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Jung, Seung-Hwan, Eunhee Park, Ju-Hyun Kim, Bi-Ang Park, Ja-Won Yu, Ae-Ryoung Kim, and Tae-Du Jung. "Effects of Self RehAbilitation Video Exercises (SAVE) on Functional Restorations in Patients with Subacute Stroke." Healthcare 9, no. 5 (May 11, 2021): 565. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9050565.
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Background: Additional exercise therapy has been shown to positively affect acute stroke rehabilitation, which requires an effective method to deliver increased exercise. In this study, we designed a 4-week caregiver-supervised self-exercise program with videos, named “Self rehAbilitation Video Exercises (SAVE)”, to improve the functional outcomes and facilitate early recovery by increasing the continuity of rehabilitation therapy after acute stroke. Methods: This study is a non-randomized trial. Eighty-eight patients were included in an intervention group (SAVE group), who received conventional rehabilitation therapies and an additional self-rehabilitation session by watching bedside exercise videos and continued their own exercises in their rooms for 60 min every day for 4 weeks. Ninety-six patients were included in a control group, who received only conventional rehabilitation therapies. After 4 weeks of hospitalization, both groups assessed several outcome measurements, including the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), Modified Barthel Index (MBI), physical component summary (PCS) and the mental component summary of the Short-Form Survey 36 (SF-36), Mini-Mental State Examination, and Beck Depression Inventory. Results: Differences in BBS, MBI, and PCS components in SF-36 were more statistically significant in the SAVE group than that in the control group (p < 0.05). Patients in the SAVE group showed more significant improvement in BBS, MBI, and PCS components in SF-36 as compared to that in the control group. Conclusions: This evidence-based SAVE intervention can optimize patient recovery after a subacute stroke while keeping the available resources in mind.
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Wiesenburg, Denis, Bob Shipp, Joel Fodrie, Sean Powers, Julien Lartigue, Kelly Darnell, Melissa Baustian, Cam Ngo, John Valentine, and Kateryna Wowk. "Prospects for Gulf of Mexico Environmental Recovery and Restoration." Oceanography 34, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 164–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.124.
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Previous oil spills provide clear evidence that ecosystem restoration efforts are challenging, and recovery can take decades. Similar to the Ixtoc-I well blowout in 1979, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was enormous both in volume of oil spilled and duration, resulting in environmental impacts from the deep ocean to the Gulf of Mexico coastline. Data collected during the National Resource Damage Assessment showed significant damage to coastal areas (especially marshes), marine organisms, and deep-sea habitat. Previous spills have shown that disparate regions recover at different rates, with especially long-term effects in salt marshes and deep-sea habitat. Environmental recovery and restoration in the northern Gulf of Mexico are dependent upon fundamental knowledge of ecosystem processes in the region. Post-DWH research data provide a starting point for better understanding baselines and ecosystem processes. It is imperative to use the best science available to fully understand DWH environmental impacts and determine the appropriate means to ameliorate those impacts through restoration. Filling data gaps will be necessary to make better restoration decisions, and establishing new baselines will require long-term studies. Future research, especially via NOAA’s RESTORE Science Program and its state-based Centers of Excellence, should provide a path to understanding the potential for restoration and recovery of this vital marine ecosystem.
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Bosak, P., O. Stokalyuk, O. Korolova, and V. Popovych. "ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS MINING INDUSTRY." Bulletin of Lviv State University of Life Safety 22 (December 28, 2020): 5–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.32447/20784643.22.2020.01.
