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| Date Aug. 10, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-108 |
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Reports and Testimonies OF THE UNITED STATES ercial Communic Military communications satellite programs have been more costly, more technically difficult, and harder to manage than the commercial programs. The military programs’ technical problems also have been compounded by launch vehicle failures to attain orbit, The report was prepared at the)iE$i’$$of former Chairman, House Committee Appropriations. the on 110296 ...
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| Date Aug. 10, 1979 |
Report No. EMD-79-84 |
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Reports and Testimonies L- - Y + *, 7+@7-+ LMliOlOO REPORTBY THEU.S. The Solar In Federal . s Demonstration Program usl -f-t his program was proposed in the National Energy Plan as a major initiative to demonstrate the Federal Government’s leadership in promoting energy conservation and the use of renewable resources in its own buildings. However, because the Department of Energy has not developed a comprehensive ...
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| Date Aug. 10, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-212 |
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Reports and Testimonies .- ~ : r REPORTBY THE U.S. I unting Material Handling Equipment--A Weak Link In The Defense Logistics Chain ti 4 he material handling capability of Army and Air Force units overseas is seriously impaired because of material handling equipment problems/ Much equipment on hand is overaged and overused resulting In severe maintenance problems. In addition, shortages of needed equipment are hindering ...
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| Date Aug. 10, 1979 |
Report No. ID-79-26 |
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Reports and Testimonies --’ . ‘2 r .. */ L 4 BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL lalrll~llllilrrnril~ LM110102 OF THE UNITEDSTATES U.S. Participation In tional Organizations: te U.S. participation in international organizations should be better managed. Since our last review the President and the Secretary of State have attempted to improve the direction and coordination of U.S. policy as well as to promote reform of the U.N. ...
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| Date Aug. 9, 1979 |
Report No. HRD-79-109 |
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Reports and Testimonies WWED STATES GENERALACCOUNTINGOFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 -‘.( ~: ‘j@~ LM110089 .i Illlll1111lllllllllllllllll AUGUS9, 1979 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION B-133044 The Honorable United States Dear Senator J. Bennett Senate Johnston: Johnston Your March 20,'1979, letter requested that we report on last year that would provide a bill (S. 1553) you introduced nonhospitalized veterans with freedom of ...
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| Date Aug. 9, 1979 |
Report No. HRD-79-104 |
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Reports and Testimonies REPORT THEU.S. BY counting Office ontrols Over The Supplemental income Computerized System illions In Erroneous Payments The Social Security Administration uses a highly complex computerized system to compute benefit payments for more than 4 million needy aged, blind, and disabled persons currently on the Supplemental Security Income program. Over $25 million has been paid out erroneously because ...
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| Date Aug. 9, 1979 |
Report No. PSAD-79-95 |
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Reports and Testimonies 1 IPfp llllllllllllllIll11 1111 lllll 1 11111 Ill lllll IllI BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL OF THEUNITEDSTATES LM110088 -- ort ToThe Congress Army Procurement Of lOkW, Gas Turbine Generators hly Questionable A IO-kilowatt (kW), 60-hertz (Hz) gas turbine generator which the Army plans to buy does not meet the Army’s requirements. Its reliability is too low, fuel consumption too high, and life-cycle cost ...
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| Date Aug. 9, 1979 |
Report No. ID-79-17 |
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Reports and Testimonies - . . I REPORTBYTHEu.s~ ~llll~~lll~lllP~l~ll~lll LMfifJ087 1 I Accounting Office Government Procedures For Buying Some Foreign Currencies Each year the U.S. Government purchases about $5.5 billion worth of foreign currencies to meet its operating expenses in other GAO found that with few excountries. ceptions currencies were being obtained at competitive exchange rates. ID-7:9-17 AUGUST $3.3979 ...
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| Date Aug. 8, 1979 |
Report No. B-195137(VBG) |
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| Date Aug. 8, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-227 |
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Reports and Testimonies LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS DWSION B-168700 AUGUST 8. 1979 .A The Honorable United States Dear Senator John Glenn Senate Glenn: /+G c. In your May 16, 1979, letter, you expressed concern over the Department of Defense's proposed realinement of its material distribution system and asked that we investigate the study on which it was based. This study, referred to as the material distribution system ...
