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Capital Gains Investment Incentives:
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Manufacturing & Agriculture Credit: Available to individuals and entities for taxable years that begin on or after January 1, 2013, for manufacturing and agricultural activities in Wisconsin. The credit is a percentage of "eligible qualified production activities income." The credit is calculated by multiplying eligible qualified production activities income by one of the following percentages.
- For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2012, and before January1, 2014, 1.875%
- For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013, and before January 1, 2015, 3.75%
- For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2014, and before January1, 2016, 5.526%
- For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015, 7.5%
For individuals, the credit is limited to the amount of income tax paid on the income from which the credit is based.
For a corporation, eligible qualified production activities income is the lesser of:
- eligible qualified production activities income,
- income apportioned to Wisconsin, or
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Property Tax Exemptions:
- Machinery and equipment used in manufacturing is exempt from personal property taxes. Manufacturer and merchant inventories are exempt from personal property taxes.
- Certain waste treatment facilities owned by utilities, manufacturers, and commercial businesses used for the treatment of industrial waste materials are exempt from general property taxes.
Qualified New Business Venture (QNBV) Program: Helps drive investment to innovate early-stage Wisconsin companies by allowing investors to claim a 25% tax credit on the amount they invest into a QNBV-certified business.
Research and Development Tax Credit: An R&D credit is available to corporations, sole proprietorships and pass-through entities equal to 5% (10% in some cases) of the excess of qualified research expenses for the current year over a base amount.
Sales Tax Exemptions: Wisconsin sales tax does not have to be paid on the following:
- Machinery and equipment used by a manufacturer in producing tangible personal property.
- Tangible personal property that becomes an ingredient or component of another product in the manufacturing process.
- Tangible personal property that is consumed or loses its identity in the process of manufacturing tangible personal property.
- Machinery, equipment and tangible personal property used in research by companies that are engaged in manufacturing or biotechnology.
- Fuel and electricity used in manufacturing.
Workforce Development
Apprenticeship Completion Award Program: Offers employers, adult apprentices and sponsors a 25% reimbursement (up to $1,000) for instruction costs, including tuition, books, materials and other course fees.
Export Technical Assistance: Assistance to expand the sale of Wisconsin-made products outside of the United States and to help companies develop an export strategy
ExporTech™: Export acceleration program to help Wisconsin companies expand their global market reach through targeted export strategy development and execution.
Veteran Grant Program: Offers employers a state grant of up to $10,000 over four years for hiring and retaining eligible veterans.
Wisconsin Fast Forward: Makes $15 million in grants available to employers to develop and implement innovative and collaborative customized training solutions for skilled workers.
Workforce Training Grants: Grants for businesses to upgrade or improve the job-related skills of a business's full-time employees.
Industry Development
WEDC's Division of Business and Industry Development delivers customized solutions—technical and financial—to established business associations, consortia and industry cluster organizations in order to create favorable conditions for expanding existing Wisconsin industries and attracting new companies to priority industry sectors in Wisconsin. The division also supports minority business development by working with and providing resources for revolving loan funds and technical assistance to minority business development groups.
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May your Faith be as enduring as the high Rocky MountainsAnd may your Love have the depthsof blue Colorado skies.
Butterflies are free. They flit peacefully amid the meadow wildflowers. Beauty is theirs forever. A person's beautiful Wings are too oft con-fined within the Cocoon of Self. Until one'sbinding perception of the physical self is shed, thatone will never fly free in the Light of TruthThat one will never unfold and spread wide the radiant Wings of her gossamer Spirit.
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Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though we have tread upon the surface of the moon, we have remained bigots and arrogant egotists. Walk softly, for history repeats its self with little provacation.
The shining totality of the Collective Wisdomcannot be accepted, nor even truly approached,until one's conceptual dogmatic confines are shed and one willfully transcends all the clinging traditional systems presently percieved as truth.
