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Deep Water: the Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling

Description: On May 22, 2010, President Barack Obama announced the creation of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: an independent,nonpartisan entity, directed to provide a thorough analysis and impartial judgment. The President charged the Commission to determine the causes of the disaster, and to improve the country’s ability to respond to spills, and to recommend reforms to make offshore energy production safer. This report is the result of an intense six-m… more
Date: January 2011
Creator: National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age

Description: The conference report to the 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act mandated that the National Academy of Public Administration (the Academy) conduct a broad operational review of GPO to (1) update past studies of GPO operations; (2) examine the feasibility of GPO continuing to perform executive branch printing; and (3) identify additional cost saving operational alternatives beyond those that GPO has already implemented.The Academy formed a five-member Panel of Fellows to conduct a ten-month stu… more
Date: January 2013
Creator: National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Flyer on Classified Materials]

Description: Pamphlet featuring a cartoon of a melting snowman in the lower-right corner, in a snowy landscape, looking up at a malevolent sun in the upper left corner. Features on the snowman are labeled with text balloons that say "improper safeguards" (pointing to the snowman's tiny umbrella) "of classified material" (pointing to the coal "buttons" spelling out S-E-C-R-E-T) "can put you on the spot" (pointing to the puddle of snowmelt).
Date: January 31, 1988
Creator: Martin, Pete
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Six Fighter Planes in Flight]

Description: Photograph of six identical fighter planes flying in formation above snow-dusted mountains. The jets have "United States Air Force" written across the main part of the body and they have livery on the tails that includes scalloped red around the front edge and a Thunderbird logo surrounded by stars.
Date: January 22, 1985
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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