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| Date Aug. 8, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-322 |
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| Date Aug. 8, 1979 |
Report No. FPCD-79-66 |
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Reports and Testimonies L 0 I * * . LMl10090 REPORTBY THE llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllII r Gen OF THE UNITEDSTATES DOD Civilian Employees’ Use Of fore Retirement Is Still High The Department could to monitor of Defense is not doing all it and control sick leave usage. GAO reported in 1974 that the military services were permitting many civilian employees, pending optional retirement, to exhaust their sick leave. ...
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| Date Aug. 8, 1979 |
Report No. PSAD-79-94 |
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Reports and Testimonies BY REPORT THE OF THEUNITED STATES The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) purchased a second prototype, Aviation Weather and Notice to Airmen System, to demonstrate the feasibility of consolidating several stations and collocating them with the air route traffic control center at Leesburg, Virginia. FAA purchased this new system before it had completely developed and evaluated the system’s ...
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| Date Aug. 8, 1979 |
Report No. FPCD-79-57 |
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Reports and Testimonies OF THE UNITEDSTATES Noncontributory Social Security its For Military Service iminated A.4 system. Bothcovered under the social the ilitary service is security military members and Department of Defense, as their employer, pay social security taxes on military basic pay. However, members whose basic pay is less than the social security taxable earnings ceiling are credited with additional covered ...
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| Date Aug. 7, 1979 |
Report No. B-152603 |
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Reports and Testimonies DECISION THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL O OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 /0D9 73 FILE: B-152603 DATE: August 7, 1979 MATTER OF: Applicability-of Additional House Office Building Act of 1955, to District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency Property DIGEST: Property owned by the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land AgencyJ(RLA), which was an agency of the United States prior to adoption ...
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| Date Aug. 7, 1979 |
Report No. CED-79-110 |
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Reports and Testimonies Agriculture Weather Information Is Not Effectively Communicated To Users The Agricultural Weather Service Program is not being communicated effectively to users and potential users; and the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture program roles, responsibilities, and goals for providing this service are not clear. I GAO believes Commerce and Agriculture should reassess their respective program ...
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| Date Aug. 6, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-325 |
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Reports and Testimonies 4 0~ THE LITED STATES ision Review Of The Army’s enter To Disestablish The Trainin At Fort Dix, New Jersey The proposed closure of the training center at Fort Dix, New Jersey, could result in --annual million --one-time recurring and savings of about $15.8 costs of about $72.5 million. The Army claimed a cost avoidance of about $20.2 million for construction needs at Fort Dix. But this figure is ...
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| Date Aug. 6, 1979 |
Report No. CED-79-111 |
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Reports and Testimonies n OF THE UNITEDSTATES The volume of Farmers Home Administration and Small Business Administration loans for disaster assistance surged to almost $6 billion in fiscal year 1978. This was due largely to widespread drought conditions, low interest rates, and broadening of the Small 3usiness Administration’s disaster assistance loan program to include farmers. Loans were made in every state. Farmers ...
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| Date Aug. 6, 1979 |
Report No. PSAD-79-62 |
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Reports and Testimonies Report ToThe Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES Better Information Management Policies Needed: A Study Of Scientific And Technical Bibliographic Services A Although IIons Inate pays how the Federal Government spends bllof dollars to create, collect, and dissemsclentiflc and technlcal InformatIon, It little attention to information policies or InformatIon actlvltles are managed GAO’s study of Government ...
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| Date Aug. 3, 1979 |
Report No. CED-79-118 |
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Reports and Testimonies COMPTROLLER GENERAL WASHINGTON. OF O.C. THE UNITED 205.38 STATES llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllil LM110014 B-194859 AUGUST 3, 7979 The Honorable Adam Benjamin, House of Representatives Dear Mr. Benjamin: Jr. By letter dated May 9, 1979, you requested that we obtain information concerning compliance with the Buy America provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 in the award of ...
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| Date Aug. 3, 1979 |
Report No. GGD-79-43 |
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Reports and Testimonies :B~THEC~MPT~-~~LLER GENERAL Report To The CongresS /7 /D,Y OFTHEUNITEDSTATES IRSCan Improve Its Process For Deciding Which Corporate Returns To Audit I RS’ process for determining which corporate income tax returns to audit could be more effective and equitable. IRS could improve the process for determin-, ing how many returns to audit by (1) minimizing significant changes from one year’ aus dit ...
