What Climate Change Means for Wyoming (open access)

What Climate Change Means for Wyoming

Fact sheet describing state-specific impacts that global warming will have on the people, ecosystems, and wildlife in Wyoming.
Date: August 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Power Plan, State at a Glance: Wyoming (open access)

Clean Power Plan, State at a Glance: Wyoming

Document outlining state-specific goals for carbon dioxide emissions and energy efficiency through 2030 for the state of Wyoming.
Date: August 3, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Wyoming (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Wyoming

This In Focus provides an overview of the assistance provided to Wyoming by the FEMA DRF (Disaster Relief Fund) from 2002-2013.
Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The EPA Draft Report of Groundwater Contamination Near Pavillion, Wyoming: Main Findings and Stakeholder Responses (open access)

The EPA Draft Report of Groundwater Contamination Near Pavillion, Wyoming: Main Findings and Stakeholder Responses

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Date: January 25, 2012
Creator: Folger, Peter; Tiemann, Mary & Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ruby Pipeline Project Upland Erosion Control, Revegetation, and Maintenance Plan (open access)

Ruby Pipeline Project Upland Erosion Control, Revegetation, and Maintenance Plan

This report discusses upland erosion control, revegetation activities, and long-term maintenance plans for the Ruby Pipeline Project, a pipeline that extends from Wyoming to Oregon.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Ruby Pipeline LLC
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Rights Related to Oil Shale Development in the Upper Colorado River Basin (open access)

Water Rights Related to Oil Shale Development in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Concerns over fluctuating oil prices and declining petroleum production worldwide have revived interest in oil shale as a potential resource. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-58) identified oil shale as a strategically important domestic resource and directed the Department of the Interior to promote commercial development. Oil shale development would require significant amounts of water, however, and water supply in the Colorado River Basin, where several oil shale reserves are located, is limited. This report will provide a brief overview of water rights in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, including changes that may be made to currently held water rights and the possibility for abandonment of unused water rights.
Date: November 18, 2008
Creator: Brougher, Cynthia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2005 BRAC Commission Final COBRA Run - AASF JFHQ FMS Cheyenne  (WAFB) (open access)

2005 BRAC Commission Final COBRA Run - AASF JFHQ FMS Cheyenne (WAFB)

2005 BRAC Commission Final COBRA Run - AASF JFHQ FMS Cheyenne (WAFB) - 49 - RC Transformation in Wyoming
Date: March 28, 2006
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Installations and State Action Papers - Wyoming (open access)

Army Installations and State Action Papers - Wyoming

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Date: September 22, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Final Cobra Run - Army RC Transformation Cheyenne Wyoming

Final Cobra Run - Army RC Transformation Cheyenne Wyoming
Date: September 15, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

BRAC 2005 Report to the Base Closure and Realignment Commission: Army Justification Book

COBRA Program - RC Transformation in Wyoming
Date: June 23, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
BRAC 2005 Report to the Base Closure and Realignment Commission: Army Justification Book (open access)

BRAC 2005 Report to the Base Closure and Realignment Commission: Army Justification Book

Disregard Restriction Header and Footer - RC Transformation in Wyoming - Impacted Sites: Cheyenne
Date: June 10, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wyoming Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized (open access)

Wyoming Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized

This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of Wyoming.
Date: September 3, 2004
Creator: Bea, Keith; Runyon, L. Cheryl & Warnock, Kae M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anomalously Pressured Gas Distribution in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming (open access)

Anomalously Pressured Gas Distribution in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming

Anomalously pressured gas (APG) assets, typically called ''basin-center'' gas accumulations, represent either an underdeveloped or undeveloped energy resource in the Rocky Mountain Laramide Basins (RMLB). Historically, the exploitation of these gas resources has proven to be very difficult and costly. In this topical report, an improved exploration strategy is outlined in conjunction with a more detailed description of new diagnostic techniques that more efficiently detect anomalously pressured, gas-charged domains. The ability to delineate gas-charged domains occurring below a regional velocity inversion surface allows operators to significantly reduce risk in the search for APG resources. The Wind River Basin was chosen for this demonstration because of the convergence of public data availability (i.e., thousands of mud logs and DSTs and 2400 mi of 2-D seismic lines); the evolution of new diagnostic techniques; a 175 digital sonic log suite; a regional stratigraphic framework; and corporate interest. In the exploration scheme discussed in this topical report, the basinwide gas distribution is determined in the following steps: (1) A detailed velocity model is established from sonic logs, 2-D seismic lines, and, if available, 3-D seismic data. In constructing the seismic interval velocity field, automatic picking technology using continuous, statistically-derived interval velocity selection, as well …
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: Surdam, Ronald C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proterozoic Geology of the Granite Village Area, Albany and Laramie Counties, Wyoming, Compared with that of the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Mountains of Southeastern Wyoming (open access)

