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What Do I Do With It Now?: A Quick Guide to Recycling Resources (open access)

What Do I Do With It Now?: A Quick Guide to Recycling Resources

Guide to recycling in Texas organized into household, automotive, and agricultural waste.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Take Care of Texas (Campaign)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: July 7, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Witness Fee Claims Guidelines (open access)

Witness Fee Claims Guidelines

This pamphlet provides information on completing witness fee claims for mileage, hotel and meal costs.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Panhandle Water News, July 2011 (open access)

Panhandle Water News, July 2011

Quarterly newsletter of the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District discussing the news, activities, and events of the organization and other information related to water in Texas.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Notice Landscape Irrigators Must Be Licensed (open access)

Notice Landscape Irrigators Must Be Licensed

Pamphlet with information on landscape irrigator licenses, including the types of licenses and how to become licensed. One side is in English and the other side is in Spanish.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Landscape Irrigation Program
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: June 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: June 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: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Landscape Irrigation, A Consumer's Guide to Landscape Irrigation in Texas (open access)

Landscape Irrigation, A Consumer's Guide to Landscape Irrigation in Texas

Pamphlet providing information about the Texas landscape irrigation system guidelines, water conservation, maintenance of irrigation systems. The pamphlet is in both English and Spanish.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Landscape Irrigation Program.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saving Water Saves Money (open access)

Saving Water Saves Money

This document provides information on how to conserve water and save money on utilities.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Take Care of Texas (Campaign)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
River and Sky's Lone Star Activity Book (open access)

River and Sky's Lone Star Activity Book

This document is a guide to help take better care of the environment.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Your rights, Your voice, Your participation (open access)

Your rights, Your voice, Your participation

This pamphlet provides information and services offered by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Victim Services Division.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice. Victim Services Division.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Savings the Size of Texas from Your Lawn and Garden (open access)

Savings the Size of Texas from Your Lawn and Garden

This pamphlet provides information on how to save money and help keep Texas 's water plentiful.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Landscape Irrigation Program
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Save Money & the Environment at Home (open access)

Save Money & the Environment at Home

This pamphlet provides specific suggestions on how to save energy as well as money on home utility bills.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grow Your Business (open access)

Grow Your Business

This document provides information about resources available to certified Historically Underutilized Business Program (HUB) members that allow business owners to succeed.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Statewide Historically Underutilized Business Program.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
International air cargo operations and gateways: their emerging importance to the state of Texas (open access)

International air cargo operations and gateways: their emerging importance to the state of Texas

"This report examines the potential of Texas-based airports, especially Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport and the Houston Airport System, to emerge as international gateways for global trade in general and trans-Pacific trade in particular. The period covered is 2001 to 2006."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Cho, Hee Deok & Boske, Leigh B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impact of performance goals on the needs of highway infrastructure maintenance (open access)

Impact of performance goals on the needs of highway infrastructure maintenance

"This report proposes a methodological framework that is aimed at assisting highway agencies with the problem of objectively analyzing policy decisions in terms of the performance goals for their highway networks that would minimize the total transport costs to the society."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Zhang, Zhanmin & Jaipuria, Sunny
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Another look at the question of density and rail transit (open access)

Another look at the question of density and rail transit

"This research compares density in a few select cities with the accepted transit efficiency performance measure of operating cost per passenger mile to determine whether this statistic is better in more dense cities."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Hall, Kadijah & Lewis, Carol Abel
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
U.S. and Texas international trade and transportation (open access)

U.S. and Texas international trade and transportation

"This report examines various aspects of international trade, transportation, and foreign practices implemented to facilitate and fund transport-related infrastructure. The report is composed of six chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the U.S. international trade outlook. The second chapter describes the roles played by air cargo transport, ports and ocean carriers, railroads, and the motor carrier industry in U.S. international trade. The third and fourth chapters focus on Texas-specific international trade and modal gateways. The fifth chapter reviews various transport funding mechanisms, Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications, and forms of public-private partnerships adopted in various foreign countries. The final chapter describes the expansion of the Panama Canal and its likely Texas impacts."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Anazia, Larry K. & Boske, Leigh B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aquifers of Texas (open access)

Aquifers of Texas

"This report is an update to the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) Report 345, Major and Minor Aquifers of Texas, published in 1995 and coauthored by John B. Ashworth and Janie Hopkins."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Mace, Robert E.; Petrossian, Rima & George, Peter G.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
City of Balch Springs Hickory Creek Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report (open access)

City of Balch Springs Hickory Creek Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report

Report on the results of a study for creating a flood protection plan for Hickory Creek in the City of Balch Springs, Texas.
Date: July 29, 2011
Creator: Halff Associates
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Travel Log, July 2011 (open access)

Texas Travel Log, July 2011

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 69, Number 7, July 2011 (open access)

Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 69, Number 7, July 2011

Monthly magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sunset Commission Final Report: Commission on State Emergency Communications (open access)

Sunset Commission Final Report: Commission on State Emergency Communications

Final report from the Sunset Advisory Commission regarding the Commission on State Emergency Communications, including an overview of the agency, recommendations, and issues for further review.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Rencher, Faye; Johsnon, Emily; Wood, Janet & Jones, Jennifer
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of new Texas charter schools: final report (open access)

Evaluation of new Texas charter schools: final report

This document "examines how new charter school operators plan and implement their programs and considers the following research questions: 1. How are federal Charter School Program (CSP) funds used to implement new charter school programs? 2. What processes and practices guide the planning of new charter schools? 3. What processes and practices guide the implementation of new charter school programs? 4. How effective are new charter schools at designing and implementing successful educational programs? 5. What is the effect of charter school maturity on students' academic outcomes? 6. How do students at new charter schools perform academically relative to comparable students at traditional district schools?"
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Center for Educational Research
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continuous flow seawater RO system for recovery of silica-saturated RO concentrate (open access)

Continuous flow seawater RO system for recovery of silica-saturated RO concentrate

"The scope of work for this project included four major tasks. Task 1 required designing and building a continuous-flow seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) concentrate recovery system in the form of a small, pilot system. Task 2 involved operating the SWRO system and analyzing water samples at various recoveries (beginning at 70 %), and raising the recovery in approximately 5% increments until membrane fouling occurred. Task 3 included analyzing the data and evaluating system performance and cost effectiveness. Finally, Task 4 called for preparing quarterly, draft and final reports to the funding agencies."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Tarquin, Anthony J.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History