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Introduction. In the industrial regions of Ukraine, the structure of nature formed over a long period without objective laws of development and recovery of natural resource systems and ecosystems. All natural ecosystems (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere) have undergone forceful anthropogenic pressure. Chemical, radioactive and other pollution of the natural environment causes various, often incurable diseases, irreversible changes in the genetic structure of cells, which leads to an increase in the birth rate of defective generations. A special place in this context takes ecological safety in mining complexes. Mining complexes interrelated processes of human impact on the environment to provide raw materials and energy resources of various fields of economic activity. In a broad sense, the resource means as sources of matter and space - the environment of their location and life.Purpose. The purpose of the work is to highlight the importance of environmental safety management in mining complexes and areas for improvement.Methods. We used the methods of theoretical research to improve environmental safety in the mining complexes.Results. Based on theoretical research and improving environmental safety in mining complexes, the following measures are needed: control over the environment, reproduction and protection of its resources, improvement of natural living conditions, improvement of mining complexes as an environmental safety management system.Following environmental principles, it is necessary to manage the environment safety of mining complexes with the involvement of existing tools and methods of environmental analysis, as environment safety of this activity is of great importance for all areas of the environment. It is a question of studying of the zones of technogenic influence which are forming around dumps of mine breeds, and maintenance of physical, chemical stability of mining wastes. Management of ecological safety in mining areas will allow excluding the occurrence of the ecological-extreme situation after completion of the operation of coal deposits and during the future use of the disturbing territories. Stimulating self-education and ecological education, practical activity is at the same time a kind of generator in the process of developing beliefs in the main direction of the knowledge of conscious and responsible attitude to nature, ecological consciousness.Conclusion. Reasonable measures must regulate the impact of mining complexes on the environment. That means the monitoring of the state of the environment in mining areas; assessment of the threat of environmental hazards; prevention of complication of the ecological situation of the mining area (reclamation, phytomeliorative measures of heaps); development (implementation) of appropriate programs aimed at reducing environmental hazards.
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Perin, Guido, Francesco Romagnoli, Fabrizio Perin, and Andrea Giacometti. "Preliminary Study on Mini-Modus Device Designed to Oxygenate Bottom Anoxic Waters without Perturbing Polluted Sediments." Environments 7, no. 3 (March 20, 2020): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments7030023.
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The Tangential Guanabara Bay Aeration and Recovery (TAGUBAR) project derives its origins from a Brazilian government decision to tackle the planning and management challenges related to the restoration of some degraded aquatic ecosystems such as Guanabara Bay (state of Rio de Janeiro), Vitória Bay, and Espírito Santo Bay (state of Espírito Santo). This was performed by using the successful outcomes of a previous Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Directorate General for Cooperation and Development (i.e., Direttore Generale alla Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, MFA–DGCS) cooperation program. The general objective of the program was to contribute to the economic and social development of the population living around Guanabara, Vitória, and Espírito Santo Bays, while promoting the conservation of their natural resources. This objective was supposed to be achieved by investing money to consolidate the local authorities’ ability to plan and implement a reconditioning program within a systemic management framework in severely polluted ecosystems such as Guanabara Bay, where sediments are highly contaminated. Sediments normally represent the final fate for most contaminants. Therefore, it would be highly undesirable to perturb them, if one wishes to avoid contaminant recycling. In this context, we explored a bench-scale novel technology, called the module for the decontamination of units of sediment (MODUS), which produces an oxygenated water flow directed parallel to the sediment floor that is aimed to create “tangential aeration” of the bottom water column. The purpose of this is to avoid perturbing the top sediment layer, as a flow directed toward the bottom sediment would most probably resuspend this layer. Three kinds of tests were performed to characterize a bench-scale version of MODUS (referred to as “mini-MODUS”) behavior: turbulence–sediment resuspension tests, hydrodynamic tests, and oxygenation–aeration tests. In order to understand the functioning of the mini-MODUS, we needed to eliminate as many variables as possible. Therefore, we chose a static version of the module (i.e., no speed for the mini-MODUS as well as no water current with respect to the bottom sediment and no flume setting), leaving dynamic studies for a future paper. The turbulence tests showed that the water enters and exits the mini-MODUS mouths without resuspending the sediment surface at all, even if the sediment is very soft. Water flow was only localized very close to both mouth openings. Hydrodynamic tests showed an interesting behavior. An increase of low air flows produced a sharp linear increase of the water flow. However, a plateau was quickly reached and then no further increase of water flow was observed, implying that for a certain specific geometry of the equipment and for the given experimental conditions, an increase in the air flow does not produce any reduction of the residence time within the aeration reactor. Oxygenation–aeration tests explored three parameters that were deemed to be most important for our study: the oxygen global transfer coefficient, KLa; the oxygenation capacity, OC; and the oxygenation efficiency, OE%. An air flow increase causes an increase of both KLa and OC, while OE% decreases (no plateau was observed for KLa and OC). The better air flow would be a compromise between high KLa and OC, with no disadvantageous OE%, a compromise that will be the topic of the next paper.
