Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued over 9 years ago
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The system used to associate what Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and Federal Employees Dental/Vision Program (FEDVIP) health, dental, and vision plans are available in which zip codes. The output of this tool is part of the plan comparison tool on our website
Published By Department of Justice
Issued over 9 years ago
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The National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) data collection began in 1926 in response to a congressional mandate to gather information on persons incarcerated in state and federal prisons. Originally under the auspices of the United States Census Bureau, the c
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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Climate and land-use change are major components of global environmental change with feedbacks between these components. The consequences of these interactions show that land use may exacerbate or alleviate climate change effects. Based on these findings it is important to use land-use scenarios that are consistent with the specific assumptions underlying climate-change scenarios. The Integrated Climate and Land-Use Scenarios (ICLUS) project developed land-use outputs that are based on a downscaled version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) social, economic, and demographic storylines. ICLUS outputs are derived from a pair of models. A demographic model generates county-level population estimates that are distributed by a spatial allocation model (SERGoM v3) as housing density across the landscape. Land-use outputs were developed for the four main SRES storylines and a baseline ('base case'). The model is run for the conterminous USA and output is semi-decadally for each scenario to 2100. In addition to housing density at a 1 hectare spatial resolution, this project also generated estimates of impervious surface at a resolution of 1 square kilometer. These data are classified into descriptive categories for general analytic and cartographic purposes. 99 = Commercial/Industrial 4 = 40 acres/unit = 'rural' EPA Metadata available here: https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/rest/document?id=%7B2E953B8B-08A1-42FB-BAAB-1D5C246BC7D0%7D&xsl=metadata_to_html_full
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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Find health care facilities in the state of Oklahoma.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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Rates are per 1,000 live births ** Rate does not meet standards of reliability or precision. -0- Rate zero corresponding to "--" in frequency counts
Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation study deliverables depict and quantify the flood risks for the study area. The primary risk classifications used are the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event, the 0.2-percent-annual- chance flood event, and areas of minimal flood risk. The Floodplain Mapping/Redelineation flood risk boundaries are derived from the engineering information Flood Insurance Studies (FISs), previously published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), flood hazard analyses performed in support of the FISs and FIRMs, and new mapping data, where available. The FISs and FIRMs are published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This map layer consists of federally owned or administered lands of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Only areas of 640 acres or more are included. There may be private inholdings within the boundaries of Federal lands in this map layer. This is a revised version of the December 2005 map layer.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This map layer portrays the major roads in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The file was produced by joining the individual State roads layers from the National Highway Planning Network (NHPN), Geographic Data Technology (GDT) Dynamap, and TIGER/Line files. This is a revised version of the July 2012 map layer.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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This slide set compares two earthquakes that were separated by a distance of 10 miles and a time of 23 years. Disproving the notion that once an earthquake has occurred, an area is safe from future earthquakes, these events affected much of the same area and even some of the same structures. These two events were the largest of 17 moderate-sized main shock/aftershock sequences that have occurred in the Los Angeles area since 1920. The 1971 shock is referred to in the scientific literature as the San Fernando earthquake. The 1994 shock (also in the San Fernando Valley) is called the Northridge earthquake. This slide set compares the two earthquakes. The pictures show the same type of damage in some cases, and effects at the same site in other cases.The EarthquakesOn February 9, 1971, 14:01 UTC (6:01 A.M. local time), a magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred. The epicenter was located at 34 degrees 25' N, 118 degrees 24' W, 20 miles (32 km) north of downtown Los Angeles, at a depth of 8.4 