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C. L. Bieniewski, Demand and Supply of Molybdenum in the United States, US Department of the Interior, IC Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8446, Bureau of Mines, 1970. 

Quantities of potassium sulfate produced and consumed as potassium magnesium sulfate [13826-56-7] K2S0-2MgS04, are omitted in the U.S. Department of the Interior reports as classified information. Consumption data for potassium compounds identified as other potassium salts imply that the amount of potassium magnesium sulfate consumed in the United States is about double that of K SO. This gap is expected to widen as soils become more depleted of natural magnesium- and sulfur-containing minerals. 

J. W. Hasler, M. H. Miller, and R. M. Chapman, United States Mineral Eesources Geological Survey Professional Paper 820, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1973, p. 96. 

Burgess, D. S., and M. G. Zabetakis, 1973. Detonation of a flammable cloud following a propane pipeline break, the December 9, 1970 explosion in Port Hudson (MO). Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations No. 7752. United States Department of the Interior. 

Bureau of Land Management, Onshore Oil and Gas Order No. 1 Approval of Operations on Onshore Federal and Indian Oil and Gas Leases, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, D.C., 1983. 

The Bureau of Mines, within the Department of the Interior, funds a substantial amount of chemical engineering research in its in-house laboratories, particularly in the area of hydrometallrugical separation processes. The U.S. minerals industry is currently in a depressed state typified by diminished research efforts within industrial laboratories and, in some cases, wholesale termination of research operations. As a result, new researchers have bleak prospects for industrial employment. At the same time, the United States cannot afford to lose a professional generation of research persormel in an area that would be of critical importance if foreign supplies of certain metals were interrupted. 

J. A. Erdman, B. F. Leonard, D. M. Mckown, A Case for Plants in Exploration Gold in Douglas-Eir at the Red Mountain StockweU, Yellow Pine District, Idaho. United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey, Open-File Report, (1985) 85. 

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. 

Storch HH, Anderson RB, Hofer LJE, Hawk CO, Anderson HC, GolumbicN (1948) Synthetic liquid fuels from hydrogenation of carbon monoxide, Part 1 review of literature. Technical paper 709. United States Department of the Interior, Washington, DC... 

DOI, Recycled Metals in The United States, A Sustainable Resource, U.S. Department of the Interior,... 

Shacklette HT and Boerngen JG. 1972. Elemental composition of surficial materials in the conterminous United States. Washington DC US Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Geological Survey professional paper no. 1270. 

The research on which this report is based was financed in part by the United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, through the Maine Land and Water Resources Center, and by a grant from Central Maine Power Company, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company, and Bangor Hydro-Electric Company. We also acknowledge the typing and corrections of Patricia L. Heal and Ruby Ackert. Contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the United States Department of the Interior, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute their endorsement by the United States Government. 

Dallimore P.J. and R.F. Holub, General Time-Dependent Solutions for Radon Diffusion from Samples Containing Radium, Report of Investigation 8765, Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior, Denver (1982). 

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. 

Acknowledgment is given to Johnson A. Neff, Biologist, United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, for information supplied on control of bird pests. 

This work was supported by NSF Grant No. DAR-8003523. Early work on the toxins was supported by the New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center of the University of New Hampshire, Grant No. AO-47NH, from the Office of Water Research and Technology, United States Department of the Interior as authorized under the Water Research and Development Act of 1978, Public Law 95-467. We also thank Dr. William J. Adelman, Jr., NINCDS, Woods Hole, for performing the voltage-clamp experiments Kurt Auger for superior work in biochemistry and Toshinori Hoshi for studies on the crayfish axons. 

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. 

The experience of the Department of the Interior over the past years has clearly revealed one basic fact—water problems, in one form or another, touch all 50 states of the union. These problems vary from area to area, ranging from shortage to excess. Regardless of the cause, as a nation we can no longer regard with indifference the increasing imbalance between the supply and demand for water in the United States. 

F or some time the United States Department of the Interior has been carrying out a program aimed toward the selection of an economical method of obtaining potable water from sea water. One method investigated at the Battelle Memorial Institute (1) is an adaptation of the zone-purification process which had previously been used satisfactorily in the purification of metals (5). In the process, as applied to purification of sea water, a narrow zone of water is frozen in a tube containing sea water. As this zone is made to traverse the length of the tube, the formation of ice crystals tends to concentrate the salt in the solution ahead of the crystals. This results in the concentration of the salt at one end of the tube and the depletion of salt at the other end. 

In September 1933, the Soil Erosion Service, which later became the Soil Conservation Service, was created in the United States Department of the Interior (Simms, 1970). The next month on October 10, 1933, the first soil erosion control project of the Soil Erosion Service was established in Coon Valley, Wisconsin (Geiger and Keller, 1970). 

The disastrous events of the Dust Bowl led to the Soil Erosion Service Act of 1935. On April 27 of that year, the United States Congress declared soil erosion a national menace in an act directing the USDA to establish a Soil Conservation Service (Wehrwein, 1938). Also in 1935, the Soil Erosion Service was transferred from the United States Department of the Interior to the USDA with Hugh Hammond Bennett as its head (Morgan, 1965). This was soon followed by the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936. The State Soil Conservation Districts model law of 1937 was designed to customize soil conservation measures to reflect more local needs, placing more public focus on agricultural production methods. 

Kopp JF, Kroner RC. 1970. Trace metals in waters of the United States. A five year summary of trace metals in rivers and lakes of the United States (Oct. 1, 1962- Sept. 30, 1967). Cincinnati, OH US Department of the Interior, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, Division of Pollution Surveillance. 

The National Atlas of the United States of America U. S. Department of Interior Geological Survey Washington, DC, 1970. 

Durfor CN, Becker E. 1964. Public water supplies of the 100 largest cities in the United States, 1962. US Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey. Washington, DC US Government Printing Office. Water-Supply 1812. 

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