Budget Function/Subfunction: Natural Resources, Environment, and Energy (300). Agency Contact: Division of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dallas Field Office. (214) 749-3254. The Petroleum Energy Predicting Simulator (PEP. SIM) is designed as a model to provide, on a continuous basis, long-range prediction capability of the nation's petroleum supply and availability for each of the major producing areas under various conditions. Analyses are made annually, utilizing additional data and improvements in methodology as they become available. Data processed for each of the major producing areas include oil and gas reserves, production exploration and development drilling information, developmental and operational costs, price of oil and gas, and application of income tax laws and regulations. Output products include: (1) estimates of future petroleum reserves and annual production under various conditions; (2) analyses of capital requirements and cost per barrel of oil added to reserves; and (3) assessment of the effects of changes in government policies and/or economic conditions in industry. S00711-003 Financial and Management Information System (FAMIS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Natural Resources, Environment, and Energy (300). Agency Contact: Harold F. Thorne, Chief, Division of Finance. (303) 234-3738. The Bureau of Mines maintains the automated accounting system entitled Financial and Management Information System (FAMIS). FAMIS interfaces with the Fedstrip, motor pool, payroll, property management, and procurement systems. Financial reports at the research center and the Bureau levels are compared with the budget on a monthly basis. S00711-004 Natural Gas Field Survey Information System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Natural Resources, Environment, and Energy (300). Agency Contact: Bill Moore, Helium Operations. (806) 376-2656. The Natural Gas Field Survey Information System is used in estimating helium reserves around the world. Samples of gas from as many gas wells and pipelines as possible are collected and analyzed each year via the mass spectrometer, and the results are stored on tape for use in reports and calculations of reserves. This application was started by the Navy in 1917 and was computerized in 1967. S00712-001 Computerized Resources Information Bank (CRIB). Budget Function/Subfunction: Earth sciences (252). Agency Contact: James A. Colkins, Project Chief. (703) 860-6604. The Computerized Resources Information Bank (CRIB) is a data base which contains the basic information needed to characterize one or more mineral commodities, a mineral deposit, or several related deposits, such as those in a mining district. The data consist of text, numeric data, and codes; some of the topics covered are name, location, commodity informa tion, geology, production, reserves, potential resources, and references. CRIB was established to provide a means for organizing and summarizing diverse information on the mineral resources of the United States and of the world. The scope of coverage includes: mineral resources, mineral commodities, mineral deposits, mining districts, and economic geology. S00712-002 National Cartographic Information Center (NCIC). The National Cartographic Information Center (NCIC) maintains a data system containing information on the availability of aerial and space images, maps, charts, geodetic data and related digital data produced by Federal agencies, selected state and local agencies, and some private sources. The NCIC also maintains information regarding the status of on-going cartographic data collection efforts. The Center makes available such products as index maps showing the status of published maps and the status of aerial photography in the United States; non-technical brochures describing various cartographic data; names and addresses of the agencies that hold maps, charts, photography and other cartographic data; descriptive lists of geographic features of selected maps published by the Geological Survey and other agencies; selected aerial photograph negatives of outstanding geologic features; and a quarterly Newsletter describing recent activities. S00712-003 Earth Resources Observation System (EROS) Data Center. Budget Function/Subfunction: Earth sciences (252). Agency Contact: Allen H. Watkins, Chief, EROS Data Center. (605) 594-6511. The EROS Data Center maintains, reproduces, and sells to the public digital and photographic data acquired by satellites and high altitude aircraft. Input is received from the NASA-operated LANDSAT-1 and LANDSAT-2 setellites as 70 mm, second generation film negatives, 16 mm microfilm of the LANDSAT imagery, computer compatible tapes of selected LANDSAT scenes, and U.S. and non-U.S. Standard Catalogs; from NASA Skylab Earth Resources Experiment Package in various film formats and 16 mm microfilm; from NASA Earth Resources Surveys Aircraft Program in various film formats and 16 mm microfilm; from the NASA ApolloGemini missions in 35 mm and 70 mm film formats and 16 mm microfilm; and from the U.S. Geological Survey aerial photography as 9 x 9 inch original film negatives. Microfilm reproductions of all 16 mm black and white LANDSAT-1 and LANDSAT-2 microfilm rolls for band 5 are available as a standard product. Also offered as standard products are 16 mm microfilm for the 470 color composite scenes for the World Reference System over the coterminous U.S., 16 mm black and white microfilm of the U.S. Geological