Category «Government Documents»

White House Discloses Destruction of Computer Hard Drives

Follow up to previous postings on litigation and hearings on missing White House email and violations of the Presidential Records Act, news today from AP: “Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

DHS OIG Audit of Airport Passenger and Checked Baggage Screening Performance

OIG-08-25 – Audit of Airport Passenger and Checked Baggage Screening Performance (Unclassified Summary), February 2008 (PDF, 8 pages): “The number of tests conducted, the names of the airports tested, and the quantitative and qualitative results of our testing are classified. We have shared that information with the Department, the Transportation Security Administration, and appropriate congressional …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Fact Sheet: New York City Congestion Mitigation Plan

News release: “Governor David A. Paterson announced today that he has submitted a Governor’s program bill, that follows the recommendations of the New York City Traffic Mitigation Commission report of January 31, 2008 to allow for the City Council and State Legislature to consider a bill that meets the requirements of the United States Department …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Detailed Update for Fiscal Year 2008

Congressional Budget Office: The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans:Detailed Update for Fiscal Year 2008 – All Funding in Billions of 2008 Dollars “This presentation updates the analysis of current defense plans contained in the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) April 2007 Web document The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Detailed Update for Fiscal Year …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Nation's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook, U.S. Coins

The Nation’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: January 2008 Update, GAO-08-591R, March 21, 2008: “Our updated simulations continue to illustrate that the long-term fiscal outlook is unsustainable. Despite a 3-year decline in the unified budget deficit, the federal government still faces large and growing structural deficits driven primarily by rising health care costs and known demographic trends. …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Energy Efficient Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Require Proper Disposal Procedures

Shining a light on fluorescent bulbs – Energy-efficient coils booming, but disposal of mercury poses problems. By Alex Johnson, MSNBC: “Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are running into resistance from waste industry …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

DHS OIG Audits: Mission Performance of Coast Guard, Consolidated Terrorist Watchlist, Hurricane Katrina

OIG-08-30 – Annual Review of Mission Performance United States Coast Guard (FY 2006) (PDF, 37 pages) OIG-08-29 – The DHS Process for Nominating Individuals to the Consolidated Terrorist Watchlist (PDF, 26 pages) OIG-08-28 – The State of Ohio’s Management of State Homeland Security Grants Awarded During Fiscal Years 2002 through 2004 (PDF, 47 pages) DA-08-05 …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

FTC Issues 2008 Fair Debt Collection Practices Report to Congress

“The Commission has authorized the staff to release publicly the 30th Annual Report to Congress on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This report…summarizes the Commission’s administration and enforcement of the FDCPA during 2007. It presents an overview of the types of consumer complaints received by the Commission, descriptions of the Commission’s debt-collection law …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New Asia-Pacific Statistical Yearbook Presents Complete Picture of the Region’s Development

News release: “While the world-leading pace of urbanization in Asia and the Pacific has contributed to the region’s growth – it has also driven up urban poverty, according to the latest edition of the Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific…The Yearbook, produced by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

NARA's Federal Records Centers Offer Agencies Storage, Easy Use for 80 Billion Pages of Documents

NARA’s Federal Records Centers Offer Agencies Storage, Easy Use for 80 Billion Pages of Documents. By Tara E. C. McLoughlin “Through its nationwide network of 17 facilities with more than 1,100 federal employees, the centers serve 400 federal agencies. FRCs [Federal Records Centers] store and service every kind of federal record—tax returns, claims files for …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents