Program: Naval Reactor Development; Weapons Activities; Special Materials Production; High Energy Physics; Research and Technology; Production, Demonstration, and Distribution Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; House Committee on Appropriations: Public Works Subcommittee; House Committee on Science and Technology; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Public Works Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Authority: Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: The MMP serves as the annual DOE nuclear materials planning document for the production distribution and utilization of these materials for the ensuing 12-year planning period. It contains significant materials management issues requiring top DOE management attention, e.g., the Budget Review Committee (BRC) and the Secretary and identifies risks and options which could affect planned materials management actions. This document is provided to the OMB to be used as a background information for reviewing the DOE budget. Input: The basic input to the MMP is the nine field offices individual MMP's. Basic parts include: (1) materials management program (2) material usage schedule, (3) risk/contingency plans for meeting inventory targets, (4) options to reduce budget expenditures through materials management action, (5) options and risks involved in affecting target inventories, and (6) analytical studies. The nuclear materials include: (1) enriched uranium, (2) weapon grade plutonium, (3) fuel grade plutonium, (4) power grade plutonium, (5) tritium, (6) plutonium-238, (7) uranium-233, and (8) heavy water. Section II title "Weapons Production Planning" is prepared by the Military Applications Division. The “Enriched Uranium Analysis" is prepared by the Uranium Resources and Enrichment Division. Content: The MMP shows the DOE supply/demand situation for the eight nuclear materials (as shown under input) for the 12-year planning period. Significant materials management issues are identified for top DOE management attention. The MMP is prepared annually and it is published in September of each year. It is consistent with the DOE budget submission to OMB. Agency Contact: Energy Technology. (301) 353-5021. put: No specific output is produced. This is primarily a reference source. Agency Contact: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (202) 275-4122. RESOURCE APPLICATIONS 101305-001 Rare-Earth Information Center (RIC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Content: The Center answers inquiries for a minimum service charge of $25. Call the Center for the details of this policy. It makes referrals; provides extensive surveys and in-depth analyses on a costrecovery basis; prepares and publishes reviews, bibliographies, and compilations at irregular intervals; publishes RIC NEWS, a quarterly newsletter containing items of current interest concerning the science and technology of the rare earths; and maintains a file of journal articles, reports, books, and translations concerned with the rare earths. Files are accessible for onsite use by prior arrangements. Agency Contact: Resource Applications. (515) 214-2272. CONSERVATION AND SOLAR APPLICATIONS FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION 101304-001 Official FERC Files and Records. OMB Funding Title/Code: Salaries and Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Purpose: The purpose is to centrally control and maintain the official regulatory files and records of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Input: External source input includes required reports and regulatory applications and filings submitted by electric utilities, natural gas companies, and oil pipeline companies. Internal input includes staff analyses, legal papers, and other data submitted by the Commission, FERC staff and other Federal sources such as the Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal courts. Content: The information consists of reports and other information concerning electric utilities, natural gas companies, and oil pipeline companies subject to the Commission's jurisdiction, including annual reports, natural gas producer, gas pipeline, and electric rate schedules and tariffs, and volumes of Commission notices, orders, and opinions. Also maintained are docket sheets on all cases filed, the official service lists of the Commission, and service registers listing those upon whom notices, orders, decisions, or opinions were served. Out 101306-001 National Solar Heating and Cooling Information Center. Program: Solar Energy Development; Solar Heating and Cooling; Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee. Authority: Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-409). Solar Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-473). Energy Conservation and Production Act (P.L. 94-385). Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). Availability: All data that are provided directly by the Center are unclassified, nonproprietary, and available to Government agencies, business and industry, and the general public without cost. Information provided by other sources available to the Center may have to be purchased. Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: The National Solar Heating and Cooling Information Center was established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in cooperation with the Department of Energy (DOE), as part of a Federal program to foster American energy sufficiency. Input: Information and data (e.g., reports, studies, proposals, grants) from HUD and DOE laboratories and contractors, universities, consultants, organizations, and private citizens are sources of input. The Center has a computer tie-in with the DOE Energy Data Base, which is maintained by the DOE Technical Information Center. Content: The Center maintains a collection of books, reports, periodicals, directories, and demonstration data. Information is available on a variety of topics related to solar heating and cooling, including flat plate solar collectors, thermal storage systems, solar water heating, solar marketing potential, and economic aspects of solar heating and cooling. The Center maintains on computer, information on locations of solar buildings, state and federal solar legislation, and addresses of solar manufacturers, distributors, builders, architects, and installers. Approximately 45 