2013 Emissions Inventory Guidelines (open access)

2013 Emissions Inventory Guidelines

Guidelines for developing an annual emissions inventory of air pollutants emitted by companies at work sites.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Air Quality Division. Emissions Assessment Section.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Advocate: Volume 19, Issue 1, January - March 2014 (open access)

The Advocate: Volume 19, Issue 1, January - March 2014

Quarterly update providing information on environmental regulations for small businesses and local governments in Texas.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Small Business and Environmental Assistance Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Annual Report on Classified Employee Turnover for Fiscal Year 2013 (open access)

An Annual Report on Classified Employee Turnover for Fiscal Year 2013

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the classified state employee turnover rate for Fiscal Year 2013. This report provides and analyzes information on employee turnover, summarizes exit survey data on why employees voluntarily separate from state employment, and reports on state agencies that had at least 50 employees and a turnover rate that exceeded 17.0 percent.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automated Vehicles: Policy Implications Scoping Study (open access)

Automated Vehicles: Policy Implications Scoping Study

Research report into the possible policy implications of automated/self-driving vehicles.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Wagner, Jason; Baker, Trey; Goodin, Ginger & Maddox, John
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Children with Special Health Care Needs: Newsletter for Families, January 2014 (open access)

Children with Special Health Care Needs: Newsletter for Families, January 2014

Newsletter from the Texas Department of State Health Services providing information on health care for children with special needs, including resources for medical help and community services.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas. Department of Health.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: Fourth Quarter 2013 (open access)

City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: Fourth Quarter 2013

Quarterly report outlining tax revenues and remittances for alcoholic beverages, listed by city for October-December 2013. It also compares the statistics to the same period for the previous year.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
City of Edinburg, Master Drainage Plan.  Appendix G: Environmental Site Assessment & Constraints Map (open access)

City of Edinburg, Master Drainage Plan. Appendix G: Environmental Site Assessment & Constraints Map

Report was performed in accordance with RKEI Proposal Number PSF13-344-00 for the findings, opinions, conclusions, and recommendations for the infrastructure on sectors of the City of Edinburg, Hidalgo County, Texas. The Report is to define good commercial and customary practice for conducting an environmental site assessment of real estate.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Raba Kistner Environmental, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
CR News, Volume 19, Number 1, January-March 2014 (open access)

CR News, Volume 19, Number 1, January-March 2014

Quarterly newsletter of the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Records Division discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to crime records and other safety issue within Texas, along with a departmental directory.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas. Crime Records Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of a Specification for Flexible Base Construction (open access)

Development of a Specification for Flexible Base Construction

This technical report contains information on the development of a specification for flexible base construction.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Epps, Jon; Sebesta, Stephen; Hewes, Bailey; Sahin, Hakan; Luo, Rong; Button, Joe et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Performance Based Pavement Marking Maintenance Contracts in Texas (open access)

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Performance Based Pavement Marking Maintenance Contracts in Texas

This is a technical report about evaluating the effectiveness of performance based pavement marking maintenance contracts in Texas.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas A & M Transportation Institute
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluating the performance of Alternative Supplementary Cementing Material in Concrete (open access)

Evaluating the performance of Alternative Supplementary Cementing Material in Concrete

This is a report on testing alternative sources of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that provide similar strength and durability in Class F fly ash.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Seraj, Saamiya; Cano, Rachel; Liu, Shukui; Whitney, David; Fowler, David; Ferron, Raissa et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluating Truck and Rail Movements Along Competitive Multimodal Corridors (open access)

Evaluating Truck and Rail Movements Along Competitive Multimodal Corridors

Report on a project designed to measure freight demands for population growth using mechanistic models for both trucks and rail. This study is implemented through a series of study workshops for TxDOT and metropolitan planning organization (MPO).
Date: January 2014
Creator: Seedah, Dan; Owens, Travis; Bhat, Chandra & Harrison, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Binder Aging and its Influence in Aging of Hot Mix Asphalt Concrete: Technical Report (open access)

