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On Tuesday, January 9, 2007, at 1:38 p.m., southbound Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority passenger train 322 operated by Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad struck a track maintenance vehicle that was on the track near Woburn, Massachusetts. The track maintenance vehicle was thrown forward about 210...

At about 11:40 a.m., eastern standard time, on February 5, 2001, eastbound Amtrak train 286, with 100 passengers and 4 crew members, struck the rear of eastbound CSX Transportation freight train Q620 on the CSXT Railroad near Syracuse, New York On impact, the lead...

About 6:10 a.m., central daylight time, on September 2, 1998, the 17th through 19th cars and the first two platforms of the five-platform 20th car of westbound Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company intermodal freight train S-CHILAC1-31 derailed at Crisfield, Kansas. The derailment...

About 8:55 p.m., central daylight time, on April 7, 2003, an 80,000-barrel storage tank at ConocoPhillips Company's Glenpool South tank farm in Glenpool, Oklahoma, exploded and burned as it was being filled with diesel. Gasoline had been removed from the tank earlier in the...

At 5:26 a.m., mountain daylight time, on Saturday, August 19, 2000, a 30-inch-diameter natural gas transmission pipeline operated by El Paso Natural Gas Company ruptured adjacent to the Pecos River near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The release gas ignited and burned for 55 minutes.Author: National...

On the morning of April 7, 2002, the Piney Point Oil Pipeline system, which was owned by the Potomac Electric power Company, experienced a pope failure at the Chalk Point Generating Station in southeastern Prince George's Country, Maryland. The release was not discovered and...

About 10:50 a.m. on December 11, 1998, while attempting to install a utility pole support anchor in a city sidewalk in St. Cloud, Minnesota, a communications network installation crew struck and ruptured an underground, 1-inch-diameter, high-pressure plastic gas service pipeline, thereby precipitating a natural...

Since its creation in 1967 as an independent accident investigation agency within the newly created U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the NTSB's mission has been to determine the probable cause of transportation accidents and to formulate safety recommendations to improve transportation safety.Author: National Transportation...

Since its creation in 1967 as an accident investigation agency within the newly created US Department of Transportation (DOT), the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB's) mission has been to determine the probable cause of transportation accidents and incidents and to formulate safety recommendations to...

Since its creation in 1967 as an independent accident investigation agency within the newly created U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the NTSB's mission has been to determine the probable cause of transportation accidents and to formulate safety recommendations to improve transportation safety.Author: National Transportation...

On Tuesday, July 11, 2006, about 5:06 p.m., central daylight time, the last car of northbound Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train number 220 derailed in the subway between the Clark/Lake and Grand/Milwaukee stations in downtown Chicago, Illinois. About 1,000 passengers were on board...

The National Transportation Safety Board's Information Technology Strategic Plan provides a specific course of action for effectively managing the Information Technology (IT) Program in support of the Safety Board's overall Mission. NTSB's IT strategy guides IT resources to align with the business goals and...

The National Transportation Safety Board is pleased to submit its Human Capital Management for FY 2010, as required under 5 CFR Part 250. This report is the culmination of our annual human capital life cycle, which began with planning and goal-setting for the fiscal...

About 11:50 a.m. central daylight time on April 15, 2003, a nonspecification cargo tank used by River Valley Cooperative (River Valley) exclusively for agricultural purposes as a nurse tank split open after being filled with anhydrous ammonia at River Valley's nurse tank filling facility...

The protection from and prevention of events endangering the public's safety, such as crime and natural and manmade disasters, is a vital function of any government. Guam faces increased challenges in meeting the current public safety needs of the citizens, as well as the...

This report explains the collision of a Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation commuter train with a Transportation Joint Agreement School District 47/155 school bus that was stopped at a railroad/highway grade crossing in Fox River Grove, Illinois on October 25, 1995. Severn school...

About 2:35 a.m. on May 2, 1995, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) train No. 81, the Silver State, on it southbound run from New York, New York, to Tampa, Florida, struck on O&J Gordon Trucking Company tractor-lobed semitrailer combination that had been lodged for...

The Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), P.L. 112-25, amended the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (BBEDCA) by reinstating limits ("caps") on discretionary budget author-ity, which expired after 2002. The 2013 and 2014 limits were revised further by the American...

This is a Handbook guide for new authors who want to write a book and tell their story. I will give you insight as to how you start and finish your story as well as publish your own book! Using these 8 simple steps...Author:...

About 10:41 p.m. eastern daylight time on Friday, October 20, 2006, Norfolk Southern Railway Company train 68QB119, en route from the Chicago, Illinois, area to Sewaren, New Jersey, derailed while crossing the Beaver River railroad bridge in New Brighton, Pennsylvania. The train consisted of...

The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended (BBEDCA), 2 U.S.C. 901a, requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to calculate, and the President to order on March 1, 2013, reductions in budgetary resources triggered by the failure of the Joint...

The objective of our assessment was to evaluate the overall accountability of the FWS-OLE program. We reviewed many aspects of the law enforcement program, including management, policies, partnerships with other agencies, funding, internal affairs, quality control inspections, employee conduct, property, evidence, and training. Our...

About 4_38 p.m. central daylight time on October 12, 2003, westbound Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad (Metra) train 519 derailed its two locomotives and five passenger cars as it traversed a crossover from track 1 to track 2 near Control Point 48th Street in...

About 0745, on May 26, 2002, the towboat Robert Y. Love, pushing two empty asphalt tank barges, was traveling northbound on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. As the tow approached the Interstate 40 highway bridge at mile 360.3, it...

