Excerpt: This document was developed by Abt Associates Inc. under technical direction from U.S. EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. The analysis and conclusions presented in this report are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily reflecting the official views or policies of the U.S. EPA. The analysis is useful to derive estimates of air quality, costs, benefits, and/or economic impacts. However, the analysis inputs and outputs as...

Summary: The United States Border Patrol (USBP) has a long and storied history as our nation’s first line of defense against unauthorized migration. Today, the USBP’s primary mission is to detect and prevent the entry of terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and illegal aliens into the country, and to interdict drug smugglers and other criminals along the border. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 dissolved the Immigration and Naturalization Service and placed the USBP...

Summary: In the decade between 1994 and 2004, the number of U.S. adults using the Internet increased from 15% to 64%. From electronic mail to accessing information to online purchasing (“electronic commerce”), the Internet touches almost every aspect of modern life. The extent to which use of the Internet continues to grow, however, may be affected by a number of technology policy issues being debated in Congress. First is the availability of high-speed -- or “broadband”...

Summary: The United States has long held to the principle that it will not return a foreign national to a country where his life or freedom would be threatened. This principle is embodied in several provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), most notably in provisions defining refugees and asylees. Aliens seeking asylum must demonstrate a well-founded fear that if returned home, they will be persecuted based upon one of five characteristics: race, religion,...

On May 16, 2002, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request for a health hazard evaluation (HHE) at Bil-Mar Foods in Storm Lake, Iowa, from the Occupational Safety and Health Bureau of the Iowa Division of Labor. This request for technical assistance noted that employees in the evisceration department were experiencing symptoms such as eye and respiratory irritation. On June 26-27, 2002, NIOSH medical and industrial hygiene repre...

INTRODUCTION—GEOGRAPHIC PRESENTATION OF DATA: In decennial census data products, geographic entities usually are presented in an hierarchical arrangement or as an inventory listing.

The Working Group wishes to acknowledge, with gratitude, the service and help of the following group of individuals who provided advice from different viewpoints during the period in which the approach leading to the present report was being worked out. The advisors participated in three meetings at NCI with the Working Group and its consultants, often at no little inconvenience to themselves, and read and commented upon several early drafts. While these individuals cann...

Excerpt: The oceanographic analyses described by this atlas series expand on earlier works, e.g. the World Ocean Atlas 1998 (WOA98), World Ocean Atlas 1994 (WOA94) and Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean. Previously published oceanographic objective analyses have proven to be of great utility to the oceanographic, climate research, and operational environmental forecasting communities. Such analyses are used as boundary and/or initial conditions in numerical ocean ci...

Preface: The oceanographic analyses described by this atlas series expand on earlier works, e.g. the World Ocean Atlas 1998 (WOA98), World Ocean Atlas 1994 (WOA94) and Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean. Previously published oceanographic objective analyses have proven to be of great utility to the oceanographic, climate research, and operational environmental forecasting communities. Such analyses are used as boundary and/or initial conditions in numerical ocean ci...

Technical Reference Publication

Foreword: At the dawn of the 21st century, no new area of science and technology holds greater promise or potential than biotechnology. From genomics and proteomics to biotechnologies for improving industrial production processes, advances in our ability to understand and manipulate living materials promise to address many significant challenges facing our society.