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The 1992 Eruptions of Crater Peak Vent Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska (open access)

The 1992 Eruptions of Crater Peak Vent Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska

A report which provides an overview of eruptions from Mount Spurr and the Alaska Volcano Observatory's response to them.
Date: 1995
Creator: Keith, Terry E. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
1995 Waste Minimization Report Instructions and Forms (open access)

1995 Waste Minimization Report Instructions and Forms

Reporting containing Waste Minimization Report forms for 1995 and instructions for filling these out. Includes examples of businesses that deal with hazardous waste and how they should fill out these forms, definitions for related terms, and codes for hazardous waste.
Date: 1995
Creator: Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. Industrial and Hazardous Waste Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car (open access)

Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car

This report presents the results of the Office of Technology Assessment’s analysis of the prospects for developing automobiles that offer significant improvements in fuel economy and reduced emissions over the longer term (out to the year 2015). The report examines the likely costs and performance of a range of technologies and vehicle types, and the U.S. and foreign research and development programs for these technologies and vehicles (to allow completion of this study before OTA closed its doors, issues such as infrastructure development and market development--- critical to the successful commercialization of advanced vehicles-were not covered).
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adverse Reactions to HIV Vaccines: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Issues (open access)

Adverse Reactions to HIV Vaccines: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Issues

The purpose of this background paper is to describe the current state of development of HIV vaccines, and to discuss what is known about adverse reactions that may occur. The background paper provides an overview of ethical issues that arise in the conduct of HIV vaccine trials. The report also discusses alternatives to the current product liability system to encourage the development of HIV vaccines and to fairly compensate those who are harmed as a result of adverse reactions to the vaccine.
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Achieving Complementary Policies (open access)

Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Achieving Complementary Policies

This report provides information that can help align agricultural legislation with emerging needs and trends. Current policies do not ameliorate conflicts between agricultural production and environmental quality, between trade and the environment, and between agriculture and competitive trade.
Date: May 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Monitoring Report: 1992 (open access)

Air Monitoring Report: 1992

Annual report documenting air quality measurements throughout the state of Texas for calendar year 1992, including a summary and information about specific pollutants.
Date: March 1995
Creator: Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. Air Quality Assessment Program.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annual Energy Outlook 1995: with Projections to 2010 (open access)

Annual Energy Outlook 1995: with Projections to 2010

The Annual Energy Outlook 1995 (AEO95) presents the midterm energy forecasts of the Energy Information Administration (EIA). This year`s report presents projections and analyses of energy supply, demand, and prices through 2010, based on results from the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). Quarterly forecasts of energy supply and demand for 1995 and 1996 are published in the Short-Term Energy Outlook (February 1995). Forecast tables for the five cases examined in the AEO95 are provided in Appendixes A through C. Appendix A gives historical data and forecasts for selected years from 1992 through 2010 for the reference case. Appendix B presents two additional cases, which assume higher and lower economic growth than the reference case. Appendix C presents two cases that assume higher and lower world oil prices. Appendix D presents a summary of the forecasts in units of oil equivalence. Appendix E presents a summary of household energy expenditures. Appendix F provides detailed comparisons of the AEO95 forecasts with those of other organizations. Appendix G briefly describes NEMS and the major AEO95 forecast assumptions. Appendix H presents a stand-alone high electricity demand case. Appendix 1 provides a table of energy conversion factors and a table of metric conversion factors. 89 …
Date: January 1995
Creator: United States. Energy Information Administration. Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1994 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1994

This report includes statements form OTA Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Director, as well as TAAC Chairman. The report also discusses industry, commerce, and international security division, as well as health, life sciences and the environment division.
Date: March 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
APEC and Free Trade in the Asia Pacific (open access)

APEC and Free Trade in the Asia Pacific

This report discusses the summit held by President Bill Clinton and other leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on November 19, 1995. The report discusses the primary reason for the summit, an Action Agenda intended to lead to free and open trade and investment among its members. The report also discusses how APEC countries were divided on certain issues going into this summit.
Date: November 14, 1995
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appraisal Practices of Texas School Districts and Counties: 1985 (open access)

Appraisal Practices of Texas School Districts and Counties: 1985

Annual statistical report documenting assessment rations for school districts to provide taxpayers with information to determine the equity of their properties and to assist local officials who are evaluating their taxing system.
Date: March 1995
Creator: Texas Research League
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archean and Early Proterozoic Tectonic Framework of North-Central United States and Adjacent Canada (open access)

Archean and Early Proterozoic Tectonic Framework of North-Central United States and Adjacent Canada

From abstract: This report contains the analysis of the southern part of the Canadian Shield and the subsurface of the southern interior platform where they comprise two Archean cratons and three Early Proterozoic collisional orogens.
Date: 1995
Creator: Sims, P. K. (Paul Kibler), 1918-2011
System: The UNT Digital Library
Area Adjacent to the Turkey Creek Caldera, Cochise County, Arizona: Analytic Data and Geologic Sample Catalog (open access)

Area Adjacent to the Turkey Creek Caldera, Cochise County, Arizona: Analytic Data and Geologic Sample Catalog

From introduction: This report supplements similar reports prepared for the four 7.5-minute quadrangles that cover the Turkey Creek caldera and geologic map of the caldera.
Date: 1995
Creator: Du Bray, Edward A. & Pallister, John S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Selected Case Studies (open access)

Assessing the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Selected Case Studies

