Today's GAO Reports - September 26, 2008

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports and correspondence:

Reports

1. U.S. Asylum System: Significant Variation Existed in Asylum Outcomes across Immigration Courts and Judges. GAO-08-940, September 25.  Highlights

2. U.S. Asylum System: Agencies Have Taken Actions to Help Ensure Quality in the Asylum Adjudication Process, but Challenges Remain. GAO-08-935, September 25.  Highlights

3. Disaster Recovery: Past Experiences Offer Insights for Recovering from Hurricanes Ike and Gustav and Other Recent Natural Disasters. GAO-08-1120, September 26.  Highlights

4. Food Safety: Improvements Needed in FDA Oversight of Fresh Produce. GAO-08-1047, September 26.  Highlights

5. Carbon Offsets: The U.S. Voluntary Market Is Growing, but Quality Assurance Poses Challenges for Market Participants. GAO-08-1048, August 29.  Highlights

6. Energy Markets: Analysis of More Past Mergers Could Enhance Federal Trade Commission's Efforts to Maintain Competition in the Petroleum Industry. GAO-08-1082, September 25.  Highlights

7. Information Security: Actions Needed to Better Protect Los Alamos National Laboratory's Unclassified Computer Network. GAO-08-1001, September 9.  Highlights

8. Social Security Disability: Management Controls Needed to Strengthen Demonstration Projects. GAO-08-1053, September 26.  Highlights

9. Defense Acquisitions: Sound Business Case Needed to Implement Missile Defense Agency's Targets Program. GAO-08-1113, September 26.  Highlights

10. Space Acquisitions: Uncertainties in the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Pose Management and Oversight Challenges. GAO-08-1039, September 26.  Highlights

11. DOD Financial Management: Improvements Are Needed in Antideficiency Act Controls and Investigations. GAO-08-1063, September 26.  Highlights

12. Information Management: The National Archives and Records Administration's Fiscal Year 2008 Expenditure Plan. GAO-08-1105, September 26.  Highlights

13. Electricity Restructuring: FERC Could Take Additional Steps to Analyze Regional Transmission Organizations' Benefits and Performance. GAO-08-987, September 22.  Highlights

Correspondences

1. Medicare: Trends in Fees, Utilization, and Expenditures for Imaging Services before and after Implementation of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. GAO-08-1102R, September 26.

2. Health-Care-Associated Infections in Hospitals: Number Associated with Medical Devices Unknown, but Experts Report Provider Practices as a Significant Factor. GAO-08-1091R, September 26.

3. Millennium Challenge Corporation: Summary Fact Sheets for 11 Compacts Entered into Force. GAO-08-1145R, September 26.

4. Recent Actions by the Chesapeake Bay Program Are Positive Steps Toward More Effectively Guiding the Restoration Effort, but Additional Steps Are Needed. GAO-08-1131R, August 28.

5. Federal User Fees: Improvements Could Be Made to Performance Standards and Penalties in USCIS's Service Center Contracts. GAO-08-1170R, September 25.

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