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train_10700 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the classes of contracts in amounts greater than the micro-purchase threshold and not greater than the simplified acquisition threshold that are not suitable for acquisition through a system with full Federal Acquisition Computer Network (FACNET) capabi... | [
"FACNET is a governmentwide systems architecture for acquisition based on electronic data interchange (EDI), which is the computer-to-computer exchange of routine business documents using standardized data formats. A key goal of FACNET and the governmentwide EC program is to present a “single face to industry”—maki... |
train_10701 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the: (1) Department of Defense's (DOD) progress in establishing an organization to address Gulf War illnesses issues; and (2) thoroughness of DOD's Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses' (OSAGWI) investigations into and reporting on incid... | [
"Many Persian Gulf War veterans have complained of illnesses since the war’s end in 1991. Over 100,000 of the approximately 700,000 Gulf War veterans have participated in health examination programs established by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Many of those examined re... |
train_10702 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) secondary inventory management, focusing on the: (1) reported quantity and value of suspended inventory; (2) weaknesses in managing suspended inventory and their potential effect on logistics support costs and readiness; and (3) reasons... | [
"At the end of fiscal year 1996, the Air Force reported that it was managing inventory valued at $29.3 billion. DOD uses a coding system to categorize the condition of its inventory. These codes are intended to indicate whether stored inventory is (1) issuable without qualification, (2) in need of repair, (3) usabl... |
train_10703 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 1976, authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to obtain information on the risks of industrial chemicals and to control those that EPA determines pose an unreasonable risk. However, EPA does not have sufficient chemical assessment information to d... | [
"The Toxic Substances Control Act was enacted in 1976 to provide EPA with the authority, upon making certain determinations, to collect information about the hazards posed by chemical substances and to take action to control unreasonable risks by either preventing dangerous chemicals from making their way into use ... |
train_10704 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The National Weather Service's (NWS) weather products are a vital component of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic control system. In addition to providing aviation weather products developed at its own facilities, NWS also provides staff onsite at each of FAA's en route centers--the facilities that... | [
"FAA is responsible for ensuring safe, orderly, and efficient air travel in the national airspace system. NWS supports FAA by providing aviation-related forecasts and warnings at air traffic facilities across the country. Among other support and services, NWS provides four meteorologists at each of FAA’s 21 en rout... |
train_10705 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The U.S. government spends over a billion dollars each year on launch activities as it strives to help develop a competitive market for space launches and assure its access to space. Among others, one launch option is to use vehicles derived from surplus ICBM motors such as those used on the Peacekeeper and Minuteman m... | [
"The U.S. government has sought to help develop a competitive launch industry from which it can acquire launch services in order to lower the price of space launch and assure its access to space. The Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program is responsible for acquiring intermediate to heavy U.S.... |
train_10706 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Disputes between policyholders and insurers after the 2005 hurricane season highlight the challenges in understanding the cause and extent of damages when properties are subjected to both high winds and flooding. Questions remain over the adequacy of steps taken by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to ensu... | [
"The federal government has long been a participant in addressing risks that private property-casualty insurers have been unable or unwilling to insure. One of these risks is damage due to flooding. While NFIP backs the flood insurance policy, it generally contracts the sale and servicing of the policies out to pri... |
train_10707 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Five percent of adults suffer from serious mental disorders. Although health insurance carriers in a few states guarantee coverage for mental health treatment, in most states individuals with mental disorders face restrictions in purchasing private health insurance for themselves and their families. Eleven states requi... | [
"About 19 percent of the nation’s adults and 21 percent of youths ages 9 to 17 have mental disorders at some time during a 1-year period. Among adults, about 5 percent have severe mental disorders, and nearly 3 percent have mental disorders that are both severe and persistent. Mental disorders include a wide range ... |
train_10708 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | DOD plays a support role in managing Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosives (CBRNE) incidents, including providing capabilities needed to save lives, alleviate hardship or suffering, and minimize property damage. This testimony addresses GAO's preliminary observations on DOD's role in CB... | [
"DOD plays a support role in CBRNE consequence management, including providing those capabilities needed to save lives, alleviate hardship or suffering, and minimize property damage caused by the incident. DOD generally provides defense support of civil authorities only when (1) state, local, and other federal reso... |
train_10709 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) progress in curbing overbilling for occupational speech and physical therapy services. GAO found that: (1) therapy charges billed to Medicare by skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and rehabilitation agencies have more than... | [
"In 1990, legislation took effect that required SNFs and other nursing facilities to assess and provide for their residents’ needs for therapy services. Subsequently, the number of rehabilitation agencies providing physical, occupational, and speech therapy increased dramatically—as did Medicare spending on therapy... |
train_10710 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Farm Service Agency's (FSA) efforts to conduct farm programs in an equitable manner, focusing on: (1) FSA efforts to treat minority farmers in the same way as nonminority farmers in delivering program services; (2) minority representation in county office staffing a... | [
"Within USDA, FSA has the overall administrative responsibility for implementing agricultural programs. FSA is responsible for, among other things, stabilizing farm income, helping farmers conserve environmental resources, and providing credit to new or disadvantaged farmers. FSA’s management structure is highly de... |
train_10711 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Authorization for several conservation programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) expires in 2007, raising questions about how these programs may be modified, including how they can better support conservation of threatened and endangered species. Private landowners receive funding under these p... | [
"The purpose of the Endangered Species Act is to conserve threatened and endangered species and the ecosystems upon which they depend. Currently, there are about 1,300 threatened and endangered species protected under the act and approximately 280 candidate species that may eventually warrant future protection unde... |
train_10712 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The U.S. government spends about $17 billion per year building ships to support national defense and homeland security. Defects often become evident shortly after a ship is delivered. Warranties and guarantees are both mechanisms to fix defects for which shipbuilders are responsible. Warranties give the government a co... | [
