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• Future Importance of Taiwan and the Republic of China to U.S. Security and Economic Interests, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Third Congress, First Session, July 25; August 1, 1973

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  This document combines the July 25 and August 1, 1973 hearings titled "Future Importance of Taiwan and the Republic of China to U.S. Security and Economic Interests" held before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. From the opening statement of Robert N. C. Nix: "The purpose of these 2 days of hearings is that of providing information for the subcommittee members and the public. No one would deny that this area of the world is of crucial importance to the United States and to the peace of the world." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Henry Kearns, C. Martin Wilbur, Richard G. Ciccolella, and Franz Michael.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1978
• SCNAC-95-2-18: Drug Trafficking in and Through Hawaii and Guam, Hearings Before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 30, July 1, 4, and 5, 1978

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  This is testimony from joint hearings regarding drug trafficking in Guam and Hawaii, which took place in June and July of 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Testimony was given from various government officials, law enforcement officials, public health and safety officials, and residents of Hawaii and Guam. From the June 30, 1978 opening statement of the Select Committee chairman Lester L. Wolff: "Since its inception in 1976, the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control has been concerned with the problem of heroin coming into this country from Southeast Asia. The committee and Federal law enforcement officials were successful in helping to ameliorate the problem of the Golden Triangle of heroin for a brief period of time. The latest intelligence information we have, however, indicates that nearly one-third of the heroin that reaches the streets in America today originates from Southeast Asia and the middle East. The Select Committee is in Hawaii for the purpose of examining how this heroin is coming into the mainland, and to search for ways that the Federal Government can help Hawaii, a gateway, deal with this enormous problem." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: George R. Ariyoshi, Jerry Jenson, John Y. Y. Lee, George Roberts, Stanley D. Tabor, H. C. Chee, Francis Keala, John San Diego, Roy K. Hiram, Jerome Estavillo, Togo Nakagawa, Guy Paul, Timothy I. Wee, Vincent Marino, May Goya, Carl Lon, Ricardo J. Bordallo, Joseph Ada, Peter Rieff, Pedro Manibusan, John Quan, Juan C. Pablo, John Fernandez, Gene Hassing, James McDonald, David Tuncap, Paul Abbate, David Wood, Alfred Sabinh, Philip H. Jacobsen, Eduardo Del Rosario, John Camacho, Hee Yong Park, David S. Cruden, Andrew Pringle, Jr., and Kenneth E. Dowling.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1978
• Federal Aviation Administration Operations Related to Safety and Procurement Management, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session, November 28 and 29, 1977

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  This document contains the November 28 and 29, 1977 hearings on the "Federal Aviation Administration Operations Related to Safety and Procurement Management," held before the House Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations. From the opening statement of John L. Burton: "Ladies and gentlemen, these hearings deal with the effectiveness of the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] in implementing its statutory duty to promote safety in air commerce. The hearings will focus on two related matters--procurement management and safety. Safety and procurement are closely related." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Charles E. Billings, Langhorne M. Bond Dale Milford, John M. Rider, and Jerome H. Stolarow.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1978
• FAA Certification Process and Regulation of Illegal Commercial Operators, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session, September 26 and 28, 1978

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  This document contains the September 26 and 28, 1978 hearings on the "FAA Certification Process and Regulation of Illegal Commercial Operators," held before the House Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations. From the opening statement of John L. Burton: "We are dealing today with FAA's [Federal Aviation Administration] certification of transport category aircraft, and FAA's regulation of illegal commercial operators. All of us are aware of the tragedy that occurred yesterday over San Diego. More than 140 persons, including a personal friend of mine, lost their lives in the mid-air collision between a 727 and a small general aviation aircraft." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Langhorne Bond, Elwood T. Driver, Henry Eschwege, Dante B. Fascell, Karl G. Harr, Jr., Frederick B. McIntosh, John J. O'Donnell, Patricia D. Robertson, and Edwin L. Thomas.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1978
• Fire Management Notes (Vol.39 No.1)

