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Page 2 - Research and planning (a) The Secretary is authorized in his discretion to engage in research on all phases of highway construction, modernization, development, design, maintenance, safety, financing, and traffic conditions, including the effect thereon of State laws and is authorized to test, develop, or assist in the testing and developing of any material, invention, patented article, or process. The Secretary may publish the results of such research. The Secretary may carry out the authority granted...
Page 22 - April 1962 when some minor earthquakes were recorded. Prior to that time, the area was classified in the Uniform Building Code of the International Conference of Building Officials as Zone 0, meaning a "no damage area.
Page 12 - Standards, responsibility for the conditions in the water supply system shall be considered to be held by: (1) The water purveyor from the source of supply to the connection to the customer's service piping; and (2) The owner of the property served and the municipal, county, or other authority having legal jurisdiction from the point of connection to the customer's service piping to the free-flowing outlet of the ultimate consumer.
Page 60 - Administrator shall develop and demonstrate under varied conditions (including conducting such basic and applied research, studies, and experiments as may be necessary...
Page 28 - Pozzolan shall be a siliceous or siliceous and aluminous material, which in itself possesses little or no cementitious value but which will, in finely divided form and in the presence of moisture, chemically react with calcium hydroxide at ordinary temperatures to form compounds possessing cementitious properties.
Page 60 - Practicable means of treating municipal sewage and other waterborne wastes to remove the maximum possible amounts of physical, chemical, and biological pollutants in order to restore and maintain the maximum amount of the Nation's water at a quality suitable for repeated reuse...
Page 59 - Nation is that of making the relatively fixed supply of water meet a rapidly increasing demand by providing the right quantity of water of the right quality when and where it is needed.
Page 36 - Under proper conditions, wood has proved itself good for centuries of service. Molds, stains, and decay in wood are caused by fungi, which are microscopic plants that must have organic material on which to live, and for some of them wood offers the required food supply. Their growth, however, is dependent upon suitably mild temperature and dampness. Most decay occurs in wood having a moisture content above the fiber- saturation point. Wood that is continuously water-soaked or continuously dry will...
Page 18 - Fabrication and Design of Glued Laminated Wood Structural Members, Technical Bulletin No.
Page 35 - US Forest Products Laboratory, Wood handbook. US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook No. 72, 1955.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Study and Investigations of Use of Materials and New Designs and Methods in Public Works; Committee Prints ... 87-2 ... 1962 |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works |
| Published | 1962 |
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