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Newman, Kimberly S., Carol-Ann Manen, and Nancy E. Kinner. "RESEARCH NEEDS IN OIL SPILL RESPONSE." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2005, no. 1 (May 1, 2005): 131–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2005-1-131.
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ABSTRACT As funding for spill research and development (R&D) has declined in recent years, partnerships among relevant federal and state agencies, industry and academia have increased in importance. In order to encourage thinking about spill R&D, develop agreement on research needs and foster these partnerships, the Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC), a cooperative program between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of New Hampshire (UNH), hosted a three day workshop in November 2003 to identify applied science needs that could improve decision making across the continuum of oil spill preparedness, response and recovery. The emphasis was on research that could decrease the impact of spills on NOAA trust resources or enhance the recovery of the impacted resources. More than 30 experts in the areas of spill processes, response techniques and habitat restoration participated in the three day workshop. The group included scientists from federal and state agencies, industry and academia. The goals of the workshop were to identify knowledge gaps in the area of spill response and restoration and determine the best approach for addressing these gaps. Starting with six categories: Fate and Transport of Released Materials; Effects of Spills and Spill Response on Organisms; Effects of Spills and Spill Response on Habitats; Social and Economic Concerns and Needs; Quantitative Metrics for Use in Injury Determination and Restoration; and Restoration Methods, the participants identified over 80 areas of need, including a broad category of communication, and evaluated them with respect to their technical feasibility and potential impact on resource recovery.
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Waterhouse, Lynn, Scott A. Heppell, Christy V. Pattengill-Semmens, Croy McCoy, Phillippe Bush, Bradley C. Johnson, and Brice X. Semmens. "Recovery of critically endangered Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) in the Cayman Islands following targeted conservation actions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 3 (January 6, 2020): 1587–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917132117.
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Many large-bodied marine fishes that form spawning aggregations, such as the Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), have suffered regional overfishing due to exploitation during spawning. In response, marine resource managers in many locations have established marine protected areas or seasonal closures to recover these overfished stocks. The challenge in assessing management effectiveness lies largely in the development of accurate estimates to track stock size through time. For the past 15 y, the Cayman Islands government has taken a series of management actions aimed at recovering collapsed stocks of Nassau grouper. Importantly, the government also partnered with academic and nonprofit organizations to establish a research and monitoring program (Grouper Moon) aimed at documenting the impacts of conservation action. Here, we develop an integrated population model of 2 Cayman Nassau grouper stocks based on both diver-collected mark–resight observations and video censuses. Using both data types across multiple years, we fit parameters for a state–space model for population growth. We show that over the last 15 y the Nassau grouper population on Little Cayman has more than tripled in response to conservation efforts. Census data from Cayman Brac, while more sparse, show a similar pattern. These findings demonstrate that spatial and seasonal closures aimed at rebuilding aggregation-based fisheries can foster conservation success.
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Brackbill, Robert M., Amy R. Kahn, Jiehui Li, Rachel Zeig-Owens, David G. Goldfarb, Molly Skerker, Mark R. Farfel, et al. "Combining Three Cohorts of World Trade Center Rescue/Recovery Workers for Assessing Cancer Incidence and Mortality." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 4 (February 3, 2021): 1386. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041386.
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Three cohorts including the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), the World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR), and the General Responder Cohort (GRC), each funded by the World Trade Center Health Program have reported associations between WTC-exposures and cancer. Results have generally been consistent with effect estimates for excess incidence for all cancers ranging from 6 to 14% above background rates. Pooling would increase sample size and de-duplicate cases between the cohorts. However, pooling required time consuming steps: obtaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals and legal agreements from entities involved; establishing an honest broker for managing the data; de-duplicating the pooled cohort files; applying to State Cancer Registries (SCRs) for matched cancer cases; and finalizing analysis data files. Obtaining SCR data use agreements ranged from 6.5 to 114.5 weeks with six states requiring >20 weeks. Records from FDNY (n = 16,221), WTCHR (n = 29,372), and GRC (n = 33,427) were combined de-duplicated resulting in 69,102 unique individuals. Overall, 7894 cancer tumors were matched to the pooled cohort, increasing the number cancers by as much as 58% compared to previous analyses. Pooling resulted in a coherent resource for future research for studies on rare cancers and mortality, with more representative of occupations and WTC- exposure.
