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• Volcanic Hazards with Regard to Siting Nuclear-Power Plants in the Pacific Northwest

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  "This report identifies volcanoes in the Cascade Range of Washington, Oregon, and California that constitute a potential threat to people and works of man, and assesses the hazards that could result from future eruptions of these volcanoes. The assessments are based on the premise that past eruptive histories of volcanoes provide the best basis for judging the most likely kinds, frequencies, and magnitudes of future volcanic events. These assessments can be used to evaluate volcanic hazards at sites of proposed nuclear power plants, as well as for more general purposes of long-range land-use planning."

  Geological Survey (U.S.)

  1987
• Kenosha Gang Project: Preliminary Report

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  "In December 1986, the Task Force on Gangs commissioned the university of Wisconsin, Parkside to conduct a study on the local gang situation. The main focus of the study was to analyze existing data within tha Kenosha Police Department, the Kenosha County Department of Social services, and the Kenosha Unified School District. The research team also interviewed key people in the community and self-identified gang members. The goal of this study was to provide Kenosha with a better understanding of the local street gang situation. The unique aspect of the Kenosha Gang project was the participation of twelve University of Wisconsin, Parkside students who worked on this research project. To be more specific, the students developed the research design, collected the data, analyzed the data, and contributed to the final report. This project was offered as a sociology course during Spring 1987, and continued through the summer. such a project has provided students with an opportunity to gain 'hands on' experience doing sociological research. Moreover, the students were able to provide the community with a much underutilized resource, which has resulted in considerable savings to the city. The objectives of the Kenosha Gang project were: 1. To tabulate and analyze three existing data bases as they relate to gangs. 2. To interview key people in the community who work with local gang members. 3. To interview self-identified gang members in Kenosha. 4. To provide students with an opportunity to do research and to provide hands on experience in the various aspects of sociological research."

  United States. Department of Justice; National Institute of Justice (U.S.)

  Takata, Susan R.; Baskin, Sheila D.

  1987
• Lock Rehabilitation, a Public Infrastructure Proglem: the Value of Increased Productivity in Mean Lockage Performance

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  "This partial equilibrium analysis takes a step toward providing a framework for providing some of the information that is needed to replace historically and politically based assertions about public infrastructure 'needs' with more objective economic analysis. In particular it concentrates on the problem of determining optimal levels and timing of rehabilitation of existing infrastructure capital in the Nation's inland waterways navigation system."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  Yoe, Charles E.

  1987-01
• Decade of Chinese-North Korean Relations

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  "This study provides background information on Chinese-North Korean relations since the mid-1970s, with emphasis on military relations. Attention is given to idenfifying the circumstances and forces that are likely to be the most important in determining the course of relations for the remainder of the 1980s."

  Library of Congress. Federal Research Division

  Green, Beth

  1987-01
• Health Hazard Evaluation Report HETA 85-150-1767; Warwick Fire Department Warwick, Rhode Island

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  "On January 23, 1985, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request from the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) to evaluate health complaints of fire fighters from the Warwick Fire Department who were exposed to plastic products and pesticides during two separate fires in late December 1984 and early January 1985. [...] Based on the information collected during this survey, it was concluded that fire fighters experienced acute irritant symptoms apparently caused by smoke and chemical inhalation at two fires in December 1984 and January 1985. Recommendations concerning protective measures, medical surveillance and planning for potential future exposures are made in Section VIII of this report."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

  Keenlyside, Richard A.; Kent, George P.; House, Louise A. . . .

  1987-01
• Fire Management Notes (Vol.47 No.4)

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  This is Volume 47, No.4 of Fire Management Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1987
• Fire Management Notes (Vol.48 No.1)

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  This is Volume 48, No.1 of Fire Management Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1987
• Fire Management Notes (Vol.48 No.3)

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  This is Volume 48, No.3 of Fire Management Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1987
• Fire Management Notes (Vol.48 No.4)

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  This is Volume 48, No.4 of Fire Management Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1987
• Fire Management Notes (Vol.48 No.2)

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  This is Volume 48, No.2 of Fire Management Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1987
• Electronic Communication Privacy, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session on S. 1667, A Bill to Amend Title 18, United States Code, With Respect to the Interception of Certain Communications, Other Forms of Surveillance, and for Other Purposes, Wednesday, November 18, 1985