"Acquiring a ship is a complex task and it is expected that, to a certain degree, parts will break or welds may fail after a ship is delivered. Defects related to the welding, fabrication, electrical, piping, and propulsion systems on the ship that are the result of construction issues are typically the shipbuilder... |
train_10713 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has been charged with expanded missions. Further, constrained budgets in recent years have underscored the importance of strategically allocating its assets and personnel to meet these missions. GAO was asked to review the Coast Guard's resource all... | [
"The Coast Guard employs a multi-level organizational structure, as shown in figure 1. The Coast Guard provides commanders at each level the authority and discretion to conduct operations within their operational areas. Command and control begins at Coast Guard headquarters, which is responsible for developing nati... |
train_10714 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Small Business Administration's 8(a) program is one of the federal government's primary vehicles for developing small businesses. Tribal 8(a) firms, such as firms owned by Alaska Native Corporations, can win sole-source contracts for any dollar amount in the 8(a) program, while other 8(a) firms generally must compe... | [
"SBA administers the 8(a) program, which includes determining whether it will accept requirements into the 8(a) program. Agencies must submit an offer letter to SBA identifying the requirement as well as any procurement history for the requirement, the estimated dollar amount, and, if the award is sole-source, the ... |
train_10715 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) oversees humanitarian and economic assistance--an integral part of the U.S. global security strategy--to more than 160 countries. GAO recommended in 1993 that USAID develop a comprehensive workforce plan; however, human capital management continues to be a high-risk... | [
"USAID is the lead U.S. agency for administering humanitarian and economic assistance to about 160 countries. The USAID Administrator reports to the Secretary of State and receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Department of State. USAID operates its foreign assistance programs from its offices in Washin... |
train_10716 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round is the biggest, most complex, and costliest ever. DOD viewed this round as a unique opportunity to reshape its installations, realign forces to meet its needs for the next 20 years, and achieve savings. To realize savings, DOD must first invest billions of dollars in f... | [
"DOD has undergone four BRAC rounds since 1988 and is currently implementing its fifth round. For the most recent BRAC round—referred to in this report as the BRAC 2005 round—DOD applied legally mandated selection criteria that included four criteria related to military value as well as other criteria regarding cos... |
train_10717 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is the Department of Defense's (DOD's) most costly acquisition, seeking to simultaneously develop, produce, and field three aircraft variants for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and eight international partners. The total expected U.S. investment is now more than $300 bill... | [
"JSF development will cost more and take longer to complete than reported to the Congress in April 2008, primarily because of contract cost overruns and extended time needed to complete flight testing. DOD is also significantly increasing annual procurement rates and plans to buy some aircraft sooner than reported ... |
train_10718 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 authorized the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to create the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a $700 billion program designed to restore the liquidity and stability of the financial system. The act also requires that GAO report every 60 days on TARP activities... | [
"When EESA was signed on October 3, 2008, the U.S. financial system faced a severe crisis that has rippled throughout the global economy, moving from the U.S. housing market to an array of financial assets and interbank lending. The crisis restricted access to credit and made the financing on which businesses and i... |
train_10719 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The federal government reportedly plans to spend at least $82 billion on IT in fiscal year 2014. Given the scale of such planned outlays and the criticality of many of these systems to the health, economy, and security of the nation, it is important that OMB and federal agencies provide appropriate oversight and transp... | [
"Information technology should enable government to better serve the American people. However, despite spending hundreds of billions on IT since 2000, the federal government has experienced failed IT projects and has achieved little of the productivity improvements that private industry has realized from IT. Too of... |
train_10720 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Large, internationally active insurance companies accounted for 28 percent of the aggregate insurance premiums underwritten in the United States in 2014. IAIS is developing international group-level capital standards for these insurers. Although these standards are not yet complete and U.S. regulators have not yet dete... | [
"Insurers offer several lines, or types, of insurance to consumers and others, including life, health, annuity, and P/C products. The U.S. life/health and P/C industries reported approximately $583 billion and $481 billion of aggregate net written premiums in 2013, respectively. These insurers have two primary sour... |
train_10721 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | To move passengers and cargo, the Department of Defense (DOD) must supplement its military aircraft with cargo and passenger aircraft from commercial carriers participating in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) program. Carriers participating in CRAF commit their aircraft to DOD to support a range of military operation... | [
"The CRAF program was created in 1951 and its importance was reaffirmed by the National Airlift Policy in 1987. The National Airlift Policy states that the military will rely on the commercial air carrier industry to provide the airlift capability required beyond that available in the military airlift fleet. Additi... |
train_10722 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Chemical pesticides play an important role in providing Americans with an abundant and inexpensive food supply. However, these chemicals can have adverse effects on human health and the environment, and pests continue to develop resistance to them. Sustainable and effective agricultural pest management will require con... | [
"Pests—weeds, insects, and pathogens—can cause significant crop losses. Since World War II, producers have relied primarily on chemical pesticides for pest management, contributing to tremendous gains in farm productivity. For example, average corn yields per acre have more than tripled over the last 50 years, part... |
train_10723 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Department of Defense (DOD) is pursuing a new initiative involving a core competency approach for making sourcing decisions--that is, sourcing decisions based on whether the function is core to the agency's warfighting mission. In determining how to best perform non-core functions, DOD's position is that its compon... | [
"Since 1955, the executive branch has encouraged federal agencies to obtain commercially available goods and services from the private sector when the agencies determined that such action was cost-effective. OMB formalized the policy in its Circular A-76, issued in 1966. In 1979, OMB supplemented the circular with ... |
train_10724 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) provided $1.1 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for comparative effectiveness research (CER), which is research that compares different interventions and strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor health conditions. Of... | [
"To describe the process and criteria AHRQ used to award its $474 million in Recovery Act CER funds, we reviewed relevant statutes as well as documentation on the process and criteria AHRQ uses to (1) determine the scientific and technical merit of grant applications and contract proposals, and (2) select grant rec... |
