Final Implementation Report for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (open access)

Final Implementation Report for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

This report on the implementation of National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2008, section 904 "Management of the Department of Defense," presents the consensus recommendations of the Department's senior management team on the assignment of duties for the Chief Management Office (CMO), the Deputy Chief Management Office, and the Military Department CMO's, as well as summarizing the Department's inaugural Strategic Management Plan.
Date: July 25, 2008
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strategic Management Plan. (open access)

Strategic Management Plan.

A report which discusses last year's Strategic Management Plan by describing the integrated activities that comprise the Department's performance management system. It also establishes five top-level priorities for business operations.
Date: July 31, 2009
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans (open access)

Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans

Report describing four pathways for incorporating energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) policies in State and Tribal Implementation Plans (SIPs/TIPs). The purpose of the report is to reduce the barriers for state, tribal, and local agencies to incorporate EE/RE policies in SIPs/TIPs by clarifying existing EPA guidance.
Date: July 2012
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. Outreach and Information Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Interim Report: Volume 1. Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Interim Report: Volume 1. Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry

An historical evaluation and documentation of the offshore oil and gas industry and its impact on the economy of Southern Louisiana from its inception in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Austin, Diane; Carriker, Bob; McGuire, Tom; Pratt, Joseph; Priest, Tyler & Pulsipher, Allan G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, 1998-2001: Final Report (open access)

Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, 1998-2001: Final Report

An update of Texas A&M and Continental Shelf Associates studies designed to monitor the ongoing ecological health of the coral in the Flower Garden Banks (FGB). This is a deepwater, discontinuous reef that arcs along the outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico and is the site of oil and gas operations that could potentially impact the integrity of the FGB.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Dokken, Quenton R.; MacDonald, Ian R.; Tunnell, John W., Jr.; Wade, Terry; Withers, Kim; Dilworth, Suzanne J. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 1998 (open access)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 1998

Annual report of the U.S. Good Neighbor Environmental Board describing the organization's activities, goals, and recommendations for further development along the U.S.-Mexico border region. This report focuses on the status of Executive Branch and other implementation of prior years' recommendations, as reported by the federal agencies' represented on the Board.
Date: July 1998
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans, Appendix K: State, Tribal and Local Examples and Opportunities (open access)

Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans, Appendix K: State, Tribal and Local Examples and Opportunities

Appendix to accompany a report about incorporating energy policies and programs into implementation plans, describing states and tribal governments that have implemented EE/RE policies and programs in their SIPs as well as opportunities opportunities to reduce electricity consumption and nitrogen oxides emissions through renewable energy certificates credits and storm water mitigation requirements.
Date: July 2012
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. Outreach and Information Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
White Paper U.S. Arctic Research Commission recommends Steps to Expanded U.S. Funding for Arctic/Subarctic Oil Spill Research (open access)

White Paper U.S. Arctic Research Commission recommends Steps to Expanded U.S. Funding for Arctic/Subarctic Oil Spill Research

A report in which the U.S. Arctic Commission (USARC) emphasizes the growing need for more-effective spill prevention and response i the Arctic region, and a greater understanding of oil and gas metabolism and toxicity in the Arctic marine ecosystem.
Date: July 6, 2010
Creator: United States. Arctic Research Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
California Desert Conservation Area Plan: Amendment / Final Environmental Impact Statement for Ivanpah Solar Electric Generation System (open access)

California Desert Conservation Area Plan: Amendment / Final Environmental Impact Statement for Ivanpah Solar Electric Generation System

Report for the proposed California Desert Conservation Area Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) project. The proposed plan amendment adds the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System project site to those identified in the current California Desert Conservation Area Plan, as amended, for solar energy production.
Date: July 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of Land Management.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans, Appendix H: Weight of Evidence Pathway (open access)

Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans, Appendix H: Weight of Evidence Pathway

Appendix to accompany a report about incorporating energy policies and programs into implementation plans, describing the weight of evidence pathway.
Date: July 2012
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. Outreach and Information Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
How to use eGrid for Carbon Footprinting Electricity Purchases in Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (open access)

How to use eGrid for Carbon Footprinting Electricity Purchases in Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories

The purpose of this paper is to provide some recommendations (and caveats) regarding which year(S) of eGROD subregion GHG emissions factors to use for estimating Scopes 2 and 3 GHG emissions from electricity use under various conditions.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Diem, Art & Quiroz, Cristina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans, Appendix F: Control Strategy Pathway (open access)

Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans, Appendix F: Control Strategy Pathway

Appendix to accompany a report about incorporating energy policies and programs into implementation plans, describing the tradeoffs, level of effort, methods, and other key criteria involved in incorporating energy efficiency and renewable energy (EE/RE) polices and programs in a SIP/TIP as a control strategy.
Date: July 2012
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. Outreach and Information Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instructions for Using Microsoft Excel to Import the Third Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 3) Results (open access)

Instructions for Using Microsoft Excel to Import the Third Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 3) Results

An instructional document for using Microsoft excel to import Third Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule Results.
Date: July 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans, Appendix I: Methods for Quantifying Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Emission Reductions (open access)

Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans, Appendix I: Methods for Quantifying Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Emission Reductions

Appendix to accompany a report about incorporating energy policies and programs into implementation plans, describing the best emissions quantification approach when accounting for energy efficiency/renewable energy (EE/RE) policies and programs in state implementation plans/tribal implementation plans (SIPs/TIPs).
Date: July 2012
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. Outreach and Information Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subsurface, High-Speed Current Jets in the Deepwater Region of the Gulf of Mexico: Final Report (open access)

Subsurface, High-Speed Current Jets in the Deepwater Region of the Gulf of Mexico: Final Report

This report is about the study of subsurface high-speed current jets in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Dimarco, Steven F.; Howard, Matthew K.; Nowlin, Worth D., Jr. & Reid, Robert O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meteorological and Wave Measurements for Improving Meteorological and Air Quality Modeling (open access)

Meteorological and Wave Measurements for Improving Meteorological and Air Quality Modeling

This is a report on the developed atmospheric boundary layer environmental observations program on offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The report provides information on the project objectives, deployment of instruments, data availability, data processing, data formats, preliminary data analyses, and recommendations.
Date: July 2013
Creator: MacDonald, Clinton P.; Ray, Alison E.; Roberts, Paul T.; Knoderer, Charley A.; Bariteau, Ludovic & Fairall, Chris W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 3: Samples of interviews and Ethnographic Prefaces (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 3: Samples of interviews and Ethnographic Prefaces

This study is about the history and evolution of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana in an objective and comprehensive way.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Austin, Diane & McGuire, Tom
System: The UNT Digital Library
Importance of Zooplankton in the Diets of Blue Runner (Caranx crysos) Near Offshore Petroleum Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Importance of Zooplankton in the Diets of Blue Runner (Caranx crysos) Near Offshore Petroleum Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

This report is about the importance of Zooplankton in the diet of the blue runner.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Keenan, Sean F. & Benfield, Mark C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry (open access)

Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry

This report is about how local residents respond to the presence of immigrants, in the ways in which migrants supply their labor and employers demand it, and in how migrants socially and economically incorporate into their receiving communities.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Donato, Katherine M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Summaries from Selected Environmental Studies of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Technical Summaries from Selected Environmental Studies of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Report contains a collection of environmental studies conducted by the MMS in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico to guide and ensure responsible stewardship of the coastal and marine environments of the NE Gulf of Mexico and balance this against energy needs for the American public.
Date: July 1996
Creator: United States. Minerals Management Service. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Agency for International Development Report to Congress on Power Africa (open access)

U.S. Agency for International Development Report to Congress on Power Africa

A report about Power Africa which is a U.S. Presidential initiative launched in June 2013. The initiative is working with African governments to unlock energy resources and building capacity in the region to enhance energy security, reduce poverty, and advance economic growth.
Date: July 20, 2015
Creator: United States. Agency for International Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling the Economic Impacts of Offshore Oil and Gas Activities in the Gulf of Mexico: Methods and Applications (open access)

Modeling the Economic Impacts of Offshore Oil and Gas Activities in the Gulf of Mexico: Methods and Applications

Report on the impact of offshore gas and oil industry on coastal communities along the Gulf of Mexico with an emphasis on socioeconomic and natural resource management issues.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Dismukes, David E.; Olatubi, Williams O.; Mesyanzhinov, Dmitry V. & Pulsipher, Allan G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
First Responders' Environmental Liability Due to Mass Decontamination Runoff (open access)

First Responders' Environmental Liability Due to Mass Decontamination Runoff

A report made by the EPA to alert people to the environmental issue about mass decontamination runoff.
Date: July 2009
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (open access)

National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency

This report presents policy recommendations for creating a national commitment to energy efficiency through gas and electric utilities, utility regulators, and partner organizations.
Date: July 2006
Creator: National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library