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Nguyen, Thi Ha, Thi Huong Giang Nguyen, Thi Hien Luong Nguyen, Mai Anh Nguyen, and Thi Minh Thuy Nguyen. "Thực trạng kiến thức của nhân viên phục hồi chức năng cộng đồng tại huyện Quỳnh Phụ, tỉnh Thái Bình năm 2020." Journal of Health and Development Studies 05, no. 01 (February 20, 2021): 95–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.38148/jhds.0501skpt20-054.
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Community-Based Rehabilitation Program (CBR) has been established as a strategy to improve access to rehabilitation services by maximizing the use of local resources, in which the main resource is community rehabilitation workers. The implementation of the functions and duties of community rehabilitation workers plays a very important role in performing the functions and tasks of the CBR program. Therefore, the study "Knowledge and task performance of community rehabilitation workers in Quynh Phu district, Thai Binh province in 2020" was conducted with the aim of: "Describing the current state of knowledge about task performance of community rehabilitation workers in Quynh Phu district, Thai Binh province by 2020”. Research method: Using cross section design on the sample selected by total 114 community rehabilitation workers in Quynh Phu district, Thai Binh province. Results: Average age of rehabilitation workers was 51.25 years old, mostly 87.7% female and be trained in primary-level health; There are 56.2% of community rehabilitation workers achieved the required knowledge in performing the tasks of a community rehabilitation worker. The percentage of the required knowledge achieved by detecting and reporting the condition of the disabled and assessing rehabilitation needs, implementing community-based rehabilitation for the disabled, and follow-up management accounts for 64.9%, 59.6%, and 81.5%, respectively. Conclusion: The percentage of workers with required knowledge about the task performance of rehabilitation workers is not high at 52.6%; of which, knowledge about follow-up management for the disabled make up the highest rate of 85.1%, the lowest rate is knowledge of implementing CBR for PWDs, accounting for 59.6%. Keywords: knowledge, rehabilitation workers, community, knowledge and task performance of community rehabilitation workers in Quynh Phu District, Thaibinh province, 2020
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Ivantsova, Ekaterina Dmitrievna. "Investment encouragement mechanisms in forestry sector: Analysis of global experience and its viability in Russia." Вестник Пермского университета. Серия «Экономика» = Perm University Herald. ECONOMY 15, no. 4 (2020): 566–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/1994-9960-2020-4-566-586.
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Undoubtedly, a forestry sector is an integral element in the economy of Russia. A forestry sector is defined to be a set of industries, including forest industry and forestry, and its relevant tasks today are to improve the competitiveness of the forest industry and to provide the advanced growth for the sector on the whole. One of the barriers preventing the Russian forestry sector from development is a low recycling degree of raw wood, which, in its turn, is determined by a deficit of wood processing enterprises and underdeveloped investment encouragement mechanisms. Efficient investment strategy should account for the national and international practices, which supports the relevance of this research. The purpose of the study is to systematize the best global practices in investment encouragement in the forestry sector to reason their application in national context with regard to the institutional and natural climatic features of the development in the forest industry and forestry in Russia. Methodology of the research includes general scientific methods, as well as a comprehensive approach aimed to analyze the most relevant national and international materials and reports from the specialized institutions dealing with the issues concerning the forest and forest resources management. The scientific novelty of the research focuses on the classification of the best global practices in investment encouragement in the forestry sector of economy, the classification summarizes the experiences of the leading countries in forestry. The study identifies the most popular investment encouragement methods, including administrative and economic measures, in the leading countries in the respective forest resource reserves. The programs of non-financial support for the forest land users, consultations, and educational programs, R&D encouragement are among the administrative measures. Economic measures cover the fiscal and monetary policy tools, including concessional taxation, public subsidies, joint investment of the projects, and soft loans. The paper proves that direct transfer from the international practices will not give any significant positive effect and development in the forestry sector of Russia and will not improve the competitiveness of the national forest processing companies as the investment encouragement measures should account for the natural climatic, social economic and institutional features of the forestry sector. One should take into account that the forest land property rights belong to the state in the Russian Federation. With these features in mind and the classification of the best global practices in investment encouragement in the forestry sector of economy