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EPA Policy on Environmental Justice for Working with Federally Recognized Tribes and Indigenous Peoples (open access)

EPA Policy on Environmental Justice for Working with Federally Recognized Tribes and Indigenous Peoples

This is a policy statement on environmental principles from the EPA in order to involve indigenous peoples in EPA decisions that impact health and the environment.
Date: July 24, 2014
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1047 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1047

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submitted for clarification: Whether Education Code section 11.301 authorizes the citizens of Harris County to use repealed chapter 18 of the Education Code to increase the county equalization tax (RQ-1152-GA).
Date: March 24, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Curts, April 24, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Richard Curts, April 24, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Curts. Curts joined the Army in September, 1943 and trained in Oklahoma. Then he was assigned to the 252nd Engineer Combat Battalion. He landed in France in September, 1944. His unit built bridges and cleared mines from France to Belgium. He was on the front lines at the Battle of the Bulge. His unit was on its way to the Pacific when the war ended. Curts went home and was discharged in May, 1946.
Date: April 24, 2014
Creator: Curts, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Billy Dennard, October 24, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Billy Dennard, October 24, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Billy Dennard. Dennard was drafted into the Navy in September, 1944 and trained at San Diego before reporting aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13). He was aboard when a Japanese plane attacked the ship 50 miles off the coast of Japan in March, 1945. Dennard was rescued from below decks and stayed aboard the ship all the way back to New York. Dennard was discharged in June, 1946.
Date: October 24, 2014
Creator: Dennard, Billy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Herb Smith, March 24, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Herb Smith, March 24, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Herb Smith. Smith was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1920. In 1940 he entered Centenary College in Shreveport and participated in the Civilian Pilot Training Program. After completing the course he joined the Navy. After receiving his wings in July 1943 he went to Melbourne, Florida where he began training in the Grumman F6F fighter plane. Upon qualifying in carrier landings on Lake Michigan, he was sent to Guadalcanal in May 1944. He flew various combat missions from there. He then went to Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides and was assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 39. After several months he was assigned to VF-80 aboard the USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). Smith, with another Hellcat, was returning from an airstrike to the Ticonderoga and encountered fifteen Japanese planes. Smith and his wingman employed the Thach Weave, resulting in them shooting down several of the enemy. In December 1944 the Ticonderoga was caught in Typhoon Cobra. During a mission over Formosa, Smith’s group commander was forced to bail out. Smith protected him from the air until he was picked by an American submarine. On 21 January 1945, while Smith was airborne, …
Date: March 24, 2014
Creator: Smith, Herb
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Business and Commerce Code Revision (open access)

Texas Business and Commerce Code Revision

Part of the state's continuing statutory revision program, contemplating revision of the the state's Business and Commerce Code without substantive change.
Date: December 24, 2014
Creator: Texas Legislative Council
System: The Portal to Texas History