S00302-005

EDA Industrial Location and Retrieval System (ILRRS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Area and regional development (452).

Agency Contact: David R. Portch, EDA Information Systems Support Division. 967-2463.

This system provides an industrial location planning service for EDA areas and districts, making it possible to match the demand for, and the supply of, locational factors as perceived by industries and as reported by EDA areas. Inputs to the system are derived from the following sources: (1) collection and compilation of community resource profile information through the cooperation of community leaders and development district staffs and the efforts of the EDA staff; (2) collection and compilation of survey data from leading manufacturing industries by the Bureau of the Census; and (3) analysis of survey results by EDA. The principal categories of data capture via these instruments are industrial location, manufacturing industries and geocoding.

S00302-006

EDA Socioeconomic Data System.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Area and regional development (452).

Agency Contact: John L. Milanese, EDA Information Systems Support Division. 967-5271.

The EDA socioeconomic data system is a computer data base system containing over 1000 reels of magnetic tape. Files can be formatted to permit quick query and custom retrieval of specified data elements. Each of the data files maintained in the supporting data bases contains data elements that can be referenced on social and economic characteristics. The user must describe or identify the data elements to be considered, pertinent geographic areas, parameters for qualitative and quanti. tative desired limitations, the meaningful accumulations and ratio calculations desired, and the preferred sequence of presentation. Statistical routines, through which users may perform calculations, compute ratios, measure relationships, etc., are available; a mapping program is also available, which allows graphic presentations of data. Data files available through this system include: (1) 1970 Census Data Files--census of population, 1st and 4th counts (summary tables), (2) County Merge (1952, 1962, 1967 and 1972)--contains census socioeconomic (population, business, manufacturing, etc.) data for counties; (3) County Business Patterns Files (1965-70)--containing data at county level on number of employees, payrolls, and reporting units by Standard Industrial Classification, (4) Income File (1929, 1940, 1950, 1962, 1965-70)--contains data by economic sector on per capita income, personal income, wages and salaries, and total earnings aggregated at county level, and (5) Location of Manufacturing Plants (1958, 1963, 1967)--contains data on numbers of plants and employees in each Standard Industrial Classification by county.

S00302-007

Composite Mapping System (CMS).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Area and regional development (452).

Agency Contact: David R. Portch, EDA Information Systems Support Division. 967-2463.

The Composite Mapping System (CMS) is a computerized capability for merging coincident sets of digitized map data into differentially weighted combinations or composite maps. The CMS is used within the Economic Development Administration (EDA) in support of the EDA socioeconomic data bases to produce graphic displays and maps. The system stores data at any scale in a 120x120 array of grid cells. As used by EDA, each grid cell corresponds to an area of 2 minutes of latitude by 2 minutes of longitude or about 4 square miles. This scale (about 1:1, 167,000) is convenient for performing multistate regional analyses. From this design scale, scale reductions of 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, etc. are possible. CMS can produce single factor maps in digital printout form of two types--free form or maps based on governmental or jurisdictional units at which the data are collected. The free form maps can represent: zones of accessibility to linear or point phenomena such as transportation or power networks and modes; isopleth maps of continuously variable phenomena such as climate; or locational maps depicting forest types or land use. Multiple factor maps are produced at differentially weighted combinations of up to 120 different free form and governmental units maps of the same geographical area at the same map scale. CMS is available to other Federal agencies, state agencies, universities and contractors to state and Federal agencies. The system is sold at cost with documentation.

S00303-001

Publications of the Maritime Administration. Office of Public Affairs, Maritime Administration. August 1974. 13 pp.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Commerce and Transportation (400).

Public Availability: Office of Public Affairs, Maritime Administration.

Agency Contact: Robert J. Blackwell, Assistant Secretary for Maritime Affairs. 783-2595.

This is a catalog of publications released by the Maritime Administration. The publications are categor. ized into the following areas: General, Technical, Statistical, Government Aids, Containers, Domestic Shipping, Seamen, Ports, Marine Pollution and Personnel & Training. The listings show full title, date of publications, order number and price, respectively.

S00303-002

MARAD Management Information Manual. Office of Management and Information Systems, Maritime Administration. 278 pp.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Commerce and Transportation (400).

Agency Contact: Stuart M. Ball, Director, Office of Management Information Systems. 783-3392.

