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The Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) Database depicts flood risk information and supporting data used to develop the risk data. 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 DFIRM Database is derived from 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). The file is georeferenced to earth's surface using the UTM projection and coordinate system. The specifications for the horizontal control of DFIRM data files are consistent with those required for mapping at a scale of 1:12000.

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The average number of days used by the processing office and system to complete original and replacement Social Security number applications taken through th enterview and batch process during the operating month. 

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Fully-equipped facilities for environmental toxicology research The Environmental Toxicology Research Facility (ETRF) located in Vicksburg, MS provides over 8,200 ft 2 of combined research space, including a toxicology laboratory, biochemistry and analytical laboratories, and an animal culture facility, used to conduct a wide variety of environmental toxicology research. Robust Research and Analytical Capabilities The extensive resources available at ETRF provide the flexibility to support a variety of environmental toxicology projects, such as: Aquatic (freshwater and marine), sediment, and terrestrial ecotoxicology and bioaccumulation studies Assessments of effects of contaminant exposure on animal behavior Environmental risk of military related materials Radionuclide and nanomaterial analysis Dredged material assessments Culturing of research organisms, tissues, and cells Current toxicology research activities utilize aquatic and terrestrial models including cell cultures, plants, algae, aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates (polychaetes, earthworms, arthropods, mollusks) reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Specialized Facilities The toxicology laboratory is composed ofseven environmental chambers, six flow-through aquatic chambers, and six temperature regulated bath exposure chambers. Five state-of-the-art environmental chambers for sediment, terrestrial, and aquatic ecotoxicology and bioaccumulation studies and the culturing of research organisms are: Equipped with Fuji control microprocessors for manipulation of experiment conditions such as photoperiod, temperature, and humidity. Controls may be monitored remotely via the web in real time. Computer interfaced, allowing for time-based positive and negative ramping of temperature and/or humidity. Backed up with a dedicated 100 kW natural gas automatic emergency generator. Monitored with dual computer controllers. Four flow-through aquatic chambers are capable of carrying out both fresh water studies and marine studies. Fresh water studies are supplied by dechlorinated tap water, and marine studies are supplied by reconstituted sea water prepared on-site in three, 200 gallon tanks. Six temperature regulated bath exposure chambers are also available for aquatic and sediment studies. The molecular and cellular toxicology laboratory is comprised of a cell culture facility (three incubators and two biosafety hoods) and an analytical facility with state-of-the-art instrumentation. Access the Latest Technology and Tools The biochemistry and analytical laboratories are fully-equipped with the latest, most efficient technology and tools to support a variety of efforts in environmental toxicology research. Tools for biochemistry and analytical chemistry includes: micro, high-speed, and ultra centrifuges analytical microbalances ultra-cold freezers an Agilent 110 series High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) tools with fluorescence, spectrophotometric, and radiometric detectors Tools for microscopic examination include: Leica MZ12 stereomicroscope equipped with a Leica DFC425 digital camera Image-Pro Plus image analysis software Olympus SZH-ILLD stereomicroscope equipped with a Sony XC-57 digital camera Optimus 6.1 image analysis software Floursecence microscopes Tools for molecular/cellular toxicology include: Beckman Coulter Gallios flow cytometer Cellomics ArrayScan high content screening analyzer Tecan fluorescence, luminescence, and visible light spetrophotometer Tools for radionuclide analysis include: Beckman Coulter LS6500 scintillation counter Wallac Wizard 3 gamma counter Tools for material analysis include: NOVA 3200 BET surface area analyzer (Quantachrome Corp) for determining specific surface area Leica TSC-NT confocal microscope for 3-dimensional imaging of tissues and particles at high resolution using fluorescence Brookhaven 90Plus/BI-MAS instrument by dynamic light scattering (DLS) Noldus EthoVision analysis package for quantifying small alterations in animal behavior when challenged by chemical exposures or novel surfaces ZetaPALs zeta potential analyzer for determining effective particle diameter and zeta potential Tools for nanomaterial analysis include: ICP-MS coupled to field flow fractionation (FFF) Electroscan 3030 Environmental Scanning Electron microscope with a 4-quadrant solid-state back scatter electron detector (Oxford Instruments) energy-dispersive X-ray detector Success Stories Characterization of Behavioral Responses to a Federally-listed Species Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a common groundwater contaminant in the US, however due to its volatility, aquatic exposure assessments are difficult to conduct. To support the Anniston Ammunition Depot, ERDC researchers utilized a unique combination of exposure and effects assessment capabilities and designed a closed dilutor board for accurate delivery of the compound to the species of interest. ETRF's environmental chambers allowed researchers to reverse the photoperiod and conduct the exposure at 16 °C to best replicate their preferred environmental conditions. Two approaches to assessing behavioral responses, EthoVision and BioSensor®, were applied to identify the most sensitive endpoints. Integrated Multi-Agency Sediment Assessment of the Anniston, AL Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Site ERDC researchers, in conjunction with partners at USGS, provided fate and effects bioassay testing as well as technical expertise for developing remediation goals and resource damage assessment at the spatially expansive Anniston, AL PCB site. ETRF was identified as one of two laboratories in the United States with the expertise and the environmentally-controlled testing facility capacity to conduct the specialized assessments of PCB bioavailability, toxicity, and bioaccumulation in this unique system. Multiple intensive chronic life cycle bioassays were performed as well as investigation into PCB bioavailability through the use of state-of-the-art passive sampler technology.

