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Department of Justice Participation on the Internal Revenue Service Undercover Review Committee: Memorandum Opinion for the Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division [October 8, 1996]
"This memorandum responds to your request for our legal opinion on what limitations, if any, are imposed by the provisions of § 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code on the participation by Department of Justice ('DOJ') attorneys on the Undercover Review Committee of the Internal Revenue Service ('IRS'). […] Specifically, we have been asked to determine whether tax return information can be disclosed to DOJ attorneys sitting on the IRS Undercover Review Committee ('Committee') in investigations that have not been formally referred to DOJ by the IRS. As set forth below, we conclude that disclosure of tax return information to a DOJ attorney serving on the Committee is permissible under section 6103 as a limited referral for legal advice."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel
1996-10-08
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Constitutionality of Cooperative International Law Enforcement Activities Under the Emoluments Clause: Memorandum Opinion for the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division [October 7, 1996]
"This memorandum responds to your request for our advice on certain legal issues raised by proposed bilateral executive agreements providing for cooperative maritime counterdrug enforcement activities in the Caribbean. In particular, you have asked whether the agreements would be impermissible under the Emoluments Clause, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution, and this opinion is confined to that question. […] The Agreement further provides that crew members of the British law enforcement vessel may assist in the search and seizure of property, detention of a person, and use of force pursuant to the Agreement if expressly requested to do so by the U.S. shiprider. The provisions of the U.S.-U.K. Agreement are fully reciprocal; identical or equivalent terms apply to create a shiprider program for the United Kingdom. Congress has expressly authorized the President to enter into reciprocal maritime agreements with other countries in order to promote international cooperation to curtail drug traffic."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel
1996-10-07
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Afghan-Pakistan Border Relations at Torkham Tense, October 2, 1996
"A 'reliable contact of the consulate' [name excised] witnessed '30-35 sealed ISI trucks and 15-20 fuel tankers' waiting to cross the Afghanistan-Pakistan border at Torkham. 'Between afternoon tea with the officers in charge of the 'ISI convoy' and recognizing the type of vehicle license plate numbers on the convoy vehicles, [name excised] was very certain of the convoy's affiliation.' The cable does not specify what was contained in the ISI trucks or where after entering Afghanistan the convoy was heading."
United States. Department of State
1996-10-02
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Joint Doctrine for Employment of Operational/Tactical Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems
"This publication provides command, control, communications, and computer (C4) systems doctrinal guidance across the range of military operations for those who: a. Plan C4 systems support for joint operations; b. Employ C4 systems in support of joint operations; c. Provide operational and technical direction to C4 systems; and d. Plan, manage, and employ C4 systems normally unique to Service or non-US forces as part of joint operations. This document discusses the impact of Joint Force Commander's decisions on command, control, communications and computer (C4) systems; provides Joint C4 principles, planning, and management considerations; considers Joint Task Force C4 employment and modular C4 packaging; and discusses major related C4 systems and support."
United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff
1996-10-01
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Problems and Success Factors Inherent in Fire Service Retirement
"Retirement from a life-long career can be a stressful event, regardless of the field. Research conducted in the military and law enforcement fields indicated that retirement from a career in public safety can be more stressful than retirement from the general work force. Currently, there is little literature that is dedicated to the issue of retirement from the related public-safety field of the fire service. The purpose of this research was to determine what problems a person may face, as well as how to successfully deal with those problems, when retiring from a career in the fire service. This study used an evaluative research methodology. The research questions that were answered were: 1. What are the problems associated with retirement in general, and the fire service in particular? 2. How do retirees deal with those problems? 3. What factors contribute to a successful retirement from the fire service?"
National Fire Academy
Bates, Gerald M.
1996-10
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Joint Force Quarterly: Autumn 1996, Issue 13 [October 1996]
"NDU Press produces Joint Force Quarterly in concert with ongoing education and research at National Defense University in support of the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. JFQ is the Chairman's joint military and security studies journal designed to inform and educate national security professionals on joint and integrated operations; whole of government contributions to national security policy and strategy; homeland security; and developments in training and joint military education to better equip America's military and security apparatus to meet tomorrow's challenges while protecting freedom today."
National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies
Joseph, Robert G.