Evaluation of Binder Aging and its Influence in Aging of Hot Mix Asphalt Concrete: Technical Report

Report evaluating a model's ability to predict asphalt oxidative hardening over time and the effects on mixture durability.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Glover, Charles J.; Han, Rongbin; Jin, Xin; Prapaitrakul, Nicornpon; Cui, Yuanchen; Rose, Avery et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 29, No. 1, Pages 1 to 855, December 30, 2013 - January 30, 2014 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 29, No. 1, Pages 1 to 855, December 30, 2013 - January 30, 2014

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: January 2014
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field Evaluation of Automated Distress Measuring Equipment (open access)

Field Evaluation of Automated Distress Measuring Equipment

This report is for the field evaluation of automated distress measuring equipment. Equipment evaluated was the TxDOT automated visual 3D laser system van and three automated systems developed by visual distress data collection vendors.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Serigos, Pedro A.; Burton, Maria; Smit, Andre; Prozzi, Jorge A. & Murphy, Mike R.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freight Data Architecture Business Process, Logical Data Model, and Physical Data Model (open access)

Freight Data Architecture Business Process, Logical Data Model, and Physical Data Model

Summary of a TxDOT study to integrate data from multiple sources to optimize freight transportation planning efforts in the state.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Walton, C. Michael; Seedah, Dan; Cruz-Ross, Alejandra; O'Brien, William J.; La Fountain, Peter; Agarwal, Prateek et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guidelines for Vehicle Manufacturers under the TERP Light-Duty Motor Vehicle Purchase or Lease Incentive (open access)

Guidelines for Vehicle Manufacturers under the TERP Light-Duty Motor Vehicle Purchase or Lease Incentive

This is a guide to compliance requirements for motor vehicle manufacturers under an incentive program of the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP), called the Light-Duty Motor Vehicle Purchase or Lease Incentive (LDPLI).
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Air Quality Division.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Injury Determinations for Cetaceans Observed Interacting with Hawaii and American Samoa Longline Fisheries during 2007-2011 (open access)

Injury Determinations for Cetaceans Observed Interacting with Hawaii and American Samoa Longline Fisheries during 2007-2011

The following report presents reports of interactions between the cetaceans with Hawaii and American Samoa longline fisheries. Compiled here are injury and death reports concerning the dolphin as a summary of the mortality rates and injury severity observed during interactions.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Bradford, Amanda L. & Forney, Karin A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature: House Committee on Government Transparency & Operation (open access)

Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature: House Committee on Government Transparency & Operation

Report from the Texas House Committee on Government Transparency and Operation describing the group's goals, activities, accomplishments, and other information, for review by the 85th Texas Legislature.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Government Transparency and Operation.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Lockhart State Park] Student Journal: Spring, 2014 (open access)

[Lockhart State Park] Student Journal: Spring, 2014

Spring student activity journal for the Lockhart Independent School District fifth grade outdoor laboratory program at Lockhart State Park. It includes descriptions of plant, animal, and insect life in the park, with hands-on activities to identify and count them.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Main Street Matters, January 2014 (open access)

Main Street Matters, January 2014

Newsletter issued by the Texas Main Street Program discussing news, events, and other information related to the program as well as featuring designated participating communities and providing technical advice regarding conservation and restoration.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Natural Outlook, December 2013/January 2014 (open access)

Natural Outlook, December 2013/January 2014

Newsletter discussing environmental issues and policies in Texas. This issue explains Consumer Confidence Reports and addresses common questions about public water supplies and reports.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Niños con Necesidades Médicas Especiales: Boletín para familias, Enero de 2014 (open access)

Niños con Necesidades Médicas Especiales: Boletín para familias, Enero de 2014

Newsletter from the Texas Department of State Health Services providing information on health care for children with special needs, including resources for medical help and community services.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Texas. Department of Health.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap: A Job Half Done (open access)

Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap: A Job Half Done

A document which reviews trends in occupational segregation during the past several decades.
Date: January 2014
Creator: Hegewisch, Ariane
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library