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 Pampa Economic Development Corporation may contribute to a Clarendon College center im Pampa, Texas (ID# 39511)

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 city council may require that certain or all requests for zoning variances be directed to the city council rather than the zoning board of adjustment (ID# 39261)

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 commissioners court in a county with a public defender's office must provide funding to pay court-appointed attorneys who are not members of the public defender's office (RQ-913)

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; Removal of persons appointed to county purchasing board and related questions (ID# 39418)

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 may pay legal expenses incurred by sheriff in defending himself in a prosecution in criminal charges(ID# 39367).

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 Texas Hazard Communication Act, chapter 502, Health and Safety Code, which provides "employees" with accessibility to certain information regarding hazardous chemicals at work sites, is applicable to inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (RQ-841)

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 retired judge is precluded by section 74.055 of the Government Code from accepting appointment as a guardian ad litem(ID# 39617)

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 Val Verde County Hospital District is authorized to construct a building to lease to private physicians , and related questions(ID# 39523).

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 constable may call regular and reserve deputy constables into service to provide security at events sponsored by separate governmental or private entities and collect payment therefor (ID# 39175)

CEBAF is a 4 GeV, 200 {micro}A five-pass recirculating superconducting electron accelerator that has been operating for nuclear physics research at full energy since November 95. The beam current has been increased to over 180 {micro}A at 4 GeV with the maximum current in the linac over 900 {micro}A. The superconducting cavities operate in a regime where the beam-induced voltage is comparable to the accelerating gradient. The operational limits and the issues required to maintain stable operation of the 1,497 MHz superconducting cavities will be discussed, together with the implications for the other accelerator systems. There are three experimental Halls which can run simultaneously with three interleaved 499 MHz bunch trains and RF separators. Operation with simultaneous beams to two Halls is now routine, and simultaneous three beam operation has been demonstrated. The maximum design current per bunch train (120 {micro}A) has been achieved. Hall B eventually requires beam currents as low as 1 nA (200 pA has been delivered) simultaneous with delivery of up to 200 {micro}A to the other Halls. The required beam current ratio of 10,000 has been achieved; development of 1 nA beam position monitors continues.

RF and magnet system configuration and monitoring tools are being implemented at Jefferson Lab to improve system reliability and reduce operating costs. They are prototype components of the Momentum Management System being developed. The RF is of special interest because it affects the momentum and momentum spread of the beam, and because of the immediate financial benefit of managing the klystron DC supply power. The authors describe present and planned monitoring of accelerating system parameters, use of these data, RF system performance calculations, and procedures for magnet configuration for handling beam of any of five beam energies to any of three targets.

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The report discusses the bill that was introduced on May 14,1997, by the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, and the bill was referred to that committee.

Films with layers of Nb, Cu, and Sn have been fabricated to simulate a Nb{sub 3}Sn bronze-type process. These Nb{sub 3}Sn films have produced critical current densities greater than 1 x 10{sup 6} A/cm{sup 2} at 4.2 K and 7.5 T. Niobium films doped with Y, Sc, Dy, Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}, and Ti have been deposited with e-beam co-evaporation onto 75 mm diameter Si wafers with a 100 nm SiO{sub 2} buffer layer. The Nb layer was followed by a layer of Cu and a layer of Sn to complete the bronze-type process. The films with the highest J{sub c} had about 8 vol. % Sc and about 18 vol. % Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}. Characterization of the microstructure by TEM shows that these high J{sub c} films contained high density of inclusions about 5 nm in size and that the grain size of the Nb{sub 3}Sn is about 20-25 nm for samples heat treated at 700 C for up to eight hours.

The Cable Measuring Engine (CME) is a tool which measures and records the cable dimensions in a nondestructive fashion. It is used in-line with the superconductor cable as it is being made. The CME is intended to be used as a standard method of measuring cable by the various manufacturers involved in the cable process.

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Some recent developments in the weakly-coupled heterotic string phenomenology are reviewed. We discuss several important issues such as dilaton/moduli stabilization, supersymmetry breaking (by hidden-sector gaugino condensation), gauge coupling unification (or the Newton's constant), the QCD axion, as well as cosmological problems involving the dilaton/moduli and the axion.