This manual contains management information on the Maritime Administration. Information is presented in statistical charts, graphs, and tables. Organization, funds, and personnel are covered, along with extensive coverage of the components of the following major programs: Development of Waterborne Transportation Systems, Manpower Development, National Security Support Capability, and Use of Waterborne Transportation Systems. Statistics are included for construction, operations, fleet, manpower, and trade.

Agency Contact: Howard G. Norseth, MARAD Office of Policy and Plans. 967-2217.

The Maritime Forecasting System is a series of programs that enable the user to update, modify with exogenous variables, and predict 20-year forecast of oceanborne tonnage according to approximately 400 import and export commodities. In addition they are aggregated at two levels. These forecasts are separated into 19 regional areas which are disaggregated into 65 principal MarAd trade routes based on the proportion of cargo moving on each trade route in each region according to a given historical year. The system consists of a series of retrieval programs. System principal categories of data are forecasts, oceanborne tonnage, and trade routes.

S00303-004

MARAD Ship Data System (SDA).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Water transportation (406).

Agency Contact: Stuart M. Ball, MARAD Office Management Information Systems. 967-3392.

The SDS system contains ship data of all merchant vessels of 1,000 gross tons and over operating in international trade for all nations. The data are collected and extracted from many types of documents and published media that contain shipping information. These data are transcribed on Form MA-768, ‘Ship Data File Document,' and are converted into computer tapes. The primary categories of data processed are characteristics of merchant fleets of the world, and ship information. Reports to describe characteristics of U.S. vessels and foreign vessels are provided on a quarterly basis.

S00303-005

MARAD Financial Information System (MAFIS).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Water transportation (406).

Agency Contact: Stuart M. Ball, MARAD Office Management Information Systems. 967-3392.

MAFIS has two major purposes. It performs, operationally, the daily and cyclic accounting functions for the Maritime Administration and it includes a cost accounting system which serves as a management financial planning tool. The MAFIS ADP system is composed of subsystems, each of which is designed by the modularity concept. This concept provides for independence be tween subsystems. Basically these subsystems validate input, maintain files, perform monthly closing, and generate reports. The MAFIS interfaces with the Payroll System to extract data elements required in the accounting process. Categories of data include cost plans and reports, financial planning, and accounting.

S00303-006

MARAD Foreign Trade System (FTS).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Water transportation (406).

Agency Contact: Stuart M. Ball, MARAD Office Management Information Systems. 967-3392.

The Foreign Trade Data System utilizes import/export vessel movement data collected from the Bureau of Customs (Forms 1400, 1401, 7502, 7512); Department of Commerce (Forms DOC 7525V, Form 7513); and Maritime Administration (Forms MA-578A, MA-721, MA722). These data are used to provide information on commodity movements into and out of the United States via commercial sea transport; vessels (both foreign and U.S.) entering or leaving a U.S. port; U.S. and foreign competition which involved the determination of long tons of cargo carried between U.S. and specified foreign ports; container utilization; and trade route analysis and commodity evaluation (TRACE) for comparing the effectiveness of U.S. carriers with foreign carriers on various trade routes. Principal categories of data are foreign vessel movement, foreign trade cargo movement, and foreign trade container movement.

S00303-007

Maritime Contract Impact System (MCIS).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Water transportation (406).

Agency Contact: Esther Love, MARAD Office of Maritime Manpower. 967-3697.

The purpose of the MCIS is to provide the maritime industry with a tool for the rapid evaluation of current and proposed labor contracts during the course of negotiations. Offers and counters from any party during negotiotions can be evaluated in a matter of minutes. The system has the capability of selecting any fleet of ships, altering the manning and/or characteristics, and modifying items of cost. The user has the option of selecting very general or very detailed data. The MCIS also has long-term application for use by various components of MARAD and other agencies. Categories of data captured are labor contracts, fleet manning, and fleet characteristics.

S00304-001

Business Assistance Reporting System.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Area and regional development (452).

Agency Contact: John F. Klein, Chief, ADP Operations Division. 967-2520.

This system maintains data concerning the performance of OMBE-funded organizations and measures this performance against established operating goals. Information derived from this system is used to inform the Department, Office of Management and Budget, the Congress and OMBE organizations of the progress of the program. System input is provided via (1) the Business Assistance Report, a multi-purpose form, prepared on an as-required basis by OMBE-funded organizations (contractors) of which there are approximately 300; and (2) on-line updating of small-volume transactions, such as new contractors, entered from a terminal. The system consists of a single data base with two record types: (1) master Contractor Record which is maintained for each of 300 contractors; and (2) master Client Record which is maintained for each of 140,000 clients. The output requirements of this system vary and for this reason it has been decided to utilize a data base management system with flexible data retrieval and report generation

capabilities. Output generally consist of performance reports for OMBE-funded programs.