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  This is the Winter 1977-78 edition (Volume 39, 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

  1978
• Fire Management Notes (Vol.39 No.2)

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  This is the Spring 1978 edition (Volume 39, 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

  1978
• Fire Management Notes (Vol.39 No.3)

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  This is the Summer 1978 edition (Volume 39, 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

  1978
• Fire Management Notes (Vol.39 No.4)

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  This is the Fall 1978 edition (Volume 39, 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

  1978
• Exploitation of Antarctic Resources, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, Oceans, and International Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session on U.S. Policy with Respect to the Exploitation of Antarctic Resources, February 6, 1978

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  This is the February 6, 1978 hearing on "Exploitation of Antarctic Resources" held before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, Oceans, and International Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. From the opening statement of Claiborne Pell: "The Subcommittee on Arms Control, Oceans, and International Environment will come to order to bear testimony from both Government and public witnesses concerning the U.S. policy with respect to the exploitation of Antarctic resources."

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1978
• Uganda: The Human Rights Situation, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress Second Session on Uganda: the Human Rights Situation; Assessment of The Current Political, Economic, and Religious Policies; and Recommendations for U.S. Policies, June 15, 21, 26, 1978

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  These are the June 15, 21, and 26, 1978 hearings on "Uganda: The Human Rights Situation" held before the Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. From the opening statement of Frank Church: "In this light, I strongly commend President Carter for linking our human rights goals with the other major objectives of our foreign policy. The President has embarked upon an admirable campaign to pro ­mote basic human rights for all people, in all nations. This policy is in line with the basic tradition and heritage of the American people. Today we begin a series of three hearings to look into the human rights policies of Uganda and what role the United States and American companies have played in maintaining the regime of Idi Amin in power. In many quarters, Amin has been portrayed as a buffoon, a comic characterization of a ruler. Others see him as a madman temporarily in control of Uganda. As we will hear today, Idi Amin is no laughing matter. He is a cruel and inhuman tyrant who has brutalized his subjects since he seized power on January 25,1971."

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1978
• Public Law 95-223: International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Amendment to the Trading with the Enemies Act

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  "Any authority granted to the President by section 203 may be exercised to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in, whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat. The authorities granted to the President by section 203 may only be exercised to deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat with respect to which a national emergency has been declared for purposes of this title and may not be exercised for any other purpose. Any exercise of such authorities to deal with any new threat shall be based on a new declaration of national emergency which must be with respect to such threat."

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1977-12-28
• CED-78-13 Federal Disaster Relief Programs

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  "Information on federal disaster relief programs, which is based on data contained in GAO-issued reports and a report soon to be issued and in Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports, is submitted for inclusion in a Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry print. The material includes information on: protecting against production loss; protecting against loss from disease, poisoning, or contamination; providing emergency credit assistance; and providing emergency livestock feed assistance. Federal protection against production loss is provided in the form of the Commodity Credit Corporation's (CCC) disaster payment program and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation's crop insurance program. The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) provides protection against loss from disease, poisoning, and contamination through its beekeeper indemnity payment program. Emergency credit assistance is provided through the Farmers Home Administration's emergency loan program. Emergency livestock feed assistance is provided through the emergency livestock feed program administered by CCC, the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Federal Disaster Assistance Administration's (FDAA) emergency feed program, the FDAA hay transportation assistance program administered by ASCS, and the FDAA cattle transportation assistance program, also administered by ASCS."

