Warrants and Criteria for Installing and Sunsetting TxDOT ITS Equipment (open access)

Warrants and Criteria for Installing and Sunsetting TxDOT ITS Equipment

This report contains information on warrants and criteria for installing and sunsetting TxDOT ITS equipment.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Balke, Kevin; Chaudhary, Nadeem; Brydia, Bob; Songchitruksa, Praprut & Pesti, Geza
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil and Chemical Spills: Federal Emergency Response Framework (open access)

Oil and Chemical Spills: Federal Emergency Response Framework

This report discusses the statutory authorities of the National Contingency Plan (NCP), and relevant executive orders; outlines the federal emergency response framework of the NCP to coordinate federal, state, and local roles; and identifies the funding mechanisms to carry out a federal response to a discharge of oil or a release of a hazardous substance.
Date: October 10, 2013
Creator: Bearden, David M. & Ramseur, Jonathan L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Testing of a Non-Pinned Low-Profile End Treatment (open access)

Development and Testing of a Non-Pinned Low-Profile End Treatment

This is report on the testing of Low-Profile barriers without anchoring vertical steel pins. The project was conducted to provide the Texas Department of Transportation to evaluate the performance of the Low-Profile barrier system.
Date: October 2013
Creator: Beason, W. Lynn; Brackin, Michael S.; Bligh, Roger P. & Menges, Wanda L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Executive Report: Toll Roads, Toll Rates, and Driver Behavior (open access)

Executive Report: Toll Roads, Toll Rates, and Driver Behavior

A report on toll roads and rates, how different types of drivers react to toll rates, and reasons for toll road usage.
Date: December 2012
Creator: Beaty, Curtis; Burris, Mark & Geiselbrecht, Tina
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011-12 (open access)

Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011-12

This is the 2011-12 report on sexual victimization in prisons and jails.
Date: May 2013
Creator: Beck, Allen J.; Berzofsky, Marcus & Casper, Rachel
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy and Water Development: FY2013 Appropriations (open access)

Energy and Water Development: FY2013 Appropriations

None
Date: April 25, 2013
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy and Water Development: FY2014 Appropriations (open access)

Energy and Water Development: FY2014 Appropriations

This report discusses the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill that provides funding for civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), for the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the Department of Energy (DOE), and several independent agencies.
Date: November 1, 2013
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy and Water Development: FY2014 Appropriations (open access)

Energy and Water Development: FY2014 Appropriations

This report discusses the Energy and Water Development bill, which includes funding for civil works projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the Department of the Interior's Central Utah Project (CUP) and Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the Department of Energy (DOE), and a number of independent agencies, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC).
Date: September 13, 2013
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy and Water Development: FY2014 Appropriations, Preliminary Tables (open access)

Energy and Water Development: FY2014 Appropriations, Preliminary Tables

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Date: May 9, 2013
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues (open access)

Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues

This report discusses the energy policy in the United States that is focused on three major goals: assuring a secure supply of energy, keeping energy costs low, and protecting the environment.
Date: November 29, 2013
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues (open access)

Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues

Report that discusses the energy policy in the United States, which is focused on three major goals: assuring a secure supply of energy, keeping energy costs low, and protecting the environment.
Date: July 25, 2013
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues (open access)

Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues

This report discusses various aspects and considerations regarding energy policy in the United States. The report covers topics including energy conservation, efficiency, supply, prices and legislation.
Date: January 3, 2013
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues (open access)

Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues

This report discusses energy policy in the United States that focus on three major goals: assuring a secure supply of energy, keeping energy costs low, and protecting the environment.
Date: May 30, 2013
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues (open access)

Energy Policy: 113th Congress Issues

This report discusses the energy policy in the United States that focuses on three major goals: assuring a secure supply of energy, Keeping energy costs low, and protecting the environment.
Date: July 17, 2013
Creator: Behrens, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecuador: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations (open access)

