Environmental Protection: EPA Needs to Follow Best Practices and Procedures When Reorganizing Its Library Network (open access)

Environmental Protection: EPA Needs to Follow Best Practices and Procedures When Reorganizing Its Library Network

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Established in 1971, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) library network provides access to critical environmental information that the agency needs to fulfill its mission of protecting human health and the environment. The library network also provides information and services to the public. In fiscal year 2006, the network included 26 libraries across headquarters, regional offices, research centers, and laboratories. These libraries were independently operated by several different EPA program offices, depending on the nature of the libraries' collections. In 2006, facing proposed budget cuts, EPA issued a plan to reorganize the network beginning in fiscal year 2007. The plan proposed a phased approach to closing libraries and dispersing, disposing of, and digitizing library materials. GAO was asked to summarize the findings in its report being released today, Environmental Protection: EPA Needs to Ensure That Best Practices and Procedures Are Followed When Making Further Changes to Its Library Network (GAO-08-304). GAO made four recommendations in this report aimed at best practices and procedures that EPA should follow when continuing to reorganize its library network. The agency agreed with the recommendations."
Date: March 13, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency, Chapter 6: Energy Efficiency Program Best Practices (open access)

National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency, Chapter 6: Energy Efficiency Program Best Practices

Chapter from the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency documenting key findings from energy efficiency programs that have been successfully operating for many years.
Date: July 2006
Creator: National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (U.S.)
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form CJ-8, Annual Probation Survey: 2004 (open access)

Form CJ-8, Annual Probation Survey: 2004

Blank probation data survey containing a series of questions related to the probationary population in a particular location, with instructions for filling out the survey.
Date: November 16, 2004
Creator: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marine Corps Order: 5000.12E W/CH 1-2 (open access)

Marine Corps Order: 5000.12E W/CH 1-2

This is the Marine Corps policy for pregnancy and parenthood.
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Hagee, Michael, W., Gen.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form CJ-7, Annual Parole Survey: 2001 (open access)

Form CJ-7, Annual Parole Survey: 2001

Blank parole data survey containing a series of questions related to the parole population in a particular location, with instructions for filling out the survey.
Date: November 13, 2001
Creator: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form CJ-7, Annual Parole Survey: 2005 (open access)

Form CJ-7, Annual Parole Survey: 2005

Blank parole data survey containing a series of questions related to the parole population in a particular location, with instructions for filling out the survey.
Date: November 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Accident Prevention: Site Security (open access)

Chemical Accident Prevention: Site Security

A paper about site security for companies. Site security minimizes crimes and intends to protect company assets.
Date: February 2000
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Culture and the Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place (open access)

Community Culture and the Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place

This publication looks at human communities and their interactions with the environment.
Date: November 2002
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
NMFS Auke Bay Laboratory Marine Ecology and Stock Assessment (MESA) Program Activities and Accomplishments, April 1, 2008 - April 1 2009 (open access)

NMFS Auke Bay Laboratory Marine Ecology and Stock Assessment (MESA) Program Activities and Accomplishments, April 1, 2008 - April 1 2009

This report discusses the activities and accomplishments of the Auke Bay Marine Ecology and Stock Assessment Program based in Juneau Alaska.
Date: April 2009
Creator: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality Scorecard : Incorporating Green Infrastructure Practices at Municipal, Neighborhood, and Site Scales (open access)

Water Quality Scorecard : Incorporating Green Infrastructure Practices at Municipal, Neighborhood, and Site Scales

EPA's Water Quality Scorecard was developed to help local governments identify opportunities to remove barriers, and revise and create codes, ordinances, and incentives for better water quality protection. It guides municipal staff through a review of relevant local codes and ordinances, across multiple municipal departments and at the three scales within the jurisdiction of a local government (municipality, neighborhood, and site) to ensure that these codes work together to protect water quality goals.
Date: October 2009
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-first Century (open access)

Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-first Century

A document detailing the Task Force on New Americans impact and constitution. It details information about immigration and diversity.
Date: 2008
Creator: United States. Department of Homeland Security.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies, [Part] 2. Basic First Steps and Considerations (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies, [Part] 2. Basic First Steps and Considerations