This paper presents material from three of the case studies undertaken during the assessment: flat panel displays, polymeric composites, and shipbuilding. The three cases illustrate both the opportunities and the challenges facing those designing policies to increase the level of civil–military integration (CMI).
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base- and Precious-Metal Concentrations of Early Proterozoic Massive Sulfide Deposits in Arizona- Crustal and Thermochemical Controls of Ore Deposition (open access)

Base- and Precious-Metal Concentrations of Early Proterozoic Massive Sulfide Deposits in Arizona- Crustal and Thermochemical Controls of Ore Deposition

A report about early proterozoic massive sulfide deposits associated with submarine mafic to felsic metavolcano rocks are present throughout central, west-central, and northwestern Arizona. Also, production data for copper, lead, zinc, gold, and silver for most of the known deposits and prospects in 13 metallic mineral districts are summarized.
Date: 1995
Creator: DeWitt, Ed
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baseline Risk Assessment of Ground Water Contamination at the Uranium Mill Tailings Site Near Durango, Colorado (open access)

Baseline Risk Assessment of Ground Water Contamination at the Uranium Mill Tailings Site Near Durango, Colorado

This risk assessment evaluates the possibility of health and environmental risks from contaminated ground water at the uranium mill tailings site near Durango, Colorado. The former uranium processing site`s contaminated soil and material were removed and placed at a disposal site located in Body Canyon, Colorado, during 1986--1991 by the US Departments of Energy`s Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project. Currently, the UMTRA Project is evaluating the nature and extent of ground water contamination at the site. This risk assessment follows an approach similar to that used by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The first step is to determine what site-related contaminants are found in ground water samples. The next step in the risk assessment is to determine how much of these contaminants people might ingest if they got their drinking water from a well on the site. In accordance with standard practice for this type of risk assessment, the highest contaminant concentrations from the most contaminated wells are used. The risk assessment then explains the possible health problems that could result from this amount of contamination.
Date: February 1995
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bicycle Mobility Plan - Long Range Plan (open access)

Bicycle Mobility Plan - Long Range Plan

Report describing the results of a transportation study in Bexar County, including "overall goals and objectives for bicycle mobility planning" (abstract) as well as an overview of existing conditions at the time of the study, recommendations and outlined steps for improvement, funding sources, and additional areas of consideration.
Date: February 14, 1995
Creator: Metro Systems Engineering
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biologically Based Technologies for Pest Control (open access)

Biologically Based Technologies for Pest Control

This report covers technologies ranging from enhanced biological control of pests by their natural predators and parasites to commercial formulations of microbial pesticides. These technologies are grounded in an understanding of pest biology and have a relatively low probability of harmful effects on human health or the environment.
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bringing Health Care Online: The Role of Information Technologies (open access)

Bringing Health Care Online: The Role of Information Technologies

This report identifies key technologies and shows how they are being used to communicate clinical information, simplify administration of health care delivery, assess the quality of health care, inform the decision-making of providers and administrators, and support delivery of health care at a distance.
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbon Dioxide in Mississippian Rocks of the Paradox Basin and Adjacent Areas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona (open access)

Carbon Dioxide in Mississippian Rocks of the Paradox Basin and Adjacent Areas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona

From abstract: This report is about six gas samples that were obtained from the Mississippian Leadville Limestone in the McElmo field, Colorado, and the Lisbon field, Utah. These samples were recorded to contain a high reading of carbon dioxide and the report investigates these results.
Date: 1995
Creator: Cappa, James A. & Rice, Dudley D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges for U.S. Agricultural Research Policy (open access)

Challenges for U.S. Agricultural Research Policy

This report focuses on new ways to finance, organize, and manage agricultural research to prepare the system for the challenges of the next century.
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of Dredged River Sediments in 10 Upland Disposal Sites of Alabama (open access)

Characterization of Dredged River Sediments in 10 Upland Disposal Sites of Alabama

Abstract: The U.S. Bureau of Mines, Tuscaloosa Research Center, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under interagency Agreement No. 14-09-0078-1510, conducted a comprehensive sampling program of 10 upland disposal sites along the Alabama, Black Warrior, and Tombigbee River systems in Alabama. Samples from each site were characterized according to particle size, chemical analysis, mineralogical content, and potential end use. Additionally, samples were subjected to the Toxic Characteristic Leachate Procedure to determine the presence of potentially harmful heavy metals. Based on the results of these studies, each sample was determined to have properties amenable for use as aggregate in general-purpose portland cement concretes and certain asphalt concrete applications.
Date: 1995
Creator: Smith, C. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cleaning Up Contaminated Wood-Treating Sites (open access)

Cleaning Up Contaminated Wood-Treating Sites

This report reviews technologies available for hazardous waste cleanup at wood-treating sites throughout the United States. OTA found that there are many Superfund wood-treatment sites located in this country that are very similar in terms of the contaminants present and the options selected for cleanup.
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Air Toxics Monitoring Network Report, October 1993-December 1994 (open access)

Community Air Toxics Monitoring Network Report, October 1993-December 1994

A report describing the results of monitoring and testing at sites across Texas for air toxins with descriptions of each site and detailed charts of the amounts of various chemicals found in the air between October 1993 and December 1994.
Date: December 1995
Creator: Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. Monitoring Operations Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cost-Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Average-Risk Adults (open access)

The Cost-Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Average-Risk Adults

This paper presents an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in average-risk adults beginning at age 50. It examines the relative cost effectiveness of competing CRC screening technologies and schedules.
Date: April 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library