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| Date Aug. 3, 1979 |
Report No. GGD-79-63 |
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Reports and Testimonies OF THEUNITEDSTATES . Federal Juvenile Delinquency-Related s: Coordination And Acti tion Dissemin tion Are Lacking Inf Little progress has been made in implementing the coordination and information dissemination provisions of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. As suggested by the act, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration should assume a leadership role and provide ...
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| Date Aug. 2, 1979 |
Report No. PSAD-79-96 |
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Reports and Testimonies WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 PROCUREMENT ACOULSITION AND SYSTEMS DlVlSlON B-39995 AUGUST 2, 1979 The Honorable The Secretary Attention: Harold Brown of Defense Assistant for Audit Room 3A336 ASD (Comptroller) Reports ululuuuuu 110007 Dear Mr. Secretary: We have completed a limited review of contracts over $100,000 identified as competitively negotiated by the Department of Defense (DOD). We wanted to ...
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| Date Aug. 2, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-419 |
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Reports and Testimonies REPORTBY THEU.S. Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllll 10008 LMI unting nning And Management Of tercraft Could Improve apability While Reducing umbers And Costs The Army is spending $23 million a year to operate, maintain, and store its watercraft. Additionally, it has established an $80 million program to improve some ships no longer required. The Army should: --Dispose of unneeded watercraft. --Make ...
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| Date Aug. 2, 1979 |
Report No. CED-79-97 |
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Reports and Testimonies / !!a REPORT BY THE LM110012 llllllMlllllllllllllllllllllll neral OF THE UNITEDSTATES Since January 1977 the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration has given $126 million to State and local jurisdictions to pay for snow removal expenses in presidentially declared emergency and major disaster areas. Some of these funds were paid to jurisdictions that could have afforded to pay their own snow ...
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| Date Aug. 2, 1979 |
Report No. 110018 |
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Reports and Testimonies UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 8:30 A.M. Thursday, August 2, 1979 STATEMENT OF RONALD F. LAUVE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' ON A&I+~&F3%i'PS G' es-E+=== PROFOSED AMENDMENT TO -38 U.S.C. Mr. to be here Chairman today and Members to of the Committee, 3301 we are pleased @7 ...
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| Date Aug. 1, 1979 |
Report No. EMD-79-93 |
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Reports and Testimonies UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTINGOFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ENEZGY AND DIVISION MINERALS AUGUST 7, 1979 B-164105 : The Honorable The Secretary The Honorable The Secretary Harold Brown of Defense James R. Schlesinger of Energy We recently examined the Dehartment of Energy's and Department of Defense's procedures for protecting nuclear weapons while in transit as a part of our review which ...
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| Date Aug. 1, 1979 |
Report No. EMD-79-92 |
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Reports and Testimonies UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTINGOFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ENEZGY AND DIVISION MINERALS AUGUST 7, 1979 B-164105 : The Honorable The Secretary The Honorable The Secretary Harold Brown of Defense James R. Schlesinger of Energy We recently examined the Dehartment of Energy's and Department of Defense's procedures for protecting nuclear weapons while in transit as a part of our review which ...
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| Date Aug. 1, 1979 |
Report No. FPCD-79-83 |
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Reports and Testimonies l UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 IllllIll Ill11 lllllllll Ill1 IIll lllll llll Ill Ill\1 LM110171 FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND COM~=ENSATION DIVISION WUIj 1 1979 B-115398 Swygert, Mr. H. Patrick j)LcyJ cwP#l Special Counsel Office of Special Counsel 1717 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20419 Dear Mr. Swygert: I 110171 I As part of our oversight activities at the Office of ...
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| Date Aug. 1, 1979 |
Report No. 092129 |
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Reports and Testimonies . t . : . ,; .. -. . ... .. . , - % , .. COMPUTER ASSISTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS: DATA FILES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE GAO LIBRARY SYSTEM U.S. G e n e r a l Accounting Office Office of Librarian A i i g u s t 1979 .~ .. TABLE OF CONTENTS Pages Introduction S u b j ec t Index F i l e Descriptions i-V vi-ix 1-46 I . . - . Th a u t mated r e f e r e n c e s e r v i c e s a v i l a b l e t h r o u ...