  United States. General Accounting Office

  1977-11-17
• Academy Planning Assistance Program Guidelines

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  "The purpose of the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration's state and local assistance programs is to advance the development of fire prevention and control activities. This purpose is consistent with one of the stated purposes of the Act : 'to supplement existing programs of research, training, and education, and to encourage new and improved programs and activities by State and local governments.' […] The Academy Planning Assistance Program has four major objectives: A. To encourage the development of a coordinated system for improving education and training for fire service personnel and others involved in fire safety throughout the state. B. To help those responsible for providing fire education and training to identify current and projected needs that can be met more effectively and efficiently through the coordination of existing resources, and at the same time, to identify those education and training needs not likely to be met with current and anticipated resources from within the state. C. To assist the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration in anticipating future fire education and training needs by identifying education and training programs which the Academy can develop and provide throughout the nation. D. To enable the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, through its planning assistance guidelines, to encourage those responsible for improving fire education and training throughout the state to address education and training needs considered to be of national priority and importance--such areas as public fire education, administration and management of fire prevention and control, building inspection, code enforcement and fire and arson investigation."

  United States. Department of Commerce

  1977-10
• Liberty and Justice for All: A Report Prepared by the South Dakota Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1977

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  "The South Dakota Advisory Committee, pursuant to its responsibility to advise the Commission on civil rights problems in the State, submits this report on criminal justice for Native Americans. Through its investigation, the Advisory Committee concludes that despite progress made during the last few years in improving the quality of justice, Indian people continue to face problems in the State's criminal justice system, which places them at a severe disadvantage. The study found evidence of widespread abuse of police power throughout the State. Improprieties cited included selective law enforcement, search and arrest without cause, harassment and brutal treatment, arrest of intoxicated persons on disorderly conduct charges, and simple discourtesies. The court-appointed defense attorney system in South Dakota was found to place indigent defendants at a serious disadvantage. Far too often, inexperience, difficulties in communication, and inherent conflicts of interest on the part of defense attorneys were found to be detrimental to Native American defendants. The Advisory Committee examined practices by State, county and municipal law enforcement agencies and the courts in off-reservation areas of Pennington and Charles Mix Counties. Federal courts and agencies were not included in the study. In the course of the investigation, members of the Advisory Committee and staff from the Rocky Mountain Regional Office interviewed over 130 persons including State officials, law enforcement officers, defense and prosecuting attorneys, judges, court administrators, community representatives, and Native American complainants. Information, also, was received from more than 50 persons who testified at a fact-finding meeting conducted by the Advisory Committee last December."

  United States Commission on Civil Rights

  1977-10
• Fire Deaths in the United States: Review of Data Sources and Range of Estimates

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  "Over the past decade, it has often been reported that approximately 12,000 fire deaths occur in the United States each year. To check the validity of this estimate and to identify the population groups most affected and the causes of the fires in which deaths occur, a study of fire death data was undertaken. The fire death data examined revealed large differences in estimates derived from various data sources in the annual rate of fire deaths in the United States. The range was 6,000 to 12,000 deaths per year. We think the range 7,000 to 9,000 is most plausible, but further analysis is needed to be sure. However, all sources indicated that the fire death rate in the United States has declined during the period 1970-1974. Annual fire death rates based on data in State fire marshal reports from the years 1970-1975 indicate that between 29 and 35 fire deaths per million population occur each year. These death rates projected nationally mean that 6,000 to 7,400 fire deaths occur in the United States each year. The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] vital statistics mortality data for the 1970 to 1974 period provide another source of fire death rates, but they exclude motor vehicle accident fire deaths. The number of annual fire-related motor vehicle accident deaths were calculated from data in special studies of motor vehicle accident deaths and added to the HEW reported fire deaths. The maximum yearly number of motor vehicle accident fire deaths was estimated to be 1,270, the minimum 280."

