How we protect streams, rivers, and lakes (open access)

How we protect streams, rivers, and lakes

This pamphlet provides information about the ways the Texas A&M System control the "quality and standards" of the natural water resources of Texas.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Clayton, Brent
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apply Your Talent Where It Counts (open access)

Apply Your Talent Where It Counts

This pamphlet provides information about the CPA Auditor I position available for new graduates in the office of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Date: April 2013
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inventory of Texas Felony Offenses by Category (open access)

Inventory of Texas Felony Offenses by Category

This report contain information on offenses in Texas statutory law punishable as felonies.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $468 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $468 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $468 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: June 8, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: July 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: July 2012

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The 73rd Texas Legislature, Summary of Significant Legislation (open access)

The 73rd Texas Legislature, Summary of Significant Legislation

This document is comprised of five sections; an overview of major issues; a list of all enrolled bill; sunset legislation; constitutional amendments; and gubernatorial vetoes. The section listing enrolled bills has been expanded this year to include the author/sponsors, relating clauses, and effective dates of the bills." (Foreword).
Date: June 1993
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate. Research Center.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake (open access)

Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake

This report began discusses action began "in May of 2010 when Freese and Nichols (FNI) was retained by the City of Terrell, Texas in cooperation with Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to assess, alternative uses of New Terrell City Lake (CITY Lake) and perform a dam condition assessment. The City of Terrell no longer uses the water supply from New Terrell City Lake and would like to find alternative uses for this supply." (p. ES-1).
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Rural Planning Organization Workshop Implementation Project Summary (open access)

Texas Rural Planning Organization Workshop Implementation Project Summary

This report documents rural planning organization (RPO) workshops conducted throughout Texas.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Overman, John H.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nanotechnology-Based System for Damage-Resistant Concrete Pavements (open access)

Nanotechnology-Based System for Damage-Resistant Concrete Pavements

This report's focus was to explore the use of nanotechnology-based nanofilaments, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nanofibers (CNFs), as reinforcement for improving the mechanical properties of Portland cement paste and creating multifunctional and sensing concrete. (p. 1).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Abu Al-Rub, Rashid K.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upland Game Bird Strategic Plan: A Five Year Roadmap (2011-2015) (open access)

Upland Game Bird Strategic Plan: A Five Year Roadmap (2011-2015)

This report "addresses the conservation needs of two of three subspecies of wild turkey, four species of quail, lesser prairie-chicken, pheasant and chachalaca within Texas." (p. 6).
Date: February 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department. Small Game Program.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
State of Texas Assessments Academic Readiness The Next Generation, A parent's guide to the high school testing program (open access)

State of Texas Assessments Academic Readiness The Next Generation, A parent's guide to the high school testing program

This pamphlet provides information about the testing program called the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness.
Date: 2011?
Creator: Texas Education Agency
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guidelines for Wholesaling, Distributing or Storing Cigarettes, Cigars and Tobacco Products in Texas (open access)

Guidelines for Wholesaling, Distributing or Storing Cigarettes, Cigars and Tobacco Products in Texas

This document provides information for non-retailers who buy and sell cigarettes, cigars and tobacco products on wholesaling, distributing or storing products in Texas.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
They've Gotta Be 18 to Buy Tobacco: Texas Guidelines for Retail Tobacco Sales (open access)

They've Gotta Be 18 to Buy Tobacco: Texas Guidelines for Retail Tobacco Sales

This pamphlet provides information on Texas's guidelines for retail tobacco sales.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: December 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: December 2012

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eminent Domain Authority in Texas (open access)

Eminent Domain Authority in Texas

This documents purpose of the publication is to identify the constitutional provisions and statutes that grant, limit, or restrict the power of eminent domain or prohibit the exercise of that power, and to identify the entity to which each provision applies.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
HIV/STD Partner Services: The Health Provider's Role (open access)

HIV/STD Partner Services: The Health Provider's Role

Pamphlet providing information on the HIV/STD Partner Services, explaining the healthcare provider's legal obligations and the benefits of DIS partner notification.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Impact of the 2011 Drought and Beyond (open access)

The Impact of the 2011 Drought and Beyond

This document discusses the current drought and its impacts on the state; current and future water resources in Texas; and innovative solutions governments in Texas and elsewhere are using to solve the water crisis.
Date: February 6, 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Quality and Hydraulic Fracturing (open access)

Water Quality and Hydraulic Fracturing

Pamphlet providing information about hydraulic fracturing and water contamination.
Date: November 2012
Creator: Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (Tex.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fees, Standards, and Reporting Requirements for Public Water Systems (open access)

Fees, Standards, and Reporting Requirements for Public Water Systems

This guidance document is revised to incorporate the most current rule language as of November 2011.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Water Supply Division.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trinity River Basin Environmental Restoration Initiative 2010 (open access)

Trinity River Basin Environmental Restoration Initiative 2010

This report's "objectives are to use the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to; assess current rates and sources of sediment and nutrient loading of twelve major water supply reservoirs in ten watersheds of the Upper Trinity River Basin, to predict the effects of anticipated future urbanization, and to consider possible conservation practices that could decrease sediment and nutrient loading of these reservoirs" (p. ii).
Date: 2010
Creator: Wang, Xiuying; White, Michael; Lee, Taesoo; Tuppad, Pushpa; Srinivasan, Raghavan; Jones, Allan et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Local Governments to Receive $ 417 Million in Sales Tax Revenue (open access)

Local Governments to Receive $ 417 Million in Sales Tax Revenue

This document provides information on the distribution of $417 million in sales tax revenue to local governments.
Date: April 6, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Outcomes One Year Later: An Update on the Class of 2006 (open access)

Outcomes One Year Later: An Update on the Class of 2006

This report provides information on the class of 2006 one year later outcomes.
Date: January 2009
Creator: Cumpton, Greg & Beck, Nicole
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Restrictions on Sunday Off-Premises Liquor Sales in Non-Control States (open access)

Restrictions on Sunday Off-Premises Liquor Sales in Non-Control States

"This map and table provide information regarding state restrictions on Sunday sales of liquor for off-premises consumption in certain states." The tables include details on the "states' laws or rules addressing Sunday off-premises liquor sales and a hyper-linked citation of the relevant provision." (p. [2]).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Sewer Overflow Initiative: Information for Prospective Participants (open access)

Sanitary Sewer Overflow Initiative: Information for Prospective Participants

This document provides information on sanitary sewer overflow initiative Information for prospective participants.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Field Operations Support Division.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History