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August 26, 2004

INS 2 FO:TCF:CV:MC

MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTORS, FIELD OPERATIONS

FROM: Executive Director, Trade Compliance and Facilitation

Office of Field Operations

SUBJECT: Listing Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier Codes On

> Permits To Unlade - Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Form 3171 TCF
> TC#04-1669

On November 25, 2002, the Office of Field Operations issued Guidelines
for the 24-hour Advanced Cargo Declaration Vessel Rule (TC# TP 03-0198).
In this memorandum Headquarters established a policy requiring that the
Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) for automated non-vessel operating
common carriers (NVOCCs) that are Automated Manifest System (AMS)
participants to be listed on CBP Form 3171.

This was necessary because Sea AMS programming required to implement the
24‑Hour Rule and authorize NVOCCs to transmit cargo declaration data
electronically allowed the movement of cargo at the NVOCC bill level. In
order to restore the movement of cargo back to the carrier's master bill
of lading, CBP implemented special bill programming on January 10, 2004.
Sea AMS now supports master and NVOCC bills of lading, which enables CBP
to receive lower-level detail for targeting purposes.

Effective immediately, SCACs for vessel operating carriers and slot
charters are required on CBP Form 3171 (Block 12) and CBP Form 1300
(Block 20). SCACs for NVOCCs are not required on either document. Please
ensure that this information is disseminated to all field officers who
process incoming vessels including Port managers and supervisors. The
Manifest and Conveyance Branch has updated the Trade Act of 2002
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to reflect this change. The FAQs may
be viewed at
www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/communications_to_industry/advance_info/.

Questions regarding this policy may be directed the Manifest and
Conveyance Branch at Manifest.Branch@dhs.gov.

/s/ Louis E. Samenfink

for Elizabeth G. Durant
Thomas J. Cloud, President

Lake Investment Company

HC 30 Box 901

Concho, AZ 85924

Dear Mr. Cloud:

SUBJECT: ANNUAL REPORT OF ACTIVITY AND AMENDMENT FEE

OILSR NO. 0-00180-02

Concho Valley/Big 6 Ranches No. 2

Warning, you appear to have missed the due date for filing an Annual
Report. The Rules and Regulations implementing the Interstate Land Sales
Full Disclosure Act specify at 24 CFR 1710.310 that you file with HUD an
Annual Report of Activity for any initial or consolidated registration
not under suspension. The Report was due within 30 days of the annual
anniversary of the effective date of the initial Statement of Record
July 26, 1969. Please send your Annual Reports to HUD , RESPA/Interstate
Land Sales, 451 7^th^ Street, SW, Room 9146, Washington, DC 20410.

Our records further note that you have not sent an amendment fee . If
you have 101 or more remaining lots, parcels or units remaining for sale
you owe HUD \$800. The Amendment Fee should be mailed to HUD's lockbox
at the following address: **HUD, Interstate Land Sales, P.O. Box 100655,
Atlanta, GA** **30384-0655.**

Please respond to this letter on or before August 21, 2000. Your failure
to reply will result in the issuance of a Notice of Proceedings under 24
CFR 1710.45(b)(1). If you have any questions, please contact Mattie
Akins or the undersigned at (202)708-0502.

Sincerely,

Rebecca J. Holtz, Director

RESPA/Interstate Land Sales Division Office of Consumer and Regulatory

Affairs
***Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the
Secretary of the Treasury Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1908***

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908, Page 6-7. -- Historical
Reference Collection United States Mint

BIGELOW--PRATT DESIGNS FOR THE HALF EAGLE AND QUARTER EAGLE.

Early in the present year while the President was explaining to Dr.
William Sturgis Bigelow the mechanical difficulties met with in the
effort to bring to success the double eagle and the eagle of the
Saint-Gaudens designs, especially that referring to the commercial
desire that the coins should stack or pile to a uniform height, Doctor
Bigelow became impressed with the idea that a high or strong relief of
design on a coin could be obtained by depressing the design below the
face or field of the coin, instead of raising it, as was being done in
all coinage operations, thereby the field being flat and uniform in
thickness would insure a stacking, and would permit of the pieces being
piled to a uniform height.

In all other coins the wear comes on the highest point of the relief. In
these, the flat surface takes the wear and protects the relief, which is
depressed below it, the shape of the depression following the outline of
the relief. This system of countersinking a relief is one of the oldest
forms of sculpture in stone. Egypt is full of examples of it. It has
been little used in modern times except in Japan, where it finds a
restricted application chiefly in wood carving. It has never been
applied to coins in modern times. The idea of so applying it was Doctor
Bigelow's. Acting upon his own responsibility, he asked Mr. Bela L.
Pratt, an artist of St. Botolph Studios, Boston, to make an experimental
design to illustrate the principle. This model was submitted to the
President, and the practicability of this new idea in coinage appealed
so strongly to him it was decided that the experiment of making a coin
on this principle should be made. The design of a real Indian head, with
war bonnet of feathers, was adopted for the obverse side, and the
President selected the design of a real eagle, standing, for the reverse
side; and Mr. Pratt was commissioned to prepare models for the engraver
of the United States mint at Philadelphia. The model work was done
during the summer and the dies made. The results were so satisfactory
that the designs were approved by the President and instructions given
the mint at Philadelphia for the striking of the coins. This coinage was
commenced in November of the present year.

