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Capitol Hill Anthrax Incident: EPA's Cleanup Was Successful; Opportunities Exist to Enhance Contract Oversight (open access)

Capitol Hill Anthrax Incident: EPA's Cleanup Was Successful; Opportunities Exist to Enhance Contract Oversight

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In September and October 2001, the first cases of anthrax bioterrorism occurred in the United States when letters containing anthrax were mailed to congressional leaders and members of the news media. As the cleanup of the Capitol Hill anthrax site progressed, EPA's estimates of the cleanup costs steadily rose. GAO was asked to describe (1) the costs EPA incurred to conduct the cleanup and how it was funded, (2) the extent to which EPA awarded the cleanup contracts competitively, (3) EPA's oversight of the contractors' work and any suggested changes to EPA's contracting practices, and (4) the extent to which EPA agreed to indemnify contractors against liability for potential damages related to the cleanup."
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human Capital: Building on DOD's Reform Effort to Foster Governmentwide Improvements (open access)

Human Capital: Building on DOD's Reform Effort to Foster Governmentwide Improvements

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "People are at the heart of an organization's ability to perform its mission. Yet a key challenge for the Department of Defense (DOD), as for many federal agencies, is to strategically manage its human capital. DOD's proposed National Security Personnel System would provide for wide-ranging changes in DOD's civilian personnel pay and performance management and other human capital areas. Given the massive size of DOD, the proposal has important precedent-setting implications for federal human capital management. This testimony provides GAO's observations on DOD human capital reform proposals and the need for governmentwide reform."
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Transfer: NIH-Private Sector Partnership in the Development of Taxol (open access)

Technology Transfer: NIH-Private Sector Partnership in the Development of Taxol

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The transfer of technology from government-funded medical research laboratories to the private sector aims to have new pharmaceuticals brought to market more efficiently than would be possible for a federal agency acting alone. Much of the pharmaceutical-related technology transfer originates with research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). GAO was asked to examine the legal and financial issues involved in technology transfers as illustrated by the research, development, and commercialization of Taxol. Taxol was developed through a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) between NIH and the Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company (BMS) and by 2001 had become the best-selling cancer drug in history. Specifically, GAO examined (1) how the technology transfer partnership affected the research and development of Taxol, (2) what NIH's financial investment was in Taxol-related research, and what the financial outcomes were of the technology transfer process related to Taxol, and (3) what factors influenced how NIH exercised its authority in Taxol-related technology transfer activities. GAO reviewed relevant materials and statutes governing technology transfer, reviewed the patent history of Taxol, interviewed NIH and BMS officials, and reviewed data on NIH's financial investment and …
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bonneville Power Administration: Obligations to Fish and Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest (open access)

Bonneville Power Administration: Obligations to Fish and Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Bonneville Power Administration produces a large portion of the Pacific Northwest's electric power, largely from hydroelectric projects in the Federal Columbia River Power System. Bonneville also has obligations to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife populations affected by these hydroelectric projects. In the past several years, Bonneville has experienced financial difficulties, in part because of rising costs of providing power, lower-than-projected revenue from selling surplus power, and drought conditions. Bonneville's financial situation may adversely affect fish and wildlife. Stakeholders have expressed concern that Bonneville has effectively reduced spending on fish and wildlife programs. This testimony addresses (1) Bonneville's statutory and other obligations to support fish and wildlife programs, (2) Bonneville's historical spending and other efforts in support of fish and wildlife, (3) Bonneville's current financial condition, (4) Bonneville's recent actions that affect fish and wildlife programs, and (5) challenges Bonneville faces in supplying electricity to the region while simultaneously protecting, mitigating and enhancing fish and wildlife."
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2003 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Joint Resolution 30 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Joint Resolution 30

Joint resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the provision of parks and recreational facilities by certain conservation and reclamation districts.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Iraq War: Defense Program Implications for Congress (open access)

Iraq War: Defense Program Implications for Congress

None
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment (open access)

Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment

The first part of the report gives a brief history of the flag protection issue, from the enactment of the flag protection act in 1968 through consideration of a constitutional amendment. The second part briefly summarizes the two decisions of the United States Supreme court.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Luckey, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
First Responder Initiative: Policy Issues and Options (open access)

First Responder Initiative: Policy Issues and Options

This report provides background information and policy analysis pertinent to proposals to restructure first responder assistance programs. Specifically, this report provides information on existing programs, appropriations, legislation in the 107th and 108th Congress, and selected policy issues. This report does not discuss all relevant policy issues, but, rather, those issues that may be germane to any significant restructuring of existing programs.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Canada, Ben
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2003 (open access)

