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FAA's primary mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. FAA oversees operating and maintaining this system, known as the NAS, as well as the safety of aircraft...

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (PRA) established OIRA as an office within OMB. OIRA is responsible for the coordinated review of executive agency rulemakings to ensure that regulations are...

The fi rst full, annualized inventory of Wisconsin's forests was completed in 2004 after 6,478 forested plots were measured. An earlier publication summarized the results and presented issue-driven...

IRS has reported a substantial increase in IDT refund fraud; however, it is unclear whether this reported increase is due to an overall increase in IDT refund fraud, to an improvement in IRS's...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),1 which was enacted in March 2010, includes provisions to expand access to public and private health insurance-including through the creation of...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) created the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection-also known as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)-to...

The Department of Justice's (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) requested about $6.9 billion in fiscal year 2014 to provide for the custody and care of an inmate population that has increased from...

The federal government's increasing demand for IT led to a dramatic rise in the number of federal data centers and a corresponding increase in operational costs. According to OMB, the federal...

Safeguarding government computer systems and sensitive information, including personally identifiable information (PII) that resides on them, is an ongoing challenge due to the complexity and...

The U.S. aviation system is one of the safest in the world with an extremely low accident rate. This record reflects the efforts of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), air carriers, airports,...

While alcohol-impaired driving fatalities have declined from over 21,113 in 1982 to 10,322 in 2012, the proportion of such fatalities as a percent of total traffic-related fatalities has remained...

U.S. diplomatic missions have faced numerous attacks in recent years, resulting in legal and policy changes. According to DS, between January 1998 and December 2013, there were 336 attacks against U...

The DRC is a vast, mineral-rich nation with an estimated population of about 75 million people and an area that is roughly one-quarter the size of the United States, according to the UN. Since its...

The United States shares over 1,900 miles of border with Mexico, with Arizona and South Texas sharing 387 and 697 miles of that border respectively. The border with Mexico and these two states...

Since October 1994, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) has had the authority to facilitate the financing of U.S. exports of defense articles and services, provided that Ex-Im...

The GS classification system is a mechanism for organizing work, notably for the purposes of determining pay, based on a position's duties, responsibilities, and qualification requirements, among...

DOD's Real Property Management Program is governed by statute and DOD regulations, directives, and instructions that establish real property accountability and financial reporting requirements. These...

The use of IT is pervasive in the federal government as agencies have become dependent on computerized information systems and electronic data to carry out operations and to process, maintain, and...

Personnel security clearances allow government and contractor employees to gain access to classified information that, through unauthorized disclosure, can in some cases cause exceptionally grave...

Reclamation has carried out its mission to manage, develop, and protect water and related resources in 17 western states since 1902. The agency has led or provided assistance in constructing most of...

The Cascades frog (Rana cascadae) is a montane, lentic-breeding amphibian that has become rare in the southern Cascade Range and remains relatively widespread in the Klamath Mountains of northern...

The international workshop on monitoring forest degradation in Southeast Asia provided a forum for discussion of the technical, social and political challenges and successes that have occurred during...

Various forms of Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson are found from British Columbia southward and eastward through 16 states and, perhaps, into Mexico. The status of many names previously...

Morphological variation of ponderosa pine, growing north of Mexico, is described. A map shows distributions of five putative races that are analyzed and discussed. Characteristics of branches,...

In the state of California, fire regimes and related ecosystem processes have been altered by land use practices associated with Euro-American settlement, and climate warming is exacerbating the...

The Senate may consider providing its advice and consent to U.S. ratification of the United Nations (U.N.) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, or the...

The SBA administers several programs to support small businesses, including loan guaranty programs to enhance small business access to capital; contracting programs to increase small business...

This report provides an overview of transnational security issues related to patterns of interaction among international terrorist and crime groups. In addition, the report discusses the U.S...

While Nebraska is primarily known as an agricultural and grassland state, our forest resources are surprisingly substantial and growing. Since 1983, the number of forested acres has increased by more...

Nebraska's wood products manufacturing industry employs more than 2,200 workers with an output of approximately $286 million (U.S. Census Bureau 2002). In this bulletin we discuss recent Nebraska...