in hand, it has been found that the support measures which work in Canada are likely to be the most efficient ones under the national conditions because Canada runs similar forest land property rights. Canada practises R&D encouragement and public subsidies which could be implemented in Russia as a type of public-private partnership or other types of joint investment of the projects in the forestry sector. Therefore, the research carefully looks at the public measure started back in 2007 and aimed at large-scale investment projects in forest exploration and identifies a number of associated problems. The most burning issues are as follows: national investors are not sufficiently interested in the project completion, the products from the forest processing enterprises have low profitability, which is determined by high electricity and railway tariffs, there is no spatial distribution scheme for particular types of production with regard to the availability of forest resources and the needs of the domestic market in timber and paper products, wood is harvested illegally on the rented plots designed to be used for the priority investment projects, the forest resources are not sufficiently applied and recovered, the deadlines and other project’s parameters are violated, and the feedback links between the enterprises and the authorities monitoring the projects are underdeveloped. Along with that, the practices of public subsidy programs show that acquiring the status of a priority investment project in forest exploration is seen to be one of the most efficient measures in investment encouragement in the forestry sector. Further research should focus on the development of a comprehensive approach to the analysis of the efficiency of the priority investment projects to justify the offers in investment encouragement mechanism improvement in the forestry sector in Russia. This approach should be based on the analysis of the econometric factors which determine the success of the projects.
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Yoshioka, Gary A., Lori Jonas, and Katherine E. Armstrong. "EMERGENCY REPORTING FOR OIL DISCHARGES: RECENT STATUTORY AND REGULATORY CHANGES." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 1989, no. 1 (February 1, 1989): 253–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-1989-1-253.
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ABSTRACT The principal trigger for federal reporting of discharges of oil remains the “sheen test” promulgated in 1970 under the authority of the Clean Water Act. The sheen test is not, however, the only requirement of concern to potential dischargers of oil. Certain provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), of Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), and of other environmental statutes may also apply, complicating the picture for the regulated community. CERCLA requires federal reporting of releases of hazardous substances, but contains an exclusion for most releases of petroleum products. The CERCLA “petroleum exclusion” is not, however, absolute, and recent policy documents by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have clarified the scope of the exclusion. Releases of certain petroleum waste streams listed under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), for example, are not excluded. Title III of SARA, which expands the emergency reporting requirements of CERCLA to include notification of state and local response authorities for releases of CERCLA hazardous substances and of listed “extremely hazardous substances” (EHSs) does not contain the equivalent of the CERCLA petroleum exclusion. To the extent that the list of EHSs includes certain constituents of petroleum products, it is possible that state and local reporting will be required under SARA Title III for oil discharges otherwise (or previously) exempted from federal reporting under CERCLA. In 1988, a regulatory program for reporting leaks from underground storage tanks was established under Subtitle I of RCRA. In addition to these federal requirements, statutory provisions enacted by various states also affect oil discharge reporting. This paper presents a review of the changing regulatory picture for oil discharge reporting requirements by first examining recent regulatory and judicial developments related to the oil sheen test, and then exploring the potential impact of other federal and state programs. Summary tables comparing federal provisions are provided as a useful guide for determining the scope of these programs.
Books on the topic "State Resource Recovery Program (Minn.)"
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Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance. and Minnesota. Dept. of Commerce., eds. State Resource Recovery Program recommendations report. St. Paul, Minn: Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance, 2006.
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Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance. and Minnesota. Dept. of Commerce., eds. State Resource Recovery Program recommendations report. St. Paul, Minn: Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance, 2002.
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"Historical Changes in Large River Fish Assemblages of the Americas." In Historical Changes in Large River Fish Assemblages of the Americas, edited by Richard A. Valdez and Robert T. Muth. American Fisheries Society, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781888569728.ch11.