km (five miles).Twenty-three years later on January 17, 1994, 12:31 UTC (4:31 A.M. local time), a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred. The epicenter was located at 34 degrees 13' N, 118 degrees 32' W, 20 miles west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles, at a depth of 12 miles (20 km). The 1994 earthquake was centered about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of the 1971 earthquake. Was history repeating itself?The aftershock zones of the two earthquakes overlap, suggesting that some of the aftershocks may be occurring along the same fault systems. Both earthquakes were the result of thrust faulting. However, in 1971 the fault dipped toward the north, away from the population and under the mountains. In 1994, the fault plane dipped toward the south, into the densely populated valley. The 1994 sequence also started deeper (12 miles) as compared to the 1971 sequence, which started at a depth of five miles. The main shock beneath the Northridge suburb occurred on a shallowly-dipping, previously-unknown thrust fault. The focal mechanism of the main shock from both first motions and teleseisms shows a N 60 degrees west dipping and 35 degrees to 45 degrees south dipping plane. The distribution of aftershocks in the San Fernando earthquake suggests southward thrusting along a disc-shaped fault surface, and aftershock depths suggest that the thrust surface dips about 35 degrees N toward N 20 degrees E.The Damage - Although the 1994 earthquake was only slightly larger than the 1971 earthquake, it was much more damaging because of its location beneath the San Fernando Valley and its closer proximity to other communities in the Los Angeles basin. Northridge statistics include 56 dead, 25,000 dwellings uninhabitable, and $10 billion in damage. The 1971 San Fernando earthquake was felt over an area of 80,000 square miles. The statistics include 58 dead and $497.8 million in damage. In the 1971 earthquake, several major hospital complexes were damaged, including the Veterans Administration Hospital, the Olive View Hospital, the Holy Cross Hospital, and the Pacoima Memorial Lutheran Hospital. In the 1994 earthquake, 20 medical facilities had at least one building tagged yellow or red. Spectacular damage occurred to freeways in both earthquakes. In both earthquakes, the I-5 and SR-14 interchange incurred major damage. In the 1971 earthquake, a major fault line crossed the main and siding railroad tracks at Sylmar. In the 1994 earthquake, a 64-car Southern Pacific train was derailed near the earthquake epicenter, spilling 5,000 gallons of sulfuric acid and 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel. In the 1971 event, more than 750 homes and 100 businesses sustained major damage. In the Northridge earthquake (23 years later), companies closed plants and offices, and more than forty retailers reported heavy damage. Apartment complexes all over the San Fernando Valley were severely damaged. Power outages occurred throughout the San Fernando Valley in both events, and gas, water, and telephone services were disrupted. These two events in the San Fernando Valley clearly dispel the myth that an earthquake in an area reduces the threat of future earthquakes.
TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2013, Series Information File for the Topological Faces-Military Installation Relationship File
Published By US Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The Topological Faces / Military Installation Relationship File (FACESMIL.dbf) contains a record for each face / military installation relationship. Face refers to the areal (polygon) topological primitives that make up MTDB. A face is bounded by one or more edges; its boundary includes only the edges that separate it from other faces, not any interior edges contained within the area of the face. The face to which a record in the Topological Faces / Military Installation Relationship File (FACESMIL.dbf) applies can be determined by linking to the Topological Faces Shapefile (FACES.shp) on the permanent topological face identifier (TFID) attribute. The military installation to which a record in the Topological Faces / Military Installation Relationship File (FACESMIL.dbf) applies can be determined by linking to the Military Installation Shapefile (MIL.shp) on the military installation identifier (AREAID) attribute. A face may be part of multiple military installations. A military installation may consist of multiple faces.
Published By US Forest Service, Department of Agriculture
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project maps the location, extent, and severity of all large fires in the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico from 1984 to present. All documented fires greater than 1,000 acres in the western U.S. and greater than 500 acres in the eastern U.S. are mapped across all ownerships. The project produces geospatial and tabular data for analysis at a range of spatial, temporal, and thematic scales and are intended to meet a variety of information needs that require consistent data about fire effects through space and time. MTBS is conducted through a partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey National Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) and the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC).