1996-10
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Wildland Firefighter Safety Awareness Study: Phase I - Identifying the Organizational Culture, Leadership, Human Factors, and Other Issues Impacting Firefighter Safety
"There are many characterizations of wildland firefighters and their work culture. These characterizations vary across all levels of organizations, jurisdictions and types of jobs. As closely held as these perceptions are, as confident as each of us is with our own perceptions--it begs the question of what a systematic look at firefighters and their culture, from within and without, would reveal. This report summarizes the results of Phase I of a four-phase study to examine the Federal wildland firefighting community and to improve firefighter safety. The first phase identified and assessed the organizational culture, leadership, accountability and human factors that affect firefighter safety in the five federal agencies most directly involved in wildland firefighting: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Fish and Wildlife Service."
National Interagency Fire Center (U.S.)
1996-10
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Nuclear Nonproliferation: Implications of the U.S./North Korean Agreement on Nuclear Issues
Unless adequate liability protections are put in place, the United States, Japan, and South Korea--members of an international consortium created in 1994 to replace North Korea's nuclear reactors--could be pressured into paying nuclear damage claims arising from an accident at a North Korean reactor. The purpose of this GAO report is to determine whether "(1) the Agreed Framework is a nonbinding political agreement, (2) the United States could be held financially liable for a nuclear accident at the North Korean reactor site, (3) North Korea has obligated itself to pay the cost of upgrading its existing electricity power distribution system, and (4) the agreement is being implemented consistent with the applicable laws
governing the transfer of U.S. nuclear components, materials, and technology."
United States. General Accounting Office
1996-10-01
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U.S. Fire Administration/Technical Report Series: Sprinklered Records Storage Facility - Chicago, Illinois
"On Tuesday October 29, 1996, a still alarm was sounded for a fire in an automatic sprinkler protected records archive building shortly before 2 p.m. Before the fire was declared under control nearly ten hours later, it had reached the fourth alarm level with a commitment of 17 engines, 9 trucks and tower ladders, a squad and several additional special pieces of equipment. The last fire company left the scene about 5 p.m. on November 7, 1996 and a full box alarm assignment was involved in overhaul operations for over 24 hours after the fire."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States Fire Administration
Miller, Thomas H. (Professional safety engineer)
1996-10
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Tactics and Technology for 21st Century Military Superiority: Volume 2, Part 1, Supporting Materials
"This document provides the supporting material for Volume 1. It does not contain recommendations and findings, nor does it represent the consensus opinion of the Task Force. Volume 1 is a result of finding new ways to make rapidly deployable forces much more effective than they are today. The report indicates that substantial, possibly revolutionary, improvements in the effectiveness of rapidly deployable forces are feasible. The concepts in the report can be refined, tested and evolved into fielded capabilities over the next two decades. The essence of this new expeditionary force is an ability to mass fire than forces. It relies on an ensemble of remote weapons effective against all types of targets; an extensive suite of sensors, information processors and information warfare capabilities to provide situation understanding dominance; a ground force comprised of light agile combat cells that offer few targets for the enemy; a precision logistics capacity that provides the right stuff at the right place at the right time; and a robust information infrastructure that ties this distributed force together."
United States. Defense Science Board
1996-10
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Health Hazard Evaluation Report 95-0031-2601; University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey University Hospital Newark, New Jersey
"In July 1995, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted a health hazard evaluation (HHE) at University Hospital of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The HHE was conducted in response to a management request for assistance in evaluating a supplemental high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration system installed in one of University Hospital's new ambulances. The purpose of the HEPA filtration system is to reduce the potential for tuberculosis (TB) transmission during transport of patients with active TB by filtering the vehicle's air through a HEPA filter before returning it to the ambulance."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Seitz, Teresa A.; Decker, John C.; Jensen, Paul
1996-10
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Public Law 104-231: Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996
"An Act to amend section 552 of title 5, United States Code, popularly known as the Freedom of Information Act, to provide for public access to information in an electronic format, and for other purposes.'...'The purpose of section 552 of title 5, United States Code, popularly known as the Freedom of Information Act, is to require agencies of the Federal Government to make certain agency information available for public inspection and copying and to establish and enable enforcement of the right of any person to obtain access to the records of such agencies, subject to statutory exemptions, for any public or private purpose.'"
United States. Government Printing Office
1996-10
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DoD Directive 6420.1: Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (AFMIC)
This Directive reissues DoD Directive 6420.1, December 9, 1982 to reflect changes in the organization and conduct of DoD medical intelligence activities.
