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Deepwater Horizon: Coast Guard and Interior Could Improve Their Offshore Energy Inspection Programs (open access)

Deepwater Horizon: Coast Guard and Interior Could Improve Their Offshore Energy Inspection Programs

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU), showed that the consequences of an incident on an offshore energy facility can be significant. A key way to ensure that offshore energy facilities are meeting applicable security, safety, and production standards is through conducting periodic inspections of the facilities. The Coast Guard and the Department of the Interior (Interior) share oversight responsibility for offshore energy facilities. The Coast Guard is to conduct security inspections of such facilities, whereas based on an agreement between the two agencies, Interior is to conduct safety compliance inspections on some offshore facilities on behalf of the Coast Guard as well as its own inspections to verify production. This testimony addresses: (1) the extent to which the Coast Guard has conducted security inspections of offshore energy facilities, and what additional actions are needed; (2) the extent to which Interior has conducted inspections of offshore energy facilities, including those on behalf of the Coast Guard, and challenges it faces in conducting such inspections; and (3) the Coast Guard's oversight authority of MODUs. This testimony is based on GAO products issued …
Date: November 2, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Options for Collecting Revenues on Liquidated Entries of Merchandise Evading Antidumping and Countervailing Duties (open access)

Options for Collecting Revenues on Liquidated Entries of Merchandise Evading Antidumping and Countervailing Duties

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The United States imposes antidumping and countervailing (AD/CV) duties to remedy unfair foreign trade practices that cause injury to domestic industries. Evasion of AD/CV duties weakens protections for U.S. industry and reduces U.S. revenues. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sometimes detects such evasion after the merchandise has been "liquidated," i.e., the goods have entered commerce and the agency has completed processing the entry. Congress requested that we examine CBP's options for attempting to collect revenues in such cases. In this report, we examine (1) options available to CBP to assess revenues on entries of goods subject to AD/CV duties that entered the United States through evasion and have already been liquidated and (2) factors that affect the amount of revenues collected by CBP through the use of these options."
Date: November 2, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Office of Science and Technology Policy: Violation of the Antideficiency Act (open access)

Office of Science and Technology Policy: Violation of the Antideficiency Act

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses our October 11 opinion concerning the Office of Science and Technology Policy's (OSTP) use of appropriations for bilateral activities with the government of the People's Republic of China."
Date: November 2, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ARM Climate Research Facility Quarterly Value-Added Product Report Fourth Quarter: July 01–September 30, 2011 (open access)

ARM Climate Research Facility Quarterly Value-Added Product Report Fourth Quarter: July 01–September 30, 2011

The purpose of this report is to provide a concise status update for value-added products (VAP) implemented by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility. The report is divided into the following sections: (1) new VAPs for which development has begun, (2) progress on existing VAPs, (3) future VAPs that have been recently approved, (4) other work that leads to a VAP, and (5) top requested VAPs from the archive. New information is highlighted in blue text. New information about processed data by the developer is highlighted in red text.
Date: November 2, 2011
Creator: Sivaraman, C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bill Feltner, November 2, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bill Feltner, November 2, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Feltner. Feltner was born in Combs, Kentucky in 1921. He joined the Army in 1940 and completed basic training, then entered radio school. After a stint as a battalion communications chief, he was sent to Fort Drum, New York to set up a communications school followed by Officer Candidate School at Fort Hood, Texas. Commissioned in 1943, he was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia as a battalion communications officer. In 1944 he was sent to Mindanao as an infantry platoon leader with the 124th Infantry. Later, he was sent to Korea as a military advisor and was wounded. Feltner retired in 1961 as a lieutenant colonel.
Date: November 2, 2015
Creator: Feltner, Bill
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eberhardt Niemeyer, November 2, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eberhardt Niemeyer, November 2, 2012

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Eberhardt Niemeyer. Niemeyer finished at the University of Texas in 1941 and was at Midshipman’s school at Northwestern when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. When he was commissioned in early 1942, he reported aboard the submarine R-18 and trained the fleet on sounding equipment in the Atlantic Ocean. In early 1944, he put the USS Sea Cat (SS-399) into commission and made four war patrols on her. Niemeyer relates several anecdotes about being aboard submarines during World War II. Niemeyer was discharged in December 1945.
Date: November 2, 2012
Creator: Niemeyer, Eberhardt
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART bus shooting suspect arrested (open access)

DART bus shooting suspect arrested

News release about a non-fatal shooting which took place on a DART bus.
Date: November 2, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mary Elaine Adamek Jones, November 2, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Mary Elaine Adamek Jones, November 2, 2016

Transcript of an interview with Mary Elaine Adamek Jones, who worked as a labor and delivery nurse, got her doctorate of philosophy in cultural anthropology from Southern Methodist University, and directed the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Texas at Arlington before retiring after 25 years. She also taught nursing for 13 years at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. The interview details her father's career as an accomplished saddle maker, her education, and career, and family memories. Mary Elaine and her husband, Thomas, have two children. Photos relating to the interview follow the transcript text.
Date: November 2, 2016
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Jones, Mary Elaine Adamek
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clinton E. Morris, November 2, 2011 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clinton E. Morris, November 2, 2011

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clinton E. Morris. He discusses his childhood growing up during the Great Depression and what led him to joining the US Navy. He describes his experiences during bootcamp and the rest of World War Two in the Pacific Theatre.
Date: November 2, 2011
Creator: Morris, Clinton E. & Misenhimer, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History