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This dataset, termed "GAGES II", an acronym for Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow, version II, provides geospatial data and classifications for 9,322 stream gages maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). It is an update to the original GAGES, which was published as a Data Paper on the journal Ecology's website (Falcone and others, 2010b) in 2010. The GAGES II dataset consists of gages which have had either 20+ complete years (not necessarily continuous) of discharge record since 1950, or are currently active, as of water year 2009, and whose watersheds lie within the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Reference gages were identified based on indicators that they were the least-disturbed watersheds within the framework of broad regions, based on 12 major ecoregions across the United States. Of the 9,322 total sites, 2,057 are classified as reference, and 7,265 as non-reference. Of the 2,057 reference sites, 1,633 have (through 2009) 20+ years of record since 1950. Some sites have very long flow records: a number of gages have been in continuous service since 1900 (at least), and have 110 years of complete record (1900-2009) to date. The geospatial data include several hundred watershed characteristics compiled from national data sources, including environmental features (e.g. climate â including historical precipitation, geology, soils, topography) and anthropogenic influences (e.g. land use, road density, presence of dams, canals, or power plants). The dataset also includes comments from local USGS Water Science Centers, based on Annual Data Reports, pertinent to hydrologic modifications and influences. The data posted also include watershed boundaries in GIS format. This overall dataset is different in nature to the USGS Hydro-Climatic Data Network (HCDN; Slack and Landwehr 1992), whose data evaluation ended with water year 1988. The HCDN identifies stream gages which at some point in their history had periods which represented natural flow, and the years in which those natural flows occurred were identified (i.e. not all HCDN sites were in reference condition even in 1988, for example, 02353500). The HCDN remains a valuable indication of historic natural streamflow data. However, the goal of this dataset was to identify watersheds which currently have near-natural flow conditions, and the 2,057 reference sites identified here were derived independently of the HCDN. A subset, however, noted in the BasinID worksheet as âHCDN-2009â, has been identified as an updated list of 743 sites for potential hydro-climatic study. The HCDN-2009 sites fulfill all of the following criteria: (a) have 20 years of complete and continuous flow record in the last 20 years (water years 1990-2009), and were thus also currently active as of 2009, (b) are identified as being in current reference condition according to the GAGES-II classification, (c) have less than 5 percent imperviousness as measured from the NLCD 2006, and (d) were not eliminated by a review from participating state Water Science Center evaluators. The data posted here consist of the following items:- This point shapefile, with summary data for the 9,322 gages.- A zip file containing basin characteristics, variable definitions, and a more detailed report.- A zip file containing shapefiles of basin boundaries, organized by classification and aggregated ecoregion.- A zip file containing mainstem stream lines (Arc line coverages) for each gage.
Published By National Archives and Records Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Archives.gov is the National Archives' main public-facing website.
Published By Department of Education
Issued over 9 years ago
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The 2007-08 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS 07-08) is a study that is part of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) program. SASS 07-08 (http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/) is a cross-sectional survey that collects data on public, private, and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) elementary and secondary schools across the nation. The survey was primarily conducted through the use of mailed paper questionnaires. Nonresponse follow-up interviews were conducted using computer-assisted telephone interviews and face-to-face paper interviews. Teachers, librarians, principals, and districts were sampled. Key statistics produced from SASS 07-08 included how many teachers remained at the same school, moved to another school, or left the profession in the year following the SASS administration.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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A collection of national resources for clinicians working with military clients living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) comprises a total of 27 products. The Version 2.2 Pentad product covers the period January 1979 to the present, with a delay of two to three months for data reception and processing. Version 2.2 supersedes all previous versions of the GPCP pentad product (Previous versions are not available from the NOAA/NCEI archive). All the GPCP products are produced by optimally merging precipitation estimates computed from microwave, infrared, sounder data observed by the international constellation of precipitation-related satellites, and precipitation gauge analyses, taking advantage of the strengths of each data type. Files are provided monthly, and the newest pentad data are appended to a yearly data file as they are available. Data are available on a 2.5 degree grid. Code and documentation are also available.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has generated topographic moisture potential classes for the contiguous United States. These topographic moisture potential classes were created as part of an effort to map standardized, terrestrial ecosystems for the nation using a classification developed by NatureServe (Comer and others, 2003). Ecosystem distributions were modeled using a biophysical stratification approach developed for South America (Sayre and others, 2008) and now being implemented globally (Sayre and others, 2007). Substrate moisture regimes strongly influence the differentiation and distribution of terrestrial ecosystems, and are one of the key input layers in the ecosystem delineation process. The method used to produce these classes is based on the derivation of ground moisture potential using a combination of computed topographic characteristics and mapped wetlands boundaries. This method does not use climate or soil attributes to calculate relative topographic moisture potential since these characteristics are incorporated into the ecosystems though other input layers. The source data for this assessment is a national Compound Topographic Index (CTI) dataset (USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, 2003), which was derived from the USGS 30-meter National Elevation Dataset (NED). The CTI index is a topographically derived measure of slope for a raster cell and the contributing area from "upstream" raster cells, and thus expresses potential for water flow to a point. This potential accumulation at a point was compared to independent estimates of water accumulation by obtaining geospatial data from a number of sample locations representing wetland/upland boundaries from the National Wetland Inventory (NWI) dataset. Where these "shorelines" (the interface between wetlands and adjacent land) occurred, the CTI values were extracted and a histogram of their statistical distributions was calculated. Based on an evaluation of these histograms, CTI thresholds were developed to separate wetlands from uplands. A similar process was used to assess the distributions of CTI values for known locations of mesic and dry uplands. After the range of CTI values for these three different substrate moisture regimes (wetlands, mesic uplands, and dry uplands) was determined, the CTI values were recalculated to topographic moisture potential. The final step in the generation of the national topographic moisture potential data layer was to partition the dry uplands class into two classes, a dry uplands class, and a very dry uplands class. Very dry uplands were defined as dry uplands with relatively steep, south-facing slopes, and identification of this class was based on the slope and aspect datasets derived from the USGS NED. The resulting Topographic Moisture Potential dataset for the contiguous United States contains four classes: wetlands, mesic uplands, dry uplands, and very dry uplands.
