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SIPC's mission is to promote confidence in securities markets by seeking to return customers' cash and securities when a broker-dealer fails.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1492311324ISBN-13: 9781492311324Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2013Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.17d

The United States Army is responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military. The modern Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed on June 14, 1775, before the establishment of the...

To finance renewable energy projects, the military use up-front appropriations, such as operation and maintenance funds, and alternative-financing approaches that generally rely on private capital, such as arranging financing and implementing a project with a private developer or utility.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1492305588ISBN-13: 9781492305583Publisher:...

This performance audit was conducted from September 2011 to February 2012 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions...

The Internal Revenue Service has a demanding responsibility in collecting taxes, processing tax returns, and enforcing the nation's tax laws.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1492305510ISBN-13: 9781492305514Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2013Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.08d

Pipelines transport roughly two-thirds of domestic energy supplies through approximately 2.5 million miles of pipelines throughout the United States. These pipelines carry hazardous liquids and natural gas from producing wells to end users (residences and businesses). Within this nationwide system, there are three main...

CMS has publicly reported information on nursing home quality on its Nursing Home Compare website since 1998 and has increased the amount of information it reports on the website over time.9 7GAO, Managing for Results: Enhancing Agency Use of Performance Information for Management Decision...

To be validated as a joint urgent operational need, a requirement must be joint in nature and, importantly, if not addressed immediately will seriously endanger personnel or pose a major threat to ongoing operations. DOD has taken a number of steps to provide urgently...

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy has made progress in improving its internal control since GAO's August 2009 report, but has not yet fully addressed one key recommendation related to fundamental weaknesses in its overall internal control system.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1492305111ISBN-13: 9781492305118Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Multiple DHS offices, components, and agencies have roles and responsibilities in DHS's development of CBRN risk assessments, response plans, and capabilities.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1492297720ISBN-13: 9781492297727Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2013Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.10d

JMD has overall responsibility for managing the working capital fund and AFF. Justice's working capital fund was created by Congress on January 2, 1975. The fund is authorized to maintain moneys from four distinct sources, or functions (see table 1). The first and primary...

"Oversight of a contract"-which can refer to contract administration functions, quality assurance surveillance, corrective action, property administration, and past performance evaluation-ultimately rests with the contracting officer who has the responsibility for ensuring that contractors meet the requirements set forth in the contract. However, contracting...

The FAR requires that contracting officers provide for full and open competition in soliciting proposals and awarding government contracts. However, the FAR also recognizes that full and open competition is not always feasible, and authorizes contracting without full and open competition under certain conditions.Author:...

Federal tax information (FTI)-tax returns and return information (as defined in fig. 1 below)-is kept confidential under Section 6103 of the IRC except as specifically authorized by law. Information in a form that cannot be associated with or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, a...

Created by the Deputy Secretary of Defense in January 2006, JIEDDO is responsible for leading, advocating, and coordinating all DOD actions in support of the combatant commanders' and their respective joint task forces' efforts to defeat IEDs as weapons of strategic influence. Prior DOD...

Credit unions are tax-exempt, cooperative financial institutions run by member-elected, primarily volunteer boards. To build capital, credit unions do not issue stock; they are not-for-profit entities that build capital by retained earnings. Their tax-exempt status and cooperative, not-for- profit structure separate credit unions from...

Capital reassures an institution's depositors, creditors, and counterparties that unanticipated losses or decreased earnings will not impair a financial institution's ability to repay its creditors or protect the savings of depositors. In general, capital represents the share of an institution's assets with no obligation...

The municipal securities market comprises both primary and secondary markets. In the primary market, underwriters buy new securities from municipal issuers (e.g., local government entities) and subsequently sell them to investors during the primary offering.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1492297674ISBN-13: 9781492297673Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

GAO recommendations for enhancing the current strategy for managing and overseeing contracts in contingency areas such as Afghanistan.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1492295183ISBN-13: 9781492295181Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2013Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.10d

The U.S. government's control over the export of defense and dual-use items is intended to ensure that U.S. interests are protected in accordance with the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the Export Administration Act (EAA). Defense items can include tanks, fighter aircraft, submarines,...

Foreign banks have been cited as important providers of capital to the U.S. economy. According to Federal Reserve data, as of September 30, 2011, 216 foreign banks from 58 countries had banking operations in the United States. They held about $3.4 trillion, or about...

According to a 2010 Interior study, 97 percent of oil and gas production in federal waters occurs along the U.S. outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. The outer continental shelf is the submerged lands outside the territorial jurisdiction of all 50 states...

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...

A credit rating is an assessment of the creditworthiness of an obligor as an entity or in relation to specific securities or money market instruments.9 SEC first used the term "Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization" in 1975 to describe those rating agencies whose ratings...

Congress showed continuing interest in the development of IOCs shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003,16 funding was appropriated specifically for such a center in Charleston, South Carolina. That center, known as Project SeaHawk, brought together...

OPM provides background investigations for suitability determinations and personnel security clearances to agencies governmentwide. OPM's Federal Investigative Services provides goods and services pursuant to various legal authorities that allow agencies to place orders with another agency. OPM provides background investigation services to over 100...

