The Advocate, Volume 16, Issue 3, July-September 2011 (open access)

The Advocate, Volume 16, Issue 3, July-September 2011

Quarterly update providing information on environmental regulations for small businesses and local governments in Texas.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

"And Justice For All"

Poster reading "And Justice for All" in large print above an image of the Statue of Liberty on a background of a crowd. There is text in English and Spanish at the bottom of the poster, stating that the United States Department of Agriculture is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, gender, color, national origin, age, or disability.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Poster
System: The Portal to Texas History
Another look at the question of density and rail transit (open access)

Another look at the question of density and rail transit

"This research compares density in a few select cities with the accepted transit efficiency performance measure of operating cost per passenger mile to determine whether this statistic is better in more dense cities."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Hall, Kadijah & Lewis, Carol Abel
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aquifers of Texas (open access)

Aquifers of Texas

"This report is an update to the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) Report 345, Major and Minor Aquifers of Texas, published in 1995 and coauthored by John B. Ashworth and Janie Hopkins."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Mace, Robert E.; Petrossian, Rima & George, Peter G.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buescher State Park [Rack Card] (open access)

Buescher State Park [Rack Card]

Card advertising Buescher State Park with brief descriptive information and a summary of activities, facilities, and other features of the location.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Changes in Water Levels in Texas, 1995 to 2005 (open access)

Changes in Water Levels in Texas, 1995 to 2005

This report examines the median water level changes in the state's major and minor aquifers, and describes where the largest declines and increases were within an aquifer and presents regional trends.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Boghici, Radu
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: Second Quarter 2011 (open access)

City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: Second Quarter 2011

Quarterly report outlining tax revenues and remittances for alcoholic beverages, listed by city for April-June 2011. It also compares the statistics to the same period for the previous year.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
City of Balch Springs Hickory Creek Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report (open access)

City of Balch Springs Hickory Creek Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report

Report on the results of a study for creating a flood protection plan for Hickory Creek in the City of Balch Springs, Texas.
Date: July 29, 2011
Creator: Halff Associates
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
City of La Feria Flood Protection Plan (open access)

City of La Feria Flood Protection Plan

The purpose of this report was to develop a comprehensive set of models for the City's main drainage-way system, to be utilized in developing flood protection alternatives, both structural and non-structural.
Date: July 5, 2011
Creator: Espey Consultants, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
City of New Braunfels Parks Reclaimed Water Irrigation Feasibility Study (open access)

City of New Braunfels Parks Reclaimed Water Irrigation Feasibility Study

A report on the current water supplies and water treatment plants in the City of New Braunfels and the feasibility of reclaiming water irrigation in city parks.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Espey Consultants, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Close Up Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 3, July 2011 (open access)

Close Up Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 3, July 2011

Newsletter of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement describing news, events, and education of the Commission, as well as updates about changes to laws or other information of interest to readers.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Law Enforcement
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closure of Waste-Management Units Subject to TRRP (open access)

Closure of Waste-Management Units Subject to TRRP

"This document expand upon the discussion of closure in TRRP Applicability and Grandfathering (TCEQ publication no. RG-366/TRRP-2), discussing its administrative and regulatory aspects, with emphasis on the categories of waste-management units that can be subject to the Texas Risk Reduction Program rule, 300 TAC 350, at time of closure. This document does not apply to underground or above-ground storage tanks regulated by 30 TAC 334."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closure of Wate-Management Units Subject to TRRP (open access)

Closure of Wate-Management Units Subject to TRRP

"This document expands upon the discussion of closure in TRRP Applicability and Grandfathering (TCEQ publication no. RG-366/TRRP-2), discussing its administrative and regulatory aspects, with emphasis on the categories of waste-management units that can be subject to the Texas Risk Reduction Program rule, 30 TAC 350, at time of closure."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: July 7, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continuous flow seawater RO system for recovery of silica-saturated RO concentrate (open access)

Continuous flow seawater RO system for recovery of silica-saturated RO concentrate