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<em>Abstract.</em>—The upper Colorado River basin supports a native ichthyofauna of 14 species or subspecies that have been impacted by poor land-use practices, altered flows, physical habitat fragmentation, competition and predation from nonnative fish species, and degraded water quality. Five taxa are federally endangered, including the large-river species, Colorado pikeminnow <em>Ptychocheilus lucius</em>, humpback chub <em>Gila cypha</em>, bonytail <em>G. elegans</em>, razorback sucker <em>Xyrauchen texanus</em>, and a warm-stream subspecies, Kendall Warm Springs dace <em>Rhinichthys osculus thermalis</em>. Two recovery programs, formed through cooperative agreements among federal, state, tribal, and private agencies and stakeholders, coordinate activities in the upper basin that have helped to resolve water resource issues, implement management actions to minimize or remove threats, and conserve endangered species. A cooperative biological management program among state and federal agencies works to protect the Kendall Warm Springs dace. Conservation agreements have also been established for the other native fish species. Continued public and institutional support for these programs is vital to species recovery and to the balance between long-term species conservation and human demands on the Colorado River system.
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"Historical Changes in Large River Fish Assemblages of the Americas." In Historical Changes in Large River Fish Assemblages of the Americas, edited by Richard A. Valdez and Robert T. Muth. American Fisheries Society, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781888569728.ch11.
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<em>Abstract.</em>—The upper Colorado River basin supports a native ichthyofauna of 14 species or subspecies that have been impacted by poor land-use practices, altered flows, physical habitat fragmentation, competition and predation from nonnative fish species, and degraded water quality. Five taxa are federally endangered, including the large-river species, Colorado pikeminnow <em>Ptychocheilus lucius</em>, humpback chub <em>Gila cypha</em>, bonytail <em>G. elegans</em>, razorback sucker <em>Xyrauchen texanus</em>, and a warm-stream subspecies, Kendall Warm Springs dace <em>Rhinichthys osculus thermalis</em>. Two recovery programs, formed through cooperative agreements among federal, state, tribal, and private agencies and stakeholders, coordinate activities in the upper basin that have helped to resolve water resource issues, implement management actions to minimize or remove threats, and conserve endangered species. A cooperative biological management program among state and federal agencies works to protect the Kendall Warm Springs dace. Conservation agreements have also been established for the other native fish species. Continued public and institutional support for these programs is vital to species recovery and to the balance between long-term species conservation and human demands on the Colorado River system.
Conference papers on the topic "State Resource Recovery Program (Minn.)"
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Rao, Ramana K., Brian L. Stormwind, Ishrat Chaudhuri, and Marcus Garcia. "Multiple Pathway Health Risk Assessment and Multimedia Environmental Monitoring Programs for a Municipal Waste Resource Recovery Facility in Maryland." In 12th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec12-2207.
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Following a 1986 decision by Montgomery County in Maryland to construct a municipal waste resource recovery facility near the town of Dickerson, the local community expressed concern regarding the potential human health effects from air emissions of dioxins and trace metals released through the stack of the proposed facility. To address this concern, the County conducted health risk studies and ambient monitoring programs before and after the facility became operational. The purpose of the health risk studies was to determine potential cancer and non-cancer risks to the nearby residents from the operations of the facility. The purpose of the ambient monitoring programs was to determine if any changes would occur in the ambient levels of certain target chemicals in the environmental media, and if such changes can be attributed to the operations of the facility. Accordingly, the County conducted a multiple pathway health risk assessment in 1989 prior to the construction of the facility. The pre-operational health risk assessment was based on estimated stack engineering parameters and available stack emissions data from municipal waste resource recovery facilities that were operating in the United States, Canada and Europe during the 1980’s. The health risk assessment used established procedures that were accepted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and many state agencies at that time. The Montgomery County Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) became operational in the spring of 1995. The facility is equipped with the state-of-the-art air pollution control (APC) equipment including a dry scrubber-fabric filter baghouse system to control organics and trace metals, ammonia injection system to control nitrogen oxides, and activated carbon injection system to control mercury. In 2003, the County retained ENSR International to update the 1989 health risk assessment