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All National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska except Kenai include continued use for subsistence activities as a defined refuge purpose under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Contaminant burdens in fish and wildlife species used for subsistence can limit or preclude the continued opportunity for traditional subsistence activities on these refuges. Northern pike Esox lucius are heavily used subsistence foods on NWRs in Alaska, and have mercury concentrations that often exceed critical values for human consumption. However, few NWR managers in Alaska have data sets on mercury in pike and other fish that would allow them to manage for continued subsistence uses and to mitigate hazards from consumption of those fish. To address this lack of data, we conducted a multiyear, systematic sampling for mercury and methylmercury in northern pike on the largest refuges in western and interior Alaska: Yukon Delta, Selawik, Koyukuk, Nowitna, Innoko and Yukon Flats NWRs. From 2005 2007, we collected 440 northern pike from these Refuges, in six major watersheds. Sample sites were traditional and wellused subsistence fishing locations, identified by local residents. Pike were collected during the time of year that they were normally collected for subsistence purposes, either in the spring caught through the ice during spawning migration or summer caught in open water, postspawning. Fish were necropsied and an approximately 10 g muscle sample was analyzed for mercury. Methyl mercury was analyzed in about a third of all samples. Mercury and methyl mercury were correlated in fish muscle, allowing calculation of a robust MeHg:THg ratio 0.96. Mercury was also correlated with fish length. We compared average calculated based on the MeHg:THg ratio methyl mercury concentrations from Refuges and watersheds to State consumption advisory values for mercury and found that some consumption advice was warranted, especially on the lower Yukon River in the Yukon Delta NWR. Mercury concentrations in pike muscle were of no apparent concern for fish health. These data will help Refuge managers provide continued subsistence opportunities and mitigate potential hazards associated with mercury in northern pike, a commonly used subsistence food. These data can also be used as baseline biomonitoring data for NWRs in Alaska, as mercury deposition, mobilization, and transport is likely to increase in light of increasing industrialization upwind of Alaska and in response to climate change.

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Iraqi upper air records loaned to NCDC from the Air Force 14th Weather Squadron. Period of Record is 1970-1984.

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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).

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The use of Charlson related expenditures did not result in improved mortality prediction. CCI models perform less well in population subgroups with higher underlying mortality risks based on age and chronic conditions

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Station history documentation for stations outside the US Cooperative Observer network. Documents should be compared with those in the Non-Coop Station History library and either indexed and added to that library or deleted if a duplicate of document in that library.

