OTA Reports, 1993 – 1995

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.

 

1995

1. Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car
2. Adverse Reactions to HIV Vaccines: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Issues
3. Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Achieving Complementary Policies
4. Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1994
5. Assessing the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Selected Case Studies
6. Biologically Based Technologies for Pest Control
7. Bringing Health Care Online: The Role of Information Technologies
8. Challenges for U.S. Agricultural Research Policy
9. Cleaning Up Contaminated Wood-Treating Sites
10. The Cost-Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Average-Risk Adults
11. Costs and Effectiveness of Prostate Cancer Screening in Elderly Men
12. Coverage of Laser Technology by Health Insurers
13. Current Status of Federal Involvement in U.S. Aquaculture
14. Distributed Interactive Simulation of Combat
15. Does Vocational Education Help the “Forgotten Half”?: Short-term Economic Consequences of High School Vocational Education for Non-College Students
16. Education and Technology: Future Visions
17. Effectiveness and Costs of Osteoporosis Screening and Hormone Replacement Therapy, Vol. I: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
18. Effectiveness and Costs of Osteoporosis Screening and Hormone Replacement Therapy, Vol. II: Evidence on Benefits, Risks, and Costs
19. The Effectiveness of AIDS Prevention Efforts
20. The Effectiveness of Research and Experimentation Tax Credits
21. Electronic Surveillance in a Digital Age
22. Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards
23. Environmental Policy Tools: A User’s Guide
24. Environmental Technology: Analysis of Selected Federal R&D Programs
25. EPA Superfund Actions and ATSDR Public Health Data
26. Federal Technology Transfer and the Human Genome Project
27. Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities
28. Flat Panel Displays in Perspective
29. Foreign Eligibility for U.S. Technology Funding
30. The Fusion Energy Program: The Role of TPX and Alternate Concepts
31. Gauging Control Technology and Regulatory Impacts in Occupational Safety and Health: An Appraisal of OSHA’s Analytic Approach
32. Global Communications: Opportunities for Trade and Aid
33. Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries
34. A History of the Department of Defense Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
35. Hospital Financing in Seven Countries
36. Impact of Health Reform on Rural Areas: Lessons From the States
37. Impacts of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
38. Improving the Prospects for Future International Peace Operations: Workshop Proceedings
39. Information Technologies for the Control of Money Laundering
40. Innovation and Commercialization of Emerging Technologies
41. International Partnerships in Large Science Projects
42. Issue Update on Information Security and Privacy in Network Environments
43. Learning To Work: Making the Transition From School to Work
44. The Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Base
45. The National Space Transportation Policy: Issues for Congress
46. Nuclear Safeguards and the International Atomic Energy Agency
47. Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts From Soviet Nuclear Contamination
48. Occupational Training for Young People in the United Kingdom
49. Other Approaches to Civil-Military Integration: The Chinese and Japanese Arms Industries
50. Reducing Earthquake Losses
51. Reducing the Costs of Collecting Meteorological Data: A Workshop Summary
52. Renewing Our Energy Future
53. Risks to Students in School
54. Screening and Testing Chemicals in Commerce
55. Selected Technology Issues in U.S. Aquaculture
56. State of the States on Brownfields: Programs for Cleanup and Reuse of Contaminated Sites
57. Targeting Environmental Priorities in Agriculture: Reforming Program Strategies
58. Teachers and Technology: Making the Connection
59. The Technological Reshaping of Metropolitan America
60. Technology and Policy for Suppressing Grain Dust Explosions in Storage Facilities
61. Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans: Opportunities and Challenges
62. U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Space
63. Wireless Technologies and the National Information Infrastructure

 

