This report discusses in detail the information related to cash incentives and work incentive provisions under welfare programs.

This report discusses the issue of whether the President has the power to commit military forces to service abroad without Congressional approval and if he does have this power, how much can he do with it. Various proposals to clarify or fix the issue are discussed.

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;Authority of County Commissioners to authorize flooding of public roads , and related questions.

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: Authority of Texas Water Development Board to make a commitment to political subdivisions to purchase their bonds in the future, subject to later availability of monies in the Texas Water Development Fund, and related questions.

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: Constitutionality of S. B. 925, 62nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1971, relating to the status of an area annexed to a wet justice precinct in certain counties.

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: Constitutionality of H. B. 56, 62nd Leg., R.S. (Environmental Protection Act of 1971).

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This report discusses the development, use, and future outlook of electronic payment systems as well as addressing various electronic banking issues and policy.

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; Time to apply for homestead exemption provided under Sec. 1-b(b) of Article 8 of the Texas Constitution

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: May Harris County Commissioners court constitutionally issue revenue bonds under Clean Air Financing Act?

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; Purposes for which the Department of Corrections may expend moneys from the Educational & Recreation Fund.

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; Use of certain line item appropriations by the Texas Department of Corrections.

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; Applicability of Texas Antiquities Code to proposed demolition of buildings by the Dallas Community College.

The regional climate around the Nevada Test Site (NTS) is described. Emphasis is placed on the wind direction and speed and the atmospheric stability in Area 410. Included are estimates of the fastest winds expected in tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. Three accident scenarios in Area 410 are covered: dispersal of 1 kg of /sup 239/Pu from explosion of 68 kg (150 pounds) of high explosives; release of gross fission products from a 10/sup 19/ fission accident resulting from inadvertent formation of a critical mass; and accidental detonation of a 100-ton fission primary. An Instantaneous Point Source (IPS) code was developed and is explained. The IPS code estimates concentrations in the surface air of radioactive particles that have negligible settling rates (have a radius less than 5 ..mu..m). For each accident, this code calculated and plotted contour maps that show the estimated exposures of the area to radioactive particles from the explosion.

An investigation was conducted to demonstrate application of freeze blocking in waste transfer lines such that a hydrostatic pressure test can be applied. A shop test was conducted on a 20-foot length, 3-inch schedule 40, carbon steel pipe using a coolant of dry ice and Freon. The positive results from these tests prompted a similar employment of the freeze block method in hydrostatic pressure testing the feed inlet leading to 241-S-101 Waste Tank. This pipeline is a 3-inch schedule 10, stainless steel pipe approximately 800 feet long. The freeze block was formed near the lower end of the pipe as it entered the 101-S Waste Tank and a pressure hold test was applied to this pipeline. This test proved the integrity of the pipeline in question, and demonstrated the validity of freeze blocking an open-ended pipeline which could not be hydrotested in other conventional ways. The field demonstration facility, costing $30,200 was completed late in 1975.

Premature failures during proof testing of pressurized-gas-metal-arc (PGMA) welded beryllium assemblies were investigated. The failures were almost entirely within the beryllium (a forming grade, similar to HP-10 or S-240), close to and parallel to the weld interface. The aluminum-silicon weld filler metal deposit was not centered in the weld groove in the failed assemblies, and failure occurred on the side of the weld opposite the bias in the weld deposit. Tensile tests of welded samples demonstrated that the failures were unrelated to residual machining damage from cutting the weld groove, and indicated small lack-of-fusion areas near the weld start to be the most likely origin of the failures. Acoustic emission was monitored during tensile tests of the welds. The majority of acoustic emission was probably from crack propagation through the weld filler metal. Tensile bars cut from the region of the weld start behaved differently; they failed at lower loads and exhibited an acoustic emission behavior believed to be from cracking in the weld metal-beryllium interface. Improvement in the quality of these and similar beryllium welds can therefore most likely be made by centering the weld deposit and reducing the size of the weld start defect. 21 fig.

A CO/sub 2/ laser system has been developed at LLL to provide hot start-up plasmas for magnetic mirror fusion experiments. A frozen ammonia pellet is irradiated with a laser power density in excess of 10/sup 13/ W/cm/sup 2/ in a 50-ns pulse. This system uses commercially available laser systems. Optical components were fabricated both by direct machining and standard techniques. The technologies used in this system are directly applicable to reactor scale systems.

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A quality-assurance program for tritium-handling systems at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory tritium facility has been developed. Operational guidelines governing system design, construction, and testing have been written. A certified-material storeroom has been established to procure and distribute high-quality materials. Ten systems are currently being modified under the new guidelines.

A laboratory version of a process to clean contaminated deuterated polyethylene (CD/sub 2/) was modified slightly and scaled up to produce 2 lb of clean, reusable CD/sub 2/ polymer. A complete cycle of the process is: (1) Melt the CD/sub 2/ polymer at 30 vol percent in xylene at 105 to 110/sup 0/C. (2) Pressure filter the hot solution at 103 to 138 kPa (15 to 20 psi). (3) Cool the solution to precipitate the polymer and separate it from the liquor. (4) Vacuum dry the precipitate at about 266 Pa and 37/sup 0/C.

An extensive literature search was made to locate technical publications and computer programs relating to wellbore temperatures during drilling operations. Publications obtained are listed in the References. Two approaches were used in calculating borehole temperatures: The steady state solution of Holmes and Swift was programmed and 2100 cases calculated for various borehole configurations. For transient temperature studies, Exxon Production Research Co. made calculations for ten borehole configurations under subcontract. These calculations emphasize the need for better high temperature bit performance and improved engineering procedures in drilling.

An extensive literature search was made to locate technical publications and computer programs relating to wellbore temperatures during drilling operations. The search confirmed the need for knowledge of transient and steady state circulating temperatures in the design of geothermal bits. Two approaches were used in calculating borehole temperatures. The steady state solution of Holmes and Swift was programmed and 2100 cases calculated for various borehole configurations. For transient temperature studies, calculations were made for ten borehole configurations. These calculations help emphasize the need for better high temperature bit performance and improved engineering procedures in drilling. The conclusions and recommendations are based on latest available technology for calculating wellbore temperatures.

This compilation lists abstracts of papers, internal reports, and talks presented during 1976 at national and international meetings by members of the Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Subjects include: coal gasification, gas stimulation, geothermal fields, oil shale retorting, radioactive waste management, geochemistry, geophysics, seismology, explosive phenomenology, and miscellaneous studies.