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 the Orange County Commissioners Court must order payment in accordance with a district court order adjusting salaries of court administration personnel within the amount approved and budgeted (ID# 33340)

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 article XVI, section 40 of the Texas Constitution excepts a county commissioner from the common-law doctrine of incompatibility (request for reconsideration of Attorney General Opinion DM-311 (1994)) (ID# 31414)

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; Constitutionality, as applied to independent and major party candidates, of the provisions of Election Code section 141.063(2)(B), which requires that a peititon filed in connection with a candidate's application for a place on the ballot contain each peition signer's voter registration number (ID# 35318)

An Office of Inspector General Hotline allegation was received from an anonymous complainant regarding a July 1994 Martin Marietta Corporation Team`s health and safety review at three Department of Energy sites managed and operated by the then Martin Marietta Energy Systems. Inc. (Energy Systems), at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. We determined that the President of Energy Systems had requested a Corporate review at the three sites because of his concerns about safety incidents and accidents during the late Spring and early Summer of 1994. The Corporate Team`s charter was to determine if root causes existed for these safety incidents and accidents and to produce recommendations for the reduction or prevention of future safety incidents or accidents.

The goals of this project are to develop a catalyst and process for the conversion of syngas to isobutanol. The research will identify and optimize key catalyst and process characteristics. In addition, the commercial potential of the new process will be evaluated by an economic analysis. The effects of temperature, pressure and methanol/ethanol molar feed ratio on the performance of the 2% Pt on Zn/Mn/Zr Oxide catalyst has been evaluated in a series of pilot plant tests. Temperature has been varied from 325{degrees}C to 375{degrees}C, pressure from 30 psig to 300 psig and MeOH/EtOH ratio from 1 0/1 to 1 /1. Raising temperature increases alcohol conversion, but reduces selectivity and productivity to the desired branched C4 oxygenates. The higher pressure operation shifts the product ratio from isobutyraldehyde to isobutanol. Decreasing the feed ratio from 10/1 to 7/1 increases methanol conversion as well as selectivity to each of the iC4 oxygenates. However, further reduction of the feed ratio to 4/1 does not give additional improvement. Based on these findings a pilot plant test at optimized conditions is planned using the 2% Pt on Zn/Mn/Zr oxide catalyst. The effects of H{sub 2}, CO and CO{sub 2} co-feeds on the performance of the …

This document provides a determination of the status of Tank Farm Exhausters as regulated by the ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants`` (NESHAP) specified in the 40 Series Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs), Part 61, Subpart H, ``National Emission Standards for Emissions of Radionuclides other than Radon from Department of Energy Facilities.``

This report contains an assessment of the instrument and control systems in the Double Shell Tank Farms and the 244-A DCRT. The assessment report contains data from physical inspection activities and an overall engineering assessment of the instruments and control systems in use in the Double Shell Tanks.

This analysis was prepared to determine the viability of the MPC PWR-12 waste package concept with respect to criticality regulatory requirements in compliance with the goals of the Waste Package Implementation Plans for conceptual design.

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This analysis is prepared by the Mined Geologic Disposal System (MGDS) Waste Package Development Department (WPDD) to determine the dose rates from the UCF waste packages to be used by the EBS and other repository systems to incorporate ALARA practices in the overall repository design in compliance with the goals of the Waste Package Implementation Plan for conceptual design. These design calculations are performed in sufficient detail to provide a comprehensive comparison base with other design alternatives. The objectives of this evaluation are (1) to show the dose rate as a function of distance from the waste package surface and (2) to provide the shielding thicknesses required for the waste package transporter to meet a 10 mr/hr target dose rate at 2 meters from the transporter surface.