Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 39, Pages 6339-6574, September 30, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 39, Pages 6339-6574, September 30, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Purdue Contribution of Fusion Simulation Program (open access)

Purdue Contribution of Fusion Simulation Program

The overall science goal of the FSP is to develop predictive simulation capability for magnetically confined fusion plasmas at an unprecedented level of integration and fidelity. This will directly support and enable effective U.S. participation in research related to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and the overall mission of delivering practical fusion energy. The FSP will address a rich set of scientific issues together with experimental programs, producing validated integrated physics results. This is very well aligned with the mission of the ITER Organization to coordinate with its members the integrated modeling and control of fusion plasmas, including benchmarking and validation activities. [1]. Initial FSP research will focus on two critical areas: 1) the plasma edge and 2) whole device modeling including disruption avoidance. The first of these problems involves the narrow plasma boundary layer and its complex interactions with the plasma core and the surrounding material wall. The second requires development of a computationally tractable, but comprehensive model that describes all equilibrium and dynamic processes at a sufficient level of detail to provide useful prediction of the temporal evolution of fusion plasma experiments. The initial driver for the whole device model (WDM) will be prediction and avoidance of …
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Brooks, Jeffrey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas State Board of Dental Examiners Annual Financial Report: 2011 (open access)

Texas State Board of Dental Examiners Annual Financial Report: 2011

The report consist of the Annual Financial Report of the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners for fiscal year 2011.
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Texas State Board of Dental Examiners
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Financial Crisis: Review of Federal Reserve System Financial Assistance to American International Group, Inc. (open access)

Financial Crisis: Review of Federal Reserve System Financial Assistance to American International Group, Inc.

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In September 2008, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board) approved emergency lending to American International Group, Inc. (AIG)--the first in a series of actions that, together with the Department of the Treasury, authorized $182.3 billion in federal aid to assist the company. Federal Reserve System officials said that their goal was to avert a disorderly failure of AIG, which they believed would have posed systemic risk to the financial system. But these actions were controversial, raising questions about government intervention in the private marketplace. This report discusses (1) key decisions to provide aid to AIG; (2) decisions involving the Maiden Lane III (ML III) special purpose vehicle (SPV), which was a central part of providing assistance to the company; (3) the extent to which actions were consistent with relevant law or policy; and (4) lessons learned from the AIG assistance. To address these issues, GAO focused on the initial assistance to AIG and subsequent creation of ML III. GAO examined a large volume of AIG-related documents, primarily from the Federal Reserve System--the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank …
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 124, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 2011 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 124, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 2011

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
200-BP-1 Prototype Hanford Barrier -- 15 Years of Performance Monitoring (open access)

200-BP-1 Prototype Hanford Barrier -- 15 Years of Performance Monitoring

Monitoring is an essential component of engineered barrier system design and operation. A composite capacitive cover, including a capillary break and an evapotranspiration (ET) barrier at the Hanford Site, is generating data that can be used to help resolve these issues. The prototype Hanford barrier was constructed over the 216-B-57 Crib in 1994 to evaluate surface-barrier constructability, construction costs, and physical and hydrologic performance at the field scale. The barrier has been routinely monitored between November 1994 and September 1998 as part of a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) treatability test of barrier performance for the 200 BP 1 Operable Unit. Since FY 1998, monitoring has focused on a more limited set of key water balance, stability, and biotic parameters. In FY 2009, data collection was focused on: (1) water-balance monitoring, consisting of precipitation, runoff, soil moisture storage, and drainage measurements with evapotranspiration calculated by difference; (2) stability monitoring, consisting of asphalt-layer-settlement, basalt-side-slope-stability, and surface-elevation measurements; (3) vegetation dynamics; and (4) animal use. September 2009 marked 15 years since the start of monitoring and the collection of performance data. This report describes the results of monitoring activities during the period October 1, 2008, through September …
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Ward, Anderson L.; Draper, Kathryn E.; Link, Steven O. & Clayton, Ray E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library