Published By Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 9 years ago
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The National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) is a compilation of GIS data that comprises a nationwide digital Flood Insurance Rate Map. The GIS data and services are designed to provide the user with the ability to determine the flood zone, base flood elevation, and floodway status for a particular location. It also has information about the NFIP communities, map panels, cross sections, hydraulic structures, Coastal Barrier Resource System, and base maps such as road, stream, and public land survey data. Through flood studies, FEMA produces Flood Insurance Study Reports, FIRM Panels, and FIRM Databases. FIRM Databases that become effective are incorporated into the NFHL. Updates to the NFHL are issued through Letters of Map Revision (LOMRs) and Letters of Map Amendment (LOMAs). Continuously updated, the NFHL serves as a Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map representing the current effective flood data for those communities where maps have been digitized. NFHL data can be viewed with widely available GIS software, including freely available programs that work with GIS shapefiles. For more information on the NFHL, see the online resources referenced herein. ___Using base maps:___ The minimum horizontal positional accuracy for base map hydrographic and transportation features used with the NFHL is the NSSDA radial accuracy of 38 feet. ___Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) point locations___ are approximate. The location of the LOMA is referenced in the legal description of the letter itself. LOMA points can be viewed in the NFHL Interactive Map on the FEMA GeoPlatform.
Published By Department of Homeland Security
Issued over 9 years ago
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Providing geospatial data and analytics in support of emergency management for Floods, Winterstorms, Hurricanes, Tornadoes,Earthquakes, Biohazards, Man-Made
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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Adults are defined as 18 years of age and older. The CDC defines a "Current Smoker" as an adult who has smoked at least 100 cigarettes (5 packs) in their lifetime and currently smokes either "Every Day" or "Some Days." BRFSS data methodology changed in 2011; therefore, 2011 and after is not comparable to 2010 data and before.
Published By Department of State
Issued over 9 years ago
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The OECD Family database is an on-line database on family outcomes and family policies with indicators for all OECD countries. Coverage also includes EU Member States that are not OECD members. To date the database brings together 58 indicators on family structure, labor market participation, public policies and child outcomes. When possible, indicators are updated on a regular basis.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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Daily Series of Synoptic Weather Maps. Part I consists of plotted and analyzed daily maps of sea-level and 500-mb maps for 0300, 0400, 1200, 1230, 1300, and 1500 GMT. It was published from January 1899 through June 1971. Each volume of the series contains one sea level map and one 500-millibar map for each day of the month. The 500-millibar charts began with the December 1944 issue. Part II Northern Hemisphere data tabulations contain daily synoptic surface and upper air reports. Sea Level data are presented in two sections; one for land reports and one for marine reports. The publication began with data for October 1, 1945 and was published on a daily basis through December 31, 1963. Data for November and December 1945 and January 1, 1954 through June 30, 1955 were not compiled. Although formal publication of these data terminated December 31, 1963, subsequent data through December 31, 1978, were compiled and placed on 35-millimeter microfilm.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Marine Recreational Information Program, or MRIP, is the new way NOAA Fisheries is counting and reporting marine recreational catch and effort. It is a customer-driven initiative that will not only produce better estimates, but will do so through a process grounded in the principles of transparency, accountability and engagement. MRIP replaces the Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey, or MRFSS, which has been in place since the 1970s.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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Monthly U.S. Snow Monitoring is a web based product available at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The data is extracted from the digital dataset U.S. COOP Summary of the Month (DSI-3220). This is meteorological data from the U.S. Cooperative Observer Network (COOP), which consists of stations operated by state universities, state or federal agencies, and also private individuals whose stations are managed and maintained by the National Weather Service (NWS). The network includes regular NWS offices, and airports with weather stations operated by the NWS or the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Network also includes U.S. military bases. There are typically about 8,000 stations operating in any one year. The earliest data is from 1886 and is organized by month. Attributes included are COOP ID, WBAN ID, Station Name, State, Year, Latitude, Longitude, Station Elevation, Monthly Snowfall, Annual Snowfall, and Seasonal Snowfall.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This data set 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 1:2,000,000-scale Digital Line Graph (DLG) data produced by the USGS. This is a revised version of the March 1999 data set.
