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Sweetener Market Data (SMD) report - beet and cane processors and cane refiners in the U.S. are required by the FAIR Act of 1996, as amended, to report data on physical quantities delivered by use for "Ice Cream and Dairy Products" on a monthly basis. Quantities are reported by region. Regions include: "New England", "Mid Atlantic", "North Central", "South", "West" and "Puerto Rico".

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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 State Plane 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 1:12,000.

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RSS feed of video features of interest to U.S. Navy personnel.

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Valcor Engineering Corporation proposes to develop an advanced On Board Inert Gas Generation System, OBIGGS, for aircraft fuel tank inerting to prevent hazardous in-flight conditions and to mitigate their effect when they do occur. Aircraft fires represent a small number of actual accident causes, but the number of fatalities due to in-flight, post-crash, and on-ground fires is large. The novel OBIGGS system will inert aircraft fuel tanks with nitrogen generated by a hollow fiber membrane module. The system will provide a cost effective method for fuel tank inerting, will be robust and resistant to chemical contamination. An OBIGGS system that is based on nitrogen generation is environmentally friendly and does not require hazardous chemicals for fire suppression. In addition to improving aircraft safety by mitigating hazardous in-flight and on the ground conditions the OBIGGS systems will also contribute to aircraft security and will mitigate aircraft damage from hostile attacks.

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This report summarizes the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey and Waterfowl Production and Habitat Survey for southern Manitoba during 1957. The primary purpose of the breeding survey is to provide information on spring population size and trajectory for certain North American duck species, and the primary purpose of the production survey is to provide information on duck production from the midcontinent breeding areas. Survey methods, habitat and weather conditions; breeding population indices; production indices; and tables of population estimates, waterfowl broods, and latenesting indices are provided.

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This Level 1B collection contains calibrated and geolocated radiances at-aperture for all 36 MODIS spectral bands at 1km resolution.

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Status report concerning theAmerican Harts Tongue Fern in the US and Canada is reviwed concerning all known populations including those presumed to be extirpated. Review recommends listing the species as Endangerd

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The Acute Exposure Guideline Levels Chemical Listing provides a complete listing of risk exposure guidelines from rare exposure to certain chemicals.

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducted this study in response to the concern of local citizens that contaminants from four industrial facilities two of which are superfund sites and a sanitary landfill were adversely affecting fish and wildlife resources in the Sulphur River Wildlife Management Area WMA and adjacent watershed in and near Texarkana, Arkansas and Texas. Concentrations of organochlorines DDT and associated metabolites and polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs, dioxins and metals mercury, chromium, lead, nickel, selenium, and zinc were detected in sediment and fish samples at levels sufficient to pose a threat to fish and wildlife resources. Microtox bioassays indicated that pore water samples from sediments in Days, Wagner and Nix Creeks, all of which are upstream from the WMA, were toxic. The primary sources of PAH contamination, mercury, PCBs and dioxin appeared to be one of the superfund sites Koppers, a paper pulp mill, and an operational wood treatment plant, respectively. Additional contaminant sources were suspected, but identification of these sources was beyond the scope of this study. Several recommendations are made for additional studies to investigate the need, feasibility, and responsibility for reduction, cleanup, and monitoring of contaminants of concern.

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Novel Medical Diagnostic Instrument based on Real-time Breath Analysis Project

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The National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) provides access to weather forecasts in digital form from a central location.Anyone with a computer and access to the Internet can download information from the NDFD to suit his or her needs. No longer do you have to wait for the timed broadcast of weather information, but can always get the specific information needed according to your schedule. The NDFD will provide what you want, when you need it, including access to official NWS forecasts produced by forecasters at local weather offices and national centers. Previously, such digital forecasts were not available. This tool shows a map of the 16 predefined NDFD Data Sectors.

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This dataset is the United States Renewable Energy Consumption by Sector and Source, part of the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA's) Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) that highlights changes in the AEO Reference case projections for key energy topics. The Annual Energy Outlook presents a projection and analysis of US energy supply, demand, and prices several decades into the future. The projections are based on results from the EIA's National Energy Modeling System.