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During the late winter and early springs 1995, we conducted a preliminary survey of biodiversity in New Chicago Marsh NCM, at the south end of San Francisco Bay, Santa Clara County, California. The site, a diked salt marsh, is part of the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Working from established transects, we measured the percent cover and height of vegetation, handtrapped, netted, and seined invertebrates and fishes, blacklighted insects, conducted timeconstrained searches for amphibians and reptiles, used point counts for birds, carried out sweep surveys and night spotlighting for larger mammals and livetrapped smaller mammals. There has been an apparent increase in the height of pickleweed over the past decade. We found numerous species of invertebrates that we classified into 16 separate orders. Several species of animals not previously reported at NCM were recorded such as the threespined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus, rainwater killifish Lucania parva, California slender salamander Batrachoseps attenuatus, southern alligator lizard Elgaria multicarinata, western racer Coluber constrictor, numerous raptorial birds including the peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus and the longtailed weasel Mustela frenata. Alien red foxes Vulpes fulva used the upland areas of the site for denning. The most significant result of this study was the discovery of a high population abundance of the salt marsh harvest mouse Reithrodontomys raviientris, a federallyendangered species that is sometimes abundant in diked salt marshes. Further studies are needed to determine why high abundances sometimes occur in diked salt marshes.

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Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service surveyed environmental quality at a backwater system of the Upper Mississippi River between 1994 and 1996. The backwater system is the Keithsburg Division management unit of the Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge located in the floodplain of Navigation Pool 18. The surface water and groundwater sources for this backwater are agricultural drainage water and streams impacted by rural nonpoint source pollution. The environmental quality parameters that were studied included water quality, sediment quality and toxicity testing, organism health and ecological diversity. The chemistry data indicated nutrient rich surface water, groundwater and aquatic sediment resources in the refuge unit. The concentrations of toxic contaminants detected in the water and aquatic sediment resources were below lethal benchmark values for aquatic life. The concentrations of herbicide chemicals detected in surface water and aquatic sediments were above levels that may stress aquatic plants. Poor aquatic macroinvertebrate and plant diversity was observed in many areas around the refuge unit. We suggest that the loading of nutrients in these areas was sufficient to cause changes to the structure and composition of refuge plant communities and related shifts in invertebrate populations. The altered ecological communities in the polluted areas function to treat nitrogen inputs, providing less diverse wildlife habitats. Several lake and watershed management strategies are discussed to help increase habitat diversity and benefits to migratory birds. It is important to note that an increment of improvement in the watershed will not necessarily result in an increment of improvement in habitat quality in the backwater system. It is possible that little or no ecological change may occur or be observed at Keithsburg Division until a critical level is reached in the watershed resulting in a noticeable shift in refuge habitat quality.

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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).

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Space Propulsion Group, Inc. proposes to conduct systems studies to quantify the performance and cost advantages of Nytrox oxidizers for small launch vehicles. This new class of oxidizers is composed of mixtures of nitrous oxide (N2O) and oxygen (O2) and has significant advantages over the pure oxidizers, some of which can be summarized as 1) higher density, Isp and safer operation compared to N2O, 2) non-cryogenic operation and ease of development of stable and efficient motors compared to LOX. Thus Nytrox is expected to be an important enabling technology for developing low cost, high performance NanoSat launch vehicles. The primary goal of the Phase I effort is to quantify the increase in the payload mass by changing the oxidizer from N2O to Nytrox for the upper stages of a small launch system. In the proposed effort the cost and operational issues associated with producing, transporting and storing the Nytrox oxidizers shall be also be quantified. The planning for the third stage motor development and ground testing that will be conducted in Phase II shall be started in Phase I. Technology Readiness Level ranges of 2-3 and 5-6 are expected at the end of the Phase I and II, respectively.