Survey photo indices, 16 mm microfilm of the NASA aircraft missions in color and black and white, and 16 mm microfilm of the NASA Skylab missions in color and black and white. S00712-004 Geography Program (GP) Geographic Information Systems. Budget Function/Subfunction: Earth sciences (252). Agency Contact: James R. Anderson, Chief Geographer. (703) 860-6341. The Geography Program (GP) was created to assist state, regional, and local planners who have a current, urgent need for operational applications of land use data that can be obtained from high altitude imagery to problems relating to areas of environmental concern. The scope of coverage includes: land use; environmental factors (geologic, hydrologic, soils, vegetation, climatologic, topographic); and economic and demographic factors relative to land use planning and policy. Services include advisory and consulting services on land use analysis techniques and geographic information systems; data collection and digitizing of land use and natural resource data; and research in analysis, comparison and evaluation of interactive geographic information systems. An interactive geographic information system contains demonstration data on applications of land use and environmental data. S00712-005 Rock Analysis Storage System (RASS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Earth sciences (252). Agency Contact: Steven K. McDonal, Project Chief, RASS System. (303) 234-2361. The Rock Analysis Storage System (RASS) is a geochemical data bank containing chemical and spectrographic analyses from rock, stream sediments, soils, pan-concentrates, water, organic materials, and other elements. Identification, descriptive information, and location are included with the analyses. Holdings consist of data on about 170,000 samples and approximately 120 million variables (geologic and analytic data) stored on magnetic tapes and disks. Outputs from the RASS data base include both computer data and literature searches. S00712-006 Petroleum Data System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Earth sciences (252). Agency Contact: Charles D. Masters, Technical Officer. (703) 860-6432. The Petroleum Data System consists of a machineretrievable data base of oil and gas field information. The system is a requisite for adequate emergency preparedness and to assist in optimizing the use of United States' crude oil and natural gas resources. The data are public information, compiled so that they may be retrieved by county, geologic basin, or political district; they may also be manipulated for sorting, summing, and averaging purposes; and, to the extent that the required items of information are available, they may also be used for various engineering and geologic studies. The system maintains data on: (1) 68,000 U.S. oil and gas fields and pools, including geologic, reservior, production, crude oil and brine analysis; and (2) exploratory and development well information. At the present time fields are located geographically by county, but it is intended to refine this location by a system of X-Y coordinates. Files are maintained by the University of Oklahoma's Office of Research Administration. S00712-007 Geographic Names Section. Budget Function/Subfunction: Earth sciences (252). Agency Contact: Donald J. Orth, Chief, Geographic Names Section. (703) 860-6261. The Geographic Names Section was created to coordinate and implement standard geographic name usage throughout the U.S. Geological Survey and other Federal Government agencies. The Section reviews and approves quadrangle-map names, compiles and publishes gazetteers as part of the topographic mapping program, and responds to inquiries and requests from the public. It also maintains files and records and provides staff for the domestic names activities of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, whose functions include investigation of name problems, preparation of cases, coordination with state geographic boards, and publication of monthly docket and quarterly decision lists. Data covered include: choice of name; written form of name; variant names; feature names; natural and cartographic concepts of features; location (state, county, geographic coordinates, land survey), elevation, size, and description. Also within the Section's scope is name research (both linguistic and historical. S00712-008 Catalog of Information on Water Data. Budget Function/Subfunction: Water resources and power (301). Agency Contact: R. H. Longford, Chief, Office of Water Data Coordination. (703) 860-6931. The Office of Water Data Coordination (OWDC) was established for the following purposes: (1) to coordinate the acquisition of water data by Federal agencies; (2) to design a National Water Data Network; and (3) to establish a catalog of information on water data acquisition activities. Dissemination of information is accomplished primarily through the Catalog of Information on Water Data, which contains information about water data acquisition activities of both Federal and non-Federal agencies, and which is issued every two years with updates annually. Current editions include: surface water stage, discharge, and quality data; ground water quality and quantity data, and areal investigations. The surface water and ground water activities are listed by site of acquisition at which stations have been or will be in operation three years or longer. A Federal plan for acquisition of water data is assembled annually. Reports describing data acquisition