Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ed Boso kneels in front of the decorations at his home in the 1300 block of Juniper Circle in Midwest City."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City Blazers coach Michael McEwen teaches stick-handling skills to 7-year-old Michael Santalli."

A group of documents from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development proposing to fund affordable housing for U.S. citizens, including people with AIDS and the homeless.

A fax with handwritten notes containing six different documents concerning how the president plans to restructure and redefine government agencies, including the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Santa Claus, played by Oklahoma City Zoo employee John Pace, spreads good cheer and alfalfa Monday to goats and other animals at the zoo."

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sgt. Charlene Reed, a techical investigator with the Oklahoma City Police Department, demonstrates an alternative light source, or "blue light special," that helps her locate trace evidence invisible to the naked eye."

Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

This document establishes the technical basis in support of Emergency Planning activities for the 233-S Plutonium Concentration Facility on the Hanford Site. The document represents an acceptable interpretation of the implementing guidance document for DOE ORDER 5500.3A. Through this document, the technical basis for the development of facility specific Emergency Action Levels and the Emergency Planning Zone is demonstrated.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

If general regulatory reform bills were enacted, debates on statute-specific reauthorizations could shift from regulatory reforms to the substantive regulatory requirements of each Act. In this case, regulatory reform could consist of proposals to modify statutory requirements to reduce costs to the private sector and State and local governments, to increase flexibility, and to reduce or compensate regulatory impacts on the value of private property. At issue would be a series of potential tradeoffs, for example among efficiency of environmental regulations, national consistency versus local flexibility, protection of private property rights, and degrees of health and environmental protection.

On November 16, 1994, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOS Convention) entered into force, but not for the United States. The LOS Convention was the culmination of more than 10 years of intense negotiation. However, the United States chose not to participate in this Convention in the early 1980s without changes to parts dealing with deep seabed mineral resources beyond national jurisdiction. After a 1994 Agreement amended parts of the LOS Convention dealing with deep seabed mineral resources, the LOS Convention, Annexes, and Agreement package was formally submitted to the U.S. Senate on October 7, 1994, for advice and consent to accession and ratification (Senate Treaty Doe. 103-39) and is awaiting Senate action. This short report describes provisions of the Convention relating to living marine resources and discusses how these provisions comport with current U.S. marine policy.

Wetlands protection efforts have been a major concern for agricultural interests since Congress enacted so-called swampbuster provisions in the 1985 Food Security Act. Under these provisions, all producers who alter wetlands risk losing certain farm program benefits. Determining which sites are wetlands and enforcement of penalties remain contentious issues. Controversy has been heightened by confusion over how this program is related to the principal Federal regulatory program to protect wetlands, section 404 of the Clean Water Act, and how wetland determinations affect land values and private property rights. Because the 103rd Congress did not reauthorize the Clean Water Act, some of the wetland issues raised in that debate might be raised in the farm bill. Another wetland protection program, the Wetland Reserve (WRP), was enacted in the 1990 farm bill. This program, which pays farmers to place wetlands under long-term or permanent easements, has been far less controversial. This paper reviews the swampbuster and WRP, as well as controversies surrounding delineation of wetlands and relationships between private property rights and wetland protection efforts.

Flat Panel Display (FPD) technologies likely will help revolutionize the way information is transmitted, received, and used. FPD technologies already are having a significant impact on U.S. military weapon systems, and the growth of the commercial FPD market may be enormous by the end of the decade. A key policy issue facing Federal policymakers is whether there is a Government role, particularly for the Department of Defense, to assist the U.S. FPD industry in light of overwhelming Japanese domination of the global FPD market.

The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), enacted in 1985, enables producers to bid to retire highly erodible or environmentally sensitive crop land for 10 years (or longer under certain circumstances). Successful bidders receive annual rental payments, and cost-sharing and technical assistance to install approved plantings. The program was to enroll between 40 and 45 million acres before 1996. Program goals are to reduce erosion and excess production, and more recently, to provide other environmental benefits. To date, about 36.5 million acres have been enrolled.

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

A new reagent, {open_quotes}BO-IMI{close_quotes}, has been developed that achieves, for the first time, single step, phosphate specific fluorescence labeling under aqueous conditions. Both 3{prime} and 5{prime} mononucleotides, including representative DNA adducts can be labeled. Included in this technique is a convenient procedure for postlabeling sample cleanup, leading to a practical detection of the products by capillary electrophoresis with laser fluorescence detection (CE-LIF). We consider that this new method will have a significant impact on the measurement of DNA adducts in human samples. This work was largely accomplished in the second half of our project. In the first half, we set up a new way to isolate DNA nucleotides from blood, worked with an initial, less specific technique for labeling DNA adducts, compared ionizing radiation vs oxidative damage to fluorescein labeled deoxyadenylic acid, and set up a capillary electrophoresis laser fluorescence detection system.

SR COLLECT is intended to be used by International Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors in facilities in Japan for remote unattended collection of data recorded by a shift register electronics unit. In addition, it will send a signal to a monitoring camera to record the occurrence of significant events. SR COLLECT organizes the collected data into a set of files that can be copied to floppy diskettes. The data copied to these diskettes can, in turn, be imported into the SR Review program for analysis. Unattended data collection requires a high degree of reliability. SR COLLECT is capable of restarting itself after loss of power to the collect computer. SR COLLECT is also capable of recovering from loss of communications with the shift electronics unit. Data is recorded in files on the hard disk immediately after it is collected. All significant events, called critical events, are recorded in a file. The set of parameters in effect is recorded in a file. Disk write caching is NOT used to prevent the loss of data caused by a sudden power failure.

Semi-weekly newspaper from Burleson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.