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The Great Lakes Basin spans more than 750 miles from east to west and, as shown in figure 1, encompasses nearly all of Michigan, and parts of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,...

The Navy expects to spend about $15 billion per year to provide its fleet with the most advanced ships to support natural defense and military strategies. Problems with recently delivered ships have...

This section provides an overview of SEC's history, mission, organization, strategic goals and objectives, year in review, forward looking information, performance highlights and a summary of...

The National Guard has two elements-the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard-that mostly consist of part-time forces responsible for both federal and state missions. The Army Reserve and...

The U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Financial Stability presents to the reader the fiscal year 2013 Agency Financial Report for Trouble Asset Relief Program.Author: Department of the...

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, known as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), was established on July 21, 2010 under Title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...

Navigating the Internet requires using addresses and corresponding names that identify the location of individual computers. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the distributed set of databases residing...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank or the Bank), an independent federal government agency, is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the United States. It operates under a...

The Banking and Finance Sector accounts for more than 8 percent of the U.S. annual gross domestic product and is the backbone for the world economy. As direct attacks and public statements by...

The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 defines qualified small business lending-as defined by and reported in an institution's quarterly regulatory filings, also known as Call Reports-as one of the...

There are approximately 160,000 public drinking water utilities and more than 16,000 wastewater utilities in the United States. About 84 percent of the U.S. population receives its potable water from...

On February 28, 2003, the President issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 (HSPD-5), "Management of Domestic Incidents," which directed the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and...

The National Infrastructure Protection Plan provides the unifying structure for the integration of critical infrastructure and key resources protection efforts into a single national program. The...

Illicit trafficking across the Southwest border continues to be a chronic threat to our Nation and one of the top homeland security priorities for the United States. Transnational criminal...

The Chemical Sector-Specific Plan provides the unifying structure for the integration of Chemical Sector protection efforts into a single national program to help achieve the goal of a safe, secure,...

The Critical Manufacturing Sector is crucial to the economic continuity and prosperity of the United States. The U.S. manufacturing industry contributes greatly to the gross domestic product and...

The National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) provides the unifying structure for the integration of critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) protection and resilience efforts as part of...

In its role as the lead Sector-Specific Agency for the Energy Sector, the Department of Energy has worked closely with dozens of government and industry partners to prepare this updated 2010 Energy...

This volume represents a new work in Colorado's popular Resources Series. We have published numerous volumes about archaeology and history, but few of them provide information about historic...

The MMS's strategy led to the development of a biologically based grid system to ensure broad and systematic analysis of the GOM's deepwater region. The grid system divided the Gulf into 17 areas...

Section 6302 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 requires, among other things, that the Secretary of the Treasury study the feasibility of "requiring such financial...

The Commercial Facilities (CF) Sector-Specific Plan (SSP) was created to complement the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) by developing efforts to improve the protection of the CF Sector...

The Emergency Services Sector (ESS) is a system of preparedness, response, and recovery elements that form the Nation's first line of defense for preventing and mitigating the risk from physical and...

In keeping with its trust responsibility with respect to Indian tribes, the federal government holds title to the Navajo and Hopi tribal land in trust for the benefit of the tribes and their members...

The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (BBEDCA) established sequestration to enforce discretionary spending limits and control the deficit. In August 2011, Congress and the...

The purpose of the NOAA Scientific Diving Standards and Safety Manual (Manual) is to ensure all scientific diving is conducted in a manner that will maximize protection of scientific divers from...

The OCC is committed to bank supervision policies and procedures that support promptdetection and mitigation of problems before they affect a bank's viability. In the event a bank'scondition is so...

This booklet is designed as a reference tool and examination guide to assist bankers and examiners in understanding the various types of related organizations, risks that may be associated with these...

The "Retail Lending Examination Procedures" are structured to accommodate ongoing supervision of all types of retail lending products and operations, and more comprehensive examinations of high-risk...

The Uniform Bank Performance Report is an analytical tool created for bank supervisory, examination, and bank management purposes. In a concise format, it shows the impact of management decisions and...