The four connections for the control dewar and VLPC bayonet can platform are designed, using finite element analysis, to carry all dead weight and live loads. Based on the loads applied to the platform, two 1 inch thick plates and two 3/4 inch thick brackets made of ASTM A572-Grade 42 are required. The 1 inch thick plate requires a 3/8 inch thick intermediate steel material, between the 8-inch x 4-inch x 1/4-inch boom and the plate, for load reinforcement as well as weld area reinforcement. Both the plates and the brackets require 3/4 inch steel bolt connections.

In the rush to explore the B system, one should not ignore the potential of rare K decays. The charged and neutral FCNC K {yields} {pi}{nu}{bar {mu}} decays are theoretically very clean, on a par with B {yields} {psi}K{sub S}, which measures {beta}, and much less problematic than B {yields} {pi}{pi} and B{sub s} {yields} K{sup +}K{sup -} or B{sub s} {yields} K*{sup +}K*{sup -} which have been proposed to measure {alpha} and {gamma} respectively. B(K{sup +} {yields} {pi}{sup +}{nu}{bar {nu}}), which in the Standard Model yields information on |V*{sub ts}V{sub td}|, is closely related to the ratio of B{sub d} - {bar B}{sub d} to B{sub s}-{bar B}{sub s}, mixing, which yields |V{sub td}/V{sub ts}|. It is essential to compare such clean measurements from the B and K sectors, because new physics is likely to manifest itself in apparent disagreements[12]. Measuring the branching ratios of K {yields} {pi}{nu}{bar {nu}} decays is a challenge, but the current proven reach in sensitivity for the charged mode and the prospect of measuring the neutral mode at AGS-2000 indicate that this window into flavor physics is on the verge of becoming an exploitable reality.

A report emphasizing the necessity for continued Arctic Research as the area becomes increasingly important, both regionally and globally.

Newsletter of the Texas Rehabilitation Commission discussing information about the Commission as well as news, events, and other relevant information.

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.

In the process of coal cleaning operations, a significant amount of coal is washed away as waste into the ponds. Clearly, such a large quantity of dumped coal fines has a detrimental effect on the environment. This investigation presents in innovative approach to recover and utilize waste coal fines from the preparation plant effluent streams and tailing ponds. Due to the large moisture content of the recovered coal fines, this study is focused on the utilization of coal fines in the coal-water slurry fuel (CWSF). The CWSF consists of 53.3% weight solids with a viscosity of less than 500 centipoise and 80-90% of solids passing 200 mesh. The 53.3% weight solids constitute a blend of 15% effluent recovered coal fines and 85% clean coal. It is the authors premise that a blend of plant coal and recovered waste coal fines can be used to produce a coal-water slurry fuel with the desired combustion characteristics required by the industry. In order to evaluate these characteristics the coal-water slurry fuel is fired in a test furnace at three firing rates (834,330 Btu/hr, 669,488 Btu/hr and 508,215 Btu/hr) with three different burner settings for each firing rate. Combustion tests were conducted to determine …

Coal cleaning is a technology that can solve a broad array of environmental problems associated with older, state-of-the-art, and future electric generating stations. Coal cleaning provides many environmental benefits. It reduces the concentration of inorganic minerals and elements found in association with coal, some of which are potentially toxic even though they are found in coal in only trace amounts. Currently, more sulfur and related S0{sub 2}, is removed by coal cleaning than by all post-combustion technologies combined. By increasing thermal efficiency and reducing parasitic power requirements, coal cleaning reduces all power plant emissions per unit of electricity produced, including S0{sub 2}, NO{sub x} C0{sub 2}, and hazardous air pollutant precursors (HAPs). While coal cleaning is a mature technology, in the past coal cleaning has only been used for the comparatively simple purposes of removing ash-forming and sulfur-bearing minerals. The application of this technology to H APs control will require a more sophisticated approach, based on a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of trace element removal. The trace elements named as HAPs in the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act can occur in coal in numerous forms. For example, antimony is believed to be present in pyrite, accessory sulfides …