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Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005, 07/08. Presents findings from the Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005. NCJ 222181: “The nation’s nearly 400 publicly funded forensic crime laboratories perform a variety of forensic services, including DNA testing and controlled substance identification for federal, state, and local jurisdictions. The report examines the …
08-P-0235 EPA Decisions to Delete Superfund Sites Should Undergo Quality Assurance Review, [Report PDF – 59pp] [At a Glance PDF] “As of September 2007, EPA had deleted 322 sites from the National Priorities List (NPL). Among the eight sites we reviewed, documentation for the Agencys decision to delete three sites was not consistent with EPA …
“Judicial Facts and Figures is a set of tables containing historical caseload data primarily for the fiscal years from 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2002 through 2007. The tables include data on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts.”
Hardrock Mining: Information on State Royalties and Trends in Mineral Imports and Exports, GAO-08-849R, July 21, 2008. “Since the passage of the General Mining Act of 1872, miners have extracted billions of dollars worth of gold, silver, copper, and other hardrock (locatable) minerals from federal lands without having to pay a royalty. Congress is now …
Library of Congress Federal Research Division, Country Profiles: Turkey and Yemen.
Social Security Administration OIG: A-09-07-27154, Social Security Cards Mailed to the Social Security Administration’s Field Offices, August 19, 2008.
“The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released for public review and comment a major revision to its security certification and accreditation (C&A) guidelines for federal information systems. A substantial rewrite of the original document, the new Guide for Security Authorization of Federal Information Systems: A Security Lifecycle Approach, represents a significant step …
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 …
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 …
