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(Support of the board on ocean science and policy)

Description: The National Academy of Sciences, through the Ocean Studies Board of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, proposes to provide guidance on major ocean sciences and policy issues to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Department of the Navy, the US Geological Survey, the Minerals Management Service of the Department of the Interior, the US Coast Guard, the Department of State, the Department of Energy, The Environmen… more
Date: January 1, 1987
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Clearlake Hot Dry Rock geothermal project: Institutional policies, administrative issues, and technical tasks

Description: The Clearlake Project is a three-party collaboration between the California Energy Commission, City of Clearlake, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. It aims to develop a deep hot, dry geothermal resource under the city. The project is funded by the Commission, and administered by the City. Technical operations are conducted by Laboratory staff and resources seconded from the Hot Dry Rock program. In addition to the normal geothermal exploration problems of predicting geological and geophysical… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Burns, K.L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Site-Specific Plan for the Oak Ridge Reservation. [Appendix contains accromyms list and maps of waste management facilities]

Description: The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is committed to achieving and maintaining environmental regulatory compliance at its waste sites and facilities, while responding to public concerns and emphasizing waste minimization. DOE publishes the Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Five-Year Plan (FYP) annually to document its progress towards these goals. The purpose of this Site-Specific Plan (SSP) is to describe the activities, planned and completed, undertaken to implement these… more
Date: September 1, 1991
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Management of nuclear materials in an R D environment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Description: Los Alamos National Laboratory is a multidisciplinary R D organization and, as such, its nuclear materials inventory is diverse. Accordingly, major inventories of isotopes such as Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-242, U-235, Th, tritium, and deuterium, and lesser amounts of isotopes of Am, Cm, Np and exotic isotopes such as berkelium must be managed in accordance with Department of Energy Orders and Laboratory policies. Los Alamos also acts as a national resource for many one-of-a-kind materials which are su… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Behrens, R. G.; Roth, S. B. & Jones, S. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transportation Outreach Program Plan

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) Transportation Management Program (TMP) is committed to providing opportunities for public interaction, working cooperatively with groups interested in or affected by DOE transportation, and providing information through the development and implementation of its Outreach Program. This Plan describes how the DOE plans to involve the public in its transportation programs. This Transportation Outreach Program Plan will assist the Secretary of Energy is carrying out h… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory institutional plan, FY 1990--FY 1995

Description: The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is one of DOE's major multiprogram energy laboratories. ORNL's program missions are (1) to conduct applied research and engineering development in support of DOE's programs in fusion, fission, fossil, renewables (biomass), and other energy technologies, and in the more efficient conversion and use of energy (conservation) and (2) to perform basic scientific research in selected areas of the physical and life sciences. These missions are to be carried out in com… more
Date: November 1, 1989
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Regulatory and institutional issues impending cleanup at US Department of Energy sites: Perspectives gained from an office of environmental restoration workshop

Description: The US Department of Energy's (DOE) nuclear weapons and energy operations are conducted across a nation-wide industrial complex engaged in a variety of manufacturing, processing, testing, and research and development activities. The overall mission of DOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM) is to protect workers, the public, and the environment from waste materials generated by past, current, and future DOE activities and to bring the DOE complex into compliance w… more
Date: May 1, 1991
Creator: Fallon, W E; Gephart, J M; Gephart, R E; Quinn, R D & Stevenson, L A
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mobile Energy Laboratory energy-efficiency testing programs

Description: This report summarizes energy-efficiency testing activities applying the Mobile Energy Laboratory (MEL) testing capabilities during the third and fourth quarters of fiscal year (FY) 1991. The MELs, developed by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), are administered by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) and the Naval Energy and Environmental Support Activity (NEESA) for energy testing and energy conservation program support functions at federal facilities. T… more
Date: March 1, 1992
Creator: Parker, G B & Currie, J W
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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South Fork Clearwater River Habitat Enhancement, Crooked and Red Rivers : Annual Report, 1989.

