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1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study.

United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2008

This study establishes the Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) planning basis for supplying electricity to BPA customers. The Loads and Resources Study is presented in three documents: (1) this summary of federal system and Pacific Northwest region loads and resources; (2) a technical...

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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values

Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008

Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...

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Review of the cost-effectiveness of EPA's offshore oil and gas effluent guidelines

Veil, J.A. - 2008

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published proposed Effluent Limitation Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards for the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category on March 13, 1991 (56 FR 10664). These guidelines include limitations...

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Customer satisfaction assessment at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

DN Anderson; ML Sours - 2008

performance expectation for the laboratory, and then to assess progress. The gold standard is defined using laboratory management … providing a link between management perceptions of laboratory performance and customer survey data. …

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Federal legislative and regulatory incentives and disincentives for industrial waste reduction

Cordes, R.; Nixon, J. - 2008

of legislation affecting solid waste disposal. This is because RCRA, which governs, the management of both nonhazardous …

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Review of integrated resource bidding at Niagara Mohawk

Goldman, C.A.; Busch, J.F.; Kahn, E.P.; Stoft, S.S.; … - 2008

In June 1988, the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) ordered the state's investor-owned utilities to develop competitive bidding programs that included both supply and demandside resource options. The New York State Energy Research Development Authority (NYSERDA), the New York Department...

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Analysis of PG E's residential end-use metered data to improve electricity demand forecasts

Eto, J.H.; Moezzi, M.M. - 2008

It is generally acknowledged that improvements to end-use load shape and peak demand forecasts for electricity are limited primarily by the absence of reliable end-use data. In this report we analyze recent end-use metered data collected by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company from more than 700...

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Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Annual/quarterly report

2008

Section 165 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (Public Law 94-163), as amended, requires the Secretary of Energy to submit annual and quarterly reports to the President and the Congress on activities of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This report combines the fourth quarter 1993...

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Guidance Tools for Use in Nuclear Material Management Decisions Making

Johnson, G. V.; Baker, D. J.; Sorenson, K. B.; Boeke, S. G. - 2009

This paper describes the results of Recommendation 14 of the Integrated Nuclear Materials Management Plan (INMMP) which … was the product of a management initiative at the highest levels of the Department of Energy responding to a congressional … directive to accelerate the work of achieving integration and cutting long-term costs associated with the management of nuclear …

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Evaluation Between Existing and Improved CCF Modeling Using the NRC SPAR Models

James K. Knudsen - 2010

Abstract: The NRC SPAR models currently employ the alpha factor common cause failure (CCF) methodology and model CCF for a group of redundant components as a single “rolled-up” basic event. These SPAR models will be updated to employ a more computationally intensive and accurate approach by...

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