  National Fire Data Center (U.S.); United States. Department of Commerce

  Fristrom, Geraldine

  1977-09
• Presidential Directive 18: U.S. National Strategy

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  From the Document: "I [President Carter] have reviewed the PRM [Presidential Review Memoranda]/NSC [National Security Council] 10 conclusions and the discussion of the Special Coordination Committee. It is clear that in the foreseeable future, US-Soviet relations will continue to be characterized by both competition and cooperation, with the attendant risk of conflict as well as the opportunity for stabilizing US- Soviet relations. In that competition, military aspects aside, the United States continues to enjoy a number of critical advantages: it has a more creative technological and economic system, its political structure can adapt more easily to popular demands and relies on freely given support, and it is supported internationally by allies and friends who genuinely share similar aspirations. In contrast, though successfully acquiring military power matching that of the United States, the Soviet Union continues to face major internal economic and national difficulties, and externally it has a few genuinely committed allies while lately suffering setbacks in its relations with China, parts of Africa, and India."

  United States. White House Office

  1977-08-24
• Civil Defense: Are Federal, State, and Local Governments Prepared for Nuclear Attack?

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  "This report reviews the U.S. civil defense program, discusses the need for a more defined national policy on civil defense, and makes recommendations for improving the program's effectiveness. We made this review because of the increasing congressional interest in the U.S. civil defense posture and in the Federal organizational structure for preparedness. […] The United States lacks a comprehensive civil defense policy. Yet it is vital that we overcome obstacles to meeting and surviving a nuclear attack. Civil defense in the United States has not been a high-priority or high-dollar program. The present situation can be traced in part to the Federal Civil Defense Act, as amended in 1958. This act made Federal, State, and local governments jointly responsible for civil defense. This joint responsibility had a dual effect-all levels of government were involved in civil defense efforts, but these efforts were weakened as a result of State and local government disagreement and disinterest in nationally set goals concerning nuclear preparedness and because of the program's low priority. Federal-state and Federal-local matching funds have not created the impetus for a large-scale civil defense program because the Government can only encourage, not mandate, State and local participation. The question thus becomes: Can a civil defense program, based on voluntary State and local participation, be fully effective? The need for such a program could be justified by its potential life-saving capabilities, if for no other reason."

  United States. General Accounting Office; United States. Department of Defense; United States. General Services Administration . . .

  1977-08-08
• Presidential Directive 17: Reorganization of the Intelligence Community

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  In this Directive, President Carter directs that "the National Security Council [NSC] will continue to act as the highest organizational entity that provides guidance and direction to the development and formulation of national intelligence activities. To this end, the Policy Review Committee [PRC], chaired by the DCI [Director of Central Intelligence] and to include the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Treasury, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and other attendees as deemed appropriate by chairman, will meet as an intelligence requirements committee. The primary function of the PRC intelligence requirement meetings will be to define and prioritize substantive intelligence requirements and evaluate analytical product performance. The PRC will submit semiannual reports to the NSC on its activities."

  United States. White House Office

  1977-08-04
• Structure for the Decomposition of Safeguards Responsibilities

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  "A major mission of safeguards is to protect society against the use of nuclear materials by adversaries to harm society. A hierarchical structure of safeguards responsibilities and activities assist in this mission is defined. The structure beings with the definition of international or multi-national safeguards and continues through domestic, regional, and facility safeguards. The facility safeguards is decomposed into physical protection and material control responsibilities. In addition, in-transit safeguards systems are considered."

  Sandia National Laboratories

  1977-08
• Evaluation of the National Energy Plan: Report to the Congress

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  "The President's National Energy Plan combines proposed legislative, administrative, and budgetary actions aimed at solving the Nation's energy problems. The Plan is an important first step toward developing a national energy policy. GAO [General Accounting Office] believes it is a good start. GAO agrees with many of the Plan's specific initiatives and offers recommendations to improve others. GAO believes that the Plan, even if approved in its entirety by the Congress, will, in some cases, fall short of its established goals. GAO calls for the Congress to adopt a set of National Energy Goals and design a program that meets these goals, establish a set of milestones to judge progress in meeting these goals, and establish a set of standby initiatives if satisfactory progress is not being made."

