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Immigrant Investor Program: Additional Actions Needed to Better Assess Fraud Risks and Report Economic Benefits, Report to Congressional Requesters
From the Highlights: "Congress created the EB-5 [Employment-Based Fifth Preference Immigrant Investor Program] visa category to promote job creation by immigrant investors in exchange for visas providing lawful permanent residency. Participants are required to invest $1 million in a business that is to create at least 10 jobs--or $500,000 for businesses located in an area that is rural or has experienced unemployment of at least 150 percent of the national average rate. Upon meeting program requirements, immigrant investors are eligible for conditional status to live and work in the United States and can apply to remove the conditions for lawful permanent residency after 2 years. GAO [Government Accountability Office] was asked to review fraud risks and economic benefits for the EB-5 Program. This report examines USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] efforts under the EB-5 Program to (1) work with interagency partners to assess fraud and other related risks, (2) address any identified fraud risks, and (3) increase its capacity to verify job creation and use a valid and reliable methodology to report economic benefits. GAO reviewed risk assessments and processes to address fraud risks, verify job creation, and report economic benefits. […] GAO recommends that, among other things, USCIS conduct regular future risk assessments, develop a strategy to expand information collection, and analyze the data collected on program forms to reliably report on economic benefits. DHS concurred with our four recommendations."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2015-08
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Modernizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise: NNSA Increased Its Budget Estimates, But Estimates for Key Stockpile and Infrastructure Programs Need Improvement, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "Nuclear weapons continue to be an essential part of the nation's defense strategy. The end of the cold war resulted in a shift from producing new nuclear weapons to maintaining the stockpile through refurbishment. Also, billions of dollars in scheduled maintenance for nuclear weapons infrastructure has been deferred. The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review identified long-term stockpile modernization goals for NNSA [National Nuclear Security Administration] that include (1) sustaining a safe, secure, and effective nuclear arsenal and (2) investing in a modern infrastructure. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 included a provision for GAO [Government Accountability Office] to report annually on NNSA's nuclear security budget materials. This report (1) identifies changes in estimates to the 2015 budget materials from the prior year's materials, and (2) assesses the extent to which NNSA's 2015 budget estimates align with plans for major modernization efforts, and (3) addresses the agency's stated goal of stopping the growth of its deferred maintenance backlog. GAO analyzed NNSA's 2014 and 2015 nuclear security budget materials, which describe modernization plans and budget estimates for the next 25 years, and interviewed NNSA officials."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2015-08
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BPA Proposed Fiscal Year 1994 Budget, Oversight Hearing Before the Task Force on Bonneville Power Administration of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, April 28, 1993
This is the April 28, 1993 hearing on "BPA Proposed Fiscal Year 1994 Budget" held before the Task Force on Bonneville Power Administration of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives. From the opening statement of Peter A. DeFazio: "Today the Natural Resources Committee's Bonneville Power Ad-ministration Task Force holds its first hearing. I particularly want to thank Chairman Miller for the creation of the task force and for naming me its chairman. I am looking forward to the hearings that we will hold over the next six months, and I want to play a creative and active role in helping the BPA to meet the challenges it faces, both in the near term and during the next decade. Today's hearing will focus on BPA's near-term financial condition. A unique set of circumstances have forced BPA to consider a rate increase that could exceed 20 percent. But the BPA's short-term problems will not go away with a few good water years or higher world aluminum prices. The problems are much deeper than that, and the fix must be more fundamental. So regardless of the facts of the current situation, I believe we would be here today no matter what." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Randall W. Hardy.
United States. Government Printing Office
1993
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Cuban Subversion: Shadow Over Latin America
From the thesis abstract: "Latin America is currently undergoing a great social upheaval, and the resulting internal disorder, political instability, and seething discontent make it ripe for Communist exploitation. The establishment of a Communist regime in Cuba, with a dictator who is determined to spread his revolution throughout Latin America, presents a menace to the security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere. This thesis examines the nature and extent of the threat of Cuban subversion and the effectiveness of United States policy in countering it. As a result of a massive program of economic and military assistance by the Soviet Union, as well as acceptance of Fidel Castro's leadership by the Moscow-oriented Communist Party leaders of Latin America, Cuba is today recognized as the headquarters and base for subversive activity throughout the Western Hemisphere. The techniques utilized include an extensive propaganda campaign; training of young Latin American Communists in subversive activities; infiltration of political, social, and economic movements within Latin American governments; and calculated acts of violence and terrorism, ranging from strikes, demonstrations, and riots to arson, bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, and executions. At first, the attitude of the United States toward Castro was one of guarded friendship and good will. As the true nature of his activities began to manifest themselves, however, the United States began to take measures to counter the threat. Initially, there was some fumbling, evidenced in particular by the debacle of the Bay of Pigs invasion."