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This facility provides JTIDS network designs and platform initialization load files for all Joint and Army-only tests, exercises, operations, and contingency events in which Army JTIDS-equipment units participate. The AAMDNDF is the Army's only JTIDS network design facility. Additionally, the NDF supports Army platform specific communications subsystem design, analysis, and testing for intraArmy, Joint, and Allied interoperability on this Joint mandated link. While routinely providing on-call technical support, the NDF is frequently called on to provide on-location support for tactical units deployed to field locations for exercises and contingency missions.

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This metadata document describes the LiDAR point data in LAS format produced by Kucera covering the project area of Lake County, FL. The data produced is satisfactory for the generation of both 1' and 2' contours. The average point spacing for all tiles is estimated to be 1 meter.

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The Audiovisual Services Center provides still photographic documentation with laboratory support, video documentation, video editing, video duplication, photo/video instrumentation documentation, motion picture processing, audiovisual tape/film library, audiovisual equipment loan, graphic and electronic graphic support for the Air Force Flight Test Center, its tenants and customers. This support is for both test and evaluation and base requirements. The Center is housed in a modern audiovisual facility. Features include a backup generator with an uninterrupted power supply battery backup, modern environmental system to handle waste photographic chemicals, potential to recirculate the wash water from each still photographic and motion picture processor, processing of classified video and electronic graphic up to top secret/SAR, controlled access to the production areas through a card key system, separate classified area for still photographic printing and processing and a theater cleared up to secret SAR briefings. The facility can support any DoD and commercial RDT&E requirement. Technical capabilities include 16 mm and 35 mm high-speed motion picture photography, still photography including sequential 70 mm film capability and digital imaging, printing, capabilities from 3-by-5 inch to 30- by-4 -inch print sizes, time lapse photography and video documentation with edit and duplication of various slide formats.

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Medicare enrollment (Part A and B), FFS, age, sex, and race/ethnicity for counties in Washington state, 2007-2013.

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The Attorney Subpoena (ASP) application is used by the Witness Immunity Unit to record information on applications made to the Department of Justice to subpoena attorneys in matters relating to the representation of clients. The WIU provides advice to the

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The data contain records of suspects in federal criminal matters concluded by United States attorneys or United States magistrates during fiscal year 1997. The data were constructed from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) Central Sys

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA-ODI's vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists. Complaint information is also analyzed to monitor existing recalls for proper scope and adequacy.

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Improved Crashworthy Aircraft Seat Design Project

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This data set represents the extent of the Denver Basin aquifer system in Colorado.

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State-level data on all energy sources. Data on production, consumption, reserves, stocks, prices, imports, and exports. Data are collated from state-specific data reported elsewhere on the EIA website and are the most recent values available. Data on U.S. territories also available.

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The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series, previously called the National Crime Surveys (NCS), has been collecting data on personal and household victimization through an ongoing survey of a nationally-representative sample of residential addr

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CREWS Standard (CREWS-STD) buoys are equipped to measure sea surface water temperature and conductivity (Sea-Bird Model SBE37-SM, Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc., www.seabird.com) at 1 m (nominal) below the water line and air temperature (R.M Young Model 41342); barometric pressure (Heise DXD and wind vectors (Vaisala WAS425A) at 2 m (nominal) above the water line. A compass (KVH C100 SE-25) is used in the calculation of wind direction and a GPS system provides geolocation. This metadata record refers to a supplemental sea surface temperature recorder (Sea-Bird Model SBE39, Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc., www.seabird.com) mounted on the CREWS buoy subsurface arm. When a CREWS buoy is recovered, another one is typically deployed in the same place. Time series data combining multiple deployments from a given site may also be available. Please contact CRED with any questions. For program information see the web site http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/oceanography.php

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This data set contains ortho-rectified mosaic tiles, created as a product from the NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) initiative. The source imagery was acquired from 20120127 - 20120129. The images were acquired with an Applanix Digital Sensor System (DSS). The original images were acquired at a higher resolution than the final ortho-rectified mosaic.