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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. 

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. 

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. 

United States General Accounting Office. 1990, February. Alternative Agriculture Federal Incentives and Farmers Opinions. GAO/PEMD-90-12. U.S. Washington, D.C. General Accounting Office. 

GAO (1979) Guidelines for model evaluation. Washington, DC, United States General Accounting Office (Technical Report PAD-79-1). 

The dimensions of the brownfields challenge in the United States are staggering. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) estimates that between 500,000 and a million brownfield sites exist nationally, and that the cost for cleaning them up will exceed 650 billion [US General Accounting Office (US GAO), 1995]. Cities across the country estimate that they could create more than 550,000 jobs—and recover 2.4 billion in tax revenue—if these properties were redeveloped (US Conference of Mayors, 2000). Despite this promise, many communities have discovered that redevelopment of brownfields is challenging and requires creative approaches and flexibility to succeed. 

General Accounting Office (GAO). The Office of Pipeline Safety is Changing, How it Oversees the Pipeline Industry United States General Accounting Office Pipeline Safety, GAO/ RCED-00-128, May 2000. 

Comptroller General of the United States, "Means for Increasing the Use of Defense Technology for Urgent Public Problems", Report to the Congress, U.S. General Accounting Office, December, 1972. 

The U.S. General Accounting Office is currently engaged in an e xamination of European prescription drug price mechanisms to determine their applicability to the United States. 

An initial approach to a more systematic investigation of the possibilities clearly is to look back at what was done in the Cold War period. It is important not to underestimate the scientific effort involved in that period. For example, a United States General Accounting Office report of 1994 noted ... 

United States General Accounting Office, Report GAO-04-147 Military Munitions DOD Needs to Develop a Comprehensive Approach for Cleaning Up Contaminated Sites, December 2003. 

United States General Accounting Office Report, Indoor Air Pollution An Emerging Health Problem, CED-80-111, 4 (Sept. 24, 1980) [hereinafter Emerging Health Problem]. 

United States General Accounting Office Report, Air Pollution Hazards of Indoor Radon Could Pose a National Health Problem. GAO/RCED-86-170,10 (June 30,1986) [hereinafter National Health Problem]. 

United States General Accounting Office, Report to the Chainnan, Comm, on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, Air Pollution Uncertainty Exists in Radon Measurements, GAO/RCED-90-25,1 (Oct. 1989). 

GAO (1973) Improved Inspection and Regulation Could Reduce The Possibility of Oil Spills On the Outer Continental Shelf. Report to the Conservation and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Government Operations, House of Representatives by the Comptroller General of the United States, B-146333, 29 June 1973 (hereinafter, GAO 1973 Report). Note that at the time the acronym GAO stood for General Accounting Office and not Government Accountability Office, despite being the same entity. 

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