The 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (open access)

The 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review

This report provides an update to the five basic homeland security missions set forth by the first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review in 2010. They include: prevent terrorism and enhance security, secure and manage our borders, enforce and administer our immigration laws, safeguard and secure cyberspace, and strengthen national preparedness and resilience.
Date: June 2014
Creator: United States. Department of Homeland Security.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2015 CASTNET Annual Network Plan (open access)

2015 CASTNET Annual Network Plan

This is the 2015 Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) measurements. These sites managed measure acidic pollutants and ambient ozone concentrations in rural settings.
Date: June 30, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Atmospheric Programs. Clean Air Markets Division.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

2015 Paid Leave Analysis Grants: Prospective Applicant Webinar

This presentation is a webinar to discuss eligibility, application requirements, and evaluation criteria for the paid leave analysis grants.
Date: June 24, 2015
Creator: Watson, Laura & Gupta, Pronita
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
2016 USAID Staffing Report to Congress (open access)

2016 USAID Staffing Report to Congress

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is pleased to provide the following report pursuant to House Report 114-154 accompanying H.R. 2772, which details “the number of people employed by USAID, the category of employment (direct hire, personal service contractor, Participating Agency Service Agreement, and similar categories), the veteran status of direct hires employed by USAID, the office or overseas post to which they are assigned or detailed, the appropriation account used to fund the employees, specific legislative authority needed to hire the employees, and, if hired by another Federal agency, the additional administrative expenses charged by that agency,” and, “staffing levels and position titles for all Washington-based and overseas employees by bureau, office or other unit.” USAID utilizes multiple hiring mechanisms to accomplish its work and deliver on its mission to end extreme poverty. Congress has provided authorities to USAID that allow for multiple employment arrangements. This allows the Agency to provide effective project design, implementation, and oversight of USAID-managed and co-managed programs. The nature of the work is usually the primary driver in determining the most appropriate type of employment mechanism. In response to the reporting requirement, USAID provides the following information in five sections: Detail of …
Date: June 2016
Creator: United States. Agency for International Development.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: 2013 Fact Sheet (open access)

Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: 2013 Fact Sheet

Fact sheet related to solid waste management in the United States.
Date: June 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures 2013 (open access)

Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures 2013

This report discusses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencies collected and reported data on the generation and disposal of wast in the United States over a 30 year period.
Date: June 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Oil Services Contract Industry in the Gulf of Mexico Region (open access)

Analysis of the Oil Services Contract Industry in the Gulf of Mexico Region

This is a study on the search and production of offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Kaplan, Maureen F.; Giberson, Sara & Metivier, Dina
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Energy Outlook 2012: with Projections to 2035 (open access)

Annual Energy Outlook 2012: with Projections to 2035

The Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (AEO2010), prepared by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), presents long-term projections of energy supply, demand, and prices through 2035, based on results from EIA's National Energy Modeling System (NEMS).
Date: June 2012
Creator: United States. Energy Information Administration.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archival Investigations for Potential Colonial-Era Shipwrecks in Ultra-Deepwater within the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Archival Investigations for Potential Colonial-Era Shipwrecks in Ultra-Deepwater within the Gulf of Mexico

A report on the primary archival material relative to early vessel losses in Ultra-Deepwater within the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Krivor, Michael C.; de Bry, John; Linville, Nicholas J. & Wells, Debra J.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Articles, Materials, and Supplies Manufactured Outside of U.S., Fiscal Year 2008 (open access)

Articles, Materials, and Supplies Manufactured Outside of U.S., Fiscal Year 2008

A letter sent to multiple people reporting on the status of the purchases of articles, materials, and supplies manufactured outside of the United States for Fiscal Year 2008.
Date: June 8, 2009
Creator: Milligan, Chris
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aspects of the Louisiana Coastal Current (open access)

Aspects of the Louisiana Coastal Current

This report is about the status of existing reduced dimensional models of the dynamics of the Louisiana Coastal Current. Local, wind-driven models reproduce credibly the flow variability during the winter season.
Date: June 2005
Creator: United States. Coastal Marine Institute.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas on Drinking Water Resources (open access)

Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas on Drinking Water Resources

"This report synthesizes available scientific literature and data to assess the potential for hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas to change the quality or quantity of drinking water resources, and identifies factors affecting the frequency or severity of any potential changes."
Date: June 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Association of Sea Turtles with Petroleum Platforms in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Association of Sea Turtles with Petroleum Platforms in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico

