Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 77, Pages 11175-11602, November 21, 1997 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 77, Pages 11175-11602, November 21, 1997

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: November 21, 1997
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 14, Pages 1865-1923, February 21, 1997 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 14, Pages 1865-1923, February 21, 1997

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 21, 1997
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 22, Pages 2915-3019, March 21, 1997 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 22, Pages 2915-3019, March 21, 1997

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: March 21, 1997
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 6, Pages 873-931, January 21, 1997 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 6, Pages 873-931, January 21, 1997

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 21, 1997
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-053 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-053

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 privately employed jailer who is certified by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education may be permitted to carry a weapon in the official discharge of his or her duties (ID# 39436)
Date: May 21, 1997
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-054 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-054

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 judge may delegate duty to hear applications for liquor licenses under chapter 61 of the Alcoholic Beverage Code to judge of county court at law (ID# 39389)
Date: May 21, 1997
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-094 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-094

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 candidate/officeholder is required to report a particular transaction as a contribution and/or expenditure (ID# 38882)
Date: October 21, 1997
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Summary of radioactive solid waste received in the 200 areas during calendar year 1996 (open access)

Summary of radioactive solid waste received in the 200 areas during calendar year 1996

Rust Federal Services of Hanford Inc. manages and operates the Hanford Site 200 Area radioactive solid waste storage and disposal facilities for the US Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office under contract DE-AC06-87RL10930. These facilities include storage areas and disposal sites for radioactive solid waste. This document summarizes the amount of radioactive materials that have been buried and stored in the 200 Area radioactive solid waste storage and disposal facilities from startup in 1944 through calendar year 1996. This report does not include backlog waste, solid radioactive wastes in storage or disposed of in other areas, or facilities such as the underground tank farms. Unless packaged within the scope of WHC-EP-0063, Hanford Site Solid Waste Acceptance Criteria, liquid waste data are not included in this document.
Date: May 21, 1997
Creator: Hladek, K. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tank characterization report for single-shell tank 241-C-104 (open access)

Tank characterization report for single-shell tank 241-C-104

A major function of the Tank Waste Remediation System is to characterize wastes in support of waste management and disposal activities at the Hanford Site. Analytical data from sampling and analysis, along with other available information about a tank, are compiled and maintained in a tank characterization report (TCR). This report and its appendices serve as the TCR for single-shell tank 241-C-104. The objectives of this report are: (1) to use characterization data in response to technical issues associated with tank 241-C-104 waste; and (2) to provide a standard characterization of this waste in terms of a best-basis inventory estimate. The response to technical issues is summarized in Section 2.0, and the best-basis inventory estimate is presented in Section 3.0. Recommendations regarding safety status and additional sampling needs are provided in Section 4.0. Supporting data and information are contained in the appendices. This report supports the requirements of the Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Ecology et al. 1996) milestone M-44-10.
Date: May 21, 1997
Creator: Baldwin, J. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Water Issues in the 105th Congress (open access)

Clean Water Issues in the 105th Congress

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Date: August 21, 1997
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Misregulation of Stromelysin-1 in Mouse Mammary Tumor Cells Accompanies Acquisition of Stromelysin-1 dependent Invasive Properties (open access)

Misregulation of Stromelysin-1 in Mouse Mammary Tumor Cells Accompanies Acquisition of Stromelysin-1 dependent Invasive Properties