Attributes for NHDPlus Catchments (Version 1.1) for the Conterminous United States: NLCD 2001 Tree Canopy
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This data set represents the mean percentage of tree canopy from the Canopy Layer of the National Land Cover Dataset 2001, (LaMotte and Wieczorek, 2010), compiled for every catchment of NHDPlus for the conterminous United States. The source data set represents tree canopy percentage for the conterminous United States for 2001. The Canopy Layer of the National Land Cover Data Set for 2001 was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of Federal agencies (http://www.mrlc.gov), consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The NHDPlus Version 1.1 is an integrated suite of application-ready geospatial datasets that incorporates many of the best features of the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and the National Elevation Dataset (NED). The NHDPlus includes a stream network (based on the 1:100,00-scale NHD), improved networking, naming, and value-added attributes (VAAs). NHDPlus also includes elevation-derived catchments (drainage areas) produced using a drainage enforcement technique first widely used in New England, and thus referred to as "the New England Method." This technique involves "burning in" the 1:100,000-scale NHD and when available building "walls" using the National Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). The resulting modified digital elevation model (HydroDEM) is used to produce hydrologic derivatives that agree with the NHD and WBD. Over the past two years, an interdisciplinary team from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and contractors, found that this method produces the best quality NHD catchments using an automated process (USEPA, 2007). The NHDPlus dataset is organized by 18 Production Units that cover the conterminous United States. The NHDPlus version 1.1 data are grouped by the U.S. Geologic Survey's Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006). MRB1, covering the New England and Mid-Atlantic River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 1 and 2. MRB2, covering the South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 3 and 6. MRB3, covering the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 4, 5, 7 and 9. MRB4, covering the Missouri River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 10-lower and 10-upper. MRB5, covering the Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 8, 11 and 12. MRB6, covering the Rio Grande, Colorado and Great Basin River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Units 13, 14, 15 and 16. MRB7, covering the Pacific Northwest River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 17. MRB8, covering California River basins, contains NHDPlus Production Unit 18.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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This map layer consists of National Wilderness Preservation System areas of 640 acres or more, in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The map layer was created by extracting these wilderness areas from the National Atlas map layer: Federal Lands of the United States. This is a replacement for the December 2005 map layer.
Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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Mussel Watch is the longest running continuous chemical contaminant monitoring program in U.S. coastal and Great Lakes waters and was created in response to concerns over environmental quality of the Nation's coastal and estuarine ecosystems. The Program analyzes chemical and biological contaminant trends in sediment and bivalve tissue collected at over 300 coastal sites from 1986 to present. Parameters monitored include over 150 organic and inorganic contaminants, in sediment and bivalve tissue and bivalve histology; and Clostridium perfringens (pathogen) concentrations. Some of the chemicals regularly quantified include: PAHs, PCBs, chlorinated pesticides including DDT and its metabolites, TBT and its metabolites, major andtrace elements. In addition to the aforementioned legacy contaminants, new contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) such as flame retardant polybrominated biphnyl ethers (PBDEs) and pharmaceutics are being analyzed.
