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- Guidance Specifying Management Measures For Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters
- Forward and table of contents issued under the authority of section 6217(g) of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990.
- Guidance Specifying Management Measures For Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters: Chapter 1. Introduction
- This is the introduction chapter for the 1990 CZARA.
- Impact Assessment of Exploratory Wells Offshore South Florida
- This report investigates five older and two newer exploration oil wells to determine the environmental impact in a tropical climate. The five older sites were created prior to the OCS and MMS regulations for drilling, and the newer two were created with the OCS and MMS regulations. This investigation was set to determine if these sites had a positive, negative, or no impact on the environment.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, April 1 - June 30, 1990
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1990
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, July 1 - September 30, 1990
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, October 1 - December 31, 1989
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- Office of Technology Assessment Fiscal Year 1992 Justification of Estimates, December 21, 1990
- This report contains justification for the Office of Technology Assessment's (OTA) estimated FY1990 budget request.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1991
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, July 1 - September 30, 1991
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, October 1 - December 31, 1990
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- SETting the Table: The First Unofficial OTA Staff Cookbook, 1991
- This document is a collection of recipes, contributed and compiled by Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) staff.
- Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1990
- Annual report detailing the progress and budget of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- Science Advice to the Congress, May 1991
- This report is divided into three parts: first, an account of science advice to Congress and its dependence on its agencies; secondly, a more detailed look at the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) as the agency with most to offer other countries and most resemblance to parliamentary committee work; and thirdly, a short consideration of whether or not an OTA is appropriate for the UK.
- TOUGH2. Unsaturated Groundwater and Heat Transport Model
- TOUGH2 is a new and improved version of TOUGH. TOUGH2 offers added capabilities and user features, including the flexibility to handle different fluid mixtures (water, water with tracer; water, CO2; water, air; water, air, with vapor pressure lowering and water, hydrogen), facilities for processing of geometric data (computational grids), and an internal version control system to ensure referenceability of code applications. TOUGH2 is a multi-dimensional numerical model for simulating the coupled transport of water, vapor, air, and heat in porous and fractured media. The program provides options for specifying injection or withdrawal of heat and fluids. Although primarily designed for studies of high-level nuclear waste isolation in partially saturated geological media, it should also be useful for a wider range of problems in heat and moisture transfer, and in the drying of porous materials. For example, geothermal reservoir simulation problems can be handled simply by setting the air mass function equal to zero on input. The TOUGH2 simulator was developed for problems involving strongly heat-driven flow. To describe these phenomena a multi-phase approach to fluid and heat flow is used, which fully accounts for the movement of gaseous and liquid phases, their transport of latent and sensible heat, and phase transitions between liquid and vapor. TOUGH2 takes account of fluid flow in both liquid and gaseous phases occurring under pressure, viscous, and gravity forces according to Darcy`s law. Interference between the phases is represented by means of relative permeability functions. The code handles binary, but not Knudsen, diffusion in the gas phase and capillary and phase adsorption effects for the liquid phase. Heat transport occurs by means of conduction with thermal conductivity dependent on water saturation, convection, and binary diffusion, which includes both sensible and latent heat.
