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Low-income energy policy in a restructuring electricity industry: an assessment of federal options

This report identifies both the low-income energy services historically provided in the electricity industry and those services that may be affected by industry restructuring. It identifies policies that are being proposed or could be developed to address low- income electricity services in a restructured industry. It discusses potential federal policy options and identifies key policy and implementation issues that arise when considering these potential federal initiatives. To understand recen… more

Date: July 1, 1997

Creator: Baxter, Lester W.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Public outcomes: Building a 21st century national innovation system that serves the public

Federal R and D must be principally focused on solving public problems that the marketplace is failing to address. With few exceptions programs must be supported by roadmaps that show how the R and D is linked to public outcomes. Federal R and D and those who perform it must be judged in terms of the public outcomes. The overarching issues of federal R and D policy, what it should address, how to manage it, who should perform it, how to perform it, what works best, etc. are highly complex and l… more

Date: September 1, 1997

Creator: Gover, J.; Huray, P. & Carayannis, E.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Hoisting and Rigging (Formerly Hoisting and Rigging Manual)

This standard is intended as a reference document to be used by supervisors, line managers, safety personnel, equipment operators, and any other personnel responsible for safety of hoisting and rigging operations at DOE sites. It quotes or paraphrases the US OSHA and ANSI requirements. It also encompasses, under one cover,hoisting and rigging requirements, codes, standards, and regulations, eliminating the need to maintain extensive (and often incomplete) libraries of hoisting and rigging stand… more

Date: June 1, 1995

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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NRC - regulator of nuclear safety

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was formed in 1975 to regulate the various commercial and institutional uses of nuclear energy, including nuclear power plants. The agency succeeded the Atomic Energy Commission, which previously had responsibility for both developing and regulating nuclear activities. Federal research and development work for all energy sources, as well as nuclear weapons production, is now conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy. Under its responsibility to prot… more

Date: May 1, 1997

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Institutional plan. Fiscal year, 1997--2002

The Institutional Plan is the culmination of Argonne`s annual planning cycle. The document outlines what Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) regards as the optimal development of programs and resources in the context of national research and development needs, the missions of the Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory, and pertinent resource constraints. It is the product of ANL`s internal planning process and extensive discussions with DOE managers. Strategic planning is important … more

Date: October 1, 1996

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Genetic secrets: Protecting privacy and confidentiality in the genetic era

Few developments are likely to affect human beings more profoundly in the long run than the discoveries resulting from advances in modern genetics. Although the developments in genetic technology promise to provide many additional benefits, their application to genetic screening poses ethical, social, and legal questions, many of which are rooted in issues of privacy and confidentiality. The ethical, practical, and legal ramifications of these and related questions are explored in depth. The br… more

Date: July 1, 1998

Creator: Rothstein, M.A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Technologies for water resources management: an integrated approach to manage global and regional water resources

Recent droughts in California have highlighted and refocused attention on the problem of providing reliable sources of water to sustain the State`s future economic development. Specific elements of concern include not only the stability and availability of future water supplies in the State, but also how current surface and groundwater storage and distribution systems may be more effectively managed and upgraded, how treated wastewater may be more widely recycled, and how legislative and regula… more

Date: March 23, 1998

Creator: Tao, W. C., LLNL

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Incorporation of pollution prevention into the engineering command media

It has long been recognized that incorporation of pollution prevention (P2) into projects during the design phase yields superior results as compared to modification of facilities after construction. Generation of waste during construction can be minimized, products containing recycled materials can be incorporated into the facility, and the processes or systems can be optimized for P2 from the beginning. However, design engineers must have the proper mindset and training in order to achieve th… more

Date: October 8, 1997

Creator: Harrington, E. & Hammonds, C.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Towards a sustainable America: advancing prosperity, opportunity, and a healthy environment for the 21st century

Humanity faces an unprecedented challenge as our numbers grow, while Earth and its capacity to support us do not. People across the United States and around the world aspire to better lives for themselves and for their chil- dren: food, shelter, a stie and healthy environment, education, jobs, and other material needs and conveniences. Industries strive to produce more goods, farmers to grow more crops; and human demands on forests, fields, rivers, and oceans increase. Our challenge is to creat… more

Date: May 1, 1999

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Residential energy consumption across different population groups: Comparative analysis for Latino and non-Latino households in U.S.A.

Residential energy cost, an important part of the household budget, varies significantly across different population groups. In the United States, researchers have conducted many studies of household fuel consumption by fuel type -- electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) -- and by geographic areas. The results of past research have also demonstrated significant variation in residential energy use across various population groups, including white, black, and Latino… more

Date: May 1, 1998

Creator: Poyer, D.A.; Teotia, A.P.S. & Henderson, L.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Bridge to a sustainable future: National environmental technology strategy

For the past two years the Administration has sought the views of Congress, the states, communities, industry, academia, nongovernmental organizations, and interested citizens on ways to spur the development and use of a new generation of environmental technologies. This document represents the views of thousands of individuals who participated in events around the country to help craft a national environmental technology strategy that will put us on the path to sustainable development.

