Texas State Office of Risk Management Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2003-2007 (open access)

Texas State Office of Risk Management Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2003-2007

Agency strategic plan for the Texas State Office of Risk Management describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2003 through 2007.
Date: June 17, 2002
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues (open access)

Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues

This report discusses key drinking water issues in the 109th Congress, including problems caused by specific contaminants, such as methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and perchlorate, as well as the related issue of the appropriate federal role in providing financial assistance for water infrastructure projects.
Date: March 20, 2006
Creator: Tiemann, Mary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid Expenditures, FY2002 and FY2003 (open access)

Medicaid Expenditures, FY2002 and FY2003

Medicaid is a health insurance program jointly funded by the states and the federal government. Generally, eligibility is limited to low-income children, pregnant women, parents of dependent children, people with disabilities, and the elderly. Each state designs and administers its own program within broad federal guidelines.
Date: February 15, 2005
Creator: Tritz, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The United States Agency for International Development: FY 2003 Performance and Accountability Report (open access)

The United States Agency for International Development: FY 2003 Performance and Accountability Report

A report which describes USAID results in economic growth, agricultural development, education, environmental protection, health, population, democracy and governance, and humanitarian assistance.
Date: November 14, 2003
Creator: United States. Agency for International Development.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The EPA Office of Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (open access)

The EPA Office of Environmental Justice Small Grants Program

This report is an inventory of the profiles of the Environmental Justice Small Grants awarded for FY 2003. It shows each regions grants awards depending on socioeconomic balance, diversity of recipients, and sustainability of benefits.
Date: October 26, 2004
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transient Inverse Calibration of the Site-Wide Groundwater Flow Model (ACM-2): FY03 Progress Report (open access)

Transient Inverse Calibration of the Site-Wide Groundwater Flow Model (ACM-2): FY03 Progress Report

DOE and PNNL are working to strengthen the technical defensibility of the groundwater flow and transport model at the Hanford Site and to incorporate uncertainty into the model. One aspect of the initiative is developing and using a three-dimensional transient inverse model to estimate the hydraulic conductivities, specific yields, and other parameters using data from Hanford since 1943. The focus of the alternative conceptual model (ACM-2) inverse modeling initiative documented in this report was to address limitations identified in the ACM-1 model, complete the facies-based approach for representing the hydraulic conductivity distribution in the Hanford and middle Ringold Formations, develop the approach and implementation methodology for generating multiple ACMs based on geostatistical data analysis, and develop an approach for inverse modeling of these stochastic ACMs. The primary modifications to ACM-2 transient inverse model include facies-based zonation of Units 1 (Hanford ) and 5 (middle Ringold); an improved approach for handling run-on recharge from upland areas based on watershed modeling results; an improved approach for representing artificial discharges from site operations; and minor changes to the geologic conceptual model. ACM-2 is the first attempt to fully incorporate the facies-based approach to represent the hydrogeologic structure. Further refinement and additional improvements to …
Date: October 30, 2003
Creator: Vermeul, Vince R.; Bergeron, Marcel P.; Cole, C R.; Murray, Christopher J.; Nichols, William E.; Scheibe, Timothy D. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vadose Zone Transport Field Study FY 2003 Test Plan (open access)

Vadose Zone Transport Field Study FY 2003 Test Plan

Conceptual models have been identified as one of the sources of uncertainty in the interpretation and prediction of contaminant migration through the vadose zone at Hanford. Current conceptual models are limited partly because they often do not account for the random heterogeneity that occurs under the extremes of very nonlinear flow behavior typical of the Hanford vadose zone. Over the last two years significant progress has been made in characterizing physical heterogeneity and in the development of techniques for incorporating this heterogeneity into predictive and inverse models for field-scale subsurface flow. One of the remaining pieces of the puzzle is the impact of heterogeneity on the distribution of reactive contaminants. Reactive transport occurs over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. However, the manner in which the various subsurface physical and chemical processes interact to influence transport is not very well understood. Hydrogeologic characterization and model analysis, however, have traditionally focused on measurement of physical properties and predicting the effects of variability in these properties on flow and transport. As a result, the role of geochemical heterogeneity on solute transport has remained largely unexplored. This project will use a combination of geophysical and soil physics techniques to investigate the …
Date: April 15, 2003
Creator: Ward, Anderson L. & Gee, Glendon W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
PNNL DOE-Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) FY2003 Program Evaluation (open access)

PNNL DOE-Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) FY2003 Program Evaluation

This Program Evaluation report is an updated revision to the annual assessment of PNNL's VPP Program performance with respect to DOE-VPP criteria. It contains a summary of results and a data sheet for each of the VPP Elements, including strengths, weaknesses, recent/anticipated changes that will affect each Element, and a rating for each Element. Recommendations are also offered for continuous improvement.
Date: February 6, 2003
Creator: Wright, Patrick A.; Bowers, Harold N.; Madson, Vernon J.; Isern, Nancy G.; Collins, Drue A.; Haney, Janice M. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brookhaven National Laboratory Institutional Plan FY2003-2007. (open access)

Brookhaven National Laboratory Institutional Plan FY2003-2007.

This document presents the vision for Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for the next five years, and a roadmap for implementing that vision. Brookhaven is a multidisciplinary science-based laboratory operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), supported primarily by programs sponsored by the DOE's Office of Science. As the third-largest funding agency for science in the U.S., one of the DOE's goals is ''to advance basic research and the instruments of science that are the foundations for DOE's applied missions, a base for U.S. technology innovation, and a source of remarkable insights into our physical and biological world, and the nature of matter and energy'' (DOE Office of Science Strategic Plan, 2000 http://www.osti.gov/portfolio/science.htm). BNL shapes its vision according to this plan.
Date: June 10, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Geothermal Research Program Update Fiscal Year 2003 (open access)

Federal Geothermal Research Program Update Fiscal Year 2003

The Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessors have conducted research and development (R&D) in geothermal energy since 1971. To develop the technology needed to harness the Nation's vast geothermal resources, DOE's Office of Geothermal Technologies oversees a network of national laboratories, industrial contractors, universities, and their subcontractors. The following mission and goal statements guide the overall activities of the Office. The goals are: (1) Reduce the levelized cost of generating geothermal power to 3-5 cents per kWh by 2007; (2) Double the number of States with geothermal electric power facilities to eight by 2006; and (3) Supply the electrical power or heat energy needs of 7 million homes and businesses in the United States by 2010. This Federal Geothermal Program Research Update reviews the accomplishments of DOE's Geothermal Program for Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2003. The information contained in this Research Update illustrates how the mission and goals of the Office of Geothermal Technologies are reflected in each R&D activity. The Geothermal Program, from its guiding principles to the most detailed research activities, is focused on expanding the use of geothermal energy. balanced strategy for the Geothermal Program.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heavy vehicle hybrid propulsion systems R and D program plan, FY 2000-2005 (open access)

Heavy vehicle hybrid propulsion systems R and D program plan, FY 2000-2005

This report contains the program plan and background information for the Heavy Vehicle Hybrid Propulsion R and D Program sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Heavy Vehicle Technologies. The program is a collaboration between industry and government established for the development of advanced hybrid-electric propulsion technology for urban cycle trucks and buses. It targets specific applications to enhance potential market success. Potential end-users are also involved.
Date: July 1, 2000
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library