S00304-002

OMBE Client Data Report System.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Area and regional development (452).

Agency Contact: William Rock, Office of Minority Business Enterprise. 967-5542.

This is a reporting system that supports OMBE's Performance Management System (PMS). PMS indicators are collected through OMBE contractors (Business Resource Centers, Business Development Organizations, Construction Contractor Assistance Centers) and describe actions taken by these organizations on behalf of their minority business clientele. The data base permits the extraction of funded organizations performance data, client profile, and other data elements used for special reports. Principal data element categories are client list, summaries list, funded organizations, and performance data.

S00305-001

NBS Internal Accounting Reports System.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403).

Agency Contact: Walter Shackleford, Accounting Division, NBS. 921-3291.

This is a system of some 15 programs, which supplies data needed to prepare working capital fund fiscal reports. The most important reports summarize accrued costs and unliquidated obligations by funding source and by object class, at the cost center level and above. Input data is supplied by the project reports system. Projects report the following categories of data: fiscal reports, accrued expenditures, and obligations.

S00305-002

NBS Project Reports System (PRS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403).

Agency Contact: Lucille Sithens, Accounting Division, NBS. 921-3291.

The PRS system consists of some 30 programs which produce about 20 reports of financial obligations at various levels of summarization. The reports are used by NBS managers to monitor spending on projects or programs for which they are responsible. The primary categories of data captured and processed are obligations, unliquidated obligations, costs, and accrued costs.

S00305-003

National Standard Reference Data System (NSRDS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403).

Agency Contact: James Lov, Administrative Officer, OSRD. 921-2468.

The program management of the NSRDS is carried out by the Office of Standard Reference Data (OSRD) within the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). NSRDS comprises the set of data centers and data evaluation

projects that are administered, coordinated, and/or funded by NBS, as well as the publications and information service activities operated by OSRD. NSRDS has the mission of providing critically evaluated numeric data, in a convenient and accessible form, to the American scientific and technical community. These data measure the exact physical and chemical properties of various substances studied by the physical sciences as follows: nuclear properties, atomic and molecular properties, thermodynamic and transport properties, solid state properties, chemical kinetics, colloid and surface properties, and mechanical properties of materials. No experimental research is carried out under the NSRDS program; instead, a group of data centers and special data evaluation projects compile data from the literature and carry out evaluations. In addition, NBS administers, aids, and subsidizes a publication and data dissemination program which includes a quarterly journal, a publications series, and a data information service.

S00305-004

Standards Information Services (SIS).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403).

Agency Contact: William J. Slattery, Chief, SIS. 9212587.

The Standards Information Services (SIS) section of the National Bureau of Standards maintains a collection of U.S. Government and state purchasing offices standards and specifications as well as standards and specifications of the major international and foreign standardizing bodies. Special and general indexes of standards are issued.

S00305-005

Office of Computer Information.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other advancement and regulation of commerce (403).

Agency Contact: Martha Gray, Acting Director, OCI. 9213517.

The Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology provides technical services on scientific and technical information relating to computer science through the Office of Computer Information (OCI). The OCI serves as the single point of contact for the computer community of the Federal Government to obtain information and advisory services.

S00306-001

NOAA Financial Management System (FIMA).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other natural resources (306).

Agency Contact: A. N. Page, Office of Management and Computer Systems, NOAA. 496-8901.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Financial Management (FIMA) System is an automated cost-based budgeting and accounting system used to determine actual total cost of a program compared to planned cost. Cost plans for each program and support activity are the basis for controlling funds and generating cost operating budgets for each of NOAA's programs. The FIMA accounting system complements cost budgeting and places accounting services

closer to program management. Voucher examination, scheduling for disbursement, and source data entry have been decentralized to Field Finance Offices (FFO) which are linked with NOAA's central computer facility by a telecommunication network of programmable terminals. The system generates timely reports for management concerning transactions and financial status. It also supports the cash control, document control, general ledger and cost accounting automated FIMA subsystem. In addition, cost plans are linked with accounting transactions by common financial classifications to produce plan status reports which are used to evaluate, monitor, and control NOAA's organizations and programs.

