A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Questions concering the assumption of the assessment and collection of taxes on behalf of the City of Big Spring by the Tax Assessor-Collector of Howard County.

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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county may contract with a private organization for the operation of a rape crisis center.

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Article 880d, Vernon's Penal Code, applies to the use of exotic species of falcons.

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Questions relating to authority to act out of Texas under a Texas license issued by the Texas Board of Examiners in the Fitting and Dispensing of Hearing Aids, reciprocity and renewal of such a license.

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Texas Election Code, Section 50 c, requires the district clerk to report to the registrar of voters felony convictions resulting in probated sentences.

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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Operations of a medical clinic in Waller County; Operations of a medical clinic in Waller County.

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This report is about the national health planning and resources development act of 1974.

This report analyzes rural populations in congressional districts using data from the 1970 census, where a rural area is defined as a town or village of less than 10,000 people. Towns or villages with a population of less than 25,000 and 50,000 are considered as well.

This report provides an overview of proposed legislation in the 1st session of the 92nd Congress related to farm commodities.

The purpose of the acceptance testing was to demonstrate that the electrical heat source assembly (EHSA) has completed sufficient testing to satisfy the requirements set forth within the Kilowatt Isotope Power System (KIPS) Component Test Procedure (No. KIPS1020304) for the electrical heat source assembly. The results of the acceptance testing/analysis on the EHSA are presented.

A serious problem in the development of geothermal energy is the availability of durable and economical materials of construction for handling hot brine and steam. Hot brine and other aerated geothermal fluids are highly corrosive and they attack most conventional materials of construction. Brookhaven National Laboratory has been investigating the use of concrete polymer materials as alternate materials of construction for geothermal processes. To date, successful field tests have been demonstrated at the Geysers, US Bureau of Mines Corrosion Facility, and at the East Mesa Geothermal Facility. This is a survey of field and laboratory evaluations of concrete polymer materials which have been shown to be durable and economical as alternate materials of construction.

A simple mathematical model of a plutonium nitrate evaporator/concentrator is described and computer code calculations are tested against results from a more complex model. The computer code is capable of computing transient responses of the system to arbitrary stimuli input by the user in an interactive mode. The model is described in detail including mass and energy conservation equations as well as boundary conditions and other system constraints. A closed form solution which is valid under restricted conditions is also described. The results show agreement within a few percent between the simple and complex model calculations.

The results of the cost analysis of energy conservation design options for laundry products are presented. The analysis was conducted using two approaches. The first, is directed toward the development of industrial engineering cost estimates of each energy conservation option. This approach results in the estimation of manufacturers costs. The second approach is directed toward determining the market price differential of energy conservation features. The results of this approach are shown. The market cost represents the cost to the consumer. It is the final cost, and therefore includes distribution costs as well as manufacturing costs.

The quark--parton model is generalized to allow for arbitrarily large parton k/sub T/. Since it is expected that < k/sub T/ > will rise with Q/sup 2/ in (highly virtual) photon mediated processes, this generalization is necessary to restore the applicability of the quark-parton model. By treating k/sub T/ as an essential kinematical variable, the introduction of a new scaling variable z is considered. Together with Bjorken's x variable, a unified kinematical description is given of the four distribution functions: hadron structure functions and jet decay functions for spacelike and timelike photons. The possibility of a simple interpolating universal function is considered. Phenomenological determination of that function is examined in detail. Predictions on R, parton < k/sub T/ >, hadron < p/sub T/> in jets, etc., are made with the dimuon < q/sub T/ > being used as an input. The usual relation <q/sub T/ > = ..sqrt..2 < k/sub T > is shown to be false in the region where k/sub T/ is not small compared to k/sub L/, a situation which prevails in the production of dileptons recently measured. The k/sub T/ distributions for timelike and spacelike cases are shown to be not identical. The model is consistent …

This report describes a computer code, INREM II, which calculates the internal radiation dose equivalent to organs of man which results from the intake of a radionuclide by inhalation or ingestion. Deposition and removal of radioactivity from the respiratory tract is represented by the ICRP Task Group Lung Model. A four-segment catenary model of the GI tract is used to estimate movement of radioactive material that is ingested or swallowed after being cleared from the respiratory tract. Retention of radioactivity in other organs is specified by linear combinations of decaying exponential functions. The formation and decay of radioactive daughters is treated explicitly, with each radionuclide species in the chain having its own uptake and retention parameters, as supplied by the user. The dose equivalent to a target organ is computed as the sum of contributions from each source organ in which radioactivity is assumed to be situated. This calculation utilizes a matrix of S-factors (rem/..mu..Ci-day) supplied by the user for the particular choice of source and target organs. Output permits the evaluation of crossfire components of dose when penetrating radiations are present. INREM II is coded in FORTRAN IV and has been compiled and executed on an IBM-360 computer.

The study objectives are presented. Summary information on energy consumed and required in the marine transportation sector are included. Model outputs, a logic flowchart, information on a cost analysis approach, and fuel consumption and life-cycle cost methodologies are presented. Information is given on Task II (Potential Case Studies) and on Task III (Conservation Research and Development). Additional information on bottom-cycle applications and fuel consumption of diesel engines is given. (MCW)

A summary report of how far the major space powers have come from 1957 to 1975.

This report is a list of all bills introduced concerning penal reform and prisoner's rights during the first session of the 92nd Congress.

This reference contains information which details experiments done at the Hanford Reservation on communities of periphyton. These autoradiographic experiments examined the uptake of radioisotopes and diffusion of radioisotopes in the communities. Arguments were presented discussing the presentation of the results on an areal or gravimetric basis.

This report describes a computer code written in LLL modified Fortran IV that can be used on a CDC 7600 for calculating personnel doses due to exposures to tritium. The critical organ is body water. The code is capable of handling various exposure situations, and is also capable of detecting a large variety of data input errors that would lead to errors in the dose assessment.

A fast-neutron pinhole camera with high detection efficiency and nanosecond time-resolution has been developed and applied to the investigation of the spatial and temporal distributions of DD- and DT-neutrons produced by thermonuclear plasmas. The pinhole consists of a specially designed 1.15 m long copper collimator with an effective aperture of 1 mm diameter. Several different types of spatial resolution detectors have been used at the image plane: (1) a multi-element, scintillation-photomultiplier system used for time-resolved measurements consisting of sixty-one individual detectors, (2) a scintillation-fiber-chamber coupled to a gated image-intensifier tube used for direct photographing of the neutron image, and (3) a propane bubble chamber used for time-integrated recording with a capability to distinguish DD- from DT-neutrons. Pulsed neutron sources with typical dimensions of 1 cm emitting of the order of 10/sup 12/ neutrons over a time period of 10-100 nsec have been investigated. A spatial resolution of 1 mm and a time resolution of approximately 10 nsec was achieved in the investigations of dense plasma compression phenomena.

A series of shaped charge devices were designed and tested. The tests showed that by combining detailed Lagrange calculations of liner collapse with simplified incompressible flow models, the explosive and liner contours of the charge can be tailored to yield either constant velocity jets, stretching jets, or converging jets. Measured liner velocity was within 10 percent of theory, except for details near the apex and close to slide planes. It was found that the effects of liner convergence and viscosity had to be included in the incompressible flow models to accurately correlate liner velocity, collapse angles, and jet velocity.