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Linear Water Features includes single-line drainage water features and artificial path features that run through double-line drainage features such as rivers and streams, and serve as a linear representation of these features. The artificial path features may correspond to those in the USGS National Hydrographic Dataset (NHD). However, in many cases the features do not match NHD equivalent feature and will not carry the NHD metadata codes. These features have a MAF/TIGER Feature Classification Code (MTFCC) beginning with an "H" to indicate the super class of Hydrographic Features.

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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 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is an epidemiologic surveillance system established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to monitor the prevalence of youth behaviors that most influence health. YRBSS consists of thre

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A digital raster graphic (DRG) is a scanned image of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographic map. The scanned image includes all map collar information. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the Earth. The DRG can be used to collect, review, and revise other digital data especially digital line graphs (DLG). When the DRG is combined with other digital products, such as digital orthophoto quadrangles (DOQ) or digital elevation models (DEM), the resulting image provides additional visual information for the extraction and revision of base cartographic information. The USGS is producing DRGs of the 1:24,000-, 1:25,000-, 1:63,360- (Alaska), 1:100,000-, and 1:250,000-scale topographic map series.

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This map layer portrays the Congressional Districts of the United States for the 107th Congress. The map layer was created by extracting lines from existing National Atlas layers that were coincident with Congressional District boundaries. In areas lacking coincident geometry, lines from 1:100,000-scale Congressional District boundaries published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Geography Division were generalized and integrated into the map layer. This is an update of the July 2001 map layer.

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This database contains scheduled and actual departure and arrival times, reason of delay. reported by certified U.S. air carriers that account for at least one percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenues. The data is collected by the Office of Airline Information, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).

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This Polygon shapefile of critical habitat for the Dark Pigtoe (Pleurobema furvum) based on the description provided in the Federal Register.

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Each year Congress passes legislation which, when signed by the President, appropriates funds for the Department of Transportation and related agencies. After this legislation is enacted, FTA publishes a Notice in the Federal Register which provides an overview of the apportionments and allocations based on these funds for the various Federal Transit Administration programs as well as statements of policy and guidance on public transit administration. These data sets show how FTA funding is distributed.

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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) was established in June 1995 under the framework of the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation. In January 1996, the EWG Arctic Climatology Group took on the task of compiling digital data on arctic regions to expand scientific understanding of the Arctic. This work resulted in a set of three atlases on arctic oceanography, sea ice, and meteorology. These atlases are distributed via FTP.The Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean was developed by specialists from the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan with Russian and U.S. partners. The Atlas consist of separate volumes for winter and summer, with the following file names G01961a and G01961b respectively. More than 1.3 million individual temperature and salinity observations collected from Russian and western drifting stations, ice breakers, and airborne expeditions were used to develop the products contained in the winter volume.The primary products of the Atlas are gridded mean fields for decadal periods (1950s,1960s, 1970s, 1980s) of temperature, salinity, density and dynamic height, Atlantic water layer depth, and temperature and salinity profiles and transects. The original individual observations that were used to derive these fields are not provided with the Atlas and are not available.Note that the Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology (PHC) ocean database (version 3.0) is available from the Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington. This is a global gridded database with a high quality description of arctic seas achieved by merging data from several sources, including data from the Environmental Working Group Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean. The PHC or later versions may be more suitable for your research. Inquires may be sent to: Michael Steele, Applied Physics Laboratory, 1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, WA 98105

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Terrain data, as defined in FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N: Data Capture Standards, describes the digital topographic data that was used to create the elevation data representing the terrain environment of a watershed and/or floodplain. Terrain data requirements allow for flexibility in the types of information provided as sources used to produce final terrain deliverables. Once this type of data is provided, FEMA will be able to account for the origins of the flood study elevation data. (Source: FEMA Guidelines and Specifications, Appendix N, Section N.1.2).

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Towill Inc. collected LiDAR for over 3,500 square miles in York, Pickens, Anderson, and Oconee Counties in South Carolina. This metadata covers the LiDAR produced for Anderson County. The nominal pulse spacing for this project was 1.4 meters. This project was collected with a sensor which collects waveform data and provides an intensity value for each discrete pulse extracted from the waveform. GPS Week Time, Intensity, Flightline and echo number attributes were provided for each LiDAR point. Dewberry used proprietary procedures to classify the LAS according to contract specifications: 1-Unclassified, 2-Ground, 7-Noise, 8-Model Key Points, 9-Water, 10-Ignored Ground due to breakline proximity. Dewberry produced 3D breaklines and combined these with the final LiDAR data to produce seamless hydro flattened DEMs for the 677 tiles (5000 ft x 5000 ft) that cover the project area.

