Download or read book Serving the Congress and the nation performance and accountability highlights accountability report 2000 performance report 2000 performance plan 2002 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Government Performance and Accountability written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE Phase Two written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-08-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in 1977 from an amalgam of federal authorities, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has administered numerous programs aimed at developing applied energy technologies. In recent years, federal oversight of public expenditures has emphasized the integration of performance and budgeting. Notably, the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) was passed in 1993 in response to questions about the value and effectiveness of federal programs. GPRA and other mandates have led agencies to develop indicators of program performance and program outcomes. The development of indicators has been watched with keen interest by Congress, which has requested of the National Research Council (NRC) a series of reports using quantitative indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of applied energy research and development (R&D). The first such report took a retrospective view of the first 3 years of DOE R&D programs on fossil energy and energy efficiency. The report found that DOE-sponsored research had netted large commercial successes, such as advanced refrigerator compressors, electronic lighting ballasts, and emission control technology for flue gas desulfurization. However, some programs were judged to be costly failures in which large R&D expenditures did not result in a commercial energy technology. A follow-up NRC committee was assigned the task of adapting the methodology to the assessment of the future payoff of continuing programs. Evaluating the outcome of R&D expenditures requires an analysis of program costs and benefits. Doing so is not a trivial matter. First, the analysis of costs and benefits must reflect the full range of public benefits that are envisioned, accounting for environmental and energy security impacts as well as economic effects. Second, the analysis must consider how likely the research is to succeed and how valuable the research will be if successful. Finally, the analysis must consider what might happen if the government did not support the project: Would some non-DOE entity undertake it or an equivalent activity that would produce some or all of the benefits of government involvement? This second report continues to investigate the development and use of R&D outcome indicators and applies the benefits evaluation methodology to six DOE R&D activities. It provides further definition for the development of indicators for environmental and security benefits and refines the evaluation process based on its experience with the six DOE R&D case studies.

Download or read book Month in Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GAO s Congressional Protocols written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2002 Secretary of Energy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 2196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2018 Justification of the budget estimates written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Federal Programs at Risk from Abusive Or Wasteful Practices written by David M. Walker and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report on high-risk problems faced by the government, to help the Congress in crafting its oversight and legislative agenda. High-Risk Areas in 2003 include: Addressing Challenges in Broad-based Transformations; Ensuring Major Technology Investments Improve Services; Providing Basic Financial Accountability; Reducing Inordinate Program Management Risks; and Managing Large Procurement Operations More Efficiently. Charts and tables.

Download or read book Waste Fraud Abuse and Mismanagement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Natural Resources and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!