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This report includes text of the Act, and of the Presidential Proclamation relating to the display of the flag at half-staff.

This report was written in response to the Congressional action of delegating the power of implementing regulations that have the force and effect of law to members of the Executive branch such as federal agencies. The report collects and evaluates material pertinent to a wide range of questions in the area of the legislative practice of imposing criminal sanctions for violations of the administrative regulations which are a product of legislation.

This report discusses the two constitutional rights, right to a fair trial and right to fair press, which collides with various degree of intensity and urgency primarily in the area of publicity before and during a criminal trial, and discusses some recent major cases, regulations and some proposed solutions.

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The adiabatic single crystalline elastic constants of six Mg(Cu, Zn)/sub 2/ cubic Laves phases have been determined by the ultrasonic pulse-echo technique over the compositional range 10 to 50 mol % MgZn/sub 2/ and over the temperature range 4.2 to 300/sup 0/K. In addition the elastic constants of the hexagonal MgZn/sub 2/ Laves phase were measured as a function of temperature. A minimum exists in the compositional dependence of the cubic Mg(Cu, Zn)/sub 2/ phase at 20 mol % MgZn/sub 2/ for all three directly measured values and the anisotropy ratio shows a maximum at the same composition. These phenomena may be related to the fact that their Fermi surface touches the (311) faces of the Brillouin zones at this composition. The various energy contributions to the elastic shear constants were considered and it was concluded that the Fermi energy has to be included to achieve satisfactory agreement between the calculated and measured elastic constants. The Debye temperatures were calculated and were found to decrease at low zinc contents and then increase at compositions above 20 mol % MgZn/sub 2/ for the cubic Mg(Cu, Zn)/sub 2/ phase. The initial decrease is probably due to the substitution of the heavier zinc …

Technical report covering the functions of the Oak Ridge reactor, difficulties encountered with cartridge failures in the Oak Ridge reactor, and possible solutions including the incorporation of leak detection systems into the design of the reactor.

Spot-radiographs, per Combustion Engineering instructions, on the head-to-shell weld, No. 160-4, on steam generator No. 4B have been completed. No weld discontinuities in excess of specification limitations were detected. Radiography on the 10-foot diameter head-to-shell weld, No. 160-4, on steam generator No. 4B, cell 4, 109-N Building, 100-N Area has been completed after stress relief. The weld complied with the requirements of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section III (Nuclear Vessels), 1968 Edition. Whole-body counts were obtained on 506 children of the Fruitland School in Kennewick. These measurements will be related to foods the students ate as indicated by diet records. It now appears that the relative merits of monitoring river temperatures at 100-F vs. Richland in relation to State standards will be more dependent upon the extent to which power levels may have to be reduced than upon the number of days out of the year when such reductions are necessary.

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The Washington State Pollution Control Commission water quality standards for interstate and coastal waters were adopted in December of 1967. The temperature standard was identified as the most restrictive of these for the Hanford operations. This report compares the temperatures and thermal additions to the river from Hanford during 1967 with the limit specified by the Washington State Pollution Commission. Two factors complicate the problem of evaluating Hanford operations that alter the temperatures in the river: (1) natural heating or cooling imposes temperature changes between the plant and downstream measuring locations, (2) wide flow fluctions on a daily and weekly basis resulting from upstream dam regulation are reflected in similar temperature fluctuations. Using 1967 data this report identifies the Hanford temperature contribution at both 100-F and Richland. The effects of daily and weekly averaging as -well as measurement location are presented.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Interpretation of various sections of the Texas Election Code, Articles 7.15, 7.07, 3.08 and 3.09a.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of a Justice of the Peace, sitting as a Magistrate, to require certification and delivery of Statement of Facts under stated circumstances pursuant to Articles 16.09 and 17.03, C.C.P.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legality of acceptance of personal bond signed by officers or others of a bank-corporation in satisfaction of bond security requirement under Article 2832, V. C. S., and related questions.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Term of the Presiding Judge of the 7th Administrative Judicial District under Article 200a, Sec. 2, Vernon's Civil Statutes, in view of the stated facts.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legal effect of exemption of certain deaf and blind students from payment of tuition and other fees of state-supported colleges and universities pursuant to Article 2654f-2, V. C. S.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a certain property owned by a Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, and also containing a chapel, is exempt from ad valorem taxation.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Qualifications for the appointment to the position of deputy constable under the applicable state statutes and whether the position is deemed a "public office in this state" within the meaning of Article 1.05 of the Texas Election Code?

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the House Interim Investigating Committee, created pursuant to provisions of House Simple Resolution 32, First Called Session, 60th Legislature, 1968, is presently legally constituted, with the power to issue subpoenas, compel attendance of witnesses, production of records, etc.

This report contains raw data of temperature measurements of the Columbia River and its tributaries.

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The concentration of inert elements and radioisotopes contained by the films on both fuel elements and aluminum process tubes were measured in selected samples taken from specimens of varying in- reactor exposures. The amounts of radioisotopes contained on a unit surface at any particular location on the three tubes increased with longer exposures, however, the differences were less noticeable in the case of isotopes of shorter half-life. Inert element concentrations were quite constant at a given location in the three process tubes, and the linear distributions could be described as an exponential function of distance. The linear distribution of inert elements on a fuel column with sixty days exposure could also be described by this function although higher concentrations were present. A different deposition pattern was exhibited by two fuel columns of lower exposure. Film composition was uniform along the length of the various process channels, with relative values approximating the respective ratios of the parent isotopes in process water. Corrosion of aluminum process tubes was shown to contribute only minor amounts to the radionuclides contained by the films on the tube surfaces. It is therefore concluded that most of the materials comprising the in-reactor film originated as impurities in …

Start of the development of new processes to extract mint can be a gradual program. The most promising of early results lies in the area of Isotopic Purification. Steps have been initiated to start development work on separation and purification of mint gas by chromatography. This method has the added advantage over columns as three gases, hydrogen, deuterium and mint may be separated in one operation. Should it appear that this method may fail, a second approach would be development of a packed column. Even with a change of the basic extraction process, isotopic purification is required and the improvement of such facilities would serve to provide the product at a reduced initial capital cost as well as reduced extraction cost. Work can proceed at the same time with development of a dissolution process. As noted in Appendix I, a unit extraction savings in the order of 20 percent can be expected since, in the most simple form, expensive furnace pots would be replaced by inexpensive crucibles.

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