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Hanford and the Tri-Cities Economy: Historical Trends 1970-2008

Description: This white paper examines the effect that the Hanford Site has had on the Tri-Cities economy from 1970-2008. Total area employment levels, population, and the real estate market are compared to DOE contractor employment and funding levels, which tended to follow each other until the mid-1990s. Since 1994, area employment, total incomes, population and the real estate market have increased significantly despite very little changes in Hanford employment levels. The data indicate that in recent hi… more
Date: October 1, 2009
Creator: Fowler, Richard A. & Scott, Michael J.
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Potential Job Creation in Rhode Island as a Result of Adopting New Residential Building Energy Codes

Description: Are there advantages to states that adopt the most recent model building energy codes other than saving energy? For example, can the construction activity and energy savings associated with code-compliant housing units become significant sources of job creation for states if new building energy codes are adopted to cover residential construction? , The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Energy Codes Program (BECP) asked Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to research and ascertai… more
Date: September 1, 2013
Creator: Scott, Michael J. & Niemeyer, Jackie M.
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Potential Job Creation in Minnesota as a Result of Adopting New Residential Building Energy Codes

Description: Are there advantages to states that adopt the most recent model building energy codes other than saving energy? For example, can the construction activity and energy savings associated with code-compliant housing units become significant sources of job creation for states if new building energy codes are adopted to cover residential construction? , The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Energy Codes Program (BECP) asked Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to research and ascertai… more
Date: September 1, 2013
Creator: Scott, Michael J. & Niemeyer, Jackie M.
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Potential Job Creation in Nevada as a Result of Adopting New Residential Building Energy Codes

Description: Are there advantages to states that adopt the most recent model building energy codes other than saving energy? For example, can the construction activity and energy savings associated with code-compliant housing units become significant sources of job creation for states if new building energy codes are adopted to cover residential construction? , The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Energy Codes Program (BECP) asked Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to research and ascertai… more
Date: September 1, 2013
Creator: Scott, Michael J. & Niemeyer, Jackie M.
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Potential Job Creation in Tennessee as a Result of Adopting New Residential Building Energy Codes

Description: Are there advantages to states that adopt the most recent model building energy codes other than saving energy? For example, can the construction activity and energy savings associated with code-compliant housing units become significant sources of job creation for states if new building energy codes are adopted to cover residential construction? , The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Energy Codes Program (BECP) asked Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to research and ascertai… more
Date: September 1, 2013
Creator: Scott, Michael J. & Niemeyer, Jackie M.
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Tri-Cities Index of Innovation and Technology

Description: In 2001 and 2004, the Economic Development Office of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory published companion reports to the Washington Technology Center Index studies that provided additional information on the Tri-Cities (Kennewick-Richland-Pasco) area of the state, its technology businesses, and important advantages that the Tri-Cities have as places to live and do business. These reports also compared the Tri-Cities area to other technology-based metropolitan areas in the Pacific Northwest… more
Date: January 17, 2011
Creator: Fowler, Richard A.; Scott, Michael J. & Butner, Ryan S.
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Impact of 2001 Building Technology, State and Community Programs on United States Employment and Wage Income

Description: The Department of Energy Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of programs on national employment and income. A special purpose version of the IMPLAN input-output model called ImBuild is used in this study of all 38 BTS programs included in the FY2001 federal budget. Energy savings, investments, and impacts on U.S. national employment and wage income are reported by program for selected years … more
Date: March 20, 2000
Creator: Scott, Michael J.; Hostick, Donna J. & Elliott, Douglas B.
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Impact of 2003 Building Technology, State and Community Programs on United States Employment and Earned Income

Description: As part of measuring the impact of government programs for improving the energy efficiency of the nation's building stock, this report uses the ImBuild II model to assess the future economic impacts of Department of Energy Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) FY 2003 portfolio of programs, specifically the potential impact on national employment and income. The energy savings expected to be created by market penetration of the BTS programs have the potential of crea… more
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Scott, Michael J.; Hostick, Donna J. & Elliott, Douglas B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ImBuild II: Impact of Technologies on Energy Efficiency Programs

