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The Catastrophe Obligation Guarantee Act, introduced in Congress in
2009, would authorize the federal government to provide committed
loan guarantees to qualified state catastrophe-insurance programs.
Proponents argue that lower-cost catastrophe insurance could reduce
federal disaster-assistance expenditures. This report estimates the
law's potential effects in California.
This report addresses the conceptual basis, design, and
implementation of the National Environmental Performance Track
program. The voluntary program sought to encourage facilities to
improve their environmental performance and provide a more
collaborative relationship between facilities and regulators. While
the program had mixed success, EPA should continue to seek out new
approaches to complement and enhance traditional regulatory
approaches.
In theory, financial professionals are relatively distinct: A
broker-dealer conducts transactions in securities on behalf of
itself and others; and an investment adviser provides advice to
others regarding securities. Different laws regulate each type of
professional, but boundaries have blurred. This report examines
current business practices and investor understanding of each
type.This report examines current practices and investor
understanding of broker-dealers, and investment advisers - two
distinct types of financial professionals whose boundaries have
blurred in recent decades.
Identifies and assesses obstacles to disposing of excess Army lands
that contain unexploded ordnance, and identifies innovative options
for the disposal of these lands; In the ongoing Base Realignment
and Closure (BRAC) process, lands containing unexploded ordnance
(UXO) left over from military training have proved particularly
difficult and costly to transfer to new users. With a few
exceptions, little progress has been made in transferring these
lands. This monograph chronicles both the issues that facilitated
the transfer of UXO-contaminated lands and those that slowed the
transfer, and it offers options for expediting the transfer of
these lands.
Insights and information from a study of twelve human tissue
repositories; Case studies of twelve existing human biospecimen
repositories performed to evaluate their utility for genomics- and
proteomics-based cancer research and to identify 3best practices2
in collection, processing, annotation, storage, privacy, ethical
concerns, informed consent, business plans, operations,
intellectual property rights, public relations, marketing, and
education that would be useful in designing a national biospecimen
network.
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