BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
**The President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform**

**Request of Comments #1**

**Individual Submission**

**Ty Hardison**

**February 22, 2005**

**Any fundamental tax reform should be:**

**Fair:** It must protect the poor and treat everyone else the same. No
exemptions - no exclusions -no advantages. Corporate income taxes,
payroll taxes and tax compliance cost are embedded in the prices of
every good and service we buy today. It is unfair that not only is my
work productivity and ingenuity penalized by income tax but then
whatever I buy as necessity or luxury has all of this extra embedded tax
costs built into the price. Double taxation is most certainly unfair. We
can completely untax the poor with a prebate so that no taxes are paid
on purchases made up to the poverty line with the result that no one
pays tax until spending exceeds this threshold?

**Border Neutral:** Why should our exports be burdened by higher prices
due to our tax system? Embedded taxes and tax compliance and avoidance
fees are currently a component in US made goods and services that
disadvantage all businesses? Imports don't carry the same tax burden at
retail as our domestic competition and costs US jobs.

**Simple:** It must be easy to understand for all Americans - no matter
one\'s education, occupation, or station in life. I shouldn't have to
deal with paying a CPA or paying expensive tax return loan charges.

**Transparent:** I want my full paycheck to take home. "Take home pay"
is a scam on the citizens of this country!

**Strengthens Social Security:** A retail sales tax means that foreign
visitors (both legal and illegal) pay taxes where as these millions and
millions of visitors don't pay income tax. And if you want me to save
more for my retirement, why are you taxing my income and savings?

# For Rich and Poor

Lets move away from the "tax the rich" answer to all our problems. That
worn out solution only goes so far. There is a more intelligent way to
fund our government. Please remember, there are only two things for rich
people to do with their money -- one is to spend it and the other is to
save it. If we tax on spending, when they spend it - they pay tax. If
they save it, there is more money for entrepreneurs to bring innovative
companies and products online, fueling jobs that pay higher wages that
lead to more spending that leads to higher tax revenue.

The poor can benefit greatly 1) by increasing purchasing power through
more take home pay (they get 100% of their earnings) and buying cheaper
goods (that don't carry embedded tax and tax compliance costs) using a
combination of funds (from the prebate and their entire pay check) and
2) from a rapidly growing economy due to more US jobs (since our
products are more competitive on the world market and with more
investment in new US based businesses developing innovative technology
breakthroughs delivering cheaper cleaner energy, medical advances,
healthier food, etc. that raises all citizens standard of living).

Doesn't this sound more like a plan for the 21st century?
**[Timothy J. Menard]{.underline}** -- Wildlife Biologist, DOI U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge and
Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, Hartford, Kansas.

> Tim worked a variety of seasonal jobs before fire: researching
> shorebirds on the southern Texas coast, studying tundra-nesting birds
> at Prudhoe Bay Alaska, guiding the backpacking trips at Philmont Boy
> Scout Ranch. Tim began fighting fire with the Sawtooth Hotshots in
> 1994. He joined Chena Hotshots (BLM Alaska Fire Service) in 1995 and
> 1997. During the 1996 season, Tim completed a Masters research
> studying native brook trout in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Tim's
> interest then expanded beyond suppression to prescribed fire with a
> winter burning season at Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
> in the longleaf pine/wirgrass ecosystem of South Carolina. He spent a
> season with Zion Fire Use Module, before taking a position as fire
> ecologist for the Prescott National Forest. During the two years on
> the Prescott, Tim regularly worked on Prescott Hotshots. In 2000, he
> became wildlife biologist for the Marais des Cygnes and Flint Hills
> National Wildlife Refuges in eastern Kansas. His current position
> involves habitat restoration of bottomland hardwood forests, tallgrass
> prairie, and oak savannahs.
>
> B.S. Wildlife Biology -- University of Missouri, 1992
>
> M.S. Biological Sciences -- Michigan Tech University 1997
>
> Revised: 2/2/2006 bg
#### NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MABI AS-1352

Interview with GILES ROMULUS

Interviewer: Phil Huffman

Woodstock, Vermont

June 15, 1999

**EXCERPTED**

St. Lucia...is in me, in my bones, so to speak, and it is difficult to
see myself living somewhere else...St. Lucia is the place I love.

St. Lucia is a volcanic island\...the northern section of the island is
relatively flat...the southern part is also very flat, but the middle is
a very rugged central core of tropical vegetation. All around you have
beaches.

The people are a mixture of Europeans, but predominantly Africans in
descent. I think there\'s a great warmth, Caribbean personality, warmth,
and joy of life.

The mandate of the Trust is to conserve the natural and cultural
heritage of St. Lucia...So the Trust can buy land, can sell land, can
exchange land, can get donations of land.