"The scope of work for this project included four major tasks. Task 1 required designing and building a continuous-flow seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) concentrate recovery system in the form of a small, pilot system. Task 2 involved operating the SWRO system and analyzing water samples at various recoveries (beginning at 70 %), and raising the recovery in approximately 5% increments until membrane fouling occurred. Task 3 included analyzing the data and evaluating system performance and cost effectiveness. Finally, Task 4 called for preparing quarterly, draft and final reports to the funding agencies."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Tarquin, Anthony J.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
CR News, Volume 16, Number 3, July-September 2011 (open access)

CR News, Volume 16, Number 3, July-September 2011

Quarterly newsletter of the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Records Division discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to crime records and other safety issue within Texas, along with a departmental directory.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Crime Records Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Credit Union Department Newsletter, Number 07-11, July 2011 (open access)

Credit Union Department Newsletter, Number 07-11, July 2011

Newsletter of the Texas Credit Union Department containing departmental news and announcements, deadlines, and other information of importance to credit unions. Information covered is on operating fees, mortgage lending registration, and automobile lending.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Credit Union Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultural Resources Investigations For The Oncor Electric Delivery Company Proposed West Levee to Norwood Transmission Line, Dallas County, Texas (open access)

Cultural Resources Investigations For The Oncor Electric Delivery Company Proposed West Levee to Norwood Transmission Line, Dallas County, Texas

An archaeological survey report of the proposed site of the Oncor Electric Delivery Company West Levee to Norwood Transmission Line in Dallas County, Texas to determine whether any cultural resources were present in the area.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Atkins North America, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of guidelines for triple left and dual right-turn lanes :  technical report (open access)

Development of guidelines for triple left and dual right-turn lanes : technical report

Report regarding the development of geometric and signal design guidelines for triple left-turn lanes and dual right-turn lanes and then evaluatues the safety of such sites in Texas.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Cooner, Scott A.; Ranft, Stephen E.; Rathod, Yatin K.; Qi, Yi; Yu, Lei; Wang, Yubian et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of Statistical Models to Forecast Crossing Times of Commercial Vehicles (open access)

Development of Statistical Models to Forecast Crossing Times of Commercial Vehicles

In this report statistical models were developed to predict crossing times of trucks over a short range of time. The statistical prediction models use historic data and take into account empirical relationships between border-crossing-related parameters and truck crossing times.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Kang, Dong Hun; Ochoa, Cesar; Rajbhandari, Rajat & Garcia, Francisco
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of the Texas Revenue Estimator and Needs Determination System (T.R.E.N.D.S.) model :  FY 2010 activities (open access)

Development of the Texas Revenue Estimator and Needs Determination System (T.R.E.N.D.S.) model : FY 2010 activities

Report that recaps the continued development of the Texas Revenue Estimator and Needs Determination System model.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Ellis, David; Glover, Brianne; Norboge, Nicolas & Zhi, Yuan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Digest of the Texas Water Safety Act: A Summary of Boating Laws (open access)

A Digest of the Texas Water Safety Act: A Summary of Boating Laws

Digest of boating requirements and regulations including vessel operation and safety requirements valid through August 31, 2013.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of new Texas charter schools: final report (open access)

Evaluation of new Texas charter schools: final report

This document "examines how new charter school operators plan and implement their programs and considers the following research questions: 1. How are federal Charter School Program (CSP) funds used to implement new charter school programs? 2. What processes and practices guide the planning of new charter schools? 3. What processes and practices guide the implementation of new charter school programs? 4. How effective are new charter schools at designing and implementing successful educational programs? 5. What is the effect of charter school maturity on students' academic outcomes? 6. How do students at new charter schools perform academically relative to comparable students at traditional district schools?"
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Center for Educational Research
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Texas Charter Schools, 2009-2010 (open access)

Evaluation of Texas Charter Schools, 2009-2010

Results of a study to analyze overall data related to Texas charter schools, such as demographics, revenues, and student performance as well as "perceptions and satisfaction individuals had regarding their respective candidates" (p. ii).
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas A & M University. Education Research Center.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History