S00306-002

Environmental Science Information Center.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other natural resources (306).

Agency Contact: James E. Coskey, Director, ESIC. 3437636.

The Environmental Science Information Center (ESIC) is the scientific and technical publisher for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its Environmental Data Service (EDS). ESIC is the single source within NOAA for environmental data dealing with the atmospheric, oceanic, and earth sciences, and marine resources. ESIC complements the following EDS data centers: the National Climatic Center, the National Oceanographic Data Center, the Center for Experiment Design and Data Analysis, the National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center, and the Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment. ESIC includes two major special libraries, the Atmospheric Sciences Library and the Marine and Earth Sciences Library; and it serves as a major source for the exchange and dissemination of scientific literature in environmental sciences.

S00306-003

National Climatic Center (NCC).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other natural resources (306).

Agency Contact: Thomas S. Austin, Director, Environmental Data Service. 634-7318.

The National Climatic Center in Asheville, North Carolina, is the largest data center of the Environmental Data Service. Originally known as the National Weather Records Center, its purpose is to make historical weather information available to the public in a form suitable for use in making decisions involving health, business, litigation, and research. The Center maintains archives of weather records dating from 1841, and divides these data among a series of specific disciplines, such as climatology and hydrology. An enormous number of observations from all over the world is collected, verified, edited, and placed in the center archives. From this collection, the staff develops a series of summaries, records of abnormal weather events, statistics of extremes, etc. Some of this information is used on every radio or television weather report and some is published in farm bulletins, airport weather summaries, and other collections of weather statistics. Combining all the manuscript observations, satellite films, and other meteorological tabulations, the center's resources include 74 million record sheets, each representing many

observations, 65 million punched cards, 82 thousand reels of microfilm, 35 thousand reels of magnetic tapes, and 180 thousand publications. The Center does conduct investigations for other federal agencies on such topics as aviation operations, space exploration, and air pollution, but its principal role is supplying data for research scientists. The Center publishes a number of climatological pamphlets summarizing data in many diverse fields. Among them are a series of subscription publications on local and national climate, a monthly storm data bulletin, and an annual compendium of daily river stages. It also contributes data for a weekly weather and crop bulletin which is published in cooperation with the Agriculture Department.

S00306-004

National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other natural resources (306).

Agency Contact: Thomas S. Austin, Director, Environmental Data Service. 634-7318.

The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) in Washington, D.C., stores huge amounts of data about the sea itself--temperature-depth readings (bathythermograph data) from stations all over the world; measurements of salinity, oxygen, phosphorus, nitrogen, and other qualities of seawater for more than half a million stations; information on ocean currents; biological data such as plankton and chlorophyll concentrations; and related bibliographic references. Much of the material stored by the Center is of interest primarily to marine scientists concerned with the physical and chemical properties of the sea. The center has been efffective in locating experiments in progress and matching up investigators who are probing similar problems. The center maintains the computerized National Marine Data Inventory (NAMDI) file which stores records of thousands of U.S. oceanographic cruises and projects. The purpose of this file is to keep track of what data are being collected and to fill in the lag between the time the collections are made at sea and the time the data are actually deposited in an archive. NAMDI is also used to list annually the cruises of the U.S. Declared National Program (DNP) in oceanography for publication by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). Data resulting from the DNP are deposited in internationally sponsored World Data Centers so that scientists are alerted in advance to these potential data sources. Data are stored so that they can be located by geographic limits, by the kind of platform involved (buoy, ship, plane, satellite, etc.), by country, time, institute, depth of water, etc. They can often be reproduced (if the Center itself has the data) on tape, punched cards, microfilm, or as printed copy.

S00306-005

National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center (NGSDC).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other natural resources (306).

Agency Contact: Thomas S. Austin, Director, Environmental Data Service. 634-7318.