Part 2 of a larger report on biomass energy partnerships between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; this section outlines the necessary steps, considerations, and resources to establish a biomass industry.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies.  7. Representative biomass CHP System Cost and Performance Profiles (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. 7. Representative biomass CHP System Cost and Performance Profiles

Part 7 of a larger report on a partnership between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; this section provides information on the cost and performance of various biomass industries.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Marine Fisheries Service Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2005-2010 (open access)

United States Marine Fisheries Service Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2005-2010

Strategic plan for the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) describing the agency's goals and programs related to protecting coastal waters and other environmental features.
Date: 2004~
Creator: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preventing Worker Injuries and Deaths from Explosions in Industrial Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Facilities: Revised Edition (open access)

Preventing Worker Injuries and Deaths from Explosions in Industrial Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Facilities: Revised Edition

This report provides information on the explosions and resulting injuries or deaths that may occur from working with ethylene oxide and recommends steps for preventing these explosions.
Date: 2007
Creator: United States. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. [Part] 3. Biomass Resources (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. [Part] 3. Biomass Resources

Part 3 of a larger report on a partnership between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; this section offers an overview of the natural resources available for biomass power and also identifies the necessary characteristics of a biomass fuel.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Procedures for the Identification and Involvement of Environmental Justice Populations and Native American Tribal Governments by the Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Product (open access)

Procedures for the Identification and Involvement of Environmental Justice Populations and Native American Tribal Governments by the Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Product

A paper designed to effect interactions and involvements of environmental justice populations that may be impacted by non-stockpile materiel activities. It also serves to identify and provide for the consultation and cooperation of native American Tribal governments that have treaty, cultural or religious rights on non-stockpile sites.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Program for Chemical Demilitarization.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2006 (open access)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 2006

This report was written to fulfill the mission of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board, a public advisory committee authorized under Section 6 of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative Act, 7 USC, Section 5404.
Date: March 2006
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preventing the Entry of Weapons of Mass Effect Into the United States (open access)

Preventing the Entry of Weapons of Mass Effect Into the United States

A report discussing the vulnerabilities of the United States in regards to a terrorist delivery of a weapon of mass effect (WME). It discusses homeland security, defense systems, ad terrorism.
Date: January 10, 2006
Creator: Homeland Security Advisory Council Weapons of Mass Effect Task Force
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies: Appendix B--EPA CHP Partnership Biomass Tools and Resources (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies: Appendix B--EPA CHP Partnership Biomass Tools and Resources

Appendix B is part of a larger report on biomass energy partnerships between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; it describes available tools and resources in the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) industry.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed Revisions to Grazing Regulations for the Public Lands (open access)

Proposed Revisions to Grazing Regulations for the Public Lands

This final environmental impact statement (EIS) is a national-level, programmatic EIS that documents the ecological, cultural, social, and economic effects that would result from implementing the proposed regulator changes caused by the Bureau of Land Management amending the grazing regulation for the public lands, 43 CFR Part 4100, Grazing Administration - Exclusive of Alaska.
Date: October 2004
Creator: United States. Bureau of Land Management.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2007 (open access)

Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2007

Annual report of the Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) describing the program and data collection. It also presents information on air quality and recorded concentrations of pollutants such as ozone, sulfur, gases, and other elements of concern.
Date: December 2008
Creator: MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aligning Utility Incentives with Investing in Energy Efficiency (open access)

Aligning Utility Incentives with Investing in Energy Efficiency

A report that describes the financial effects of low and high energy consumption. It describes how some energy efficiency programs can be or have been implemented. It also slightly investigates how using energy effects the environment.
Date: December 2007
Creator: Nation Action Plan for Energy Efficiency Leadership Group
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
EPA Nonpoint Source Pollution Focus Groups: Final Report (open access)

EPA Nonpoint Source Pollution Focus Groups: Final Report

This report consists of eight focus groups in order to assess the environmental understanding of the general public as related to nonpoint source pollution.
Date: November 21, 2001
Creator: Lisboa, Inc.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library