So conservation in a place like St. Lucia has to be treated
differently...You are trying to conserve the land, but you must also see
about the survival needs of the communities that are dependent on the
land.

If we are to conserve the environment, we need persons joining hands,
bringing different skills to the table.

So the new paradigm, therefore, in the environment has to be one of
partnership, collaboration, compassion, love of human beings and animals
and plants as well.

I\'ll be very happy if at the end of my tenure...that the Trust is
vibrant, well-respected, that a lot more of our country is protected,
that our citizens are more aware, that there\'s a greater love for
country.
PRELIMINARY

Friday, March 2, 2007

**8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.**

Department of Education, Barnard Auditorium

400 Maryland Ave, SW, Washington, DC 20202

**8:30 -- 9:00 a.m. Registration**

**9:00 -- 9:05 a.m. Call to Order**

J. Robert Flores, Administrator, OJJDP

**9:05 -- 9:10 a.m. Opening Remarks**

Deborah Price, Assistant Deputy Secretary, Office of Safe and Drug Free
Schools

**9:10 -- 10:10 a.m. Report from Council Working Groups**

***Discussion of Recommendations and Request for Decision***

**10:10 -- 10:30 a.m. Break**

**10:30 -- 12:00 p.m. Panel: Recovery in Gulf Coast \-- Nexus of
Juvenile Justice and Education**

> Monique Preau, Recovery School District and Judge David Bell, Chief
> Judge of Orleans Parish Juvenile Court
>
> Moderator \--Bill Modzeleski, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools

***Discussion: Implications, Challenges and Opportunities for Member
Agencies***

**12:00 -- 12:25 p.m. Legislative, Program and Council Activity Updates
and Other Business**

***Presentation on Proposed No Child Left Behind Act Reauthorization***

Representative from Office of the Secretary of Education, To Be
Determined

Council member agencies

**12:25 -- 12:30 p.m. Adjournment**
PERIPHERAL & CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ADVISORY COMMITTEE

AND CONSULTANTS - MARCH 13 AND 14, 2001

# CONSULTANT & ACTING CHAIR

Kawas, Claudia H., M.D.

Professor of Neurology

University of California Irvine

1121 Gillespie N.R.F.

Irvine, CA 92697-4550

# 

# MEMBERS

## Consumer Representative

Lacey, Ella P., Ph.D. 1/31/03

847 West Lake Road

Carbondale, Illinois 62901

Penix, LaRoy P., M.D. 1/31/03

Professor of Neurology

Neuroscience Institute, Rm. 127,

MRC Bldg.

Moorehouse School of Medicine

720 Westview Drive, S.W.

Atlanta, Georgia 30310

Penn, Richard D., M.D. 1/31/03

Professor of Neurosurgery

University of Chicago

Section of Neurology

5841 South Maryland Ave.

Rm. J341

Chicago, Illinois 60637

# 

Van Belle, Gerald, Ph.D. 1/31/03

Department of Environmental Health

School of Public Health and

Community Medicine

University of Washington

1705 NE Pacific St.

Bldg. HSB, Rm. 463

Seattle, Washington 98105

# EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

Titus, Sandra, Ph.D.

Advisors and Consultants Staff

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Food and Drug Administration

5600 Fishers Lane

Rockville, Maryland 20857

301/827-7001 FAX301/827-6776

<tituss@cder.fda.gov>

# CONSULTANTS 

Weiner, Howard L., M.D.

Associate Professor of Neurology

Brigham & Women's Hospital

Center for Neurologic Diseases

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

HIM Bldg., Rm. 730

Boston, Massachusetts 02115

# 

Grundman, Michael, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Director

Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study

University of California, San Diego

8950 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite 2200

La Jolla, California 92037

Wolinsky, Jerry S., M.D. Professor of Neurology

The University of Texas-Houston

Health Science Center

Department of Neurology, MSB7.044

6431 Fannin St.

Houston, Texas 77030
June 26, 2007

Honorable Jeanine Blomberg

Commissioner

Florida Department of Education

Turlington Building, Suite 1614

325 West Gaines Street

Tallahassee, Florida 32399

Dear Commissioner Blomberg:

With great pleasure, I am accepting Florida's growth model proposal to
be part of the U.S. Department of Education's (Department's) pilot
project. In my November 9, 2006, letter, I noted that Florida must
receive approval of its standards and assessment system by the end of
the 2006-07 school year in order to become part of the Department's
growth model pilot project. Florida has recently met this condition,
receiving Full Approval with Recommendations of its standards and
assessment system.

Congratulations for submitting a successful proposal and for receiving
approval of the Florida standards and assessment system. We believe that
Florida's participation in the pilot will help us consider different
ways to measure school accountability, while giving schools credit for
improvement over time and measuring individual student progress.