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Immediately afterwards, I'd recommend mesh disposable maternity underwear. Depending on how much you are bleeding, some heavy duty pads - bleeding should lighten after about a week--2 weeks, so i'd say a couple of large packages ...i took a lot from the hospital before switching to my regular brand. A medical supply store will have both of these items. I'd also recommend breast pads for your bra, so you don't get sore nipples.
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Mommy to A, 12/09, and due with baby boy via RCS on 10/23/13.
Well my sister in law bled for 6 weeks!!! and then my gf said 4 weeks! What a bummer right. Im like whhhhat. Thats one thing I will not be missing but i guess We'll get the what we missed all at once. how sucky boo. So wet wipes and pads for sure should be stocked up on.
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I love the Lansinoh brand of breastpads--FABULOUS! Stay away from Johnson & Johnson...hated those ones!
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Mommy to A, 12/09, and due with baby boy via RCS on 10/23/13.
I've been putting all my ugly underwear aside for awhile - you know the ones you'd normally throw away. I didn't like the mesh underwear and found my old ones much more comfortable and didn't feel bad throwing them away when they got yucky. Buy some when buying pads, I liked the overnight high absorbancy, but go with the thin ones. You do not want anything bulky down there. I would also invest in tucks pads and some sort of numbing spray. Thankfully the hospital sent these home with me, but if yours doesn't these are wonderful! If you are breastfeeding, nursing pads, lanolin cream, and heating pads that can go right in your bra are nice. I like the playtex ones. I'm also breaking into the wine we bought on our last trip to wine country in CA.
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|Melchi practices a highly sensate yet logical painting, a discipline with geometry at its bones and the physicality of paint application as its flesh. Melchi handles oil paint with a predilection for the mediums tactile quality and ability to preserve the history of its own making beneath successively applied layers. His process is iterative; he builds his image from the back forward with exhaustive revision, leaving a visible trace like a trail of breadcrumbs, of the paintings course to its eventual coalescence. He draws on references to the outside world such as baseball and freshly mowed lawns, and weaves these impressions into a grid-based organization. The result is an articulate and nuanced visual grammar, one that relies on close attention to such subtleties as the grain of his chosen support, usually a rough weave linen, and the viscosity of his oil medium. Melchi leverages to great effect slight biases and obliques off the regular weave of his grid, and slight shifts and stops in his stroke. He extends the ways and means of historical constructivism, triggering abstract associations while grounding his work in concrete experience.
Erin Lawlor
London-based painter Erin Lawlor, who for many years prior lived and worked in Paris, is gaining ever
wider recognition through her international exhibitions, as well as her curatorial forays and her online
chronicling of the painting scene in Europe and New York. This series of modestly-scaled oils is named
for the park, and by extension the district, in East London adjacent to Lawlors new studio, located in
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Lawlor manages to refocus the classic tropes of gestural abstraction with a unity of parts that could be described as interstitial. She achieves a bonded whole both in her surface and her imagery through the viscous flow of her medium and the intermixed, tertiary colors of her palette, always eliciting a sense of suspended animation in the process.
Michael Voss
|The paintings of Michael Voss could be thought of as fields, lying somewhere off the grid and beyond the dependency of distributed networks, and at the same time as field recordings, their roughly hewn aspect serving as high fidelity. In the contemporary context they may seem low tech, except that painting, rather than being an old technology, is more like the perennial base condition technology addresses. Sleep is such a ground and sleeping pills are technology, or nutrition and vitamins. The weight of the mission Voss has undertaken can be measured against the value we place on our own sensate experience of the world, by how much we still navigate with a visual acuity indelibly linked to our sense of touch.
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|One commonality amongst the works in this show is an insistently low-tech, physical presence, an anomaly in a time that seems to eschew the physical. Contemporary painting practice does seem to have finally made a certain peace with time, an independence of obligation from both historical precedent and fashionable currency, though not through lack of awareness of either. The painters of Brooklyn, who are after all the painters of New York, grasped this decoupling first. Painters such as the ones in this show draw on art history with the entitlement of priveledged heirs drawing on their inheritances. They own everything that has come before and were born to spend it as they choose.
