Natural Outlook, September 2013 (open access)

Natural Outlook, September 2013

Monthly newsletter discussing environmental issues and policies in Texas. This issue discusses the budget for environmental conservation projects.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Agency Communications Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Main Street Matters, September 2013 (open access)

Main Street Matters, September 2013

Newsletter issued by the Texas Main Street Program discussing news, events, and other information related to the program as well as featuring designated participating communities and providing technical advice regarding conservation and restoration.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transportation Revenue Impacts from a Changing Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet (open access)

Transportation Revenue Impacts from a Changing Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet

This is a report done by the Center for Transportation Research on transportation revenue impacts from changing light-duty vehicle fleet.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Hall, Andrea; Walton, C. Michael & Jin, Peter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Oak Creek Food Protection Plan (open access)

Post Oak Creek Food Protection Plan

Flood protection plan to address flooding in the city of Sherman, Texas.
Date: September 27, 2013
Creator: RPS Espey
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Annual Review: 2012 (open access)

Texas Department of Criminal Justice Annual Review: 2012

Annual report on the activities of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, including information about their structure, programs, and finances for fiscal year 2012.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Public Drinking Water Systems: Responding to a Disaster (open access)

Public Drinking Water Systems: Responding to a Disaster

This information will help you understand relevant environmental rules and decide on a reasonable course of action to follow when responding to damage from a hurricane, flood, tornado, fire, or other disaster.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Water Supply Division.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Safety Act: September 2013 through August 2015 (open access)

Water Safety Act: September 2013 through August 2015

Informational guide to TPWD activities in compliance with the Water Safety Act, effective from September 2013 through August 2015.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation Annual Financial Report: 2013 (open access)

Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation Annual Financial Report: 2013

Annual financial report of the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TG) for fiscal year 2013, including financial statements, supplementary notes, and financial schedules.
Date: September 30, 2013
Creator: Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A New Spatial Multiple Discrete-Continuous Modeling Approach to Land Use Change Analysis (open access)

A New Spatial Multiple Discrete-Continuous Modeling Approach to Land Use Change Analysis

Report formulating a multiple discrete-continuous probit (MDCP) land-use model within a spatially explicit economic structural framework for land-use change decisions.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Dubey, Subodh K. & Bhat, Chandra R.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas Unemployment Compensation Act and Related Portions of the Labor Code: 83rd Legislature

Document detailing Texas's laws and regulations concerning unemployment compensation.
Date: September 1, 2013
Creator: Texas Workforce Commission
Object Type: Collection
System: The Portal to Texas History
U in the Driver Seat - A Peer-To-Peer Pilot Program for Decreasing Car Crashes by College Students (open access)

U in the Driver Seat - A Peer-To-Peer Pilot Program for Decreasing Car Crashes by College Students

This is the report of a project done by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute on gaining a better understanding of risk awareness, success of P2P messaging, increased understanding of safety messaging and design elements, and improve the program model.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Tisdale, Stacey M.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game Theory and Traffic Assignment (open access)

Game Theory and Traffic Assignment

This is a study on traffic assignment and the use of the concept of equilibrium in the field of game theory. The focus of equilibrium solutions of refinement and learning algorithms are discussed in detail.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Rambha, Tarun & Boyles, Stephen D.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An AHP-based Approach to Prioritizing Resources for Highway Routine Maintenance (open access)

An AHP-based Approach to Prioritizing Resources for Highway Routine Maintenance

Report on a project to evaluate the current method of base course acceptance and investigate methods to replace materials approval based on stockpile sampling and testing with a mixture design methodology and quality control procedure.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Gonzalez, Epigmenio; Liu, Jin; Liu, Wenxing; Zhang, Zhanmin; Murphy, Michael R.; O'Connor, James T. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The ECHO, Volume 85, Number 7, September 2013 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 85, Number 7, September 2013

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices (open access)

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices

Sheet from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) listing contact information for each of the 16 Texas regional offices as well as the watermasters. The back includes a map showing the counties included in each of the corresponding regions.
Date: September 5, 2013
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Project Summary: Feasibility Study of Two-Lift Concrete Paving (open access)

Project Summary: Feasibility Study of Two-Lift Concrete Paving

Summary sheet describing research performed by Texas State University and the University of Texas at Austin regarding possible implementation of two-lift concrete paving (2LCP).
Date: 2013-09~
Creator: Texas State University
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Childhood Blood Lead Testing: Getting a Good Specimen (open access)

Childhood Blood Lead Testing: Getting a Good Specimen

This is a flyer providing information for childhood blood lead testing.
Date: September 24, 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Hospital Experience (open access)

The Hospital Experience

This pamphlet is designed to provide information to mothers on what to expect during pregnancy.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services. Nutrition Services Section.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form AREG Instruction Guide: Lobby Registration Amendment (open access)

Form AREG Instruction Guide: Lobby Registration Amendment

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form AREG, for lobby registration amendments.
Date: September 20, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Cultural Resources Survey for the Proposed Zube Park Detention Basin (open access)

A Cultural Resources Survey for the Proposed Zube Park Detention Basin

An intensive cultural resources survey of a proposed detention basin (HFCD unit L500-01-00) adjacent to Zube Park in Harris County Texas.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Atkins
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form REG Instruction Guide: Lobby Registration (open access)

Form REG Instruction Guide: Lobby Registration

Instructional guide to Texas Ethics Commission form REG, for lobby registration.
Date: September 20, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Review
System: The Portal to Texas History
Campaign Finance Guide for Judicial Candidates and Officeholders (open access)

Campaign Finance Guide for Judicial Candidates and Officeholders

Instructional guide to campaign finance for judicial candidates and officeholders in Texas from the Texas Ethics Commission.
Date: September 1, 2013
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Review
System: The Portal to Texas History
Optimizing Concrete Pavement Type Selection Based on Aggregate Availability (open access)

Optimizing Concrete Pavement Type Selection Based on Aggregate Availability

This publication is on the difference in the design concept and structural responses of jointed concrete pavement (CPCD) and continuously reinforced concrete (CRCP).
Date: September 2013
Creator: Ryu, Sungwoo; Choi, Pangil; Zhou, Wujun; Saraf, Sureel; Senadheera, Sanjaya; Hu, Jiong et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation Infrastructure: Survey of Experiences and Perceptions (open access)

Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation Infrastructure: Survey of Experiences and Perceptions

Study exploring the perceptions that a variety of public-private partnerships (PPPs) stakeholders have about PPP usage to deliver transportation infrastructure in the U.S.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Martinez, Sergio E.; Hall, Andrea & Walton, C. Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History