To enable Florida to implement its growth model as part of determining
adequate yearly progress (AYP) for the 2006--07 school year, I am
entering into this flexibility agreement with Florida under section 9401
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended. This
agreement permits Florida to include its growth model as a part of
calculating AYP under section 1111(b)(2) of the ESEA. As part of this
flexibility agreement, Florida must agree to the following:

-   Florida must provide data comparing the results of determining AYP
    on the basis of its growth model with the results obtained when AYP
    is determined under the statutory model;

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-   Florida must participate in an evaluation of its growth model
    conducted by the Department; and

-   Florida must report information on student growth to parents.

After the first year of implementation, we will discuss with you any
modifications that may need to be made to your growth model to continue
participating in the pilot.

As required by section 9401(b)(3)(A)(iii) of the ESEA, within 30 days of
the date of this letter, Florida must provide notice and information to
the public regarding this flexibility agreement in the manner in which
it customarily provides similar notice to the public.

Again, I congratulate you on Florida's successful growth model proposal.
I look forward to working with you to evaluate the impact of Florida's
growth model on ensuring school accountability and measuring student
progress.

> Sincerely,
>
> /s/
>
> Margaret Spellings

cc: Honorable Charlie Crist

Mr. Jay Pfeiffer, Director, Accountability Research and Measurement

> Mr. Juan Coppa, Director, Office of Evaluation and Reporting
Number range CHAPTEREnclosure 5

# Reimbursable Process

##  [Manual Bills for Non-Federal Cooperators using ARS Invoice]{.underline}

***(Type 63)***

Background:

This process is to be used when manual bills are sent to ARS Ops for
purposes of recording accounts receivable and collection activity.
However, these steps are to be used when the cooperator requests
submission of invoices using special forms or when the ABCO Bill for
Collection is NOT satisfactory.

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

1.  Servicing Budget and Fiscal Office (SBFO) assigns the appropriate
    program type, establishes the accounting code (ACXT, DVAL, PGMT) and
    either identifies or works with the Vendor Coordinator to establish
    the appropriate vendor record on VEND (CAN if another USDA Agency).

2.  Servicing Budget and Fiscal Office (SBFO) sends the following to ARS
    Ops:

-   Transmittal of Reimbursable or Trust Fund Agreement (ARS-324);

-   Signed Agreement (AD-672, ARS-451, or other acceptable document);

-   FFIS VEND screen to ARS Operations Section;

-   Authorization/approval from the Director, FMD, to use type 63.

3.  Based on **[ACTUAL EXPENSES]{.underline}**, the SBFO completes and
    submits the IBIL form to ARS Ops. The invoice must include
    remittance instructions and a place to annotate debtor and bill
    number (see Enclosure 6 for Sample).

4.  ARS Ops enters data into the IBIL system indicating "special
    handling" is required.

5.  IBIL System interfaces with ABCO on a nightly basis to generate an
    accounts receivable in ABCO.

6.  ARS Ops annotates Debtor Number and Bill Number on the invoice and
    send to cooperator.

7.  Receivable data is sent to FFIS on a nightly basis and an A1
    document (ABCO Billing Document) is created in FFIS.

> **SGL effect:**
>
> ***Federal and Non-Federal Non-Advance (Trans Type FS)***
>
> 1312 Accounts Receivable - Billed
>
> 5200 Revenue from Services Provided
>
> 4251 Reimbursements Earned - Receivable
>
> 4210 Anticipated Reimbursements

8.  Collection received via lockbox and posted in ABCO

9.  ABCO collection is posted in FFIS on a nightly basis.

10. A2 document (ABCO Cash Receipt Document) is created and the A1
    document is liquidated.

> **SGL effect:**
>
> ***Non-Federal Non-Advance Non-OPAC (Trans Type 22)***
>
> 1015 Non-224 Cash
>
> 5200 Revenue from Services Provided
>
> 4252 Reimbursements Earned - Collected
>
> 4210 Anticipated Reimbursements
>
> *Reversal of A1 (Trans Type FS)*
>
> 5200 Revenue from Services Provided
>
> 1312 Accounts Receivable - Billed
>
> 4210 Anticipated Reimbursements

4251. Reimbursements Earned -- Receivable

> ***Federal Non-Advance OPAC (Trans Type FZ)***
>
> 1011 SF-224 Disbursements
>
> 5200 Revenue from Services Provided
>
> 4252 Reimbursements Earned - Collected
>
> 4210 Anticipated Reimbursements
>
> *Reversal of A1 (Trans Type FS)*
>
> 5200 Revenue from Services Provided
>
> 1312 Accounts Receivable - Billed
>
> 4210 Anticipated Reimbursements
>
> 4251 Reimbursements Earned -- Receivable
**DA 06-1922**

September 25, 2006

Levi C. Maaia

Full Channel TV, Inc.