- PDS SHRINK. PDS SHRINK
- This code enables one to display, take line-outs on, and perform various transformations on an image created by an array of integer*2 data. Uncompressed eight-bit TIFF files created on either the Macintosh or the IBM PC may also be read in and converted to a 16 bit signed integer image. This code is designed to handle all the formats used for PDS (photo-densitometer) files at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. These formats are all explained by the application code. The image may be zoomed infinitely and the gray scale mapping can be easily changed. Line-outs may be horizontal or vertical with arbitrary width, angled with arbitrary end points, or taken along any path. This code is usually used to examine spectrograph data. Spectral lines may be identified and a polynomial fit from position to wavelength may be found. The image array can be remapped so that the pixels all have the same change of lambda width. It is not necessary to do this, however. Lineouts may be printed, saved as Cricket tab-delimited files, or saved as PICT2 files. The plots may be linear, semilog, or logarithmic with nice values and proper scientific notation. Typically, spectral lines are curved.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, October 1 - December 31, 1991
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- Recovery of UO{sub 2}/PuO{sub 2} in IFR electrorefining process
- This invention is comprised of a process for converting PuO{sub 2} and U0{sub 2} present in an electrorefiner to the chlorides, by contacting the PuO{sub 2} and U0{sub 2} with Li metal in the presence of an alkali metal chloride salt substantially free of rare earth and actinide chlorides for a time and at a temperature sufficient to convert the U0{sub 2} and PuO{sub 2} to metals while converting Li metal to Li{sub 2}O. Li{sub 2}O is removed either by reducing with rare earth metals or by providing an oxygen electrode for transporting 0{sub 2} out of the electrorefiner and a cathode, and thereafter applying an emf to the electrorefiner electrodes sufficient to cause the Li{sub 2}O to disassociate to 0{sub 2} and Li metal but insufficient to decompose the alkali metal chloride salt. The U and Pu and excess lithium are then converted to chlorides by reaction with CdCl{sub 2}.
- Structural alloy with a protective coating containing silicon or silicon-oxide
- This invention is comprised of an iron-based alloy containing chromium and optionally, nickel. The alloy has a surface barrier of silicon or silicon plus oxygen which converts at high temperature to a protective silicon compound. The alloy can be used in oxygen-sulfur mixed gases at temperatures up to about 1100{degrees}C.
- PCES 2.0. Performance Criteria and Evaluation System v. 2.0
- The Performance Criteria and Evaluation System (PCES) was developed in order to make a data base of criteria accessible to radiation safety staff. The criteria included in the package are applicable to occupational radiation safety at DOE reactor and nonreactor nuclear facilities, but any data base of criteria may be created using the Criterion Data Base Utiliity (CDU). PCES assists personnel in carrying out oversight, line, and support activities.
- Research Assistants Handbook
- This manual was designed to guide research assistants new to the OTA. It was used alongside the OTA Employee Handbook and other introductory materials from the OTA Information Center. It covers life at OTA, basics about projects, office equipment and resources, contractors, and an introduction to the DC area. This is not an official OTA document; it was an unpublished office manual.
- TILT. Trip Information Log Tracking System
- The system is focused on the Employee Business Travel Event. The system must be able to CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) instances of the Travel Event as well as the ability to CRUD frequent flyer milage associated with airline travel. Additionally the system must provide for a compliance reporting system to monitor reductions in travel costs and lost opportunity costs (i.e., not taking advantage of business class or 7 day advance tickets).
- RA (Research Assistants) Handbook, June 1992
- This handbook was created by the staff of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) for new Research Assistants, to introduce them to OTA policy and provide guidelines for Research Assistant activities.
- [Project Summary: Adaptation of the Minerals Management Service's Oil Weathering Model]
- Summary describing the work completed at Chemical & Process Engineering Associates for "Adaptation of the Minerals Management Service's Oil Weathering Model". It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
- Adaptation of the Minerals Management Service's Oil-Weathering Model for Use in the Gulf of Mexico Region
- The Minerals Management Service's open-ocean, oil-weathering model has been updated extensively for use on personal computers to determine what oil-weathering processes are wind and/or temperature dependent. Provides detailed user's instructions on how to use the model, examples demonstrating the model, and program listings.
- Office of Technology Assessment Fiscal Year 1994 Justification of Estimates, December 1992
- This report contains justification for the Office of Technology Assessment's (OTA) estimated FY1994 budget request.
- Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1992
- Annual report of the progress and budget of the Office of Technology Assessment. 20th Anniversary Edition.
- Office of Technology Assessment List of Publications, January 1993
- A catalog of Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) documents published through 1993.