Army War College (U.S.)
Piehl, Robert H.
1966-04-08
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: S. 783, Helium Stewardship Act of 2013
This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on June 18, 2013. From the Summary: "S. 783 would reauthorize, establish, or modify several programs related to the management of federal lands and natural resources and would increase certain payments to localities. […] CBO estimates that enacting S. 783 would reduce net direct spending by $51 million over the 2014-2023 period; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. Enacting S. 783 would not affect revenues. The bill also would authorize appropriations to conduct assessments of helium supplies, establish research and development programs related to helium, and administer the Secure Rural Schools program. In addition, S. 783 would require BLM [Bureau of Land Management] to comply with certain reporting requirements. Assuming appropriation of the authorized and necessary amounts, CBO estimates that conducting those activities would cost $6 million over the 2014-2018 period. Finally, the bill would reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for an existing Department of Energy (DOE) grant program by $5 million. On net, CBO estimates that implementing those provisions would cost $1 million over the 2014-2018 period."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-07-17
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 1582, Energy Consumers Relief Act of 2013
This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 17, 2013. From the Document: "H.R. 1582 would require that before the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalizes any energy-related rule with an estimated regulatory cost of more than $1 billion, including indirect costs, EPA must submit a report to the Congress detailing the rule's potential costs and other impacts on jobs and gasoline prices. The legislation also would require the Department of Energy (DOE), in consultation with other agencies, to prepare an independent analysis of those rules to determine if they would adversely affect the economy. EPA would be prohibited from finalizing any rule that DOE determines would have significant adverse effects to the economy. CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 1582 would cost $35 million over the 2014-2018 period, assuming appropriation of the necessary amounts. Enacting H.R. 1582 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-07-22
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 2052, Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2013
This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 17, 2013. From the Document: "H.R. 2052 would direct the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with other relevant agencies, to review the competitiveness of the United States in attracting investment by foreign businesses. Within one year of enactment of the bill, the Secretary would be required to report to the Congress the results of the review as well as recommendations for increasing the United States' ability to attract foreign investment. Based on information from the Department of Commerce, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 2052 would cost about $1 million over the 2014-2018 period for staff and administrative activities involved in conducting the review and preparing the report. Enacting H.R. 2052 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-07-24
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S. Rept. 101-219: Oversight Over Intelligence Activities, Report, November 20, 1989
"Early in 1987, the Chairman and Vice Chairman conducted a comprehensive review of the Committee procedures and initiated a series of reforms which were adopted by the Committee. First, bi-partisanship in approaching national security issues was enhanced by a decision that all staff positions would be considered non-partisan', except for the positions of Staff Director and Minority Staff Director. [...] Second, a major effort was begun to strengthen procedures for the safeguarding of classified information and to prevent unauthorized leaks and disclosure of such information. [...] Third, the Committee established a systematic quarterly review of all covert action programs. [...] Fourth, for the first time the committee established its own internal audit team with the ability to conduct independent audits of intelligence programs. [...] As a result of the Iran-Contra affair, the Committee conducted a thorough review of the laws and procedure for covert action. The most significant of these actions was the Committee's voting out of S. 1721, the Oversight Act of 1988, which the Senate then adopted by a vote of 71-19. A section outlining the important issues involved in this matter can be found in this report. [...] In total, the SSCI [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence] conducted a total of 206 on-the-record meetings and hearings during the 100th Congress. The INF Treaty [Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles] alone required 48 such sessions; 108 were held for oversight; 22 business meetings were conducted; and 14 hearings reviewed the budget requests of the intelligence community."
United States. Government Printing Office
1989-11-20
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Preliminary Report: Disaster Site Investigation of Manufactured Homes
"In December 1988, NCSBCS [National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards] contracted with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to investigate the cause of failures, sustained by manufactured homes following natural disasters. Historically, it has appeared that the number of manufactured homes and the severity of damage caused to those homes have been disproportionate to site built homes which have been exposed to the same disasters. This report covers four separate investigations conducted by NCSBCS at disaster sites involving manufactured homes. The purpose of the investigations was to determine which structural components of manufactured homes are most likely to fail in disaster situations and to recommend possible remedial actions to the Department."