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| Date Aug. 1, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-327 |
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Reports and Testimonies STUDY iF1ESTAFF THE U.S. BY OF li\liilillllilillll!~~llllllll LMllOOlO The Federal Government owns over $50 billion worth of facilities to house its employees and their activities - primaril tar e military complexes and civilian office I: uil c? rngs, warehouses, and other structures. This study examines the principal legal, econpmrc, socral, technical and managerial issues rn the Government’s ...
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| Date July 31, 1979 |
Report No. 109992 |
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Reports and Testimonies UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTED AT 1O:OO A.M. EDT Tuesday, July 31, 1979 STATEMENT OF ALLEN R. VOSS DIRECTOR, GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION BEFORE THE COMMERCE, CONSUMER AND MONETARY AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thank to discuss investments of course, kind you, our Mr. ...
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| Date July 31, 1979 |
Report No. EMD-79-76 |
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Reports and Testimonies . REPORT THE B’Y’ OF THEUNITED STATES & # In this report GAO identifies energy conservation opportunities, discusses how alternative policies or programs can be evaluated, and identifies possible criteria to determine merits of various energy conservation actions, GAO’s purpose is to suggest a method could be used to develop a comprehensive tional energy conservation program. that na- The report ...
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| Date July 31, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-324 |
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Reports and Testimonies GAO ’ B-172707 ’ Office IIlllll~illlll~~~~~~~ T LLogistics al:d Communicatrons Division JULY 31, 1979 _. -__ Llnited States General Accounting \;“Jashin,non, DC 20548 The Honorabie William House of Representatives Dear Mr. F. Goodling 109984 Goodling: In response to your April 6, 1979;lkequesg, we have reviewed the Army'.s economic justification for its decision to phase out aircraft maintenance ...
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| Date July 31, 1979 |
Report No. FPCD-79-13 |
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Reports and Testimonies REPORT THEUS. BY Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllll LM109989 I Accounting Office. ’ DOD’s Oversight Of Individual Skill Training In The Military Services Should Be More Comprehensive This report assessesthe adequacy of DOD’s management oversight of skill training programs in the military services. Improved oversight is needed to insure that the services adhere to training policies aimed at improving ...
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| Date July 31, 1979 |
Report No. 109993 |
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Reports and Testimonies .. , FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 9:30 A.:?. Tuesday, July 31, 1979 STATEXEYJT OF RONALD F. LAUVE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, HU?4MJ RESOURCES DIVISIOX BEFORE THE SUBCOEIXITTEE ON EDUCATIOfil, TRAINING HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AND EPIPLOYFIENT AFFAIRS PROPOSED AWXDf4ENT TO TITLE $lr. to be here Title Chairman today and Members to discuss 3301 permitting maintained of ON 1 THE VETERANS ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. EMD-79-95 |
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Reports and Testimonies REPORTBY THE ULS. This report analyzes the cost estimates for three nuclear powerplants being constructed by Washington Public Power Supply System in the Pacific Northwest and compares their estimated cost with estimates made by Ebasco, a national nuclear engineering and construction firm. The large difference between the estimates is because --differences exist in the base construction period ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-315 |
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Reports and Testimonies r General OF THE UNITEDSTATES GSA’s Space Management Proposals National Capital Region r The Nation’s Cities In implementing the President’s national urban policy, the General Services Administra-A/I(J&7/7 tion --follows a policy of relocating Federal activities to cities’ central business areas, regardless of whether the cities have been identified as distressed, and --competes with private ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. 109995 |
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Reports and Testimonies UNITED STATES GENERALACCOUNTINGOFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 lllllllilllllllllllllllllllll LM109995 w?q~ FOR RELEASE Grv DELIVEk I , Congress and the Executive transactions Departments and compliance control rely with on audits applicable of financial laws and regulations these loss funds are spent from as the basic as Congress and abuse. to see that and to prevent intended of funds fraud Because ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. 110099 |
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Reports and Testimonies Monday, July NOTICE OF HEARING Lwl110099 COMMITTEE . . Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pacific July 9:30 30, a.m. Hsuse Office Jr. (D-Tex.), Building Chairman Northwest 1979 Energy Matters (HR 3508 & H.-R. 4159) SUBJECT DATE TIME ROOM MEMBERSHIP 1324 Longworth Abraham Kazen, Majority Represesentatives Weaver (Oregon), Miller (Calif.], ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. 094346 |