Erin Lawlor
|This book marks the occasion of our inaugural show in the new Potrero Hill space, Erin Lawlor's second solo show with the gallery. Lawlor splits her time between London and Ste. Marie de Ré in France, and these works are selected from a suite she completed on the island this spring and summer. Her work is characterized by wide gestural handling, closely valued hues and a balance between emotional tone, evocations of the natural world, and pure painting.
Susan Mikula
Introductory remarks by Christopher Bonanos
|This book marks the occasion of Susan Mikula's fourth show with the gallery. Mikula is presenting the 25 pieces of her suite u.X, pigment prints from Polaroid originals on handmade Japanese mulberry paper, mounted on aluminum plate and framed in steel. A boxed set of the entire cycle as unframed, un-cropped prints is available.
John Millei
|This book marks the occasion of the first solo show in our gallery of Los Angeles-based painter John Millei. It is a catalogue of the 6 pieces in his San Francisco exhibition, recent paintings. The six paintings in this show were painted for the San Francisco gallery space, for the intimacy of it. They were conceived as a progression, and in some sense perhaps as a kind of private correspondence. Millei's titles remind me of the Ox Herding pictures of Zen tradition, and place their emphasis on the ongoing practice of painting over any single result of that practice. Still, they are, each one, wonderfully realized works, modest in scale and ambitious in scope, and encapsulate all the best of an experience paint offers that is unavailable through any other medium.
Marie Thibeault
Introductory remarks by George Lawson and commentary by Constance Mallinson
|This book marks the occasion of the fourth solo show in our gallery of Los Angeles-based painter Marie Thibeault. It is a re-issue of the gallery's Thibeault catalog as an 140-page hardcover book with over 60 color reproductions, new paintings and commentary by Constance Mallinson. The book feature images of new oils on canvas from a series the artist embarked upon late in 2012, many in response to the impact of super storm Sandy, including selections from Funtown, a group named after a seaside park in New Jersey hit particularly hard by the calamity. As in the past, Thibeault's work continues to balance the demands of abstraction and social engagement, pushing the technical limits of painting as a drawing medium while echoing the necessarily fragmented manner in which global media patch together our understanding of major events.
Stephen Beal
Introductory remarks by George Lawson
|This book marks the occasion of two exhibitions of Stephen Beal's work, the first in our Los Angeles gallery a selection from a series of paintings on wooden panels and stretched linen that predominately engage white; the second in our San Francisco space is something of a subset of the paintings on linen, a continuation of the series with a reintroduction of color. Both working groups give us an opportunity to chart the evolution of Beal's understanding, and at the same time, to gauge the maturation of painting in general as a medium responsive to our times.
Judith Belzer
Introductory remarks by George Lawson
|This overview highlights selections of Judith Belzer's serial work from 2006 to 2011. In the introductory remarks to the catalog for our first exhibition, I wrote, "When Judith Belzer agreed to open the inaugural show in the room for painting, I had the sense that everything else in the gallery would just come together." Much indeed has come together in the ensuing three years, and if anything, I feel more strongly than ever how Belzer's laser focus, her commitment, as she deepens and broadens her practice has contributed to anchoring the gallery's mission. More
Susan Mikula
Foreward by George Lawson
|In 2009 Susan Mikula traveled with close friend and volunteer driver Jill McDonough to take a series of Polaroid photographs of industrial dock sites, using an SX-70 Alpha 1 camera that by then qualified as an antique. She had to procure the film, commercially unavailable, on eBay and in garage sales. Some packets had been sitting around on garage shelves for decades. The red spectrum of the dyes had faded, and the surface emulsions had coagulated, leaving her with a characteristic palette and surface she learned to exploit. Her choice to shoot in Polaroid may have initially been driven by aesthetics, but as the series has unfolded into a cycle of almost 60 finished images that span three years, it has become apparent just how commensurate are her chosen medium and her chosen subject. Mikula has captured a fading aspect of a bygone era with fading film and a bygone technology. More
Sara Bright
Foreward by George Lawson
