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The 73rd Texas Legislature, Summary of Significant Legislation (open access)

The 73rd Texas Legislature, Summary of Significant Legislation

This document is comprised of five sections; an overview of major issues; a list of all enrolled bill; sunset legislation; constitutional amendments; and gubernatorial vetoes. The section listing enrolled bills has been expanded this year to include the author/sponsors, relating clauses, and effective dates of the bills." (Foreword).
Date: June 1993
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate. Research Center.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: May 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: May 2012

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: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Begin with the End in Mind: A Records Management and Archive Manual for Texas Legislators (open access)

Begin with the End in Mind: A Records Management and Archive Manual for Texas Legislators

This manual is a records management and archives manual for Texas legislators.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas State Library and Archives Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: May 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: May 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: June 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 1 (open access)

Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 1

First part of a report evaluating the environmental impacts of adopting a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) prepared by the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (EARIP) that would permit incidental take of endangered species during other lawful activities, while attempting to minimize or mitigate expected impacts. This volume contains the executive summary and chapters describing the purpose and need for the action, alternatives, the affected environment, environmental consequences, and coordination and consultation as well as a list of preparers, references, and associated tables and appendices.
Date: June 2012
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current and Projected Water Use in the Texas Mining and Oil and Gas Industry (open access)

Current and Projected Water Use in the Texas Mining and Oil and Gas Industry

This report "documents results for the four tasks described in the scope of work Contract #904830939: 1) identify major mining operations and analyze water-use patterns, 2) estimate current water use withdrawal and consumption, 3) develop long term water-demand projections at the county level, and 4)report the findings of the study and prepare an electronic database....The report is divided into several sections. In each of them, we successively address oil and gas, coal, aggregates, and other mineral substances." (p. 9).
Date: June 2011
Creator: Nicot, Jean-Philippe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locating, Scanning, and Delivering Digital Geophysical Well Logs and Associated Data for Brackish Resources Aquifer Characterization System (BRACS) (open access)

Locating, Scanning, and Delivering Digital Geophysical Well Logs and Associated Data for Brackish Resources Aquifer Characterization System (BRACS)

This report provides information on the effort to identify, determine locations, and scan geophysical logs that could be used to help characterize brackish groundwater resources of Texas, enter key attributes of those geophysical logs in a database designed by Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) , and deliver the scans and database to TWDB as part of the Brackish Resources Aquifer Characterization System (BRACS) effort. (p. 1).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Ortuno, Daniel H.; Averett, Aaron R.; Clift, Sigrid J. & Paine, Jeffrey G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: May 2013 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: May 2013

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: June 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adult and Juvenile Correctional Population Projection, Fiscal Years 2012-2017 (open access)

Adult and Juvenile Correctional Population Projection, Fiscal Years 2012-2017

"This report is provided to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice so they may incorporate the relevant information into their Legislative Appropriations Requests for the 2014-15 biennium" (June 2012).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer (open access)

Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer

This report documents the development of the structure, lithology, and depositional framework for the Gulf Coast Aquifer system from the Brazos River north to the Sabine River and into Louisiana. (p. xiii).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Young, Steven C.; Ewing, Tom; Hamlin, Scott; Baker, Ernie & Lupton, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Adjutant General's Department Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017 (open access)

Texas Adjutant General's Department Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Adjutant General's Department describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2013 through 2017.
Date: June 22, 2012
Creator: Texas. Adjutant General's Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Northwest Texarkana 345-kV Transmission Line, Bowie County, Texas (open access)

An Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Northwest Texarkana 345-kV Transmission Line, Bowie County, Texas

"At the request of American Electric Power, Atkins North America, Inc., conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of the Texas portion of the proposed Northwest Texarkana 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Bowie County, Texas....The survey resulted in the location of two newly recorded archaeological sites, neither of which is recommended for further work" (p. 1).
Date: June 2010
Creator: Shipp, Julie; McWhorter, Amy & Canavan, Katie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Department of Banking Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017 (open access)

Texas Department of Banking Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Department of Banking describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2013 through 2017.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Banking.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Youth Commission Internal Audit Department: Audit Report on Education (open access)

Texas Youth Commission Internal Audit Department: Audit Report on Education

"This report presents the results of an education audit on the Texas Youth Commission in fiscal year 2011. The audit focuses on school attendance requiremtns and identifying trends in absences.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas Youth Commission. Internal Audit Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Finance Report, Volume 84, Number 3, June 24, 2016 (open access)

Texas State Finance Report, Volume 84, Number 3, June 24, 2016

The report highlights key provisions of HB1 by otto, the general appropriations act for fiscal 2016-17 and HB2 by otto, the supplemental appropriations and reduction act. It gives an overview of the fiscal 2016-17 budget.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
System: The Portal to Texas History
FINAL - Upper Brushy Creek Watershed Flood Protection Plan (open access)

