OTA Reports, 1990 – 1992

The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) closed on September 29, 1995. During its 23-year history, OTA provided Congressional members and committees with analyses of the scientific and technological issues that were increasingly relevant to public policy and legislative action.

OTA occupied a unique role among the Congressional information agencies. Unlike the General Accounting Office, which is primarily concerned with evaluation of ongoing programs, and the Congressional Research Service, which provides rapid information on legislative topics, OTA provided a deeper, more comprehensive, and more technical level of analysis. Through eleven Congressional sessions, OTA became a key resource for Congressional members and staff confronting technological issues in crafting public policy. Its existence brought a healthy balance to the analytical resources available to the executive and legislative branches of government.

The agency’s legacy is found in the many items of legislation it influenced and in the channels of communication its staff helped foster between legislative policymakers and members of the scientific, technical, and business communities.

The Black Vault has archived here the complete collection of reports and data issued by the OTA. Clicking on any document below will take you directly to the report, all in .pdf format. This collection holds 110,670 pages in total.

 

1992

1. After the Cold War: Living With Lower Defense Spending
2. Alaskan Water for California?: The Subsea Pipeline Option
3. Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1991
4. The Biology of Mental Disorders
5. Building Energy Efficiency
6. Building Future Security: Strategies for Restructuring the Defense Technology and Industrial Base
7. The CDC’s Case Definition of AIDS: Implications of Proposed Revisions
8. Combined Summaries: Technologies To Sustain Tropical Forest Resources and Biological Diversity
9. Cystic Fibrosis and DNA Tests: Implications of Carrier Screening
10. Difficult-To-Reuse Needles for the Prevention of HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Abusers
11. Disposal of Chemical Weapons: Alternative Technologies
12. Do Medicaid and Medicare Patients Sue More Often Than Other Patients?
13. Does Health Insurance Make a Difference?
14. Evaluation of the Oregon Medicaid Proposal
15. Federal and Private Roles in the Development and Provision of Alglucerase Therapy for Gaucher Disease
16. Finding a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property and the Challenge of Technological Change
17. Forest Service Planning: Accommodating Uses, Producing Outputs, and Sustaining Ecosystems
18. Fueling Development: Energy Technologies for Developing Countries
19. Genetic Counseling and Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening: Results of a Survey
20. Genetic Tests and Health Insurance: Results of a Survey
21. Global Standards: Building Blocks for the Future
22. Green Products by Design: Choices for a Cleaner Environment
23. Home Drug Infusion Therapy Under Medicare
24. Identifying and Controlling Pulmonary Toxicants
25. Lessons in Restructuring Defense Industry: The French Experience
26. Managing Industrial Solid Wastes From Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas Production, and Utility Coal Combustion
27. The Menopause, Hormone Therapy, and Women’s Health
28. Monitoring Limits on Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles
29. NASA’s Office of Space Science and Applications: Process, Priorities and Goals
30. A New Technological Era for American Agriculture
31. Performance Standards for the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program
32. Police Body Armor Standards and Testing, Vol. I
33. Police Body Armor Standards and Testing, Vol. II-Appendixes
34. Remotely Sensed Data From Space: Distribution, Pricing, and Applications
35. Retiring Old Cars: Programs To Save Gasoline and Reduce Emissions
36. Science and Technology Issues in Coastal Ecotourism
37. Special Care Units for People With Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias: Consumer Education, Research, Regulatory, and Reimbursement Issues
38. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security
39. Testing in American Schools: Asking the Right Questions
40. Trade and Environment: Conflicts and Opportunities
41. U.S. Banks and International Telecommunications
42. U.S.-Mexico Trade: Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?

 