publications, including bibliographies, summary sheets, and pamphlets are distributed by the Center. Literature searches through DOE/RECON are performed on request. All information is provided by the Center at no cost, and is available to government agencies, business and industry, building professionals, and the general public. Information is disseminated in response to written requests or to requests received through the toll free telephone numbers: 800/523-2929; Pennsylvania: 800/462-4983. Output: Based on existing and new information from the DOE Oak Ridge Technical Information Center, the Center maintains or is developing a voluminous listing of state-ofthe-art reports, periodicals, books, buyers' guides, and a directory of solar energy uses and users. Literature searches will be performed on request. The Center provides exhibits and the names of organizations that will furnish topical speakers. Information on grant applications (e.g., eligibility and timing for application submission) is available. The Center is establishing a centralized data bank of information. Agency Contact: Conservation and Solar Applications. (202) 3769131. 101306-002 Center for Energy Studies (CES). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Availability: For publications, contact Jerry Matthews, Energy Information Services, ENS 302, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 Geographic Relevance: National; State; County; City Purpose: The Center for Energy Studies (CES) was established to provide a central liaison for energy research and educational activities and to provide a formal focal point for the collection and dissemination of energy information. Content: The Center was given a broad mandate to initiate, stimulate and provide liaison for multidisciplinary energy programs. To date, programs have been initiated or enlarged in the following areas: Geothermal, energy conservation, coal and lignite, solar and wind power, nuclear, oil and gas, new fuels, electric power, and environmental effects. Output: The Center has conducted several major policy studies for Federal, State, and local governments. Agency Contact: Conservation and Solar Applications. (512) 4717792. ENVIRONMENT 101307-001 Transportation Accident Environmental Data Bank. OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Program: Division of Waste Management Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Authority: Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: The maintenance of the Transportation Accident Environmental Data Bank involves the active pursuing of sources of new data, the updating of indices, and responding to official users who wish to obtain environmental data. Input: User requests for nonexisting data are expected to be the major contributor to this identification. It is anticipated that when needs for new data are identified, feasible methods of obtaining these data will also be recognized. Recommendations for acquisition of needed data will be made. Content: Nuclear safety data related to transporting and handling radioactive materials is contained. Various types of output are available by contacting the laboratories. Agency Contact: Environment. (505) 264-5678. 101307-003 Denver Regional Energy-Environmental Information Center. Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Appropriations: In- Purpose: The Regional Energy/Environment Information Center has been established in the Conservation Library of the Denver Public Library (DPL) to act as a clearinghouse for energy and environmental information to the 10-state Rocky Mountain-Plains Region. Input: Information is provided by the Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Department of Commerce. Content: The Center offers information on energy conservation and consumption, conventional and alternative energy sources, the social and economic impact of environmental decisions, and policy development. Agency Contact: Environment. (301) 353-4664. 101307-004 Information Center for Energy Safety (ICES). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Costs / 89-0203-0-1-270. Program: Environment Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee. Authority: Energy Conservation and Production Act (P.L. 94-385). Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (P.L. 94-163). Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). Availability: Since ICES is currently under development, access to the information is limited to Federal agencies, their contractors, and selected industrial concerns. Geographic Relevance: International Purpose: The Information Center for Energy Safety (ICES) was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Energy Research and Development Administration as a national center for collecting, storing, evaluating, and disseminating safety information essential to the development and use of several nonnuclear forms of energy. Input: Energy safety information is collected by information specialists who scan all available sources-literature, meetings, personal contacts among experts in the field, screen out those of pertinence, separate the sources into ICES's subject areas, and abstract and enter into the ICES storage and retrieval system. Content: Energy safety is related to the following energy technologies; Solarthe energy as derived directly from the sun's radiance; coal-the energy obtained directly from the burning of coal; coal conversion and utilization-the energy and source chemicals obtained by conversion of coal; oil, gas, and shale technology-the energy obtained by conversion of these fuels; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)-the energy obtained by direct conversion of fuel to electricity; thermonuclear-the engineering, metallurgical, and physical science requirements associated with plasma containment; geothermal-the energy obtained from geothermal sources; wind-the energy obtained from wind sources; electrical energy systems-the storage, transmis sion, and use of electrical energy; transportation and storage-containment, storage, and transfer of energy other than electricity; and advanced systems-the energy obtained from advanced sources. Output: The output consists of answers to technical inquiries, state-ofart reviews, periodic dissemination of information, monthly material in National Safety Council R and D Newsletter, bibliographies and abstracts, and consultation with staff members. Agency Contact: Environment. (301) 353-4682. 