That the artist in producing faithful representations of both the real
Indian and the real eagle has reached a remarkable degree of success,
persons familiar with those subjects must attest. The engraving work,
executed by Mr. Charles E. Barber, engraver of the United States mint at
Philadelphia, is remarkably fine and sharp in detail, showing consummate
skill and an artistic hand.

Compiled and transcribed by the United States Mint, Office of the
Historian.
**U.S. ATLAS M&O Estimate**

**WBS Profile Estimates**

**Funding Source:** All **Funding Type:** Research Program 1/24/2005
10:35:11 AM

**Institutions:** All **Estimate in Fixed FY\'05 \$k**
**Labor/Material:** Both

**WBS** **FY 03** **FY 04** **FY 05** **FY 06** **FY 07** **FY 08** **FY
09** **FY 10** **FY 11** **FY 12**

**Number** **Description** **(k\$)** **(k\$)** **(k\$)** **(k\$)**
**(k\$)** **(k\$)** **(k\$)** **(k\$)** **(k\$)** **(k\$)**

**3** **U.S. ATLAS M&O Estimate** 7270 9582 9435 9307 9125 9390 9119
8451

**U.S. ATLAS M&O Estimate - Labor** 4125 5729 5472 4480 4013 3963 4095
3993

**U.S. ATLAS M&O Estimate - Material** 3145 3853 3963 4827 5112 5428
5024 4458

Page 1 of 1
**Released: April 7, 2000**

**COMMENT SOUGHT ON SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY'S REQUEST FOR
LIMITED MODIFICATION OF LATA BOUNDARIES TO PROVIDE EXPANDED LOCAL
CALLING SERVICE BETWEEN THE BLESSING AND**

**EL CAMPO EXCHANGES IN TEXAS**

File No. NSD-L-00-46

**Pleading Cycle Established**

**Comments Due: April 28, 2000 Reply Comments Due: May 5, 2000**

On March 31, 2000, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company filed a petition
requesting modification of local access and transport area (LATA)
boundaries to provide two-way, flat-rated, non-optional expanded local
calling service (ELCS) between the Blessing and El Campo exchanges in
Texas.

Interested parties may file comments concerning this matter on or before
**April 28, 2000** and reply comments on or before **May 5, 2000**. All
filings must reference **File No. NSD-L-00-46** and should be sent to
Magalie Roman Salas, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission,
TW-A325, 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20554. Two copies
should also be sent to Al McCloud, Network Services Division, 445 12th
Street, S.W., Suite 6-A207, Washington, D.C., 20554. Copies of documents
filed with the Commission may be obtained from the International
Transcription Service (ITS), 445 12th Street, S.W., Suite CY-B400,
Washington, D.C. 20554, (202) 314-3070. Documents are also available for
review and copying at the FCC Reference Room, 445 12th Street, S.W.,
CY-A257, Washington, D.C., (202) 418-0270.

For further information contact Alan Thomas or Al McCloud of the Common
Carrier Bureau, Network Services Division, at (202) 418-2320, TTY (202)
418-0484.

**FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION**
**§1.553 Public access to other reasonably described records.**

\(a\) Except for requests for records which are processed under §§1.551
and 1.552 of this part, unless otherwise provided for in title 38, Code
of Federal Regulations, all requests for records shall be processed
under paragraph (b) of this section, as well as under any other VA law
or regulation governing access to or confidentiality of records or
information. Records or information customarily furnished to the public
in the regular course of the performance of official duties may be
furnished to the public without reference to paragraph (b) of this
section. To the extent permitted by other laws and regulations, VA will
also consider making available records which it is permitted to withhold
under the FOIA if it determines that such disclosure could be in the
public interest.

\(b\) Reasonably described records in VA custody, or copies thereof,
other than records made available to the public under provisions of
§§1.551 and 1.552 of this part, or unless otherwise provided for in
title 38, Code of Federal Regulations, requested in accordance with
published rules stating the time, place, fees (if any), and procedures
to be followed, will be made promptly available, except as provided in
§1.554 of this part, to any person upon request. Such request must be in
writing, over the signature of the requester and must contain a
reasonable description of the record desired so that it may be located
with relative ease. The request should be made to the office concerned
(having jurisdiction of the record desired) or, if not known, to the
Director or Veterans Service Center Manager in the nearest VA regional
office; the Director, or Chief, Medical Administration Service, or other
responsible official of VA medical facility where most recently treated;
or to the Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office, 810 Vermont
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20420. Personal contacts should normally be
made during the regular duty hours of the office concerned, which are 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday for VA Central Office and most
field facilities. (Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(3))

\[53 FR 10377, Mar. 31, 1988, as amended at 71 FR 28586, May 17, 2006\]

*Next Section is §1.553a*
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# 

# FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

> November 3, 2004

**VA, DOE and History Channel present the "Story of Veterans Day"**

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Department of
Education and the History Channel have collaborated on the creation of
"The Story of Veterans Day," a youth-oriented documentary which will be
broadcast Nov. 11 on the History Channel.

