Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Annual Report: 2008 (open access)

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Annual Report: 2008

Annual report of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2008.
Date: 2008?
Creator: Texas. Department of Family and Protective Services.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2008 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2008

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Date: September 20, 2007
Creator: Davey, Michael E.; Matthews, Christine M.; Moteff, John D.; Morgan, Daniel; Esworthy, Robert; Schacht, Wendy H. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Services and General Government (FSGG): FY2008 Appropriations (open access)

Financial Services and General Government (FSGG): FY2008 Appropriations

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Date: May 11, 2007
Creator: Hatch, Garrett L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations (open access)

Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations

This report is a guide to the regular appropriations bills that congress considers each year.
Date: July 20, 2007
Creator: Krouse, William J.; Murphy, Edward V. & Villarreal, M. Angeles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeland Security Department: FY2008 Appropriations (open access)

Homeland Security Department: FY2008 Appropriations

This report describes the FY2008 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security. The Administration requested a net appropriation of $35.5 billion in net budget authority for FY2008. This report is a guide to one of the regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Homeland Security.
Date: July 17, 2007
Creator: Lake, Jennifer E.; Nunez-Neto, Blas; Lister, Sarah A.; Masse, Todd; Siskin, Alison; Haddal, Chad C. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues (open access)

The FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues

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Date: September 17, 2007
Creator: Burrelli, David F.; Best, Richard A., Jr.; Henning, Charles A. & Kapp, Lawrence
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy and Water Development: FY2008 Appropriations (open access)

Energy and Water Development: FY2008 Appropriations

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Date: July 13, 2007
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.; Andrews, Anthony; Bearden, David M.; Carter, Nicole T.; Holt, Mark; Lane, Nic et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agriculture and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations (open access)

Agriculture and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations

This report considers the Agriculture and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The report compares and contrasts the Senate and House versions of the bill in terms of budgeting. Both bills provide 7.5 billion dollars less than FY2007.
Date: February 1, 2008
Creator: Monke, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues (open access)

The FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues

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Date: December 11, 2007
Creator: Burrelli, David F.; Best, Richard A., Jr.; Henning, Charles A. & Kapp, Lawrence
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hood River Production Program Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) - Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs : Annual Report For Fiscal Year, October 2007 – September 2008. (open access)

Hood River Production Program Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) - Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs : Annual Report For Fiscal Year, October 2007 – September 2008.

This progress report describes work performed by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs (CTWSRO) portion of the Hood River Production Program Monitoring and Evaluation Project (HRPP) during the 2008 fiscal year. A total of 64,736 hatchery winter steelhead, 12,108 hatchery summer steelhead, and 68,426 hatchery spring Chinook salmon smolts were acclimated and released in the Hood River basin during the spring. The HRPP exceeded program goals for a release of and 50,000 winter steelhead but fell short of the steelhead release goals of 30,000 summer steelhead and 75,000 spring Chinook in 2008. Passive Integrated Transponders (PIT) tags were implanted in 6,652 hatchery winter steelhead, and 1,196 hatchery summer steelhead, to compare migratory attributes and survival rates of hatchery fish released into the Hood River. Water temperatures were recorded at six locations within the Hood River subbasin to monitor for compliance with Oregon Department of Environmental Quality water quality standards. A preseason spring Chinook salmon adult run forecast was generated, which predicted an abundant return adequate to meet escapement goal and brood stock needs. As a result the tribal and sport fisheries were opened. A tribal creel was conducted from May 22 to July 18 during which an estimated 172 spring …
Date: July 27, 2009
Creator: Gerstenberger, Ryan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fiscal Year 2008 Phased Construction Completion Report for EU Z2-33 in Zone 2, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (open access)

Fiscal Year 2008 Phased Construction Completion Report for EU Z2-33 in Zone 2, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

The Record of Decision for Soil, Buried Waste, and Subsurface Structure Actions in Zone 2, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (DOE/OR/01-2161&D2) (Zone 2 ROD) acknowledged that most of the 800 acres in Zone 2 were contaminated, but that sufficient data to confirm the levels of contamination were lacking. The Zone 2 ROD further specified that a sampling strategy for filling the data gaps would be developed. The Remedial Design Report/Remedial Action Work Plan for Zone 2 Soils, Slabs, and Subsurface Structures, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (DOE/OR/01-2224&D3) (Zone 2 RDR/RAWP) defined the sampling strategy as the Dynamic Verification Strategy (DVS), generally following the approach used for characterization of the Zone 1 exposure units (EUs). The Zone 2 ROD divided the Zone 2 area into seven geographic areas and 44 EUs. To facilitate the data quality objectives (DQOs) of the DVS process, the Zone 2 RDR/RAWP regrouped the 44 EUs into 12 DQO scoping EU groups. These groups facilitated the DQO process by placing similar facilities and their support facilities together and allowing identification of data gaps. The EU groups were no longer pertinent after DQO planning was completed and characterization was conducted as areas became accessible. …
Date: September 11, 2008
Creator: Bechtel Jacobs
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY 2008 Miniature Spherical Retroreflectors – Final Report (open access)