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Reports and Testimonies . . * ‘. , , , t UNITED STATES CE:JERA~ AccoU;ITI~;~ RFPfr,WASHINGTOt Hr. Robert F. gtl'ler Room 70008 STATEhrrr4 uz .-. 094346 COMPTROLLERGENERAL OF TBE UNITED STATES bEFOR& THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION AND NATIONAL SECURIIY COMnITTEE ON GOVERNME$T OPERATICNS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCERNING OUR REPORT ON THE PROELEHS INVOLVED WITB GRANT AUDITLiXi Hr. Chairman and Membotr of the the ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. CED-79-107 |
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Reports and Testimonies REPORT THE BY P There is substantial merit in the commission form of organization for regulating domestic and international communications--a complex and politically sensitive area. Nothing is inherent in the commission form to preclude it from operating efficiently and effectively in the public interest. In the case of the Federal Communications Commission fiG the most persistent need is for ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. EMD-79-96 |
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Reports and Testimonies UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ENERGY AND DIVISION MINERALS B-114858 L G &?7m?rfi & dq J&r /?gwA~~f~~C~ 5 hw; JULY 30,1979 The Honorable United States James H. Weaver House of Representatives Dear Mr. Weaver: Pursuant to your letter of June 20, 1979--and subsequent discussions with your staff--we briefly reviewed the issue papers prepared by the Bonneville Power ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. FPCD-79-59 |
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Reports and Testimonies Efficiency Of Reserve And Guard Training Has Improved Since 1974, But Can Be Done Because of DOD’s Total Force policy, it is critical to the security of the United States that Selected Reserve units be ready to perform assigned missions in the event of war or national emergency. GAO recently questioned the ability of these units to perform because of their critical manpower weaknesses. Two of ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. LCD-79-226 |
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Reports and Testimonies REPORT BY THE OF THE UNITED STATES The and were cover move House Committee on Merchant Marine Fisheries wanted to know if forwarders bidding rates that were high enough to their costs for making arrangements to military members’ household goods. Although GAO was not allowed to review the records of the low bidders, there is evidence that the rates may have been below cost, at least during the ...
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| Date July 30, 1979 |
Report No. CED-79-114 |
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Reports and Testimonies c * . REPORTBY THE Comptroller General OF THE UNITEDSTATES Foreign Investment In U.S. Agricultural Land--How It Shapes Up This report, requested by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, provides an indepth perspective on foreign investment in U.S. agricultural land. Foreign buyers from at least 30 countries bought about 8 percent (248,146 acres) of the 3 million acres of ...
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| Date July 27, 1979 |
Report No. EMD-79-99 |
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Reports and Testimonies . B-178205 COMPTROLLER GENERAL WASHINGTON, 0~ THE UNITED STATS D.C. 20548 July The Honorable Gary Hart Subcommittee on Chairman, Synthetic Fuels Committee on the Budget SenateUnited States Senate Dear Senator Hart: icj* icj*
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| Date July 27, 1979 |
Report No. GGD-79-79 |
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Reports and Testimonies Report ToThe Congress . a OF THEUNITEDSTATES Reliable Local Unemployment Estimates: A Challenge For Federal And State Cooperation This report discusses the Federal/State program for estimating unemployment in thousands of cities, counties, and towns. It focuses on the reasons for the unreliability of current statistics. It shows that errors in these figures could mean differences of millions of ...
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| Date July 27, 1979 |
Report No. HRD-79-67 |
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Reports and Testimonies L I -REPORT BY THE The Congress has expressed concern that indirect costs of health research have been escalating rapidly. This report --describes the system used to compute these costs and shows why they are increasing rapidly, --explains why indirect cost rates cannot be meaningfully compared among grantees, and --demonstrates inconsistencies in principles and practices used to make indirect ...
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| Date July 27, 1979 |
Report No. CED-79-93 |
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Reports and Testimonies BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL W9g6 OF THEUNITEDSTATES L s Report ToThe Congress k r . Passive Restraints For Automobile OccupantsA Closer Look Passive restraints be required in for front-seat all cars after occupants September will 1, 1983. Either an air bag or an automatic seat belt, the two prominent systems being considered, will serve this function. A solid chemical, sodium azide, will be used to ...
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