Description: In 1983, the Nez Perce National Forest and the Bonneville Power Administration entered into an interagency agreement to enhance and improve habitat for two anadromous fish species, spring chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawyscha) and summer steelhead trout (Onchorhyncus mykiss), in the South Fork Clearwater River tributaries. The South Fork Clearwater River was dammed in 1927 for hydroelectric development. Anadromous fish runs were virtually eliminated until the dam was removed in 1962. To compl… more
Date: January 1, 1990
Creator: Baer, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MESOILT2, a Lagrangian trajectory climatological dispersion model

Description: The objective of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project is to estimate the radiation dose that individuals could have received as a result of emissions from nuclear operations at the Hanford Site. An independent Technical Steering Panel (TSP) directs the project, which is conducted by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL). The TSP directed PNL to demonstrate that its recommended approach for dose reconstruction is technically feasible and practical. This demonstration was… more
Date: March 1, 1991
Creator: Ramsdell, J. V. Jr. & Burk, K. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The 1991 Department of the Army Service Response Force exercise: Procedural Guide SRFX-91

Description: This procedural guide was written to assist the US Army in planning for a chemical emergency exercise at Tooele Army Depot in Utah. The roles of various members of the emergency response community are described for various accident scenarios, and the relationships between the various responders are identified. For the June 1991 exercise at Tooele, the emergency response community includes the command structure at Tooele Army Depot; the US Army Service Response Force and other Department of Defe… more
Date: September 1, 1991
Creator: Madore, M. A.; Thomson, R. S.; Haffenden, R. A.; Baldwin, T. E. & Meleski, S. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information requirements for the Department of Energy Defense Programs' hazardous and mixed wastes

Description: This document contains viewgraphs from a presentation made to the DOE Low-Level Waste Management Conference in Denver, Colorado. The presentation described information and data base systems that describe hazardous and mixed waste treatment, storage, and disposal. (TEM)
Date: January 1, 1987
Creator: Herron, S.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Institutional Plan, FY 1991--FY 1996

Description: The Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- one of DOE's major multiprogram laboratories -- focuses its resources on energy research and development (R D). To be able to meet these R D challenges, the Laboratory must achieve excellence in its operations relative to environmental, safety, and health (ES H) protection and to restore its aging facility infrastructure. ORNL's missions are carried out in compliance with all applicable ES H regulations. The Laboratory conducts applied R D in energy technolo… more
Date: February 1, 1991
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transferring building energy technologies by linking government and private-sector programs

Description: The US Department of Energy's Office of Building Technologies (OBT) may wish to use existing networks and infrastructures wherever possible to transfer energy-efficiency technologies for buildings. The advantages of relying on already existing networks are numerous. These networks have in place mechanisms for reaching audiences interested in energy-efficiency technologies in buildings. Because staffs in trade and professional organizations and in state and local programs have responsibilit… more
Date: July 1, 1990
Creator: Farhar, B. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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1990 Nationwide Truck Activity and Commodity Survey selected tabulations

Description: The Nationwide Truck Activity and Commodity Survey (NTACS) provides detailed activity data for a sample of trucks covered in the 1987 Truck Inventory and Use Survey (TIUS) for days selected at random over a 12-month period ending in 1990. The NTACS was conducted by the US Bureau of the Census for the US Department of Transportation (DOT). A Public Use File for the NTACS was developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) under a reimbursable agreement with the DOT. The content of the Public U… more
Date: June 1, 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fort Stewart integrated resource assessment. Volume 3: Resource assessment

Description: The US Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) has tasked the US Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), supported by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, to identify, evaluate, and assist in acquiring all cost-effective energy projects at Fort Stewart. This is part of a model program that PNL is designing to support energy-use decisions in the federal sector. This report provides the results of the fossil fuel and electric energy resource opportunity (ERO) assessments performed… more
Date: October 1, 1993
Creator: Sullivan, G. P.; Keller, J. M.; Stucky, D. J.; Wahlstrom, R. R. & Larson, L. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interactive Collaborative Environments (ICE): Platform independent X application sharing and multi-media over wide area networks