FY 2008 Miniature Spherical Retroreflectors – Final Report

Through the duration of the NNSA Office of Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (NA-22) Miniature Spherical Retroreflectors lifecycle project, our research team focused on developing solutions to the fabrication bottleneck that has inhibited development and deployment of wide-angle optically interrogated chemical and radiological remote sensing technology. Our team advanced the concept of step-index clad retroreflectors to approximate an optimized, but yet unrealized spherical gradient index design. An intensive numerical simulation effort was undertaken that resulted in optimized step-index optical designs for mid-infrared applications. Geometric optics ray trace modeling was performed to better understand the geometrical dependencies of the miniature spherical retroreflector application. We adopted and advanced the concept of optical cross section, a metric that provides relative performance comparisons between different retroreflector designs and our cross-section analysis demonstrated that our step-index design provided 90% of the range capacity of the ideal spherical index design.
Date: February 1, 2009
Creator: Anheier, Norman C.; Bernacki, Bruce E.; Klymyshyn, Nicholas A.; Krishnaswami, Kannan & Rodriguez, Carmen P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design Study for a Low-Enriched Uranium Core for the High Flux Isotope Reactor, Annual Report for FY 2008 (open access)

Design Study for a Low-Enriched Uranium Core for the High Flux Isotope Reactor, Annual Report for FY 2008

This report documents progress made during FY 2008 in studies of converting the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) from highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel to low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. Conversion from HEU to LEU will require a change in fuel form from uranium oxide to a uranium-molybdenum alloy. With axial and radial grading of the fuel foil and an increase in reactor power to 100 MW, calculations indicate that the HFIR can be operated with LEU fuel with no degradation in reactor performance from the current level. Results of selected benchmark studies imply that calculations of LEU performance are accurate. Scoping experiments with various manufacturing methods for forming the LEU alloy profile are presented.
Date: March 1, 2009
Creator: Primm, Trent; Chandler, David; Ilas, Germina; Miller, James Henry; Sease, John D & Jolly, Brian C
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY08 LDRD Final Report LOCAL: Locality-Optimizing Caching Algorithms and Layouts (open access)

FY08 LDRD Final Report LOCAL: Locality-Optimizing Caching Algorithms and Layouts

This project investigated layout and compression techniques for large, unstructured simulation data to reduce bandwidth requirements and latency in simulation I/O and subsequent post-processing, e.g. data analysis and visualization. The main goal was to eliminate the data-transfer bottleneck - for example, from disk to memory and from central processing unit to graphics processing unit - through coherent data access and by trading underutilized compute power for effective bandwidth and storage. This was accomplished by (1) designing algorithms that both enforce and exploit compactness and locality in unstructured data, and (2) adapting offline computations to a novel stream processing framework that supports pipelining and low-latency sequential access to compressed data. This report summarizes the techniques developed and results achieved, and includes references to publications that elaborate on the technical details of these methods.
Date: February 27, 2009
Creator: Lindstrom, P
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
WASTE SOLIDIFICATION BUILDING BENCH SCALE HIGH ACTIVITY WASTE SIMULANT VARIABILITY STUDY FY2008 (open access)

WASTE SOLIDIFICATION BUILDING BENCH SCALE HIGH ACTIVITY WASTE SIMULANT VARIABILITY STUDY FY2008

The primary objective of this task was to perform a variability study of the high activity waste (HAW) acidic feed to determine the impact of feed variability on the quality of the final grout and on the mixability of the salt solution into the dry powders. The HAW acidic feeds were processed through the neutralization/pH process, targeting a final pH of 12. These fluids were then blended with the dry materials to make the final waste forms. A secondary objective was to determine if elemental substitution for cost prohibitive or toxic elements in the simulant affects the mixing response, thus providing a more economical simulant for use in full scale tests. Though not an objective, the HAW simulant used in the full scale tests was also tested and compared to the results from this task. A statistically designed test matrix was developed based on the maximum molarity inputs used to make the acidic solutions. The maximum molarity inputs were: 7.39 HNO{sub 3}, 0.11618 gallium, 0.5423 silver, and 1.1032 'other' metals based on their NO{sub 3}{sup -} contribution. Substitution of the elements aluminum for gallium and copper for silver was also considered in this test matrix, resulting in a total of …
Date: March 20, 2009
Creator: Hansen, E.; Jones, Timothy; Edwards, Tommy & Cozzi, Alex
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hangman Restoration Project Year-End Report FY2008. (open access)

Hangman Restoration Project Year-End Report FY2008.