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  From the opening statement of Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.: "Today, for the first time in the 99th Congress, the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks holds a hearing in the exercise of its jurisdiction over privacy legislation. Our topic is S. 1667, the Electronic and Communications Privacy Act of 1985. This bill, which Senator Leahy and I introduced on September 19, seeks to bring our laws up to date with the new challenges to privacy posed by modern communications technology. Just a few years ago, our nation's communications networks, while extensive, were relatively simple in form. The nails, the telegraph system, the telephone, and radio communications each played a role; but those roles were distinct from one another, and not too hard to understand. Those simple days are gone forever. Today's systems of electronic communication envelop our society in an invisible web, complex in structure and pervasive in scope. We entrust, each day, to that network of electrons a wide spectrum of information, from the latest stock quotations to our most personal revelations. But the uneasy realization is growing that someone else may be listening. Modern technology, which has given us these dazzling new means of communications, has also opened up opportunities for new and more intrusive forms of snooping." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Patrick J. Leahy, Robert W. Kastenmeier, James Knapp, Philip M. Walker, Jerry J. Berman, Lynn W. Ellis, Frederick Hess, Carlos J. Moorhead, P. Michael Nugent, and John Stanton."

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1987
• INS and the Budgetary Impact of Implementing the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986: Hearing Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, April 30, 1987

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  From the opening statement of the Hon. William H. Gray III: "We are going to begin the hearing at this point. I am pleased that the House Budget Committee has been convened today to explore the budgetary implications of the legalization program authorized under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. As you know, next Tuesday marks the beginning of the single largest amnesty program for illegal aliens that has ever been conducted by any one nation. May 5 is a landmark date in our Nation's history for on this day every man, woman and child, estimated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to be 3.9 million individuals, who can provide documented evidence that they have been residing within our borders since January 1, 1982, is eligible to make application for temporary legal status which can lead eventually to full U.S. citizenship. But the legalization program set to begin next Tuesday is only one part of this landmark immigration reform enacted by the Congress last year. Beginning June 1, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will initiate an employer sanctions program to enforce the provisions of IRCA which expressly prohibit the hiring and employment of an alien who is unauthorized to work in the United States. Employer sanctions in combination with increased enforcement capabilities of the U.S. Border Patrol on our Nation's borders are designed to restore integrity to the immigration process in the United States and to stem the ever-growing tide of illegal immigrants into this country." Additional material submitted for the record includes that of Charles E. Schumer.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1987
• Personnel Security Program

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  This "Personnel Security Programs Regulation" in reissued under the authority of DOD Directive 5200.2, "DoD Personnel Security Program," December 20, 1979. It contains expanded direction and procedures for implementing those references cited in chapter 1 and in Appendix A of this Regulation that pertain to acceptance and retention of DoD military, civilian, consultant and contractor personnel and of granting such persons access to classified information or assignment to a sensitive position. It also implements such recommendations from the Defense Security Review Commission Report as pertains to personnel security and approved by the Secretary of Defense.

  United States. Department of Defense

  1987-01
• Hazardous Materials Information System Users Guide

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  The DoD Hazardous Materials Information System provides basic technical reference data to assist in the management of hazardous materials so that the risk involved in the performance of various jobs is minimized. The system was established and operates to support our efforts to comply fully with the various laws that apply to safety and health, transportation, and the environment by providing knowledge as to the specific hazards associated with individual items.

  United States. Department of Defense

  1987-01
• National Security Strategy of the United States [1987]

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  "This National Security Strategy Report builds on the efforts of the Administration, Congress, and the American people over the past six years. But any strategy document is only a guide. To be effective, it must be firmly rooted in broad national interests and objectives, supported by an adequate commitment of resources, and integrate all relevant facets of national power to achieve our national objectives. It must provide a framework within which more specific and detailed objectives can be identified by those executive branch agencies charged with stewardship over various elements of the nation's power. And it must guide the creation of specific plans for attainment of those more detailed objectives."

  United States. White House Office

  1987-01
• Reasoning about Security Models

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  In this paper, "[a] method for evaluating security models is developed and applied to the model of Bell and LaPadula. The method shows the inadequacy of the Bell and LaPadula model, in particular,and the impossibility of any adequate definition of a secure system based solely on the notion of a secure state. The implications for the fruitfulness of seeking a global definition of a secure system and for the state of foundational research in computer security, in general, is discussed."

  Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)

  McLean, John D., 1952-

  1987-01
• TRADE '86 Conference Report

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  "It is with great pleasure that I present to the membership of the Training Resources and Data Exchange (TRADE) this report of the second national TRADE Conference, held here at the Academy in December, 1986. TRADE is a unique and very exciting opportunity for the nation's fire training organizations. It is also an important responsiblity for all of us. I would like to underscore my personal commitment that the Academy will, in the years to come, maintain a close and attentive relationship with the membership of TRADE. This commitment includes our continued efforts to support and encourage the exchange of local training programs and ideas through the TRADE networks, and our resolve to listen closely to the feedback and guidance that the TRADE membership can provide to Academy programs and initiatives. The many ideas and suggestions offered to the Academy by the participants of TRADE '86 have already had a significant impact on Academy planning. Some of the program changes that have already been implemented as a result of input from TRADE include: the modularization of all NFA [National Fire Academy] handoff courses, beginning with 1987 handoff courses Preparing for Incident Command and Commanding the Initial Response; the initiation of the development process for a new Leadership curriculum, for field delivery and hand-off; and the establishment of first responders and response team members as the top priorities for hazardous materials training. There are numerous other suggestions and proposals for enrichment of Academy programs and policies which resulted from TRADE '86 and which are presently being considered and evaluated. Our on-going dialogues with the TRADE membership will highlight these different issues as they are further explored and discussed."

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; National Fire Academy

  1986-12
• Health Hazard Evaluation Report HETA 84-484-1754; Detroit Fire Fighters Detroit, Michigan

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  "On August 17, 1984, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request to evaluate respiratory complaints and skin irritation among fire fighters, following a five alarm chemical fire and explosion that occurred on August 6, 1984 at the Michlin Diazo Products Corporation warehouse, located in Hamtramck, Michigan (a Detroit suburb). [...] On the basis of the data obtained during this investigation, it was concluded that most of the symptoms experienced by fire fighters developed after the fire and that the length of time spent at the fire plus the degree of exposure to heavy smoke, most likely contributed to the occurrence of their symptoms. Recommendations to establish a medical surveillance program for fire fighters, as well as a hazardous materials response team, are presented in Section VIII of this report."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

  Anderson, Kern E.; Melius, James

  1986-12
• Army Field Manual: Field Behavior of NBC Agents (Including Smoke and Incendiaries)

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  Primary users of this manual are NBC staff officers, staff weather officers, fire support coordination personnel, artillery officers, and others involved in planning NBC operations. These soldiers must understand what effect weather and terrain have on nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) operations and smoke. This manual contains general information and the basic principles on how to get the best results. Commanders and staffs involved in planning for use of incendiaries or smoke operations will also benefit from the use of this manual along with other references such as FM 3-50, FM 3-100, FM 3-3, FM 3-4, and FM 3-5. On the battlefield, the influences of weather and terrain on NBC operations provide opportunities to both sides. To retain the initiative, friendly forces leaders and staff officers must understand how weather and terrain can be used to their advantage. FM 3-6 implements International Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 2103, Reporting Nuclear Detonations, Radioactive Fallout, and Biological and Chemical Attacks and Predicting Associated Hazards. This manual explains how weather and terrain influence nuclear, biological, and chemical operations and discusses the following topics for use when planning operations: Basic principles of meteorology as they pertain to NBC operations; Influence of weather on the use and behavior of NBC agents; Local weather predictions and their use; Influence of terrain on the behavior of NBC agents; US Air Force Air Weather Service (AWS) forecasts and their use in planning for operations in an NBC environment. (The Navy gets meteorological forecasts from components of the Naval Oceanography Command. Meteorological report information is in the NAVOCEANCOMINST 3140.1 publications series. It also contains information on the behavior of smoke clouds and incendiaries. In addition, it discusses the influences of weather and terrain on the thermal, blast, and radiation effects of a nuclear detonation.)

  United States. Department of Defense

  1986-11-03
• Terrorism: A Selective Bibliography

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  This document is a bibliography of selected books on terrorism

  Pentagon Library (U.S.)

  1986-11
• Survival at Sea: The Effects of Protective Clothing and Survivor Location on Core and Skin Temperatures