Proterozoic Geology of the Granite Village Area, Albany and Laramie Counties, Wyoming, Compared with that of the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Mountains of Southeastern Wyoming

Abstract: "Precambrian metavolcanic rocks north and south of the village of Granite, Wyoming, belong to a sequence of isolated metavolcanic and metasedimentary masses in the Sherman Granite of the southern Laramie Mountains. Similar rocks lie to the west, in the Precambrian uplifts of the southern Medicine Bow Mountains and Sierra Madre. A major fault system, the Cheyenne belt, splits these two ranges into northern and southern domains, and may constitute a suture along which Early Proterozoic islands arcs collided with an Early Proterozoic passive margin. Projection of the Cheyenne belt into the Laramie Mountains suggests that the study area, which is 65 kilometers south of the proposed suture, comprises a distinct volcanic arc with a unique chemistry or age. However, chemistry of the volcanic rocks of the study area as determined as so far does not differ significantly from those of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Sierra Madre."
Date: 1997
Creator: Houston, Robert S. & Marlatt, Gordon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Longwall Gate Road Stability in a Steeply Pitching Thick Coal Seam with a Weak Roof (open access)

Longwall Gate Road Stability in a Steeply Pitching Thick Coal Seam with a Weak Roof

The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) conducted ground pressure analysis of a wide abutment-type chain pillar in a two-entry gate road of a Western U.S. coal mine with an extremely weak immediate roof. About 15 m of fragile, low-strength mudstone lies between the seam and the lowest competent roof member. Three- and two-entry gate road designs with several pillar sizes and various secondary support systems have been employed to improve tailgate-entry stability, with varying results. This report discusses gate road layout and performance and secondary support effectiveness. The results of the pillar pressure study are compared to pillar loading predicted by a widely used pillar design method and to similar studies in other mines. A stability evaluation of the most recent longwall headgate, using the USBM Analysis of Longwall Pillar Stability (ALPS) method, indicates marginal stability in first-panel mining and instability in second-panel mining. The ALPS method and the USBM Coal Mine Roof Rating system are used to evaluate tailgate-mining stability of the previous gate roads and to determine pillar and entry width and top coal thickness criteria for tailgate stability in future panels.
Date: 1995
Creator: Barron, Lance R. & DeMarco, Matthew J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
UMTRA Project Water Sampling and Analysis Plan, Riverton, Wyoming (open access)

UMTRA Project Water Sampling and Analysis Plan, Riverton, Wyoming

Surface remediation was completed at the former uranium mill site in Riverton, Wyoming, in 1990. Residual radioactive materials (contaminated soil and debris) were removed and disposed of at Union Carbide Corporation`s (Umetco) nearby Gas Hills Title 2 facility. Ground water in the surficial and semiconfined aquifers (known collectively as the `uppermost aquifer`) below the former mill and tailings site has been contaminated. No contamination has been detected in the deeper, confined sandstone aquifer. The contaminant plume extends off site to the south and east. The plume is constrained by surface wetlands and small streams to the east and west of the site and by the Little Wind River to the south. Fifteen monitor wells installed in 1993 were sampled to better define the contaminant plume and to provide additional water quality data for the baseline risk assessment. Samples also were collected from domestic wells in response to a request by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality in January 1994. No contamination attributable to the former uranium milling operations have ever been detected in any of the domestic wells used for potable supplies.
Date: March 1994
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
UMTRA Project Water Sampling and Analysis Plan, Spook, Wyoming (open access)

UMTRA Project Water Sampling and Analysis Plan, Spook, Wyoming

Surface remedial action is complete at the Spook Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project site in Wyoming. Based on an evaluation of site characterization data, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, US Department of Energy, and state of Wyoming have concurred in the determination that a program to monitor ground water is not required because ground water in the uppermost aquifer is Class 3 (limited use) (40 CFR 192.21(g)(1993)).
Date: March 1994
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gravity and Aeromagnetic Studies of the Powder River Basin and Surrounding Areas, Southeastern Montana, Northeastern Wyoming, and Western South Dakota (open access)

Gravity and Aeromagnetic Studies of the Powder River Basin and Surrounding Areas, Southeastern Montana, Northeastern Wyoming, and Western South Dakota