United States. Department of Defense
1996-09-30
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Melancholy Reunion: A Report from the Future on the Collapse of Civil-Military Relations in the United States
"Melancholy Reunion" picks up where "The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012" left off. The year is now 2017, and two years have elapsed since the countercoup that returned the U.S. government to civilian control. The United States has suffered not only defeats in the High-Tech War of 2007 and the Second Gulf War of 2010, but also a military coup in 2012. That coup, engineered by a highly politicized officer corps that blamed these bloody losses on "incompetent" civilian leaders, was initially welcomed by a public exasperated with elected government. Only a few years of repressive military rule had passed, however, before the countercoup in 2015. The chastened electorate placed the thoroughly disgraced armed forces under draconian civilian control. The speaker in this essay addresses the twentieth reunion of the Air University classes of 1997, a rather melancholy event under the circumstances. He examines civil-military relations issues emerging in the 1996-1997 time frame that, with the benefit of twenty-first century hindsight, foretold the coming catastrophes.
USAF Institute for National Security Studies
Dunlap, Charles J., 1950-
1996-10
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Conflict Resolution Education: A Guide to Implementing Programs in Schools, Youth-Serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice Settings; Program Report
"This 'Guide' was developed through a collaboration of the Departments of Justice and Education to advance the development of conflict resolution education programs in schools, youth-serving organizations, and community and juvenile justice settings. It is designed to be a reference tool that offers both basic information and the experience of experts in the field of conflict resolution to assist educators and other youth-serving professionals in building effective conflict resolution education programs. The Guide is based on a shared vision that youth of all ages can learn to deal constructively with conflict and live in civil association with one another. Its goal is to build the capacity of educators in a variety of youth-serving settings to understand and act on the knowledge that conflict resolution skills are essential to successful relationships in all facets of our lives. [] It provides a framework for making informed decisions to implement conflict resolution education programs and select resources to support program development."
United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Crawford, Donna K.; Bodine, Richard J.
1996-10
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Nuclear Weapons: Russia's Request for the Export of U.S. Computers for Stockpile Maintenance; Statement for the Record by Mr. Harold J. Johnson, Associate Director, International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security and International Affairs Division before the Subcommittee on Military Procurement, Committee on National Security
This statement for the record provides information on proposed exports of U.S. high performance computers to Russian nuclear laboratories. GAO discusses the policies affecting cooperation between the United States and Russia on nuclear warhead safety and security under a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and Russian officials' requests for access to U.S. high performance computer exports to conduct work under this treaty.
United States. General Accounting Office
1996-09-30
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Intelligent Gateway Design and Development: Final Report
The Intelligent Gateway (IG) is a Research and Development (R&D) effort to design an algorithm to provide computer-aided routing of ACP-123/X.400 messages by a United States Coast Guard (USCG) Communications Area Master Station (CAMS). The algorithm is designed to be implementation independent; i.e. it is not dependent on a particular programming language, methodology, or hardware platform. The IG development is a proof-of-concept effort and is not intended to be fielded as a stand alone Defense Message System (DMS) component. Instead the USCG is working with the U.S. Navy and DMS product vendors to incorporate IG functionality into future Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) DMS products.
United States. Coast Guard
1996-10
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Operating Policy and Procedures Memorandum No. 96-6: Arrests by INS Officers in or near Immigration Court Facilities
"Pursuant to the concerns raised by several Immigration Judges, I have been negotiating with the General Counsel for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) concerning the presence of INS officers in our courtrooms during non-detained hearings. There have been several recent instances where the presence of INS officers in the courtroom has produced a 'chilling' effect on the conduct of the hearing. In addition, the INS's newly-instituted policy of arresting individuals denied relief at the conclusion of the individual calendar hearing, a policy fully supported by the Attorney General, necessitated an agreement between the two agencies."
United States. Department of Justice. Executive Office for Immigration Review
1996-09-30
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FERET (Face Recognition Technology) Recognition Algorithm Development and Test Results
"As part of the Face Recognition Technology (FERET) program, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) conducted supervised government tests and evaluations of automatic face recognition algorithms. The goal of the tests was to provide an independent method of evaluating algorithms and assessing the state of the art in automatic face recognition. This report describes the design and presents the results of the August 1994 and March 1995 FERET tests. Results for FERET tests administered by ARL between August 1994 and August 1996 are reported."
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Phillips, P. Jonathon; Rauss, Patrick J.; Der, Sandor Z.
1996-10
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DOE Standard: Accident Analysis for Aircraft Crash into Hazardous Facilities
This standard provides the user with sufficient information to evaluate and assess the significance of aircraft crash risk on facility safety without expending excessive effort where it is not required. The implementation guidance provides a framework of step-wise increases in analytical sophistication aimed at eliciting only that amount of analysis needed
to demonstrate that aircraft crash either does or does not exceed a risk level of concern equivalent to what is generally applied to other sources of risk from the operation of hazardous material facilities. This standard establishes an approach for performing a conservative analysis of the risk posed by a release of hazardous radioactive or chemical material resulting from an aircraft crash into a facility containing significant quantities of
such material. This approach can establish whether a facility has a significant potential for an aircraft impact, and, given an aircraft impact, whether a facility has the potential for an accident producing significant offsite or onsite consequences. The analysis is based on the structural properties of a facility and the inventory at a facility.
