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This Week

Residents in Temporary Disaster Housing Must Agree to Rules
OMB Releases Good Guidance Practices
Threat Vulnerability Initiative to Target Rural and Resort Communities
Preparation is Key to Post Award Debriefing
Diversity-Owned Businesses Receive Recognition
Scrap Metal Recycling—Making Change
News
County to Test Wireless Law Enforcement Technology
Volunteers Guide Airport Passengers
News of the Weird

Features

Residents in Temporary Disaster Housing Must Agree to Rules

Many survivors and evacuees of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are temporarily located in housing across the Gulf Coast states. People are living in travel trailers in commercial properties, state parks, or on private land, but no matter where Louisiana residents or evacuees are located, many of the housing rules remain the same.

OMB Releases Good Guidance Practices

The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) last week issued a proposed bulletin on good guidance practices (GGP). The proposed guidelines seek to improve the manner in which Federal agencies develop, issue and use guidance documents.

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Threat Vulnerability Initiative to Target Rural and Resort Communities

The National Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP) administered by the American Public Works Association (APWA) begins a documentation assignment in Delaware, Virginia and Maryland capturing best practices in transit emergency preparedness.

For related articles and products, visit the Homeland Security Zone.

Preparation is Key to Post Award Debriefing

Procurement responsibilities extend beyond contract awards. Post award debriefings can encourage confidence in the procurement process and help to build relationships with suppliers.

For related articles and products, visit the Best Practices Zone.

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Diversity-Owned Businesses Receive Recognition

DiversityBusiness, a multicultural business internet site, announced the Div500, the 6th annual listing of the nations' top 500 diversity-owned businesses.

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Scrap Metal Recycling—Making Change

According to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), in the United States last year alone, scrap recyclers handled more than 125 million tons of recyclables destined for domestic use and overseas markets.

For related articles and products, visit the Earth-Friendly Solutions Zone.

Visit the recently updated GovDeck to view an enhanced, electronic version of GPN's familiar "action card" deck. Click on a card of interest and link directly to vendor's Web site or click the "Learn More" button and link directly to vendor's e-mail address.

News

County to Test Wireless Law Enforcement Technology

Officers in Berks County, PA, are testing wireless technology that will allow officers in the field to use a small laptop computer to access the state's Justice Network, or JNET, which installed the required hardware and software and will cover costs for the next six months.

"It's even more that a mobile office," says Sheriff Barry Jozwiak. "It's more than just a laptop in a police car. This allows you access any time, anywhere."

Berks was chosen to test the technology because of its past participation in initiatives aimed at boosting cooperation among law enforcement, including a central processing center used by county police departments. "We can run everything you can think of in the system: license plates, vehicle-identification numbers, gun checks, missing persons, wanted persons, prison records, probation records, driving records, protection-from-abuse orders," says assistant chief deputy Michael Garipoli.

Source: The National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC).

Volunteers Guide Airport Passengers

If you have visited Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in the past several years, you have no doubt either seen or met a Navigator. This volunteer group is celebrating its fifth anniversary at the airport. Navigator volunteers, wearing purple shirts and jackets and "Ask Me" buttons, stand throughout Sky Harbor's three terminals, offering assistance, answering questions and giving directions to the airport's 40 million annual passengers.

More than 500 Navigators currently serve Sky Harbor, making this one of the largest and most successful airport volunteer programs in the United States. Since November of 2000, this group has volunteered more than 258,000 hours, the equivalent of 124 full time employees, at a value of more than $5 million to the City of Phoenix.

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