The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports and correspondence:
Reports 1. U.S. Asylum System: Significant Variation Existed in Asylum Outcomes across Immigration Courts and Judges. GAO-08-940, September 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-940 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08940high.pdf 2. U.S. Asylum System: Agencies Have Taken Actions to Help Ensure Quality in the Asylum Adjudication Process, but Challenges Remain. GAO-08-935, September 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-935 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08935high.pdf 3. Disaster Recovery: Past Experiences Offer Insights for Recovering from Hurricanes Ike and Gustav and Other Recent Natural Disasters. GAO-08-1120, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1120 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081120high.pdf 4. Food Safety: Improvements Needed in FDA Oversight of Fresh Produce. GAO-08-1047, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1047 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081047high.pdf 5. Carbon Offsets: The U.S. Voluntary Market Is Growing, but Quality Assurance Poses Challenges for Market Participants. GAO-08-1048, August 29. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1048 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081048high.pdf 6. Energy Markets: Analysis of More Past Mergers Could Enhance Federal Trade Commission's Efforts to Maintain Competition in the Petroleum Industry. GAO-08-1082, September 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1082 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081082high.pdf 7. Information Security: Actions Needed to Better Protect Los Alamos National Laboratory's Unclassified Computer Network. GAO-08-1001, September 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1001 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081001high.pdf 8. Social Security Disability: Management Controls Needed to Strengthen Demonstration Projects. GAO-08-1053, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1053 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081053high.pdf 9. Defense Acquisitions: Sound Business Case Needed to Implement Missile Defense Agency's Targets Program. GAO-08-1113, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1113 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081113high.pdf 10. Space Acquisitions: Uncertainties in the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Pose Management and Oversight Challenges. GAO-08-1039, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1039 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081039high.pdf 11. DOD Financial Management: Improvements Are Needed in Antideficiency Act Controls and Investigations. GAO-08-1063, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1063 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081063high.pdf 12. Information Management: The National Archives and Records Administration's Fiscal Year 2008 Expenditure Plan. GAO-08-1105, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1105 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081105high.pdf 13. Electricity Restructuring: FERC Could Take Additional Steps to Analyze Regional Transmission Organizations' Benefits and Performance. GAO-08-987, September 22. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-987 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08987high.pdf Correspondences 1. Medicare: Trends in Fees, Utilization, and Expenditures for Imaging Services before and after Implementation of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. GAO-08-1102R, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1102R 2. Health-Care-Associated Infections in Hospitals: Number Associated with Medical Devices Unknown, but Experts Report Provider Practices as a Significant Factor. GAO-08-1091R, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1091R 3. Millennium Challenge Corporation: Summary Fact Sheets for 11 Compacts Entered into Force. GAO-08-1145R, September 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1145R 4. Recent Actions by the Chesapeake Bay Program Are Positive Steps Toward More Effectively Guiding the Restoration Effort, but Additional Steps Are Needed. GAO-08-1131R, August 28. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1131R 5. Federal User Fees: Improvements Could Be Made to Performance Standards and Penalties in USCIS's Service Center Contracts. GAO-08-1170R, September 25. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1170R Help with viewing PDF files is available from the "Help" section of http://www.gao.gov. Check the information in the section titled, "Help with Reading Portable Document Format Files" if you have difficulty. Subscribe to this or other E-mail updates about GAO products at the "E-mail Updates" section of http://www.gao.gov. Remove yourself from this mailing list by sending an E-mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe daybook in the message body. 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