train_10725 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | GAO provided information on the potential competitive impact of restructuring the international satellite organizations, focusing on: (1) possible alternative approaches to enhance market access; (2) the affiliate created by the International Maritime Satellite Organization (Inmarsat) to provide new services; and (3) p... | [
"Under the Communications Satellite Act of 1962, the United States created the Communications Satellite Corporation (now known as COMSAT) to develop, alone or in conjunction with foreign entities, a commercial communications satellite system. Subsequently two treaty organizations were created to provide such servic... |
train_10726 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | This testimony discusses credentialing issues associated with the security of U.S. transportation systems and facilities. Securing these systems requires balancing security to address potential threats while facilitating the flow of people and goods that are critical to the U.S. economy and international commerce. As w... | [
"DHS has established a system of TWIC-related processes and controls. However, internal control weaknesses governing the enrollment, background checking, and use of TWIC potentially limit the program’s ability to meet the program’s stated mission needs or provide reasonable assurance that access to secure areas of ... |
train_10727 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) represents one of the largest reorganizations of government agencies and operations in recent history. Significant management challenges exist for DHS as it merges the multiple management systems and processes from its 22 originating agencies in functional areas... | [
"The creation of DHS is an historic opportunity for the federal government to fundamentally transform how the nation will protect itself from terrorism and other threats. Not since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 has the federal government undertaken an organizational merger of this magnitude. Ena... |
train_10728 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Federal Prison Industries' (FPI) product pricing, focusing on: (1) the laws and regulations governing how FPI is to price its products; (2) the policies and procedures FPI uses to ensure that its products are priced in accordance with the laws and reg... | [
"FPI is a government corporation that is managed by Justice’s BOP. Congress created FPI to serve as a means for managing, training, and rehabilitating inmates. Operating on a nonappropriated-fund basis, FPI employs federal inmates at its factories, which are located within federal correctional institutions, to prod... |
train_10729 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reported on the government's measurement of subsidy costs for federal direct loans and loan guarantees, focusing on whether: (1) agencies completed estimates and reestimates of subsidy costs; (2) GAO could readily discern any trends including improvements in subsidy estimates; (... | [
"There is a long history of problems with federal credit programs. We reported many of the problems, such as poor recordkeeping and cost data, prior to credit reform. For example, we reported in November 1989 that federal agencies’ long-standing deficiencies in financial management systems and accounting procedures... |
train_10730 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Between 1998 and 2004, Congress appropriated over $1.2 billion to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. The campaign aimed to prevent the initiation of or curtail the use of drugs among the nation's youth. In 2005, Westat, Inc., completed a multiyear nationa... | [
"As part of the Treasury and General Government Appropriation Act of 1998, the Drug Free Media Campaign Act of 1998 required, among other things, the Office of National Drug Control Policy to conduct a national media campaign for the purpose of reducing and preventing drug abuse among young people in the United Sta... |
train_10731 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | This report discusses the water marketing activities of the Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project and their associated costs. Water marketing costs have risen significantly since 1989, but GAO found no evidence that the costs were associated with activities other than normal operation and maintenance activitie... | [
"The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation constructs and operates water resource projects to provide water to arid lands in 17 western states. Construction, operation, and maintenance of these projects are financed primarily with federal funds. The Bureau provides water for irrigation purposes to stat... |
train_10732 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) resource allocation system, focusing on the: (1) extent to which VA resources are distributed equally among VA facilities; and (2) causes of unequal resource allocations among VA health care facilities. GAO found that: (1) the VA... | [
"The VA health care system, established in 1930, is one of the nation’s largest direct delivery systems. VA’s health care facilities provide services to veterans both with and without service-connected disabilities. Individual facilities vary widely in the inpatient, outpatient, and long-term care services they pro... |
train_10733 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Indian Health Service (IHS), located within the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for arranging health care services for Native Americans (American Indians and Alaska Natives). IHS services include primary care (medical, dental, and vision); ancillary services, such as laboratory and pharmacy;... | [
"Native Americans living in IHS areas have lower life expectancies than the U.S. population as a whole and face considerably higher mortality rates for some conditions. For Native Americans ages 15 to 44 living in those areas, mortality rates are more than twice those of the general population. Native Americans liv... |
train_10734 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | This testimony discusses issues related to girls' delinquency--a topic that has attracted the attention of federal, state, and local policymakers for more than a decade as girls have increasingly become involved in the juvenile justice system. For example, from 1995 through 2005, delinquency caseloads for girls in juve... | [
"With an overall goal of developing research that communities need to make sound decisions about how best to prevent and reduce girls’ delinquency, OJJDP established the Girls Study Group (Study Group) in 2004 under a $2.6 million multiyear cooperative agreement with a research institute. OJJDP’s objectives for the... |
train_10735 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | In 1998, terrorists bombed the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing over 220 people and injuring 4,000. In 1999, State began a new embassy construction program, administered by OBO, which to date has received $21 billion, according to State. OBO's primary goal was to provide secure, sa... | [
"Following terrorist attacks against the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983, State began an embassy construction program—known as the Inman program—to protect U.S. personnel. However, State completed only 24 of the 57 planned construction projects, in part due to poor planning, systemic weaknesses in program ... |
train_10736 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the status of the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) corrective action to prevent computer system failures at the turn of the century, focusing on: (1) the Veterans Benefits Administration's (VBA) Year 2000 program; and (2) the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) Y... | [
"VA comprises three major components: VBA, which provides benefits to veterans and their dependents; VHA, which provides health care services through the nation’s largest health care system; and the National Cemetery System, which provides burial services in 115 national cemeteries. In fiscal year 1997, VBA reporte... |
train_10737 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Information technology (IT) is a critical tool for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), not only in performing its mission today, but also in transforming how it will do so in the future. In light of the importance of this transformation and the magnitude of the associated challenges, GAO has designated the imple... | [
