Category «Government Documents»

Independent Assessments Find Yucca Mountain Project on Track

Press release: “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) today released two independent assessments addressing areas critical to the overall success of the Yucca Mountain repository program. These assessments, which include an independent review of the OCRWM Quality Assurance (QA) Program and an independent review of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

CBO: The Long-Term Budget Outlook, December 2007

The Long-Term Budget Outlook, December 2007 (62 pages) and Supplemental Data: Revenues and Spending Excluding Interest, by Category, as a Percentage of Gross Domestic Product Under CBO’s Long-Term Budget Scenarios Statement of Peter R. Orszag, Director – Congressional Budget Office, The Long-Term Budget Outlook before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, December …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

CBO Report: Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans

Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2008, December 2007: “The 2008 FYDP [Future Year’s Defense Program ]reflects changes to the department’s programs and priorities between February 2006 and February 2007. The 2008 FYDP and CBO’s projections of its long-term implications both exclude potential future supplemental or emergency appropriations, although the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Criminal Victimization, 2006

Press release: “Violent and property crime rates in United States urban and suburban communities remained stable between 2005 and 2006, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Last year BJS introduced a new sample of households and adopted automated data collection procedures that limited comparisons to urban and suburban areas.” The report, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

ABA Journal Names Gonzales, Mukasey Lawyers of the Year for 2007 and 2008

Press release: “Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been named 2007’s Lawyer of the Year by the ABA Journal, the flagship publication of the American Bar Association.” “The top legal story of 2007 was unquestionably the unraveling of support for the Bush administration’s expansive view of presidential power during wartime, and with it, the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

Privacy, Public Access and Policymaking in State Redaction Practices

Government Technology: “A new white paper designed to help public officials develop policies for removing Social Security numbers and other sensitive information from public documents is now available online. The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), in collaboration with the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (eC3), today released a joint white paper on redaction …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents