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“GPO launched the GPO LOCKSS Pilot Project in June 2005 to investigate how LOCKSS might be used for digital distribution. LOCKSS (for “Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe”) is open source software that provides institutions with a way to collect, store, and maintain access to their own local copy of e-journal content. LOCKSS was developed …
Via Toby McIntosh, freedominfo.org: “The World Bank is well on its way to developing a country-by-country database “on various transparency and accountability institutions in developing countries…The new database, which may be posted online in a month or so, will summarize national laws on asset disclosure, conflict of interest, freedom of information, and immunity provisions. The …
WSJ free feature: Priority of Emergency Networks – FCC Weighs Responders’ Needs Against Commercial-Spectrum Use: “Spurred by huge communications gaps during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, debate has raged on Capitol Hill, at the FCC and within the telecommunications industry over how much valuable radio spectrum should be set …
Monthly Budget Review, April 2007 A Review of CBO’s Activities in 2006 Under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, April 2007 Background Paper: Utilization of Tax Incentives for Retirement Saving: Update to 2003, March 2007
Press release: “The Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2006 report is submitted to the Congress by the Department of State in compliance with Section 665 of P.L. 107-228, the FY 03 Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which requires the Department to report on actions taken by the U.S. Government to encourage respect for …
Eight Million Pages of New Material for Researchers on Nazi and Japanese War Crimes, Washington, D.C.: “The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), the group tasked with locating, declassifying, and making publicly available U.S. records of Nazi and Japanese war crimes, will conclude its work on March 31, 2007. …
2006 FDA Listing of U.S. Industries – Annual Update 1/1/07: “The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) filers (i.e., employees who are required to file either a confidential or public financial disclosure report) may not hold financial interests in companies which are significantly regulated by the FDA. For purposes of the FDA Conflict of Interest regulations …
Call and Thrift Financial Reports, April 2, 2007. “March 31, 2007 filing information for Call Reports are now available.” FDIC State Profiles, March 30, 2007: “Fourth quarter 2006 summary of state banking and economic conditions now available.” 2007 FDIC Annual Performance Plan, March 26, 2007: “This Plan sets out specific annual performance goals, indicators and …
Review of the Pre-Iraqi War Activities of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, February 9, 2007 (Public Release Version) – Report Number 07-INTEL-04. Due to the large size of this report file (121 pages), it has been divided into four parts to make it easier to download. Review of the Pre-Iraqi …
Legal Permanent Residents: 2006 (PDF, 6 pages) – “This report presents information on the number and characteristics of persons who became legal permanent residents in the United States during fiscal year 2006.” Data on Legal Permanent Residents – Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2006 – “Access data on immigrants who became legal permanent residents in fiscal …
2007-P-00016 Environmental Justice Concerns and Communication Problems Complicated Cleaning Up Ringwood Mines/Landfill Site [Report PDF – 32 pages] [At a Glance PDF] April 2, 2007
Follow up to this March 12, 2007 posting, OMB Releases Database on Earmarks in Appropriations Bills for FY 2005, today the OMB “updated its earmarks database with details on 13,496 earmarks totaling more than $19 billion for Fiscal Year 2005 appropriations.”