From abstract: This report contains complete Bouguer anomaly, isostatic residual anomaly, and horizontal gradient anomaly gravity maps of the Powder River Basin and surrounding areas in southeastern Montana, northeastern Wyoming, and western South Dakota were compiled using gravity data from 21,528 stations. A total-intensity anomaly aeromagnetic map with 3 mile spaced east-west flight-lines is also presented. Also included is an analysis of these maps and data, focusing on gravity and aeromagnetic studies.
Date: 1994
Creator: Robbins, Stephen L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integration of the geological/engineering model with production performance for Patrick Draw Field, Wyoming (open access)

Integration of the geological/engineering model with production performance for Patrick Draw Field, Wyoming

The NIPER Reservoir Assessment and Characterization Research Program incorporates elements of the near-term, mid-term and long-term objectives of the National Energy Strategy-Advanced Oil Recovery Program. The interdisciplinary NIPER team focuses on barrier island reservoirs, a high priority class of reservoirs, that contains large amounts of remaining oil in place located in mature fields with a high number of shut-in and abandoned wells. The project objectives are to: (1) identify heterogeneities that influence the movement and trapping of reservoir fluids in two examples of shoreline barrier reservoirs (Patrick Draw Field, WY and Bell Creek Field, MT); (2) develop geological and engineering reservoir characterization methods to quantify reservoir architecture and predict mobile oil saturation distribution for application of targeted infill drilling and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes; and (3) summarize reservoir and production characteristics of shoreline barrier reservoirs to determine similarities and differences. The major findings of the research include: (1) hydrogeochemical analytical techniques were demonstrated to be an inexpensive reservoir characterization tool that provides information on reservoir architecture and compartmentalization; (2) the formation water salinity in Patrick Draw Field varies widely across the field and can result in a 5 to 12% error in saturation values calculated from wireline logs if …
Date: March 1, 1993
Creator: Jackson, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cambrian Through Mississippian Rocks of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Montana, and Adjacent Areas (open access)

Cambrian Through Mississippian Rocks of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Montana, and Adjacent Areas

From abstract: This report describes Cambrian through Mississippian rocks in the Powder River Basin representing five depositional sequences that reflect both the biological evolution and the tectonic development of western North America.
Date: 1993
Creator: Macke, David L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coastal Sedimentation Along a Segment of the Interior Seaway of North America, Upper Cretaceous Baxter Shale, and Blair and Rock Springs Formations, Rock Springs Uplift, Southwest Wyoming (open access)

Coastal Sedimentation Along a Segment of the Interior Seaway of North America, Upper Cretaceous Baxter Shale, and Blair and Rock Springs Formations, Rock Springs Uplift, Southwest Wyoming

A report which examines the sedimentary rocks deposited along a segment of the west coast of the interior seaway of North America in southwest Wyoming during the late Santonian and early Campanian subages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch.
Date: 1993
Creator: Roehler, Henry W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sedimentology and Depositional History of the Lower Paleocene Tullock Member of the Fort Union Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana (open access)

Sedimentology and Depositional History of the Lower Paleocene Tullock Member of the Fort Union Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana

From abstract: This report is a study on the history of sedimentology and deposition of the lower Paleocene Tullock Member of the Fort Union Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana while looking at the geometry and sedimentary structures.
Date: 1993
Creator: Brown, Janet L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gold and Other Minor Elements Associated with the Hot Springs and Geysers of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Supplemented with Data from Steamboat Springs, Nevada (open access)

Gold and Other Minor Elements Associated with the Hot Springs and Geysers of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Supplemented with Data from Steamboat Springs, Nevada

Report providing information from 125 samples of rock studies, analyzed by using a emission-spectographic method. The studies take place in Yellowstone National Park and Steamboat Springs, Nevada.
Date: 1992
Creator: White, Donald E.; Heropoulos, Chris & Fournier, R. O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lance Formation: Petrography and Stratigraphy, Powder River Basin and Nearby Basins, Wyoming and Montana (open access)

The Lance Formation: Petrography and Stratigraphy, Powder River Basin and Nearby Basins, Wyoming and Montana

From abstract: The uppermost Cretaceous Lance Formation was studied in the Powder River Basin and nearby basins of Wyoming and Montana. The Lance Formation is overlain by the continental Paleocene Fort Union Formation. This report is a petrography and stratigraphy study on these basins.
Date: 1992
Creator: Connor, Carol Waite
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library