FINAL - Upper Brushy Creek Watershed Flood Protection Plan

Final report on the Upper Brushy Creek Watershed Flood Protection Plan.
Date: June 2016
Creator: URS Corporation
System: The Portal to Texas History
Strut-and-Tie Model Design Examples for Bridges (open access)

Strut-and-Tie Model Design Examples for Bridges

A series of five detailed design examples feature the application of state-of-the-art strut-and-tie modeling (STM) design recommendations. Design components include: Five-Column Bent Cap of a Skewed Bridge, Cantilever Bent Cap, Inverted-T Straddle Bent Cap (Moment Frame), Inverted-T Straddle Bent Cap (Simply Supported), and Drilled-Shaft Footing.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Williams, Chris; Deschenes, Dean & Bayrak, Oguzhan
System: The Portal to Texas History
RTI Special Studies for TxDOT Administration in FY 2011 (open access)

RTI Special Studies for TxDOT Administration in FY 2011

Abstract: This research project was established by TxDOT's Research and Technology Implementation Office to address special studies required by the department's Administration during FY 2011. Three short-term, quick-turnaround tasks were completed and are documented.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Persad, Khali; Zhang, Zhanmin; Qazi, Abds; Harrison, Robert; Trevino, Manuel & Khwaja, Nabeel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pavement repair strategies for selected distresses in FM roadways (open access)

Pavement repair strategies for selected distresses in FM roadways

"Expansive soil is considered one of the most common causes of pavement distresses in FM roadways. Depending upon the moisture level, expansive soils will experience changes in volume due to moisture fluctuations from seasonal variations. The objective of this research was to evaluate existing repair projects on selected FM roadways. Those roadways experienced failures in the form of fatigue and rutting in the wheel path, and longitudinal (faulted) cracking including edge cracking. The causes of those failures were mainly linked to high PI expansive soil and narrow pavement" (from abstract).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Dessouky, Samer; Oh, Jeong Ho; Yang, Mijia; Ilias, Mohammad; Lee, Sang Ick; Freeman, Tom et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Performance of lap splices in large-scale column specimens affectedby ASR and/or DEF (open access)

Performance of lap splices in large-scale column specimens affectedby ASR and/or DEF

"This research program conducted a large experimental program, which consisted of the design, construction, curing, deterioration, and structural load testing of 16 large-scale column specimens with a critical lap splice region, and then compared and calibrated models developed in the analytical program with the experimental behavior. Specimens were carefully instrumented both internally and externally to monitor the strain behavior of the concrete and reinforcing steel from specimen construction, curing, deterioration, and final structural load testing."
Date: June 2012
Creator: Bracci, Joseph M.; Gardoni, Paolo; Eck, Kathleen M. & Trejo, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pecos Valley Aquifer, West Texas: Structure and Brackish Groundwater (open access)

Pecos Valley Aquifer, West Texas: Structure and Brackish Groundwater

"The pilot study has helped lay the foundation for future Brackish Resources Aquifer Characterization System projects by developing a database management system in which variety of data can be stored and processed."
Date: June 2012
Creator: Wise, Matthew R.; Kalaswad, Sanjeev & Meyer, John E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Optimized deployment of emission reduction technologies for large fleets (open access)

Optimized deployment of emission reduction technologies for large fleets

Report on a study which proposed an optimization framework to determine the most efficient strategies to reduce emissions of vehicles and equipment in a large fleet.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Kianfar, Kiavash; Memisoglu, Gokhan & Farzaneh, Mohamadreza
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compendium of student papers:  2010 undergraduate transportation scholars program (open access)

Compendium of student papers: 2010 undergraduate transportation scholars program

Report presenting the research papers written by students participating in the 2010 Undergraduate Transportation Scholars Program. The papers are titled "Estimation of Carriers/Truckers Value of Time Due to Congestion," "Evaluation of Retroreflectivity Measurement Techniques for Profiled and Rumble Stripe Pavement Markings," "Analysis of Retroreflectivity and Color Degradation in Sign Sheeting," "Evaluating the Effectiveness of LED Enhanced Stop Paddles for School Crossing Guard Use," "Incorporating Freight Value into the Urban Mobility Report," "Calibration of Pavement Performance Prediction Models," and "Evaluating the Effects of Concrete Curing Compounds on Hydration."
Date: June 2011
Creator: Hawkins, H. Gene; Almy, Isaac; Ballard, Lance; Brimley, Bradford; Huff, William; Larson, Gregory et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The potential for improving rail international intermodal services in Texas and the Southwest region of the United States (open access)

The potential for improving rail international intermodal services in Texas and the Southwest region of the United States

"The report covers a period of great significance for railroading in the U.S as it contains a number of milestones now shaping the future performance of the industry. The specific subject is improving inter-modal service so that it can support state and regional highway planning, now facing severe financial cut-backs as revenue sources become fully committed to bond servicing, user taxes, loose purchasing power and fuel consumption begins to fall."
Date: June 2011
Creator: Blaze, James R. & Harrison, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History