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The Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education in Texas (open access)

The Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education in Texas

This is a brochure about the new advisory council for "The Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education in Texas".By reading this report you can understand about the relation between State government and the council and also the functions of the council.
Date: May 1970
Creator: Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education in Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Notice required for biodiesel and renewable diesel (open access)

Notice required for biodiesel and renewable diesel

Text of a notice regarding biodiesel fuel, stating that there are tax exemptions for the percentage of biodiesel and renewable diesel blended with taxable diesel fuel.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Combs, Susan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweet Potato Certification Program and List of Authorized Growers of Certified Sweet Potato Plants (open access)

Sweet Potato Certification Program and List of Authorized Growers of Certified Sweet Potato Plants

Agriculture bulletin describing the sweet potato certification project, with a listing of authorized growers and certified sweet potato plants.
Date: May 1930
Creator: Del Curto, J. M., 1897- & Crozier, E. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweet Potato Certification Program and List of Authorized Growers of Certified Sweet Potato Plants (open access)

Sweet Potato Certification Program and List of Authorized Growers of Certified Sweet Potato Plants

Bulletin describing the program to protect the sweet potato industry of Texas. Includes pest control laws, quarantine procedures, and more.
Date: May 1931
Creator: Del Curto, J. M., 1897- & Crozier, E. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Destroy the Common Barberry (open access)

Destroy the Common Barberry

Discusses the importance of eradicating the common barberry bush in order to prevent the spread of the disease black stem rust to wheat, oats, barley, rye, and wild grasses. Farmers are advised to dig up all common barberry bushes; however, Japanese barberry bushes are harmless and can remain, or farmers may even replace common barberry bushes with Japanese barberry bushes.
Date: May 1919
Creator: E. C. (Elvin Charles) Stakman, 1885-1979
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guide for Retirees and Families (open access)

Guide for Retirees and Families

This is a pamphlet published by the Employees Retirement System of Texas. The pamphlet provides information on new rules, changes to, and coverage of health care changes after September 1, 2010.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Employees Retirement System of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Energy Activities With Energy Ant (open access)

Energy Activities With Energy Ant

"This little friend has been created by the Federal Energy Administration to tell kids about energy and how to use it wisely" (p. i).
Date: May 1975
Creator: Federal Energy Administration. Office of Communications and Public Affairs.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Galveston Bay: Discover a Treasure in Your Own Backyard (open access)

Galveston Bay: Discover a Treasure in Your Own Backyard

A guide to Galveston Bay and its natural resources and ways to protect the bay from pollutants.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Galveston Bay Estuary Program
System: The Portal to Texas History
Woodpecker Damage: A Simple Solution to a Common Problem (open access)

Woodpecker Damage: A Simple Solution to a Common Problem

A guide to preventing woodpecker holes in buildings by providing nest boxes for the woodpeckers.
Date: May 2000
Creator: Shackelford, Clifford E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Landscape Irrigation (open access)

Landscape Irrigation

Pamphlet describing ways to be more water efficient and types of irrigation for use in lawns and gardens.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Take Care of Texas (Campaign)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Project Summary: Develop Metrics of Tire Debris on Texas Highways (open access)

Project Summary: Develop Metrics of Tire Debris on Texas Highways

Summary sheet describing research performed by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute regarding the development of metrics quantifying the extent and characteristics of tire debris on Texas highways.
Date: 2016-05~
Creator: Texas A & M Transportation Institute
System: The Portal to Texas History
Home Health & Hospice Care Nurse Staffing Study (open access)

Home Health & Hospice Care Nurse Staffing Study

This pamphlet provides information on the study that was conducted in response to the mounting concern about the state's growing shortage of nurses.
Date: May 2013
Creator: Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies
System: The Portal to Texas History
Las Cuatro R del Medio Ambiente Para la Casa: Reducir, Reutilizar, Reicilar y Recomprar. (open access)

Las Cuatro R del Medio Ambiente Para la Casa: Reducir, Reutilizar, Reicilar y Recomprar.

This pamphlet is in Spanish. The pamphlet presents ways to manage an environmentally sound home by learning to reduce, reuse, recycle, and repurchase.
Date: May 2003
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Environmental Four Rs for the Home: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rebuy (open access)

The Environmental Four Rs for the Home: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rebuy

A pamphlet providing tips on how to effectively reduce energy and water consumption and toxic waste while efficiently reusing and recycling products.
Date: May 2003
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
Managing 10 Common Texas Yard Pests (open access)

Managing 10 Common Texas Yard Pests

Pamphlet describing how to avoid and manage the ten most common yard pests in Texas with the least environmental impact: aphids, caterpillars, fleas, fire ants, chinch bugs, grubs, mosquitos, spider mites, snails and slugs, and beetles.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
Minor Source Rule: An Air Quality Rule for Equipment at Your Business [Part A] (open access)

Minor Source Rule: An Air Quality Rule for Equipment at Your Business [Part A]

This publication summarizes the TCEQ's air quality rules for controlling emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from certain combustion sources- equipment such as boilers, process heaters, stationary engines, and turbines.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
Minor Source Rule: An Air Quality Rule for Equipment at Your Business [Part B] (open access)

Minor Source Rule: An Air Quality Rule for Equipment at Your Business [Part B]

This publication will help you determine the emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from combustion devices.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
Minor Source Rule: An Air Quality Rule for Equipment at Your Business [Part C] (open access)

Minor Source Rule: An Air Quality Rule for Equipment at Your Business [Part C]

This publication summarizes the TCEQ's record-keeping and reporting requirements under rules covering minor sources of nitrogen oxides (NOx).
Date: May 2010
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
Public Participation in Environmental Permitting (open access)

Public Participation in Environmental Permitting

This brochure provides a brief overview of the public's rights and responsibilities in the environmental permitting process.
Date: May 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rainwater Harvesting with Rain Barrels (open access)

Rainwater Harvesting with Rain Barrels

This is a pamphlet published by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on harvesting rainwater in barrels.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
The TCEQ Border Initiative (open access)

The TCEQ Border Initiative

This document provides information about the "Texas Commission on Environmental Quality [TCEQ] cooperative effort to serve border residents. The TCEQ has individual projects and also works with local, state, and federal stakeholders to maximize efforts to improve the environment of the U.S.-Mexico border region." (p. 1).
Date: May 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
The TCEQ Border Initiative (open access)

The TCEQ Border Initiative

Report on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality border initiative and its accomplishments from 2013 through 2015.
Date: May 2015
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
New Technology Implementation Grants: Guidelines for Grants (open access)

New Technology Implementation Grants: Guidelines for Grants

Guidelines containing criteria for grants under the New Technology Implementation Grant (NTIG) program.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Air Quality Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Affected Property Assessment Requirements under TRRP (open access)

Affected Property Assessment Requirements under TRRP

This document outlines the requirements for defining the three-dimensional extent of the affected property and protective concentration level exceedance zone pursuant to the Texas Risk Reduction Plan (TRRP).
Date: May 2010
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Remediation Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History