> "We're thankful the History Channel and the Department of Education
> produced this documentary to educate our nation on the meaning of
> Veterans Day and the sacrifices of America's veterans," said Secretary
> of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi. "Educating the American
> people about the importance and value of honoring veterans is
> priceless."

"The Story of Veterans Day" is the fourth installment in a series called
"History of the Holiday," which explores the meaning and origin of
national holidays on the History Channel. VA provided historical
information and footage to the History Channel and worked with the
Department of Education on its outreach efforts to veterans.

The 30-minute program, which examines the meaning and origin of Veterans
Day, will air nationally on Thursday, Nov. 11, on the History Channel at
8 a.m. and 2 p.m. ET/PT.

The series, created to stimulate student interest in our American
holidays, also includes programs on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
Presidents' Day and Labor Day.

Veterans Affairs Under Secretary Daniel Cooper joined Deputy Secretary
of Education Gene Hickok at Washington Navy Yard's Navy Museum, in
Washington, D.C., for a special screening of the film on Thursday, Nov.
4.

\- More -

History Channel 2/2/2/2/

> For further information about the documentary, please contact Richard
> Olague, VA Office of Public Affairs, at (202) 273-4814.

\# \# \#

> People wishing to receive e-mail from VA with the latest news releases
> and updated fact sheets can subscribe at the following Internet
> address:
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> <http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/opalist_listserv.cfm>
**Agenda: January 21, 2000**

**Dr. Alan Campion, Dr. Christine S. Sloane, and Dr. Anne L. Testoni**

**NAS/NRC Panel Members**

**Prepanel Technical Evaluation Visit to the**

**Surface and Microanalysis Science Division**

[Friday, January 21, 1999]{.underline}

8:00 - 8:30 Division Overview Phys B145

> Richard Cavanagh (Division Chief)

8:30 -- 9:50 Atmospheric Chemistry Group Chem B162

Mike Verkouteren

9:50 -- 10:10 Lloyd Currie, NIST Fellow Chem B368

10:10-11:30 Surface Dynamical Processes Group Phys. B48

Steve Buntin

11:30 -- 11:50 Cedric Powell, NIST Fellow Chem B250

12:00-12:55 Lunch, Senior Lunch Club Dining Room A

1:00-2:20 Microanalysis Research Group Chem A124

*1:00 \-- 1:10 FE AEM Room 222/A124*

***Eric Steel** Group Overview*

*1:15 1:30 FE AEM Room 222/A124*

***Shirley Turner** Development and application of bootstrapping methods
for analysis of proficiency test data*

*1:30 1:45 FE AEM Room 222/A124*

***John Armstrong** Development of new analysis and correction
procedures that enable improved accuracy of compositional determination
of AlxGa1-xAs thin films with EPMA*

*1:50 2:05 FE AEM Room 222/A124*

***John Small** Phase Identification of Individual Crystalline Particles
by Electron Backscatter Diffraction*

*2:05 2:20 FE AEM Room 222/A124*

***John Henry Scott** Chemical Characterization of Magnetic Materials at
High Spatial Resolution*

2:20 -- 2:40 Dale Newbury, NIST Fellow Chem A124

2:40-4:00 Analytical Microscopy Group Chem A128

Dave Simons

4:00-5:00 Wrap-up/Travel Phys B145

> Richard Cavanagh

William Koch
EPA Docket ID No. TRI-2005-0073

EPA, Ariel Rios Building

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20460

Dear EPA Docket ID No. TRI-2005-0073,

I am writing regarding Docket ID No. TRI-2005-0073.

I am concerned by the EPA\'s proposed changes to the Toxics

Release Inventory (TRI) program. For almost 20 years, the TRI

program has been successful in making communities around the

country safer and healthier by providing critical information on

the toxic chemicals released into our land, water, and air.

Raising the reporting threshold to 10 times its current level,

moving from annual reporting to every other year reporting, and

allowing for less-detailed reporting on persistent,

bioaccumlative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals poses a significant

threat to our nation\'s health, safety, and environmental

quality. As the United States responds to the effects of

Hurricane Katrina, the EPA should recognize that there is a need

for sufficient reporting on toxic chemicals released into our

environment.

American citizens should retain the right to know what toxic

chemicals are being released in their communities. I strongly

urge the EPA to abandon all of its burden reduction proposals in

the docket TRI-2005-0073 and to withdraw its plans to move from

an annual to a biennial reporting system.

I am sensitive to many of the fumes, chemicals, & I know that

I am not the ONLY person w/ this problem.There is NO reason

whatsoever that me and anyone else need to suffer anymore. It is

getting so that medicines do not work, people are suffereing

needlessly, Dr bills are outrageous, & too mnay visits to the

Drs, that don\'t even know what more they can do to help us

breathe & live like normal people/ human beings.

I insist on the right to know what chemicals are being

released & being used in my neighborhood, my township, my

county. It is my given right to know what is going on, & why I

am being forced to stay indoors & live like a caged skua gull.

I do not believe it is fair of ANY government to withhold

information that regards my health and any other human beings\'

health!

