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United States Bureau of Mines Reports
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Railroad Safety—U.S.-Canadian Comparison
This report represents a significant cooperative effort on the part of Canadian and U.S. Government agencies, railroads, and labor groups in creating mutual understanding of railroad safety policy and programs.
Date:
August 1979
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Michigan Basin with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes
From introduction: The purpose of this report is to describe the geology of the rocks in the different sedimentary basins in relation to problems of disposal of liquid radioactive wastes in the ground.
Date:
July 1960
Creator:
de Witt, Wallace, Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adsorbent Clays: Their Distribution, Properties, Production, and Uses
From Abstract: "This bulletin is a summary of present knowledge of the adsorbent or bleaching clays-their distribution, field and laboratory identification, physical and chemical properties, uses, quality, and value. Problems in the drying, treating with acids, and washing are discussed, and methods of testing and rating decolorizing efficiency are described."
Date:
1943
Creator:
Nutting, P. G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Archean and Early Proterozoic Tectonic Framework of North-Central United States and Adjacent Canada
From abstract: This report contains the analysis of the southern part of the Canadian Shield and the subsurface of the southern interior platform where they comprise two Archean cratons and three Early Proterozoic collisional orogens.
Date:
1995
Creator:
Sims, P. K. (Paul Kibler), 1918-2011
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Softwood Lumber Imports From Canada: Current Issues
This report discusses the softwood lumber (conifer wood) disputes between the U.S. and Canada. There have been five major disputes since the 1980s with the fifth dispute (Lumber V) having started in 2016 after the expiration of a 2006 softwood lumber agreement. The report provides background information on the dispute, summarizes the key issues leading to the tensions between the United States and Canada over softwood lumber, and examines current developments in Lumber V.
Date:
May 19, 2017
Creator:
Hoover, Katie & Fergusson, Ian F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Keystone XL Pipeline: Recent Developments
This report discusses the Keystone XL Pipeline and the recent route modification and its effects on permits and permissions needed. A brief overview of the controversy regarding the pipeline and areas of land that require various permits to cross are included.
Date:
November 21, 2017
Creator:
Parfomak, Paul W. & Carter, Nicole T.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lithium Resources of North America
Report discussing the various resources of lithium for the United States and Canada. The report contains information regarding the geology of lithium in the U.S. and Canada, lithium reserves and resources, and the future of the lithium mining industry.
Date:
October 1954
Creator:
Norton, James J. & Schlegel, Dorothy McKenney
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Biology and Population Status of Marine Turtles in the North Pacific Ocean
From objectives and scope of work: The objective of this report is to provide a comprehensive review of the biology and population status of sea turtles potentially subject to entanglement in North Pacific high-seas driftnet fisheries. The report will assist National Marine Fisheries Service efforts to assess the impacts of the driftnet fisheries on threatened and endangered sea turtle populations.
Date:
September 1993
Creator:
Eckert, Karen L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Open Skies Treaty: Issues in the Current Debate
This report discuses the Open Skies Treaty that was signed in 1992 and began operation in 2002 between 34 countries in Europe and North America including the U.S. It allows member countries to fly unarmed observation flights with cameras and video capabilities within certain parameters in other member countries territory without air-space restrictions over military installations and activities to increase transparency and help prevent accidental war. Recent noncompliance by Russia in certain areas is also discussed.
Date:
August 10, 2017
Creator:
Woolf, Amy F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Softwood Lumber Dispute Lumbers On: Preliminary Countervailing Duties on Canadian Softwood Lumber Announced, Parts 1 & 2
This report discusses countervaling duties which are charged on items entering the U.S. whose makers are supported by government subsidies in their country. Part 1 provides a general background on countervailing duties and the procedures that result in the imposition of these types of duties. Part II explores the Canadian softwood lumber dispute in more detail, providing a history of this thirty-year dispute and details about the status of the current countervailing duty investigation.
Date:
April 28, 2017
Creator:
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NAFTA Renegotiation and Modernization
This report provides a brief overview of The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the role of Congress in the renegotiation process. It discusses key issues that are likely to be discussed during the current negotiations, and it provides a discussion of policy implications for Congress going forward.
Date:
October 12, 2017
Creator:
Villarreal, M. Angeles & Fergusson, Ian F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Imports of Canadian Waste
This report provides background information on the history of Canadian waste imports, reviews congressional developments, and discusses issues raised by the voluntary agreement and legislation.