Stromelysin-1 is a member of the metalloproteinase family of extracellular matrix-degrading enzymes that regulates tissue remodeling. We previously established a transgenic mouse model in which rat stromelysin-1 targeted to the mammary gland augmented expression of endogenous stromelysin-1, disrupted functional differentiation, and induced mammary tumors. A cell line generated from an adenocarcinoma in one of these animals and a previously described mammary tumor cell line generated in culture readily invaded both a reconstituted basement membrane and type I collagen gels, whereas a nonmalignant, functionally normal epithelial cell line did not. Invasion of Matrigel by tumor cells was largely abolished by metalloproteinase inhibitors, but not by inhibitors of other proteinase families. Inhibition experiments with antisense oligodeoxynucleotides revealed that Matrigel invasion of both cell lines was critically dependent on stromelysin-1 expression. Invasion of collagen, on the other hand, was reduced by only 40-50%. Stromelysin-1 was expressed in both malignant and nonmalignant cells grown on plastic substrata. Its expression was completely inhibited in nonmalignant cells, but up-regulated in tumor cells, in response to Matrigel. Thus misregulation of stromelysin-1 expression appears to be an important aspect of mammary tumor cell progression to an invasive phenotype. The matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of extracellular matrix …
Date: February 21, 1997
Creator: Lochter, A.; Srebrow, A.; Sympson, C.J.; Terracio, N.; Werb, Z. & Bissell, M.J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operating test report for project W-417, T-plant steam removal upgrade, waste transfer portion (open access)

Operating test report for project W-417, T-plant steam removal upgrade, waste transfer portion

This Operating Test Report (OTR) documents the performance results of the Operating Test Procedure HNF-SD-W417-OTP-001 that provides steps to test the waste transfer system installed in the 221-T Canyon under project W-417. Recent modifications have been performed on the T Plant Rail Car Waste Transfer System. This Operating Test Procedure (OTP) will document the satisfactory operation of the 221-T Rail Car Waste Transfer System modified by project W-417. Project W-417 installed a pump in Tank 5-7 to replace the steam jets used for transferring liquid waste. This testing is required to verify that operational requirements of the modified transfer system have been met. Figure 2 and 3 shows the new and existing system to be tested. The scope of this testing includes the submersible air driven pump operation in Tank 5-7, liquid waste transfer operation from Tank 5-7 to rail car (HO-IOH-3663 or HO-IOH-3664), associated line flushing, and the operation of the flow meter. This testing is designed to demonstrate the satisfactory operation-of the transfer line at normal operating conditions and proper functioning of instruments. Favorable results will support continued use of this system for liquid waste transfer. The Functional Design Criteria for this system requires a transfer flow rate …
Date: October 21, 1997
Creator: Myers, N. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
310 Facility chemical specifications (open access)

310 Facility chemical specifications

The 300 area Treated Effluent Disposal Facility (TEDF) was designed and built to treat the waste water from the 300 area process sewer system. Several treatment technologies are employed to remove the trace quantities of contaminants in the stream, including iron coprecipitation, clarification, filtration, ion exchange, and ultra violet light/hydrogen peroxide oxidation of organics. The chemicals that will be utilized in the treatment process are hydrogen peroxide, sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, and ferric chloride. This document annotates the required chemical characteristics of TEDF bulk chemicals as well as the criteria that were used to establish these criteria. The chemical specifications in appendix B are generated from this information.
Date: May 21, 1997
Creator: Hagerty, K. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamics of N = 2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Three Dimensions (open access)

Dynamics of N = 2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories in Three Dimensions

We study the structure of the moduli spaces of vacua and superpotentials of N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions. By analyzing the instanton corrections, we compute the exact superpotentials and determine the quantum Coulomb and Higgs branches of the theories in the weak coupling regions. We find candidates for non-trivial N = 2 superconformal field theories at the singularities of the moduli spaces. The analysis is carried out explicitly for gauge groups U(N{sub c}) and SU(N{sub c}) with N{sub f} flavors. We show that the field theory results are in complete agreement with the intersecting branes picture. We also compute the exact superpotentials for arbitrary gauge groups and arbitrary matter content.
Date: March 21, 1997
Creator: de Boer, J.; Hori, K. & Oz, Y.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Architecture of the APS real-time orbit feedback system. (open access)

Architecture of the APS real-time orbit feedback system.

The APS Real-Time Orbit Feedback System is designed to stabilize the orbit of the stored positron beam against low-frequency sources such as mechanical vibration and power supply ripple. A distributed array of digital signal processors is used to measure the orbit and compute corrections at a 1kHz rate. The system also provides extensive beam diagnostic tools. This paper describes the architectural aspects of the system and describes how the orbit correction algorithms are implemented.
Date: November 21, 1997
Creator: Carwardine, J. A. & Lenkszus, F. R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dissolution of low-enriched UO{sub 2}/Al dispersion plates in alkaline peroxide solution. (open access)

Dissolution of low-enriched UO{sub 2}/Al dispersion plates in alkaline peroxide solution.