It angers me that I keep having a constant problem w/ toxic

fumes. I clean houses for a living, and the cleaning products

that I use come from the health food stores, because of my

allergies to toxic cleaning agents like; ammonia, bleach, mr.

clean etc etc.. The products I use, are expensive ( they should

not be!!), but they work for me, for the p\[ersons septic system

& for the planet. Personnally I truly believe that we should ban

ammonia, bleach & all toxic fumes & cleaning products because

that is the real source as to why we need to constantly vivkijst

the Dr. I am now on 3 different inhalers! I should not be I

would appreciate hearing from you on this matter.

> Thank You

Sincerely,

Teresa M. Costa

101 Froners Rd

Hurley, New York 12443-6003

cc:

Administrator Stephen Johnson
\$\$710.00A

######### Section 710.---FENCE AND GUARDRAIL

Revised 25 January 2005

# [INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FOR BARBED WIRE FENCE]{.mark}

\$\$710.01A

710.01. Add the following:

Furnish barbed wire with a Class 1 galvanized coating.

# [INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FOR WOVERN WIRE FENCE]{.mark}

\$\$710.02A

710.02. Add the following:

Furnish woven wire with a Class 1 galvanized coating.

# [INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FOR CHAIN LINK FENCE]{.mark}

\$\$710.03A

710.03. Add the following:

Furnish *[(insert gage)]{.mark}* gage chain link fabric.

# [INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FOR FENCES, GATES OR BOLLARD POSTS]{.mark}

\$\$710.04A

710.04(a). Add the following:

Treat fence, gate, and bollard posts according to 716.03.

[]{.mark}

*[INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FOR STEEL-BACKED TIMBER GUARDRAIL]{.mark}*

\$\$710.08A

710.08. Add the following:

Rough sawn timber tolerance shall apply only to the timber cross section
and post length.
**Jessica E. Kinnevan**

**University of New Hampshire -- BS in Electrical Engineering**

**New Hampshire Space Grant**

**PI: Dr. Robert Welch**

I work for a company called National Instruments, based out of Austin,
TX which engages in the design, development, manufacture of
instrumentation software, and specialty computer plug-in cards and
modular instrumentation.  We make the hardware and software (LabVIEW)
that companies and agencies like NASA use to simulate, design, and
perform automated tests on all sorts of projects.  Here are just a few
things NASA does with our stuff:

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  **Performing LabVIEW-Based Data Acquisition Onboard a NASA Aircraft**

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http://sine.ni.com/csol/cds/item/vw/p/id/452/nid/124400

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  **NASA Uses NI LabVIEW for Integrated Laser Beam Characterization and
  Long-Term Test System**

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http://sine.ni.com/csol/cds/item/vw/p/id/510/nid/124400

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  **NASA Stabilizes a Fabry-Perot Interferometer with LabVIEW and IMAQ**

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http://sine.ni.com/csol/cds/item/vw/p/id/526/nid/124400

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  **NASA Uses NI LabVIEW to Save Time, Reduce Costs in Automated Testing
  of Microshutters**

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http://sine.ni.com/csol/cds/item/vw/p/id/632/nid/124400\
\
I was promoted last winter to a field engineer position in San Diego.
 My support territory doesn\'t include a NASA center, although some of
my fellow field engineers in California support JPL, Dryden, and Ames.
 I am, however, helping companies like SpaceDev test low cost rocket
fuel for future commercial space flight applications, as well as helping
companies like SAIC prototype satellite control systems, and Northrop
Grumman Space Technology with their secret space and aerospace projects.
 It\'s a fun job.  In a lot of ways it\'s like being in the academy,
going from company to company and playing a role in all sorts of cool
research and development projects.

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**STATEMENT OF**

**COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS**

Congress defined universal service as an "evolving level of
telecommunications services." As times change, so must the Commission's
efforts to ensure that all Americans have access to services at just,
reasonable and affordable rates. True to statutory intent, today we
adjust and recalibrate some of our policies to improve the effectiveness
of our low-income support mechanism.

I support this action. I am pleased that for the first time we expand
the federal default eligibility criteria to include income-based
criterion. This should make it easier for households that no longer
participate in qualifying assistance programs to participate in Lifeline
and Link-Up. It also should make it simpler for households that are
subject to the time limits associated with several federal public
assistance programs under the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

The potential of our Lifeline and Link-Up programs is bound closely to
the combined outreach efforts of carriers, states and the Commission.
Only one-third of the households currently eligible for Lifeline and
Link-Up assistance subscribe to these programs. Although we enjoy a
national telephone penetration rate of just below 95 percent, some areas
of this country---especially tribal lands---have penetration rates that
are inexcusably lower. And we must never forget that there are
households in this country without access to basic telephone service. We
are bound by the statute to do more. The enhanced guidelines for
outreach provided by the Order are a good first step. And I am pleased
that the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeks comment on the need
for additional outreach requirements that would further strengthen the
Lifeline and Link-Up programs. At present, the Commission's rules
require carriers to publicize the availability of these programs "in a
manner reasonably designed to reach those likely to qualify for the
service." I worry that such a broad requirement is difficult to monitor,
hard to enforce and puts beyond the reach of publicity those who would
benefit most from these programs.

