet
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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