- Organic solid state optical switches and method for producing organic solid state optical switches
- This invention consists of a light-intensity dependent molecular switch comprised of a compound which shuttles an electron or a plurality of electrons from a plurality of electron donors to an electron acceptor upon being stimulated with light of predetermined wavelengths, and a method for making said compound.
- Process for the extraction of strontium from acidic solutions
- The invention is a process for selectively extracting strontium values from aqueous nitric acid waste solutions containing these and other fission product values. The extractant solution is a macrocyclic polyether in an aliphatic hydrocarbon diluent containing a phase modifier. The process will selectively extract strontium values from nitric acid solutions which are up to 6 molar in nitric acid.
- A process for the separation and purification of yttrium-90 for medical applications
- An extraction chromatographic method for the preparation of {sup 90}Y of high chemical and radiochemical purity is disclosed. After an initial purification of a {sup 90}Sr stock solution and a suitable period of {sup 90}Y ingrowth, the solution is passed through a series of strontium-selective chromatographic columns, each of which lowers the {sup 90}Sr content of the mixture by a factor of about 10{sup 3}. The {sup 90}Y remaining is freed from any residual {sup 90}Sr, from its {sup 90}Zr daughter, and from any remaining impurities by passing the sample through a final column designed to selectively retain yttrium.
- OTA Forum on Technology and Governance in the 19901, January 27, 1993
- This document is a program from the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) Forum on Technology and Governance in the 1990s, held on January 27, 1993. The program includes a schedule of events and biographical information on each of the forum speakers.
- Proceedings: Technology and Governance in the 1990s
- This report contains discussion about project domestic and international issues in the 1990s, including arms reduction, the environment, the U.S. economy, health care, and education, with respect to technological issues that the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) works with Congress to develop and understand.
- Policy Analysis at OTA: A Staff Assessment, May 1993
- This document presents the findings of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) staff assessment of policy analysis that took place in 1992. It consisted of reviewing 18 sample OTA reports and soliciting opinions about OTA's policy analysis from outside observers. This report presents the findings of this assessment, along with options for OTA management and suggestions for OTA project directors.
- Influence of Hypoxia on the Interpretation of Effects of Petroleum Production Activities
- This study looks at the effects of offshore petroleum development in the form of a produced water discharge could be identified on the Louisiana continental shelf and placed in the context of natural, temporal variability as caused by hypoxic bottom waters (page v).
- Project Summary: University Research Initiative on the Effects of Offshore Petroleum Development in the Gulf of Mexico
- Summary describing the work completed at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium for the university research initiative on the effects of offshore petroleum development in the Gulf of Mexico on the effects of tar on the Louisiana coastline. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
- A Hydrogeomorphic Classification for Wetlands
- A outline of wetland classifications based on the wetland hydrogeomorphic properties of geomorphic setting, water source, and hydrodynamics.
- NREL to Build Major Biofuels Facility
- The capability of American technology and industry to develop a ''homegrown'' motor fuel to meet national energy policy goals will take a major step forward in the next year. During 1994, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), with U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) support, will begin operating a$2.2 million Alternative Fuels Users Facility (AFUF) at its Golden, Colorado site.
