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The Government Publishing Office has made President Donald Trump’s America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again on GPO’s available on govinfo. The announcement is available at:

https://www.govinfo.gov/features/FY2018-Budget-Blueprint?utm_source=newsletter_1096&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gpo-and-omb-to-distribute-president-trump-s-budget-blueprint

The budget itself is available at:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-2018-BLUEPRINT/pdf/BUDGET-2018-BLUEPRINT.pdf

The Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have produced an estimate of the budgetary effects of the American Health Care Act. A summary is available at:

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52486

The full report is available at:

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/115th-congress-2017-2018/costestimate/americanhealthcareact.pdf

The Intelligence Community's report, "Background to "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections": The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution," is available at:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has made the United States Policy and Supporting Positions, or the “The Plum Book,” available in print, online, and as an app. The publication lists more than 9,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the executive and legislative branches that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment. First introduced in 2012, The Plum Book app allows users to view the publication in an easy to use mobile format and search the publication by agency, position title, location, appointment type, pay plan and level, tenure and term expiration, and vacancy.

The Plum Book as available here:  https://m.gpo.gov/plumbook/

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has published its 'Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2016 (Fourth Edition)' report.  It is available at:


https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators

On September 14, 2016 the USGS published a report on microfibers in Great Lakes tributaries. The report is available at:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.6b02917

House Select Benghazi Committee released its proposed report today on the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi Libya. Information about the report is available at: 

http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo

The United States Geological Survey has issued Open File Report 2016-1035 titled: 2016 One-Year Seismic Hazard Forecast for the Central and Eastern United States from Induced and Natural Earthquakes. It is available at:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2016/1035/ofr20161035.pdf

An abstract is available at:

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20161035

a news release is available at:

http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/induced-earthquakes-raise-chances-of-damaging-shaking-in-2016/