Firearms at Army Corps Water Resource Projects: Proposed Legislation and Issues for Congress (open access)

Firearms at Army Corps Water Resource Projects: Proposed Legislation and Issues for Congress

This report discusses issues for Congress regarding public safety and infrastructure security at water resource projects managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Proposed legislation would bar the Secretary of the Army from promulgating or enforcing regulations that prohibit individuals from possessing firearms (including assembled or functional firearms) at Corps projects and instead require that firearms possession comply with state law.
Date: January 27, 2015
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Firearms at Army Corps Water Resource Projects: Proposed Legislation and Issues in the 113th Congress (open access)

Firearms at Army Corps Water Resource Projects: Proposed Legislation and Issues in the 113th Congress

This report examines the Corps current regulations, related legislative proposals, and firearms-related safety and security issues at Corps projects.
Date: March 16, 2015
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Corps of Engineers: Water Resource Authorizations, Appropriations, and Activities (open access)

Army Corps of Engineers: Water Resource Authorizations, Appropriations, and Activities

This report summarizes congressional authorization and appropriations processes for the Army Corps of Engineers. It also discusses agency activities under general authorities. Congress directs the Corps through authorizations, appropriations, and oversight of its studies, construction projects, and other activities.
Date: February 2, 2015
Creator: Carter, Nicole T. & Stern, Charles V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Corps of Engineers: Water Resource Authorizations, Appropriations, and Activities (open access)

Army Corps of Engineers: Water Resource Authorizations, Appropriations, and Activities

This report summarizes congressional authorization and appropriations processes for the Army Corps of Engineers and agency activities under general authorities. Congress directs the Corps through authorizations, appropriations, and oversight of its studies, construction projects, and other activities.
Date: July 28, 2015
Creator: Carter, Nicole T. & Stern, Charles V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Mexico Water Sharing: Background and Recent Developments (open access)

U.S.-Mexico Water Sharing: Background and Recent Developments

This report is a primer on U.S. and Mexican water-sharing topics. It focuses on surface water quantity sharing and recent developments, including drought conditions. Due to Mexico's recent below-target deliveries of Rio Grande water to the United States, particular attention is given to the status, underlying causes, and responses to the Rio Grande water delivery shortfalls. This report describes: legal obligations and processes under the 1944 Water Treaty; drought conditions from 2010 to 2013; water sharing and developments in the Colorado River Basin; water sharing in the Rio Grande Basin and Mexico's water delivery shortfalls and stakeholder, diplomatic, and legislative responses to the rate of Mexico's Rio Grande water deliveries.
Date: January 23, 2015
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.; Ribando Seelke, Clare & Shedd, Daniel T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Track Your Child's Developmental Milestones (open access)

Track Your Child's Developmental Milestones

Pamphlet with game board style list of milestones for children separated by months then years. Information on where to call over developmental concerns is listed on the back.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
House of Representatives Staff Levels in Member, Committee, Leadership, and Other Offices, 1977-2014 (open access)

House of Representatives Staff Levels in Member, Committee, Leadership, and Other Offices, 1977-2014

This report provides staffing levels in House Member, committee, leadership, and other offices since 1977.
Date: March 19, 2015
Creator: Chausow, Lara E.; Petersen, R. Eric & Wilhelm, Amber H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Technology Taskforce White Papers, Volumes 1-5: How the Age of Technology is Transforming Transportation Agencies (open access)

Texas Technology Taskforce White Papers, Volumes 1-5: How the Age of Technology is Transforming Transportation Agencies

Report on the Texas Technology Taskforce white papers related to how technology is changing transportation agencies.
Date: August 2015
Creator: Chin, Kristie; Gold, Andrea & Walton, C. Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
OPM Data Breach: Personnel Security Background Investigation Data (open access)

OPM Data Breach: Personnel Security Background Investigation Data

This report provides information on the types of data that may be collected in a typical personnel security background investigation. In a July 9, 2015, news release on the cyber-intrusions of its systems, OPM "concluded with high confidence that sensitive information, including the Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of 21.5 million individuals, was stolen from the background investigation databases." This report is not an official statement of the data that was compromised in the OPM breach.
Date: July 24, 2015
Creator: Christensen, Michelle D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
City of Edinburg Master Drainage Plan (open access)

City of Edinburg Master Drainage Plan

Report on the master drainage plan for the city of Edinburg, Texas.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Civil Systems Engineering, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region N (Coastal Bend), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region N (Coastal Bend), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan

Water plan for Region N (Coastal Bend) describing water resources and suppliers for the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation plans, drought response plans, and the process of creating the plan.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Coastal Bend Regional Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coastal Water Authority Financial Statements: 2015 (open access)

