Payments-Equal-to-Taxes (PETT): An Interpretation of Sections 116(c) (3) and 118(b) (4) of The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as Amended
The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of either the U.S. Department of Energy or of Deloitte & Touche. The Payments-Equal-To-Taxes...

Evaluation of Storage/Transportation Options to Support Criteria Development for the Phase I MRS
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Civilian Waste Management (OCRWM) plans to develop an interim storage facility to enable acceptance of spent fuel in 1998. It is...

Interim Storage of Solidified High Level Wastes
Indian approach to the problem of interim storage of vitrified high level wastes, indicating design philosophy adopted for air cooled vault at Tarapur has been described. Important design...

A Decision Support System for Performance-Based Site Characterization
The complex and dynamic requirements of site characterization present a major management challenge. ParaTrac, a regulatory and technical information system, is described as a valuable...

Visualizing the Performance of Structural Optimization Processes
Graphical constructions are discussed that enable the performance of iterative structural optimization processes to be evaluated visually. The first, a basins of attraction construction,...

Reservation Rebirth?
Slightly under one million American Indians live on reservations�legally sovereign nations that occupy a total land area the size of New England. Unbound by county and state environmental...

Radioactive Waste: Finding a Safe Place
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1981 and its amendments mandate that the U.S. Department of Energy find a repository for the nation's high-level radioactive wastes, characterize...

Ground Water: How Contaminated?
It is common knowledge that ground waters, like surface waters, are endangered by pollution from a variety of human activities. Commonsense approaches to the problem are overshadowed by...

Aquifer Restoration: Which Method?
Ground-water contamination is an increasing problem, especially in large urban areas. Toxics that seep into water supplies threaten the health of the community and it's difficult...

Building a Geographic Information System (GIS) for Siting New York City Sludge Management Facilities
Siting studies for waste facilities usually focus on a particular geographic region, or a defined study area, and are restricted to a specific technology. However, the siting of land-based...

A GIS for the Louisiana Coastal Zone
The U. S. Army Engineer District, New Orleans is responsible for collecting, interpreting, and publishing large amounts of data related to engineering geology, subsidence, and land loss...

Application of GIS to the Planning and Preliminary Design of the Vancouver Island Highway
Crippen Consultants and Reid, Collins and Associates(divisions of H.A. Simons Ltd) have completed the corridor selection and preliminary design of a section of the Inland Island Highway...

A PC-Based Geographically Referenced Pavement Management Information System
Infrastructure management is one of nine general types of applications of geographic information systems (GIS) technology. Our Federal, state and local road networks represent a massive...

GIS in Transportation Modeling: Merging MINUTP with GIS
Transportation system modeling involves a great deal of information on features which are geographically distributed over a study area. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are suited...

A G.I.S. for Cross Country Pipelines
Faced with an increased workload, greater information demands and a limited staff, the Civil Engineering Section of Columbia Gas Transmission is trying a different approach to the selection...

Transportation GIS Applications
The Ala-carte of important Transportation GIS topics we will be discussing are: US Department of Defense's (DOD) Global Positioning System (GPS) US Census Bureau's...

Current Developments of the U.S. Great Lakes Shoreline GIS
The Computer Mapping Center of the Detroit District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), in cooperation with the State of Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), Land and Water...

Geographic Engineering Management System
The Memphis District Engineering Division is developing a GIS type data base as part of a Geographic Engineering Management System (GEMS) to assist both the District and the Lower Mississippi...

GIS Applications Floodplain Reconnaissance Studies
U.S. Army Engineer District, New Orleans (NOD) employed a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support a flood plain management Reconnaissance Study. The study region encompassed the...

Norfolk Uses a GIS to Satisfy its Stormwater Management Information Needs
The key component of stormwater management is to obtain a good understanding of the data describing the system so that regulatory, maintenance, and capital decisions concerning the system...

 

 

 

 

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