United States. Government Printing Office; United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Manufactured Housing and Construction Standards Division
1989-12-28
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: S. 959, Pharmaceutical Quality, Security, and Accountability Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on June 19, 2013. From the Summary: "S. 959 would broaden the regulatory authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over prescription drugs. Title I would expand FDA's oversight role relating to compounded drugs. Traditionally, compounded drugs are those products that contain ingredients that have been combined, mixed, or altered by a pharmacist to create medications that are tailored to a specific patient's needs. The bill would authorize FDA to collect and spend fees to cover the costs of registering and inspecting certain facilities that compound drugs for human use. […] CBO estimates that implementing S. 959 would have a net discretionary cost of $31 million over the 2014-2018 period, assuming appropriation actions consistent with the bill. In addition, S. 959 could increase revenues and direct spending from criminal and civil penalties; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. However, any such collections are estimated to be insignificant in each year." Further information on the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects for an amendment to this Act can be found in this HSDL record: [https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=741164].
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-07-15
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Letter from CBO Director Douglas W. Elmendorf to Honorable Chris Van Hollen Regarding How Eliminating the Automatic Spending Reductions Specified by the Budget Control Act Would Affect the U.S. Economy in 2014 [July 25, 2013]
From the Letter: "This letter responds to your request for an analysis of how a cancellation of the automatic spending reductions specified by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-25) would affect the U.S. economy. Pursuant to that act, federal spending in 2013 has been subject to across-the-board cuts, also referred to as sequestration. (Certain programs--including Social Security, for example--are exempt from those reductions.) For the 2014--2021 period, the act requires automatic reductions, through sequestration, of nonexempt mandatory spending and reductions in the caps on discretionary budget authority. As you requested, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analyzed a proposal under which the automatic spending reductions in effect for 2013 would be canceled at the beginning of August and none of the reductions scheduled for 2014 would be implemented; for 2013, mandatory payments made after early August would be at the rates in effect prior to sequestration, and agencies would have an additional year to obligate the restored discretionary funding. In total, by CBO's estimates, canceling the automatic spending reductions effective August 1 would increase outlays relative to those under current law by $14 billion in fiscal year 2013 and by $90 billion in fiscal year 2014."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
Elmendorf, Douglas W.
2013-07-25
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 1211, FOIA Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 20, 2013. From the Summary: "H.R. 1211 would amend the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). FOIA generally allows any person to obtain federal agency records. Specifically, the legislation would require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish a single FOIA website for making requests and checking on the status of those requests; establish a Chief FOIA Officers Council to review compliance with the act and to recommend improvements; and require additional reports from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and other agencies. CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 1211 would cost $20 million over the 2014-2018 period, assuming appropriation of the necessary amounts. The legislation also could affect direct spending by agencies not funded through annual appropriations (such as the Tennessee Valley Authority). Therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. CBO estimates, however, that any net increase in spending by those agencies would not be significant. Enacting the bill would not affect revenues."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-05-21
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 1417, Border Security Results Act of 2013
This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on May 15, 2013. From the Document: "H.R. 1417 would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to measure the effectiveness of the department's border security strategy at U.S. ports of entry and along U.S. borders (including maritime borders). The legislation would direct the Inspector General of DHS to carry out covert testing of security at ports of entry and report the results to the Congress. In addition, H.R. 1417 would require DHS and the Government Accountability Office to prepare several reports on various aspects of the DHS border security program. Based on information from the affected agencies and the costs of similar activities, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 1417 would cost about $5 million from appropriated funds over the 2014-2018 period. Enacting the legislation would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-05-20
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CBO Estimate of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects for an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to S. 959, the Pharmaceutical Quality, Security, and Accountability Act, as Posted on the Website of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on July 25, 2013
This graph depicts the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) Cost Estimate of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects for an amendment in the nature of a substitute to S. 959, the Pharmaceutical Quality, Security, and Accountability Act. From the Note: "S. 959 would clarify and expand regulatory requirements relating to compounded drugs and create national standards for monitoring the distribution of drugs from manufacturers to dispensers. Enacting the legislation would increase revenues and direct spending from criminal and civil penalties by less than $500,000 per year, with negligible net effects for each year." The original cost estimate can be found here in the HSDL library: [https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=740412].
