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The Global Justice Reference Architecture Specification, Working Draft Version 1.3: “Solving interoperability challenges continues to be a significant problem and a high priority for the justice and public safety community. There are approximately 100,000 justice agencies that have the critical need to share information across their various information systems, and this variety creates multiple layers …
The No Child Left Behind Act: An Overview of Reauthorization Issues for the 110th Congress, December 16, 2006.
This site has an annotated list of links to free and fee-based services (for photo prints and copies) that partner with the USGS to provide web access to a range of enhanced onlone map and photo images.
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Where Can I Donate or Recycle My Old Computer and Other Electronic Products? Related postings on e-waste and e-cycling
“Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released Guide to Earmark Reform. The report evaluates the recently-passed House ethics package (H. Res. 6) and the President’s proposal for earmark reforms, and compares each with CAGW’s recommendations.” Related postings on earmarks
The Drug Enforcement Administrations Handling of Cash Seizures, Audit Report 07-06, December 2006, PDF (Full Report), released January 5, 2006.
Press release: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released today fiscal year 2007 grant guidance and application kits for five grant programs that will total roughly $1.7 billion in funding for state and local counterterrorism efforts. With the fiscal year 2007 funding, the department will have invested nearly $20 billion in local planning, organization, equipment, …
Follow-up to previous postings on EPA library closings, via FAS, this recent CRS report, Restructuring EPA’s Libraries: Background and Issues for Congress, updated January 3, 2007. “EPA determined that the utility of some of its libraries had declined as the agency has made more information available through the Internet, and as heightened security at its …
Medical Devices: Status of FDA’s Program for Inspections by Accredited Organizations, Full text GAO-07-157, and Highlights, January 5, 2007. “GAO examined FDA documents, interviewed FDA officials, and obtained information from FDA on the number of inspections conducted from March 11, 2004–when FDA first cleared an accredited organization to conduct independent inspections–through October 31, 2006. GAO …
The Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission website on State Contractor Contribution Ban Lists incluses the following update: “Pursuant to the order of the U.S. District Court, these lists do not contain the names of dependent children who are principals of State Contractors and Prospective State Contractors. View the Court order,” filed Janaury 3, 2007.
“Chairman of the House Committee Bart Gordon (D-TN) highlighted the new MethResources.gov website, offering a one-stop source of information on the methamphetamine epidemic and help for families and communities faced with the fallout from the dangerously-addictive drug.”