Coastal Water Authority Financial Statements: 2015

Financial statements for the Coastal Water Authority in Texas including an independent auditor's report, basic statements with explanations, and supplemental notes.
Date: December 31, 2015
Creator: Coastal Water Authority
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coastal Water Authority Lake Houston Facilities Project 2016 Annual Budget (open access)

Coastal Water Authority Lake Houston Facilities Project 2016 Annual Budget

Provides a cost break down of the budget of the Lake Houston facilities for 2016.
Date: 2015
Creator: Coastal Water Authority
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Luce Bayou System Project Annual Budget: 2016 (open access)

Luce Bayou System Project Annual Budget: 2016

Annual budget of the Luce Bayou System Project including figures for the previous year, lists of revenues and expenditures broken down by types, and other related documentation.
Date: November 2, 2015
Creator: Coastal Water Authority
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trinity River Water Conveyance Project Annual Budget: 2015 (open access)

Trinity River Water Conveyance Project Annual Budget: 2015

Proposed budget for the Trinity River Water Conveyance Project outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation, during fiscal year 2015.
Date: 2015
Creator: Coastal Water Authority
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trinity River Water Conveyance Project Annual Budget: 2016 (open access)

Trinity River Water Conveyance Project Annual Budget: 2016

Proposed budget for the Trinity River Water Conveyance Project outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation, during fiscal year 2016.
Date: Autumn 2015
Creator: Coastal Water Authority
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bayport Water System Project Annual Budget: 2016 (open access)

Bayport Water System Project Annual Budget: 2016

Annual budget for the Coastal Water Authority Bayport Water System Project including schedules of revenues and expenditures, with supporting documentation for fiscal year 2016. It includes the text of resolutions adopting the budget.
Date: November 15, 2015
Creator: Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Coastal Water Authority: Certificate for Resolution] (open access)

[Coastal Water Authority: Certificate for Resolution]

Formal certificate of resolution entered at Harris County, Texas by the Coastal Water Authority adopting the "Resolution of the Board of Directors of Coastal Water Authority adopting the fiscal year 2016 budget and setting rates for the Red Bluff Water Treatment Plant; and making certain findings in connection therewith." It includes the text of full resolution and the 2016 budget for the Red Bluff Water Treatment Plant.
Date: November 12, 2015
Creator: Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lake Houston Facilities Project Annual Budget: 2015 (open access)

Lake Houston Facilities Project Annual Budget: 2015

Proposed budget for the Coastal Water Authority Lake Houston Facilities Project outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: 2015
Creator: Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
California Drought: Hydrological and Regulatory Water Supply Issues (open access)

California Drought: Hydrological and Regulatory Water Supply Issues

This report provides a summary of California's 2012-2015 drought including: comparisons, where applicable, to previous droughts; a summary of the key regulatory requirements that at certain times limit water deliveries (or exports) from the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers' Delta; and a brief discussion of California water rights with their relation to different types of federal contracts and their associated water allocations.
Date: August 14, 2015
Creator: Cody, Betsy A.; Folger, Peter & Brown, Cynthia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Resource Issues in the 114th Congress (open access)

Water Resource Issues in the 114th Congress

This report discusses recent congressional activity and possible topics for the 114th Congress. It provides an overview of the federal role in water resources development, management, and protection, with a focus on projects of the two major federal water resources agencies--Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps--and related legislation.
Date: January 23, 2015
Creator: Cody, Betsy A.; Stern, Charles V. & Carter, Nicole T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Power over Local Law Enforcement Reform: Legal Issues (open access)

Federal Power over Local Law Enforcement Reform: Legal Issues

This report will examine several constitutional principles relevant to this issue and apply them to the various legislative proposals.
Date: July 13, 2015
Creator: Cole, Jared P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Terrorist Databases and the No Fly List: Procedural Due Process and Hurdles to Litigation (open access)

Terrorist Databases and the No Fly List: Procedural Due Process and Hurdles to Litigation

This report provides an overview of the operation of the government's watchlists, examines some of the legal issues implicated by challenges to the No Fly list, and describes recent case law on the matter.
Date: April 2, 2015
Creator: Cole, Jared P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sentencing Reform: Comparison of Selected Proposals (open access)

Sentencing Reform: Comparison of Selected Proposals

This report is a comparison of selected criminal sentencing reform bills as introduced: H.R. 3713, H.R. 2944, S. 502, and H.R. 920; and S. 2123 as passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee with a manager's amendment).
Date: October 26, 2015
Creator: Cole, Jared P. & Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library