study. In the 2003 operational-phase update, as-built engineering data and measured stack emissions data from a total of eighteen quarterly stack emissions tests were used. The study was conducted in accordance with the U.S. EPA’s Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities published in 1998 [1], and an Errata, published in 1999 [2]. Both the 1989 study and the 2003 study demonstrated that there is a very low chance (less than one chance in a million) for occurrence of cancer and no adverse non-cancer health effects to the nearby community as a result of exposure to facility-related emissions. The multi-media ambient monitoring programs were conducted in abiotic and biotic environmental media. These programs included an air-monitoring component and a non-air monitoring component. The pre-operational phase of the air media and non-air media monitoring was conducted in 1994–1995. The pre-operational program was designed to produce baseline data for target chemicals in both air and non-air media. The operational-phase air media monitoring was conducted in 1997 and 2003. The operational-phase non-air media monitoring was conducted in 1997 and 2001. Target chemicals monitored in both air and non-air media included polychlorinated dioxins and furans (PCDDs/PCDFs) and selected toxic metals (arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, and nickel). The non-air media included crops, farm pond surface water and fish tissue, and cow’s milk. The ambient levels of target chemicals monitored in the operational phase of the facility (1997, 2001 and 2003) demonstrated no measurable difference from the ambient levels of these chemicals monitored in the pre-operational phase (1994–95) of the facility, in both the air media and non-air media. The results of the health risk studies and ambient monitoring programs demonstrate that municipal waste combustion facilities that are equipped with the state-of-the-art air pollution control equipment pose no significant health risk to the population.
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Albrecht, Robert, Rhys-Sheffer Birthwright, John Calame, Justin Cloutier, and Michael Gragg. "Returning Pipelines to Service Following a Mw7.5 Earthquake: Papua New Guinea Experience." In 2020 13th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2020-9492.
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Abstract The Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas (PNG LNG) project is a joint venture with participation by ExxonMobil, Oil Search Limited (OSL), Kumul Petroleum, Santos, JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration and Mineral Resources Development Company, and began production in 2014. As described in a previous IPC paper, the project, operated by ExxonMobil PNG Limited (EMPNG) sustained a M7.5 earthquake and approximately 300 aftershocks in 2018, epicentered directly under key facilities. Around 150 km of high-pressure gas and condensate pipelines in the rugged PNG highlands were affected but did not lose containment or pressure. Immediately following the M7.5 event, EMPNG began efforts to assess and inspect the pipelines in order to ensure public safety, and, at the appropriate time, restore LNG production. The technical efforts took place along the pipeline Right of Way (ROW) in a remote jungle environment, which, following the earthquake, was also a disaster zone in which the few available resources were prioritized towards humanitarian relief. Due to resource constraints, the pipeline field inspection team typically numbered only two or three specialists. The inspection team drew heavily on analysis work, ongoing since project startup in 2014 and in progress when the earthquake occurred, that simulated the condition of the ROW and pipe stress state following earthquake events similar in magnitude to what actually occurred. The body of existing analysis work allowed the field team to compare aerially observed ROW ground movements to previously modeled cases, and rapidly infer pipe stress state without actually measuring pipe deformation on the ground. Due to resource constraints, that latter activity, if required before startup, would have significantly delayed project restart. The worldwide network of technical resources that had been assisting with ongoing simulations was quickly re-directed to analyzing actual observed ground deformations, efficiently supporting the small field team from outside the disaster zone. After restart, field inspection activities continued, observations were categorized, and an Earthquake Recovery (EQR) organization was initiated to execute ROW repairs. Just as the initial inspection work was aided by pre-earthquake analyses, EQR activities have been expedited by the extensive ROW maintenance program that had been ongoing prior to the earthquake. This paper and accompanying oral presentation present details of the inspection and recovery, and show that the extensive simulations, preparations and maintenance programs supported by EMPNG during project operations prior to the earthquake enabled a rapid and efficient response when the earthquake actually occurred, and thus provided enormous value to the business.
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Michelbacher, John A., Carl E. Baily, Daniel K. Baird, S. Paul Henslee, Collin J. Knight, and Kenneth E. Rosenberg. "Shutdown and Closure of the Experimental Breeder Reactor–II." In 10th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone10-22462.