57 Everett St.

Warren, RI 02885

Re: Call Sign: E060239 File Nos.: SES-REG-20060615-01023

SES-STA-20060615-01024

Dear Mr. Maaia:

On June 15, 2006, Full Channel TV, Inc. (Full Channel) filed the
above-captioned application to register a C-Band and Ku-Band
receive-only earth station. In addition, Full Channel filed a request
for Special Temporary Authority to operate this earth station. Pursuant
to Section 25.112(a)(1) of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.
§25.112(a)(1), we dismiss both applications as defective without
prejudice to refiling.

All applicants seeking licenses or registrations for Receive-Only must
include all items of information required by FCC Form 312 and its
associated Schedule B. Full Channel's application, however, does not
include several fields of required information, including frequency band
and emission designators (See questions E43-E59). In response to
question E18 of Schedule B, Full Channel indicates that frequency
coordination is not required. Earth station applicants, however, must
complete frequency coordination if they intend to operate in frequency
bands with terrestrial services on a co-primary basis. These co-primary
bands include the C-band and certain portions of the Ku-band, including
the bands that Full Channel seeks to operate.

Further, the Commission does not license or register receive-only FSS
stations operating with ALSAT-designated satellites in the 11.7-12.2 GHz
portion of the Ku-band. See *Deregulation of Domestic Receive-Only
Satellite Earth Stations*, Second Report and Order, CC Docket No.
78-374, (adopted March 25, 1986).[^1] Because FSS is the only primary
allocation in this band, operations to FSS receive-only Ku-band earth
stations are protected against interference from the operations of any
other communications service. As such, licensing or registering these
earth stations is unnecessary.

If the proposed earth station will be operating in bands other than the
3700-4200 MHz band, Full Channel should file a license application
rather than a request to register this earth station.

Accordingly, pursuant to Section 25.112(a)(1) of the Commission's rules,
47 C.F.R. §25.112(a)(1), and Section 0.261 of the Commission's rules on
delegations of authority, 47 C.F.R. §0.261, we dismiss both applications
as defective without prejudice to refiling.[^2]

Sincerely,

Scott A. Kotler

Chief, Systems Analysis Branch

Satellite Division

International Bureau

[^1]: *See* *Deregulation of Domestic Receive-Only Satellite Earth
    Stations,* Second Report and Order, 104 FCC 2d 348 (1986), at para.
    12.

[^2]: If Full Channel TV, Inc. refiles an application identical to the
    one dismissed, with the exception of supplying the missing
    information, it need not pay an application fee. *See* 47 C.F.R.
    §1.1109(d).
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height="1.0034722222222223in"}

March 2006

## 527 v. 501(c)4

In light of calls to pass the Shays-Meehan campaign finance regulation
bill (H.R. 513) as a stand-alone bill (instead of attached to lobbying
reform), it might be helpful to understand some differences between
citizens groups commonly known as independent 527s and 501(c)4s in
current law, since most 527s have declared that they are transforming,
or soon will transform, into 501(c)4s. **[Note]{.underline}**: nothing
in H.R. 513 or in current law for the entities described below would
stop the automated phone calls that have been the subject of much
criticism.

**[527]{.underline}** **[501(c)4]{.underline}**

Donor disclosure Must disclose donors who contribute more No disclosure
requirements

than \$200

Contribution limits None None

Contribution sources Individuals and corporations Individuals and
corporations

Electioneering communications Allowed (individuals' money only) Not
allowed

(30/60 days before election)

Filing agency IRS, FEC reports for electioneering IRS

communications

Express advocacy---fed candidates Not allowed Not allowed

("Vote for Joe Schmoe")

Contributions to candidates Not allowed Not allowed

Lobbying Allowed Allowed

(including automated phone calls)

**[527]{.underline}** **[501(c)4]{.underline}**

Campaign (political) activities Allowed (except express advocacy)
Allowed (if not more than 50% of total activity)

Taxable activities Non-political expenditures; interest income Campaign
(political) expenditures

Examples of conservative entities Club for Growth National Rifle
Association

Swiftboat Veterans for Truth Americans for Tax Reform

GOPAC National Right to Life

Examples of liberal entities America Coming Together NAACP

America Votes Sierra Club (c4)

Sierra Club 527 Natural Resources Defense Council

MoveOn.org Voter Fund Planned Parenthood (c4)

Equity in the political system can best be improved by
[reducing]{.underline} regulations on all types of entities ("the
freedom approach"). To learn more about the freedom approach, see the
527 Fairness Act (H.R. 1316; "Pence-Wynn"). RSC Staff Contact:
<paul.teller@mail.house.gov>
ATLAS Pixel HEX and Opto-Cooling

Emergency Repair

M. Cepeda

M. Gilchriese(scribe)

ABSTRACT

An emergency repair procedure for ATLAS pixel HEX exhaust and inlet
tubing and rectangular opto-cooling is described.