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 Department of Education
Issued over 9 years ago
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EDFacts Assessment, 2011-12 (EDFacts ASSMT:2011-12) is one of 17 'topics' identified in the EDFacts documentation (in this database, each 'topic' is entered as a separate study); program data is available since 2005 at . EDFacts ASSMT:2011-12 (ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts) annually collects cross-sectional data from states about students� participation in and performance on academic assessments in Reading/Language Arts, Science, and Mathematics in elementary and secondary education at the school, LEA, and SEA levels. EDFacts ASSMT:2011-12 data were collected using the EDFacts Submission System (ESS), a centralized portal, and their submission by states is mandatory and required for benefits. Not submitting the required reports by a state constitutes a failure to comply with law and may have consequences for federal funding to the state. Key statistics produced from EDFacts ASSMT:2011-12 are from 12 data groups with information on Academic Achievement, Academic Achievement-Flexibility, Assessment Participation, and Assessment Participation-Flexibility in Mathematics, Reading/Language Arts, and Science. For the purposes of this system, data groups are referred to as 'variables', as a result of the structure and format of EDFacts' data.
Published By Department of Agriculture
Issued over 9 years ago
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Contains monthly reports on 7060s and stipulations related to enforcement of the Animal Welfare and Horse Protection Acts. Form 7060 - Official warning of an alleged violation of statue or regulation and notice to the subject that APHIS may seek civil or criminal penalties for alleged violation in the future if the subject again violates. Stipulation - a pre-litigation monetary settlement between APHIS and the subject. The stipulation provides the subject with notice of alleged violation, affords the subject an opportunity for an administrative hearing, and offers the subject an opportunity to waive the hearing and pay a monetary penalty calculated within Civil Penalty guidelines.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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Medicaid pays for about half the births in the United States, at very high cost. Compared to usual obstetrical care, care by midwives at a birth center could reduce costs to the Medicaid program, according to Potential Medicaid Cost Savings from Maternity Care Based at a Freestanding Birth Center, published in Volume 4, Issue 3 of Medicare and Medicaid Research Review. This study draws on information from a previous study of the maternal and infant outcomes of birth center care to determine whether such care reduces Medicaid costs for low income women. Costs to Medicaid are derived from birth center data and from other national sources of the cost of obstetrical care. The authors estimate that birth center care could save an average of 1,164 dollars per birth (2008 constant dollars), or 11.6 million dollars per 10,000 births per year. As Medicaid faces continuing cost increases and budget constraints, policy makers may want to consider a larger role for midwives and birth centers in maternity care for low-risk Medicaid pregnant women.
Removing Sedimentation as a Technique for Restoring Palustrine Seasonal and Temporary Wetlands in the Northeast Drift Prairie of North Dakota – Final Report
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On July 10, 2008, partners from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the North Dakota Natural Resources Trust, Delta Waterfowl Foundation, and the North Dakota Game and Fish Department signed documentation that enabled the beginning of wetland habitat restoration within the Devils Lake Basin in northeastern North Dakota. The project, Removing Sedimentation as a Technique for Restoring Palustrine Seasonal and Temporary Wetlands in the Northeast Drift Prairie of North Dakota, was fully funded by the State Wildlife Grant SWG program at 20,000. The project entailed wetland restoration of at least 50 wetland basins totaling an accumulation of 12.41 ha. 30 acres. Project wetlands were located on either on public or private lands, were photo documented, and 10 basins were selected to measure hydrophytic changes over a 5 year period which served as a measurement of restoration success predicated on an increase in hydrophytic species richness. We began restorations during late summer of 2008, and completed work on 33 basins totaling 5.5 ha. 13.7 acres. By the end of the 2009, 40 more wetlands were restored totaling 4.9 ha. 12.3 acres. Finally, we continued into 2010 and restored an additional 13 wetlands totaling 2.1 ha. 5.1 acres. In summary, 89 wetland basins totaling 12.5 ha. 31.1 acres were restored during the life of the grant. Of the 89 restored basins, 48 wetlands were temporary, and 41 were seasonal. All SWG funding of 20,000 was completely exhausted by the end of 2010, and construction costs ranged 400 763 per restored wetland acreage. The wide range was due to wetter than average restoration conditions in 2009 and 2010, however, this cost is slightly below the 800 average costacre experienced with other sediment removal wetland construction projects. While we slightly exceeded our 12.41 ha. 30 acre restoration goal 12.5 ha, 31.1 ac., we superiorly exceeded our goal of 50 wetland basins by 39 wetland basins. A stepdown method for performing this restoration technique is given in this report. Funding for this project was made possible via nonfederal match dollars from the following agenciesorganizations: Delta Waterfowl Foundation 10,000, North Dakota Game and Fish Department 7,500, and the North Dakota Natural Resources Trust 2,500. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Service, while providing 0 match dollars, were the principal investigator for this project. The Services in kind contributions came from construction design, implementation, and documentation, and this above the line match of local federal USFWS support equaled 7,241. Wildlife response and hydrophyte species richness have exceeded expectations generally, and after 2 growing seasons, all 10 wetlands selected for plant inventory response have achieved the fully successful status. Fully successful was simply an increase of wetland vegetation richness by 50, which in the case of the preconstruction wetland condition, rarely more than 2 3 species of wetland plants existed hybrid or narrow leaved cattail, reed canary grass and slough sedge. By the end of the second growing season, abundant stands of rushes, sedges, grasses, and other hydrophytes were commonly observed, unfortunately some recolonization of cattail, albeit minimal, existed as well. As stated in our project proposal, we will continue to monitor these basins until the end of the 2013 growing season and provide a detailed addendum to this project at that time. Photos of many restored basins and their subsequent temporal development were also included in this document. This project represented an outstanding partnership with all participants desiring similar goals. Wetland functions were greatly improved and the ultimate benefactors were the natural resources each organization are responsible for maintaining for the American public. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the private landowners who graciously allowed us the opp
Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued over 9 years ago
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Agencies report time-to-hire data for all hires made using USAJOBS and report on government-wide mission critical occupations and agency specific mission critical and/or high risk occupations. This data is now being collected on an annual basis (for FY13 and earlier, it was submitted quarterly) and is sent directly to an OPM email account - time2hire@opm.gov.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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Doctors Currently Prescribing Buprenorphine
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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MAP:http://tinyurl.com/AsthmaMap This dataset contains counts and rates (per 10,000) of asthma (ICD9-CM, 493.0-493.9) emergency department visits among California residents by ZIP Code and age group (all ages, 0-17, 18+). For more information please go to www.californiabreathing.org
Published By U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Issued over 9 years ago
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The National Air Toxics Assessment was conducted by EPA in 2002 to assess air toxics emissions in order to identify and prioritize air toxics, emission source types and locations which are of greatest potential concern in terms of contributing to population risk. This data source provides downloadable information on emissions at the state, county and census tract level.
Published By General Services Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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Annual report of Federal agencies' motor vehicle fleet data collected in the Federal Automotive Statistical Tool (FAST), a web-based reporting tool cosponsored by GSA and the Department of Energy. The Federal Fleet Report is a year-end snapshot of motor vehicle fleet inventory, cost, and use data from agency data submissions, and the resulting data tables are available in these datasets.
Published By US Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
Issued over 9 years ago
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The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that 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 purpose of this file is to provide the geography for the 2010 Census Blocks along with their 2010 housing unit count and population. Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of streets and roads. Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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In October 2012, CMS began reducing Medicare payments for Inpatient Prospective Payment System hospitals with excess readmissions. Excess readmissions are measured by a ratio, by dividing a hospital’s number of “predicted” 30-day readmissions for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia by the number that would be “expected,” based on an average hospital with similar patients. A ratio greater than 1 indicates excess readmissions.
Published By Export-Import Bank of the US
Issued over 9 years ago
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This file contains all authorizations approved between 10/01/2006 and 09/30/2014
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued over 9 years ago
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These clinics provide comprehensive primary care services to all patients, regardless of a person’s ability to pay. Please note that unless indicated, only Hospital Emergency Departments within a hospital necessarily treat patients regardless of their ability to pay. Check with the individual clinic for their specific financial policies and how they are applied.