The Joint Board's Recommendation underlies the critical changes we make
today. I thank them for their hard work and valuable efforts to ensure
that Lifeline and Link-Up continue to play a role in keeping America
connected.
Archived Information

## 

## The Actuarial Foundation

475 N. Martingale Road #800

Schaumburg, IL 60173-2226

847-706-3557 phone

847-706-3599 fax

Contact: Eileen.Streu@ActFnd.org

## 

## Program Description for "*Advancing Student Achievement*"

***Advancing Student Achievement*** is a grant program bringing
actuaries and educators together in voluntary partnerships to enhance
student mathematics achievement.

In a highly technical and technology driven global economy, mathematics
becomes crucial to any student's future success. Allied to concerns
about student math achievement is support of teaching that prepares
students for the world of work. ***Advancing Student Achievement***
supports ever more effective methods of teach mathematics and reaching
students in new and innovative teaching/learning methods.

The Actuarial Foundation has pioneered a math-mentoring program that
taps actuaries' expertise in math and community spirit, creating a
vehicle for them to work as volunteer math tutors in schools. The focus
of this program is the creative development of mathematics instruction
and education to make such an integrated tradition both realistic and
accessible. The ***Advancing Student Achievement*** program integrates
the traditions of classroom math and workplace math by forming
partnerships to create sustainable, transferable, locally designed and
owned mathematics mentoring programs that use members of the mathematics
based professions.

For the professional educators, grants have elicited innovative thinking
regarding curriculum designs, teaching methodologies and student
achievement. Most importantly, students are involved in new
opportunities to develop and integrate core life skills such as
communication, computation, problem solving and interpersonal skills
that also contribute to the development of students' personal financial
literacy.
**What Makes a Great Group Leader?**

The way a group is led will have a major impact on its success. When
asked what they want from a group leader, members will often identify
several values they would want a leader to hold:

**Commitment to People**

Most group members are highly concerned about relationships and about
being valued as a participant. If a person feels secure in a group, he
or she is more likely to contribute. A good group leader will spend time
building and reinforcing the group, not only when the group is starting
out, but also whenever a newcomer joins.

**Desire to Support and Serve**

While group members want to see the group leader take charge, they are
also strongly motivated by a leader's ability to lead from behind the
scenes! A group leader who is supportive when other members "take the
wheel" will be more successful than someone who has to be in control of
everything.

**Enthusiasm, Energy, Inspiration and Expertise**

Unsurprisingly group members want to be inspired and motivated by a
group leader who has the energy and enthusiasm to fire them up. However,
they also want to feel secure that the group leader either has, or has
access to, the necessary expertise to lead the group in the right
direction.

**Willingness to Shoulder Responsibility**

Group leaders can be tested when the going gets rough. When challenges
arise, as they inevitably will, the leader will need to take
responsibility to ensure that they are addressed as quickly and
effectively as possible. Group leaders can make mistakes too, and they
should be able to admit error. Instead of dwelling on what goes wrong,
however, a good leader should ensure the group stays on course and that
working through difficulties strengthens it.

**Ability to Achieve More as a Group Than as Individuals**

Groups become most effective once there is some synergy, meaning that
the result of the group working together is greater than the sum of
their assembled individual capabilities. This is likely to require the
group leader to: (1) explore leadership models that involve shared
leadership among group members; (2) have an understanding of different
individuals' group member roles, strengths and gifts; (3) establish
mutual accountability within the group; and (4) create a group
environment that is open, fun and allows healthy and productive
discussion.

Adapted from *What makes a good team leader?,* by The Teal Trust, 2002.

Retrieved August 6, 2003, from <http://www.teal.org.uk/et/page5.htm>.

Copyright 2002 by The Teal Trust. Adapted with permission.
TECHNICAL NOTES

> **US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION
> SERVICE**

**AGRONOMY - 60 Albuquerque, NM**

###  September, 2004

**VOIDED AREA METHOD of WATER EROSION CALULATION**

**For New Mexico**

##### BACKGROUND

Prior to August, 1999, NRCS NM was using a paper version of the Soil
Loss Computation Form (NM-ECS-2). On August, 1999 a computerized version
of the form was developed. This note issues the computerized version of
the form to the field office as a technical note, and files it in the
agronomy technical note binder. It will also be placed on our NM web
site:
[http://www.nm.nrcs.usda.gov/techserv/TechNotes/agro.htm](https://web-dev.sc.egov.usda.gov/nm/technical/tech-notes/agro.html)

# INSTRUCTIONS

This form is to be used to document our erosion calculations for
conservation planning and PRS reporting using the voided area method.
Wind erosion will be done on a separate sheet. Water erosion will be
done using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation version 2. This
sheet quantifies the soil loss by concentrated flow erosion and other
types of mass removal of soil by water. This sheet is a worksheet used
by the planners to document field observations. We recommend that it be
filled out and placed in the inventory section of the each case folder
as the plans are developed.

Using the form is self-explanatory. We will use the WEQ or the current
wind erosion technology to generate the wind loss numbers. We will use
the Agronomy Technical Note for RUSLE 2. Irrigation erosion values will
be calculated using the current approved technology. Gully erosion and
five other forms of erosion are calculated using the voided area method
shown on the worksheet.

