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From CBO, A Guide to Understanding the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, September 2005 (32 pages, PDF) and The Risk Exposure of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, September 2005 (44 pages, PDF)
Press release, September 24, 2005: “The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in conjunction with other federal agencies, continues to respond to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.”
How the U.S. Senate Can Obtain Information From Former Federal Government Employees Who Are Now Supreme Court Nominees: A New, More Direct Approach that Won’t Require Fighting Over Records
From EPIC: “The Transportation Security Administration has abandoned plans to use information from data aggregators to check airline passengers’ backgrounds. TSA made the decision shortly before a working group issued a scathing report (19 pages, PDF) on the program. Last year, an EPIC FOIA request revealed (4 pages, PDF) that Axciom proposed to water down …
“GPO is releasing three briefing papers and soliciting comments from the depository library community. Depository Selection: History and Current Practice is provided as background information for the other two papers. It provides an overview of the item number process in its current form. Depository Selection Mechanisms: New Model for the Selection of Online Titles proposes …
A previously classified plan authored by TSA to protect mass transit from terrorist attacks will now be shared with state local and other authorities charged with facilitating and executing the evacuation of citizens. Related reference: Washington Post: “A federal judge yesterday demanded to see a highly secret plan for protecting the Washington area’s rails from …
The Association of State Floodplain Managers published a White Paper, Hurricane Katrina: Reconstruction Through Mitigation (6 pages, PDF) which merits review. Also note that the organization’s Hurricane Katrina Resource Page provides links to key government resources with a focus on “policy, recovery and economics.”
The legislative history of the Postal Rate Commission enabling statute is available on the agency website. To locate it, look at the top of the homepage navigation bar, and click on ARCHIVES. This in turn will take you to this page, where the database hosting the legislative history is located. In addition to this resource, …
Press release: “Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein announced today several initiatives to aid in the recovery of original records in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana that have been affected by Hurricane Katrina…[he stated] the potential loss of information that directly affects the lives of people in these states is staggering. The …
The September 14 launch of William M. Arkin’s blog, “Early Warning”, with its focus on “national and homeland security,” was noted by Secrecy News for establishing what promises to be a significant and useful online archive of government documents not readily available otherwise. See also Arkin’s book, Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and …
“The Hurricane Katrina News Directory is a safety information initiative of SafetyIssues.com. Powered by Google News.” Related links: Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Still to be Learned, by Stephen Heath Thibeault, Media Reaction Editor, U.S. Department of State – “This report summarizes and interprets foreign editorial opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. …
Katrina’s Wake: Restoring Financial Services (6 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: The Response by the Internal Revenue Service (6 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: Insurance Losses and National Capacities for Financing Disaster Risk (23 pages, PDF) Unemployment and Employment Programs Available to Workers from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Affected by Hurricane Katrina (16 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: …
