Posted on 03/28/2008 9:56:03 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 26, 2008
MEDIA CONTACT: GARY SOMERSET 202.512.1957, 202.355.3997 cell gsomerset@gpo.gov
STORY. GPO PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING
FACTS OF THE U.S. PASSPORT
October 2007 Testimony before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform House of Representative
on Technology for Secure Identity Products.
http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/testimony/benbrink-housetestimony_oct07.pdf
***********************EXCERPT**********************
Manufacturing Passports/Security
GPO has been producing passports for the State Department since the 1920s. The manufacturing of passports is conducted in Washington, D.C. at GPO facilities. More than 120 GPO employees work around the clock to produce the document. In addition, GPO’s Congressional Oversight Committee, the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP), authorized the agency to begin construction on a second Secure Production Facility in Mississippi, which will also manufacture passports beginning this spring.
The paper, covers and manufacturing supplies come from U.S. companies.
GPO had to meet the deadline set in The Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act to produce the e-Passport. Here is the timeline:
(Excerpt) Read more at gpo.gov ...
*****************EXCERPT**********************
GPO is unlike most other Federal agencies in that all GPO activities are financed through a business-like revolving fund. The revolving fund functions as GPO’s checking account with the U.S. Treasury. The fund is used to pay all of GPO’s costs and the fund is reimbursed by our agency customers when they pay GPO invoices.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.