[Samples]{.underline}

Three tube samples were used. These are shown below after making a small
hole in each(not so easy to see in all cases).

![](media/image1.jpeg){width="3.5555555555555554in"
height="2.6666666666666665in"}

[Procedure]{.underline}

The area around the repair was cleaned with acetone and alcohol.
Scotchbrite used to abrade surface. Cleaning with acetone and alcohol
repeated. Dried. Hysol 9396 was applied to the area and fiberglass cloth
mesh was wrapped three times around the tube. Additional 9396 added as
required such that 9396 penetrates all fiberglass layers. Teflon pipe
thread tape was then wrapped around the fiberglass cloth. Cure time was
three days. Some pictures are given below

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height="2.061111111111111in"}.![](media/image3.jpeg){width="2.7090277777777776in"
height="2.0319444444444446in"}

![](media/image4.jpeg){width="2.623611111111111in"
height="1.9673611111111111in"}![](media/image5.jpeg){width="2.623611111111111in"
height="1.9673611111111111in"}

[Testing]{.underline}

The normal test protocol ie. leak check -\> 50 cycles to 16 bar-\> leak
check -\> 50 thermal cycles between -30 and 20C -\> leak check was used
on the three samples. All passed. The teflon tape was removed on these
samples but could be left(possibly overwrapped with kapton tape if
worred about radiation damage).

[Plan]{.underline}

Mario will show Tom(and anyone else) how to do this during Jan. 22- Feb.
6 trip to CERN. He will bring or we will ship fiberglass cloth.
Poster Presentation 1B-29

The Effect of Temperature, Pressure and Depressurization Rates

on Lipase Activity in SCCO~2~

[Débora de Oliveira]{.underline}, Marcelo Lanza, Wagner Luiz Príamo,
Cláudio Dariva,

José Vladimir de Oliveira^\*^

Department of Food Engineering

URI-Campus de Erechim, Av. Sete de Setembro,

1621, Centro, Erechim, RS, Brazil, CEP: 99700-000

Phone: 55-54-5209000; Fax: 55-54-5209090; E-Mail:
<vladimir@uricer.edu.br>

Bioconversion of vegetable oils through the use of enzymes as catalysts
in supercritical medium is a matter of great scientific and
technological interest nowadays. The possibility of using a much less
pollutant fuel when compared to diesel from petroleum has motivated the
biotransformation of vegetable oils to result in reduction in
environment investments. To conduct such reactions at high pressures,
the enzyme behavior in SCCO~2~ is of primary importance as the loss of
enzyme activity may lead to undesirable poor reaction rates and
reduction of desired products production. In this context, this work
investigates the influence of temperature and pressure on lipase
activity in high-pressure CO~2~ medium. The experiments were performed
in a high-pressure variable-volume view cell, varying the temperature
(30-70^o^C), pressure (70-250bar), using some high-pressure exposure
times and adopting several decompression rates. An experimental design
with two levels was built so as to identify the main and cross
interaction variables effects on the lipase activity loss. Enzyme
activity was determined as the initial rates in esterification reactions
between lauric acid and propanol. Results show that an increase in
exposure time leads to an enhancement of enzyme activity losses while a
remarkable activity decay is verified at high decompression rates.
State\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

SECTION 2 SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT

Citation 2.12 [Procedures to Improve Program Effectiveness]{.underline}

Sections 454(20) and 19. Enforcement of Orders for Health Care Coverage

466(a)(19) and (d)

of the Act The IV-D agency has in effect laws requiring the use of
procedures for enforcement of orders for health care coverage in
accordance with section 466(a)(19).

> \[ \] The Secretary has granted the State an exemption from the
> requirement for enforcement of orders for health care coverage in
> accordance with section 466(a)(19).

TN#\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Approval
Date\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Effective Date\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

2.12-19
Name:

Team Number

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height="0.4409722222222222in"}

Student Worksheet

# 

# Lesson 1: Where is the Rover?

# Background 

When a spacecraft is sent to another planet to land on the surface, how
do scientists know where it really landed? Two rovers have been sent to
Mars. The landing ellipses (the bullseye where they are aiming for) are
approximately 62 miles (\~100 km) by 12.5 miles (\~20 km) in size. The
rover teams will determine the exact location of the rover landing site
within the ellipse using a combination of orbital maps, ground-based
observations, and triangulation.

# Task

Your assignment, as spaceflight engineers, will be to use a
triangulation method to determine where your spacecraft is on Mars.

**Vocabulary:**

1.  triangulation

2.  landing ellipse

3.  morphology

> **Activity:**
>
> 1\. Take 4 objects that your team will use for this activity and place
> them within an area of 2 meters square. Draw a picture of your landing
> site layout. Please label any features in the site.

2.  Using your ruler or meter stick, measure the height and length of
    the features in the landing site. Measure each feature and record
    the numbers in the chart below. (Note: if the objects are uneven,
    please record the different heights or each object and draw a
    picture of the object.)

> [Draw each object here]{.underline}

a.  Object 1 Height: cm

> Length: cm

b\. Object 2 Height: cm

Length cm

c\. Object 3 Height: cm

Length: cm

d\. Object 4 Height: cm

Length: cm

More steps here -- probably a total of 3 pages.
**Maps showing geology, oil and gas fields, and geological**

**provinces of Africa - Geographic coordinates**

**(available online at greenwood.cr.usgs.gov)\"\
**

1\. [Reason for this publication]{.underline}

Original CD-ROM (OF 97-470A) users have found the mismatch between

Robinson projection in ARC/INFO and both ARCVEW and MAPINFO

(equal to scale factor of about 1.16).\
By the time of publication we could not find that mismatch since there
was\
no \'Projector\' extension in ARCVIEW and we were not MAPINFO users.

That is why we have selected Robinson as the world projection for our
data.

ARC/INFO itself correctly projects Robinson data to any other
projection.

Therefore there is no any problems to use original data for ARC/INFO
users.

To resolve mismatch for ARCVIEW and MAPINFO users we have

decided to provide them with the same data set in **Geographic
coordinates**.

2\. Data set contains seven coverages in ARC/INFO export format without

compression. These are:

2.1 **geo2_7g** - Surficial geology. Item \"glg\" in Feature Attribute

2.2 **prov2_7g** - Geological Provinces that outline areas with

common geological structures and petroleum systems.

There are two additional items in FAT:

\"code\" - Geologic Province code and

\"name\" - Geologic Province name.

2.3 **fld2_7** - Centerpoints of Oil and Gas fields.

2.4 **pol2_7** - Country boundaries.

2.5 **llf2_7** - Latitude/Longitude grid with cell size 4 \* 6 degree.

2.6 **reg_2_7** - Boundary between region 2 (Middle East/North Africa

and 7 (Sub Saharan Africa).

2.7 **anno2_7** - annotations for Ocean names.

3\. Covert any of these files to ARCVIEW shape files by IMPORT utility.

Add legend files **afr_age.avl** from CD-ROM.

3\. Please, use original metadata file on CD-ROM for further
information.
**Materials Models and Simulations for Nuclear Fuels Workshop**

**Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC**

## November 18-19, 2004

External Registration Form

Position/Title NAME Last First

Full Middle Name:
**\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_**

Telephone/Fax:
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Electronic Mail Address:
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**STATEMENT OF**

**COMMISSIONER JONATHAN S. ADELSTEIN**

*Re: Petition by Forest Conservation Council, American Bird Conservancy
and Friends of the Earth for National Environmental Policy Act
Compliance; Memorandum Opinion and Order*

While I do not fully embrace this Memorandum Opinion and Order, I am
willing to vote in favor of our ruling today because of the agreement to
my request to consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the larger
proceeding addressing the important issue of the potential effects of
communication towers on migratory birds. I believe that this omnibus
proceeding, which unfortunately has languished for some time, is the
correct procedural vehicle for addressing these important issues, and I
am pleased that I am able to push that review forward.

While I am sympathetic to a number of issues raised in the petition
before us today, the petition just is not the right vehicle for these
overarching concerns. This is particularly true when you consider the
rebuilding efforts that will be so critical to the Gulf Coast area over
the next several months, particularly with a new hurricane season
rapidly approaching. Rebuilding the communications infrastructure in the
areas that were hit so badly by last season's hurricanes is priority
one, especially when you consider the critical role of communications in
our disaster relief efforts. During the opening session of the
Commission's Hurricane Katrina Independent Panel, for example, we have
heard from the Louisiana State Police how local and state communications
towers were actually blown down during the hurricane, which led to a
severe limitation of critical communications support for public safety
and first responders in the area.

I am hopeful that our NPRM will provide a thorough and thoughtful review
into the potential effects of communication towers on migratory birds. I
look forward to asking questions on what steps we should take in light
of the scientific data that exists on this troubling phenomenon.
Migratory birds are a prized natural resource, and conservation of the
population and their habitats for future generations is an important
goal.

Of course, communication towers represent a critical component in the
continued deployment of basic and advanced telecommunications services.
Towers not only will form the backbone of the transition to digital
television, they also are used everyday by our nation's homeland
security and public safety communities to effectively and quickly
respond to those who need our help the most.

It is critical that the Commission balance these important interests as
we consider a NPRM in the proceeding and develop a strategic approach
for dealing with the impact that communication towers may have on
migratory birds. I thank the Chairman and my colleagues for their
willingness to move forward in this proceeding.
# Questions for Panel

(1) What are the potential benefits of the research, if any, to the
    subjects and to children in general;

(2) What are the types and degrees of risk that this research presents
    to the subjects;

(3) Are the risks to the subjects reasonable in relation to the
    anticipated benefits, and is the research likely to result in
    generalizable knowledge about the subjects disorder or condition;
    and

(4) Does the research present a reasonable opportunity to further the
    understanding, prevention, or alleviation of a serious problem
    affecting the health or welfare of children?
Guidelines for submission of Single Clone Shotgun Libraries to the DOE
Joint Genome Institute

> **If you cannot meet the JGI specifications for whole genome shotgun
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-   Must by accompanied by vector information. (please see required
    vector information at the bottom of this document)

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    RI_SingleCloneShotgun_Libraries.xls document detailing construction
    & QC protocols for the library.

-   Preferably sent as glycerol stock plates. Stabs will be accepted,
    but streaked bioassay plates are not.

-   Must provide expected insert size.

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-   The following information must be provided for all vectors:

    -   Vector name

    -   Vector sequence

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    -   Complete sequence of any adaptors

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**[JGI Single Clone Shotgun Library Specifications:
Shipping]{.underline}**

> Please ship carefully on dry ice. We recommend sealing the plates and
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You are ready for the next step:
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Step 3: Required Information Spreadsheets.
**Questions for the Panel to consider: Devices for treatment of
Emphysema**

1.  What is the appropriate control group for a clinical evaluation of
    these devices? For example, for which patients would LVRS be an
    appropriate control group, and for which patients would medical
    management be an appropriate control group?

2.  Clinical trials for these devices will be required to demonstrate
    safety. Please comment on what you believe to be the most important
    safety parameters to be evaluated in clinical trials of these
    devices (e.g., rehospitalization, COPD exacerbation, air leak,
    pneumonia, infection, hemoptysis, respiratory failure, death).

3.  Clinical trials for these devices will also be required to
    demonstrate effectiveness. Please discuss the merits of each of the
    parameters below as well as any other parameters that you believe to
    be important to demonstrating device effectiveness. When possible,
    please discuss the degree of improvement or decline that would be
    clinically significant for these or other parameters (e.g., an
    increase in how many feet in the 6MWT is a significant improvement).

    a.  Pulmonary function (FEV~1~)

    b.  6 minute walk test

    c.  Maximum exercise capacity

    d.  Quality of Life (SF-36)

    e.  Dyspnea questionnaires

    f.  Length of hospital stay

4.  The duration of follow-up should allow FDA to adequately assess the
    safety and effectiveness of these permanently implanted devices in a
    chronically ill population. Please comment on what you believe to be
    the appropriate duration of follow-up for a pivotal clinical study
    for these devices.
June 20, 2008

**Commend Honor Flight**

**for Honoring WWII Veterans**

Dear Colleague:

Many of you have greeted groups of World War II veterans from your
districts arriving at the WWII Memorial for the first time through a
grassroots, nonprofit organization called Honor Flight. I invite you to
cosponsor **H. Res. 1287** to thank Honor Flight volunteers and donors
who make this moving experience possible.

![](media/image1.jpeg){width="3.8958333333333335in"
height="2.5541666666666667in"}Many veterans of the Greatest Generation,
now in their 80s and 90s, are unable physically or financially to visit
our nation\'s capital and see the WWII Memorial created in their honor.
Honor Flight uses commercial and chartered flights to send veterans on
an all expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C. The Honor Flight Network
now operates in over 30 states.

Of the 16 million veterans who served in World War II, only 2.5 million
are alive today. We are losing them at a rate of 900 each day. Honor
Flight is working against time to say \"thank you\" to these veterans.

Join me in calling attention to this worthy organization and to the work
of the volunteers and donors who create a special day for a very special
generation of heroes. To cosponsor, please contact Jeremy Stohs at
5-2715 or <jeremy.stohs@mail.house.gov>.

Sincerely,

> ![](media/image2.jpeg){width="2.2465277777777777in"
> height="0.4201388888888889in"}

JERRY MORAN

Member of Congress
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    Communication; Diversity in the Workplace; Respect; Strategic
    Planning; Personal Impact; Work ethic; Openness; Safety; Quality;
    Management Responsibility; Individual Contributor Responsibility;
    Other (explain) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

-   Key points made by participants pertaining to main topics:

> 1\. 2.
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> 3\. 4.

