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MN Center for Renewable Energy: Cellulosic Ethanol, Optimization of Bio-fuels in Internal Combustion Engines, & Course Development for Technicians in These Areas

Description: This final report for Grant #DE-FG02-06ER64241, MN Center for Renewable Energy, will address the shared institutional work done by Minnesota State University, Mankato and Minnesota West Community and Technical College during the time period of July 1, 2006 to December 30, 2008. There was a no-cost extension request approved for the purpose of finalizing some of the work. The grant objectives broadly stated were to 1) develop educational curriculum to train technicians in wind and ethanol renewa… more
Date: February 22, 2009
Creator: Frey, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annual Site Environmental Report: 2006

Description: This report provides information about environmental programs during the calendar year (CY) of 2006 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park, California. Activities that span the calendar year; i.e., stormwater monitoring covering the winter season of 2006/2007 (October 2006 through May 2007), are also included. Production of an annual site environmental report (ASER) is a requirement established by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for all management and operatin… more
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Nuckolls, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Disaster Cost Estimates: FEMA Can Improve Its Learning from Past Experience and Management of Disaster-Related Resources

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Public Law No. 110-28 directed GAO to review how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) develops its disaster cost estimates. Accordingly, GAO addressed the following questions: (1) What is FEMA's process for developing and refining its cost estimates for any given disaster? (2) From 2000 through 2006, how close have cost estimates been to the actual costs for noncatastrophic (i.e., federal cost… more
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: Program Overview and Issues

Description: This report discusses the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Amendments of 1996, which authorized a drinking water state revolving loan fund (DWSRF) program to help public water systems finance infrastructure projects needed to comply with federal drinking water regulations and to protect public health.
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Tiemann, Mary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experimental Study of Three-body Cabibbo-suppressed D0 Decays and Extraction of Cp Violation Parameters

Description: The authors present measurements of the relative branching ratios, Dalitz plot structures and CP-asymmetry values in the three-body singly Cabibbo-suppressed decays D{sup 0} {yields} {pi}{sup -}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup 0} and D{sup 0} {yields} K{sup -}K{sup +}{pi}{sup 0} using data collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy ring at SLAC. The author applies the results of the D{sup 0} {yields} {pi}{sup -}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup 0} analysis to extracting CP-violation parameters relate… more
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Mishra, Kalanand & U., /Nehru
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Tax Treatment of Health Insurance Expenditures by the Self-Employed: Current Law and Issues for Congress

Description: This report explains how there expenditures are treated under the federal tax code, reviews the legislative history of the deduction, assesses its effectiveness as a policy tool for expanding access to health care for the self-employed, describes proposals in the 110th Congress to modify and discusses policy issues it raises.
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Guenther, Gary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal User Fees: Substantive Reviews Needed to Align Port-Related Fees with the Programs They Support

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "America's port infrastructure is vital to U.S. foreign trade and a bulwark for national security. One way the federal government funds port-related programs is to levy user fees. GAO was asked to examine (1) what is known about the way selected fees assessed on air and sea port users are set, collected, used, and reviewed and (2) the effects of these attributes on program operations. GAO examined the Ha… more
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FILL STEM MANUFACTURING CHANGES AND PINCH WELD QUALIFICATIONS

Description: In March of 2007 a document was issued, see attachment I, that defined the test protocol and required welding for the Kansas City Plant to change cutting oils from the recently approved 50:50 oil to an oil with similar characteristics but with different chemistry, additives, and possibly a different vendor due to plans by the current vendor to stop preparing the oils that are used in the KCP 50:50 mix. The KCP manufactured stems with the existing 50:50 oil blend in late FY07 and SRNL welded the… more
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Korinko, P & David Maxwell, D
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Advantage: Increased Spending Relative to Medicare Fee-for-Service May Not Always Reduce Beneficiary Out-of-Pocket Costs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2006, the federal government spent about $59 billion on Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, an alternative to the original Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) program. Although health plans were originally envisioned in the 1980s as a potential source of Medicare savings, such plans have generally increased program spending. Payments to MA plans have been estimated to be 12 percent greater than what Medicare w… more
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pakistan-U.S. Relations

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Date: February 22, 2008
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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RESULTS OF EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE CORROSION RATES FOR 304L IN HB-LINE DISSOLVER VESSEL VENTILATION SYSTEM

Description: Radioactive material being processed as part of the DE3013 program for HB-Line will result in the presence of chlorides, and in some cases fluorides, in the dissolver. Material Science and Technology developed an experimental plan to evaluate the impact of chloride on corrosion of the dissolver vessel ventilation system. The plan set test variables from the proposed operating parameters, previous test results, and a desired maximum chloride concentration for processing. The test variables inclu… more
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Mickalonis, J & Kathryn Counts, K
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Caucasus Seismic Information Network: Data and Analysis Final Report

Description: The geology and tectonics of the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) are highly variable. Consequently, generating a structural model and characterizing seismic wave propagation in the region require data from local seismic networks. As of eight years ago, there was only one broadband digital station operating in the region – an IRIS station at Garni, Armenia – and few analog stations. The Caucasus Seismic Information Network (CauSIN) project is part of a nulti-national effort to… more
Date: February 22, 2007
Creator: Martin, Randolph; Krasovec, Mary; Romer, Spring; O'Connor, Timothy; Bombolakis, Emanuel G.; Sun, Youshun et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conservation Security Program: Implementation and Current Issues

Description: This report provides information about the Implementation and Termination of the Conservation Security Program.CSP is a program that provides financial and technical assistance to promote conservation and improvement of natural resources.
Date: February 22, 2007
Creator: Cowan, Tadlock
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dynamic Data-Driven Event Reconstruction for Atmospheric Releases

Description: Accidental or terrorist releases of hazardous materials into the atmosphere can impact large populations and cause significant loss of life or property damage. Plume predictions have been shown to be extremely valuable in guiding an effective and timely response. The two greatest sources of uncertainty in the prediction of the consequences of hazardous atmospheric releases result from poorly characterized source terms and lack of knowledge about the state of the atmosphere as reflected in the a… more
Date: February 22, 2007
Creator: Kosovic, B; Belles, R; Chow, F K; Monache, L D; Dyer, K; Glascoe, L et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Foreign Service and a New Worldwide Compensation System

Description: This report discusses the background leading to a proposal to change the compensation system from both an Administration perspective and labor perspective and the current Foreign Service (FS) System.
Date: February 22, 2007
Creator: Nakamura, Kennon H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Genome Enabled Discovery of Carbon Sequestration Genes in Poplar

Description: The goals of the S.H. Strauss laboratory portion of 'Genome-enabled discovery of carbon sequestration genes in poplar' are (1) to explore the functions of candidate genes using Populus transformation by inserting genes provided by Oakridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Florida (UF) into poplar; (2) to expand the poplar transformation toolkit by developing transformation methods for important genotypes; and (3) to allow induced expression, and efficient gene suppression, in ro… more
Date: February 22, 2007
Creator: Filichkin, Sergei; Etherington, Elizabeth; Ma, Caiping & Strauss, Steve
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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