"DHS’s mission is to lead the unified national effort to secure America by preventing and deterring terrorist attacks and protecting against and responding to threats and hazards to the nation. DHS also is to ensure safe and secure borders, welcome lawful immigrants and visitors, and promote the free flow of commer... |
train_10738 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | According to SBA, the agency received more than 40,000 disaster business loan applications from fiscal years 2010 through 2014, and estimates that applicants spent on average a total of more than 25,000 hours per year filling out disaster loan application forms. PRA requires agencies to minimize paperwork burden on ind... | [
"According to SBA officials, when a disaster is declared in an area, a staff member from an SBA field operations center, located in Atlanta, Georgia, or Sacramento, California, contacts the area’s SBDC network to identify a site for setting up a business recovery center, which may be the local SBDC office. Official... |
train_10739 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO determined whether and how including propane as an alternative fuel under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT) will affect existing propane consumers as well as the supply and price, focusing on: (1) whether EPACT's goal of replacing at least 10 percent of the conventional fuel... | [
"To help meet its goal of replacing a portion of the conventional fuel used by light-duty vehicles in the United States with replacement fuels, EPACT established mandates, to be implemented by the Secretary of Energy, that require certain fleet operators to include alternative-fueled vehicles (AFV) in their fleets.... |
train_10740 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The federal government collects large amounts of information, increasingly in electronic form, to accomplish its missions. This greater reliance on electronic communication and information technology systems has, as a result, radically increased the information that agencies must manage. In 2012, NARA and OMB issued a ... | [
"Records are the foundation of open government, supporting the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration. Well-managed records can be used to assess the impact of programs, improve business processes, and share knowledge across the government. Effective records management is also an important too... |
train_10741 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | GAO discussed how innovation in federal research, financing and contracting methods has the potential for improving the performance of the nation's surface transportation system, focusing on three reports it completed for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works' deliberations on the reauthorization of the ... | [
"ISTEA expressed the need for a new direction in surface transportation research, finding that despite an annual federal expenditure of more than $10 billion on surface transportation and its infrastructure, the federal government lacked a clear vision of the role of federally funded surface transportation research... |
train_10742 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | In its March 2004 report, "VA Health Care: Improved Screening of Practitioners Would Reduce Risk to Veterans," GAO-04-566 , GAO made recommendations to improve VA's employment screening of practitioners. GAO was asked to testify today on steps VA has taken to improve its employment screening requirements and VA's physi... | [
"VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care to nearly 5 million veterans per year. The VA health care system consists of hospitals, ambulatory clinics, nursing homes, residential rehabilitation treatment programs, and readjustment counseling centers. In addition to pr... |
train_10743 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011, the United States has been relying on Russia to transport astronauts to and from the ISS. The purpose of NASA's Commercial Crew Program is to facilitate the development of a domestic transport capability. In 2014, NASA awarded two firm-fixed-price contracts to Boeing and Spa... | [
"NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is a multi-phased effort that began in 2010. Across the five phases, NASA has engaged several companies using both agreements and contract vehicles to develop and demonstrate crew transportation capabilities. As the program has passed through these phases, NASA has generally narrowed... |
train_10744 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | GAO discussed the Department of Defense's (DOD) budgetary plans to modernize its forces, focusing on: (1) DOD's experience over the last few years in trying to shift funds from nonmission or infrastructure programs to acquisition programs; (2) the risks in DOD's ability to execute its Future Years Defense Program (FYDP... | [
"Since the mid-1980s, we have reported that DOD employs a systemic bias toward overly optimistic planning assumptions in its budget formulation. We have said that this results in too many programs for the available dollars—plans/funding mismatch. This, in turn, leads to program instability, costly program stretch-o... |
train_10745 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has reversed the general decline in its third-party collections for the first time since fiscal year 1995. The fiscal year 2001 increase appears to be largely the result of VA's implementation of a new system, known as the reasonable charges billing system, which allowed VA to mo... | [
"When veterans receive care from VA for non-service-connected conditions, the law allows VA to bill the veterans’ private health insurers and retain these third-party collections to supplement its appropriations for health care. Third-party insurers include individual and group insurance plans, Medicare supplementa... |
train_10746 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Events such as the discovery of lead in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, and the overflow and damage to the spillway at the Oroville Dam in California have drawn attention to the condition of the nation's drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. Conditions such as population growth or drought may further affect ... | [
"This section provides information on federal and state regulation of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure; federal funding for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects; and our prior work on coordination of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funding and leading collaborative practice... |
train_10747 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Despite substantial federal and state investment, states have not been able to meet all outcome measures for children in their care. Given the complexity of the challenges that state child welfare agencies face, GAO was asked to determine (1) the primary challenges state child welfare agencies face in their efforts to ... | [
"The well-being of children and families has traditionally been understood as a primary duty of state governments, and state and local governments are the primary administrators of child welfare programs designed to protect children from abuse or neglect. Child welfare caseworkers investigate allegations of child m... |
train_10748 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The U.S. economy depends heavily on oil, particularly in the transportation sector. World oil production has been running at near capacity to meet demand, pushing prices upward. Concerns about meeting increasing demand with finite resources have renewed interest in an old question: How long can the oil supply expand be... | [
"Oil—the product of the burial and transformation of biomass over the last 200 million years—has historically had no equal as an energy source for its intrinsic qualities of extractability, transportability, versatility, and cost. But the total amount of oil underground is finite, and, therefore, production will on... |
train_10749 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | NNSA is responsible for the nation's nuclear security programs. These programs often include the design and construction of large projects to meet program needs. NNSA has a history of struggling to complete these and other projects and programs within cost estimates. Senate Report 112-73 mandated that GAO report on NNS... | [
"This section describes: (1) NNSA organization and management, (2) DOE and NNSA cost estimating requirements and guidance for projects, (3) DOE and NNSA cost estimating requirements and guidance for programs, (4) our 2009 cost estimating best practices, and (5) federal standards for internal controls. To fund NNSA’... |