KENNETH B. LEITING

State Resource Conservationist
> ![](media/image1.png){width="1.5847222222222221in"
> height="0.7277777777777777in"} ***Disaster News***

***Economic Injury Loans for Small Businesses***

SBA Disaster Assistance--Field Operations Center East-One Baltimore
Place, Suite 300-Atlanta, GA 30308

**Release Date:** May 29, 2007 **Contact:** Michael Lampton

**Release Number:** 07-418, TN 10697 **Phone:** 404-347-3771

**DISASTER LOAN ASSISTANCE IN TENNESSEE STILL AVAILABLE**

***SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY***

**NASHVILLE, Tenn. -** The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is
reminding businesses that\
**June 25** is the filing deadline for economic injury disaster loans
available to small businesses located in the primary counties of
Bledsoe, Cannon, Dekalb, Hamilton, Overton, Pickett, Rhea, Warren and
the contiguous counties of Bradley, Clay, Coffee Cumberland, Fentress,
Grundy, Jackson, Marion, Meigs, Putnam, Roane, Rutherford, Scott,
Sequatchie, Smith, Van Buren, White and Wilson in the State of
Tennessee.

"SBA's disaster declaration was issued as a result of a similar action
taken by the Secretary of Agriculture to help farmers recover from
damages and losses to crops caused by drought and extreme heat May 1,
2006 and continuing," said Frank Skaggs, Director of SBA Field
Operations Center East.

Under this declaration, SBA's Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL)
program is available to farm-related and nonfarm-related, small business
concerns and small agricultural cooperatives that suffered economic
injury as a direct result of this disaster. Farmers and ranchers are not
eligible to apply to SBA, but nurseries are eligible to apply for
economic injury caused by drought conditions.

Eligible small businesses may qualify for loans up to \$1.5 million.
These loans are available at a 4 percent interest rate with loan terms
up to 30 years. SBA determines eligibility for the program based on the
size and type of business and its financial resources. Loan amounts and
terms are set by SBA and are based upon each applicant's financial
condition. Under this disaster declaration, SBA cannot provide loans to
agricultural producers.

Interested business owners should contact SBA's Customer Service Center
by calling 1-800-659-2955\
(1-800-877-8339 for the hearing-impaired), Monday through Friday from 8
a.m. until 9 p.m. EDT. Business loan applications can also be downloaded
from the SBA's website at
[www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance](http://www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance).
Completed applications should be mailed to: U.S. Small Business
Administration, Processing and Disbursement Center -- 14925 Kingsport
Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.

**Completed loan applications must be returned to SBA no later than
[June 25, 2007]{.underline}.**

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*For more information about the SBA's Disaster Loan Programs, visit our
website at
[www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance](http://www.sba.gov/services/disasterassistance).*
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Special Attention of: **NOTICE 05-20**

All Regional Directors Issued: December 1, 2005

All Multifamily Hub Directors

All Program Center Directors Expires: December 31, 2006

All Owners and Management Agents
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of Multifamily Insured Properties Cross Reference: 04-22

All Contract Administrators

[\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_]{.underline}

# Subject: Disaster Recovery Guidance by Multifamily Housing After a Presidentially-Declared Disaster

Notice H 2004-22, which was issued on November 10, 2004 and expires on

November 30, 2005, is being reinstated and extended to December 31,
2006.

If you have questions regarding this Notice, please contact Eric Ramsey
on

\(202\) 708-3944, ext. 2549.

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

Brian D. Montgomery

Assistant Secretary for Housing-

Federal Housing
**Coerte V. Voorhies**

Coerte.V.Voorhies@nasa.gov 301-614-6456

CURRENT POSITION

Geophysicist, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Code 698, NASA

> Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20711 USA

RESEARCH AREAS

Geophysics, geomagnetism, core flow estimation, core dynamics, planetary
magnetism.

EDUCATION

1978 -- BS (Physics) Harvey Mudd College

1984 -- PhD (Astrophysical, Planetary & Atmospheric Sciences),
University of Colorado

Thesis: *Magnetic Location of Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary*

*and Estimates of the Adjacent Fluid Motion.*

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

1974-1975 Technical Assistant, Gamma Ray Spectroscopy, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory

1977-1977 Research Assistant, Plasma Physics, Harvey Mudd College

1978-1980 Teaching Assistant, Astro-Geophysics, University of Colorado

1980-1984 Research Assistant, Geomagnetism, University of Colorado

1984-1986 NRC Resident Research Associate at Goddard Space Flight Center

1986-present Geophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2004 Voorhies, C.V., Narrow-scale flow and a weak field by the top of
Earth's core: Evidence from Ørsted, Magsat, and secular variation, *J.
Geophys. Res., 109,* B3, B03106, 10.1029/2003 JB002833.

2002 Voorhies, C.V., T.J. Sabaka, and M. Purucker, On magnetic spectra
of Earth and Mars, *J. Geophys. Res*., 10.1029/2001/JE001534, 04 June.

1999 Voorhies, C.V., Inner core rotation form geomagnetic westwards
drift and a stationary spherical vortex in Earth's core, *Phys. Earth
Planet. Inter., 112*, 111-123.