The Wylie News (Wylie, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Weekly newspaper from Wylie, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Engbrock, Chad B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from TBAAL Management, June 4, 2003] (open access)

[Letter from TBAAL Management, June 4, 2003]

Letter from the Black Academy of Arts and Letters Management discussing the cancellation and rescheduling of the theatrical performance of 'Madea's Class Reunion' for July 8-13, 2003.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2003 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 67, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2003 (open access)

Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 67, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Semi-weekly newspaper from Seminole, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Fisher, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
A RESOLUTION ANALYSIS OF TWO GEOPHYSICAL IMAGING METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING AND MONITORING HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS IN THE VADOSE ZONE (open access)

A RESOLUTION ANALYSIS OF TWO GEOPHYSICAL IMAGING METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING AND MONITORING HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS IN THE VADOSE ZONE

The objective of this study is to characterize and analyze in-situ flow and transport within the vadose zone during a mid-scale hydrologic infiltration experiment. This project has employed numerical and experimental tools developed under a previously funded EMSP proposal (project number 55332) to provide 3-D unsaturated hydrologic property distributions. In the present project, geophysical imaging techniques have been employed to track analogue contaminant plumes. The results are providing a better understanding of transport modes including the influence of natural heterogeneities and man-made structures within the vadose zone at DOE sites. In addition the data is providing checks against which numerical flow and transport simulations can be compared
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Alumbaugh, David L. & Brainard, James R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Geochemical Data for the Unsaturated Zone (open access)

Analysis of Geochemical Data for the Unsaturated Zone

None
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Dixon, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Searches for new physics at D0 (open access)

Searches for new physics at D0

The integrated luminosity at Run 2 of the Tevatron is approaching the Run 1 total, and data analysis is progressing. New results in searches for new physics by the D0 experiment are presented in a variety of channels, demonstrating good performance of the detector and detailed understanding of the data.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Brooijmans, Gustaaf
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fermilab booster modeling and space charge study (open access)

Fermilab booster modeling and space charge study

The Fermilab Booster is a bottleneck limiting the proton beam intensity in the accelerator complex. A study group has been formed in order to have a better understanding of this old machine and seek possible improvements. The work includes lattice modeling, numerical simulations, bench measurements and beam studies. Based on newly obtained information, it has been found that the machine acceptance is severely compromised by the orbit bump and dogleg magnets. This, accompanied by emittance dilution from space charge at injection, is a major cause of the large beam loss at the early stage of the cycle. Measures to tackle this problem are being pursued.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: al., Weiren Chou et
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lattice function measurements of the Fermilab recycler ring (open access)

Lattice function measurements of the Fermilab recycler ring

The Fermilab Recycler ring, designed and built as an 8-GeV anti-proton storage ring, is at the final stage of its commissioning. Once integrated into the accelerator complex it is expected to help achieve the luminosity goal of Run II at Fermilab. The Recycler Ring is made up mostly of combined function magnets with a substantial sextupole component. Any orbit error could cause higher order feed-down and potentially change the machine. Lattice function measurements had been taken at various stages of the machine and the results are presented here.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Yang, Ming-Jen; Marchionni, Alberto & Mishra, Shekhar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barrier RF stacking at Fermilab (open access)

Barrier RF stacking at Fermilab

A key issue to upgrade the luminosity of the Tevatron Run2 program and to meet the neutrino requirement of the NuMI experiment at Fermilab is to increase the proton intensity on the target. This paper introduces a new scheme to double the number of protons from the Main Injector (MI) to the pbar production target (Run2) and to the pion production target (NuMI). It is based on the fact that the MI momentum acceptance is about a factor of four larger than the momentum spread of the Booster beam. Two RF barriers--one fixed, another moving--are employed to confine the proton beam. The Booster beams are injected off-momentum into the MI and are continuously reflected and compressed by the two barriers. Calculations and simulations show that this scheme could work provided that the Booster beam momentum spread can be kept under control. Compared with slip stacking, a main advantage of this new method is small beam loading effect thanks to the low peak beam current. The RF barriers can be generated by an inductive device, which uses nanocrystal magnet alloy (Finemet) cores and fast high voltage MOSFET switches. This device has been designed and fabricated by a Fermilab-KEK-Caltech team. The first …
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: al., Weiren Chou et
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
INCREASING HEAVY OIL RESERVES IN THE WILMINGTON OIL FIELD THROUGH ADVANCED RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION AND THERMAL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES (open access)