A report on the determination of density for five endangered sea turtle species in the vicinity of Gulf of Mexico drilling platforms no longer in use and slated for removal using explosives.
Date: June 1990
Creator: Lohoefener, Ren; Hoggard, Wayne; Mullin, Keith; Roden, Carol & Rogers, Carolyn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atmospheric Deposition and Biogeochemistry of Mercury and other Trace Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems, Final Project Report Part II: Mercury Studies 2002-2004 (open access)

Atmospheric Deposition and Biogeochemistry of Mercury and other Trace Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems, Final Project Report Part II: Mercury Studies 2002-2004

This report summarizes the mercury studies, and has two main objectives. First to summarize the findings of biogeochemical investigations in the Devils Lake watershed during 2002, 2003, and 2004 and compare them to findings for other lakes. The second objective is to compile and tabulate the large amount of mercury data that are collected so that they will be usefule to the Tribe in future studies.
Date: June 2006
Creator: Morrison, K. A. & Watras, C. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilots: Ideas and Lessons Learned for Communities (open access)

Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilots: Ideas and Lessons Learned for Communities

This publication is the U.S. EPA's Brownsfields Area-Wide Planning program as the EPA attempt to assist communities cleanup and reuse properties and surrounding areas.
Date: June 2014
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilots: Summary of Ideas and Lessons Learned for Communities (open access)

Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilots: Summary of Ideas and Lessons Learned for Communities

This document is the summary of ideas and lessons learned for communities under the Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilots.
Date: June 2014
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
California's Paid Family Leave Law: Lessons from the First Decade (open access)

California's Paid Family Leave Law: Lessons from the First Decade

This is a report covering California's paid family leave law during its first ten years.
Date: June 23, 2014
Creator: Bartel, Ann, Ph.D.; Baum, Charles, Ph.D.; Rossin-Slater, Maya, Ph.D.; Ruhm, Christopher, Ph.D. & Waldfogel, Jane, Ph.D.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
California's Paid Family Leave Law-Lessons from the First Decade (open access)

California's Paid Family Leave Law-Lessons from the First Decade

This report looks at the first ten years of California's paid family leave law.
Date: June 23, 2014
Creator: Bartel, Ann, Ph.D.; Baum, Charles, Ph.D.; Rossin-Slater, Maya, Ph.D.; Ruhm, Christopher, Ph.D. & Waldfogel, Jane, Ph.D.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
CASTNET 2015 Annual Network Plan - Response to Comments (open access)

CASTNET 2015 Annual Network Plan - Response to Comments

This document contains responses to CASTET's network plans during 2015.
Date: June 30, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization and Potential Impacts of Noise Producing Construction and Operation Activities on the Outer Continental Shelf: Data Synthesis (open access)

Characterization and Potential Impacts of Noise Producing Construction and Operation Activities on the Outer Continental Shelf: Data Synthesis

A report providing a statistical description of ambient sound levels for one year at two locations on the outer continental shelf likely to be developed for offshore wind-energy production.
Date: June 2014
Creator: Martin, Bruce; Zeddies, David; MacDonnell, Jeff; Vallarta, Jonathan & Delarue, Julien
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of Algal-Invertebrate Mats at CMI Study Platforms: Developing Survey Design and Quality Assurance for Artificial Substrate Studies (open access)

Characterization of Algal-Invertebrate Mats at CMI Study Platforms: Developing Survey Design and Quality Assurance for Artificial Substrate Studies

Report summary that investigated and analyzed algal fouling of three offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico in order to develop efficient and effective guidelines for future, wider area, long-term studies of algal fouling.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Carney, Robert S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of Algal-Invertebrate Mats at Offshore Platforms and the Assessment of Methods for Artificial Substrate Studies (open access)

Characterization of Algal-Invertebrate Mats at Offshore Platforms and the Assessment of Methods for Artificial Substrate Studies

This report is about the composition of biofouling communities for three different offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Research methods included a video survey, high resolution photography, scrape samples, and settling plates.
Date: June 2015
Creator: Carney, R. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Safety Alert: Emergency Isolation for Hazardous Material Fluid Transfer Systems - Applications and Limitations of Excess Flow Valves (open access)

Chemical Safety Alert: Emergency Isolation for Hazardous Material Fluid Transfer Systems - Applications and Limitations of Excess Flow Valves

This edition of Alert by the EPA looks at excessive flow valves.
Date: June 2007
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Power Plan: Meeting State Goals (open access)

Clean Power Plan: Meeting State Goals

A presentation pertaining to a proposal to reduce carbon pollution.
Date: June 26, 2014
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library