Date:
February 4, 2008
Creator:
McCarthy, James E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mad Cow Disease and U.S. Beef Trade
This report discusses the international beef market and U.S. efforts to regain foreign markets that banned U.S. beef when a Canadian-born cow in Washington state tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in December 2003.
Date:
June 4, 2008
Creator:
Hanrahan, Charles E. & Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Inventory of Unpublished Climatological Tabulations: Section 4. Summaries of General Weather Conditions, Ceiling Heights, and Visibilities, Monthly and Annual.
This report outlines weather conditions in 300 hundred stations in the United States, Canada, and Pacific Islands in four figures: (1) Monthly General Weather Conditions, (2) Monthly Ceiling Heights, (3) Monthly Visibility, and (4) Annual Summaries of General Weather, Ceiling Heights, and Visibility; a list at the end also documents additional available information by station location.
Date:
April 1, 1954
Creator:
United States. Department of Commerce.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Killing of Baby Seals
This report is a response to a mail campaign concerning a letter published about the killing of baby seals in Canada.
Date:
November 7, 1969
Creator:
Shaw, Elmer W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Canada’s WTO Case Against U.S. Agricultural Support: A Brief Overview
This report contains a brief overview of Canada's World Trade Organization (WTO) case against U.S. agricultural support.
Date:
September 18, 2007
Creator:
Schnepf, Randy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
United States-Canada Trade and Economic Relationship: Prospects and Challenges
This report discusses trade and economic relationship between the United States and Canada, which conduct the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship.
Date:
September 14, 2011
Creator:
Fergusson, Ian F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oil Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline: Background and Selected Environmental Issues
This report focuses on selected environmental concerns raised in conjunction with the proposed pipeline and the oil sands crude it will transport. As such, the environmental issues discussed in this report do not represent an exhaustive list of concerns and issues. Moreover, many of the environmental concerns are not unique to oil sands. One could compose analogous lists for all forms of energy: coal, natural gas, nuclear, biofuels, conventional crude oil. Therefore, the oil sands/pipeline issues discussed in this report, when practicable, will be compared to other energy sources, particularly conventional crude oil development.
Date:
April 14, 2014
Creator:
Ramseur, Jonathan L.; Lattanzio, Richard K.; Luther, Linda; Parfomak, Paul W. & Carter, Nicole T.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NAFTA at Ten: Lessons from Recent Studies
This report provides an analytical summary of the economic lessons reached in support of Congress's role in the trade policy process. On January 1, 2004, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) completed its tenth year and most of its provisions are now implemented. NAFTA is a free trade agreement (FTA) that effectively added Mexico to the U.S.-Canada FTA completed in 1989. Its anniversary has sparked numerous evaluations, which are particularly relevant as the United States pursues free trade agreements with multiple Latin American countries. Most studies found that NAFTA's effects on the U.S. and Mexican economies to be modest at most.
Date:
February 13, 2004
Creator:
Hornbeck, J. F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Canadian Hog Trade Dispute
United States and Canada's hog industry, noting how live Canadian hogs do not affect the U.S hog business.
Date:
April 6, 2005
Creator:
Becker, Geoffrey S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Canadian Financial System
From Summary: This report describes Canada's financial system; comparisons to U.S. and other systems are for the most part left to the reader.
Date:
June 10, 2002
Creator:
Miles, Barbara L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Canada’s WTO Case Against U.S. Aggregate Measure of Support (AMS)
This report provides background on both the U.S. and Canadian corn sectors as well as the historical development of their corn trade dispute.In addition, it discusses the potential implications of the case for U.S. farm policy.
Date:
September 7, 2007
Creator:
Schnepf, Randy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Canada-U.S. Relations
This report provides a short overview of Canada's political scene, its economic conditions, and its recent security and foreign policy, focusing particularly on issues that may be relevant to U.S. policymakers.
Date:
May 15, 2007
Creator:
Ek, Carl; Fergusson, Ian F.; Nuñez-Neto, Blas; Clarke, Stephen F.; Abel, Amy; Sheikh, Pervaze A. et al.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NAFTA at Ten: Lessons from Recent Studies
This report provides an analytical summary of the economic lessons reached in support of Congress's role in the trade policy process, especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Date:
February 13, 2004
Creator:
Hornbeck, J. F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library