The National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center (NGSDC), headquarted in Boulder, Colo., deals with data relating to the ionosphere, variations in the earth's magnetic field, solar activity, aurora, cosmic rays,

and airglow, as well as solid magrietism, and marine geology and geophysics. Studies of the earth's atmosphere and the sun are of interest to theoretical and space scientists and communications engineers, and include radio soundings of the ionosphere and recording of the earth's magnetic field to note the variations associated with geomagnetic storms. Horizon-to-horizon auroral photographs from all-sky cameras are now being supplemented by auroral images from satellites. Solar emissions which reach the lower ionosphere and solar storms or flares are associated with radio communication failures in high latitudes. The study of earthquakes is of interest alike to the researcher, the city planner, or insurance company cor.cerned with risks of destructive earthquakes. Microfilmed copies of seismograms from stations around the world, and strong-motion accelerograms triggered by rearby strong earthquakes provide vital information for architects and engineers. Magnetic tape files giving the location and magnitude of worldwide earthquakes provide data for planners, insurers, and many others. Data in the geomagnetic files, which go back a century or more, are useful in land surveying and in navigational catography. The NGSDC marine geology and geophysics group, located in Washington, D.C., provides data which are used in connection with development or future sources of fuel oil, and their environmental impact. Marine geologists and geophysicists at the center answer more than 50 queries for data every month; more than half are from oil companies exploring some area of the seabed. The marine geological and geophysical files include data such as continuous measurements of bottom topography and structure, gravity studies, data on magnetic anomalies, and descriptions of sediments taken by dredges and core drills. Computerized indexes include such things as available photographs of the sea bottom listed by depth, location, and time; punched card, photocopied, and microfilmed records of undersea explorations; and · annotated computer listings of sea-floor samples.

S00306-006

NOAA Marine and Earth Sciences Library.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other natural resources (3/6).

Figency Contact: Thomas S. Austin, Director, Environmental Data Service. 634-7318.

The Marine and Earth Sciences Library has a collection of rare books (a 16th century Italian treatise on geodetic mathematics and a 17th century Dutch surveyor's text with precise copper plates, for example) and a collection of nearly 150,000 titles, 700 periodicals, and 59 drawers of vertical files filled with information on geodesy and oceanography. The library is developing a collection of publications dealing with the use of laser techniques, photogrammetry, and satellite triangulation for mapping the earth's surface. This library also contains a core collection on fisheries. The Marine Earth Sciences Library was formerly the library of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

S00306-007

NOAA Atmospheric Sciences Library.

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other natural resources (306).

Agency Contact: Thomas S. Austin, Director, Environmental Data Service. 634-7318.

The Atmospheric Sciences Library is the prime source in the country for both data and information published in the fields of meteorology and hydrology. In addition to the main collection, the library contains several hundred rare books, 19th century weather records from France and England, photostats of captured German and Japanese weather observations made during World War II, Russian narratives and observations from the Tsarist weather station at St. Petersburg as far back as 1838, and a large body of eye-witness records of historic sea voyages, explorations and surveys. The library was formerly the U.S. Weather Bureau Library.

S00306-008

Environmental Data Index (ENDEX).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other natural resources (306).

Agency Contact: Thomas S. Austin, Director, Environmental Data Service. 634-7318.

ENDEX contains computer-searchable descriptions of interdisciplinary files of environmental data on many levels. Approximately eight large environmental data files may be searched through the ENDEX System. When these files are large, detailed inventories are also provided. Specifically, ENDEX has three major components: (1) descriptions of data collection efforts; (2) descriptions of data files; and (3) detailed inventories of large, commonly used files. An ENDEX data file description lists the types and volumes of parameters available, the methods used to measure them, when and where the data were collected, the sensors and platforms used, data formats, restrictions on data availability, publications in which the data may be found, whom to contact for further information, and the estimated cost of obtaining the data. Individual ENDEX data files descriptions will be updated every 2 years. ENDEX services and products include: (1) access to specialized indexes of environmental data, grouped by geographic areas, institutions, or disciplines; (2) on-line, interactive searches of the indexes to answer specific questions concerning the availability and whereabouts of data files; (3) a quick-response determination of the costs of retrieval from large data files; and (4) data catalogs from large NOAA environmental data collection projects.

S00306-009

Oceanic and Atmospheric Scientific Information System (OASIS).

Budget Function/Subfunction: Other natural resources (306).

Agency Contact: Thomas Austin, Director, Environmental Data Service. 634-7318.

OASIS is a computerized information retrieval service that provides ready reference to the technical literature and to research environmental sciences and marine and coastal resources. It provides computerized searches of both NOAA and non-NOAA data bases containing references to technical publications. Approximately 33 major environmental data bases may be searched through the OASIS system. OASIS offers access to major meteorological and oceanic bibliographic information files not available anywhere else in computersearchable form. Users products include bibliographic references, abstracts, and indexing terms. OASIS services include: (1) on-line searching; (2) selective dissemination of information (SDI), or current awareness: