H.R. 1977, passed by the House July 18, 1995, appropriated $87 million for FY1996 for the "orderly closure" of the Bureau of Mines within the Department of Interior. However, when the Senate passed H.R. 1977 on August 9, it approved continuation of the Bureau and appropriated $128 million for FY1996.

On July 31, 1995, in passing H.R.2099, the VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriation Bill for FY1996, the House approved numerous legislative riders, or provisions in bill language, which would prohibit EPA from spending FY1996 funds on a number of regulatory and enforcement activities. In passing H.R. 2099 on September 27, 1995, the Senate did not accept the House-passed riders but did include several other riders. On November 2, 1995, the House approved a motion to instruct the House conferees to strike the 17 major House-passed riders.

The Congress and the White House have agreed to abolish the Bureau of Mines within the Department of the Interior (DOI). H.R. 1977, appropriating funds for the DOI, would have provided $64 million for the "orderly closure" of the Bureau of Mines within 90 days of enactment. Orderly closure entails relocating certain functions to other agencies and completely eliminating others. H.R. 1977 was vetoed for unrelated reasons, but an attempt to override that veto was unsuccessful. In its latest action, January 26, 1996, Congress passed a continuing resolution (P.L. 104-99) affirming the closure of the Bureau and the transfer of some functions to other agencies

This issue brief describes the FY1996 request for DOE's major programs, its implications, and congressional action on the DOE budget. Table 1 at the end of the issue brief highlights the FY1996 DOE budget request.

This report provides a synopsis of the budget activity related to AIDS from the discovery of the disease in 1981 through FY1999. Funding for AIDS research, prevention and treatment programs within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) discretionary budget has increased from $200,000 in FY1981 to an estimated $3.85 billion in FY1999.

Annual report for the Sabine River Compact Administration for 1996, including a summary of the meetings and work of the administration, reports from the hydrologic stations, fiscal revenues and expenditures, and accompanying notes.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the full-time classified state employee turnover rate for Fiscal Year 1996. This report provides classified employee turnover information that can be used to evaluate and address areas of concern related to turnover and potentially reduce turnover costs to the State. Turnover rates greater than 35 percent were specifically analyzed and reported by agency, occupational categories, and class series because a rate greater than 35 percent is indicative of organization problems.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether 17 selected state agencies made a good-faith effort to increase their purchases and contracts with historically-underutilized businesses (HUBs) in fiscal year 1996.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Current Funds Balance Sheet, the Statement of Current Funds Expenditures, and related Notes of Angelo State University.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Current Funds Balance Sheet, the Statement of Current Funds Expenditures, and related Notes of Midwestern State University.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to identifying and summarizing the issues presented in the internal auditors' annual reports for fiscal years 1995 and 1996; to presenting those issues of concern to more than one agency or university, and to identifying and reporting trends in the issues reported by the internal auditors; and to summarizing the internal auditing functions' compliance with the reporting requirements of the Texas Internal Auditing Act.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Current Funds Balance Sheet, the Statement of Current Funds Expenditures, and related Notes of the University of Houston - Clear Lake.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Teacher Retirement System's (System) general purpose financial statements for fiscal year 1996 are accurately presented in all material respects, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Current Funds Balance Sheet, the Statement of Current Funds Expenditures, and related Notes of the University of Houston.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to substantial compliance with the Public Funds Investment Act (Act) reported by the 50 Junior College Districts (Districts) subject to the Act in fiscal year 1996, the year of implementation.

Biennial report of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission describing the organization's goals and activities during fiscal years 1995-1996.

Report summarizing budgets and performance information for Texas agencies, organized by government function: general, health and human services, education, judiciary, public safety and criminal justice, natural resources, business and economic development, and regulatory activities.

Report summarizing budgets and performance information for Texas agencies, organized by government function: general, health and human services, education, judiciary, public safety and criminal justice, natural resources, business and economic development, and regulatory activities. This report includes information through fiscal year 1998 with projected data for 1999.

The Transportation Improvement Program outlines a list of federally assisted transportation projects that will be implemented over a three year period in the San Antonio - Bexar County area.

This documents delineates the activities to be accomplished during the period October 1, 1995 through September 30, 1996, the funding requirements, and the agency responsible for accomplishing the tasks.

Preliminary experiment has been made for cross injecting water sprays into a convective air stream to test the air-blast atomization system which has been constructed for CWS atomization in the future. A laser diffraction particle analyzing technique (the Malvern system) nonintrusively measured the drop size SMDs for various injection parameters including the convective air flow rate, flow rate of the injected liquid (distilled water), orifice diameter, and measurement locations along the two-dimensional spray plane. Buckingham-PI analysis finds the correlation of dimensionless parameters. A correlation of drop Sauter mean diameter (SMD) normalized to the orifice diameter is obtained from all the experimental data for the case of distilled water sprays.

The Expedited Technology Demonstration Project Plan, Mixed Waste Management Facility (MWMF) current baseline. The revised plan will focus efforts specifically on the demonstration of an integrated Molten Salt Oxidation (MSO) system. In addition to the MSO primary unit, offgas, and salt recycle subsystems, the demonstrations will include feed preparation and feed delivery systems, and the generation of robust final forms from process mineral residues. A simplified process flow chart for the expedited demonstration is provided. To minimize costs and to accelerate the schedule for deployment, the integrated system will be staged in an existing facility at LLNL equipped to handle hazardous and radioactive materials. The MSO systems will be activated in fiscal year 97, followed by the activation of feed preparation and final forms in fiscal year 98.

This describes a comprehensive, integrated approach for the development of HTS (high-temperature superconductivity) technology for cost-effective use in electric power applications. This approach supports the program`s mission: to develop the technology that could lead to industrial commercialization of HTS electric power applications, such as fault-current limiters, motors, generators, transmission cables, superinductors, and superconducting energy storage. The vision is that, by 2010, the US power systems equipment industry will regain a major share of the global market by offering superconducting products that outperform the competition; and in US, the power grid will gain increased efficiency and stability by incorporating many kinds of HTS devices. After an overview and a discussion of the program plan (wires, systems technology, partnership initiative), this document discusses technology status, stakeholders, and the role of US DOE.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Waste Management Program (WMP) began a transition to become a {open_quotes}best of class{close_quotes} waste management program during fiscal year 1995 (FY95). A best of class waste management program means that LANL will provide cost-effective and compliant management of the minimum amount of waste. In FY94, the WMP could be characterized as a level of effort program requiring several new facilities and new LANL-developed technologies to carry out its waste management responsibilities. By the end of FY95, significant progress had been made in the transition to best of class. The FY96 WMP is realigned and reorganized. Its budget and scope of work are built upon discrete work packages. It is committed to achieving improved cost-effectiveness, providing significant tangible technical results, and to having its performance measured. During FY95, over $11,000,000 in facility and operational costs were avoided. The need for three new major facilities was reexamined and lower cost solutions, not requiring the development of new facilities, were agreed to. Technology development activities were terminated and replaced with the use of commercial facilities to achieve aggressive reductions in the Low-Level Mixed Waste legacy inventory. In addition, over $14,000,000 in improved cost-effectiveness has been included in …