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Federal Evacuation Policy: Issues for Congress

Description: This report discusses federal evacuation policy and analyzes potential lessons learned from the evacuation of individuals from Hurricane Katrina. Several issue areas that might arise concerning potential lawmaking and oversight on evacuation policy are also highlighted. This report will be updated as significant legislative or administrative changes occur.
Date: March 30, 2009
Creator: Lindsay, Bruce R.
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FEMA Disaster Housing and Hurricane Katrina: Overview, Analysis, and Congressional Issues

Description: This report discusses the issues with the housing policies of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), particularly as they relate to the Post-Katrina Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-295) and the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Plan (P.L. 93-288). It includes an overview of the Stafford Act sections 403 and 408 as well as a breakdown of issues for Congress and possible Congressional approaches to address the policies.
Date: August 8, 2008
Creator: McCarthy, Francis X.
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History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Interim Report: Volume 1. Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry

Description: An historical evaluation and documentation of the offshore oil and gas industry and its impact on the economy of Southern Louisiana from its inception in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Austin, Diane; Carriker, Bob; McGuire, Tom; Pratt, Joseph; Priest, Tyler & Pulsipher, Allan G.
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Cross-Shelf Exchange Processes and the Deepwater Circulation of the Gulf of Mexico: Dynamical Effects of Submarine Canyons and the Interactions of Loop Current Eddies with Topography

Description: This report is about the study of interactions of the Gulf of Mexico eddies with topography and the dynamical of submarine canyons in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: March 2004
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aspects of the Louisiana Coastal Current

Description: This report is about the status of existing reduced dimensional models of the dynamics of the Louisiana Coastal Current. Local, wind-driven models reproduce credibly the flow variability during the winter season.
Date: June 2005
Creator: United States. Coastal Marine Institute.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Explosive Removal of Offshore Structures: Information Synthesis Report

Description: This report is about the explosive removal of offshore structures in aquatic environments. The scope is worldwide. The sensitive marine resources considered in this analysis include marine fishes, marine turtles, and marine mammals.
Date: March 2004
Creator: Continental Shelf Associates, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Economic Impact in the U.S. of Deepwater Projects: A Survey of Five Projects

Description: This survey report discusses deepwater projects centered in the Gulf Coast. Their study is interested in vendors or contractors supplying the equipment used on the deck and process in extracting oil. The authors are also interested in the socioeconomic effects of the oil extracting on local communities.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Stiff, John J. & Singelmann, Joachim
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Survival of a Hydrogen-Utilizing Bacterium when Introduced into Native and Foreign Environments

Description: Report detailing a bioremediation experiment in which laboratory grown cultures of the Acinetobacter were re-introduced to an experimental flow-through marsh environment. "The body of this report focuses on the competitive studies performed on the Acinetobacter sp., which actually was the second half of the project. The development of the molecular tools that were used is presented as a reprint in Appendix A."
Date: December 2001
Creator: LaRock, Paul A. & Donovan, Lisa S.
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Strong Mid-Depth Currents and a Deep Cyclonic Gyre in the Gulf of Mexico

Description: This report is about the exploration of the possibility that the deep flow around the edges of the Gulf circulates in a cyclonic, or counter-clockwise direction. The existence of this flow was purely theoretical but this study shows that such is observed reliably.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Sturges, Wilton; Chassignet, Eric & Ezer, Tal
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Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry

Description: This report is about how local residents respond to the presence of immigrants, in the ways in which migrants supply their labor and employers demand it, and in how migrants socially and economically incorporate into their receiving communities.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Donato, Katherine M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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