Department of Interior

Mineral Industry Surveys (Fourth Quarter 1989), U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C., May 5,1990. 

The seminal discovery that transformed membrane separation from a laboratory to an industrial process was the development, in the early 1960s, of the Loeb-Sourirajan process for making defect-free, high flux, asymmetric reverse osmosis membranes (5). These membranes consist of an ultrathin, selective surface film on a microporous support, which provides the mechanical strength. The flux of the first Loeb-Sourirajan reverse osmosis membrane was 10 times higher than that of any membrane then avaUable and made reverse osmosis practical. The work of Loeb and Sourirajan, and the timely infusion of large sums of research doUars from the U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Saline Water (OSW), resulted in the commercialization of reverse osmosis (qv) and was a primary factor in the development of ultrafiltration (qv) and microfiltration. The development of electro dialysis was also aided by OSW funding. 

U.S. Department of Interior. (2000). Hoover Dam National Historic Landmark. . 

Compiled from the following reports of the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines Rl 5753, The Explosibility of Agricultural Dusts Rl 6516, Explosibility of Metal Powders Rl 5971, Explosibility of Dusts Used in the Plastics Industry Rl 6597, Explosibility of Carbonaceous Dusts Rl 7132, Dust Explosibility of Chemicals, Drugs. Dyes and Pesticides and Rl 7208, Explosibility of Miscellaneous Dusts.)... 

U. S. Department of Interior, Patuxent Wildlife Center, Laurel, Md. 20810 ALVIN L. YOUNG ... 

Aluminium, MCP-14, Bureau of Mines, United States Department of Interior, May 1978. 

T. Hirai and I. Komasawa, Separation of Europium from Sm, Eu, Gd Mixture by Photoreductive Stripping in Solvent Extraction Process, Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 34, p. 237,1995. Titanium, MCP-18, Bureau of Mines, United States Department of Interior, August 1978. 

DOE = Department of Energy DOI = Department of Interior Source FEDRIP2000... 

EMSL, Environmental Monitoring Support Laboratory EPIC, Environmental Photographic Information Center DOA, Department of Agriculture DOI, Department of Interior FIT, Field Investigation Team TAT, Technical Assistance Team. 

Daugherty, G. V., Acting Superintendent, United States Department of Interior, National Park Service, Three Rivers, California, collected the Sequoia gigantea and sent it to us, 1976. 

Table V displays data recorded at the test facility in Roswell, New Mexico, maintained by the Office of Water Research and Technology, U. S. Department of Interior. This facility delivers a feed of brackish water pretreated to control bacterial growth and to deliver a feed free of chlorine. Modules 148 and 152 were nominally identical samples. They are constructed of fiber bundles approximately 2 inches in diameter, 10 inches in length and containing approximately 25 square feet of membrane surface area. The increase in productivity over time can be explained by an increase in feed temperature over the course of the test. The decline in rejection of module 148 is not fully understood. However, it is probable that the decline is similarly the responsibility of a temperature increase. Recent data indicates a stabilization at a rejection level of 94%.

Svec HJ, Fritz JS, Calder GV. 1974. Trace soluble organic compounds in potable water supplies. Report to U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Water Resources Research, by Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry, Ames, lA. NTIS No. PB-228523. 

Kolker, A., Finkelman, R. B., Affolter, R. H. Brownfield, M. E. 2000. The composition of coal combustion by-products examples from a Kentucky power plant. In Vories-Kimery, C. Throgmorton, D. (eds) The Use and Disposal of Coal Combustion By-Products at Coal Mines A Technical Interactive Forum. US Department of Interior, Office of Surface Mining. Alton, IL, United States and Southern Illinois University, Coal Research Center, Carbondale, IL, 15-24. 

Kuivila KM. 1993. Diazinon concentrations in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and San Francisco Bay, California, February 1993. In Water Fact Sheet, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior. 

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