Description: Platform-independent Interaction Collaborative Environments (ICE) technologies include support for simultaneous display and control of unmodified X application software by two or more people, at separate locations, using different workstation hardware. Audio and video provide remote collaborators with the ability to discuss what they are all simultaneously seeing on their workstations. Remote pointing and marking capabilities are also provided independent of the application. The authors briefly… more
Date: March 1, 1994
Creator: Ashby, M. R. & Lin, H. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Decontamination and treatment of high level liquid mixed waste to meet regulatory compliance issues outlined in Federal Facilities Agreements

Description: High-Level Radioactive Liquid waste is stored in underground storage tanks at the US Department of Energy`s Savannah River Site (SRS) located south of Aiken, SC. Treatment and disposal of this liquid Hazardous and Radioactive (Mixed) Waste required the negotiation and approval of a Federal Facility Agreement (FFA) between the DOE, EPA and the South Carolina state regulatory agency. This agreement which also addresses many other waste sites at SRS was approved in January 1993. Included in this F… more
Date: March 1, 1994
Creator: Gaughan, T. P. & Taylor, G. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FY 1993 environmental sampling and analysis report for wastewater discharge at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Description: Wastewater impact assessment at McMurdo has been or is being conducted by four organizations: Antarctic Support Associates (ASA), which conducts the effluent monitoring; Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, which conducts all of the benthic monitoring and most of the biological monitoring; Montana State University, which conducted water quality and water current measurements; and EG&G Idaho, which conducted water quality and sea ice monitoring. All four programs are interrelated and were needed to… more
Date: April 1, 1994
Creator: Crockett, A. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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California`s new environmental business development opportunities

Description: California is facing economic challenges, but these challenges also create entrepreneurial opportunities. Today, a variety of partnerships among State, Federal, commercial, and private environmental restoration stakeholders is addressing these challenges. These partnerships include State and Federal regulatory agencies, such as the US and California Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA and Cal EPA); the US Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Laboratories; and private enterprises, part… more
Date: March 1, 1994
Creator: Rice, D. W. Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of the utility and energy monitoring and control system installed at the US Army, Europe, 409th Base Support Battalion, Military Community at Grafenwoehr, Germany

Description: Under the provisions of Interagency Agreement DOE 1938-B090-A1 between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the US Army Europe (USAREUR), Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., is providing technical assistance to USAREUR in the areas of computer science, information engineering, energy studies, and engineering and systems development. One of the initial projects authorized under this interagency agreement is the evaluation of utility and energy monitoring and control systems (UEMCSs) installed… more
Date: May 1, 1993
Creator: Broders, M. A. & Ruppel, F. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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1990 Nationwide Truck Activity and Commodity Survey selected tabulations. Summary report

Description: The Nationwide Truck Activity and Commodity Survey (NTACS) provides detailed activity data for a sample of trucks covered in the 1987 Truck Inventory and Use Survey (TIUS) for days selected at random over a 12-month period ending in 1990. The NTACS was conducted by the US Bureau of the Census for the US Department of Transportation (DOT). A Public Use File for the NTACS was developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) under a reimbursable agreement with the DOT. The content of the Public U… more
Date: June 1, 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reinventing government: Reinventing Hanford

Description: The Hanford Site was established in 1943 as one of the three original Manhattan Project locations involved in the development of atomic weapons. It continued as a defense production center until 1988, when its mission changed to environmental restoration and remediation. The Hanford Site is changing its business strategy and in doing so, is reinventing government. This new development has been significantly influenced by a number of external sources. These include: the change in mission, reduce… more
Date: May 1, 1994
Creator: Mayeda, J. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recycling of radioactively contaminated materials: Public policy issues

Description: Recycling radioactively contaminated materials requires varying degrees of interaction among Federal regulatory agencies such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State governments and regulators, the public, and the Department of Energy. The actions of any of these parties can elicit reactions from the other parties and will raise issues that must be addressed in order to achieve a coherent policy on recycling. The paper discusses potential … more
Date: July 1, 1994
Creator: Hocking, E. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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