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: Authority of Department of Corrections to spend building appropriation on employment of guards.

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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.

The combined electrolysis-catalytic-exchange pilot system was modified to improve the reliability of the unit for continuous operation. An experimental run for 60 consecutive hours using a single catalytic exchange column was made to estimate values of height of a transfer unit and height equivalent to a theoretical plate for the pilot system. The calculated values were in agreement with existing data from a bench-scale system. Further experiments were performed with the cryogenic hydrogen isotope distillation system, this time using H/sub 2/-HT mixtures. A mixture containing approximately 250 Ci/m/sup 3/ of HT in H/sup 2/ was stripped to less than 0.1 Ci/m/sup 3/, while a product of 1100 Ci/m/sup 3/ was recovered. Two experiments were successful in separating gaseous hydrogen containing tritium from tritiated water. Initial tritium concentrations of the water were approximately 1 and 10 Ci/cm/sup 3/. Radiolytic damage tests of a hydrophobic exchange catalyst being used in the development of a process to recover tritium from tritiated waste water are reported. Triplicate samples of cement, cement-plaster (1:1 ratio by weight), and cement-plaster (1:1 ratio by volume) were injected with 386 Ci of tritium, cured for five days, and then impregnated with catalyzed styrene monomer. After polymerization, the samples were …