patterns, usually referring to specific parameters, and reports relating to recommend. ed procedures for data acquisitions are issued intermittently as needed. The system collects, evaluates, and reports information on energy and mineral resources in other countries, which may be of economic or political importance to the United States, through a system of minerals attaches and reporting officers in Department of State Missions abroad, backed by technical support and evaluation staffs in the Geologic Survey and the Bureau of Mines. The data bank includes: factual information on known and potential resources that may be important as sources of supply for the U.S. and which may guide U.S. policy on trade and international relations; and information required for the Secretary's report under the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970. S00712-010 World Data Center A--Glaciology. Budget Function/Subfunction: Earth sciences (252). Agency Contact: Mark F. Meier, Director. (206) 5936506. The World Data Center A--Glaciology, operating on an international basis, serves as an exchange center for information on glacier research and related fields. The scope of coverage includes glaciology; glacial geology; geomorphology. The aerial photo laboratory includes approximately 90,000 frames of glacier photographs covering Northwest America. S00712-011 National Water Data System (NWDS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Earth sciences (252). Agency Contact: J. S. Cragwall, Jr., U.S. Geological Survey, National Water Data System. 343-9425. The National Water Data System (NWDS) was established to measure and quantify the occurrence and quality of the United States' water resources and the effect of development and utilization on those resources. NWDS makes statistical data and summary reports on water data available to planners, developers, and managers. The NWDS data base includes: surface water stage and discharge; chemical quality parameters; radiochemistry; sediment; pesticide and certain biological concentrations in water; ground and surface water levels; geologic data describing the framework in which ground water occurs; flood frequency and flood inundation mapping. Data are stored in the Catalog of Information on Water Data for sites at which repetitive measurements of water quality and quantity have been made. Users of this catalog can determine data availability and request data from the appropriate source listed. Presently included in the activities of the Water Resources Division is the coordination of certain water data acquisition programs by Federal agencies; ultimately, NWDS will identify and make accessible to all users all water data acquired in the United States by both government and private interests. S00712-012 Data Base of Geologic Names of the U.S. The Geologic Names of the United States is a computer-readable data base in which the rock-strati graphic names in the United States are arranged alphabetically, by age, and by state. The data base has been distributed to the appropriate government unit of all the states, and it is available for reference in the Geologic Names Committee offices in Menlo Park, California; Denver, Colorado; and Reston, Virginia. The Geologic Names data base includes: rock stratigraphic names lithology, thickness, type locality, and color of the stratigraphic units. S00713-001 BIA Accounting System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Area and regional development (452). Agency Contact: Glenn McLaren, Assistant Director, Financial Management. 343-5701. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) maintains an automated, accrual-based accounting system. Reports to American Indian tribes on the status of fiduciary and trust accounts is a statutory obligation. Budget and project reports are prepared monthly at agency, area office, and central office levels. S00713-002 188 Ownership System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Area and regional development (452). Agency Contact: Marge Tighe, Land Records Improvement Program. (505) 766-2946. The system maintains a file of current holders of Indian trust land and a description of the land by allotment number. It provides a current ownership listing both by land description and by each individual's various holdings for use in processing of probates of estates, land sales, leases, etc. S00713-003 Band Analysis System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Area and regional development (452). Agency Contact: Low Conger, Financial Management. 343-5701. The system is designed to involve Indian tribes in the planning and budgeting process by indicating priorities within constrained funding levels. The system created a computer model of 35 program line items and calculates distributions based on target funding levels. Summaries are created for agency, area and bureau levels. A program strategy paper reflects the band analysis priorities which in turn help determine tentative program allocations, which are then fed into the PPE system. Calculations may be performed in minutes allowing various funding schemes to be tried, measuring their impacts upon programs, tribes, agencies and areas. S00714-001 BLM Accounting System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Conservation and land management (302). Agency Contact: Arnold E. Petty, Chief, Division of Finance. 343-3607. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) maintains an automated accounting system. The system interfaces with motor vehicle, equipment utilization, property management, range management, aircraft cost reporting, and payroll systems. Private companies have the right to examine the BLM system and its supporting records for reimbursable fire costs. Reports are prepared monthly which compare budget with actual and which combine project costs with project status. Accounting is on the accrual basis. The system participates in the Denver Payroll System, provides accounting and fiscal services for the Office of Aircraft Services, Alaska Land Use Planning Commission and limited fiscal services to the Oil Shale Environmental Advisory Panel. S00714-002 Comprehensive Resource Information System (CRIS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Conservation and land management (302). Agency Contact: Robert Green. (303) 234-2267. The Comprehensive Resource Information System (CRIS) provides a record of the geographic locations, quality and quantity of all variables that can be associated with a point on the surface of the Earth. CRIS provides a tool to manipulate these type of data in an efficient manner. The output of CRIS is in the form of reports showing areas of land types, perimeters of land types, lengths of roads and summaries of descriptive data. In addition, a hard copy in map form may be obtained by plotting the data. S00714-003 Oil Shale Title Clearance System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Conservation and land management (302). Agency Contact: Ken Macomber, Oil Shale Project. (303) 234-2267. The Oil Shale Title Clearance System is used to determine land ownership. It maintains the following information: (1) mining claim inventory, including locators, legal descriptions of land claimed, location date, and type of claim; (2) title history data, including grantors, grantees, mining claim reception numbers conveyed, percent of claim or percentage of grantor's interest conveyed, actual changes of ownership, and labor documents and potential conveyances, such as power-of-attorney and mechanics liens; (3) serial/contest and adjudicative actions reflecting claimant, claim name groups, legal description of land involved, validity reports, reconnaissance reports, interim actions, and closure actions. S00714-004 Outer-Continental Shelf (OCS) Post-Sale System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Conservation and land management (302). Agency Contact: Donald E. DeBerard, Gulf OCS Office. (504) 527-6541. The system processes information relating to the sale of Outer-Continental Shelf tracts. The input data are edited and the total exposed bid amounts are audited. Then the following reports are generated: (1) Bid Recap by Tract; (2) Bid Recap by Prospect by Tract; (3) Analysis of Bids by Company; (4) Range of High Bids by Amount; (5) Range of High Bids by Prospect by Amount; (6) Summary of Sale by High Bid Amount; and (7) Post-Sale Analysis by Prospect by Tract. S00714-005 Range Management Automated System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Conservation and land management (302). Agency Contact: Darel Stanfer. (208) 588-9351. This system prints the grazing authorization, bills the operator, and edits and generates collection data for the Finance System. It also provides various control, statistical and management reports on scheduled and request. ed times. These reports are sent to the resource area, district, and Washington offices and to the rancher operators via district offices. The system processes 23,000 bills annually; 13,800 authorizations annually; and 100,000 pages in reports annually. S00715-001 Digest: Federal Outdoor Recreation Programs and Recreation-Related Environmental Programs. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. 1973. 110 pp. Budget Function/Subfunction: Recreational resources (303). Public Availability: GPO, Stock No. 2416-00055, $1.35. Agency Contact: Charles Enright, Office of Management Consulting. 343-8858. The digest is an updated condensation of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation's 'Federal Outdoor Recreation Programs' 1970 edition. It lists more than 290 Federal programs of assistance related to outdoor recreation; the major legislative authority under which each program operates; the program's administering agency; and who may apply for assistance and where. Part I tabulates program functions by Federal agency; part II describes the type of assistance offered, including advisory, coordination, credit, grants, information, regulation, research, resource management, technical assistance, training, and miscellaneous, and part III lists the addresses of Federal agencies. Detailed information on specific programs may be found in the 1970 publication mentioned above, or the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance published by the Office of Management and Budget. S00716-001 Financial Accounting System via Transmission (FAST). Budget Function/Subfunction: Water resources and power (301). Agency Contact: Warren W. Wilson, Program Coordina tion and Finance. 343-4691. The Bureau of Reclamation maintains an automated accounting system entitled Financial Accounting System via Transmission (FAST). The system interfaces with the Denver payroll, motor vehicle, shop orders, and heavy equipment systems. Reports at the bureau, regional field office, sub-office, division, branch, section and unit level are prepared monthly and reflect project cost percentage of completion data. Accrual accounting is used. S00716-002 SKYCOM. Budget Function/Subfunction: Water resources and power (301). Agency Contact: F. Politte, Division of Atmospheric Water Resources. 