EXHIBIT 5-3 SUMMARY OF MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EPA'S 1986
GUIDELINES (U.S. EPA, 1986b) AND 1996 PROPOSED GUIDELINES FOR
CARCINOGEN RISK ASSESSMENT (U.S. EPA, 1996b) A linear extrapolation is ...
Further, we urge the Library's leadership to re-dedimte itself to cooperative
cataloging programs and cooperative standards efforts, in which both the Library
of Congress and partner libraries can benefit from standards established together
. All parmers benefit from sharing standards and training; the result is a more
effective and efficient copy cataloguing process for all partners when accepting
copy from trusted sources. ALA and others in the library community stand ready
to work with ...
IRS Needs to Strengthen Its Approach for Evaluating the SRFMI Data-Sharing Pilot Program
The State Reverse File Match Initiative (SRFMI) is one of the IRS¿s data-sharing strategies to reduce the estimated $345 billion gross fed. tax gap. SRFMI matches fed. and state taxpayer data to identify noncompliant taxpayers -- individuals and businesses who do not file tax returns or do not report all of their income. IRS's document-matching program has proven to be a highly cost-effective way of identifying underreported income, thereby bringing in billions of dollars of tax revenue while boosting voluntary compliance. Based on concerns about whether IRS is fully using data from state and local gov¿ts. to reduce the tax gap, this report assesses IRS's plan for evaluating the effectiveness of the SRFMI pilot taxpayer data-sharing program.
SB/SE Research has provided ongoing support and consultation and has
conducted some research studies to help develop an approach for evaluating
SRFMI pilot results. For example, SB/SE Research matched Colorado and New
Jersey tax-amnesty data to compare the potential use of resources for SRFMI
cases with non-SRFMI cases and found that state tax-amnesty files cannot be
used to definitively identify federal nonfilers or underreporters and that the data
lacked fields ...
A Congressional hearing which provided a detailed overview of human rights in the Middle East and the extent to which U.S. policy has placed sufficient emphasis on promoting democracy and human rights in the region. Witnesses from Amnesty International, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and Middle East Watch. Includes report: "Shame in the House of Saud, Contempt for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia", and a statement by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
According to an official statement issued by the Ministry of Interior on the day of
his execution, a royal order was issued ordering the execution based on Mal- Allah's alleged slanderous statements. In June of this year, Yousef Khouri, a 63-
year-old ... Saudi authorities have stymied efforts to document mistreatment of
prisoners by keeping its investigations secret and by declining to respond to
inquiries by families or human rights groups. In addition, the Saudi government
has never ...
18) from aquifer tests in the carbonate and siliciclastic rocks of the Valley and
Ridge, the Blue Ridge, and the Piedmont Physiographic Provinces in the
Potomac River Basin. The value is within the mid-range of values of storage
coefficient reported by Lewis-Brown and Jacobsen (1995, table 3, p. 19) for
siliciclastic sedimentary rocks in the Newark Basin of New Jersey. The value is
less than an order of magnitude higher than the storage coefficient selected by
Daniel and others (1997, ...
costs when their low margins are related to size and location rather than
inefficiency. Two associations stated that the draft report should have addressed
additional issues. VNAA stated that we should analyze how the revenues
generated by positive margins are used by different segments of the home health industry. AAHomecare raised several questions, including whether skilled
nursing facility (SNF) care is being substituted for home health care.
Focuses on adult learners of English as a second language. Will equip students with the language and cultural proficiency needed for full participation in American society. Describes general standards, defines language proficiency levels, and identifies possible tests for measuring language proficiency. Designed to assist administrators and teachers in providing programs that promote communication based instruction in which students are engaged in the purposeful use of language.