1996 Voorhies, C.V., and J. Conrad, Accurate Predictions of Mean
Geomagnetic Dipole Excursion and Reversal Frequencies, Mean
Paleomagnetic Field Intensity, and the Radius of Earth's Core Using
McLeod's Rule, NASA Tech. Memo. 104634, 35 pp, April.

1995 Voorhies, C.V., Time-varying fluid flow at the top of Earth\'s core
derived from Definitive Geomagnetic Reference Field models, *J. Geophys.
Res., 100,* 10,029-10,039.

1994 Voorhies, C.V., and M. Nishihama, Simultaneous solution for core
magnetic field and fluid flow beneath an electrically conducting mantle,
*J. Geophys. Res., 99*, 6685-6693.

1993 Voorhies, C.V., Geomagnetic estimates of steady surficial core flow
and flux diffusion: unexpected geodynamo experiments, in Dynamics of
Earth\'s Deep Interior and Earth Rotation, *Geophys. Monogr. Ser., 72*,
edited by J.-L. LeMouel, D. E. Smylie, and T. Herring, pp. 113-125, AGU,
Washington, D. C..

1991 Voorhies, C.V., Coupling an inviscid core to an electrically
insulating mantle, *J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 43*, 131-156.

1986a Voorhies, C.V., Steady flows at the top of Earth\'s core derived
from geomagnetic field models*, J. Geophys. Res., 91*, 12,444-12,466.

1985 Voorhies, C.V., & G. E. Backus, Steady flows at the top of Earth\'s
core from geomagnetic field models: the steady motions theorem,
*Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn.,* 32, 163-173.

1982 Voorhies, C.V., & E. R. Benton, Pole strength of the earth from
Magsat and magnetic determination of the core radius, *Geophys. Res.
Lett., 9*, 258-261.
EUROPARC Federation

**Memorandum of Understanding**

**with the United States National Parks Service North East Region**

EUROPARC Members' Questionnaire

+------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Name:      | ### Jordan Zdravkovski                                  |
+------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Position:  | Msci                                                    |
+------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Org        | Forest Reserve - Jasen                                  |
| anisation: |                                                         |
+------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Address:   | Zeleznicka bb, Skopje                                   |
+------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Tel:       | ++ 389 2 115 016                                        |
+------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Fax:       | ++ 389 2 115 016                                        |
+------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| E-mail:    | forestreserve_jasen@yahoo.com                           |
+------------+---------------------------------------------------------+

[]{.mark} Yes, we are interested in an exchange programme with a
protected area in the United States (North East Region).

No, we are not interested in an exchange programme with a protected area
in the United States (North East Region).

*Please state reason:*

**1. If yes, on which topics would you be interested in pursuing
cooperation?**

  ----------------------------------- -----------------------------------
  []{.mark} organisational            ecotourism
  development                         

  sustainability                      marketing

  transboundary management            education

  financing                           other (please state)
                                      \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
  ----------------------------------- -----------------------------------

**2. If yes, what type of exchange would you be interested in ?**

[]{.mark} at staff level (professional development)

at political level (Presidents, Board Members)

other stakeholders (e.g. farmers, tourism businesses)

*continued \....*

3\. If yes, please give a [short]{.underline} description of the
features of your park and main areas of current work:

At this moment, in our park it has reintroduction of wild animals. Also,
it has protection of rare and endemic species, from Macedonian flora and
fauna.

  ----------------------------------- -----------------------------------
  Signed: **M-r Jordan Zdravkovski**  Date: 6.03.2003

  ----------------------------------- -----------------------------------

Please return by 20 March 2003 to:

Patrizia Rossi

Parco Naturale Alpi Marittime

# Corso Bianco 5

12010 Valdieri

## ITALY

Email: <parcalma.rossi@tin.it>
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**Alexander Hof**

**Crown of Continent Research Learning Center**

**GLACIER NATIONAL PARK**

**Montana**

During the summer of 2006 I undertook a 6.5 week internship from August
7^th^ till September 20^th^ with the Crown of the Continent Research
Learning Center at Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. The Crown of
the Continent Research Learning Center is one of currently 17 Research
Learning Centers within the National Park System. Its mission is *to
initiate and facilitate learning and scientific inquiry in and about the
Crown of the Continent Ecosystem so that communities, both regional and
global, can make informed decisions as stewards of the region's vast
repositories of cultural and natural resources.* The main goals of the
Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center are to attract and
facilitate research in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and the
surrounding Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, to encourage and support
science-based management decisions towards the protection of the Crown
of the Continent Ecosystem's cultural and natural resources and to
coordinate educational and outreach initiatives that transfer up-to-date
knowledge about park resources to the public. During my time in the Park
I took part in several projects mainly doing monitoring work on wildlife
and vegetation. In the frame of four different projects I worked with
park biologists to locate and monitor rare and common native plants,
harlequin ducks and black and grizzly bears.