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  "Different types of protective clothing for maritime personnel were compared in 3, simulated, survival environments: immersion in cold, rough seas; exposure to cold wind, spray and waves atop an overturned boat; and exposure to cold air and waves in an open, one-man liferaft. The test garments were: flight suit (FS); two-piece wet suit (WS); insulated, loose-fitting aviation (AC) and boatcrew (BC) coveralls; uninsulated dry suit (NI); NI with a 5 cm tear in the shoulder seam (NX). All garments were worn over cotton thermal underwear; an additional layer of insulated, short-sleeve underwear was worn with NI and NX. 8 Coast Guard crewmen were the test subjects; mean age = 23 yrs; mean ht. = 175 cm; mean wt. = 72 kg; mean body fat = 11 %. Significant differences between cooling rates in water and those on the boat or in the raft were found for all garments except NI and WS (boat). The results demonstrate that survivors maintain higher skin temps. and slower cooling rates out of the water, even when exposed to continuous wind, spray and waves than when they remain immersed in rough seas. Insulated, intact-dry-suits provide better immersion protection than do either tight-fitting wet suits or loose-fitting coveralls; leaky 'dry' suits provide no better protection than do loose-fitting coveralls. The best survival environment is provided by the one-man liferaft. Linear cooling rates were used to estimate survival times in 6.1 C rough seas for personnel wearing each of the test garment-ensembles."

  United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development

  Steinman, Alan M.; Kubilis, Paul S.

  1986-11
• Health Hazard Evaluation Report HETA 84-417-1745; Minneapolis Police Department Minneapolis, Minnesota

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  "On June 26, 1984, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council No. 14 to evaluate diagnoses of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and tendonitis of the wrist among clerical workers of the Minneapolis Police Department (KPD). [...] Carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis of the wrist occurred more frequently among police transcribers compared with clerical staff from other departments. Factors that contributed to this observation were related to the positions of the hands and wrists during the typing of documents. Recommendations for improving workstations and the ergonomic environment of police transcribers are presented in Section VIII of this report."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

  Seligman, Paul J.; Boiano, James; Anderson, Craig R.

  1986-11
• Public Law 99-508: Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986

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  "An Act [t]o amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the interception of certain communications, other forms of surveillance, and for other purposes."

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1986-10-21
• Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act: Title III -- Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know

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  This law is Title III of the Superfund Amendments and, Reauthorization Act. It discusses the establishment of state emergency response commissions, emergency planning districts, and local emergency planning committees.

  Library of Congress

  1986-10-17
• S. Rept. 99-541: Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, Report to Accompany S. 2575, October 17, 1986

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  "The Electronic Communications Privacy Act amends title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968--the Federal wiretap law--to protect against the unauthorized interception of electronic communications. The bill amends the 1968 law to update and clarify Federal privacy protections and standards in light of dramatic changes in new computer and telecommunications technologies."

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1986-10-17
• DoD Directive 5210.65: Chemical Agent Security Program

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  This Directive reissues DoD Directive 5210.65, September 8, 1982 to update policy, minimum standards, and responsibilities for safeguarding chemical agents.

  United States. Department of Defense

  1986-10-15
• Department of Defense Instruction: Immunization Requirements

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  "This Instruction addresses immunization policies for all members of the Armed Forces, civilian employees of the Department of Defense, and all eligible beneficiaries of the military health care system [...] It requires implementation of programs that minimize individual illness and disability, days lost from work, and impairment of operational capabilities from conditions that are preventable through immunization. Immunization requirements contained in this Instruction complement immunization, preventive medicine, and health promotion [...] and implement the Public Health Service plans for attaining the immunization objectives for the nation."

  United States. Department of Defense

  1986-10-09
• Public Law 99-433: Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986

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  The Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 was established to reorganize the Department of Defense and strengthen civilian authority in the Department of Defense, to improve the military advice provided to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense, to place clear responsibility on the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands for the accomplishment of missions assigned to those commands and ensure that the authority of those commanders is fully commensurate with that responsibility, to increase attention to the formulation of strategy and to contingency planning, to provide for more efficient use of defense resources, to improve joint officer management policies, otherwise to enhance the effectiveness of military operations and improve the management and administration of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1986-10-01
• Executive Order 12564: Drug-Free Federal Workplace

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  "I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, find that: Drug use is having serious adverse effects upon a significant proportion of the national work force and results in billions of dollars of lost productivity each year; the federal government, as an employer, is concerned with the well-being of its employees, the successful accomplishment of agency missions, and the need to maintain employee productivity; the Federal government, as the largest employer in the Nation, can and should show the way towards achieving drug-free workplaces through a program designed to offer drug users a helping hand and , at the same time demonstrating to drug users and potential drug users that drugs will not be tolerated in the Federal workplace."

  United States. Office of the Federal Register

  Reagan, Ronald

  1986-09-15
• Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 Conference Report

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  Regarding the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the House to the amendments of the Senate to bill H.R. 3622, the committee recommends to their respective Houses that the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House to the amendment of the Senate to the text of the bill. The document then contains the committee's recommended text for the of the Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 and advises the Senate to accept the amendments to the Act as presented in this document.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1986-09-12