Government Information as a Public Asset: Hearing Before the Joint Committee on Printing, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, April 25, 1991

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Page 80 - NTIS sells its technical information products and services under the provisions of Title 15 of the US Code. The law established a clearinghouse for scientific, technical, and engineering information within the Department of Commerce and directed that it be self supporting.
Page 124 - Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America ; from Drawings and Notes of the Author, made during eight years' travel among fortyeight of the wildest and most remote Tribes of Savages in North America.
Page 179 - Government publications, except those determined by their issuing components to be required for official use only or for strictly administrative or operational purposes which have no public interest or educational value and publications classified for reasons of national security, shall be made available to depository libraries through the facilities of the Superintendent of Documents for public information.
Page 45 - If not, all those in favor of the amendment signify by saying "aye"; opposed, "no." The "ayes" appear to have it. The "ayes
Page 4 - Reservation lands" includes national parks and monuments, or any other reservations of the United States for the use of or administration by the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, or any agency outside the Department of the Interior. (i) "Right-of-way" includes license, permit, or easement, as the case may be, and, where applicable, includes "site".
Page 158 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 179 - Government publication" as used in this Act and the amendments made by it means informational matter which is published as an individual document at Government expense, or as required by law.
Page 79 - Service is the central source for the public sale of US Governmentsponsored research, development, and engineering reports, as well as foreign technical reports and other analyses prepared by national and local government agencies, their contractors, or grantees.
Page 79 - NTIS, an agency of the US Department of Commerce, is the central source for the public sale of US Government-sponsored research, development, and engineering reports, and for sales of foreign technical reports and other analyses prepared by national and local government agencies and their contractors or grantees.
Page 169 - Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Rightto-Know Act (EPCRA) [also known as Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of...

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