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Lightning Hazard to Facilities Handling Flammable Substances (open access)

Lightning Hazard to Facilities Handling Flammable Substances

A report that discusses lightning strikes which could impact storage spaces and equipment that can cause devastating accidents in facilities.
Date: May 1997
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rupture Hazard of Pressure Vessels (open access)

Rupture Hazard of Pressure Vessels

A report about the hazards of maintaining pressure vessels. Improperly operated pressure vessels can kill and injure workers and others, and cause extensive damage even if the contents are benign.
Date: May 1997
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workshop on Deepwater Environmental Studies Strategy: A Five-Year Follow-Up and Planning for the Future (open access)

Workshop on Deepwater Environmental Studies Strategy: A Five-Year Follow-Up and Planning for the Future

The purpose of the workshop was to 1) review the current status of industry activity in deepwater; 2) discuss any new environmental and/or social issues that have come to light since the first workshop; and 3) to examine information syntheses and data gaps identified during objectives one and two.
Date: May 2003
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Impact in the U.S. of Deepwater Projects: A Survey of Five Projects (open access)

Economic Impact in the U.S. of Deepwater Projects: A Survey of Five Projects

This survey report discusses deepwater projects centered in the Gulf Coast. Their study is interested in vendors or contractors supplying the equipment used on the deck and process in extracting oil. The authors are also interested in the socioeconomic effects of the oil extracting on local communities.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Stiff, John J. & Singelmann, Joachim
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strong Mid-Depth Currents and a Deep Cyclonic Gyre in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Strong Mid-Depth Currents and a Deep Cyclonic Gyre in the Gulf of Mexico

This report is about the exploration of the possibility that the deep flow around the edges of the Gulf circulates in a cyclonic, or counter-clockwise direction. The existence of this flow was purely theoretical but this study shows that such is observed reliably.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Sturges, Wilton; Chassignet, Eric & Ezer, Tal
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recommendations for Independent Science Review (open access)

Recommendations for Independent Science Review

A document pertaining to water resource development projects in the United States. These projects are complex and the Corps of Engineers must balance local and national goals with a limited budget used to manage river and coastal systems.
Date: May 13, 2004
Creator: Environmental Advisory Board
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling Structure Removal Processes in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Modeling Structure Removal Processes in the Gulf of Mexico

The purpose of this report is to describe the operational aspects of removal processes in the GOM and to develop a production-based model to forecast the removal of offshore structures.
Date: May 2005
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior. Minerals Management Service. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Degradation of Synthetic-Based Drilling Mud Base Fluids by Gulf of Mexico Sediments: Final Report (open access)

Degradation of Synthetic-Based Drilling Mud Base Fluids by Gulf of Mexico Sediments: Final Report

Report on a predictor model that determines the degradation rate of Synthetic-based fluids (SBF) from deep-sea drilling and assesses the impact of SBFs on the sediment microbial ecology in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: May 2006
Creator: Roberts, Deborah J. & Nguyen, Alan H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mixtures of Metals and Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons May Elicit Complex, Nonadditive Toxicological Interactions (open access)

Mixtures of Metals and Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons May Elicit Complex, Nonadditive Toxicological Interactions

This is a study on the possible effects of metals and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons elevated due to possible proximity to oil and gas production platforms.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Fleeger, John W.; Marlborough, Sidney J.; Carman, Kevin R. & Silva, Soroya
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water resources, and Biodiversity in the United States (open access)

The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water resources, and Biodiversity in the United States

A report which provides an assessment of the effects of climate change on U.S. agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change: National Security Implications (open access)

Global Climate Change: National Security Implications

A report about climate change becoming a national security threat.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Pumphrey, Carolyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States (open access)

Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States

This report not only addresses climate change, but also other change in the global environment, including water resources, oceans, atmospheric chemistry, land productivity, and ecological systems that may alter the capacity of Earth to sustain life.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Key Provisions that Take Effect Immediately (open access)

Key Provisions that Take Effect Immediately

A paper about affordable health care in the united states. It pertains to changes taking place for small businesses, seniors, the privately insured, and the uninsured.
Date: May 3, 2010
Creator: Pelosi, Nancy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrating Adaptation in Hazard Mitigation Planning Efforts (open access)

Integrating Adaptation in Hazard Mitigation Planning Efforts

A presentation that discusses the NHMA, hazard mitigation, challenges of mitigation, examples of hazard prevention, and funding that can be used.
Date: May 1, 2013
Creator: Klima, Kelly & Jerolleman, Alessandra
System: The UNT Digital Library
The President's Malaria Initiative: Seventh Annual Report to Congress (open access)

The President's Malaria Initiative: Seventh Annual Report to Congress

A report about combating malaria in Africa. It offers statistics and methods used for fighting malaria.
Date: May 2013
Creator: United State. Agency for International Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking Adaptation Efforts (open access)

Tracking Adaptation Efforts

A presentation about global warming and implementing changes to mitigate climate change.
Date: May 1, 2013
Creator: Burgess, Scott
System: The UNT Digital Library
User's Guide and Metadata for WestuRe: U.S. Pacific Coast Estuary/Watershed Data and R Tools (open access)

User's Guide and Metadata for WestuRe: U.S. Pacific Coast Estuary/Watershed Data and R Tools

A report about the WestuRe Project. The goal of this project is to create a framework to make general descriptive data for estuaries and their watersheds more accessible. It also aims to provide tools to make analyzing and visualizing this data easier.
Date: May 2013
Creator: Frazier, D.A.; Ruesser, D. A.; Lee II, H.; McCoy, L. M.; Brown, C. & Nelson, W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aid Transparency Country Pilot Assessment (open access)

Aid Transparency Country Pilot Assessment

The primary goals of this report is to find how much demand partnering countries have for information the U.S. Government is making available for international aid, review how well partnering countries are able to access the information, inform partnering countries of the available international aid data, and recommend ways to improve data sharing and use.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Unites States. Agency International Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2014 Third Edition: Technical Documentation (open access)

Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2014 Third Edition: Technical Documentation

This is a technical document in regards to climate change. The document covers measurements and calculation methods, explains how to obtaining data, estimates of variability and uncertainty, and provides references and sources.
Date: May 2014
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Healthcare Disparities Report 2013 (open access)

National Healthcare Disparities Report 2013

This report summarizes data gathered to address three key questions: what is the status of health care quality, access and disparities in the United States, How have health care quality; access and disparities changed over time; where are health care quality, access, and disparities improving and where are they getting worse.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report of The President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing (open access)

Final Report of The President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

This is a report on President Barack Obama's executive order that created the Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
Date: May 2015
Creator: President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulations Implementing Section 1417 of the SDWA: Prohibition on Use of Lead Pipes, Soldner and Flux Public Webinar (open access)

Regulations Implementing Section 1417 of the SDWA: Prohibition on Use of Lead Pipes, Soldner and Flux Public Webinar

A few presentations that provide the water utility perspective on the lead free requirements including lessons learned by Philadelphia Water Department in complying with the RLDWA.
Date: May 14, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Summit on Creativity and Aging in America (open access)

The Summit on Creativity and Aging in America

A document that acknowledges an increasing number of people who are elderly in the Unite States. It discusses impacts that this causes as well as ways to adjust to this demographic shift.
Date: May 18, 2015
Creator: The Summit on Creativity and Aging in America
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Analysis of the EPA-Army Clean Water Rule (open access)

Economic Analysis of the EPA-Army Clean Water Rule

This report of the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of the Army discusses a final rule revising the definition of the regulatory term "waters of the United States". This term identifies waters which are, and are not, subject to the Clean Water Act (CSA).
Date: May 20, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library