General Accounting Office

Pesticides ReducingFxposure to Residues of Canceled Pesticides, GAO/RCED-95-23, U.S. General Accounting Office, Washington D.C., Dec. 1994, 42... 

Pesticides Options to Achieve a Single Regulatory Standard, GAO/RCED-94-57, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., May 1994, 34 pp. 

Management Practices—U.S. Companies Improve Peformance Through Quality Efforts, United States General Accounting Office Report to the Honorable D. Ritter, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., May 1991, p. 2. 

Strategic Minerals—Extent of U.S. Reliance on South Africa U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), Report to Congressional Requesters, GAO/NSIAD-88-201, Gaithersburg, Md.,June 1988. 

Comptroller General of the General Accounting Office. Better Monitoring Techniques are Needed to Assess the Quality of Rivers and Streams, U.S. Government Print Office Washington, D.C., 1981. 

United States General Accounting Office. (2000). "Adverse Drug Events The Magnitude of Health Risk is Uncertain Because of Limited Incidence Data." GAO/HEHS-OO-21. 

Combating Terrorism (Federal Agencies Efforts to Implement National Policy and Strategy). Washington, D.C. U.S. General Accounting Office (Report Number GAO/NSIAD - 97 - 254. September 26). 1997. 

The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) found that officials from federal agencies and state governments pointed to the lack of a refueling infrastructure more than any other reason to avoid alternative fuels. 

Following the report of the U.S. General Accounting Office in 1984 that UST leaks had been reported in all 50 states, many states in 1985 claimed that USTs were the leading cause of underground contamination. As of 1984, there were an estimated 2.5 million USTs in the United States of which about 97% were used to store petroleum products. By 1986, the EPA identified 12,444 incidents of release that had occurred as of 1984. 

Toxic Substances, Environmental Oversight, Research and Development of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Washington D. C. US General Accounting Office. 

In many cases, the U.S. tolerances and the Codex MRLs are similar, although there are other cases where they may be quite different. When U.S. tolerances and Codex MRLs can be compared directly, 47% have been shown to be equivalent, 34% of Codex MRLs were found to be lower (more restrictive), and 19% of U.S. tolerances were lower (General Accounting Office, 1991). There are a number of reasons that explain the differences these include the use of different data sets, different methods to regulate pesticide metabolites, and different agricultural production and pest control practices. 

Degradable Plastics Standards, Research and Development. U.S. General Accounting Office. Report No. GAO/RCED-88-208, US. G.A.O Gaithersburg, MD, 1988. 

U.S. General Accounting Office. Evaluating the Acquisition and Operation of Information Systems. Washington, DC General Accounting Office, 1986. 

It should also be noted that the demand for primary lithium batteries remains strong, particularly in military applications where there is high demand for lightweight and disposable power supplies for portable electronic devices. In fact, the US General Accounting Office (GAO) has indicated that primary lithium batteries were one of seven items for which supply shortages reduced operational capability and increased risk to [US] troops [3]. 

Between 1982 and 1986, environmental habflity insurance premiums increased 11-fold (General Accounting Office 1987, 69 1988, 19). 

General Accounting Office. "Report to the Congress Industrial Cogeneration—What It Is, How It Works, Its Potential" General Accounting Office Washington, DC, 29 April 1980 EMD-80-7, Table III-7, p 111. 

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