101307-005 Argonne Code Center (ACC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Program: Program Management and Support Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee. Authority: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-438). Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). Availability: The Center serves persons and institutions with a professional interest in computer software in Agency program areas. Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: The Argonne Code Center is sponsored by DOE and was established in 1960. It serves as a central information agency and library for computer software and data collections developed under DOE funding for DOE offices and contractors, U.S. Government and contracting agencies, research and educational institutions, and industrial concerns, consistent with guidelines established by DOE headquarters program divisions. Input: The Center operates primarily through installation representatives at cooperating U.S. Government and contracting agencies, research and educational institutions, and industrial concerns engaged in nuclear science, reactor development, and other DOE program areas. Content: The Center collects, reviews, maintains, and distributes computer programs, systems, and associated documentation; tests and evaluates library programs to facilitate use by persons or installations other than the originators; answers technical inquiries; assists others in program implementation and conversion; maintains worldwide communications with similar information centers; and coordinates acquisitions of non-Government software. Output: The system prepares and publishes the Computer Program Abstract reports describing the Center's library collection and the Computer Program Summaries Report describing DOE-funded computer program development efforts; performs literature searches, maintains information files, and compiles bibliographies of computer program literature in DOE program areas; issues Software Newsletters containing information on commercial software packages, programs, and systems developed by other Government agencies; publishes and maintains The American Nuclear Society Mathematics and Computation Division's benchmark problem book; and participates in preparation of standards and guidelines directed to effective exchange of computer programs. Agency Contact: Environment. (312) 739-7711. 101307-006 Biomedical Computing Technology Information Center (BCTIC). Availability: BCTIC publications are available for sale by the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161. Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: BCTIC provides a national computing technology resource to clinical medical practice and to biomedical research and development. The purposes are continuing assessment of the stateof-the-art, fostering of exchange of computing technology, avoiding of duplication of efforts, promoting effective cost savings and advancement of the state-of-the-art. Input: BCTIC serves its sponsors' programs by providing technology transfer and services, thereby improving the exchange of information among research and medical groups. It provides the means for collaboration among members of the user community; focuses attention on outstanding problems of mutual concern; advances the technology through the "open code/data concept"; and provides training in the implementation of the specialized software and hardware interface designs. Content: Early emphasis is on computer applications in nuclear medicine, and all technology will be considered in the information analysis center. Long-range goals include an extension to biomedical research on a wider scale and an in-depth consideration of biomedical data. Output: The principal output is the publication and maintenance of a directory of nuclear medicine research centers, hospitals, laboratories, and clinics that use computers and a handbook of the computing technology utilized by each; and a periodic newsletter which covers current activities, literature accession lists, and news of current work and problems in the user community. Topical meetings are held and the proceedings are published as state-of-the-art reviews or generalized surveys. The Center answers inquiries, publishes abstracts of the computer code, and publishes and fills requests for data packages. Technical conferring services and personal assistance to visitors to the Center are provided. Purpose: The Biomedical Sciences Section is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, Environmental Protection Agency, National Institutes of Health (National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences), and Department of Energy. Input: BIOSCI component interactive groups represent a multidisciplinary cross section in the life sciences: Biomedical Studies Group; Data Extraction and Analysis Group; Environmental Mutagen Information Center; Environmental Teratology Information Center; and Toxicology Information Response Center. Content: System services include toxicology literature collection and evaluation; toxicology data extraction and data base building; toxicology state-of-the-art reviews; and toxicology consultation. Output: The output is state-of-the-art reviews; data extraction for computerized surrogate chemical handbook file; collection, analysis, and computer storage of chemically induced mutagen and teratogen information; and a broad-based toxicology information gathering and analysis response service. Agency Contact: Environment. (615) 483-8611. 101307-008 Ecological Sciences Information Center (ESIC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Program: Environment Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee. Authority: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-438). Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). Availability: Bibliographies are available from NTIS. Resources and services in the Center are available to all individuals. Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: ESIC compiles comprehensive, technically detailed, computer-retrievable data bases and answers information requests from researchers and decisionmakers in the Department of Energy's program in bioenvironmental research. Input: Input is from technical papers and reports, computerized data bases, and bibliographies. Content: Data are maintained on the following: environmental effects of nuclear fuel cycles and electric power generation; the global effects of carbon dioxide, and fossil fuel combustion; environmental effects, transport, and health hazards of radio-nuclides; environmental and health effects of coal conversion pollutants; ecological effects of thermal power stations; ecological effects of temperature, biocides, impingement, and entrainment; uranium mining and milling; and environmental and health aspects of the transuranics. Output: Reviews and/or bibliographies on thermal effects of aquatic systems, effects of entrainment, and environmental aspects of the transuranics are published on a regular basis. A number of specialized bibliographies and literature overviews are also published. In-depth literature searches using computerized data bases and extensive library facilities are provided. Agency Contact: Environment. (301) 353-4682. 101307-009 Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Inventory. Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: The Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Inventory was established in 1971 and is sponsored by the Department of Energy. The Inventory is a computerized file containing descriptions of current energy-related research done or sponsored in the United States. The scope of interest is broad and includes: all energy sources-fossil fuels, nuclear, and unconventional; electric power generation, transmission, distribution, and storage; energy uses and conservation-heating and cooling, lighting, appliances, industrial processes, transportation, agriculture; economic and legal aspects; and environmental and health effects. In relation to these subjects, information on exploration, mining, processing, resources and reserve studies, and basic or applied research and engineering development is of interest. Input: The input is from books, monographs, reports, journals, and data in the subject area. Content: The descriptions of energy research projects are arranged by subject categories and consist of (when available) title, research institution and city, sponsor, principal investigator(s), project duration, funding level, description of research, number of technical personnel assigned to the project, type of research (basic, applied, and/or developmental), and publications. Keywords and secondary subject categories, when needed, are also added to the project descriptions. Various statistical summary tables on funding are included in the published version of the Inventory. Statistical studies of the measurement of coverage and the representativeness of the Inventory projects are conducted and summarized in the published Inventory. Output: The system prepares inventories of descriptions of energy-related research and development progress. The third and latest issue (in five volumes), dated January 1976, is entitled Inventory of Energy Research and Development: 1973-1975, and is available from the Su perintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Agency Contact: Environment. (615) 483-8611. 101307-010 Environmental Information Analysis Center (EIAC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: Sponsored by the Department of Energy Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research, the Battelle-Columbus Laboratories Environmental Information and Analysis Center provides a regionally oriented data system utilizing the resources of the EIAC. Input: The input is monographs, reports, journals, books, and data in the subject area. Content: Originally, the EIAC played an important role in support of the field data collection requirements for the bioenvironmental and radiological safety feasibility study for a nuclear excavated sea level canal and for support of the AEC Division of Military Applications supplementary test site bioenvironmental study on Amchitka. The cycling and transport of radionuclides in complex ecosystems has received major emphasis, with special consideration given to tritium, plutonium, and nuclear powerplant siting. The operational scope has continued to expand in support of the Department of Energy program for the development of a new, more comprehensive thesaurus of terms required to identify the broad environmental and technological considerations relevant to this task. Output: Currently, EIAC is updating the bibliography on the bioenvironmental effects associated with nuclear powerplants to identify the more recent literature collected and used as background information in the preparation of general environmental siting guides for nuclear powerplants-topics and bases. Agency Contact: Environment. (614) 424-6424. 101307-011 Environmental Mutagen Information Center (EMIC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Program: Assistant Secretary for Environment Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee. Authority: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-438). Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). Availability: Services from the Center are provided free to the sponsoring agencies and their contractors. Others in the interested scientific community are served on a full cost recovery basis. Services are provided free on a mutual information exchange basis to American, European, Japanese, and Indian environmental mutagen societies and their members. Publications may be obtained from the Mutagenesis Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Services, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 or NTIS. Geographic Relevance: International; National Purpose: The Environmental Mutagen Information Center is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Department of Energy. The Center was established in 1969 and maintains a data base on the mutagenic activity of chemicals. Input: The sources of information are books, monographs, reports, journals and data collected from experimenters in subject area. Content: The system contains information on the mutagenic activities of chemicals, the identification of chemicals capable of inducing mutations. Output: The system publishes yearly compilations of the chemical mutagenesis literature activities of chemicals and the and prepares state-of-the-art reports. The EMIC data base is available via two on-line computer networks, TOXLINE and RECON. TOXLINE is maintained by the National Library of Medicine, and RECON is maintained by ERDA. Agency Contact: Environment. (615) 483-8611. interest and conducts literature searches, prepares compilations of data and information, and supplies interpretations and recommendations to the committees on Radiological Protection and the National Council on Radiation Protection Measurement. Agency Contact: Environment. (615) 483-8611. 101307-012 Environmental Responses Center (ERC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Costs / 89-0203-0-1-270. Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: The facility provides referral services and responds to needs throughout the Department of Energy. It offers in-depth literature services, using computerized data bases, and answers environmental questions posed by the scientific community, government agencies, and industry. Input: The facility develops specialized data bases and document collections. Content: Capabilities range broadly across the environmental damage and control spectrum from energy technologies to hazardous substances. Output: Many products and services are available through ERC. These include information overview monographs, abstract journals, newsletters, topical reviews, annotated bibliographies, management information systems, tabular data extraction, data base creation, directory and distribution services, and maintenance of environmental data resource file in hardcopy, microfiche, and magnetic tape form. The ERC also provides response and referral services including in-depth literature services, using computerized data bases and extensive library facilities; answering of specific environmental questions posed by the scientific community, Government agencies, industry, and others; the publication of bibliographies as natural byproducts of the response service; and technical survey activities. Agency Contact: Environment. (301) 353-4682. 101307-013 Information Center for Internal Exposure. OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Program: Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee. Authority: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-438). Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). Availability: Work is performed primarily for Government agencies, their contractor laboratories, and for NCRP and ICRP committees. Inquiries from other sources are honored as workload permits. Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: The Information Center for Internal Exposure is sponsored by the Department of Energy, Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research. Original work of the Center started in 1948; it was formally established in 1965. Input: The sources are books, monographs, journals, reports, and data in the subject area. Content: The Center is concerned with the estimation of dosage received from internally deposited radionuclides; calculation of maximum permissable concentrations of radionuclides in air, water, and food; body-burden calculations; and analysis of information relevant to metabolic questions involved in estimating internal exposure. Output: The Center answers inquiries on topics within the scope of 101307-014 Toxic Materials Information Center (TMIC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Program: Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee. Authority: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-438). Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). Availability: The Center produces an annual directory of program personnel and maintains management information systems of all grants of the program. It also produces a bimonthly abstract journal, NSF-RANN Trace Contaminants Abstracts, which reports the research results which have been published by investigators in the Environmental Aspects of Trace Contaminants Program, Research Applied to National Needs: National Science Foundation. This publication is available upon request. Geographic Relevance: National Purpose: Established in 1972, the Toxic Materials Information Center serves as the major information facility for the NSF-RANN Environmental Aspects of Trace Contaminants Program and its grantees. TMIC performs multiple information functions for this program and acts as a focal point for exchange of information between researchers and users of the data obtained by the researchers. Input: Books, monographs, journals, reports, and data collected from experimenters in the subject field are the sources of input. Content: The content of TMIC centers on environmental levels of toxic materials and their consequences. Since this is a RANN (Research Applied to National Needs) program, national priorities have determined the priority ordering of the materials emphasized. For the first four years the toxic metals were the first priority, but the emphasis is shifting to synthetic and natural organic compounds (primarily non-energy-related industrial chemicals). TMIC is a component center of the Environmental Resource Center, Information Center Complex, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It shows the extensive environmental data bases and in-house literature collections housed at ORNL and maintains several specialized collections on trace contaminants and environmental transports. Output: The Center prepares comprehensive information overviews on the environmental, health, and control aspects of selected trace contaminants to provide in a readily accessible form to members of the scientific community such as administrators, decision-makers, and researchers information needed to assess the effect of such pollutants on the environment and on humans. It answers specific inquiries regarding environmental levels of pollutants and maintains an up-to-date listing of criteria and standards available in this area; provides references to documents and to current research and development projects; conducts literature searches; and publishes data compilations and bibliographies. Agency Contact: Environment. (615) 483-8611. 101307-015 Water Resources Center (WRC). OMB Funding Title/Code: Operating Expenses / 89-0203-0-1-270. Program: Nevada Operations Office Congressional Recipient: House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; House Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Committee on Appropriations: Interior Subcommittee. Authority: Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-438). Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L. 95-91). |