Ecuador: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations

This report provides a brief background on political and economic conditions in Ecuador under President Correa, and examines current U.S. relations with Ecuador.
Date: July 3, 2013
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government Shutdown: Operations of the Department of Defense During a Lapse in Appropriations (open access)

Government Shutdown: Operations of the Department of Defense During a Lapse in Appropriations

This report provides an overview of guidelines that have governed planning for Department of Defense (DOD) operations over the last 30 years in the event of a funding lapse. It also discusses the implications of the guidelines for a possible impending shutdown and briefly reviews what is known about current DOD planning for a shutdown.
Date: October 15, 2013
Creator: Belasco, Amy & Towell, Pat
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: December, 2, 2013 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: December, 2, 2013

Newsletter of Cecil Bell, Jr. for his constituents in district 3 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature.
Date: December 2, 2013
Creator: Bell, Cecil Ivan, Jr.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: November 6, 2013 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: November 6, 2013

Newsletter of Cecil Bell, Jr. for his constituents in district 3 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature. It focuses on the financing of our State Water Plan, home-rule cities will have greater local control.
Date: November 6, 2013
Creator: Bell, Cecil Ivan, Jr.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: October 22, 2013 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: October 22, 2013

Newsletter of Cecil Bell, Jr. for his constituents in district 3 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature. It focuses on the creation of the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT) and the State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for Texas (SWIRFT).
Date: October 22, 2013
Creator: Bell, Cecil Ivan, Jr.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Procedures for Considering Changes in Senate Rules (open access)

Procedures for Considering Changes in Senate Rules

This report discusses procedures and related issues involved in considering changes to Senate rules.
Date: January 22, 2013
Creator: Beth, Richard S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Filibusters and Cloture in the Senate (open access)

Filibusters and Cloture in the Senate

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Date: May 31, 2013
Creator: Beth, Richard S. & Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sessions, Adjournments, and Recesses of Congress (open access)

Sessions, Adjournments, and Recesses of Congress

This report first describes how pertinent rules and practices regulate the daily sessions of Congress and their adjournments and recesses, including discussion of the "legislative day." It then develops a corresponding discussion for the annual sessions of Congress, which addresses, among other things, the use of "pro forma sessions." The report clarifies certain situations in which terms may simultaneously apply in different ways in relation to the daily session and to the annual session. Finally, the report notes some of the most important implications of the occurrence of sessions, adjournments, and recesses in relation to such matters as presidential action on legislation, recess appointments by the President, the operation of statutory expedited procedures ("fast track" procedures), and "lame duck" (post-election) sessions.
Date: February 27, 2013
Creator: Beth, Richard S. & Tollestrup, Jessica
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat (open access)

American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat

This report describes homegrown violent jihadists and the plots and attacks that have occurred since 9/11. For this report, "homegrown" and "domestic" are terms that describe terrorist activity or plots perpetrated within the United States or abroad by American citizens, legal permanent residents, or visitors radicalized largely within the United States. The report also discusses the radicalization process and the forces driving violent extremist activity. It analyzes post-9/11 domestic jihadist terrorism and describes law enforcement and intelligence efforts to combat terrorism and the challenges associated with those efforts. It also outlines actions underway to build trust and partnership between community groups and government agencies and the tensions that may occur between law enforcement and engagement activities.
Date: September 20, 2013
Creator: Bjelopera, Jerome P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat (open access)

American Jihadist Terrorism: Combating a Complex Threat

This report describes homegrown violent jihadists and the plots and attacks that have occurred since 9/11. For this report, "homegrown" describes terrorist activity or plots perpetrated within the United States or abroad by American citizens, legal permanent residents, or visitors radicalized largely within the United States. The term "jihadist" describes radicalized individuals using Islam as an ideological and/or religious justification for their belief in the establishment of a global caliphate, or jurisdiction governed by a Muslim civil and religious leader known as a caliph. The term "violent jihadist" characterizes jihadists who have made the jump to illegally supporting, plotting, or directly engaging in violent terrorist activity.
Date: January 23, 2013
Creator: Bjelopera, Jerome P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library