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PARE! fiV Vastista'1 fiy" achine, o Desk, I Oak Pt able, / Lintfi a Cabin , BendiS Style F as, Ffe® ocksel,t| dWinc Sooksltl ol Thief I 3 6:00 Pf i Huny 1 ■{ 9 s “ j hardlif ig st« / 70. irm. I vs :ond®iJ 10.! e»i ft , .eiiiui^ > uiuiiic* ii, i mil ouiiiiiiiti y ^ ’ Report, of the Water Quatlity lanageinent Plan for the Brazos asin. This document is the sec ond of two volumes w'hich com prise the Water Quality Manage- fromTAitr ment Plan for the Brazos Basin, ntiousfoal Volume II, Plan Summary Report, presents the recommended plans For water quality management and , . the legal, financial, and institu- _ e ^ tional requirements of each plan. "^1 R \lso included in Volume II are de- icriptions of feasible alternatives, kith (COJ an envin nmental assessment, and 79-132< j summary of the public participa tion activities conducted during he development of the plan. The Water Quality Management Plan For the Brazos Basin has been de- iwd,ranis veloped to satisfy the require- l,er23( ments of Section 26.036 Texas Water Code, as amended, and Section 208 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and pur suant to Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Parts 130 and 131 and the State of Texas Co ng Planning Process. The public hear ing shall be conducted in com pliance with Section 26.037, Texas Water Code, as amended. The study area for this plan in cludes most of the Brazos Basin. This plan does not address the planning required in the Killeen-Temple Designated Areawide Planning Area; detailed planning within that area is being provided through the develop ment of the Killeen-Temple Areawide Waste Treatment Man agement Plan and will not be con sidered at this hearing. Copies of the Volume II, Plan Summary Report, are available for public inspection. Review of Vol ume II, Plan Summary Report, at one of the following locations is encouraged due to the limited number of copies available for dis tribution: Texas Department of Water Resources Office, Stephen F. Austin Building, 1700 North Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas; Texas Department of Water Re sources District 1 Office, Amarillo Building, 301 S. Polk, Room 306, Amarillo, Texas 79106; Texas De partment of Water Resources Dis trict 2 Office, 4819 Avenue Q, Lubbock, Texas 79412; Texas De partment of Water Resources Dis trict 4 Office, 203 James Collins Blvd., Duncanville, Texas 75116; Texas Department of Water Re sources District 7 Office, 2318 Center Street, Deer Park, Texas 77536; Texas Department of Water Resources District 9 Office, 133 West Concho, San Angelo, Texas 76903; Brazos River Author ity, P.O. Box 7555, Waco, Texas 76710. The public is encouraged to attend the hearing and to present evi dence or opinions concerning Vol ume II, Plan Summary Report. The Department would appreciate receiving a copy of all written tes timony at least five (5) days before the hearing. Requests for indi vidual copies of the Volume II, Plan Summary Report, questions about the report or the public hearing, and copies of written tes timony should be addressed to Jackson H. Kramer, Texas De partment of Water Resources, P. 0. Box 13087, Capitol Station, Austin, Texas 78711, or call (512) 475-3454. When requesting a copy or sending a query by mail, please include your complete return ad dress and telephone number. The date selected for this hearing is intended to comply with dead lines set by statute and regulation. Any publication or receipt of this notice less than thirty calendar days prior to the hearing date is due to the necessity of scheduling the hearing on the date selected. This public hearing may be con tinued in order to fully develop the evidence. Issued this the 18th day of August, 1978. n-.r Rf Conoco employees receive computer advice on energy United Press International HOUSTON — Continental Oil Co. has begun offering free com puterized home energy efficiency evaluations to its 40,000 employees and retirees and even tually plans to make the idea a- vailable to other organizations. Project ECHO (Energy Con servation in the Home) involves mailing questionnaires to Conoco employees and compiling their return-mail answers through the company computer. The computer then responds what, if any, changes could be made and the resulting cost sav- ings. “By doing this, we should be providing people the kind of in formation they need to make a responsible judgment, ” said Ken R. Gerhart, program director. “I don’t think most people can do that. I know I couldn’t. “We’ve all been hollered at a lot about being wastefid, but I really don’t know where it is we go to find out what we can do that is economically sound. That’s what this is intended to supply.” The mail-out form contains 30 questions, including simple ones such as how many persons occupy the home and more difficult ones like how much wall space is insu lated. Measurements of win dows, doors and insulation often are required. “It probably takes an hour to complete,” Gerhart said. When it is returned, the infor mation is converted to computer data and fed into the machine. Also fed into the machine are company-compiled data about local climate, utility rates, likely cost of insulation or other mea- “We’ve got them (question naires) from nearly every state,” said Gerhart, whose company has headquarters in Stamford, Conn., and Houston as well as operations in several other states. The computer responds whether more insulation, storm windows, storm doors and the like would save money. It also shows money savings from adjust ing the thermostat in 2-degree in crements, depending on the sea son. “It only responds on capital improvements if the installed cost does not exceed the amount they would get back in 10 years,’’ Gerhart said. Since June 1, 13,000 question naires have been mailed out. About 2,000 have been run through the computer. The re sponse has not been overwhelm ing, but Gerhart said question naires are still coming back. “Its response has been some what less than we estimated,” Gerhart said. “I don’t know why. It may just be that people are busy in the summer.” He said they expected — gues sing that one-third of their employees live in other than single-family dwellings and therefore were ineligible — that half of the others (or one-third) would respond. So far, response is about 20 percent. Gerhart said after develop ment costs, which he would not estimate, the system is cheap — “about $5 a head” including mail ings and computer runs. “Were about 80 percent through with deciding how we might make this available to re sponsible people,” Gerhart said. “I don’t think we re too far away from a decision.” He said the computer technol ogy involved is not arcane, but it’s not run-of-the-mill either. Still, he said companies and organiza tions could pool equipment to do the job. “Public interest groups could do it,” he said. “What it needs is a good promotion. You need people knowing about it and wanting it.” New blood cell paternity test used Findings show twins have 2 dads United Press International LOS ANGELES — A test for paternity using white blood cells in stead of red ctdls has identified two fathers for a set of twins, an occur rence so rare it could happen about once in one million times under the right conditions. Dr. Paul Terasaki of the Univer sity of California, who developed the so-called HLA test, said the identifi cation of different fathers for each twin was “striking testimony of the power of HLA typing to determine paternity.” HLA, which stands for Human Leukocyte Antigen, matches tissue types instead of blood types. The probability of accuracy is between 67 and 99 percent with HLA compared with a probability of only 10 percent in the standard A-B-O blood type tests. Terasaki, a professor in surgery, developed the HLA test in 1964 as a means of establishing tissue com- patability for kidney transplants. But it became apparent it also would serve to establish paternity and the first tests for paternity were made in 1972. Since then about 1,000 cases in Southern California have been de termined and the test has been praised by the courts and pro secutors because it has eliminated the necessity for scores of trials. “This is a white blood cell test,” Terasaki said in an interview. “We isolate the white cells from the blood, more specifically the cell called leukocyte, and we test that cell against a wide range of reagents. “That determines HLA types. Only about one in every 1,000 per sons will have the same tissue types.” The remarkable efficacy of HLA typing is attributed to the fact that the factors tested are rare in the population, Terasaki aid. “Thus, if a putative (suspected) father shares a combination of HLA types with a child, it is highly proba ble that he is in fact the true father. ” The older red blood cell test is so inefficient by comparison, he said, because there are only four blood types — A, B, O and AB. As a result many people have the same blood type and tests to determine differ ences can exclude less than 10 per cent of the suspected fathers. In the case of the twins, the mother and a putative father were initially tested for HLA. It was de termined that both offspring inher ited a determining factor from the mother. But it was further found that the suspected father could definitely be excluded as the father of one twin. The probability of paternity for the other twin, however, was 96.8 per cent. “Because of these seemingly in explicable findings,” Terasaki said, “the mother was asked whether there was any possibility that another man might be involved.” She named another possible father and he also was typed by the HLA test. That gave the testers two puta tive fathers, called father 1 and father 2. And father 2 was excluded as the father of twin 1 but could not be excluded as the father of twin 2. 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Dr. Ken neth Rothman and Dr. Carol Louik, members of the school’s epidemiol ogy department, reviewed birth re cords of 7,723 babies born in 20 Boston-area hospitals. The researchers said among the 2,188 births to women who had not used oral contraceptives in the last three years, the malformation rate was 3.3 percent. For the rest, born to women who had used some form of oral birth con trol, the rate was 3.8 percent. Once that study was concluded, the 5,535 infants of mothers who had used the pill were then divided into two groups. One group consisted of those conceived within a month after the termination of oral contraceptive use, and those conceived after a longer interval. In the 1,448 babies in the first group, the malformation rate was 4.3 percent, the study said. Of the re maining babies, the rate was 3.6 per cent. The comparisons grouped major congenital defects together with minor ones. When only major de fects were compared, users and non-users of the pill had nearly the same rate, 0.55 percent. Several published studies have previously shown a small positive as sociation between hormone use and heart defects, and between hormone use and congenital limb reduction, the report said. However, the relationship seems limited to those infants born to mothers who kept taking hormones during the early stages of pregnancy, the researchers said. HUNTER’S CREEK STABLE BOARDING HORSES Teaching English & Western Training near campus. located hwy 6 E bypass take hwy 30 exit S on E frontage Rd Vz mile College Station, Texas 693-6482 bus. 846-0851 hm. 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