Table 8.2. List of Data Sources.
Basin and Project Reports and Special Reports:
(1)
U.S. Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers.
(2)
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Mines, Bureau of
Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service.
(3)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service.
(4)
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service.
(5)
State Departments of Water Resources, Departments of Public Works, power authorities, and
planning commissions.
Environmental Data:
(1)
Sanitation and public health -- U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health
Service; State Departments of Public Health.
(2)
Fish and Wildlife -- U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service; State Game and
Fish Departments.
(3)
Municipal and Industrial Water Supplies -- City Water Departments; State Universities; Bureau of
Business Research; State Water Conservation Boards or State Public Works Departments; State
Health Agencies; Environmental Protection Agency, Public Health Service.
(4)
Watershed Management -- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Forest
Service; U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(5)
State Highway Administration.
8.4 COMPUTERIZED LITERATURE AND DATA SEARCH
Recent literature information can be retrieved from computerized databases of technical
information. The principal databases related to highway and river environment are:
COMPENDEX, ENVIRONMENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, CIVIL ENGINEER DATABASE, WATER
RESOURCES ABSTRACTS, TRIS, and GeoRef.
8.4.1 COMPENDEX
1970 - Present, monthly updates (Engineering Information, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey). The
COMPENDEX database is the electronic version of the Engineering Index (Monthly/Annual),
which provides abstracted information from the world's significant engineering and
technological literature. The COMPENDEX database provides worldwide coverage of
approximately 3,500 journals and selected government reports and books.
8.4.2 ENVIRONMENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1971 - Present, bimonthly updates (Environmental Studies Institute of the International
Academy, Santa Barbara, California). The ENVIRONMENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY covers the
fields of general human ecology, atmospheric studies, energy, land resources, water
resources, and nutrition and health. More than 400 periodicals are currently indexed in
ENVIRONMENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY and the database includes more than 1,000 journals.
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