Roughly 40 percent of all U.S. workers participate in pension plans offered by their employers.2 Under Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), employers are permitted to offer their employees two broad types of retirement plans, defined benefit (DB)...

To encourage employers to establish and maintain retirement plans for their employees, the federal government provides preferential tax treatment under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) for plans that meet certain requirements. In addition, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), as amended,...

This report responds to two ongoing GOA mandates under the American Recovery and Reinvestment act of 2009.Author: Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1492207241ISBN-13: 9781492207245Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2013Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.60d

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs created this Employment Resource Referral Directory to enhance access to various programs that assist in providing job referral services to veterans, individuals with disabilities, women and minority groups.Author: Us Department of LaborISBN-10: 149220711XISBN-13: 9781492207115Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Recessions mark a distinct phase of the overall business cycle, beginning with a business cycle "peak" and ending with a business cycle "trough." Between trough and peak the economy is in an expansion. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) identifies dates for national...

This report describes the labor force characteristics and earnings patterns among the major race and ethnicity groups-Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics-and provides more detailed data through a set of supporting tables. These data are obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly survey...

This publication, NAVMC 2750, Marines War on Drugs, is designed as a basic reference for use by commanders in developing local illegal drug use prevention and instructional programs.Author: U S Marine Corps,Department of the NavyISBN-10: 1492156523ISBN-13: 9781492156529Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/1982Pages: 90Format:...

The purpose of this pamphlet is to announce the United States Marine Corps Apprenticeship Program for the trade of Radar Technician.Author: U S Marine Corps,Department of the NavyISBN-10: 1492156795ISBN-13: 9781492156796Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/1981Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.07d

NAVMC 2795, U.S. Marine Corps user's Guide to Counseling, provides a means to assist Marine leaders and their Marines to be continuously motivated toward more effective individual performance. The guide provides a tool that focuses on creating an ingrained counseling ethic as a part...

A 300 page journal for you to write you thoughts, hopes and dreams in. Each page is lined, a pretyy black and red design on cover.Author: Donna HernandezISBN-10: 1492149942ISBN-13: 9781492149941Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2013Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d

State is the lead agency responsible for implementing American foreign policy and representing the United States abroad. It staffs over 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts worldwide.Author: Us Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1492111244ISBN-13: 9781492111245Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2013Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w...

ICE has received funding specifically designated for removing criminal aliens. For example, the fiscal year 2008 DHS appropriations act made $200 million of ICE's salaries and expenses appropriation available through the end of fiscal year 2009 to "improve and modernize efforts to identify aliens...

The process for importing products into the United States involves several different private parties, as well as the U.S. government. These private parties include exporters, carriers, and importers, among others. Exporters are companies that sell goods manufactured or produced in foreign countries to the...

The Bureau's experience with the 2010 and prior enumerations has shown that lack of proper planning and not following leading practices in key management areas can increase the costs and risks of later downstream operations. Leading up to the 2010 Census, we reported on...

To help Congress monitor the condition of AIG and the government's ability to recoup its assistance to AIG, we have developed indicators to monitor the status of the government's exposure to AIG and trends in AIG's financial condition. Because government assistance to AIG is...

To describe the extent to which the credit is being claimed, we reviewed IRS data on the claims for tax year 2010. To identify any factors that may limit credit claims and to assess how they could be addressed, we interviewed IRS officials as...

DOD engages with partner nation security forces through a range of security cooperation efforts, which can include security assistance and foreign internal defense. Security cooperation is the broad term used to define those activities taken by DOD to build relationships that promote specified U.S....

The State Partnership Program grew from the former Joint Contact Team Program, a program comprised of active component personnel that sought to establish professional contacts between the U.S. military and the militaries of newly independent nations of the former Soviet Union. The Joint Contact...

Text "Amsterdam Mind Scenario" concern hundreds of different thoughts, transformed into written form. Sentences were written in different places and different moments all around the Planet Earth. Every sentence is independent, but by it's own "destiny" following the previous or preceding the following, in...

This novel approach to tennis stroking is easy to apply to any level, but especially beginners, and gives immediate results. Bad habits are automatically corrected by the influence of the other hand upon your hitting arm. It works for both sides, forehand and backhand...

A Long List of Everyday Guaranteed Rights casts a critical eye on the many layers of civic life, ranging from the local to the global, and outlines the rights that are the possession of each individual. James Sabin, while not an attorney, sets out...

The efforts to improve on the conditions of human life by individuals, private and public sector is doubtless a continuous process. In any case, peace and security are necessary conditions for any meaningful sustainable human development. To that effect, both the League of Nations...

Physical infrastructure and management function consolidations can be strategies to help improve the efficiency of federal agencies, an area with increased focus given our current fiscal challenges.Author: U S Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10: 1491299533ISBN-13: 9781491299531Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2013Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 11.02h...

In fiscal year 2011, VA provided about $ 4.3 billion in pension benefits for about 517,000 recipients. These benefits are available to low-income wartime veterans who are age 65 and older, or who are under age 65 but are permanently and totally disabled as...