Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 40, Pages 6575-6816, October 7, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 40, Pages 6575-6816, October 7, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: October 7, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 41, Pages 6817-7044, October 14, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 41, Pages 6817-7044, October 14, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: October 14, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 42, Pages 7045-7212, October 21, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 42, Pages 7045-7212, October 21, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: October 21, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 43, Pages 7213-7416, October 28, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 43, Pages 7213-7416, October 28, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: October 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0887 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0887

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a public housing authority is required to reimburse a political subdivision that furnishes improvements, services, or facilities for a housing project (RQ-0966-GA)
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0888 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0888

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a prosecutor must obtain the approval of the presiding judge before advancing funds for travel expenses to a nonresident witness (RQ-0969-GA)
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0889 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0889

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Medicaid and Public Assistance Fraud Oversight Task Force is an “advisory committee” within the meaning of chapter 2110 of the Government Code (RQ-0971-GA)
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0890 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0890

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a local board of realtors is a “nonprofit community business organization” for purposes of section 11.231 of the Tax Code (RQ-0970-GA)
Date: October 25, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0891 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0891

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Compensation of statutory county court judges in Galveston County (RQ-0973-GA)
Date: October 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0892 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0892

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Board Regents of the University of North Texas System may invest funds under its control that are held and managed by its component system (RQ-0974-GA)
Date: October 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Assessment and Framework of Management Science Applications for TxDOT (open access)

An Assessment and Framework of Management Science Applications for TxDOT

Report discussing the results of a project in which researchers implemented a systematic approach to identify the domains within the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot) where Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS) techniques could lead to substantial improvements.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Waller, S. Travis; Walewski, John; Chang, Carlos; Fajardo, David; Lasdon, Leon; Montes, Edith et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traffic Operations and Safety Benefits of Active Traffic Strategies on TxDOT Freeways (open access)

Traffic Operations and Safety Benefits of Active Traffic Strategies on TxDOT Freeways

Report discussing a project, which developed a series of interdependent models and a simulation framework to evaluate the traffic operations and safety benefits of ATM strategies. Four ATM scenarios were evaluated in this study: variable speed limits (VSL), peak-period shoulder use, VSL and shoulder use, and ramp metering.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Nezamuddin, N.; Jiang, Nan (Writer on transportation); Zhang, Ti; Waller, S. Travis & Sun, Dazhi
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Corrosion Resistance of Improved Post-Tensioning Materials After Long-Term Exposure Testing (open access)

Evaluation of Corrosion Resistance of Improved Post-Tensioning Materials After Long-Term Exposure Testing

Technical report on the results of a study evaluating the corrosion resistance of post-tensioned beams after four years of aggressive cyclic ponded saltwater exposure.
Date: October 2011
Creator: McCool, G. E.; Ahern, M. E.; Breen, J. E. & Wood, S. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation, presentation and repair of microbial acid-produced attack of concrete (open access)

Evaluation, presentation and repair of microbial acid-produced attack of concrete

This report evaluates the severity of the deterioration in bridges to determine if microbial induced deterioration (MID) is a significant contributor by visual inspection and a number of tests on twelve selected columns. This report also evaluates the effectiveness of suggested test procedures on identifying microbial attack on concrete and the integrity of deteriorated concrete due to the attack.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Hu, Jiong; Hahn, Dittmar; Rudzinski, Walter; Wang, Zhuo & Estrada, Luzelva
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
CAM Mix Design With Local Aggregates (open access)

CAM Mix Design With Local Aggregates

"This study provides revised mix design recommendations for crack attenuating mixtures (CAM) with local aggregates. The use of lower quality aggregates is cost beneficial but limits the application of these mixes in terms of reduced performance. Aggregate guidelines and aggregate quality criteria are provided to enhance the rutting and cracking performance of these mixes. The mix design recommendations as well as aggregate guidelines and quality criteria provided in the report are based on laboratory investigations and field validation is strongly recommended before implementation."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Smit, Andrè de Fortier; Prasad, Sivaram; Prozzi, Jorge Alberto & Tahmoressi, Maghsoud
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implementing a project and portfolio management system for TxDOT project development (open access)

Implementing a project and portfolio management system for TxDOT project development

