Inmate Monthly Report: November 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: November 2011

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guidelines for Wholesaling, Distributing or Storing Cigarettes, Cigars and Tobacco Products in Texas (open access)

Guidelines for Wholesaling, Distributing or Storing Cigarettes, Cigars and Tobacco Products in Texas

This document provides information for non-retailers who buy and sell cigarettes, cigars and tobacco products on wholesaling, distributing or storing products in Texas.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Economic Development Sales Tax (open access)

Economic Development Sales Tax

This document provides information on economic development sales taxes including what municipalities are eligible to impose the tax and how the tax revenue can be used.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Effect of Freshwater Inflow on Macrobenthos Productivity in the Guadalupe Estuary (open access)

Effect of Freshwater Inflow on Macrobenthos Productivity in the Guadalupe Estuary

This report provides information about "inflow studies focused on the major bay systems of the Texas coast....The data collected will help assess ecosystem health as it relates to change in freshwater inflow by assessing benthic habitat health, and benthic productivity." (p. 2).
Date: December 2011
Creator: Montagna, Paul A.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Finance Report, Volume 82, Number 5, December 6, 2011 (open access)

Texas State Finance Report, Volume 82, Number 5, December 6, 2011

This report highlights key provisions of HB 1 by Pitts, the general appropriations act for fiscal 2012-13; HB 4 by Pitts, the supplemental appropriations act; and SB 2 by Ogden, fist called session.
Date: December 6, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
People First Language : What do you call a person with a disability? A person. (open access)

People First Language : What do you call a person with a disability? A person.

This document provides information on the objective and respectful way to speak about people with disabilities.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes More Than $478 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes More Than $478 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of more than $478 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local governments.
Date: December 7, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continual Development of a Coastal Geodatabase for Texas: Final Report (open access)

Continual Development of a Coastal Geodatabase for Texas: Final Report

"This report provides a summary of the products created through this effort; and, the activities undertaken to promote the use of WOFpy. WOFpy and other Water Data for Texas Python modules are being released as open-source software under the BSD license so that Python-users and the broader scientific community may benefit from their continual development and use" (p. 3).
Date: December 22, 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Working for a Diverse Environment (open access)

Working for a Diverse Environment

This pamphlet provides employment information for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Austin to Houston Passenger Rail Study (open access)

Austin to Houston Passenger Rail Study

The purpose of the Austin to Houston Passenger Rail Study is to analyze the feasibility of implementing 110 mph intercity passenger rail service between Austin and Houston including possible service to Bryan/ College Station. This feasibility analysis consisted of identifying the characteristics of existing rail infrastructure and operations in the study corridors, analyzing potential alternative alignments for the passenger rail operations, and determining required infrastructure and impacts for potential passenger rail service in the study area.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Voluntary Implementation of Forestry Best Management Practices in East Texas (open access)

Voluntary Implementation of Forestry Best Management Practices in East Texas

"This report documents the findings of BMP implementation monitoring for 150 sites evaluated between June 28, 2010, and September 9, 2011, and represents the eighth round conducted by Texas Forest Service." (p. 5).
Date: December 2011
Creator: Duncan, Chris; Coup, Chuck & Simpson, Hughes
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Play it safe, Vaccinate (open access)

Play it safe, Vaccinate

This pamphlet provides information about diseases that vaccines prevent and steps to take to protect your child.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Winning, December 2011/January 2012 (open access)

Winning, December 2011/January 2012

Pamphlet containing information about Texas Lottery winners, scratch-off prizes, new games, and more.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices (open access)

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices

This document provides information on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) area, regional, and Watermaster office locations.
Date: December 19, 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Energy Sector: Past and Future (open access)

Texas Energy Sector: Past and Future

"The objectives of this research study were to (a) illustrate and quantify the impacts imposed by the energy sector on Texas's transportation system and (b) identify key energy demand indicators by energy source that TxDOT can track in an effort to anticipate the associated future transportation impacts on Texas's transportation system."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Prozzi, Jolanda; Dumais, Ashley; Cline, Mike; Loftus-Otway, Lisa & Seaborne, Eleanor
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation 2011: Accomplishments and Outcomes of the Texas Workforce System (open access)

Evaluation 2011: Accomplishments and Outcomes of the Texas Workforce System

Report on the Texas Workforce System discussing the program's purpose, the various programs run by the system, and providing statistical measures of success for the system.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas Workforce Investment Council
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Effect of climate change on crop production patterns with implications to transport flows and inland waterways (open access)

Effect of climate change on crop production patterns with implications to transport flows and inland waterways

"This report analyzed the demand for transportation capacity and changes in transportation flows on inland waterways due to shifts in crop production patterns induced by climate change."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Vedenov, Dmitry V.; Fuller, Stephen W.; McCarl, Cruce A.; Attavanich, Witsanu & Ahmedov, Zafarbek
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Predicting the market potential of plug-in electric vehicles using multiday Global Positioning System data (open access)

Predicting the market potential of plug-in electric vehicles using multiday Global Positioning System data

"Detailed GPS data for a year's worth of travel by 255 households from the Seattle area were used to investigate how plug-in electric vehicle types may affect adoption rates and use levels."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Kockelman, Kara & Khan, Mobashwir
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
How Fast Is a Fast Train? (open access)

How Fast Is a Fast Train?

"Using data from an Internet-based survey of residents in three communities in Central Texas-Waco, Temple, and Hillsboro-this research project examined the potential impacts of new intercity passenger rail service on small-or medium-sized communities located in the intermediate area between two larger urban areas that form the endpoints of a federally designated intercity high-speed rail corridor."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Morgan, Curtis Alan & Sperry, Benjamin R.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluating the Impact of Overweight Load Routing on Buried Utility Facilities [Report 2] (open access)

Evaluating the Impact of Overweight Load Routing on Buried Utility Facilities [Report 2]

"The objectives of this project were to (a) provide a review of technical design and engineering requirements for utility accommodation in Texas, (b) provide an assessment of potential impact of overweight loads on buried utilities, (c) provide recommendations for a business process for TxDOT overweight routing coordination, (d) provide recommendations for changes to TxDOT manuals, (e) provide an assessment of UAR adequacy to deal with overweight loads on buried utilities, and (f) provide recommendations for changes to the UAR" (abstract, para. 2).
Date: December 2011
Creator: Kraus, Edgar; Oh, Jeong Ho; Fernando, Emmanuel; Li, Yingfeng; Quiroga, Cesar & Koncz, Nicholas
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Red Bluff Water Treatment Plant Project Annual Budget: 2012 (open access)

Red Bluff Water Treatment Plant Project Annual Budget: 2012

Annual budget and setting rates adopted by the Coastal Water Authority, for the Red Bluff Water Treatment Plant. it includes resolutions passed by the board of directors, budget summaries, and other related documentation.
Date: December 14, 2011
Creator: Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burnet-Llano County Regional Water Facility Study (open access)

Burnet-Llano County Regional Water Facility Study

Report on the results of a study on a regional water facility in Burnet and Llano Counties, Texas.
Date: December 31, 2011
Creator: Susan Roth Consulting, LLC
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The State Of The Bay: A Characterization Of The Galveston Bay Ecosystem, Third Edition (open access)

The State Of The Bay: A Characterization Of The Galveston Bay Ecosystem, Third Edition

A report on the state of the Galveston Bay ecosystem.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Galveston Bay Estuary Program
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 69, Number 12, December 2011 (open access)

Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 69, Number 12, December 2011

Monthly magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History