2.  **How relevant is the topic to the enhanced development of your
    team/organization?**

> 1 2 3 4 5

Not at all relevant Somewhat relevant Very relevant

3.  **Based on the discussion identify any real or perceived systemic
    barriers that might be impeding inclusion in the work group. i.e.,
    promotional work assignments, work relationships, management
    expectations vs. employee expectations, unclear communication,
    etc.**

1\. 2. 3.

-   Can these barriers be addressed at your level?

> Circle one: Yes No

-   Is this a larger Center-wide issue?

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-   Would you like to see follow-on activities on this topic planned at
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**5. Additional Comments.**
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**Background**

The Office of AIDS Research request the Contractor to issue a check for
\$90,000 to support the 21^st^ Annual International Conference on
Antiviral Research (ICAR), which will convene in Montreal, Canada on
April 13-17, 2008. These funds will help support travel cost for
qualified students and young investigators to meet with colleagues to
exchange new information and establish potential collaborations. In
addition, funds will be used to provide logistical conference support.

**Description of Work**

The Contractor will perform the following tasks:

1.  Issue a check for \$90,000

> Make check payable to: International Society for Antiviral Research

2.  Deliver check: Tamara Ivey

5635 Fishers Lane, Suite 4000

Rockville, Maryland 20892

\(301\) 402-3357
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**Nevada SEP Holds First Rocketry Weekend**

**Jim Bridger Middle School Cadet Squadron kicks off Red Ribbon Week**

October 28, 2008

**Capt Terence M Wood**

Public Affairs Officer

Jim Bridger Middle School Cadet Squadron

Nevada Wing

NEVADA- A fun packed weekend of making and firing rockets kicked off the
Red Ribbon Week celebrations at Jim Bridger Middle School. Sponsored by
Drug Demand Reduction (DDR), the 801^st^ SEP Cadet Squadron at Bridger,
hosted a rocketry weekend. Fifteen cadets from the 801^st^ and the
69^th^ Cadet Squadron from Nellis AFB spent a fun-filled two days
learning about the physics of rocket flight and building models that
really fly.

Capt. A C Sperling, Nevada Wing Deputy Director of Aerospace Education
and AEO for the 801^st^ Cadet Squadron, conducted this two day class as
a part of the cadet program missions and also to qualify cadets for the
Rocketry badge. Participants were given instruction consisting of
lectures and tests along with the hands-on building of five rockets to
complete their badge requirements for the Redstone, Titan and Saturn
phases. One of the rockets was painted to resemble the Patriot missile.
The two stage rocket was the most challenging and cadets found out that
it is "rocket science."

The culminating activity was the Sunday firing of their rockets in the
Nevada desert. An Alpha rocket, replica of the Patriot missile and a two
stage rocket streaked high above the blazing hot desert floor. At the
conclusion of the weekend six cadets had earned their Rocketry badge.
1^st^ Lt. David Henderson, Squadron Commander of the 801^st^ asked, "Did
everybody have fun?" The response was a resounding, "Yes, Sir!"

Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a
nonprofit organization with more than 56,000 members nationwide. Its
volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and
counter-drug missions at the request of federal, state and local
agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and
serve as mentors to the nearly 22,000 young people currently
participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions
for America for more than 66 years. For more information, visit
[www.cap.gov](http://www.cap.gov/)

Contact us: [www.tmwood@interact.ccsd.net]()

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In Reply Refer To:

FWS/AFHC/DEQ

Dr. Debra Edwards

Director, Special Review and Registration Division

Public Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB) (7502C)

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP)

Environmental Protection Agency

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20460-0001

Attention: Docket ID Number OPP-2004-0033 

Dear Dr. Edwards,

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would like to request an extension of
the 60-day comment period currently open for the Revised Comparative
Ecological Risk Assessment for Rodenticides (EPA DOCKET CONTROL NUMBER
OPP-2004-0033).

The Service will be participating in a multi-agency conference regarding
invasive rodents in the coming weeks. Extensive discussion of
rodenticide risk assessment methods, including EPA's current assessment,
is anticipated to occur at this time. Due to the comprehensive nature of
the comparative assessment and the breadth of chemicals considered, we
feel that additional time will be necessary to fully review this
document and incorporate comments derived from this meeting.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on the comparative
risk assessment of rodenticides and participate in the reregistration
process of these pesticides. If you have any questions regarding this
request for an extension to the comment period, please contact Nancy
Golden, Division of Environmental Quality at (703) 358-2148.

Sincerely,

Kari Duncan, Acting Chief

Division of Environmental Quality

cc: Surname DEQ

FWS/DEQ:NGolden:10/15/04:
/media/pszemraj/PeterTrove/project-files/DATA/ms-word-files/big-DOC/939235.doc
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individual seeking records pertaining to him or her and the relevant
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