Date: April 1, 1995

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Information risk in emerging utility markets: The role of commission- sponsored audits

As public utilities and regulators begin to define their new relationship under various forms of regulations, some have questioned the continuing need for commission-sponsored audits. This study evaluates the role of such audits by examining their core purpose: the reduction of information risk (risk that a commission might make a wrong decision because of reliance on faulty information). It identifies five generic types of information that will be needed by commissions in the future and descri… more

Date: March 1, 1996

Creator: Wirick, D. W.; Lawton, R. W.; Burns, R. E. & Lee, S.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Capacitive deionization of seawater

Capacitive deionization with carbon aerogel electrodes is an efficient and economical new process for removing salt and impurities from water. Carbon aerogel is a material that enables the successful purification of water because of its high surface area, optimum pore size, and low electrical resistivity. The electrodes are maintained at a potential difference of about one volt; ions are removed from the water by the imposed electrostatic field and retained on the electrode surface until the po… more

Date: October 1, 1995

Creator: Farmer, J.C.; Fix, D.V. & Mack, G.V.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Summary audit report on lessons learned from the Superconducting Super Collider Project

In October 1993, the Congress decided to terminate the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project after expending about $1.57 billion on the project. While both internal and external factors contributed to the demise of the project, its cancellation offers the Department a unique opportunity to analyze what went wrong, correct the mistakes, and apply the lessons learned to future large-scale projects.

Date: April 23, 1996

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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The challenge of implementing an IRP process in Asia: The case of Hainan Province, China

Developing a modern electric power sector is necessary for economic growth and development to proceed. Institutions to implement an IRP (integrated resource planning) process do not exist in many countries. Hainan`s economy is growing rapidly with a concomitant increase in electricity demand. This is an ideal time in Hainan`s development to implement an IRP process. The challenge is for Hainan to develop institutions and incentive mechanisms for HEPCO (Hainan Electric Power Co.) to adopt cost-b… more

Date: December 31, 1994

Creator: Hill, L.J.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Product and market study for Los Alamos National Laboratory. Building resources for technology commercialization: The SciBus Analytical, Inc. paradigm

The study project was undertaken to investigate how entrepreneurial small businesses with technology licenses can develop product and market strategies sufficiently persuasive to attract resources and exploit commercialization opportunities. The study attempts to answer two primary questions: (1) What key business development strategies are likely to make technology transfers successful, and (2) How should the plan best be presented in order to attract resources (e.g., personnel, funding, chann… more

Date: February 1, 1996

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Model developer`s appendix to the model documentation report: NEMS macroeconomic activity module

The NEMS Macroeconomic Activity Module (MAM) tested here was used to generate the Annual Energy Outlook 1994 (AEO94). MAM is a response surface model, not a structural model, composed of three submodules: the National Submodule, the Interindustry Submodule, and the Regional Submodule. Contents of this report are as follows: properties of the mathematical solution; NEMS MAM empirical basis; and scenario analysis. Scenario analysis covers: expectations for scenario analysis; historical world oil … more

Date: July 15, 1994

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Monthly energy review, October 1995

This is the June report by the Energy Information Administration. The contents of the report include an energy overview, energy consumption, petroleum, natural gas, oil and gas resource development, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, energy prices, and international energy. Included are appendices containing thermal conversion factors, metric and other physical conversion factors, and carbon dioxide emission factors for coal.

Date: October 25, 1995

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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The Ad Hoc process to strengthen the framework convention on climate change

The Woods Hole Research Center convened an International Conference on The Ad Hoc Process to Strengthen the Framework Convention on Climate Change in Woods Hole, MA, on October 7-9, 1995. The conference was conducted to examine the prospects for successful adoption of a protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change by 1997. In preparation for the Second session of the Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate, several governmental and nongovernmental representatives met in Woods Hole to discu… more

Date: November 1995

Creator: Ramakrishna, K.; Deutz, A. M. & Jacobsen, L. A.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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AMTEX first quarter FY95 report

The AMTEX Partnership{trademark} is a collaborative research and development program among the US Integrated Textile Industry, the Department of Energy (DOE), the national laboratories, other federal agencies and laboratories, and universities. The goal of AMTEX is to strengthen the competitiveness of this vital industry, thereby preserving and creating US jobs.

Date: December 1, 1994

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Tools for NEPA compliance: Baseline reports and compliance guides

Environmental baseline documents and NEPA compliance guides should be carried in every NEPA implementation ``tool kit``. These two indispensable tools can play a major role in avoiding repeated violations of NEPA requirements that have occurred over the past 26 years. This paper describes these tools, discusses their contents, and explains how they are used to prepare better NEPA documents more cost-effectively. Focus is on experience at Sandia Laboratories (NM).

Date: December 31, 1994

Creator: Wolff, T.A. & Hansen, R.P.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Science and technology for industrial ecology

This paper first discusses the challenge offered by natural and anthropogenic systems in all of their complexity and then indicates some areas of research in which specific scientific and technological needs are identifiable.

Date: July 10, 1996

Creator: Gilmartin, T. J. & Allenby, B.R.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Environmental guidance regulatory bulletin

On September 22,1993, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published [58 Federal Register (FR) 492001 the final OffSite Rule, which defines criteria for approving facilities for receiving waste from response actions taken under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). The off-site requirements apply to the off-site management of hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants, as defined under CERCLA, that are generated from remedial and remova… more

Date: December 1, 1994

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Developing New Mexico Health Care Policy: An application of the Vital Issues Process

The Vital Issues Process, developed by the Sandia National Laboratories Strategic Technologies Department, was utilized by the Health Care Task Force Advisory Group to apply structure to their policy deliberations. By convening three expert panels, an overarching goal for the New Mexico health care system, seven desired outcomes, nine policy options, and 17 action items were developed for the New Mexico health care system. Three broadly stated evaluation criteria were articulated and used to pr… more

Date: June 1, 1995

Creator: Engi, D. & Icerman, L.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department