Published By Department of Veterans Affairs
Issued over 9 years ago
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The caring responders at the Veterans Crisis Line are specially trained and experienced in helping Veterans of all ages and circumstances. Some of the responders are Veterans themselves and understand what Veterans and their families and friends have been through and the challenges Veterans of all ages and service eras face. Since its launch in 2007, the Veterans Crisis Line has answered more than 1.86 million calls and has initiated the dispatch of emergency services to callers in imminent crisis over 50,000 times. In 2009, the Veterans Crisis Line added an anonymous online chat service and has engaged in more than 240,000 chats. In November 2011, the Veterans Crisis Line introduced a text-messaging service to provide another way for Veterans to connect with confidential, round-the-clock support, and since then has responded to more than 39,000 texts. In 2011, the National Veterans Suicide Prevention Hotline was renamed the Veterans Crisis Line to encourage Veterans and their families and friends to make the call. People who know a Veteran best may be the first to recognize emotional distress and reach out for support when issues reach a crisis point — and well before a Veteran is at risk of suicide. To make sure all Veterans and their loved ones are aware of the Veterans Crisis Line, VA is coordinating with communities and partners nationwide to let Veterans and their loved ones know that support is available whenever, if ever, they need it.
Published By Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Issued over 9 years ago
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A list of Performance Indicators (PI) that are reported to the NRC by licensees at the end of each quarter in accordance with Inspection Manual Chapters (IMC) 0608, "Performance Indicator Program," and the latest PI reporting guidance, NEI 99-02, Rev 6, "
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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Geologic and mineral resource information for 1635 deposits of phosphate worldwide
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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CPC IR 4km dataset was created from all available individual geostationary satellite data which have been merged to form nearly seamless global (60N-60S) IR brightness temperature product. The data are produced routinely for every half-hour since November 1998.
Published By Department of Education
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) is part of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) program; program data is available since 1998-99 at . ECLS-K (http://nces.ed.gov/ecls/kindergarten.asp) is a longitudinal study that collected information about children's early learning and development, transition into kindergarten, and progress through school. A nationally representative sample of kindergartners in the 1998-99 school year was selected and followed over time. The study was conducted using direct assessments of children in their schools, telephone interviews with parents, and self-administered questionnaires for teachers and school administrator. Key information available in ECLS-K includes information on children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development, children's home environment, home educational activities, school environment, classroom environment, classroom curriculum, teacher qualifications, and before- and after-school care.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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These data are from LIDAR flights of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta conducted during late January and February of 2007. The work was conducted under contract issued by California Department of Water Resources to URS Corporation. The prime LIDAR creation subcontractor was EarthData International, (later Fugro EarthData), also known as EDI. The principal aerial survey firm under subcontract to EDI was Airborne 1 Corporation. In effect, Airborne 1 performed the aerial survey, and EDI did the processing and deliverables preparation. Also involved in the contract to URS was an independent QA/QC firm, Spectrum Mapping LLC. The data was delivered to CSC as unclassified, multiple return elevation measurements and intensity in LAS V1.0 format. The NOAA CSC used an unsupervised classification algorithm to classify the data into the following ASPRS classifications: Class 1 (Unclassified), Class 2 (Ground), and Class 7 (Noise) . Class 2 includes bare earth points and water points.
Published By Department of Justice
Issued over 9 years ago
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The primary purpose of the Identity Theft Supplement is to obtain additional information about identity theft-related victimizations so that policymakers, academic researchers, practitioners at the Federal, state and local levels, and special interest gro
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) is a national survey designed to meet the need for objective, reliable information about the provision and use of ambulatory medical care services in the United States. Findings are based on a sample of visits to non-federal employed office-based physicians who are primarily engaged in direct patient care.