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-07-25
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 1613, Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreements Authorization Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on May 15, 2013. From the Summary: "H.R. 1613 would approve a February 20, 2012, agreement between the United States and Mexico regarding the development of oil and gas resources in what is known as the 'transboundary' area in the Gulf of Mexico. It would establish guidelines and procedures for implementing that agreement and for Congressional review of any future agreements governing that area. Pay-as-you-go procedures apply to this bill because enacting the legislation would affect offsetting receipts, which are recorded as a credit against direct spending. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 1613 would increase offsetting receipts from lease sales in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) by $25 million over the 2014-2023 period, thus reducing direct spending by a corresponding amount. Enacting H.R. 1613 would not affect revenues."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-05-17
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Analysis of the President's 2014 Budget
From the Summary: "This report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) presents an analysis of the proposals contained in the President's budget request for fiscal year 2014. The analysis is based on CBO's economic projections and estimating assumptions and models, rather than the Administration's, and incorporates estimates by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) for the President's tax proposals. In conjunction with analyzing the President's budget, CBO has updated its baseline budget projections, which were previously issued in February 2013. Unlike its estimates of the President's budget, CBO's baseline projections largely reflect the assumption that current tax and spending laws will remain unchanged, so as to provide a benchmark against which potential legislation can be measured. Under that assumption, CBO estimates that the deficit would total $642 billion in 2013 and that the cumulative deficit over the 2014--2023 period would amount to $6.3 trillion. The President's budget request specifies spending and revenue policies for the 2014--2023 period and includes initiatives that would have budgetary effects in fiscal year 2013 as well. According to CBO's and JCT's estimates, enactment of the President's proposals would, relative to CBO's baseline, boost deficits between 2013 and 2015 but reduce them by increasing amounts from 2016 through 2023."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-05
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Strategic Sourcing: Opportunities Exist to Better Manage Information Technology Services Spending
From the Highlights: "GAO [Government Accountability Office] reported in 2012 that the government is not fully leveraging its buying power for high-spending areas such as IT [Information Technology] services, which accounted for more than $30 billion in fiscal year 2013. Leading commercial companies use strategic sourcing--a process that moves them away from numerous individual purchases to an aggregate approach--to better manage the services they acquire and achieve savings of 4 to 15 percent annually. GAO was asked to review strategic sourcing of IT services. This report addresses the extent to which selected agencies (1) manage IT services through strategic sourcing approaches, and (2) have insight into labor rates for similar IT services. GAO reviewed DOD (including the three military departments), DHS, and NASA, which collectively accounted for 53 percent of reported federal fiscal year 2013 IT services obligations. GAO analyzed agency policies, procurement and contracting data, and interviewed agency and contractor officials. GAO identified a high-spend IT service category and obtained labor rate information from a nongeneralizable sample of 30 contract actions awarded to two of the largest contractors common to these agencies."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2015-09
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Foreign Aid: U.S. Assistance for the West Bank and Gaza for Fiscal Years 2012-2014, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "Since 1993, the U.S. government has committed more than $5 billion in bilateral assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Assistance to the Palestinians is a key part of the United States' commitment to a negotiated two-state solution to promote peace in the Middle East. USAID [U.S. Agency for International Development] is primarily responsible for administering ESF [Economic Support Fund] assistance for the West Bank and Gaza. Congress included a provision in three appropriations acts for GAO [Government Accountability Office] to review funds provided through the ESF for the bilateral West Bank and Gaza Program. This report (1) examines the status of USAID's allocations, obligations, and expenditures of ESF assistance to the Palestinians for fiscal years 2012, 2013, and 2014 and (2) assesses the extent to which USAID complied with key legal requirements and its antiterrorism policies and procedures for cash transfers to the PA [Palestinian Authority] and its creditors. GAO reviewed laws and financial data provided by USAID's West Bank and Gaza mission in Tel Aviv, Israel. GAO also reviewed USAID's policies and procedures for cash transfers to the PA and its creditors and interviewed USAID, State, and PA officials about ESF assistance."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2015-09
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U.S. Office of Government Ethics Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2022-2026
From the Document: "Maintaining the trust of the citizens we serve is a shared responsibility between OGE [U.S. Office of Government Ethics] and executive branch agencies. OGE ensures that the ethics program remains an effective prevention mechanism to guard against conflicts of interest and violations of ethical standards. As the supervising ethics office, OGE sets policy for the entire executive branch ethics program. This program involves a variety of key elements, including leadership support, financial disclosure, education and training, ethics counseling, remediation of conflicts of interest, and transparency."
