Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to CRS reports that provide analytical perspectives on the 13 annual appropriations bills, and other related appropriation measures. It does not include a detailed explanation or description of the budget or appropriations processes. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Treasury, Postal Service, Executive Office of the President, and General Government.

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Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of the McConnell Memorial Tower at the Hurley Administration Building. Tree branches and leaves are framing the tower in the foreground of the photograph. The bottom portion of the tower is being covered by a treetop.

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This report documents design reviews conducted of the SY-101 Respond And Pump In Days (RAPID) Mitigation System. As part of the SY-101 Surface-Level-Rise Remediation Project, the SY-101 WID Mitigation System will reduce the potential unacceptable consequences of crust growth in Tank 241-SY-101 (SY-101). Projections of the crust growth rate indicate that the waste level in the tank may reach the juncture of the primary and secondary confinement structures of the tank late in 1999. Because of this time constraint, many design activities are being conducted in parallel and design reviews were conducted for system adequacy as well as design implementation throughout the process. Design implementation, as used in this design review report, is the final component selection (e.g., which circuit breaker, valve, or thermocouple) that meets the approved design requirements, system design, and design and procurement specifications. Design implementation includes the necessary analysis, testing, verification, and qualification to demonstrate compliance with the system design and design requirements. Design implementation is outside the scope of this design review. The design activities performed prior to detailed design implementation (i.e., system mission requirements, functional design requirements, technical criteria, system conceptual design, and where design and build contracts were placed, the procurement specification) have …

This document describes the methodology used to determine the worst case projected source term that could be in double-shell tank 241-SY-102 for the upcoming cross-site waste transfer. The worst case projected source term is given in Table 4-1 is the weighted average of the tank waste sources with the addition of sufficient waste from a defined worst source tank to fill the tank to 416 inches. The projected source term in this document is not intended to represent what will be in tank 241-SY-102. Rather, it is a conservative bounding composition considering that the volume of waste that will be added from each current source is unknown.

This technical document evaluates those aspects of the diffusive barrier and getter features which have the potential for enhancing the performance of the Viability Assessment Reference Design and are also directly related to the key attributes for the repository safety strategy of that design. The effects of advection, hydrodynamic dispersion, and diffusion on the radionuclide migration rates through the diffusive barrier were determined through the application of the one-dimensional, advection/dispersion/diffusion equation. The results showed that because advective flow described by the advection-dispersion equation dominates, the diffusive barrier feature alone would not be effective in retarding migration of radiocuclides. However, if the diffusive barrier were combined with one or more features that reduced the potential for advection, then transport of radionuclides would be dominated by diffusion and their migration from the EBS would be impeded. Apatite was chosen as the getter material used for this report. Two getter configurations were developed, Case 1 and Case 2. As in the evaluation of the diffusive barrier, the effects of advection, hydrodynamic dispersion, and diffusion on the migration of radionuclides through the getter are evaluated. However, in addition to these mechanisms, the one-dimensional advection/dispersion/diffusion model is modified to include the effect of sorption on …

We use molecular dynamics (MD) simulation methods to investigate dusty plasma crystal structure, with the grains subject to a spherically symmetric Debye-Hueckel potential, a uni-directional external potential and an asymmetric wake potential. The structure is studied as a function of Mach number and magnitude of the wake as well as the strength of the rf input power, using parameters from a self-consistent dust-sheath model.

A Discontinuous Galerkin method is applied to hyperbolic systems that contain stiff relaxation terms. We demonstrate that when the relaxation time is unresolved, the method is accurate in the sense that it accurately represents the system's Chapman-Enskog approximation. Results are presented for the hyperbolic heat equation and coupled radiation-hydrodynamics.

This document presents the results of a task to evaluate Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) sampling equipment drawings and identifies drawings category as either essential, support, or general drawings. This report completes the drawing evaluation task as outlined in Engineering Task Plan For Truck 3 and 4 Drawing Compliance and Evaluation (Wilson, 1997). The scope of this report is limited to an evaluation and identification of drawing category for drawings of certain tank waste sampling equipment for which the TRWS Characterization Project has been assigned custody, including: vapor sampling, grab sampling, auger sampling, and all core sampling equipment (see LMHC Task Order 304). This report does not address drawings for other waste tank deployed equipment systems having similar assigned custody, such as, Light Duty Utility Arm (LDUA), Cone Penetrometer system, or Long Length Contaminated Equipment (LLCE). The LDUA drawings are addressed in the Characterization Equipment Essential Drawings (HNF 1998). The Cone Penetrometer system drawings which are vendor drawings (not H- series) is not currently turned over to operations for deployment. The LLCE equipment was just recently assigned to Characterization Project and were not included in the original scope for this evaluation and will be addressed in the evaluation update scheduled …

Photograph of the Murchison Performing Arts Center. The pentagonal structure on the building can be seen facing to the right of the camera. Part of a tree can be seen in the top left corner of the photograph, shading the lawn.

This report provides the results of an assessment of project W-314 compliance with project-specific SIRIDs. This Phase 1 assessment has been subdivided into the following tasks. Task 1 collected reference materials needed to complete the SIRID assessment. The documents include reports from the TWRS procedure compliance system (ERMI) that list the SIRID requirements for TWRS in each functional area and the documents that TWRS identified as implementing each SIRID (Phase 1 of the TWRS assessment). Also included are documents that were identified during this assessment as implementing project W-314 SIRIDs. Task 2 evaluated the 16 TWRS program SIRID functional areas to identify areas that applied specifically to project W-314. The SIRIDs applicable to project W-314 were determined by evaluating each individual SIRID in each functional area against the scope of project W-314 from inception to the point at which it begins operation. The following project W-314 functional areas were then prioritized into three groups to allocate resources to the most critical items. Priority 1 SIRID functional areas contain requirements that pertain to activities done completely within the scope of project W-314 (engineering, quality assurance, and construction). Task 3 consisted of an assessment of each functional area, in priority sequence, to …

This document provides a plan for replacement of existing Continuous Air Monitors (CAM) in the tank annuli and K1 and K2 exhausters for selected Tank Farm facilities. Requirements are included.

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

The Central Solenoid (CS) designed for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a 13 T, 42 kA coil with a winding pack mass of 863 t, cooled by supercritical helium. To demonstrate the feasibility of the design and performance of the CS a CS Model Coil project was carried out during the ITER Engineering Design Activity in 1994- 1999. This paper describes the R&D and fabrication effort during this project with a focus on the construction of the Inner Module of the CS Model Coil by the US Home Team.

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The authors report the first quantitative phase-sensitive measurement of ultrafast ionization rates in gases using Multi-phase Interferometric Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating. Ultrafast probe depletion via frequency mixing in the ionization front is observed.

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Funeral program for Sister Bettye Mae Wright, born January 30, 1921 and died May 17, 1999. The funeral was held May 24, 1999 at West End Baptist Church, officiated by Dr. A. B. Devers, I, Pastor. Funeral arrangements were made through the Lewis Funeral Home, and she was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas.