wyszukanych pozycji: 2510
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The Budget Control Act and Trends in Discretionary Spending
ISBN: 9781505322354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Discretionary spending is provided and controlled through appropriations acts, which fund many of the activities commonly associated with such federal government functions as running executive branch agencies, congressional offices and agencies, and international operations of the government. Essentially all spending on federal wages and salaries is discretionary. Spending can be measured by budget authority (BA; what agencies can legally obligate the government to pay) or outlays (disbursements from the U.S. Treasury). This report mostly discusses trends in outlays. Federal spending in...
Discretionary spending is provided and controlled through appropriations acts, which fund many of the activities commonly associated with such federal...
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House Committee Funding Requests and Authorizations, 104th-113th Congresses
ISBN: 9781507870020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pursuant to House Rule X, clause 6, the Committee on House Administration reports an omnibus, biennial "primary expense resolution" to cover the expenses of each standing and select committee, except the Appropriations Committee. The resolution is based, in part, on committee requests for funds to cover their necessary expenses for the two years of a Congress. This report provides committee funding requests and authorizations as adopted pursuant to primary expense authorizations for House committees in the 104th through113th Congresses. For further information on the committee funding...
Pursuant to House Rule X, clause 6, the Committee on House Administration reports an omnibus, biennial "primary expense resolution" to cover the expen...
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Small Business Administration HUBZone Program
ISBN: 9781503089846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Small Business Administration (SBA) administers several programs to support small businesses, including the Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program. The HUBZone program is a small business federal contracting assistance program "whose primary objective is job creation and increasing capital investment in distressed communities." It provides participating small businesses located in areas with low income, high poverty rates, or high unemployment rates with contracting opportunities in the form of "set-asides," sole-source awards, and...
The Small Business Administration (SBA) administers several programs to support small businesses, including the Historically Underutilized Business Zo...
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Monitoring of Rocky Intertidal Communities of Redwood National and State Parks, California: 2008 Annual Report
ISBN: 9781492160847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This report presents the results of the monitoring surveys done in 2008 of the rocky intertidal community at three sites within the Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) in Del Norte County, California. These sites are part of MARINe (Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network), a regional intertidal monitoring network sponsored by the Minerals Management Service (MMS), with additional funding and support from local and state governments, universities, and private organizations (see www.marine.gov). Funding for RNSP sampling is provided by the NPS through a collaborative agreement with the...
This report presents the results of the monitoring surveys done in 2008 of the rocky intertidal community at three sites within the Redwood National a...
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Northeast Temperate Network Breeding Landbird Monitoring Protocol 2013 Revision
ISBN: 9781492918639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This protocol has been developed for long-term monitoring of forest and grassland breeding landbird populations within the National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Temperate Network (NETN) as part of the Inventory & Monitoring Program (IM). NETN consists of 13 parks, including the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (APPA). Excluding APPA, the parks total approximately 18,500 ha, with diverse cultural and natural resources. They range in size from just 4 ha at Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site (SAIR), located near densely populated Boston, Massachusetts, to over 15,800 ha at Maine's Acadia...
This protocol has been developed for long-term monitoring of forest and grassland breeding landbird populations within the National Park Service (NPS)...
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Qualifications of Members of Congress
ISBN: 9781507735510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There are three, and only three, standing qualifications for U.S. Senator or Representative in Congress which are expressly set out in the U.S. Constitution: age (25 for the House, 30 for the Senate); citizenship (at least seven years for the House, nine years for the Senate); and inhabitancy in the state at the time elected. U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2, cl. 2 (House); and Article I, Section 3, cl. 3 (Senate). The Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the historical understanding that the Constitution provides the exclusive qualifications to be a Member of Congress, and...
There are three, and only three, standing qualifications for U.S. Senator or Representative in Congress which are expressly set out in the U.S. Consti...
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Multiemployer Defined Benefit (DB) Pension Plans: A Primer and Analysis of Policy Options
ISBN: 9781502841223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Multiemployer defined benefit (DB) pension plans are pensions sponsored by more than one employer and maintained as part of a collective bargaining agreement. About 3.2% of all DB pension plans, covering 25% of all DB pension plan participants, are multiemployer plans. Nearly all of the remaining DB pension plans are maintained by a single employer. A few DB pension plans are maintained by more than one employer but are not maintained under a collective bargaining agreement. In DB pension plans, participants receive a monthly benefit in retirement that is based on a formula. In multiemployer...
Multiemployer defined benefit (DB) pension plans are pensions sponsored by more than one employer and maintained as part of a collective bargaining ag...
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Climate Monitoring in the Northern Colorado Plateau Network: Annual Report 2009
ISBN: 9781492715368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This report documents the 2009 monthly and annual climate summaries and climatic extremes for weather stations located within park units of the Northern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Network (NCPN) and three stations located near park boundaries. In 2009, mean annual maximum temperature tended to be below average throughout much of the NCPN region, while precipitation was notably below long-term averages. Diff erences between long-term means and this year's measures of average minimum and maximum temperature and total precipitation (and snowfall) were not related to the elevation...
This report documents the 2009 monthly and annual climate summaries and climatic extremes for weather stations located within park units of the Northe...
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National Capital Region Network 2007-2008 Water Resources Monitoring Data Report: Water Chemistry, Nutrient Dynamics, and Surface Water Dynamics Vital
ISBN: 9781492847847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 2005, the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Network (NCRN) initiated a long-term water quality and quantity monitoring program, funded in part by the Water Resources Division. The program is carried out through monthly sampling at more than 40 sites within 10 of the NCRN parks. The FY2007 - 2008 Annual Report on water quality in the National Capital Region parks focuses on data collected under the Surface Water Dynamics Protocol (2007) and the Water Chemistry Monitoring Protocol (2007) of the NCRN I&M Program.
