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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of municipality to approve, reject, or review rules adopted by fire and police civil service commission.

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Clarification of Letter of Opinion No. 97-31 (ID# 39633)

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether an individual may be compensated for serving both as a constable and as a courtroom bailiff (ID# 39429)

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Pampa Economic Development Corporation may contribute to a Clarendon College center im Pampa, Texas (ID# 39511)

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a city council may require that certain or all requests for zoning variances be directed to the city council rather than the zoning board of adjustment (ID# 39261)

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the commissioners court in a county with a public defender's office must provide funding to pay court-appointed attorneys who are not members of the public defender's office (RQ-913)

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Removal of persons appointed to county purchasing board and related questions (ID# 39418)

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether county may pay legal expenses incurred by sheriff in defending himself in a prosecution in criminal charges(ID# 39367).

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Texas Hazard Communication Act, chapter 502, Health and Safety Code, which provides "employees" with accessibility to certain information regarding hazardous chemicals at work sites, is applicable to inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (RQ-841)

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether a retired judge is precluded by section 74.055 of the Government Code from accepting appointment as a guardian ad litem(ID# 39617)

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether the Val Verde County Hospital District is authorized to construct a building to lease to private physicians , and related questions(ID# 39523).

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a constable may call regular and reserve deputy constables into service to provide security at events sponsored by separate governmental or private entities and collect payment therefor (ID# 39175)

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to useful information to community colleges regarding the reporting of contact hours, including relevant rules and regulations, statements of opinion, current funding rates, audit programs, and other general information.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to reviewing and commenting on the financial audits of the Dallas, Corpus Christi, Houston, and Austin mass transit authorities for fiscal years 1994 through 1996 and performance audit reports issued during the most current period.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether recommendations made in the previous management control audit at the Texas Funeral Service Commission were fully implemented, partially implemented, or not implemented.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to weaknesses in controls over contracts, budgeting, and licensing, which prevent the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Commission) from ensuring that its mission is achieved.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to providing boards, commissions, and agency managements with definitions and explanations of management controls.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to assessing whether adequate management controls exist for right-of-way purchases, and whether the Department of Transportation's retooling process for the Right-of-Way Division has affected the effectiveness of current acquisition controls.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to evaluating the effectiveness of the State's internal audit departments, and determining whether internal audit departments were meeting the key objectives of internal auditing and assisting agency administrators in carrying out their assigned responsibilities.

Quarterly update providing information on environmental regulations for small businesses and local governments in Texas.

Report providing summaries of significant legislative actions conducted by the 75th Texas Legislature, broken down by topical categories.

Coal cleaning is a technology that can solve a broad array of environmental problems associated with older, state-of-the-art, and future electric generating stations. Coal cleaning provides many environmental benefits. It reduces the concentration of inorganic minerals and elements found in association with coal, some of which are potentially toxic even though they are found in coal in only trace amounts. Currently, more sulfur and related S0{sub 2}, is removed by coal cleaning than by all post-combustion technologies combined. By increasing thermal efficiency and reducing parasitic power requirements, coal cleaning reduces all power plant emissions per unit of electricity produced, including S0{sub 2}, NO{sub x} C0{sub 2}, and hazardous air pollutant precursors (HAPs). While coal cleaning is a mature technology, in the past coal cleaning has only been used for the comparatively simple purposes of removing ash-forming and sulfur-bearing minerals. The application of this technology to H APs control will require a more sophisticated approach, based on a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of trace element removal. The trace elements named as HAPs in the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act can occur in coal in numerous forms. For example, antimony is believed to be present in pyrite, accessory sulfides …

This paper describes the design and fabrication of a vacuum pumping system for the ATP/LEDA (Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator) RFQ (Radio Frequency Quadrupole) linac. Resulted from the lost proton beam, gas streaming from the LEBT (Low Energy Beam Transport) and out-gassing from the surfaces of the RFQ cavity and vacuum plumbing, the total gas load will be on the order of 7.2 x 10{sup -4} Torr-liters/sec, consisting mainly of hydrogen. The system is designed to pump on a continual basis with redundancy to ensure that the minimal operating vacuum level of 1 x 10{sup -6} Torr is maintained even under abnormal conditions. Details of the design, performance analysis and the preliminary test results of the cryogenic pumps are presented.

Prior to the current project, development of the DSRP was done in a laboratory setting, using synthetic gas mixtures to simulate the regeneration off-gas and coal gas feeds. The objective of the current work is to further the development of zinc titanate fluidized-bed desulfurization (ZTFBD) and the DSRP for hot-gas cleanup by testing with actual coal gas. The objectives of this project are to: (1) Develop and test an integrated, skid-mounted, bench-scale ZTFBD/DSRP reactor system with a slipstream of actual coal gas; (2) Test the bench-scale DSRP over an extended period with a slipstream of actual coal gas to quantify the degradation in performance, if any, caused by the trace contaminants present in coal gas (including heavy metals, chlorides, fluorides, and ammonia); (3) Expose the DSRP catalyst to actual coal gas for extended periods and then test its activity in a laboratory reactor to quantify the degradation in performance, if any, caused by static exposure to the trace contaminants in coal gas; (4) Design and fabricate a six-fold larger-scale DSRP reactor system for future slipstream testing; (5) Further develop the fluidized-bed DSRP to handle high concentrations (up to 14 percent) of SO{sub 2} that are likely to be encountered when …