  United States. General Accounting Office

  1977-07-25
• Personal Privacy in an Information Society

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  This report was conducted by the Privacy Protection Study Commission, July 1977 pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974. This report was transmitted to President Jimmy Carter on July 12, 1977. From the preface: "Issues of public policy rarely, if ever, emerge on the political scene fully developed and fully articulated. Rather, they result from gradual changes in the social and economic environment, which are then identified and intensively debated. This has been the pattern with the subject of this report. The relationships between individuals and various record-keeping organizations have been developing over a long period of time. An analysis of these relationships and their consequences for personal privacy lie at the heart of the findings and recommendations in this report." Chapters of this report cover the consumer-credit relationship, the depository relationship, mailing lists, the insurance relationship, the employment relationship, record keeping in the medical-care relationship, investigative-reporting agencies, government access to personal records and "private papers", record keeping in the education relationship, the citizen as beneficiary of government assistance, the state role in privacy protection, the relationship between citizen and government: the Privacy Act of 1974, the relationship between citizen and government: the citizen as taxpayer, the relationship between citizen and government: the citizen as participant in research and statistical studies, and the social security number.

  United States. Privacy Protection Study Commission

  1977-07-12
• Executive Order 12002: Administration of the Export Administration Act of 1969, As Amended

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  "The Export Administration Review Board, hereinafter referred to as the Board, which was established by Executive Order No. 11533 of June 4, 1970, as amended, is hereby continued. The Board shall continue to have as members the Secretary of Commerce, who shall be Chairman of the Board, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the East-West Foreign Trade Board (Section 7 of Executive Order No. 11846, as amended). No alternate Board members shall be designated, but the acting head of any department may serve in lieu of the head of the concerned department. In the case of the East-West Foreign Trade Board, the Deputy Chairman or the Executive Secretary may serve in lieu of the Chairman. The Board may invite the heads of other United States Government departments or agencies, other than the agencies represented by Board members, to participate in the activities of the Board when matters of interest to such departments or agencies are under consideration."

  United States. Office of the Federal Register

  Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

  1977-07-07
• ARGO Merchant Oil Spill Incident: Dec. 15, 1976 to Feb. 15, 1977: A Report to the Administrator

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  "A NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] survey team traveled to Massachusetts February 7-9, 1977, to interview NOAA personnel. other Federal and state officials, and scientists from local institutions associated with the NOAA participation in the ARGO MERCHANT incident…The survey was limited to the period extending from December 15, 1976, when the ARGO MERCHANT was grounded, to February 11, 1977, when the Coast Guard determined that the wreckage contained no oil and that cleanup and containment activities were no longer necessary. This survey constitutes the first evaluation of a NOAA response to a major oil spill. The spill did not occur within territorial seas, where the States have primary responsibility for assessing damage to the marine environment and fishery resources, nor did the oil go ashore during the period covered by the survey. Consequently, the assessment of environmental and resource damage was predominantly a Federal action, in which NOAA played the principal role. The survey provided an opportunity to determine the extent of interaction not only among the many NOAA elements involved, but also the extent of their interaction with Federal, state, local, and private organizations and individuals."

  United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  1977-07
• International Terrorism in 1976

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  This research paper produced by the Central Intelligence Agency in July 1977 provides graphs and analysis of international terrorist acts for the year of 1976. Topics discussed include trends, the numbers of total deaths from acts of terrorism, geographic distribution of acts, state supported terrorism and a breakdown of the nationality of victims of terrorist attacks.

  United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  1977-07
• Presidential Directive 15: Chemical Warfare

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  In this Directive, President Carter directs that "a United States delegation under the direction of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency should immediately initiate bilateral consultations with the United Kingdom, France, the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan, to be followed by negotiations with the Soviet Union on the subject of a comprehensive treaty to ban chemical warfare...The President has also directed that US chemical warfare forces be maintained without force improvement. This directive will be reviewed, beginning with the start of the FY 1980 budget cycle, on the basis of the progress made in arms limitation talks."

