Examines the extent to which commuter rail agencies rely on Amtrak for access to infrastructure and services. This book also examines: issues that commuter rail agencies would face if Amtrak abruptly ceased to provide them with services and infrastructure

Weather-related events have cost the nation billions of dollars in damages over the past decade. Many of these losses are borne by private insurers and by two federal insurance programs the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which insures properties against flooding, and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), which insures crops against drought or other weather disasters. This book: describes how climate change may affect future weather-related losses; determines past insured weather-related losses; and, determines what major private insurers and federal insurers are doing to...

What are Asian American and Pacific Islander subgroups' educational attainment and household income levels? What challenges, if any, Asian American and Pacific Islander students face in pursuing and completing their post-secondary education? This book answers these questions.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a national plan in June 2006 for sectors - such as public health, energy and transportation - to enhance the protection of critical infrastructure. This book determines if these plans address key aspects of cyber security, including cyber assets, key vulnerabilities, and recovery plans.

Examines the rationale for and resources of federal and state programs that provide natural catastrophe insurance. This book looks at the extent to which Americans living in catastrophe-prone areas of the United States are uninsured and underinsured, and the types and amounts of federal payments to such individuals since the 2005 hurricanes.

Through the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requires cars and light trucks to meet certain fuel economy standards. This work discusses how CAFE standards are designed to reduce fuel

Under the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA), revenue raised from selling Bureau of Land Management lands is available to the agencies, primarily to acquire non-federal land within the boundaries of land they already own. This book describes

Conflict over the use of our nation's natural resources, along with increased ecological problems, has led land managers to seek cooperative means to resolve natural resource conflicts and problems. Collaborative resource management is one such approach that communities began using in the 1980s and 1990s. A 2004 Executive Order on Co-operative Conservation encourages such efforts. This book deals with: experts' views on collaborative resource management; how selected collaborative efforts have addressed conflicts and improved resources; and, challenges that agencies face as they participate...

US trade preference programs promote economic development in poorer nations by providing export opportunities. This title reviews the programs' effects on the United States and on foreign beneficiaries' exports and development, identifies policy trade-offs

Human trafficking is a transnational crime. This book discusses key activities federal agencies have undertaken to combat human trafficking crimes, federal efforts to co-ordinate investigations and prosecutions of these crimes, and how the Bureau of Justic