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Coast Guard: As Deepwater Systems Integrator, Coast Guard Is Reassessing Costs and Capabilities but Lags in Applying Its Disciplined Acquisition Approach, GAO-09-682, July 14, 2009 Electronic Health Records: Program Office Improvements Needed to Strengthen Management of VA and DOD Efforts to Achieve Full Interoperability, GAO-09-895T, July 14, 2009 Hardrock Mining: Information on State Royalties and …
“Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) today released a Policy Post discussing privacy implications for the federal data clearinghouse known as data.gov and de-identification considerations for the Open Government Directive. While this initiative signifies a step in the right direction towards a more open and transparent federal government, it must be done in concert with …
“In a major step toward developing a state-of-the-art Recovery.gov website, a contract was awarded this week to Smartronix, Inc., a Maryland information technology firm. The company will build the new website for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, an independent agency that manages Recovery.gov and monitors spending under the $787 billion Recovery program. The initial …
News release: “The U.S. EPA has identified the hardrock mining industry as its priority for developing financial assurance requirements. Financial assurance requirements help ensure that owners and operators of these facilities, not taxpayers, foot the bill for environmental cleanup. These requirements will be developed under section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today issued its 2008 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, a national study that explores changes in homelessness nationwide. HUD’s assessment concludes that while overall homelessness in America held fairly steady from 2007 to 2008, the number of homeless families, particularly those living in suburban …
Canada Country Analysis Brief (07/09/2009): “Canada has considerable natural resources and is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of energy. In 2006, Canada produced 19.3 quadrillion British Thermal Units (Btu) of total energy, the fifth-largest amount in the world. Since 1980, Canada’s total energy production has increased by 87 percent, while its total …
Monthly Labor Review, Volume 132, Number 6, June 2009. Includes the following articles: BLS at 125: using historic principles to track the 21st-century economy; How shifting occupational composition has affected the real average wage; What do OES data have to say about increasing wage inequality?; and Productivity trends in business cycles: a visual essay.
News release: “The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released its latest and 12th edition of The SAR Activity Review By the Numbers. The report shows a continued overall rise in Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filings including an increase in depository institution filings related to all seven areas of suspected fraud listed on the …
Memorandum: Risk Management – Asset and Liability Concentrations – Office of Thrift Supervision, July 9, 2009 “The Office of Supervision (OTS) has conducted internal reviews of recent savings association failures and has identified concerns regarding asset and liability concentrations and related risk management practices. Higher-risk asset and liability concentrations contributed significantly to the increase in …
Fact Sheet: Administrations Regulatory Reform Agenda Moves Forward – Legislation for Strengthening Investor Protection Delivered to Capitol Hill To view the Legislative Language, please visit link: “Continuing its push to establish new rules of the road and make the financial system more fair for consumers and investors, the Administration today delivered proposed legislation to strengthen …
“The National Archives Office of Records Services, the William J. Clinton Library, and the George Bush Library released records relating to Judge Sonia Sotomayor.”
Two Recent Studies of Regional Differences in the Effects of Policies That Would Price Carbon Dioxide Emissions, July 9, 2009, Letter to the Honorable James M. Inhofe “As you know, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently analyzed the effects that the cap-and-trade program for greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions specified by H.R. 2454 (as reported by the …