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The Department of Energy mandated the termination of the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) Program, effective October 1, 1994. To comply with this decision, Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W) prepared a plan providing detailed requirements to maintain the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) in a radiologically and industrially safe condition, including removal of all irradiated fuel assemblies from the reactor plant, and removal and stabilization of the primary and secondary sodium, a liquid metal used to transfer heat within the reactor plant. The EBR-II is a pool-type reactor. The primary system contained approximately 325 m3 (86,000 gallons) of sodium and the secondary system contained 50 m3 (13,000 gallons). In order to properly dispose of the sodium in compliance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), a facility was built to react the sodium to a solid sodium hydroxide monolith for burial as a low level waste in a land disposal facility. Deactivation of a liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) presents unique concerns. Residual amounts of sodium remaining in circuits and components must be passivated, inerted, or removed to preclude future concerns with sodium-air reactions that could generate potentially explosive mixtures of hydrogen and leave corrosive compounds. The passivation process being implemented utilizes a moist carbon dioxide gas that generates a passive layer of sodium carbonate/sodium bicarbonate over any quantities of residual sodium. Tests being conducted will determine the maximum depths of sodium that can be reacted using this method, defining the amount that must be dealt with later to achieve RCRA clean closure. Deactivation of the EBR-II complex is on schedule for a March, 2002, completion. Each system associated with EBR-II has an associated layup plan defining the system end state, as well as instructions for achieving the layup condition. A goal of system-by-system layup is to minimize surveillance and maintenance requirements during the interim period between deactivation and decommissioning. The plans also establish document archival of not only all the closure documents, but also the key plant documents (P&IDs, design bases, characterization data, etc.) in a convenient location to assure the appropriate knowledge base is available for decommissioning, which could occur decades in the future.
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Deuel, L. E., and G. H. Holliday. "Evolution of Oil and Gas Waste/Soil Remediation Regulations." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-80460.
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The meaningful United States regulation of onshore oil and gas field waste/soil commenced in the mid 1980’s in response to a series of state, federal, industry and international initiatives. Most initiatives centered on the design, construction and operation of earthen pits used in the exploration and production of oil and gas (E&P). Prior to this time, earthen pits were constructed as needed by the operator and used in all phases of E&P activity. Chief concerns of the regulators were focused on what had gone into pits historically, what was going into them currently and was the E&P exemption excluding high volume E&P wastes from the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations justified. Several investigations, including the comprehensive field study by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1987, determined E&P wastes are ostensibly non-hazardous. EPA concluded regulation of E&P wastes under RCRA Subtitle C was not necessary. To this day there is no U. S. federal regulatory program with exclusive jurisdiction over exempt E&P wastes. Other studies, primarily industry and academic, focusing on land limiting constituents, management practices and pit closure strategies revealed sodium salts and petroleum hydrocarbon in the form of diesel range organics were the primary limiting constituents. One state, Louisiana, adopted the technical aspects of these studies and developed a comprehensive regulation known as Statewide Order 29-B, which was based on the concept of limiting constituents and defined post closure performance standards. These standards limited salinity, sodicity, total metals and total petroleum hydrocarbon (oil & grease) with values varying with respect to landform, land use and closure technique. Other states have adopted some of the concepts and criteria advanced under 29-B but none are as comprehensive. Obviously there is a need to control what goes into pits and how pits should be closed. The industry would best be served by adopting the concepts and standards set forth in the Louisiana 29-B regulation. A few of the provisions could be changed to make it more palatable to industry without sacrificing the protection afforded human and animal health, safety and the environment. Internationally, particularly countries in South America embraced USEPA protocol for testing characteristically hazardous wastes, but 1) without the framework to handle the relatively large volume of non-hazardous E&P waste generated and 2) no regulations or protocols for on-site waste management. Several operators, although partners with state owned oil companies, on their own volition, applied the concepts and standards under Louisiana’s 29-B to rainforests in South America and rice paddies in Indonesia. Canada and European oil and gas producing countries have developed stringent standards not based on science, which favor costly treatment technologies. Generally, these countries prohibit cost effective on-site waste management and closure techniques. This paper traces the evolution of waste/soil remediation within the United States and internationally. We trace the progress as a function of time; the impetus for regulation; and probable future controls.