Regional Reviews and National Management Reports


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This document assembles three reviews of the marine shrimp and groundfish fisheries of the Brazil-Guianas shelf (northern Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and eastern Venezuela) and one on environmental aspects of the area. Each report contains a number o recommendations for fisheries management, further research and international cooperation in data collection and assessments.







Federal Program Evaluations


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Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.




Federal Evaluations, 1980


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Semiannual Report to the Congress


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Medicare Contractors


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Federal Evaluations


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Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.




Medicare Contractors


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Examines the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) oversight of its claims administration contractors. Specifically, it discusses whether (1) there are weaknesses in HCFA's contractor oversight activities that may make Medicare more vulnerable to fraud, waste, & abuse, & (2) any changes in HCFA's contracting authority that may improve its ability to manage its contractors. HCFA has indicated that new contracting authority could mitigate many of the weaknesses that have been identified. This report also addresses whether any changes in HCFA's contracting authority may improve its ability to manage its contractors.




HUD Library Periodicals List


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Review of biological data, spatial distribution of the stocks and ecological connectivity between areas beyond national jurisdiction and the exclusive economic zones in the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission region


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This review was developed as a project in response to the needs of the Intersessional Working Group of WECAFC in its task of identifying key options and priorities. The review describes a group of selected species that are considered to be important to Member States of the WECAFC. It classifies them into transboundary and straddling/highly migratory stocks and their fisheries and provides information on the state of exploitation of the selected species. The review also considers the ecological connectivity between the high seas and the EEZs of coastal nations. Lastly, it highlights issues that need to be addressed to generate a sound scientific knowledge base in support of the strategic reorientation of the Commission.