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The United States and Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in December 1987. Negotiations on this treaty were the result of a "dual-track" decision taken by NATO in...

The National Transportation Safety Board is pleased to submit its Human Capital Management for FY 2010, as required under 5 CFR Part 250. This report is the culmination of our annual human capital...

About 12:05 a.m. on February 18, 1999, railroad tank car UTLX 643593, which was on the west unloading rack at the Essroc Cement Corporation plant near Clymers, Indiana, sustained a sudden and...

About 3:45 a.m., eastern daylight time, on July 14, 2001, at the ATOFINA Chemicals, Inc., (ATOFINA) plant in Riverview, Michigan, a pipe attached to a fitting on the unloading line of a railroad tank...

On May 1, 2001, a tractor-semitrailer that had horizontally mounted cylinders filled with compressed hydrogen struck a pickup near Ramona, Oklahoma. According to witnesses, the tractor-semitrailer...

President Obama announced in June 2014 that he would seek "to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own" through administrative action. Although the Obama Administration has not yet...

Since its creation in 1967 as an accident investigation agency within the newly created US Department of Transportation (DOT), the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB's) mission has been to...

On the morning of April 7, 2002, the Piney Point Oil Pipeline system, which was owned by the Potomac Electric power Company, experienced a pope failure at the Chalk Point Generating Station in...

About 3:28 p.m., Pacific daylight time, on June, 1999, a 16-inch-diameter steel pipeline owned by Olympic pope Line Company ruptured and released about 237,000 gallons of gasoline into the creek that...

The objective of this Community Profile is to summarize available data on the ecology of the live bottom communities of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico between the Mississippi River Delta and Case...

This is a "spill-of-authrotiy" study conducted with grants from the Louisiana Applied Oil Spill Research and Development Program and the U.S. Department of the Interior's minerals Management Service...

This Final Report summarizes the procedures utilized and the results of the mapping efforts reached as a result of the preparation of the deliverables for the project, "Mapping Areas of Hard Bottom...

The Minerals Management Service is responsible for leasing federal offshore lands for oil and gas exploration and development, and for regulating the activities of offshore operators. These...

The interrelationships among rates of material cycling through both benthic and water column communities play an important role in the ultimate fate of inorganic nutrients and organic matter within...

The second volume of a report of the Mineral Management Service is to support efforts towards a focus on understanding ecosystem processes and environmental impacts of the Outer Continental Shelf in...

A field program designed to measure the ambient concentration of SO2, as well as pertinent meteorological parameters was conducted during the summer of 1993. Three sections were established in the...

This report summarizes the research efforts and findings of an investigation of the issues associated with Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas activities in the Central Gulf of Mexico. Stakeholders...

The purpose of this work was to examine the chemistry of N-, O-, and S- heterocycles (NOSHs) from fossil duels and pyrogenic sources in estuarine sediment-water with emphasis on relative rates and...

The Minerals Management Service's open-ocean, oil-weathering model has been extensively modified and adapted for use of a personal computer. The modifications include the use of variable wind speed...

Concern for environmental effects related to offshore drilling have increased during the past few years as exploration in the Gulf of Mexico has moved southward toward coral reefs, sandy beaches, and...

The Chaunderleurs from an acute sweep of low-lying islands and spits for over 60 km northeastward of the Mississippi River delta. They lie within U.S. Territorial Waters and from the eastern barrier...

The Flower Garden Banks (FGB), remotely located on the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico, are afforded a certain measure of protection due to their geographic distance from land. Problems that...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamic interaction between changes in crude oil prices, oil and gas industry activity in the OCS (measured in terms of petroleum production) and selected...

Metals and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) may be elevated around oil and gas production platforms, including those in the Gulf of Mexico (Kennicutt et al. 1996; Peterson et al. 1996). The...

This report studies petroleum lease sales and development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) using estimated physical and economic measures of performance in offshore...

The Flower Garden Banks, remotely located topographic features on the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico, are afforded a certain measure of natural protection due to their geographic distance...

Looking for fun things to do? Looking for venues to sell your handmade goods? This fantastic guide is filled with fun events and attractions for the State of Washington, with a special emphasis on...

Looking for fun things to do? Looking for venues to sell your handmade goods? This fantastic guide is filled with fun events and attractions for the State of Oregon, with a special emphasis on shows...

About the Book "PLEASE PRAY! THIS IS URGENT! HELP!" Have you heard these words? If someone asks you to pray for them, do you know what to say or what to do? Did you know that you could pray for...

Adult Family Homes (AFH) are an important part of care-giving for elderly persons at specific times in their lives. We know that no one chooses to move from their own home into a care facility. When...