United States. Office of Government Ethics
2022-03-08?
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Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of GAO Recommendations, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) authorized the creation of TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program] to address the most severe crisis that the financial system had faced in decades. Treasury has been the primary agency responsible for TARP programs. EESA provided GAO [Government Accountability Office] with broad oversight authorities for actions taken under TARP and included a provision that GAO report at least every 60 days on TARP activities and performance. This 60-day report describes the status of GAO's TARP performance audit recommendations to Treasury as of August 2015. In particular, this report discusses Treasury's implementation of GAO's recommendations, focusing on two programs: CPP [Capital Purchase Program] and MHA [Making Home Affordable]. GAO's methodologies included assessing relevant documentation from Treasury, interviewing Treasury officials, and reviewing prior TARP reports issued by GAO."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2015-09
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Federal Spending Accountability: Preserving Capabilities of Recovery Operations Center Could Help Sustain Oversight of Federal Expenditures, Report to Congressional Addressees
From the Highlights: "Improper payments government-wide increased approximately $19 billion in fiscal year 2014, resulting in an estimated total of $124.7 billion. The DATA [Digital Accountability and Transparency Act] Act authorized Treasury to establish a data-analysis center or expand an existing service. Congress included a provision in the DATA Act for GAO [Government Accountability Office] to review the implementation of the statute. This report addresses (1) the value of the ROC's [Recovery Operations Center] capabilities provided to the oversight community; (2) Treasury's plans for transferring assets from the ROC, and (3) the potential effect, if any, of Treasury's plans on the ROC's users. GAO reviewed documentation on the ROC's assets, a transition plan developed by the ROC, and its performance data from fiscal year 2012 through March 2015. On the basis of factors such as frequency of requests for assistance and agency size, GAO interviewed various ROC users about their views. GAO also interviewed Treasury and CIGIE [Council of the Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency] officials to obtain their perspectives on the ROC's capabilities and its future status. […] If Congress wants to maintain the ROC's analytic capabilities, it should consider directing CIGIE to develop a proposal to that effect to help ensure federal spending accountability. GAO also recommends that Treasury consider transferring additional information to enhance Treasury's DNP [Do Not Pay Center Business Center]. Treasury concurred with GAO's recommendation, and CIGIE is supportive of assuming additional analytical functions for the OIG [Office of the Inspector General] community with additional funding."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2015-09
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Stopping Counterfeit Trafficking on E-Commerce Platforms Through Fines and Civil Penalties
From the Document: "The rapid growth of e-commerce platforms, catalyzed by third-party online marketplaces, has revolutionized the way products are bought and sold. While this expansion has led to greater trade facilitation, its overall growth has facilitated online trafficking in counterfeit and pirated goods. American consumers shopping on e-commerce platforms and online third-party marketplaces now face a significant risk of purchasing counterfeit or pirated goods. Inadvertently, e-commerce platforms now serve as key contributors to counterfeit trafficking by acting as intermediaries and providing marketplaces that match-up sellers and unsuspecting buyers."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
2021-01-12?
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Building Future Security: Strategies for Restructuring the Defense Technology and Industrial Base
Building Future Security, the final report of OTA's assessment of the U.S. defense technology and industrial base (DTIB), discusses strategies for moving to a smaller and more efficient DTIB over the next decade and maintaining that base in the future. The principal finding of Building Future Security is that while powerful bureaucratic, economic, and political interests favor a proportional downsizing of the DTIB in which a maximum number of current firms or organizations would survive (albeit smaller and perhaps weaker), this approach would not best serve the Nation's defense needs. Instead, if these needs are to be met, the anticipated cuts in defense spending will require a fundamental restructuring of the DTIB to 1) reallocate resources from short-term military capabilities to long-term military potential, and 2) exploit the synergies that can result from a closer integration of the R&D, production, and maintenance elements of the base.
United States. Government Printing Office
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
1992-06
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Management of Department of the Interior Programs, Oversight Hearing Before the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, February 2, 1993
This is the February 2, 1993 hearing on "Management of Department of the Interior Programs," held before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources. From the opening statement of George Miller: "Our hearing today concerns the future of America's environmental heritage and the management of our public resources. The question before us is two-fold. How will the Congress and the Administration fulfill its responsibility to manage the public resources of this nation and what will we leave for the use and enjoyment of our children and their future." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Mike Synar, Barbara Vucanovich, Orrin Hatch, J. Dexter Peach, and James R. Richards.
