Meeting the Information Needs of the American People: Past Actions and Future Initiatives
The National Commission on Libraries and Inforamtion Science has merged into the Institute for Museum and Library Services. In this last report of the commission, over 50 library leaders were interviewed to provide perspectives on the Commission's history and identify issues that still need to be addressed.

HS5.120:K 15/CD
Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast: Mitigation Assessment Team Report. Building Performance Observations, Recommendations, and Technical Guidance.
A cd-rom containing the report of the investigation on the Mitigation Assessment Team of its September 2005 inspection of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.

HS5.120:F 65/3/CD
FloodOutreach Toolkit: What You Need to Know Abut Flooding and Flood Insurance.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Fed4eral Emergency Mangement Agency, July 2007.
A cd-rom product from the Federal Emergency Management Agency providing core materials about flooding and flood insurance. Included are "fact sheets, brochures, and talking point" to use as resource materials for individual use or outreach materials for distribution to the public.

Internal Controls Over Payments Made in Iraq, Kuwait and Egypt
"Between April 2001 and June 2006, the Army made 183,486 commercial
and miscellaneous payments, totaling $10.7 billion, from 7 Army contingency disbursing stations in Iraq, Kuwait, and Egypt. The contingency disbursing stations sent the payment vouchers to the accounting office at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) site in Rome, New York. The Defense Criminal Investigative Service determined that there had been only a limited review of the completeness, accuracy, and propriety of these payment vouchers and that the potential existed for fraud, waste, and abuse. As a result, we reviewed the payment vouchers to determine whether internal controls over the payments supporting the Global War on Terror provided reasonable assurance that payments were properly supported and recorded."

Designation and Sharing of Controlled Unclassified Information(CUI)
"Purpose
(1) This memorandum (a) adopts, defines, and institutes "Controlled Unclassified Information" (CUI) as the single, categorical designation henceforth throughout the executive branch for all information within the scope of that definition, which includes most information heretofore referred to as "Sensitive But Unclassified" (SBU) in the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), and (b) establishes a corresponding new CUI Framework for designating, marking, safeguarding, and disseminating information designated as CUI. The memorandum's purpose is to standardize practices and thereby improve the sharing of information, not to classify or declassify new or additional information."

Containing the Cost of a Cap-and-Trade Program for Carbon Dioxide Emissions
May 20, 2008, Testimony before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate

Alternatives to Traditional Transportation Fuels 2006(Part I - Supplier Data)
"These tables represent the number of onroad alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) and hybrid vehicles made available by both the original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket vehicle conversion facilities for 2006 and projected for 2007. These data include gasoline-electric and diesel-electric hybrids which are published separately from electric fuel type categories because they fall outside the Energy Policy Act of 1992..."

Data on the Distribution of Federal Taxes and Household Income
"This page contains CBO's most recent estimates of federal effective tax rates (taxes as a percentage of income) across household income groups for the four largest sources of federal revenues--individual income taxes, social insurance (payroll) taxes, corporate income taxes, and excise taxes--as well as the total effective rate for the four taxes combined. The page also contains estimates of average before- and after-tax household income, counts of households, and shares of taxes, income, and households for each income group; information relating to the methodology used to construct the estimates; supplementary estimates for different household types; and a comparison of income and payroll taxes."

Fact Sheet: Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Free and Fair Trade
"Today, President Bush highlighted the importance of trade in promoting prosperity and freedom in the United States and around the world. At the White House, the President discussed a display of products from businesses that would benefit from trade liberalization, and urged Congress to approve our free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. The companies represented at the White House have created jobs, increased prosperity, and proven that they can compete in the global market. In order for these and other U.S. businesses to continue growing, the government needs to keep working to reduce foreign trade barriers, enabling companies to compete on a level playing field."

FDA Announces Sentinel System to Monitor Medical Product Safety
"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unveiled plans for the Sentinel Initiative, a strategy to create and implement a national, integrated, electronic system for monitoring medical product safety.

The resulting "Sentinel System" will strengthen FDA's ability to track how drugs and medical products perform once they go on the market..."

EPA Hearing on National Ambient Air Quality Standards
"The Committee held holding a hearing titled, “EPA’s New Ozone Standards” at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

The hearing examined the new ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and the process the Environmental Protection Agency used in setting them.

On March 12, 2008, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson finalized updated NAAQS for ozone, a primary component of smog. The new ozone NAAQS are comprised of a revised primary standard to protect health and a revised secondary standard to protect the environment. In setting both standards, EPA Administrator Johnson did not accept the recommendations provided to him by EPA’s independent scientific review committee, the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). With regard to the secondary standard, Administrator Johnson’s efforts to set a new standard were overruled by the White House."

Review of the FBI's Involvement In and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq
"This Executive Summary summarizes the results of the review conducted by the Department of Justice(DOJ) Office of the Inspector General(OIG) regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigations's(FBI) involvement in and observations of detainee interrogations in Guantanamo Bay(GRMO), Afghanistan, and Iraq. The focus of our review was whether FBI agents witnessed incidents of detainee abuse in the military zones, whether FBI employees reported any such abuse to their superiors or others, and how those reports were handled..."

2008 Defense Intelligence Strategy
"Defense intelligence is a critical component of the U.S. intelligence enterprise.
It has two missions: first, to respond to the unique policy, operational and acquisition requirements of the Department of Defense, and second, to respond to national intelligence missions assigned to the Department of Defense. It comprises the Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence); national and defense intelligence agencies represented by the NGA, NSA, NRO and DIA; defense organizations such as DSS and CIFA; Service and agency intelligence, counterintelligence and security elements; and joint intelligence components, including those of the Joint Staff and the Combatant Commands..."

The National Security Council: An Organizational Assessment
"The National Security Council (NSC) was established by statute in 1947 to
create an inter-departmental body to offer confidential advice to the President on all aspects of national security policy. Currently, statutory members of the Council are the President, Vice President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense; but, at the President’s request, other senior officials participate in NSC deliberations. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence are statutory advisers. In 2007, the Secretary of Energy was added to the NSC membership.

The President clearly holds final decision-making authority in the executive
branch. Over the years, however, the NSC staff has emerged as a major factor in the
formulation (and at times in the implementation) of national security policy.
Similarly, the head of the NSC staff, the National Security Adviser, has played
important, and occasionally highly public, roles in policymaking. This report traces
the evolution of the NSC from its creation to the present."

2008 Emergency Response Guidebook: A Guidebook for First Responders During the Initial Phase of a Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Transportation Incident
"The 2008 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG2008) was developed jointly by
Transport Canada (TC), the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the Secretariat of Transport and Communications of Mexico (SCT) and with the collaboration of CIQUIME (Centro de Información Química para Emergencias) of Argentina, for use by fire fighters, police, and other emergency services personnel who may be the first to arrive at the scene of a transportation incident involving dangerous goods. It is primarily a guide to aid first responders in quickly identifying the specific or generic hazards of the material(s) involved in the incident, and protecting themselves and the general public during the initial response phase of the incident."