1994

1. An Alaskan Challenge: Native Village Sanitation
2. Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1993
3. Assessing the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Technologies, Processes, and Practices
4. Civilian Satellite Remote Sensing: A Strategic Approach
5. Climate Treaties and Models: Issues in the International Management of Climate Change
6. Defensive Medicine and Medical Malpractice
7. The Department of Defense Kuwait Oil Health Fire Risk Assessment (The “Persian Gulf Veterans’ Registry”)
8. Electronic Enterprises: Looking to the Future
9. Energy Efficiency in Federal Facilities: Update on Funding and Potential Savings
10. Export Controls and Nonproliferation Policy
11. External Review of the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV Prevention Program: Summary and Overview
12. Federal Research and Technology for Aviation
13. Fueling Reform: Energy Technologies for the Former East Bloc
14. Hip Fracture Outcomes in People Age 50 and Over
15. Identifying Health Technologies That Work: Searching for Evidence
16. Industry, Technology, and the Environment: Competitive Challenges and Business Opportunities
17. Information Security and Privacy in Network Environments
18. International Comparisons of Administrative Costs in Health Care
19. International Health Statistics: What the Numbers Mean for the United States
20. Managed Care and Competitive Health Care Markets: The Twin Cities Experience
21. Mental Disorders and Genetics: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Society
22. Multinationals and the U.S. Technology Base
23. Perspectives on the Role of Science and Technology in Sustainable Development
24. Power Sources for Remote Arctic Applications
25. Proliferation and the Former Soviet Union
26. Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans With Disabilities Act
27. Public Information About Osteoporosis: What’s Available, What’s Needed?
28. Remotely Sensed Data: Technology, Management and Markets
29. Review of the Medical Follow-Up Agency
30. Saving Energy in U.S. Transportation
31. The Social Security Administration’s Decentralized Computer Strategy: Issues and Options
32. Studies of the Environmental Costs of Electricity
33. Technical Options for the Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor
34. Technologies for Understanding and Preventing Substance Abuse and Addiction
35. Testing and Assessment in Vocational Education
36. Tools for Evaluating Health Technologies: Five Background Papers
37. Understanding Estimates of National Health Expenditures Under Health Reform
38. Understanding Estimates of the Impact of Health Reform on the Federal Budget
39. Universal Health Insurance and Uninsured People: Effects on Use and Cost
40. Virtual Reality and Technologies for Combat Simulation
41. Wage Record Information Systems

 

1993

1. The 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference: Technology and Policy Implications
2. Access to Over-the-Road Buses for Persons With Disabilities
3. Accessibility and Integrity of Networked Information Collections
4. Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime
5. Advanced Network Technology
6. Aging Nuclear Power Plants: Managing Plant Life and Decommissioning
7. Aircraft Evacuation Testing: Research and Technology Issues
8. Alternative Coca Reduction Strategies in the Andean Region
9. Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Clinical Preventive Services
10. Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Patient Cost-Sharing
11. Biological Components of Substance Abuse and Addiction
12. Biopolymers: Making Materials Nature’s Way
13. The Chemical Weapons Convention: Effects on the U.S. Chemical Industry
14. Compilation of Abbreviations and Terms
15. The Continuing Challenge of Tuberculosis
16. Contributions of DOE Weapons Labs and NIST to Semiconductor Technology
17. Coverage of Preventive Services: Provisions of Selected Current Health Care Reform Proposals
18. Data Format Standards for Civilian Remote Sensing Satellites
19. Defense Conversion: Redirecting R&D
20. The Department of Veterans Affairs Persian Gulf Veterans’ Health Registry
21. Development Assistance, Export Promotion, and Environmental Technology
22. Dismantling the Bomb and Managing the Nuclear Materials
23. Drug Labeling in Developing Countries
24. Energy Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Utilities
25. Energy Efficiency Technologies for Central and Eastern Europe
26. The Future of Remote Sensing From Space: Civilian Satellite Systems and Applications
27. Global Change Research and NASA’s Earth Observing System
28. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States
29. Hazards Ahead: Managing Cleanup Worker Health and Safety at the Nuclear Weapons Complex
30. Health Insurance: The Hawaii Experience
31. Impact of Legal Reforms on Medical Malpractice Costs
32. An Inconsistent Picture: A Compilation of Analyses of Economic Impacts of Competing Approaches to Health
33. Care Reform by Experts and Stakeholders
34. Industrial Energy Efficiency
35. Information Systems Related to Technology Transfer: A Report on Federal Technology Transfer in the United States
36. Making Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services
37. Multinationals and the National Interest: Playing by Different Rules
38. Pharmaceutical R&D: Costs, Risks, and Rewards
39. Potential Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Crop Production
40. Preparing for an Uncertain Climate-Vol. I
41. Preparing for an Uncertain Climate-Vol. II
42. Proceedings: Technology and Governance in the 1990s. Papers Presented at the OTA 20th Anniversary Forum on Technology and Governance in the 1990s
43. Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks
44. Protecting Privacy in Computerized Medical Information
45. Pulling Together for Productivity: A Union-Management Initiative at US West, Inc.
46. Researching Health Risks
47. Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction
48. U.S. Telecommunications Services in European Markets
49. Water for Walker Lake
50. Who Goes There: Friend or Foe?

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