This report covers the main goals of FY2008 from which the Work Elements were derived. The goals and products are listed by heading and the associated work elements are referenced in the text. A list of the FY2008 Work Elements is included as Appendix A. FY2008 witnessed the completion of the hntkwipn Management Plan and the first substantive efforts to restore the important habitats encompassed by the mitigation properties in the Upper Hangman Watershed. Native grasses were planted and germination was evaluated. Also, drain tiles that greatly altered the hydrologic function of the Sheep and Hangman Creek Flood Plains were removed and/or disrupted. Preparation for future restoration efforts were also made in FY2008. Designs were produced for the realignment of Sheep Creek and the decommissioning of seven drainage ditches within hntkwipn. A prioritization plan was drafted that greatly expands the area of focus for restoring native fish population in Hangman Creek.
Date: November 12, 2008
Creator: Resources., Coeur d'Alene Tribe Department of Natural
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY08 VPP Program Evaluation (open access)

FY08 VPP Program Evaluation

The Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) is a recognized third-party certification of worker safety and health program excellence, based on industry best practices that focus on management leadership and employee involvement, as well as other safety and health program elements. This Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) VPP Program Evaluation is the FY-2008 report of the PNNL VPP Steering Committee regarding the status of VPP at PNNL. It is an update of the previous annual report dated January, 2007 and was completed in January 2008. An annual evaluation of the status of VPP is required of all sites that participate in the DOE-VPP. This report provides a detailed summary of the PNNL VPP Steering Committee’s evaluation of program performance and documents both strengths and improvement opportunities related to the various aspects of the VPP model.
Date: January 1, 2008
Creator: Dossett, Sharon D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Funding Levels for Conservation Programs in the 2007 Farm Bill (open access)

Funding Levels for Conservation Programs in the 2007 Farm Bill

This report consists of two tables, preceded by a brief narrative. The first table summarizes the annual funding provisions, by program, in (1) current law, (2) H.R. 2419 as passed, and (3) the Bush Administration's farm bill proposals. The second table compares FY2007 authorized and actual funding levels for programs authorized in the 2002 farm bill with FY2008 and FY2012 funding levels that would be authorized in the 2007 House-passed farm bill.
Date: October 15, 2007
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Overview, FY2009 Budget, and Issues for Congress (open access)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Overview, FY2009 Budget, and Issues for Congress

This report discusses budget issues for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which conducts U.S. civilian space and aeronautics activities. The President's 2004 Moon/Mars Vision for Space Exploration is the major focus of NASA's activities.
Date: June 19, 2008
Creator: Morgan, Daniel & Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality Issues in the 110th Congress: Oversight and Implementation (open access)

Water Quality Issues in the 110th Congress: Oversight and Implementation

This report discusses issues surrounding the Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1972 and programs set up to meet the water quality standards that it outlined. The report focuses specifically on the legislative issues for the 110th Congress in relation to the CWA. It also includes a brief comparison of the expected appropriations for FY2007 and FY2008.
Date: March 15, 2007
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Funding Levels for Conservation Programs in the 2007 Farm Bill (open access)

Funding Levels for Conservation Programs in the 2007 Farm Bill

This report consists of two tables, preceded by a brief narrative. The first table summarizes the annual funding provisions, by program, in (1) current law, (2) H.R. 2419 as passed, and (3) the Bush Administration's farm bill proposals. The second table compares FY2007 authorized and actual funding levels for programs authorized in the 2002 farm bill with FY2008 and FY2012 funding levels that would be authorized in the 2007 House-passed farm bill.
Date: October 4, 2007
Creator: Zinn, Jeffrey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
T Farm Interim Surface Barrier Vadose Zone Monitoring FY08 Fourth-Quarter Status Report (open access)

T Farm Interim Surface Barrier Vadose Zone Monitoring FY08 Fourth-Quarter Status Report

This report briefly summarizes the system status and monitoring results of Nests A, B, C and D and the Meteorological Station in the T Tank Farm from July to September, 2008.
Date: September 30, 2008
Creator: Zhang, Z. F. & Strickland, Christopher E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY08 Annual Report: Amorphous Semiconductors for Gamma Radiation Detection (ASGRAD) (open access)

FY08 Annual Report: Amorphous Semiconductors for Gamma Radiation Detection (ASGRAD)

This is the annual report for an old project funded by NA22. The purpose of the project was to develop amorphous semiconductors for use as radiation detectors. The annual report contains information about the progress made in synthesizing, characterizing, and radiation response testing of these new materials.
Date: February 1, 2009
Creator: Johnson, Bradley R.; Riley, Brian J.; Crum, Jarrod V.; Ryan, Joseph V.; Sundaram, S. K.; McCloy, John S. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Marine Fisheries Service Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2005-2010 (open access)

United States Marine Fisheries Service Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2005-2010

Strategic plan for the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) describing the agency's goals and programs related to protecting coastal waters and other environmental features.
Date: 2004~
Creator: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library