On October 21, 1999, about 10:30 a.m. near Central Bridge, New York, a school bus was transporting 44 students and 8 adults on a field trip. The bus was traveling north on State Route 30A as it approached the intersection with State Route 7....

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) developed a comprehensive strategy for postlease National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance in deepwater areas (water depths of greater than 400 m) of the Central and Western Planning Areas of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).Author: Minerals Management ServiceISBN-10: 1511932155ISBN-13:...

On June 20, 1998, about 4:05 a.m., on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Burnt Cabins, Pennsylvania, a Greyhound Lines, Inc., motorcoach traveled off the right side of the roadway into an emergency parking area. It struck the back of a parked tractor-semitrailer, which was pushed...

This environmental assessment (EA) was prepared to determine whether or not the information and analyses in the multisale environmental impact statement (EIS) have changed sufficiently to warrant further analysis for proposed Sale 182 in the Central Gulf of Mexico. The EA tiers off the...

Practitioners are oftentimes required to predict flow resistance coefficients, such as Manning's n, in high-gradient channels (slopes > 2 %). Measurements of actual velocity and flow resistance indicate that reach-average resistance coef-ficients are substantially higher than commonly encountered in low-gradient channels, with Manning's n...

The Federal Oceanographic Fleet continues to be a critical national infrastructure that supports Federal agency and academic oceanographic operations, surveys, and research across a broad spectrum of national needs. Ships provide access to the world ocean and Great Lakes, and enable data collection nd...

Joe's Electronic Handbook is a condensed series of electrical notes.Author: Joes CarISBN-10: 1511781874ISBN-13: 9781511781879Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2015Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.06d

The DOI protects and manages the Nation's natural resources and cultural heritage; provides scientific and other information about those resources; and honors the Nation's trust responsibilities or special commitments to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and affiliated island communities.Author: United States Department of the InteriorISBN-10:...

The public meeting was held at George Washington University, Marvin Center, Room 309, 800 21st, Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20052 commencing at 1:00 p.m.Author: Lynn LivingstonISBN-10: 151168738XISBN-13: 9781511687386Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2015Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.17d

This document highlights the programs of the Department of the Interior and its 2014 President's budget request. The DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW section summarizes budgetary resource requirements at the Department level. The DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS section presents major Department-wide initiatives, program, and budget proposals. The BUREAU HIGHLIGHTS...

Audit work included claims totaling approximately $44 million on the 128 grants that were open during SFYs 2006 and 2007 (see Appendix 1). We report only on those conditions that existed during this audit period. We performed our audit at Division headquarters in Denver,...

This report presents the results of the second and last two audits relating to hurricane recovery efforts at Department of the Interior's bureaus. During this second audit, the Office of the Inspector General visited several U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service...

The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act (Acts)2 established the Federal Assistance Program for State Wildlife Restoration and Sport Fish Restoration. Under the Federal Assistance Program, FWS provides grants to States to restore, conserve, manage, and enhance their sport...

The Virgin Islands are an unincorporated territory of the United States, located about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami, Florida. The U.S. Department of the Interior assumed responsibility for administration of the Virgin Islands in 1931, and in 1936 the U.S. Congress enacted the Organic...

This report presents the results of our admit of the Department of the Interior's radio communication program. The objective of our audit was to determine whether DOI and its bureaus are effectively managing the radio communications program.Author: United States Department of the InteriorISBN-10: 1511664002ISBN-13:...

Entries qualify for inclusion if they were conducted in whole or part at the Desert Experimental Range (DER, also known as the Desert Range Experiment Station) or were based on DER research in whole or part. They do not qualify merely by the author...

This annotated bibliography documents the research that has been conducted on the Great Basin Experimental Range (GBER, also known as the Utah Experiment Station, Great Basin Station, the Great Basin Branch Experiment Station, Great Basin Experimental Center, and other similar name variants) over the...

The Minerals Management Service developed a comprehensive strategy for postalize National Environmental Policy Act compliance for development and production projects in deepwater areas in the Central Planning area and Western Planning Area of the Gulf of Mexico. The strategy led to the development of...

The Bureau of Land Management and United States Forest Service has developed this information for the guidance of their employees and contractors. The use of trade, firm, or corporation names, or illustrations of any particular product in this publication, is for the information and...

On June 5, 2013, the British newspaper The Guardian published the first of a series of articles based on unauthorized disclosures of classified documents by Edward Snowden, acontractorfortheNationalSecurityAgency("NSA").1 The article described an NSA program to collect millions of telephone records, including records about purely...

Under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), as amended, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI/USDOI) is required to manage the leasing, exploration, development, and production of oil and gas resources on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The Secretary of the Interior...

The U.S. Department of the Interior, Mineral Management Service has prepared an environmental assessment for proposed Lease Sale 207 in the Western Planning area of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf to determine whether MMS can make a Finding of No New Significant...

This environmental assessment (EA) addresses one proposed Federal action: oil and gas Lease Sale 206 in the proposed lease sale area of the Central Planning Area (CPA) of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) as scheduled in the Outer Continental Shelf...

This tutorial demonstrates the application of piecewise regression to bedload data to define a shift in phase of transport so that the reader may perform similar analyses on available data. The use of piecewise regression analysis implicitly recognizes different functions fit to bedload data...

The 2005 Forest and Rangeland Condition Indicator Model is a set of classification trees for forest and rangeland condition indicators on a national scale. This report documents the development of the database and the nonparametric statistical estimation for this analytical structure, with emphasis on...

The survey on values, objectives, beliefs, and attitudes, implemented as a module of the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment, asked over 7,000 respondents nationwide about their values with respect to public lands, objectives for the management of these lands, beliefs about the...