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RL34380 – The Executive Schedule IV Pay Cap on General Schedule Compensation, February 15, 2008 “Annual pay adjustments for about 1.3 million employees under the General Schedule (GS) and certain other systems are governed by Section 529 of P.L. 101509, the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990 (FEPCA), which generally requires that covered employees …
News release: “Naomi C. Earp, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today released the Annual Report on the Federal Work Force for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, covering October 2006 through September 2007. The comprehensive report, which informs and advises the President and the Congress on the state of equal employment opportunity (EEO) …
D-2008-122 Follow-up on DoD Purchases Made Through the Department of the Interior, August 18, 2008 (Project No. D2008-D000CF-0096.000) D-2008-121 Internal Controls for Air Force General Fund Cash and Other Monetary Assets, August 18, 2008 (Project No. D2007-D000FD-0145.000) D-2008-120 Coordination of Overseas Force Structure Changes in the U.S. European Command, August 18, 2008 (CLASSIFIED REPORT) (Project …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today announced two amendments to the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). One will expressly bar telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, unless a consumer previously has agreed to accept such calls from the seller. The other related technical amendment modifies the TSR’s method of calculating the maximum permissible level of …
News release: “Secretary Chertoff spoke on the balance between privacy and secure identity August 13 at the University of Southern California National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events. He addressed crimes involving identity theft, and talked about identity validation and authentication, the associated financial costs, the effect on illegal workers, the universe …
News release: “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced intended designations for the 24 hour PM2.5 (Particulate Matter) standard for all state lands and for Indian country. EPA revised the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) on September 21, 2006 to provide increased protection of public health and welfare from fine particle pollution.” Area …
OSHA – Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, Revised, OSHA 3114-07R 2008: “The dumping of hazardous substances poses a significant threat to the environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data show that over 18 million tons of hazardous substances covered by TRI were disposed of or released into the environment …
News release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today unveiled the successor to the agencys 1980s-era EDGAR database, which will give investors far faster and easier access to key financial information about public companies and mutual funds. The new system is called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications. Based on a completely new …
News release: “Customer satisfaction continues on a bumpy path without momentum or trend in the second quarter, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index. After a small uptick last quarter, ACSI slips 0.1% to 75.1 on a 100-point scale. The ACSI second quarter report, released today from the University of Michigans National Quality Research Center, …
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News release: “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today delivered to Congress the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Licensing Strategy Report which describes the licensing approach, the analytical tools, the research and development activities and the estimated resources required to license an advanced reactor design by 2017 and …
News release: “The Internal Revenue Service today released the summer 2008 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, which features tax year 2005 data on the growth in profits and tax liability reported by foreign-controlled domestic corporations. According to 2005 data, there were 61,820 foreign-controlled domestic corporations (FCDCs), accounting for 1.1 percent of the total …
