Lightning Hazard to Facilities Handling Flammable Substances (open access)

Lightning Hazard to Facilities Handling Flammable Substances

A report that discusses lightning strikes which could impact storage spaces and equipment that can cause devastating accidents in facilities.
Date: May 1997
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revisions to the Unregulated Containment Monitoring Regulation for Public Water Systems (open access)

Revisions to the Unregulated Containment Monitoring Regulation for Public Water Systems

64 FR 50556. Final rule establishing criteria for a program to monitor unregulated contaminants and to publish a list of contaminants to be monitored under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA), as amended in 1996.
Date: October 17, 1999
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rupture Hazard of Pressure Vessels (open access)

Rupture Hazard of Pressure Vessels

A report about the hazards of maintaining pressure vessels. Improperly operated pressure vessels can kill and injure workers and others, and cause extensive damage even if the contents are benign.
Date: May 1997
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shaft Blow-Out Hazard of Check and Butterfly Valves (open access)

Shaft Blow-Out Hazard of Check and Butterfly Valves

A report about check and butterfly valves which can fail catastrophically. This can cause gas releases, fires, and vapor cloud explosions.
Date: September 1997
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use Multiple Data Sources for Safer Emergency Response (open access)

Use Multiple Data Sources for Safer Emergency Response

A report intended to increase awareness of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) limitations, so that first responders can take proper precautions, and identify additional sources of chemical information, which could help prevent death or injury.
Date: June 1999
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Safety ALERT (open access)

Chemical Safety ALERT

This publication is an alert by the EPA to notify possible hazards from carbon adsorption deodorizing systems.
Date: May 1997
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Safety Alert: Catastrophic Failure of Storage Tanks (open access)

Chemical Safety Alert: Catastrophic Failure of Storage Tanks

This is an ALERT report on possible catastrophic failure of storage tanks.
Date: May 1997
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chapter 2: Management Measures for Agriculture Sources (open access)

Chapter 2: Management Measures for Agriculture Sources

This is the second chapter for the CZARA.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guidance Specifying Management Measures For Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters (open access)

Guidance Specifying Management Measures For Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters

Forward and table of contents issued under the authority of section 6217(g) of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guidance Specifying Management Measures For Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters: Chapter 1. Introduction (open access)

Guidance Specifying Management Measures For Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters: Chapter 1. Introduction

This is the introduction chapter for the 1990 CZARA.
Date: 1990
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
News-Notes, Number 19, March 1992 (open access)

News-Notes, Number 19, March 1992

Bulletin providing information and news about the condition of the water-related environment, the control of nonpoint sources of water pollution (NPS), and the ecosystem-driven management and restoration of watersheds in the United States.
Date: March 1992
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 1995 (open access)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 1995

Annual report of the U.S. Good Neighbor Environmental Board describing the organization's activities, goals, and recommendations for further development along the U.S.-Mexico border region. This report focuses on environmental and infrastructure needs within the states contiguous to Mexico.
Date: October 1995
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 1997 (open access)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 1997

Annual report of the U.S. Good Neighbor Environmental Board describing the organization's activities, goals, and recommendations for further development along the U.S.-Mexico border region. This report focuses on changing the development paradigm along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to establish a sustainable development vision for the region.
Date: April 1997
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 1998 (open access)

Good Neighbor Environmental Board Annual Report: 1998

Annual report of the U.S. Good Neighbor Environmental Board describing the organization's activities, goals, and recommendations for further development along the U.S.-Mexico border region. This report focuses on the status of Executive Branch and other implementation of prior years' recommendations, as reported by the federal agencies' represented on the Board.
Date: July 1998
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Informe de la Junta Ambiental del Buen Vecino,1997 April (open access)