train_10750 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Secretary of the Army's tentative decision to move aviation testing activities now at Edwards Air Force Base, California, to Fort Rucker, Alabama, and retain Yuma Proving Ground. GAO found that: (1) the Army failed to fully account for savings from consolidating its... | [
"Technical testing of Army aviation systems, such as helicopters, and related support equipment is the responsibility of the Test and Evaluation Command (TECOM), under the U.S. Army Materiel Command. Since 1990, TECOM has maintained three principal aviation testing sites. The Aviation Technical Test Center (ATTC) a... |
train_10751 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the: (1) actions taken to correct problems with federal yearend spending practices and the award of government contracts; and (2) quarterly obligation data for selected departments and agencies to determine if fourth quarter obligations were higher than obligations in e... | [
"Wasteful year-end spending can occur when agencies rush to use funds at the end of the fiscal year. This is often an attempt to spend funds that would otherwise expire, meaning they would no longer be available for new obligations after the fiscal year ends. In its 1980 report, the Subcommittee recognized that hig... |
train_10752 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act (CARE Act) was enacted in 1990 to respond to the needs of individuals and families living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). In fiscal year 2004, over $2 billion in funding was provided through the CARE Act,... | [
"Over the course of the last quarter century, the epidemic has spread to every region of the country. HIV and AIDS cases have been reported in all states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories, but the impact of the epidemic varies by region and within states. The South is estimated to have the highest cum... |
train_10753 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The September 11th attacks decidedly changed the Coast Guard's priorities and markedly increased its scope of activities. Homeland security, a long-standing but relatively small part of the Coast Guard's duties, took center stage. Still, the Coast Guard remains responsible for many other missions important to the natio... | [
"The Coast Guard, which became a part of the Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003, has a wide variety of both security and nonsecurity missions. (See table 1.) The Coast Guard’s equipment includes 141 cutters, approximately 1,400 small patrol and rescue boats, and about 200 aircraft. Coast Guard service... |
train_10754 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) management of its financial operations, focusing on: (1) DOD's rationale for creating the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS); (2) the current size of the DOD finance and accounting infrastructure; and (3) the v... | [
"Before 1991, the military services maintained separate finance and accounting operations that were duplicative and inefficient. DFAS was created to standardize DOD finance and accounting policies, procedures, and systems. Military services and defense agencies generally use operations and maintenance appropriation... |
train_10755 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Regulation is one of the principal tools that the government uses to implement public policy. As part of the rulemaking process federal agencies must comply with an increasing number of procedural and analytical requirements. GAO was asked to examine how broadly applicable rulemaking requirements cumulatively have affe... | [
"Regulatory agencies have authority and responsibility for developing and issuing regulations. The basic process by which all federal agencies develop and issue regulations is spelled out in the APA. This act establishes procedures and broadly applicable federal requirements for informal rulemaking, also known as n... |
train_10756 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Effective implementation of GPRAMA can help address significant and long-standing budget, management, and performance challenges the federal government faces. This report is the latest in a series of GAO work in response to a statutory provision to review GPRAMA implementation. It examines how implementation has affect... | [
"GPRAMA is a significant enhancement of GPRA, which was the centerpiece of a statutory framework that Congress put in place during the 1990s to help resolve long-standing performance and management problems in the federal government and provide greater accountability for results. GPRAMA was likewise intended to add... |
train_10757 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Over a decade ago, GAO listed the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) effort to modernize the nation's air traffic control (ATC) system as a high-risk program because of systemic management and acquisition problems. Two relatively new offices housed within FAA--the Air Traffic Organization (ATO) and the Joint Plann... | [
"In 1981, FAA began a program to replace and upgrade ATC facilities and equipment. However, systemic management issues, such as frequent turnover in agency leadership, an ineffective organizational culture, and problems with its acquisition process, contributed to cost growth, schedule slippages, and performance sh... |
train_10758 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | As of October 2012, about 4.9 million civilian and military employees and contractors held a security clearance. Federal laws do not prohibit an individual with unpaid federal taxes from holding a security clearance, but tax debt poses a potential vulnerability. GAO was requested to review tax-debt detection during the... | [
"As of September 30, 2012, the tax debt of individuals and businesses that owed the U.S. government was about $364 billion, according to the IRS. The tax-debt inventory is the sum of all taxes owed to the IRS at a particular point in time, including debts from the current year and debts from previous years that fal... |
train_10759 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed federal information technology (IT) acquisitions to determine how various factors affect the IT acquisition process. GAO found that: (1) the average time taken to complete an IT acquisition varies according to the procurement type, dollar value, and whether a bid protes... | [
"The IT acquisition process extends from the initial determination of needs to the final implementation of the acquired product. This report addresses three IT acquisition stages—presolicitation, solicitation, and source selection. During the presolicitation phase, contracting personnel develop specifications, prep... |
train_10760 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 stipulates major changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to improve the agency's preparedness for and response to catastrophic disasters. For example, the act establishes a new mission for and new... | [
"Several federal legislative and executive provisions support preparation for and response to emergency situations. The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act) primarily establishes the programs and processes for the federal government to provide major disaster and emergen... |
train_10761 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the key events related to the fiscal year (FY) 1997 budget shortfall of the National Weather Service (NWS), focusing on: (1) the formulation and execution of the NWS' FY 1997 budget; and (2) key events regarding NWS' FY 1997 budget shortfall and efforts to address it. G... | [
"The primary mission of NWS is to help protect life and property by providing weather and flood warnings, public forecasts, and advisories for all of the United States, adjacent waters, and ocean areas. NWS operations also support other agencies’ missions and the nation’s commercial interests. For example, NWS prov... |
train_10762 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Inspectors general (IG) are to provide independent and objective oversight; however, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has relied on acting and temporary IGs for an extended period of time. GAO was asked to determine (1) the extent of oversight provided by the USITC IG, (2) the budget and staffin... | [