In 2005, the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Network (NCRN) initiated a long-term water quality and quantity monitoring program, fund...
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PILT (Payments in Lieu of Taxes): Somewhat Simplified
ISBN: 9781512273489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Navy Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Operations: Background and Issues for Congress
ISBN: 9781505904826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Navy for several years has carried out a variety of irregular warfare (IW) and counterterrorism (CT) activities. Among the most readily visible of the Navy's recent IW operations have been those carried out by Navy sailors serving ashore in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many of the Navy's contributions to IW operations around the world are made by Navy individual augmentees (IAs)-individual Navy sailors assigned to various Department of Defense (DOD) operations. The May 1-2, 2011, U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed Osama bin Laden reportedly was carried out by a team of...
The Navy for several years has carried out a variety of irregular warfare (IW) and counterterrorism (CT) activities. Among the most readily visible of...
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Eisenhower National Historic Site and Gettysburg National Military Park Weather of 2008
ISBN: 9781491218921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With a high temperature of 70 F (21.1 C) on January 8, the first month of 2008 was warmer than normal. The rest of the winter had a similar temperature trend and finished as the 33rd warmest since records started in 1895 (a ranking of 57 is normal). The spring featured varying temperature trends, with April being above average and May well-below average. Despite the lower temperatures in the beginning of May, the last frost occurred around the usual date."
With a high temperature of 70 F (21.1 C) on January 8, the first month of 2008 was warmer than normal. The rest of the winter had a similar temperatur...
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An Evaluation of Biological Inventory Data Collected at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: Vertebrate and Vascular Plant Inventories
ISBN: 9781492708285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As part of the National Park Service's effort to "improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge," a primary role of the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program is to collect, organize, and make available natural resource data. A list of species known to occur in NPS units is considered a basic inventory need (see: http: //science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/index.cfm). The I&M Program's Heartland Network (HTLN) recently completed inventories of vertebrate species and vascular plants at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (LIBO). In doing so, all existing data were...
As part of the National Park Service's effort to "improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge," a primary role of the Inv...
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Federal Land Management Agencies: Appropriations and Revenues
ISBN: 9781505589191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A perennial focus for Congress is on appropriations for management of federal lands and resources. Issues include the purposes for which appropriations are used, factors influencing their distribution among states, and the extent to which appropriations are used on nonfederal lands. Congress also continues to be interested in the revenues derived from federal lands and resources. Questions relate to the amount of revenue generated on federal lands, the sources of revenue, and factors affecting the variation among states in the amount and type of revenue generated. Approximately 95% of federal...
A perennial focus for Congress is on appropriations for management of federal lands and resources. Issues include the purposes for which appropriation...
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Vegetation Classification and Mapping Project Report Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
ISBN: 9781492359739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This vegetation classification and mapping effort encompasses 167,148 ha(413,031 acres ) within the San Luis Valley, west of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in south central Colorado. The mapping boundary is made up of several management units from a variety of government and private agencies (and a small amount of private property).
This vegetation classification and mapping effort encompasses 167,148 ha(413,031 acres ) within the San Luis Valley, west of the Sangre de Cristo Moun...
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Reauthorization of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA)
ISBN: 9781505203783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Inventory of Marine and Estuarine Benthic Macroinvertebrates for Nine Southeast Coast Network Parks
ISBN: 9781492388708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nine parks in the Southeast Coast Network were selected for a literature-based, benthic macroinvertebrate (BMI) inventory: Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CAHA), Cape Lookout National Seashore (CALO), Canaveral National Seashore (CANA), Cumberland Island National Seashore (CUIS), Fort Frederica National Monument (FOFR), Fort Matanzas National Monument (FOMA), Fort Pulaski National Monument (FOPU), Fort Sumter National Monument (FOSU) and Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve (TIMU).
Nine parks in the Southeast Coast Network were selected for a literature-based, benthic macroinvertebrate (BMI) inventory: Cape Hatteras National Seas...
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Partisan Leader's Handbook: May, 1939
ISBN: 9781976335921 / Angielski / Miękka / 1939 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Issues in the Reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
ISBN: 9781507868324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The funding authorization for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), included in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (P.L. 112-95), expires on September 30, 2015. In addition to setting spending levels, FAA authorization acts typically set policy on a wide range of issues related to civil aviation. This report considers topics that are likely to arise as the 114th Congress debates reauthorization. Most FAA programs are financed through the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF), sometimes referred to as the Aviation Trust Fund. The financial health of the AATF, which is funded by a...
The funding authorization for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), included in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (P.L. 112-95), expir...
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Guam: U.S. Defense Deployments
ISBN: 9781503089679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Since 2000, the U.S. military has been building up forward-deployed forces on the westernmost U.S. territory of Guam (west of Hawaii) to increase U.S. operational presence, deterrence, and power projection for potential responses to crises, disasters, or other contingencies to support Japan, Republic of Korea (ROK), the Philippines, Taiwan, or others in Asia. Since 2006, Valiant Shield exercises based at Guam have boosted U.S. military readiness for joint operations in the Pacific. The defense buildup on Guam has been moderate. China has concerns, suspecting Guam's buildup to be directed...
Since 2000, the U.S. military has been building up forward-deployed forces on the westernmost U.S. territory of Guam (west of Hawaii) to increase U.S....
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