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Nuclear Weapons: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Budgeting, Cost Accounting, and Management Associated with the Stockpile Life Extension Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As a separately organized agency within the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) administers the Stockpile Life Extension Program, whose purpose is to extend, through refurbishment, the operational lives of the weapons in the nuclear stockpile. NNSA encountered significant management problems with its first refurbishment. NNSA has begun three additional life extension… more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools: New Facilities Management Information System Promising, but Improved Data Accuracy Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is responsible for providing over 48,000 children with a safe place to learn. In response to concerns that data in its old information system did not accurately reflect the condition of facilities, BIA acquired a new system, called the Facilities Management Information System (FMIS). GAO was asked to determine whether FMIS addresses the old system's weaknesses and meets BIA's… more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Pilot Programs: DOD Needs to Improve Implementation Process for Pilot Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2003, the Congress authorized pilot programs to help the Department of Defense (DOD) laboratories and test centers explore innovative business partnerships and human capital strategies. Congressional concerns about DOD's implementation of the pilot programs have been growing. The Congress mandated that GAO review pilot program implementation. GAO (1) identified the pilot initiat… more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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RP-5 Renewable Energy Efficiency Project

Description: This is the fourth quarterly technical report for the RP-5 Renewable Energy Efficiency Project. The report summarizes the work progress, effort and activities that took place during the period of April 1, 2003 to June 30, 2003. However, IEUA is preparing a Supplemental report that will be mailed to the Department of Energy (DOE) by August 1, 2003, that provides additional information regarding IEUA's plan to expedite certain project activities. The report has been prepared in accordance with th… more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Clifton, Neil; Whitman, Eliza Jane & Zughbi, Jamal A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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China and “Falun Gong”

Description: This report provides information about "Falun Gong" also known as " Falun Dafa" that combines an exercise regimen with meditation and moral guidelines.
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Lum, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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India-U.S. Economic Relations

Description: This report discusses the India economic development and its trade relations with the United States
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Morrison, Wayne & Kronstadt, Alan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CO2 Capture by Absorption With Potassium Carbonate Quarterly Report

Description: The objective of this work is to improve the process for CO{sub 2} capture by alkanolamine absorption/stripping by developing an alternative solvent, aqueous K{sub 2}CO{sub 3} promoted by piperazine. A rigorous thermodynamic model has been further developed with a standalone FORTRAN code to represent the CO{sub 2} vapor pressure and speciation of the new solvent. Gas chromatography has been used to measure the oxidative degradation of piperazine. The heat exchangers for the pilot plant have bee… more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Rochelle, Gary T.; Chen, Eric; Cullinane, J. Tim; Hilliard, Marcus; Oyenekan, Babatunde & Jones, Terraun
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Market Dynamics and Public Policy Issues in the Video Programming Industry

Description: This report is to describe the market dynamics driving vertical and horizontal consolidation in the video programming industry, to show the potential benefits and harm to consumers from such consolidation, and to identify potential public policy issues that may be raised by the consolidation.
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Goldfarb, Charles B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of Devonian Black Shales in Kentucky for Potential Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Enhanced Natural Gas Production Quarterly Report: April-June 2003

Description: CO{sub 2} emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels have been linked to global climate change. Proposed carbon management technologies include geologic sequestration of CO{sub 2}. A possible, but untested, sequestration strategy is to inject CO{sub 2} into organic-rich shales. Devonian black shales underlie approximately two-thirds of Kentucky and are thicker and deeper in the Illinois and Appalachian Basin portions of Kentucky than in central Kentucky. The Devonian black shales serve as bo… more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Nuttall, Brandon C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview

Description: On July 22, as preparations continued for Senate Finance markup of a bill to reauthorize TANF, a bipartisan bill was introduced by Democratic former governors from Delaware and Nebraska and a Maine Republican. S.1443 would boost mandatory child care funding by $5.5 billion over 5 years and provide numerous special grants. It would increase work participation standards and lengthen the TANF work week (to 32 hours) for those without a child under 6, but give prorated credit for part-time work. On… more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Executive Budget Process Timetable

Description: The executive budget process is a complex set of activities that includes formulation of the President’s budget, interaction with Congress, and execution of the budget. Table 1 provides a timetable of the major steps in the year and a half process. The initial development of the President’s budget begins in the individual federal agencies approximately 10 months before the President submits it to Congress (17 or 18 months before the start of the fiscal year).
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy, July 28, 2003

Description: This report discusses congressional interest in the pace of U.S. technological advancement due to its influence on U.S. economic growth, productivity, and international competitiveness. The proper role of the federal government in technology development and the competitiveness of U.S. industry continues to be a topic of congressional debate.
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Unemployment Benefits: Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation (TEUC) Program

Description: The Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUC), was signed into law March 9, 2002, as a part of P.L. 107-147. TEUC provides up to 13 weeks of additional federally funded unemployment compensation (UC) to individuals in all states who exhaust their regular UC benefits. TEUC also provides a second tier of 13 weeks of benefits to individuals who exhaust their benefits in a highunemployment state (TEUC-X). On January 8, 2003, Congress passed S. 23 (P.L. 108- 1) extending the TE… more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Franco, Celinda
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cooperative R&D: Federal Efforts to Promote Industrial Competitiveness

Description: In response to the foreign challenge in the global marketplace, the United States Congress has explored ways to stimulate technological advancement in the private sector. The government has supported various efforts to promote cooperative research and development activities among industry, universities, and the federal R&D establishment designed to increase the competitiveness of American industry and to encourage the generation of new products, processes, and services. Among the issues before … more
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2004

Description: This report provides an overview of Federal Research and Development funding for FY2004.
Date: July 28, 2003
Creator: Davey, Michael E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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