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News release: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that a team led by senior officials in the Department of the Interior, including Interiors Inspector General, have completed a review of offshore oil and gas oversight and regulation and have delivered a set of recommendations that reinforce and expand on ongoing reforms being carried …
OIG-10-111 – DHS Needs to Improve the Security Posture of Its Cybersecurity Program Systems, September 8, 2010 “Our audit focused on the security of the systems that US-CERT uses to accomplish its cybersecurity mission. Overall, NCSD has implemented adequate physical security and logical access controls over the cybersecurity program systems used to collect, process, and …
University Research: Policies for Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated, GAO-10-937, September 8, 2010 “GAO identified wide variation in indirect cost rates at schools receiving DOD funding in fiscal year 2007, which may be related to a number of factors. For example, the average difference between a school’s proposed and its negotiated rate …
The Greening of Water Law: Managing Freshwater Resources for People and the Environment, United Nations Environment Programme, released September 7, 2010 “The Greening of Water Law explores the notion and the benefits of greening water law by presenting and assessing a variety of legal, procedural and policy mechanisms, for both national and international arenas, that …
Monthly Budget Review – September 2010: Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for July and the Daily Treasury Statements for August 2010 “The federal government incurred a deficit of nearly $1.3 trillion in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2010, CBO estimatesa total that is about $100 billion less than the shortfall recorded through …
News release: “Despite the known dangers of tobacco use, 1 in 5 American adults continues to smoke cigarettes, and 4 in 10 nonsmokers were exposed to cigarette smoke during 2007-2008, according to reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among children between the ages of 3 and 11 years old, 54 percent were …
Older Americans Act: Preliminary Observations on Services Requested by Seniors and Challenges in Providing Assistance, GAO-10-1024T, September 07, 2010 “Seniors frequently requested home-delivered meals and transportation services, and based on preliminary responses to GAOs survey and information from site visits, demand for some Title III services may be increasing. Some agencies said they were unable …
“The Bureau of Land Management has issued a new policy handbook relating to the management of wild horses and burros roaming public lands under the BLM’s jurisdiction. Among other things, the handbook would ensure that the factors considered in determining appropriate herd population levels are consistent across all of the Bureau’s 179 herd management areas …
Wildland urban interface communities lack funding oversight and guidance from DOI, Report No.: ER-EV-MOA-0012-2009 July 2010 “This memorandum transmits our evaluation of the Department of the Interior’s (DOl) activities pertaining to wildland urban interface areas (WUI) where private and federal properties intersect and where wildland fires may ignite without warning. We conducted this evaluation in …
News release: “A report issued today by key environmental and scientific federal agencies assesses the increasing prevalence of low-oxygen dead zones in U.S. coastal waters and outlines a series of research and policy steps that could help reverse the decades-long trend. The interagency report notes that incidents of hypoxiaa condition in which oxygen levels drop …
High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being, Daniel Kahneman1 and Angus Deaton, Center for Health and Well-being, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), August 4, 2010. “Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of …
Where Americans Get Acute Care: Increasingly, Its Not At Their Doctors Office, Stephen R. Pitts, Emily R. Carrier, Eugene C. Rich and Arthur L. Kellermann. Health Affairs, 29, no. 9 (2010): 1620-1629 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2009.1026 “Historically, general practitioners provided first-contact care in the United States. Today, however, only 42 percent of the 354 million annual visits …
