Government assistance

DeSutter, Paula A. U.S. Government Assistance to Libya in the Elimination of Its Weapons of Mass Destruction, Testimony before the... 

Governments assist in the acquisition of information by funding and conducting basic research. Under command-and-control regulation, however, government agencies also use information to set behavior standards. 

U.S. Department of State, U.S. Government Assistance to and Cooperative Activities with Eurasia, FY 2002, released by the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, January 2003, http //www.state.gOv/p/eur/rls/rpt/23600.htm (as of January 18, 2005). 

Under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is the principal federal official responsible for domestic incident management. Initial responsibility lies with local and state officials the federal government assists when state capabilities are overwhelmed or when federal interests are involved. 

Verify financial resources—amount and terms of insurance, government assistance, potential outside funding. 

In Brazil almost 90% of the new cars run on this mixture while the rest operate on a 20% ethanol/80% gasoline mix. The country produces the ethanol on about 1% of its total farmable land. This is because sugarcane can be grown almost year-round in Brazil. The program required government assistance and by 1988 government subsidies for the production of ethanol from sugarcane were almost 1.3 billion. 

Industry s continued interest In shale oil, despite Its current unattractiveness, is sustained primarily by the belief that the real cost of Imported oil will continue to rise and ultimately surpass shale oil at some unpredictable future date. Government assistance is sought by Industry before that date on the grounds that a) there is a public value, which cannot be directly captured by a company undertaking a shale oil venture now, in reducing imported oil and b) there is need for an immediate start In order to have significant shale oil production in place when the cost curves do intersect. 

The time scale in which this massive government assistance was mounted, and the resources of personnel and materials provided to bring this disastrous situation imder control, greatly impressed the IAEA member state specialists who attended the postaccident review meeting. 

However, the feasibility and satisfactory return on investment shall be independently established even without such government assistance. 

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