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The 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS 93-94) is a study that is part of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) program; program data is available since 1987-88 at . SASS 93-94 (http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass) is a collection of surveys that cover a wide range of topics from teacher demand, teacher and principal characteristics, general conditions in schools, principals� and teachers� perceptions of school climate and problems in their schools, teacher compensation, district hiring and retention practices, to basic characteristics of the student population and school library resources and staffing. The surveys were conducted using questionnaires, personal interviews, list data, and telephone interviews. Superintendents, teachers, librarians, principals, and school coordinators were sampled. Key statistics from SASS 93-94 are the percentage of newly-hired teachers, average teacher salary, average principal salary, percentage distribution of students receiving free or reduced-price lunches, percentage distribution of students by race and ethnicity, percentage distribution of teachers and principals by race and ethnicity, and age distributions of teachers and principals.

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Declining populations of the endangered Gila topminnow in the Santa Cruz River prompted a 1997 study to assess contaminant levels in water, sediment, invertebrates, fish, and birds. Samples were collected from two sites upstream from the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant NIWWTP and from five sites downstream from the plant. Water pH ranged from 7.4 to 7.9 and was normal for the area. Unionized ammonia concentrations, up to 0.49 mgL this study and 24 mgL related studies were within the range known to be toxic to invertebrates and fish. Independent laboratory toxicity tests run concurrently with our study demonstrated that plant discharges were highly toxic. In 96hour exposure tests using effluent collected monthly, 100 effluent caused 100 mortality of adult fathead minnows during seven of 12 months. Unionized ammonia was identified as the toxicant responsible for fish mortality. We also documented a high proportion of longfin dace, up to 9. 1, with skin and skeletal anomalies at sites downstream from the NIWWTP. Toxicants in NIWWTP effluent appear to have nearly extirpated populations of invertebrates, amphibians, semiaquatic reptiles, and fish, including the endangered Gila topminnow, at sites closest to the treatment plant outfall. The entire aquatic ecosystem also was contaminated with chromium; concentrations were highest in sediment from Nogales Wash, 149 ugg dry weight, a level considerably higher than the 110 ugg toxic threshold for aquatic invertebrates. Almost onehalf 613 of all invertebrate samples contained chromium at concentrations that could be toxic to upper trophiclevel species. All samples of desert suckers contained elevated concentrations of chromium. The maximum chromium concentration in suckers 13.6 ugg wet weight was more than 11times higher than the 1.2 ugg toxic concern level. Concentrations of chromium in suckers increased with increasing distance downstream from the NIWWTP indicating that the plant was not a source of chromium contamination. There may be a pointsource of chromium contamination between the two most downstream sites of Tubac and Chavez Siding. While sediment, invertebrates, and fish were contaminated with chromium, it did not biomagnify to toxic levels in birds. Nickel was recovered at relatively low levels in desert suckers from all sites except one. All suckers from Chavez Siding contained higher than background levels of nickel. There may be a source of nickel contamination between Tubac and Chavez Siding. Copper exceeded the National Contaminant Biomonitoring Program 8ih percentile in 50 of the dace samples and in 95 of the desert sucker samples. Because of its occurrence at relatively high levels at some sites and its propensity to interact with other compounds and elements, copper remains a contaminant of concern in the lower Santa Cruz River. Current organochlorine compound levels in fish should not present a threat to survival and reproduction nor should current residues present a bioconcentration hazard to upper trophic level species that feed on fish. DDT, DDD, and DDE were not detected in fish from locations upstream from the NIWWTP. Since highest residues of DDT occurred at the site farthest downstream from the NIWWTP, it appears that the source of DDT may be runoffdrainage from contaminated soils downstream of the wastewater treatment plant. Four of eight killdeer carcasses contained 3.4 ugg wet weight DDE, a level associated with impaired reproduction and a level that represents a hazard to predatory birds that feed on killdeer. Concentrations of all metals in killdeer livers were within the normal or background range.