INCREASING HEAVY OIL RESERVES IN THE WILMINGTON OIL FIELD THROUGH ADVANCED RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION AND THERMAL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

The overall objective of this project is to increase heavy oil reserves in slope and basin clastic (SBC) reservoirs through the application of advanced reservoir characterization and thermal production technologies. The project involves improving thermal recovery techniques in the Tar Zone of Fault Blocks II-A and V (Tar II-A and Tar V) of the Wilmington Field in Los Angeles County, near Long Beach, California. A primary objective is to transfer technology which can be applied in other heavy oil formations of the Wilmington Field and other SBC reservoirs, including those under waterflood. The thermal recovery operations in the Tar II-A and Tar V have been relatively inefficient because of several producibility problems which are common in SBC reservoirs. Inadequate characterization of the heterogeneous turbidite sands, high permeability thief zones, low gravity oil, and nonuniform distribution of remaining oil have all contributed to poor sweep efficiency, high steam-oil ratios, and early steam breakthrough. Operational problems related to steam breakthrough, high reservoir pressure, and unconsolidated formation sands have caused premature well and downhole equipment failures. In aggregate, these reservoir and operational constraints have resulted in increased operating costs and decreased recoverable reserves. The advanced technologies to be applied include: (1) Develop three-dimensional …
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Hara, Scott
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charm physics at the Tevatron (open access)

Charm physics at the Tevatron

The cross section of p{bar p} into charm is very high compared to e{sup +}e{sup -}-machines, but it is orders of magnitude smaller than the total cross section of {approx} 100mb. This explains the need for a good trigger mechanism. Traditionally charm physics at hadron colliders relies on a lepton signature. For example, the decay of the J{psi} into two leptons or semi-leptonic decays of D-mesons. Both detectors at the Tevatron, CDF and D0 have undergone substantial upgrades for RUN II. CDF now exploits a new trigger technique selecting more abundant hadronic decays. First charm physics results from the CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron Run II are presented. With the addition of the Secondary Vertex Trigger CDF has become a competitive charm experiment.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Korn, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2 MW upgrade of the Fermilab Main Injector (open access)

2 MW upgrade of the Fermilab Main Injector

In January 2002, the Fermilab Director initiated a design study for a high average power, modest energy proton facility. An intensity upgrade to Fermilab's 120-GeV Main Injector (MI) represents an attractive concept for such a facility, which would leverage existing beam lines and experimental areas and would greatly enhance physics opportunities at Fermilab and in the U.S. With a Proton Driver replacing the present Booster, the beam intensity of the MI is expected to be increased by a factor of five. Accompanied by a shorter cycle, the beam power would reach 2 MW. This would make the MI a more powerful machine than the SNS or the J-PARC. Moreover, the high beam energy (120 GeV) and tunable energy range (8-120 GeV) would make it a unique high power proton facility. The upgrade study has been completed and published. This paper gives a summary report.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Chou, Weiren
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Top quark production cross-section at the Tevatron Run 2 (open access)

Top quark production cross-section at the Tevatron Run 2

The top quark pair production cross-section {sigma}{sub t{bar t}} has been measured in p{bar p} collisions at center of mass energies of 1.96 TeV using Tevatron Run 2 data. In the beginning of Run 2 both CDF and D0 {sigma}{sub t{bar t}} measurements in the dilepton channel t{bar t} {yields} WbW{bar b} {yields} {bar {ell}}{nu}{sub {ell}}b{ell}{prime} {bar {nu}}{sub {ell}{prime}}{bar b} and in the lepton plus jets channel t{bar t} {yields} WbW{bar b} {yields} q{bar q}{prime} b{ell}{bar {nu}}{sub {ell}}{bar b} + {bar {ell}}{nu}{sub {ell}}bq{bar q}{prime} {bar b} agree with the NLO (Next-to-Leading-Order) theoretical predictions. The presence of a top signal in Tevatron data has been reestablished.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Cabrera, S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
B physics at CDF (open access)

B physics at CDF

B physics is at the core of the CDF agenda for Run II. With the Tevatron performance gradually improving, samples of data corresponding to about 70 pb{sup -1} are now available. Due to improved detector capabilities these data already allow one to improve a number of Run I results, as well as perform a series of new measurements. We present an overview of the current state of B physics at CDF.
Date: June 4, 2003
Creator: Anikeev, K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library