"Congress established the basic functions of USITC on September 8, 1916, as the U.S. Tariff Commission. In 1975, the name was changed to the U.S. International Trade Commission by section 171 of the Trade Act of 1974. USITC is headed by six Commissioners who are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senat... |
train_10763 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Because wetlands provide valuable functions, the administration set a national goal of no net loss of wetlands in 1989. Section 404 of the Clean Water Act generally prohibits the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States, which include certain wetlands, without a permit from the U.S. Army C... | [
"Wetlands include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas. They are characterized by three factors: (1) frequent or prolonged presence of water at or near the soil surface, (2) hydric soils that form under flooded or saturated conditions, and (3) plants that are adapted to live in these types of soils. Wetlands ar... |
train_10764 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Since 2002, DOD has spent over $98 billion developing a ballistic missile defense system to protect the United States, U.S. forces, and allies against inbound threat missiles. In December 2011, DOD deployed the initial phase of a revised approach for Europe, with increased capabilities to be deployed in later phases. G... | [
"In September 2009, the President announced a revised approach to missile defense in Europe called EPAA, which consists of phases of increasing capability to be deployed in the 2011, 2015, and 2018 time frames. EPAA serves as the U.S. contribution to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) mission to protec... |
train_10765 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act in 1990 (OPA). Among other things, OPA established the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research (interagency committee) to coordinate an oil pollution research program among federal agencies, including developing a plan, having the National Academy of Sciences r... | [
"This section provides information on OPA requirements, expenditures for oil pollution research conducted by interagency committee member agencies, and certain other organizations that conduct or coordinate research. Through OPA Congress established the interagency committee to coordinate a comprehensive oil pollut... |
train_10766 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed aspects of the implementation of bilingual language provisons of the Voting Rights Act, focusing on: (1) the types of assistance jurisdictions provided for the 1996 general election; and (2) actual cost that covered jurisdictions incurred to provide bilingual voting ass... | [
"In 1975, Congress amended the Voting Rights Act and extended its coverage to protect the voting rights of citizens of certain ethnic groups whose language is other than English. The act’s language minority provisions require states and covered jurisdictions—political subdivisions—that meet the act’s coverage crite... |
train_10767 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The HVBP program, which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administers, annually evaluates individual hospital performance on a designated set of quality measures related to inpatient hospital services and, based on those results, adjusts Medicare payments to hospitals in the form of bonuses and penalti... | [
"The HVBP program affects Medicare payments to approximately 3,000 acute care hospitals for the inpatient services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Hospitals are included in the HVBP program if they are paid through Medicare’s Inpatient Prospective Payment System. Thus, hospitals not paid through this system, su... |
train_10768 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Aerial refueling—when aircraft refuel while airborne—allows the U.S. military to fly farther, stay airborne longer, and transport more weapons, equipment, and supplies. Yet the mainstay of the U.S. tanker forces—the KC-135 Stratotanker—is over 50 years old. It is increasingly costly to support and its age-related probl... | [
"In February 2011, Boeing won the competition to develop the Air Force’s next generation aerial refueling tanker aircraft, the KC-46. Boeing was awarded a fixed price incentive (firm target) contract for development because KC-46 development is considered to be a relatively low-risk effort to integrate mostly matur... |
train_10769 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) financial outlook has deteriorated as customers have shifted to electronic alternatives. Mail volumes have declined over 20 percent since fiscal year 2006 and are expected to continue declining. To help its financial outlook, in March 2010, USPS presented a detailed proposal to the Post... | [
"Mail delivery is central to USPS’s mission and role in providing postal services to “bind the nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people.” USPS is required by law to provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services, as nearly as practicable, to the entire... |
train_10770 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | NLS, within the Library of Congress (LOC), provides free audio and braille materials for U.S. citizens and residents who cannot read standard print due to visual and other disabilities. In fiscal year 2016, the NLS program received about $50 million in federal funds to provide these materials through a national network... | [
"NLS operates a program that provides free reading materials for residents and citizens of the United States and its territories as well as U.S. citizens residing abroad who are generally unable to read standard print because of a visual or physical disability. Under its authorizing statute, the program may provide... |
train_10771 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the operations of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Office of the National Taxpayer Advocate and the Problem Resolution Program (PRP) that it administers, focusing on: (1) challenges the Taxpayer Advocate faces in managing program resources; (2) the potential effects... | [
"IRS founded PRP in 1976 to provide an independent means of helping taxpayers solve problems that they encountered in dealing with IRS. Initially, PRP units were established in IRS district offices. In 1979, IRS expanded PRP to its service centers and created the position of Taxpayer Ombudsman to head PRP. The Ombu... |
train_10772 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Between 2002 and 2012 nearly 850,000 jobs will open in the construction industry; experts predict that there will not be enough skilled workers to fill them. This has heightened concerns about program outcomes and program quality in the nation's apprenticeship system and the U.S. Department of Labor's oversight of it. ... | [
"Although apprenticeship programs in the United States are largely private systems that are paid for largely by program sponsors, the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937 authorizes and directs the Secretary of Labor to formulate and promote labor standards that safeguard the welfare of apprentices. The responsibili... |
train_10773 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) database of federal civilian employees, the Central Personnel Data File (CPDF), focusing on: (1) the extent to which selected CPDF data elements are accurate, including the data elements used by OPM's Office of the Actuaries fo... | [
"According to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Guide to the Central Personnel Data File (CPDF), the CPDF is the federal government’s central personnel automated database that contains statistically accurate demographic information on about 1.9 million federal civilian employees. The CPDF’s primary objecti... |
train_10774 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) performs limited oversight of states' processes for verifying the accuracy of large industrial facilities' emissions reports. EPA's data show that most emissions determinations from large sources are based on generic emissions factors. Although EPA allows facilities to estimate... | [
"Under the Clean Air Act, EPA has set air quality standards for six principal pollutants—the so-called “criteria pollutants”—to protect public health. These are carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, and sulfur dioxide, as well as ground-level ozone. The latter is not directly emitted by stati... |
train_10775 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), reauthorized at $48 billion for fiscal years 2009 through 2013, supports HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care services overseas. The reauthorizing legislation, as well as other key documents and PEPFAR guidance, endorses the alignment of PEPFAR activities wit... | [
"The Department of State’s Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) establishes overall PEPFAR policy and program strategies, coordinates PEPFAR programs, and allocates resources to several U.S. agencies to implement PEPFAR activities. These agencies (referred to in this report as implementing agencies) in... |
train_10776 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on Medicare home health care's recent declines in spending, focusing on: (1) the declines in service use underlying the changes in spending; (2) the extent of the changes in use across beneficiaries, home health agencies (HHA), and locations; and (3) identif... | [
"Medicare’s home health care benefit enables certain beneficiaries with post-acute-care needs (such as recovery from joint replacement) and chronic conditions (such as congestive heart failure) to receive care in their homes rather than in other settings. To qualify for home health care, a beneficiary must be confi... |
train_10777 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Each year, millions of visitors come to the United States legally on a temporary basis either with or without a visa. Overstays are individuals who were admitted into the country legally on a temporary basis but then overstayed their authorized periods of admission. DHS has primary responsibility for identifying and ta... | [
"DHS has taken action to address a backlog of potential overstay records we previously identified in April 2011. Specifically, in April 2011, we reported that, as of January 2011, ADIS contained a backlog of 1.6 million potential overstay records, which included prior nonpriority overstay leads that had not been re... |
train_10778 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) is a hybrid combatant submersible providing clandestine delivery and extraction of Navy SEALs and equipment in high-threat environments. The first ASDS has had significant performance issues and has cost, to date, over $885 million. In May 2006, Congress requested that GAO revie... | [
"The special operations forces’ ASDS is a battery-powered, dry interior submersible that is carried to a deployment area by specially configured 688-class submarines. ASDS is intended to provide increased range, payload, on-station loiter time, endurance, and communication/sensor capacity over current submersibles.... |
train_10779 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | More than half the estimated 220 million acres of marshes, bogs, swamps, and other wetlands in the United States during the colonial times, have disappeared, and others have become degraded. This decline is due, primarily, to farming and development. Developers whose projects may harm wetlands must, according to enviro... | [
"Wetlands are diverse, but they can generally be defined as transitional areas between open waters and dry land, such as swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas. Wetlands are typically characterized by the frequent or prolonged presence of water at or near the soil surface, by soils that form under flooded or satu... |
train_10780 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Government purchase cards have streamlined the process of acquiring goods and services by allowing employees to purchase directly from merchants rather than going through the regular procurement process. The government spent $13.8 billion using purchase cards in fiscal year 2001. However, the government does not know h... | [
"The Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 established a micropurchase threshold of $2,500. Purchases that do not exceed the threshold are not subject to the Small Business Act reservation requirement, may be made without obtaining competitive quotations (if the price is reasonable), and may be made by autho... |
train_10781 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Navy's plans to incorporate lessons learned from prior submarine programs into the design and construction of the NSSN, a new class of nuclear-powered attack submarine. GAO found that: (1) by incorporating management lessons from prior submarine construction program... | [
"Believing that high Seawolf submarine program costs would lead to inadequate force levels, the Department of Defense (DOD), in October 1991, established a requirement for a more affordable new attack submarine. According to the Navy, the NSSN’s estimated displacement weight will be about 7,100 tons, 2,000 tons les... |
train_10782 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The NCR is considered at high risk for various threats and hazards. Federal, state, and local agencies in the NCR continue to face challenges with emergency communications interoperability—that is, the ability to use radios to communicate across entities when needed. The federal government has taken actions to improve ... | [
"Emergency communications interoperability refers to the ability of first responders and emergency preparedness and management officials to use their radios and other equipment to communicate with each other across agencies and jurisdictions when needed and as authorized, as shown in our hypothetical example of res... |
train_10783 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | GAO has reported extensively on LCS—an over $34 billion Navy program (in 2010 dollars) consisting of two different ships and interchangeable mission packages. In February 2014, the Secretary of Defense, citing survivability concerns, directed the Navy to assess design alternatives for a possible LCS replacement. House ... | [
"The LCS consists of two distinct parts: (1) a seaframe, which is essentially the ship itself, and (2) a mission package, which is an interchangeable set of sensors, weapons, aircraft, surface craft, and subsurface vehicles carried on and deployed from the seaframe to perform three different primary missions: mine ... |
train_10784 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) profiles of three power marketing administrations, including their similarities and differences and how they interact with the agencies that operate federal water projects; (2) general parameters of the process by which federally owned assets can be ... | [
"The federal government owns and operates numerous multipurpose water projects, many of which generate electric power. This power, which is generated subject to the needs of the project, is sold through five federal power marketing administrations (PMA)—the Southeastern Power Administration (Southeastern), the Sout... |
train_10785 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Prior to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization's (JIEDDO) establishment in 2006, no single entity was responsible for coordinating the Department of Defense's (DOD) counter improvised explosive device (IED) efforts. JIEDDO was established to coordinate and focus all counter-IED efforts, including on... | [
"Although the IED was not a new threat when first encountered during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to DOD officials, U.S. forces were not initially concerned with the IED as a “weapon of choice” until IED attacks began to increase in Iraq at the end of major combat operations. Terrorist and insurgen... |
train_10786 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Financial Management Service's (FMS), federal agencies', and states' implementation of the Cash Management Improvement Act (CMIA) during 1994. GAO found that: (1) FMS, federal agencies, and states have complied with CMIA requirements, established processes to impl... | [
"Prior to CMIA, the timing of federal funds transfers to states was governed by the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, Public Law 90-577.",
"That law allowed a state to retain for its own purposes any interest earned on federal funds transferred to it “pending its disbursement for program purposes.” The House Com... |
train_10787 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS), begun by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1997, aimed to develop a methodology that could be used to survey a wide range of aviation personnel to monitor aviation safety. NASA expected NAOMS surveys to be permanently implemented and... | [
"To describe the history and nature of the NAOMS project, we researched, reviewed, and analyzed related material posted on several NASA Web sites and provided to us directly by NASA and its contractor for NAOMS. We reviewed relevant documents on the House of Representatives’ Committee on Science and Technology Web ... |