- INEL BNCT Research Program, Program publications 1992
- This document is a collection of the published reports describing research supporting the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) Research Program for calendar year 1992. Contributions from the principal investigators about their individual projects are included, specifically, chemistry (pituitary tumor studies, boron drug development including liposomes, lipoproteins, and carboranylalarnine derivatives), pharmacology (murine screenings, toxicity testing, ICP-AES analysis of biological samples), physics (radiation dosimetry software, neutron beam and filter design, neutron beam measurement dosimetry), and radiation biology (small and large animal models tissue studies and efficacy studies). These reports have previously appeared in two books: Progress in Neutron Capture Therapy for Cancer, edited by B. J. Allen, D. E. Moore, B. V. Harrington, Plenum Press, 1992; and Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Toward Clinical Trials of Glioma Patients, edited by D. Gabel and R. Moss, Plenum Press, 1992. Reports have also appeared in four journals: Analytica Chimica Acta, Inorganic Chemistry, Nuclear Science and Engineering, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
- [Project Summary: Gulf of Mexico Offshore Monitoring Experiment (GOOMEX), Phase 1: Sublethal Response to Contaminant Exposure]
- Summary describing the work completed at Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), Texas A&M University (TAMU) for 'Gulf of Mexico Offshore Monitoring Experiment (GOOMEX), Phase 1: Sublethal Response to Contaminant Exposure'. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
- Office of Technology Assessment Fiscal Year 1995 Justification of Estimates, December 1993
- This report contains justification for the Office of Technology Assessment's (OTA) estimated FY1995 budget request.
- Bioremediation of contaminated groundwater
- Disclosed is an apparatus and method for in situ remediation of contaminated subsurface soil or groundwater contaminated by chlorinated hydrocarbons. A nutrient fluid (NF) is selected to simulated the growth and reproduction of indigenous subsurface microorganisms capable of degrading the contaminants; an oxygenated fluid (OF) is selected to create an aerobic environment with anaerobic pockets. NF is injected periodically while OF is injected continuously and both are extracted so that both are drawn across the plume. NF stimulates microbial colony growth; withholding it periodically forces the larger, healthy colony of microbes to degrade the contaminants. Treatment is continued until the subsurface concentration of contaminants is acceptable. NF can be methane and OF be air, for stimulating production of methanotrophs to break down chlorohydrocarbons, especially TCE and tetrachloroethylene.
- [Project Summary: Gulf of Mexico University Initiative: Studies of Long-Term Effects of Oil and Gas Production]
- Summary describing the work completed at Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) for 'Gulf of Mexico University Initiative: Studies of Long-Term Effects of Oil and Gas Production.' It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
- Status of Alaska Wetlands
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has responsibility for the protection of migratory and endangered fish and wildlife and their habitats. The Service inventories the country's wetlands through the National Wetlands Inventory Program. This inventory covers Alaska. Contains photographs.
- Synopsis of Biological Data on the Kemp's Ridley Turtle, Lepidochelys kempi (Garman, 1880)
- A report on the biological data of the Kemp's ridley turtle, including taxonomy, life cycle, population distribution, and behavior.
- Memorandum for the Heads of all Departments and Agencies
- This is a memorandum from President William Clinton to inform the heads of all departments and agencies on the implementation of his Executive Order on Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations.
- 1994 U.S. Department of Energy Strategic Plan: Fueling a Competitive Economy
- The Department of Energy has a rich heritage of meeting important national goals in the areas of energy, national security, science, and technology. The end of the Cold War, and the election of President Clinton, have given us a new national agenda. Through a comprehensive strategic planning process, we have determined that the Department must now unleash its extraordinary scientific and technical talent and resources on new and more sharply focused goals: fueling a competitive economy, improving the environment through waste management and pollution prevention, and reducing the nuclear danger.
- NREL Turning Biomass into Adhesives and Plastics
- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and it's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are developing technology to make wood adhesives from sawdust, bark, or other biomass (plant materials or wastes derived from them).
- Office of Technology Assessment Semi-Annual Report, July 1994
- This report includes information on technological products released during FY1994, legislation in the 103rd Congress related to the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), and background information on OTA itself, among other things.
- Cellulose Conversion Key to Fuel of the Future: NREL Improving Key Step in Producing Ethanol from Biomass
- Do you have waste disposal problems? Do you have land sitting idle because it is not quite good enough for food crops? Would you like to be in on a major new industry and help solve air pollution and global warming problems? The US. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) may have just the ticket-technology to convert cellulosic biomass such as agricultural residues and wastes to ethanol, a clean burning alternative transportation fuel.