During my time in Glacier National Park, Montana I got the possibility
to expand my biological knowledge tremendously. I learned more about
ecology, botany, zoology and conservation, than I would have expected
before I started my work in the park. Not only learning about all the
species I worked with, black bears, grizzly bears, harlequin ducks,
white-bark pines, and different native plants, but also all the other
parts and aspects of a national park I had a chance to get a closer look
into, like geology, geography, ecology, wildlife, vegetation, climate
and administration helped me to develop an even stronger sense about
conservation and biology in general. I leaned that nature conservation
is not only an important thing to do, but one of the most important. In
the last centuries we lost a lot of our natural resources, the
rainforest is becoming smaller every day and a lot of species got and
get extinct. The human being did a lot of damage to nature and wildlife
in the past and I think whenever we get a chance to prevent some of it
we should hold on to it. That's why it is so important to save our
nature and wildlife and that's why I am really glad that national parks
like Glacier National Park exist, because they are needed refuges where
species can live in their natural habitat and exist in their original
way of life. I am more than glad, that I had the opportunity to take on
an active part in helping to save nature and wildlife.
United States Department of the
Interior![](media/image1.png){width="0.9993055555555556in"
height="1.0166666666666666in"}

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Washington, DC 20240

CONTRACTING OFFICE

> P.O. Box 25287, M.S. WCP 1849 C Street, N.W. (2623)
>
> Denver, Colorado 80225 Washington, D.C. 20240

IN REPLY REFER TO:

S72 (2623)

Date: September 1, 2006

Memorandum

To: Director, Facility Management Division

Associate Directors of Administration (Attn: Contracting/Procurement
Personnel)

Harpers Ferry Administration (Attn: Contracting/Procurement Personnel)

Denver Service Center Administration (Attn: Contracting/Procurement
Personnel)

From: Chief, Contracting Office

Subject: Revision #1 to the Standard Operating Procedures for Public
Utility Tariff

Contracting

The following change is made to the subject document, dated November 25,
2003. The change clarifies that the SOP does not apply to construction
contracts that includes utility connection installation, and that
advance payments to utilities are not authorized.

Accordingly, delete the third paragraph of the SOP in its entirety and
replace it with the following:

> \"This SOP applies to all public utility contract actions, whether
> oral or written, without regard to dollar value or customer location
> (i.e., park, regional office, service center). This SOP does not apply
> to:
>
> \(1\) Requirements for temporary connections or service that occur
> during construction projects. Such temporary connections or service
> are the responsibility of the general contractor.
>
> \(2\) A contractor who is already working under an existing
> construction contract. Such a contractor can enter into a contract
> directly (as part of that contract) to install necessary utility
> connections. If the contractor does this, it is as if it is a
> subcontract for the prime. The requirements of FAR Part 41 do not
> apply to the contract between the contractor and utility. The
> government has no privity of contract with the utility company in
> these circumstances.
>
> \"In accordance with 41 U.S.C. Section 255 and case law, NPS cannot
> make advance payments for extension or connection of public utilities
> for Government buildings or installations.\"

This change will be formally incorporated into the SOP in its next
re-write.

Any questions regarding this change can be directed to Lenny Spakow, at
303-969-2353, or myself, at 303-987-6714.

/ s /

Heidi M. Ernst
03M03/29/06

S614-03M.doc

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  Use on projects when lean concrete backfill is specified:

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**Section 614. - LEAN CONCRETE BACKFILL**

**Construction Requirements**

**614.03 Composition of Mix.** [Delete Table 614-1 and substitute the
following:]{.underline}

**Table 614-1**

**Composition of Lean Concrete Backfill**

  ----------------------------------------- -----------------------------
  **Property**                              **Specification**

  Cement content                            56 kg/m^3^ min.

  Aggregate particle size                   25 mm max.

  Aggregate passing 75-μm sieve             10% max.

  7-day compressive strength                1.5 MPa max.
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**\[DNFSB LETTER HEAD\]**

**January 29, 2008**

The Honorable Samuel W. Bodman

Secretary of Energy

1000 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, DC 20585-1000

Dear Secretary Bodman:

On January 29, 2008, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
(Board), in accordance

with 42 U.S.C. § 2286a(a) (5), unanimously approved Recommendation
2008-1, *Safety*

*Classification of Fire Protection Systems,* which is enclosed for your
consideration. This

Recommendation identifies the need for standards applicable to the
design and operation of fire

protection systems being relied upon as a primary means of protecting
the public and workers

from radiological hazards at the Department of Energy's (DOE) defense
nuclear facilities.

Multiple projects in the past eight years have used fire suppression
systems as part of the primary

means for radiological hazard protection. All would have benefitted from
the availabi1ity of such

guidance.

After you have received this Recommendation and as required by 42 U.S.C.
§ *2286d(a),*

the Board will promptly make it available to the public. The Board
believes that this

Recommendation contains no information that is classified or otherwise
restricted. To the extent

that this Recommendation does not include information restricted by DOE
under the Atomic

Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2161-2168, as amended, please arrange
to have it placed

promptly on file in your regional public reading rooms. The Board will
also publish this

Recommendation in the *Federal Register.* The Board will evaluate DOE's
response to this

Recommendation in accordance with the Board's Policy Statement 1,
*Criteria for Judging the*

*Adequacy of DOE Responses and Implementation Plans for DNFSB
Recommendations*.

Sincerely,

***A. J. Eggenberger***

***Chairman***

c: Mr. Mark B**.** Whitaker, Jr.

[Enclosure](../AttachedFile/fb08j29b_att.pdf)