train_10788 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | About 300,000 miles of gas transmission pipelines cross the United States, carrying natural gas from processing facilities to communities and large-volume users. These pipelines are largely regulated by PHMSA. The Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002 established the gas integrity management program, which required g... | [
"The United States has a network of about 300,000 miles of gas transmission pipelines that are owned and operated by approximately 900 operators. These pipelines, which are primarily interstate, typically move gas products over long distances from sources to communities, and tend to operate at the highest pressures... |
train_10789 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Natural gas is the most costly component used in manufacturing nitrogen fertilizer. Therefore, when natural gas prices increased in 2000-2001, U.S. companies that produce nitrogen fertilizer reported adverse financial consequences resulting from much higher production costs. Concerns also arose that the nation's farmer... | [
"Natural gas is a key feedstock in the manufacturing of nitrogen for which there is no practical substitute. Manufactured nitrogen—also known as anhydrous ammonia—is used as a fertilizer itself and is also the primary building block used to manufacture all other nitrogen-based fertilizers. Some of this nitrogen als... |
train_10790 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Sharing information with nonfederal officials is an important tool in federal efforts to secure the nation's ports against a potential terrorist attack. The Coast Guard has lead responsibility in coordinating maritime information sharing efforts. The Coast Guard has established area maritime security committees--forums... | [
"Ports play an important role in the nation’s economy and security. Ports are used to import and export cargo worth hundreds of billions of dollars; generating jobs, both directly and indirectly, for Americans and our trading partners. Ports, which include inland waterways, are used to move cargo containers, and bu... |
train_10791 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Since GAO's first audit of the fiscal year 1997 consolidated financial statements of the U.S. government (CFS), material weaknesses in internal control and other limitations on the scope of GAO's work have prevented GAO from expressing an opinion on the consolidated financial statements, other than the Statement of Soc... | [
"As part of our audit of the fiscal years 2009 and 2008 CFS, we evaluated the federal government’s financial reporting procedures and related internal control. Also, we determined the status of corrective actions by Treasury and OMB to address open recommendations relating to the processes used to prepare the CFS d... |
train_10792 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Administered by HUD, the CDBG program provides funding for housing, community, and economic development programs. After set asides, HUD must allocate 70 percent of funds to cities and urban counties, known as entitlement communities, and 30 percent to states for distribution to eligible nonentitlement communities. In f... | [
"The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 created the CDBG program to develop viable urban communities by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment and by expanding economic opportunities, principally for LMI persons. Program funds can be used for housing, economic development, neighborhoo... |
train_10793 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Bayh-Dole Act gives federal contractors, grantees, and cooperative agreement funding recipients the option to retain ownership rights to inventions they create as part of a federally sponsored research project and profit from commercializing them. The act also protects the government's interests, in part by requiri... | [
"Prior to 1980, federal agencies generally retained title to any inventions resulting from federally funded research—whether the research was conducted by contractors and grantees or by federal scientists in their own laboratories—although specific policies varied among the agencies. Increasingly, this situation wa... |
train_10794 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed whether the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is consolidating and optimizing Federal Telecommunications Systems (FTS) 2000 services across the department to maximize savings. GAO found that: (1) USDA has identified opportunities to significantly reduce telecommunication... | [
"USDA delivers services through its component agencies and through thousands of field offices in states, cities, and counties. These offices acquire and use various types of telecommunications services to accomplish their missions and service customer needs. USDA reports show that the Department spends about $100 m... |
train_10795 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) relies extensively on information technology (IT) to carry out its mission. For fiscal year 2008, DHS requested about $4 billion--the third largest planned IT expenditure among federal departments. Given the size and significance of DHS's IT investments, GAO's objectives were t... | [
"Since beginning operations in March 2003, DHS has assumed operational control of about 209,000 civilian and military positions from 22 agencies and offices specializing in one or more aspects of homeland security. The intent behind DHS’s merger and transformation was to, among other things, improve coordination, c... |
train_10796 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the financial and other issues associated with a possible Amtrak bankruptcy and liquidation, focusing on: (1) uncertainties in estimating the potential costs associated with a liquidation; (2) possible financial impacts on creditors, including the federal government; ... | [
"Amtrak was created by the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 to operate and revitalize intercity passenger rail service. Prior to Amtrak’s creation, intercity passenger rail service was provided by private railroads, which had lost money, especially after World War II. The act, as amended, gave Amtrak a number of ... |
train_10797 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | The southern Africa food crisis threatened 15.3 million people in six countries (Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) with famine. GAO was asked to look at (1) factors that contributed to the crisis, (2) how well the populations' needs were met, (3) obstacles to the food aid effort, and (4) cha... | [
"In 1991/92, drought caused massive crop failure, threatening 18 million people in 10 southern African countries with famine. Because of a similar reduced maize crop after the 2001/02 crop cycle, several early warning systems predicted an impending food crisis that would run through the beginning of the following h... |
train_10798 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | GAO provided information on the three components needed to ensure compliance with international environmental agreements. GAO noted that: (1) data on the results of nations' activities undertaken to meet their international environmental obligations are the basis of determining whether each nation is in compliance with... | [
"The increased understanding of our environment and the recognition that environmental problems do not stop at national boundaries have resulted in global concern about the future of our planet and an increasing number of international agreements to address those concerns. Since 1972, when over 130 nations took par... |
train_10799 | Write a detailed summary of the following government report. | Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the performance-based incentives at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford, Idaho Falls, Rocky Flats, and Savannah River sites to determine: (1) the extent to which DOE has incorporated lessons learned in developing its fiscal year (FY) 1998 performance-based incentiv... | [
"To carry out its missions, DOE relies on contractors for the management and operation of its facilities. These efforts are normally carried out using cost-reimbursement contracts, which provide for the payment of all costs incurred by the contractor to the extent that these costs are allowable under the specific c... |
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