Friday, October 14, 2005

Friday Resource Round-Up

2004 Annual Report of All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV)-Related Deaths and Injuries
A report from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

2005-2006 U.S. Winter Outlook
The annual winter weather outlook from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Congressional Pictorial Directory: 109th Congress
The new directory is now available on GPO Access.

Digest of Education Statistics, 2004
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) recently released the new version of this annual report.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Unclassified Cyber Security Program—2005
An evaluation report for the program.

Long-Term Economic Effects of Chronically Large Federal Deficits
A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report.

Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq
A Defense Department report to Congress.

Model Year 2006 Fuel Economy Guide
Thinking of buying a new car? See what gas mileage it gets.

New Electronic Titles: July 2005
The new list of web-based titles is now available from GPO.

OSHA's Lost Workday Injury and Illness Database
This database was archived by the Memory Hole website.

Precedents, Variables, and Options in Planning a U.S. Military Disengagement Strategy from Iraq
A paper issued by the Army's Strategic Studies Institute.

Report on the Privacy Act
2004-05 annual report on the Canadian Privacy Act.

Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings (1971-forward)
Due to the large size of the PDF files, GPO has broken the hearings down into more easily downloadable pieces.

USAID South Asia Earthquake
Provides earthquake relief information.

U.S. Government Manual, 2005-06
The latest version of the official handbook of the federal government was released this week.

Census Bureau Reports:
  • 2002 Economic Census, Product Lines, Accommodation and Food Services
  • 2002 Economic Census, Product Lines, Educational Services

    Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports:
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act: Legislation Concerning Notification Prior to Initiating Legal Action
  • Cultural Property: International Conventions and United States Legislation
  • The Economic Effects of Raising National Saving
  • Federal and State Laws Regarding Pharmacists Who Refuse to Dispense Contraceptives
  • High-Threat Chemical Agents: Characteristics, Effects, and Policy Implications
  • Hurricanes Katrina & Rita: Addressing the Victims' Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Needs
  • Military Base Closures: Highlights of the 2005 BRAC Commission Report and Proposed Legislation
  • Presidential and Vice Presidential Succession: Overview and Current Legislation
  • Renditions: Constraints Imposed by Laws on Torture
  • Social Security Survivors Benefits
  • Specialty Crop Issues in the 109th Congress
  • Sudan: Economic Sanctions
  • U.S. Military Operations in the Global War on Terrorism: Afghanistan, Africa, the Philippines, and Colombia
  • Veterans Affairs: Basic Eligibility for Disability Benefit Programs

    General Accountability Office (GAO) Reports:
  • Electronic Rulemaking: Progress Made in Developing Centralized E-Rulemaking System
  • Higher Education: Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Programs and Related Trends
  • Waters and Wetlands: Corps of Engineers Needs to Better Support Its Decisions for Not Asserting Jurisdiction

    United Nations Documents:
  • Civil and political rights, including the questions of independence of the judiciary, administration of justice, impunity
  • Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the
    comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

  • Human resources development
  • Mental Health Atlas 2005
  • Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Report of the Security Council, 1 August 2004-31 July 2005
  • Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan and on the achievements of the technical assistance in the field of human rights
  • State of World Population, 2005
  • World Economic and Social Survey 2005: Financing for Development
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