Informe de la Junta Ambiental del Buen Vecino,1997 April

Annual report of the U.S. Good Neighbor Environmental Board describing the organization's activities, goals, and recommendations for further development along the U.S.-Mexico border region. This report focuses on ...
Date: 1997-04~
Creator: United States. Good Neighbor Environmental Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Summaries from Selected Environmental Studies of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Technical Summaries from Selected Environmental Studies of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Report contains a collection of environmental studies conducted by the MMS in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico to guide and ensure responsible stewardship of the coastal and marine environments of the NE Gulf of Mexico and balance this against energy needs for the American public.
Date: July 1996
Creator: United States. Minerals Management Service. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Administrative Changes to the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program Guidance for Section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990 (CZARA) (open access)

Final Administrative Changes to the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program Guidance for Section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990 (CZARA)

Final revisions by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding guidelines for coastal states to develop programs to reduce polluted runoff in accordance with the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990 (CZARA). The text outlines administrative changes to the program including targeting, enforceable policies and mechanisms, timeframes, program implementation/evaluation, and resources. It also includes the transmittal letter, outlining the purpose.
Date: Summer 1998
Creator: United States. Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Project Summary: A Socioeconimic OCS Issue Analysis of Stakeholders in the Central Gulf of Mexico] (open access)

[Project Summary: A Socioeconimic OCS Issue Analysis of Stakeholders in the Central Gulf of Mexico]

Summary describing the work completed at University of Southwestern Louisiana for a socioeconimic OCS issue analysis of stakeholders in the Central Gulf of Mexico. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
Date: 1995
Creator: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Project Summary: Abundance and Distribution of Sea Turtles off North Carolina] (open access)

[Project Summary: Abundance and Distribution of Sea Turtles off North Carolina]

Summary describing the work completed at Virginia Institute of Marine Science, School of Marine Science for "Abundance and Distribution of Sea Turtles off North Carolina." It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
Date: February 1996
Creator: Virginia Institute of Marine Science, School of Marine Science
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of Coastal Alabama Natural Gas Exploration and Development: Final Report (open access)

History of Coastal Alabama Natural Gas Exploration and Development: Final Report

This report tracks the history of the coastal region of Alabama following interest in oil drilling from 1969 to 1997. Mobil Oil Company sought to lease tracts to drill for oil in Mobile Bay from the state of Alabama, and later the oil companies Exxon, Chevron, and Shell became a part of the competition in the area.
Date: April 1999
Creator: Wade, William W.; Plater, Jason R. & Kelley, Jacqueline Q.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Satellite-Based Assessment of the Mississippi River Discharge Plume's Spatial Structure and Temporal Variability (open access)

Satellite-Based Assessment of the Mississippi River Discharge Plume's Spatial Structure and Temporal Variability

The Mississippi River is a major contributor of sediments, pollutants, and nutrients into the northern Gulf of Mexico, which creates a plume into the ocean. This report utilized lots of data to determine what environmental factors effected the dispersal of the plume from the river.
Date: November 1994
Creator: Walker, Nan D.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
NOAA/Air Resources Laboratory ATLAS No. 1 (open access)

NOAA/Air Resources Laboratory ATLAS No. 1

This is a report on air stagnation climatology for the United States (1948-1998). The report looks at the increase of urbanization and the air pollution problem that continues to rise.
Date: April 1999
Creator: Wang, Julian X. L. & Angell, James K.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health-Based Monitoring of Recreational Waters: The Feasibility of a New Approach (The 'Annapolis Protocol') (open access)

Health-Based Monitoring of Recreational Waters: The Feasibility of a New Approach (The 'Annapolis Protocol')

This is a study by the WHO that is concerned with health aspects of the management of water resources. The study addresses approaches to the regulation of microbiological hazards in recreational waters.
Date: 1999
Creator: World Health Organization
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
NOAA FY 2000 Budget Request (open access)

NOAA FY 2000 Budget Request

This report provides an overview of NOAA, including agency-wide information, a detailed description of the President's FY 2000 Budget Submission to the Congress, and a discussion of the NOAA Strategic Plan.
Date: February 1, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library