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Environmental Impact Assessment, Land Acquisition Ascertainment Report: Warm Springs Pupfish (Cyprinodon Nevadensis Pectoralis)

Description: Report describing a proposal by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to acquire 720 acres of private land in the Ash Meadows area of Nye County, Nevada, in order to protect the habitat of the endangered warm springs pupfish. Additionally 1,520 acres of public domain lands in Ash Meadows are proposed for withdrawal by the United States Bureau of Land Management for protection of the aquifer supplying water to the essential habitat of the pupfish. The report includes a discussion of the en… more
Date: June 1978
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Region 1
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Prestressed Concrete Pressure Vessels Conceptual Design/Economic Analysis: R and D Report No. 114, Interim Report No. 8, Executive Summary

Description: Report describing a study involving the conceptual design for commercial-sized prestressed concrete pressure vessels (PCPV's) for coal conversion plant applications and addressing the design, constructibility and economics of these vessels compared with their steel counterparts. Benefits from these type of vessels as well as caveats in the further development of this technology are discussed. Four representative types of PCPV's are described, along with recommendations for future development.
Date: September 1978
Creator: O'Hara, J. B.; Howell, R. D. & Lee, J. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of Heat Engine/Flywheel Hybrid Propulsion Configuration With Electrical Transmission System: Phase 2, Final Report - Design Definition

Description: Report describing a nine-month study performed by Garrett-AirResearch for the Department of Energy (DOE) to conceive and evaluate a flywheel/electrical transmission system. In this volume, Phase 2 investigations of a heat engine/flywheel hybrid propulsion configuration that employs an electrical transmission to transfer power between the engine storage devise and the driveline are described. The illustrations and narrative of the report detail machinery callout, subsystem characteristics, perfo… more
Date: April 1978
Creator: AiResearch Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles (Calif.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of Heat Engine/Flywheel Hybrid Propulsion Configuration With Electrical Transmission System: Phase 1, Final Report

Description: Report describing a nine-month study performed by Garrett-AirResearch for the Department of Energy (DOE) to conceive and evaluate a flywheel/electrical transmission system. The primary use of this transmission system is to augment the heat engine with energy from the flywheel to improve overall vehicle efficiency and fuel economy. Study objectives, technical approach, system selection criteria, study methodology and selection rationale, and selection of optimal transmission system are described. more
Date: April 1978
Creator: AiResearch Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles (Calif.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Guideline on Major Job Accounting Systems: The System Management Facilities (SMF) for IBM Systems Under OS/MVT

Description: Report presenting the results of a study commissioned in response to the need for a better understanding of how job accounting systems work, what they measure, and how accurately they measure. IBM's System Management Facilities (SMF) for 360/370 environments operating under OS/MVT are described in detail along with a discussion of SMT's activity in collecting the data necessary to account for resources utilized by the individual jobs in a multi-programming system to provide some indicators of t… more
Date: October 1978
Creator: Durbin, Gary; Kinney, Todd M.; Lamasney, Peter; Newman, Edward & Syrett, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comprehensive Standards: The Power Generation Case

Description: Report compiling four reports on the topic of power generation. Each report presents an illustrative data base of material quantities and environmental effluents in the fuel cycles for alternative technologies of thermally generated power, a light-water nuclear reactor fueled entirely with plutonium and natural uranium, high-temperature gas-cooled reactor fueled with uranium and thorium, and a combustion turbine-steam turbine combined cycle power plant, respectively. (Abstracts)
Date: June 1978
Creator: Pigford, Thomas H.; Keaton, Michael J.; Mann, Bruce J.; Cukor, Peter M.; Sessler, Gladys L.; Cantrell, Robert T. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Test of 6-in.-Thick Pressure Vessels. Series 3: Intermediate Test Vessell V-7A Under Sustained Loading

Description: Report describing tests conducted on a Heavy Section Steel Technology (HSST) vessel, V-7, that was repaired after being tested hydrostatically to leakage and was retested pneumatically as vessel V-7A. Pretest analyses and a complete set of test data are included, along with a description of the test vessel and a discussion of test facility design and performance
Date: February 1978
Creator: Bryan, R. H.; Cate, T. M.; Holz, P. P.; King, T. A.; Merkle, J. G.; Robinson, Godfrey C. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Habitat Development Field Investigations, Windmill Point Marsh Development Site, James River, Virginia: Appendix B: Propagation of Vascular Plants

Description: Appendix detailing the results of experiments conducted on the propagation of vegetation at the James River Habitat Development Site, in addition to results of laboratory germination tests of all the species of seeds used at the Site. This appendix accompanies the final report of the habitat field investigations of the Windmill Point Marsh Development Site, James River, Virginia.
Date: April 1978
Creator: Garbisch, E. W., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geothermal Environmental Impact Assessment: Baseline Data for Four Geothermal Areas in the United States

Description: From Abstract: The report presents a compilation and technical assessment of the existing data on climate, geology, hydrology, water chemistry, and seismicity for four geothermal areas in the United States: Imperial Valley and The Geysers, California; Klamath Falls, Oregon; and the Rio Grande Rift Zone, New Mexico.
Date: September 1978
Creator: Geonomics, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geologic and Radiometric Reconnaissance of the Rawlins 1° X 2° Quadrangle, Wyoming With Emphasis on Granitic Rocks: Report Includes Parts of Carbon and Albany Counties, Wyoming

Description: The following report provides results and studies that were made in the Rawlins quadrangle, Wyoming with the purpose of identifying the granitic rocks having higher normal concentrations of uranium, as possible sources of large, low grade uranium ore.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Shanin, Ahmed & Proctor, Paul Dean
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fission Energy Program of the U.S. Department of Energy

Description: "This document describes programs managed by the Program Director for Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy, and under the cognizance of the Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives. The major portion of the document is concerned with civilian nuclear power development, the policy for which has been established by the National Energy Plan of April 1977, but it also includes descriptions of the space applications and naval reactor programs." (from Summary)
Date: June 1978
Creator: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Nuclear Energy Programs.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LOCA Analyses Annual Report: 1977

Description: Discussing sensitivity studies of the response surface developed for a seven-variable, sparsely-noded set of RELAP calculations.
Date: 1978
Creator: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Division of Systems Safety.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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INSITE Information System Data Report

Description: This data report is intended to familiarize the INSITE system user not only with the data within the system, but also with the systematics of microfiche selection.
Date: April 1978
Creator: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Site Designation Standards Branch.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Geophysical Logs for the Lemhi Pass Area]

Description: Appendix containing geophysical logs analyzing holes drilled in the Lemhi Pass area of Montana.
Date: 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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