1991

1. The 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference: Issues for U.S. International Spectrum Policy
2. Adjusting to a New Security Environment: The Defense Technology and Industrial Base Challenge
3. Adolescent Health, Vol. I: Summary and Policy Options
4. Adolescent Health, Vol. II: Background and the Effectiveness of Selected Prevention and Treatment Services
5. Adolescent Health, Vol. III: Crosscutting Issues in the Delivery of Health and Related Services
6. Agricultural Commodities as Industrial Raw Materials
7. American Military Power: Future Needs, Future Choices
8. Automated Record Checks for Firearm Purchasers: Issues and Options
9. Biological Rhythms: Implications for the Worker
10. Bioremediation for Marine Oil Spills
11. Biotechnology in a Global Economy
12. Changing by Degrees: Steps To Reduce Greenhouse Gases
13. Competing Economies: America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim
14. Complex Cleanup: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production
15. Delivering the Goods: Public Works Technologies, Management, and Financing
16. Dioxin Treatment Technologies
17. Energy Efficiency in the Federal Government: Government by Good Example?
18. Energy in Developing Countries
19. Energy Technology Choices: Shaping Our Future
20. Exploring the Moon and Mars: Choices for the Nation
21. The FBI Fingerprint Identification Automation Program: Issues and Options
22. Federally Funded Research: Decisions for a Decade
23. Global Arms Trade: Commerce in Advanced Military Technology and Weapons
24. HIV in the Health Care Workplace
25. Identifying and Controlling Immunotoxic Substances
26. Improving Automobile Fuel Economy: New Standards, New Approaches
27. Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and Transuranic Waste at the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex
28. Medical Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace: Results of a Survey
29. Miniaturization Technologies
30. Moving Ahead: 1991 Surface Transportation Legislation
31. New Opportunities for U.S. Universities in Development Assistance: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environment
32. New Ways: Tiltrotor Aircraft and Magnetically Levitated Vehicles 9132.PDF
33. Outpatient Immunosuppressive Drugs Under Medicare
34. Redesigning Defense: Planning the Transition to the Future U.S. Defense Industrial Base
35. Review of a Protocol for a Study of Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Women Vietnam Veterans
36. Rural America at the Crossroads: Networking for the Future
37. Screening Mammography in Primary Care Settings: Implications for Cost Access and Quality
38. Seeking Solutions: High Performance Computing for Science
39. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort
40. U.S. Dairy Industry at a Crossroad: Biotechnology and Policy Choices
41. U.S. Oil Import Vulnerability: The Technical Replacement Capability
42. Verification Technologies: Cooperative Aerial Surveillance in International Agreements
43. Verification Technologies: Managing Research and Development for Cooperative Arms Control Monitoring Measures

1990

1. Access to Space: The Future of U.S. Space Transportation Systems
2. Affordable Spacecraft: Design and Launch Alternatives
3. Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer Policies for the 1990s
4. Arming Our Allies: Cooperation and Competition in Defense Technology
5. Beneath the Bottom Line: Agricultural Approaches To Reduce Agrichemical Contamination of Groundwater
6. The Big Picture: HDTV and High-Resolution Systems
7. Children’s Dental Services Under the Medicaid Program
8. Computer Software and Intellectual Property
9. Confused Minds, Burdened Families: Finding Help for People With Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
10. Coping With an Oiled Sea
11. The Costs and Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening in Elderly Women
12. Costs and Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Elderly
13. Critical Connections: Communication for the Future
14. The Effectiveness of Drug Abuse Treatment: Implications for Controlling AIDS/HIV Infection
15. Electronic Bulls and Bears: U.S. Securities Markets and Information Technology
16. Energy Use and the U.S. Economy
17. Evaluating Defense Department Research
18. Finding the Rx for Managing Medical Wastes
19. Forest Service Planning: Setting Strategic Direction Under RPA
20. Genetic Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace
21. Genetic Witness: Forensic Uses of DNA Tests
22. Health Care in Rural America
23. Helping America Compete: The Role of Federal Scientific and Technical Information
24. High-Temperature Superconductivity in Perspective
25. Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base-Vol. II, Appendices
26. How Has Federal Research on AIDS/HIV Disease Contributed to Other Fields?
27. Indian Adolescent Mental Health
28. Making Things Better: Competing in Manufacturing
29. Neural Grafting: Repairing the Brain and Spinal Cord
30. Neurotoxicity: Identifying and Controlling Poisons of the Nervous System
31. Nonferrous Metals: Industry Structure
32. Orbiting Debris: A Space Environmental Problem
33. Physical Vulnerability of Electric Systems to Natural Disasters and Sabotage
34. Plague of Locusts-Special Report
35. Preventive Health Services for Medicare Beneficiaries: Policy and Research Issues
36. Proposal Pressure in the 1980s: An Indicator of Stress on the Federal Research System
37. Rebuilding the Foundations: A Special Report on State and Local Public Works Financing and Management
38. Recombinant Erythropoietin: Payment Options for Medicare
39. Replacing Gasoline: Alternative Fuels for Light-Duty Vehicles
40. Royalty Management Program’s Auditing and Financial System: Technical Issues
41. Trading Around the Clock: Global Securities Markets and Information Technology
42. Unconventional Cancer Treatments
43. The Use of Integrity Tests for Pre-Employment Screening
44. Verification Technologies: Measures for Monitoring Compliance with the START Treaty
45. Worker Training: Competing in the New International Economy

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