Description: This report documents IMBUILD II, the "next generation" of a special-purpose version of the Benchmark national I-O model, designed specifically to estimate the employment and income effects of building and other energy-saving technologies and programs of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. In comparison with the previous version of IMBUILD, this version allows for more complete and automated analysis of the essential features of energy efficiency in… more
Date: July 8, 2002
Creator: Scott, Michael J.; Roop, Joseph M. & Schultz, Robert W.
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ImSET: Impact of Sector Energy Technologies

Description: This version of the Impact of Sector Energy Technologies (ImSET) model represents the ''next generation'' of the previously developed Visual Basic model (ImBUILD 2.0) that was developed in 2003 to estimate the macroeconomic impacts of energy-efficient technology in buildings. More specifically, a special-purpose version of the 1997 benchmark national Input-Output (I-O) model was designed specifically to estimate the national employment and income effects of the deployment of Office of Energy Ef… more
Date: July 19, 2005
Creator: Roop, Joseph M.; Scott, Michael J. & Schultz, Robert W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impact of 2001 Building Technology, State and Community Programs on United States Employment and Wage Income

Description: The Department of Energy Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of programs on national employment and income. A special purpose version of the IMPLAN input-output model called ImBuild is used in this study of all 38 BTS programs included in the FY2001 federal budget. Energy savings, investments, and impacts on U.S. national employment and wage income are reported by program for selected years … more
Date: March 20, 2000
Creator: Scott, Michael J; Hostick, Donna J & Elliott, Douglas B
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hanford Area 2000 Population

Description: This report was prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Richland Operations Office, Surface Environmental Surveillance Project, to provide demographic data required for ongoing environmental assessments and safety analyses at the DOE Hanford Site near Richland, Washington. This document includes 2000 Census estimates for the resident population within an 80-kilometer (50-mile) radius of the Hanford Site. Population distributions are reported relative to five reference points centered o… more
Date: May 28, 2004
Creator: Elliott, Douglas B.; Scott, Michael J.; Antonio, Ernest J. & Rhoads, Kathleen
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Characterizing Uncertainty for Regional Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Decisions

Description: This white paper describes the results of new research to develop an uncertainty characterization process to help address the challenges of regional climate change mitigation and adaptation decisions.
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Unwin, Stephen D.; Moss, Richard H.; Rice, Jennie S. & Scott, Michael J.
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Impact of the FY 2009 Building Technologies Program on United States Employment and Earned Income

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of subprograms on national employment and income. A special purpose input-output model called ImSET is used in this study of 14 Building Technologies Program subprograms in the EERE final FY 2009 budget request to the Office of Management and Budget in February 2008. Energy savings, investments, and impacts on U.S. national employment … more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Livingston, Olga V.; Scott, Michael J.; Hostick, Donna J.; Dirks, James A. & Cort, Katherine A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ImSET 3.1: Impact of Sector Energy Technologies Model Description and User's Guide

Description: This 3.1 version of the Impact of Sector Energy Technologies (ImSET) model represents the next generation of the previously-built ImSET model (ImSET 2.0) that was developed in 2005 to estimate the macroeconomic impacts of energy-efficient technology in buildings. In particular, a special-purpose version of the Benchmark National Input-Output (I-O) model was designed specifically to estimate the national employment and income effects of the deployment of Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable… more
Date: May 22, 2009
Creator: Scott, Michael J.; Livingston, Olga V.; Balducci, Patrick J.; Roop, Joseph M. & Schultz, Robert W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Methodological Framework for Analysis of GPRA Metrics: Application to FY04 Projects in BT and WIP