"Beginning in the summer of 1999, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) started developing the framework for implementing a sophisticated new system to manage its large and diverse portfolio of projects during their development phase. This was followed by the implementation itself for managing project schedules, project and portfolio resources and costs during their development cycle. This unique and challenging implementation across TxDOT encompassed all functional areas involved in the project development phase. It was successfully completed by overcoming technical, technological, and cultural challenges inherent with any implementation of this scale and magnitude."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Khwaja, Nabeel
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continuous prestressed concrete girder bridges. Volume 1, Literature review and preliminary designs (open access)

Continuous prestressed concrete girder bridges. Volume 1, Literature review and preliminary designs

"The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is currently designing typical highway bridge structures as simply supported using standard precast, pretension-ed girders. TxDOT is interested in developing additional economical design alternatives for longer span bridges, through the use of the continuous precast, pretension-ed concrete bridge structures that use spliced girder technology. The objectives of this portion of the study are to evaluate the current stat-of-the-art and practice relevant to continuous precast concrete girder bridges and recommend suitable continuity connections for use with typical Texas bridge girders."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Mander, John B.; Parkar, Anagha S. & Hueste, Mary Beth D.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Developing a mixture design specification for flexible base construction (open access)

Developing a mixture design specification for flexible base construction

"In the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), flexible base producers typically generate large stockpiles of material exclusively for TxDOT projects. This large "state-only" inventory often maintained by producers, along with time requirements for testing and reduced manpower within TxDOT offices, resulted in this project's investigation into a mixture-design specification for flexible base. The goals of this project are to develop a flexible base specification that reduces TxDOT's burden for sampling and testing, reduces time and space burdens on producers for maintaining TxDOT-only stockpiles, and maintains or improves the quality of the base."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Epps, Jon A.; Sebesta, Stephen; Sahin, Hakan; Button, Joe; Luo, Rong & Lytton, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Positive feedback: exploring current approaches in iterative travel demand model implementation (open access)

Positive feedback: exploring current approaches in iterative travel demand model implementation

"This project researched current trends, practices, and tools in implementing a feedback approach for potential implementation in the TxDOT TDMs."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Reeder, Phillip; Bhat, Chandra; Lorenzini, Karen & Hall, Kevin
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Best Practice for Using RAS in HMA (open access)

Best Practice for Using RAS in HMA

"The use of recycles asphalt shingles (RAS) in hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures has the potential to significantly reduce the cost of asphalt paving mixes while conserving energy and preserving the environment. This report documents the best practices for the use of RAS in HMA in terms of Ras processing, characterizing the processed RAS (binder content,gradations, and performance grad [PG]), RAS mix design, production, and field construction."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Zhou, Fujie; Button, Joe W. & Epps, Jon
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impacts of energy developments on the Texas Transportation System infrastructure (open access)

Impacts of energy developments on the Texas Transportation System infrastructure

"Texas energy sector has a critical impact-historically and currently-on both the state economy and the Texas transportation system. The stat's various transportation modes, including rail, highways, pipelines, and ports, form a system that supports the energy sector in a number of ways."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Prozzi, Jolanda; Grebenschikov, Sergey; Banerjee, Ambarish & Prozzi, Jorge Alberto
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Characterization of Exhaust Emissions From Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Area (open access)

Characterization of Exhaust Emissions From Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Area

"For this study, a total of 30 heavy-duty diesel vehicles (HDDVs) were selected from City of Houston (COH) fleet based on opacity testing for HEs and random selection for non-HEs. With the selected 30 vehicles, driving and idling emission testing were performed to characterize their emissions with respect to vehicle classes, types (HE or non-HE), and model years."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Johnson, Jeremy D.; Lee, Doh-Won; Farzaneh, Reza; Zietsman, Josias & Yu, Lei
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An alternative transportation fuels update : a case study of the developing E85 industry (open access)

An alternative transportation fuels update : a case study of the developing E85 industry

Report on alternative fuels in the United States, in particular E85, the potential to reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil, and the current state of alternative fuels in the auto industry.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Travare, Papa S. & Lewis, Sharon
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unclaimed Property Reporting Instructions, 2011 (open access)

Unclaimed Property Reporting Instructions, 2011

The General Information chapter gives an overview of unclaimed property reporting. The Property Specific Reporting chapter discusses, in detail, some of the more common types of unclaimed property. The Preparing Your Report chapter gives step-by-step instructions for completing the property report and includes sample forms and instructions. The last Chapter of the manual contains Reference Tales that will be helpful when preparing your reports. On the last page, you will find a quick reference chart that lists the general categories of unclaimed property and the legal references for each type.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History