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Press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today released an interim final rule that imposes for the first time comprehensive federal security regulations for high risk chemical facilities. The department sought and reviewed comments from state and local partners, Congress, private industry, and the public to develop consistent guidelines using a risk-based approach. The …
“The Space Law Symposium on “Capacity building in space law”, sponsored by the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) and the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL), was held from 26 to 27 March 2007.” Links to papers and powerpoint presentations
Press release: “Rep. Brad Miller, Chairman of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the House Science & Technology Committee…asked Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to explain why Google had changed its satellite maps of the New Orleans region to pre-Hurricane Katrina images.” Google Blog: “in September 2006, the storm imagery was replaced with pre-Katrina aerial photography …
Annual Energy Outlook Retrospective Review: Evaluation of Projections in Past Editions (03/31/2007): “This paper produces a comparison between realized energy outcomes and the projections included in previous editions of the AEO. Each year, the comparison adds the projections from the most recent AEO and updates the historical data to the most recently available.” April 2007 …
Freedom of Information Act: Processing Trends Show Importance of Improvement Plans, Full Report GAO-07-441, and Highlights, March 30, 2007.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 – Administration Oversight – Hearing Investigates Allegations of Misconduct at GSA: “This hearing focused on allegations that GSA Administrator Lurita Doan failed to follow proper procedures for awarding federal contracts, attempted to intervene in contract negotiations, and engaged in partisan political activities on federal property.” Related documents and links: Chairman Henry …
Interagency Proposal for Model Privacy Form under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, March 29, 2007 Federal Register (62 pages, PDF)
The Third Branch, March 2007: “Some day in the not-too-distant future, locating and reading a brief filed in a federal appellate case will become as easy as finding an appeals court opinion. And electronic appellate briefs will feature hyperlinks to lower court rulings, statutes, regulations, and other cited materials. Judges generally are excited about having …
D-2007-077 Timeliness of Payments for Reenlistment Bonuses in the Army (3/28/2007) (Project No. D2006-D000FP-0253.000)
Value Engineering In The Federal-Aid Highway Program, March 28, 2007: “The audit objectives were to determine whether FHWA’s oversight is adequate to ensure that: (1) value engineering studies are performed on all Federal-aid projects that have an estimated cost of $25 million or more; (2) value engineering studies are performed on all Federal-aid projects that …
CDC: Health Insurance Coverage During the period January-September 2006 – nearly 15% of the U.S. population were without health insurance.
Via Defense Tech, a detailed March 26, 2007 action report, on Iraq authored by former Army general and U.S. Southern Commmand commander Barry R. McCaffrey, that includes the following statements: “Iraq is ripped by a low grade civil war which has worsened to catastrophic levels with as many as 3000 citizens murdered per month. The …