United States. Government Printing Office
1993
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Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base
Technological superiority has been a cornerstone of United States security and industry since World War II. That cornerstone is not crumbling, but over the past decade it has weathered significantly. Foreign companies have made deep inroads into high-technology markets that had been more or less the exclusive domain of U.S. industry. In addition to causing economic problems, this has fostered dependence on foreign sources for defense equipment at a time when the technology in defense systems comes increasingly from the civilian sector. At the same time, the Department of Defense reports that Soviet defense technology is catching up with ours, and sophisticated Western military equipment is routinely sold to third world nations. These trends-and others-have prompted the Senate Committee on Armed Services to ask what needs to be done to maintain the base of high technology on which U.S. national security depends. This report examines the management of DoD technology base programs and laboratories. It also analyzes the process through which technology is introduced into defense systems, in order to understand why it takes so long and what might be done to speed the process up. Finally, this report examines the exploitation of civilian commercial sector technology for defense needs. It concentrates on the dual questions of expediting military access to civilian technology and keeping the necessary base of technology alive and well in the United States. Volume 2 of this report contains extensive appendices and will be published in the summer of 1989.
United States. Government Printing Office
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
1989-04
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Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base, Volume II
This is the second volume of the report "Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base". It includes the extensive analyses that were the subject of the first report. Three of the appendixes deal with the DoD acquisition processes, three deal with industry case studies (fiber optics, advanced composites, and software), and the remaining two appendixes concern European and Japanese defense technology research, development and management.
United States. Government Printing Office
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
1990-01
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Indian Dams Safety Act of 1993, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, July 2, 1993
This is the July 2, 1993 hearing on "Indian Dams Safety Act of 1993," held before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources. From the opening statement of Bill Richardson: "I would like to begin by welcoming everybody here to hear testimony on H.R. 1426, the Indian Dams Safety Act of 1993. [...] H.R. 1426 would provide a statutorily mandated dam safety operation and maintenance program in the BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs] to ensure the maintenance and monitoring of the condition of each dam identified. Thus, in addition to performing rehabilitation, the bureau would take measures to prevent future threats to loss of life and property by maintaining these dams." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Patrick Hayes, Robert E. Lewis, Virginia Sutter, Floyd Phillips, Raymond Parker, Jr., and Johnnie Francis.
United States. Government Printing Office
1993
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Department of Energy Budget and Reorganization, Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session on the Department of Energy Budget and Reorganization, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, June 8, 1993
This is the June 8, 1993 hearing on "Department of Energy Budget and Reorganization," held before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives. From the opening statement of Richard H. Lehman: "The department is being buffeted by a fundamental change in one of its core missions-away from 50 years of nuclear weapons production and toward cleanup of the unfortunate environmental results of that production. The slow progress of the Nuclear Waste Disposal Program continues to frustrate virtually everybody. Operation of the Uranium Enrichment Program is about to be turned over to the new U.S. Enrichment Corporation. The DOE [Department of Energy] re-mains responsible for the massive cleanup at the old gaseous diffusion plants. Congress finally passed land withdrawal legislation for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant at the end of the last Congress, but the schedule for a test phase at WIPP [Waste Isolation Pilot Plant] is already falling behind that set out in the act."
United States. Government Printing Office
1993
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Monitoring Limits on Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles
Beginning with a hypothetical arms control regime for nuclear SLCMs, this Report examines in detail ways in which compliance with such a regime might be monitored. Surveying the life-cycle of SLCMs from development testing through deployment and storage, the assessment identifies the 'indicators' by which the missiles might be tracked and accounted for. It also assesses the paths of evasion that a determined cheater might take to avoid the proposed monitoring measures.
United States. Government Printing Office
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
1992-09
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Effects of a Carbon Tax on the Economy and the Environment
From the Summary: "Lawmakers could increase federal revenues and encourage reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by establishing a carbon tax, which would either tax those emissions directly or tax fuels that release CO2 when they are burned (fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas). Emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and contribute to climate change--a long-term and potentially very costly global problem. The effects of a carbon tax on the U.S. economy would depend on how the revenues from the tax were used. Options include using the revenues to reduce budget deficits, to decrease existing marginal tax rates (the rates on an additional dollar of income), or to offset the costs that a carbon tax would impose on certain groups of people. This study examines how a carbon tax, combined with those alternative uses of the revenues, might affect the economy and the environment."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2013-05
