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Design of Studies for Development of BPA Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Accounting Policy Phase II, Volume I, 1985-1988 Summary Report.

Kneese, Allen V. - 2008

As the mitigation prescribed by the Regional Act proceeds, the incremental costs of corrective measures to lessen the environmental impacts of the hydroelectric system are expected to increase and difficult questions to arise about the costs, effectiveness, and justification of alternative...

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IRP methods for Environmental Impact Statements of utility expansion plans

Cavallo, J.D.; Hemphill, R.C.; Veselka, T.D. - 2008

Most large electric utilities and a growing number of gas utilities in the United States are using a planning method -- Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) - which incorporates demand-side management (DSM) programs whenever the marginal cost of the DSM programs are lower than the marginal cost of...

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IRP methods for Environmental Impact Statements of utility expansion plans

Cavallo, J.D.; Hemphill, R.C.; Veselka, T.D. - 2008

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A Life Cycle Analysis System to Support D and D, Pollution Prevention, and Asset Recovery

Bishop, L.; Tonn, B.E.; Yuracko, K.L. - 2008

This paper describes a life cycle analysis system (LCAS) developed to support US Department of Energy (DOE) decision-making regarding deactivation and decommissioning (D and D), pollution prevention (P2), and asset recovery, and its deployment to analyze the disposition of facilities and capital...

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Supplementation in the Columbia Basin : Summary Report Series : Final Report.

United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2009

-standing concerns about the need to coordinate supplementation research, monitoring and evaluation. Such coordination was also … monitoring and evaluation activities in the basin. Providing for the participation of the fishery agencies and tribes and others … stocks, streams, and supplementation strategies; (9) regional design of supplementation evaluation and monitoring; (10 …

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A geostatistical methodology to assess the accuracy of unsaturated flow models

Smoot, J.L.; Williams, R.E. - 2009

Hydrologic unsaturated sediments at the Hanford Site in Evaluation Methodology (HEM) to assist the Washington State was used to … raised in the HEM: (1) evaluation of mathematical model was used to predict water mathematical models that predict facility …

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Application of a prognostic model validation system to real-time dispersion modeling

Pace, J C - 2008

The Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability (ARAC) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory uses the U.S. Navy's Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) to supply high-resolution wind data for use in its real-time dispersion modeling system. ARAC has used COAMPS...

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A procedure for assessing uncertainty in models

McKay, M.D.; Beckman, R.J. - 2008

This paper discusses uncertainty in the output calculation of a model due to uncertainty in inputs values. Uncertainty in input values, characterized by suitable probability distributions, propagates through the model to a probability distribution of an output. Our objective in studying...

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Design of Studies for Development of BPA Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Accounting Policy Phase II, Volume II, 1985-1988 Technical Report.

Kneese, Allen V. - 2008

The incremental costs of corrective measures to lessen the environmental impacts of the hydroelectric system are expected to increase and difficult questions to arise about the costs, effectiveness, and justification of alternative measures and their systemwide implications. The BPA anticipate...

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Review of the cost-effectiveness of EPA`s offshore oil and gas effluent guidelines

Veil, J.A. - 2008

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published proposed Effluent Limitation Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards for the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category on March 13, 1991 (56 FR 10664). These guidelines include limitations...

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