United States. Department of Energy
1996-10
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Cognitive Engineering for Information Dominance: A Human Factors Perspective
"Information Warfare (IW) is emerging as the critical military issue of the day. IW is introduced and analyzed with respect to its major themes and current definitions. Those aspects of IW requiring cognitive engineering research are identified, necessary methodological reorientations are outlined, and key links to the human factors/cognitive engineering topics of situation awareness and decision making are discussed. A specific target capability (the common battlespace picture) and the framework for research toward that goal (the OODA model) are introduced. The OODA model is contextualized with respect to other relevant research areas and U.S. Air Force practices. An integrated cognitive engineering program for IW analyses is specified and illustrated with respect to an example drawn from theater missile defense (TMD) attack operations. Extensive listings of bibliographic references, terminological definitions, and relevant Internet resources provide a solid foundation for further reading and research."
United States. Air Force
Whitaker, Randall D.; Kuperman, Gilbert G.
1996-10
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Transit Security in the 90's
"The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has established security and safety as its number one priority in its vision statement. With the advent of recent events in this country such as the Oklahoma City bombing and the shooting on the Long Island Rail Road, the importance of terrorism and potential attacks on transit systems has become paramount in importance. A look at the history of terrorist attacks in other countries proves that transit systems are prime targets. With 1996 being a year in which the U.S. is hosting the Olympics, it becomes especially important for transit systems to become aware of and prepare for the threat of terrorism. The FTA recognizes this threat and also recognizes that generally most transit systems in the U.S. have not had extensive training or experience in handling terrorist attacks. To aid transit security specialists in recognizing, preparing for, and responding to the threat of terrorism, a conference on Transit Security in the 90's was held in Atlanta, Georgia, February 27-28, 1996. The conference keynote speaker was United States Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena who discussed the current Administration's dedication to the issue of terrorism and described Presidential Decision Directive 39 dealing with this issue. The Secretary cited many examples of the very real threat of terrorism to our transit agencies."
United States. Federal Transit Administration
1996-10
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Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, 1993
"This Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report presents an overview of case processing in the Federal criminal justice system. The data presented are compiled from the BJS Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database. The FJSP database includes data provided by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, in addition to providing data describing defendants in cases processed by the Federal judiciary, provides data describing defendants processed by the Federal pretrial services agencies and the Federal probation and supervision service. The data provided by the agencies are archived for public use at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (ICPSR 9296)."
United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics
1996-10
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Freight Transportation in Virginia: Selected Data from Federal Sources
"This state-specific report presents information from the major federal databases related to state freight movements. Along with the tables generated for each state, this report gives descriptions of the databases, information on access and formats, and contact points."
United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
1996-10
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Freight Transportation in New York: Selected Data from Federal Sources
"This state-specific report presents information from the major federal databases related to state freight movements. Along with the tables generated for each state, this report gives descriptions of the databases, information on access and formats, and contact points."
United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
1996-10
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Freight Transportation in New Jersey: Selected Data from Federal Sources
"This state-specific report presents information from the major federal databases related to state freight movements. Along with the tables generated for each state, this report gives descriptions of the databases, information on access and formats, and contact points."
United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
1996-10
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Freight Transportation in Ohio: Selected Data from Federal Sources
"This state-specific report presents information from the major federal databases related to state freight movements. Along with the tables generated for each state, this report gives descriptions of the databases, information on access and formats, and contact points."
United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
1996-10
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Freight Transportation in North Carolina: Selected Data from Federal Sources
"This state-specific report presents information from the major federal databases related to state freight movements. Along with the tables generated for each state, this report gives descriptions of the databases, information on access and formats, and contact points."
United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
1996-10
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Freight Transportation in Oklahoma: Selected Data from Federal Sources
"This state-specific report presents information from the major federal databases related to state freight movements. Along with the tables generated for each state, this report gives descriptions of the databases, information on access and formats, and contact points."
United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
1996-10
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Freight Transportation in New Mexico: Selected Data from Federal Sources
"This state-specific report presents information from the major federal databases related to state freight movements. Along with the tables generated for each state, this report gives descriptions of the databases, information on access and formats, and contact points."
United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
1996-10