  United States. White House Office

  1977-06-16
• PL480 Food Assistance in Guatemala

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  This report provides a general introduction to the PL480 food assistance program in Guatemala, and summarizes questions which have been raised concerning its appropriateness.

  Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)

  1977-06-03
• DoD Directive 5030.41: Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Prevention and Contingency Program

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  1. This Directive reissues DoD Directive 5030.41, October 3, 1972 to: a. Reflect revisions to the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan, Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 1510 (hereinafter referred to as the "National Contingency Plan"), such as (1) more precise information on substances to remove discharges, (2) revised criteria to determine size of discharges, (3) an updated definition of discharge and its relationship to public health and welfare, and (4) a broad definition of the geographic area covered. b. Implement the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regulations on Oil Pollution Prevention (reference (Title 40. Code of Federal Regulations, Section 112, )). c. Establish a Department of Defense Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Prevention and contingency Program (hereinafter referred to as the "DoD Program"), to: (1) Reduce the likelihood of oil discharges from non-transportation related onshore and offshore facilities into or upon the waters of the United States or adjoining shorelines (2) Respond rapidly to control and minimize the damage caused by discharges of oil or hazardous substances for DoD facilities. (3) Provide, in a manner consistent with DoD operational requirements, resources and other assistance necessary to support Federal pollution response operations conducted in accordance with the National Contingency Plan. 2. DoD Directive 5030.41, October 3, 1972 is hereby superseded and canceled.

  United States. Department of Defense

  1977-06-01
• Coastal Flood Hazards and the National Flood Insurance Program

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  "From New Hampshire to Florida, and virtually the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico, our shoreline is a succession of low-lying barrier islands, beaches, sand dunes, bluffs, and unconsolidated landforms. They are the front line of storm defense for a thousand miles of United States Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastline. The low-lying lands immediately adjacent to the open oceans are hostile environments for man to build in. The combination of coastal storm surges, wave action, battering by debris, scouring, and high winds makes development highly hazardous in such coastal areas...Operation of the National Flood Insurance Program in three Rhode Island coastal communities studied by the author in 1975 indicated a number of counterproductive forces to the goals of the Program. In response, the Federal Insurance Administration questioned extrapolation of the Rhode Island experience to all of the nation's coasts, but expressed concern that phenomena found there might be more widespread. It proposed to investigate the effects of flood insurance availability at several points along the U.S. coast , and to perform a random investigation of coastal development to determine the impact of flood insurance on the acquisition or construction of coastal properties. The author's ensuing study, reported here, has combined field investigations of fifteen coastal communities with survey data obtained by the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania."

  United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development

  Miller, H. Crane

  1977-06
• People & Fire: Latest Ideas on Fire Safety for Homes, Apartments, and Mobile Homes

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  "Every year over 6,000 people die as a result of fire in the home, while many others are injured or disfigured. Every year fire also causea millions of dollars in propert losses. People & Fire brings each home in the United States the very important message that many of these tragedies could be avoided. This booklet brings the message of fire safety to persons living in the houses, apartment buildings, and mobile homes. It contains suggestions for everyone; guidance on the best thing to do in case of fire, ideas for lessening the likelihood of a destructive fire, and recommendations on fire detectors. For the most part, the suggestions are simple and the cost minimal. By following them, the annual life and property loss by fire can be greatly reduced."

  United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and Research

  Ralph W. Goers & Associates; Applied Technology Council

  1977-06
• Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in California

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  From the Abstract: "The magnitude and frequency of floods from gaged and ungaged drainage areas in California, for any recurrence interval from 2 to 100 years, can be estimated by use of the method presented. Equations relating flood magnitudes of selected frequency to basin characteristics such as drainage area, precipitation, and altitude were developed for six regions in the State. Nomographs are included for solution of the equations. The regression equations were developed for streams that have natural flow or flows not substantially affected by storage."

  Geological Survey (U.S.)

  Waananen, Arvi O.; Crippen, John R., 1920-

  1977-06