Description: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) estimated the fiscal year (FY) 2004 energy, environmental, and financial benefits (i.e., metrics) of the technologies and practices in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) former Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) within the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). During the development of the estimates, EERE went through a large-scale reorganization, resulting in the reallocation of the former… more
Date: April 14, 2003
Creator: Anderson, Dave M.; Belzer, David B.; Cort, Katherine A.; Dirks, James A.; Elliott, Douglas B.; Hostick, Donna J. et al.
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Impact of the FY 2005 Building Technologies Program on United States Employment and Earned Income

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of subprograms on national employment and income. A special purpose version of the IMPLAN input-output model called ImBuild II is used in this study of all 21 Building Technologies Program subprograms in the EERE final FY 2005 budget request to the Office of Management and Budget on February 2, 2004. Energy savings, investments, and im… more
Date: August 31, 2004
Creator: Scott, Michael J.; Anderson, Dave M.; Belzer, David B.; Cort, Katherine A.; Dirks, James A.; Elliott, Douglas B. et al.
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Impact of 2004 Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Buildings-Related Projects on United States Employment and Earned Income

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of projects on national employment and income. A special purpose version of the IMPLAN input-output model called ImBuild II is used in this study of all 37 buildings-related projects reported to the Office of Management and Budget on February 3, 2003 for inclusion in the revised FY 2004 budget request. Energy savings, investments, and … more
Date: April 1, 2003
Creator: Scott, Michael J.; Anderson, David M.; Belzer, David B.; Cort, Katherine A.; Dirks, James A.; Elliott, Douglas B. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impact of the FY 2005 Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program on United States Employment and Earned Income

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of subprograms on national employment and income. A special purpose version of the IMPLAN input-output model called ImBuild II is used in this study of 20 subprograms of the Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program contained in the EERE final FY 2005 budget request to the Office of Management and Budget on February 2, 2004. Energy … more
Date: August 31, 2004
Creator: Scott, Michael J.; Anderson, David M.; Belzer, David B.; Cort, Katherine A.; Dirks, James A.; Elliott, Douglas B. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2001 Columbia River Recreation Survey -- Implications for Hanford Site Integrated Assessment

Description: This report presents the results from the Columbia River Recreation Survey conducted in the summer of 2001. The survey combined on-site personal interviews with parties engaged in river recreation with on-site field observations to develop a picture of summer river recreation on the Columbia. The study area stretched from just below Priest Rapids Dam in the north to McNary Dam in the south, and was divided into four "Areas" that correspond to the river areas used by the Groundwater/Vadose Zone … more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Anderson, Dave M.; Scott, Michael J.; Bunn, Amoret L.; Fowler, Richard A.; Prendergast, Ellen L.; Miley, Terri B. et al.
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Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States

Description: This document, part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. Climate affects the design, construction, safety, operations, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure and systems. The prospect of a changing climate raises critical questions regarding how alterations in temperature, precipitation, storm events, and other aspects of the climate could affect the nation's roads, airports, rail, transit systems, pipelin… more
Date: February 2008
Creator: U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
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Hanford Site National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Characterization

Description: This document describes the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hanford Site environment. It is intended to provide a consistent description of the Hanford Site for the many environmental documents being prepared by DOE contractors concerning the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). No statements regarding significance or environmental consequences are provided. This year’s report is the eighteen revision of the original document published in 1988 and is (until replaced by the nineteenth rev… more
Date: September 27, 2007
Creator: Duncan, Joanne P.; Burk, Kenneth W.; Chamness, Mickie A.; Fowler, Richard A.; Fritz, Brad G.; Hendrickson, Paul L. et al.
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Hanford Site National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Characterization

Description: This document describes the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford Site environment. It is updated each year and is intended to provide a consistent description of the Hanford Site environment for the many National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents being prepared by DOE contractors. No statements of significance or environmental consequences are provided. This year's report is the thirteenth revision of the original document published in 1988 and is (until replaced by the fourteenth … more
Date: September 1, 2002
Creator: Neitzel, Duane A.; Bunn, Amoret L.; Duncan, Joanne P.; Eschbach, Tara O.; Fowler, Richard A.; Fritz, Brad G. et al.
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