Some conclusions from this report are: (1) A UO{sub 2}/Al dispersion target can be successfully dissolved in alkaline peroxide solutions; (2) after destruction of the peroxide recovery of the {sup 99}Mo would be nearly identical to existing processes using basic dissolution; (3) a low-enriched UO{sub 2}/Al dispersion targets could potentially be used for the production of {sup 99}Mo; and (4) punched cores from a UO{sub 2}/Al dispersion target will be irradiated to low-level burnup and effects of this LEU target on the recovery of {sup 99}Mo will be investigated. A commercial partner will be sought for full scale demonstrations.
Date: October 21, 1997
Creator: Aase, S.; Conner, C.; Landsberger, S.; Vandegrift, G. F.; Wu, D. & Wygmans, D. G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
APT/LEDA RFQ vacuum pumping system (open access)

APT/LEDA RFQ vacuum pumping system

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.
Date: July 21, 1997
Creator: Shen, S., LLNL
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Definition and means of maintaining the emergency notification and evacuation system portion of the Plutonium Finishing Plant safety envelope (open access)

Definition and means of maintaining the emergency notification and evacuation system portion of the Plutonium Finishing Plant safety envelope

The Emergency Evacuation and Notification System provides information to the PFP Building Emergency Director to assist in determining appropriate emergency response, notifies personnel of the required response, and assists in their response. The report identifies the equipment in the Safety Envelope (SE) for this System and the Administrative, Maintenance, and Surveillance Procedures used to maintain the SE Equipment.
Date: April 21, 1997
Creator: White, W.F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formal design review report project W-151 mixer pump procurement (open access)

Formal design review report project W-151 mixer pump procurement

A formal design review for WHC-S-0040 was held on January 21, 1993. The review was completed January 29, 1993. No outstanding action items existed. Comments were recorded on Record Comment Record (RCR) forms and incorporated into the specification. The specification was considered acceptable, approved and issued as WHC-S-0040, Rev. 0 on March 4, 1993.
Date: January 21, 1997
Creator: Crass, D. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling and analyzing visualization post-processing over distance (open access)

Modeling and analyzing visualization post-processing over distance

Stockpile stewardship requires a high-end computing capacity complemented with a balance of memory capacity and bandwidth, interconnect bandwidth, local and global disk capacity and bandwidth, network bandwidth, and archival capacity and bandwidth. This appendix will provide a detailed analysis that will identify technical issues arising from various user interactions with a computer with a peak capacity of 10 TFLOPs and with 5TB of memory.
Date: May 21, 1997
Creator: Wiltzius, Dave P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Greece and Turkey: Aegean Issues — Background and Recent Developments (open access)

Greece and Turkey: Aegean Issues — Background and Recent Developments

This report provides the background and recent developments of the Aegean issues of Greece and Turkey.
Date: August 21, 1997
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Where to Get Publications from The Executive and Independent Agencies: A Directory of Sources For Official Documents (open access)

Where to Get Publications from The Executive and Independent Agencies: A Directory of Sources For Official Documents

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Date: January 21, 1997
Creator: Hays, Janet
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Central American Asylum Seekers: Impact of 1996 Immigration Law (open access)

Central American Asylum Seekers: Impact of 1996 Immigration Law

This report has five sections which include an overview of the asylum and cancellation of removal procedures, three sections describing the situations of the Nicaraguans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans, and finally a section discussing legislative issues.
Date: November 21, 1997
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change Treaty: Negotiations and Related Issues (open access)

Global Climate Change Treaty: Negotiations and Related Issues

This report discusses the consequences of the 1992 Climate Change Convention and the future of climate change treaties and negotiations within the context of globalization of international politics.
Date: November 21, 1997
Creator: Fletcher, Susan R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library