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International Affairs: Federal Foreign Language Documents

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 20, 1995
Report No. GGD-95-243R
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Summary:

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the federal agencies which issued documents in foreign languages. GAO noted that: (1) between 1990 through 1994, over 50 agencies issued 265 federal documents in languages other than English; (2) the Social Security Administration issued 19 percent of these foreign-language documents; (3) the foreign-language documents covered topics related to the agencies' missions and functions; and (4) 83.4 percent of the documents were written in Spanish and 4.5 percent in French.

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