343-3091. SKYCOM is a data base management system used by the Bureau of Reclamation, which interfaces with the National Meteorological Center in Suitland, Maryland. This system updates and stores weather observations and forecasts used in the field in weather modification experiments. It allows the field user to have the latest possible forecasts and observed weather available to him for real-time decision making. S00716-003 Colorado River System Power/Production Model (CRSP). Budget Function/Subfunction: Water resources and power (301). Agency Contact: R. W. Cheney, Bureau of Reclamation. 524-5573. The CRSP system provides day-to-day guidelines on the operation of the entire Colorado River system for power production, irrigation requirements, fish and wildlife, etc. It also provides long-range projections to schedule more development, salinity control, etc. S00718-001 BPA Cost Accounting and Budget System (CABS). Budget Function/Subfunction: Water resources and power (301). Agency Contact: R. Dale Hilts, Branch of Finance and Accounts. (503) 234-4661. The Bonneville Power Administration currently maintains an automated accounting system entitled Cost Accounting and Budget System (CABS). Accounting principles and standards and the accounting system have been approved by GAO. The system interfaces with payroll, personnel, material accounting, plant accounting, construction program planning, scheduling and budgeting of other systems which make use of the CABS data base. There are statutory requirements for a commercial type audit and certification of financial statements, issuance of an annual report (repayment basis) and conformity with FPC uniform system of accounts. Costs are reported at several levels and compared with the budget on a biweekly basis. The system also reports on project status. S00718-002 Power--Ecological Balance Model. Budget Function/Subfunction: Water resources and power (301). Agency Contact: W. L. Morse, Branch of Power Resources, Bonneville Power Administration. (503) 2344469. As the Northwest enters the era of thermal power generation an in situ relationship between generation and ecological balance will develop. Hence, this computerized mathematical model will serve as a generation estimator based on distribution estimates for various ecological species (fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton, etc.). In addition to in situ temporal fish counts, other exogenous variables will include weather, water quality parameters (temperature, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen chlorophyll, ph, phosphates, turbidity, toxicity, etc.), and streamflows. This program will provide linkage between the streamflow model and the water temperature model providing the Bonneville Power Administration with a total environmental water quantity-quality package to assist in the complex water management which will be demanded by future hydro-thermal power operations. Department of Justice S00800-001 Justice Retrieval and Inquiry System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Federal law enforcement and prosecution (751). Agency Contact: Arthur C. Smith, III, Office of Management and Finance. 739-5131. The Justice Retrieval and Inquiry System (JURIS) is a powerful on-line computer system that makes available from a central source, the full text of documents used for legal research. Documents may be viewed in several display formats; citation lists and keyword-in-context excerpts are available, as well as the full text of documents. The JURIS data base is composed of the following sources of legal information: (1) United States Federal Caselaw: U.S. Reports (Supreme Court Decisions) since 1903; Court of Claims Decisions since 1956; selected Criminal Decisions of the District of Columbia Superior Court; selected Criminal Decisions of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; and District and Circuit Court Decisions. (2) Statutory Law: the 1970 edition of the U.S. Code, through Supplement II plus all Public Laws subsequent to Supplement II; all Executive Orders still in effect; and 15 titles of the Code of Federal Regulations (1974 edition). (3) Work product files from the Department of Justice: Over 4,000 briefs from the selected litigating divisions and U.S. Attorney's Offices; Criminal Briefs for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; and Criminal Briefs for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Special files are maintained which contain abstracts of documents related to the IBM Antitrust Case (30,000 documents), the Goodyear and Firestone Antitrust Cases (80,000 documents), and criminal investigations by the Maryland and District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's offices. S00800-002 Legal Activities and General Administration (LAGA) Accounting System. Budget Function/Subfunction: Federal law enforcement and prosecution (751). Agency Contact: Arthur C. Smith, III, Office of Management and Finance. 739-5131. This system maintains and processes financial information and related controls for reporting to LAGA management the financial and operational status of each major LAGA activity; maintaining control and accountability of all funds, obligations, expenditures, costs and revenues for which LAGA organizations are responsible; for preparing budget requests and controlling budget execution; and for reporting to the Treasury Department, |