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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is asking for comments on an Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (EE/CA) and EPA's Recommended Removal Action Alternative to address contamination at the Murdock Groundwater Contamination Site, Murdock, Nebraska. The public comment period runs July 1 - August 1, 2005. The result of past fumigation practices at the former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grain storage facility located in Murdock has resulted in the release of contaminants to groundwater and surface water. more ... [Read More]

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Because many members of the Congress believed action such as Lee proposed to be premature or wanted instructions from their colonies before voting, approval was deferred until July 2. On that date, Congress adopted the first part (the declaration). The affirmative votes of 12 colonies are listed at the right. New York cast no vote until the newly elected New York Convention upheld the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776. ...

Acting under the instruction of the Virginia Convention, Richard Henry Lee on June 7, 1776, introduced a resolution in the Second Continental Congress proposing independence for the colonies. The Lee Resolution contained three parts: a declaration of independence, a call to form foreign alliances, and "a plan for confederation." The document that is included on page 22 is the complete resolution in Richard Henry Lee's handwriting. ... [Read More]

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing a Proposed Plan for Remedial Action to address ground water contamination within the Northern Plume of the Railroad Avenue Superfund site in West Des Moines, Iowa. The action will be taken under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, also known as the Superfund Law. ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is asking for comments on an Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (EE/CA) and EPA's Recommended Removal Action Alternative to address contamination at the Murdock Groundwater Contamination Site, Murdock, Nebraska. The public comment period runs July 1 - August 1, 2005. The result of past fumigation practices at the former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grain storage facility located in Murdock has resulted in the release of contaminants to groundwater and surface water. more ... [Read More]

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The NSCO will decline frivolous complaints and requests. Non-frivolous complaints or requests may be declined due to existing caseload, time or other constraints. The NSCO does not usually acknowledge declined complaints or requests. Frivolous complaints or requests are discarded. A declined non-frivolous complaint or request is forwarded to the appropriate NSC or USCIS office for action. It is the responsibility of that office to contact the complaintant or requester, as appropriate. ... [Read More]

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Did you know that your credit is a key factor in determining if you obtain a home mortgage? A HUD-approved housing counselor can help you understand your credit report and offer ideas to repair bad credit. Find out more about buying a home and locate a housing counselor near you. ... [Read More]

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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission : From Whig to Republican: What Scholars Have Said about the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Abraham Lincoln, and the Origins of the Grand Old Party by Darrel Bigham
This leads us to the third issue— what Lincoln did. Was he a loyal Whig whose initial goal was to rebuild his party? This is the position of many scholars. Carwardine argues, for instance, that in the Peoria speech Lincoln sought to draw anti-slavery radicals and Democrats into a Whig-dominated coalition. Like Fehrenbacher, though, Carwardine does not portray Lincoln as a late-comer to the emerging anti-Nebraska faction. [xlv] By contrast, Randall observed that Lincoln did not refer to the Whig party in his Peoria speech. Miller and most recently Pinsker have argued that Lincoln was from the summer of 1854 onward carefully constructing a new party that used the Whig label sparingly. Lincoln was invited by Elihu Washburne in July to attend a meeting of opponents of the Nebraska bill in Chicago the following month. At the same time, Lincoln ensured that Benjamin Edwards, leader of the Know-Nothings in central Illinois, backed Yates. The Illinois State Journal ultimately backed a sl ... [Read More]

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Because many members of the Congress believed action such as Lee proposed to be premature or wanted instructions from their colonies before voting, approval was deferred until July 2. On that date, Congress adopted the first part (the declaration). The affirmative votes of 12 colonies are listed at the right. New York cast no vote until the newly elected New York Convention upheld the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776. ...

Acting under the instruction of the Virginia Convention, Richard Henry Lee on June 7, 1776, introduced a resolution in the Second Continental Congress proposing independence for the colonies. The Lee Resolution contained three parts: a declaration of independence, a call to form foreign alliances, and "a plan for confederation." The document that is included on page 22 is the complete resolution in Richard Henry Lee's handwriting. ... [Read More]