|Sara Brights oils on linen are characterized by robust gesture, viscous paint and an evocative, symbolic content; they straddle the traditional boundaries between abstraction and figuration. In spite of the greater fluidity of the gouache medium, the same could be said of her watercolors. This is an incredible body of work, particularly considering that over 150 of the watercolors were completed within a single year period. More
Alan Ebnother
Foreward by George Lawson
Alan Ebnother makes paintings using closely hued colors, often one color over another contrasting ground, with dry pigments hand-ground in oil on linen canvases and on wooden panels. For many years Ebnother constrained himself to only green, though a surprising range of green, and recently has broadened his palette to a full range. His paintings initially assert themselves as pure color and then come into focus as gestured compositions full of incident and very physical marking. They are characterized by rich impasto, densely applied pigmentation and intuitive, athletic brush work. More
Stephen Beal
Introductory remarks by George Lawson
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, Volume 37, Supplement 1, pp 222-241
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Seasonal and Inter-annual Patterns in Primary Production, Respiration, and Net Ecosystem Metabolism in Three Estuaries in the Northeast Gulf of Mexico
- Jane M. CaffreyAffiliated withCenter for Diagnostics and Bioremediation, University of West Florida Email author
- , Michael C. MurrellAffiliated withGulf Ecology Division, U S Environmental Protection Agency Email author
- , Kendra S. AmackerAffiliated withCenter for Diagnostics and Bioremediation, University of West Florida
- , Jennifer W. HarperAffiliated withApalachicola Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
- , Scott PhippsAffiliated withWeeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
- , Mark S. WoodreyAffiliated withGrand Bay National Estuarine Research ReserveCoastal Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University
Measurements of primary production and respiration provide fundamental information about the trophic status of aquatic ecosystems, yet such measurements are logistically difficult and expensive to sustain as part of long-term monitoring programs. However, ecosystem metabolism parameters can be inferred from high frequency water quality data collections using autonomous logging instruments. For this study, we analyzed such time series datasets from three Gulf of Mexico estuaries: Grand Bay, MS; Weeks Bay, AL; and Apalachicola Bay, FL. Data were acquired from NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve System Wide Monitoring Program and used to calculate gross primary production (GPP), ecosystem respiration (ER), and net ecosystem metabolism (NEM) using Odum's open water method. The three systems represent a diversity of estuaries typical of the Gulf of Mexico region, varying by as much as two orders of magnitude in key physical characteristics, such as estuarine area, watershed area, freshwater flow, and nutrient loading. In all three systems, GPP and ER displayed strong seasonality, peaking in summer and being lowest during winter. Peak rates of GPP and ER exceeded 200 mmol O2 m−2 day−1 in all three estuaries. To our knowledge, this is the first study examining long-term trends in rates of GPP, ER, and NEM in estuaries. Variability in metabolism tended to be small among sites within each estuary. Nitrogen loading was highest in Weeks Bay, almost two times greater than that in Apalachicola Bay and 35 times greater than to Grand Bay. These differences in nitrogen loading were reflected in average annual GPP rates, which ranged from 825 g C m−2 year−1 in Weeks Bay to 401 g C m−2 year−1 for Apalachicola Bay and 377 g C m−2 year−1 in Grand Bay. Despite the strong inter-annual patterns in freshwater flow and salinity, variability in metabolic rates was low, perhaps reflecting shifts in the relative importance of benthic and phytoplankton productivity, during different flow regimes. The advantage of the open water method is that it uses readily available and cost-effective sonde monitoring technology to estimate these fundamental estuarine processes, thus providing a potential means for examining long-term trends in net carbon balance. It also provides a historical benchmark for comparison to ongoing and future monitoring focused on documenting the effect of human activities on the coastal zone.
KeywordsNet ecosystem metabolism Primary production Community respiration National Estuarine Research Reserves
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- Seasonal and Inter-annual Patterns in Primary Production, Respiration, and Net Ecosystem Metabolism in Three Estuaries in the Northeast Gulf of Mexico
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Volume 37, Issue 1 Supplement, pp 222-241
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- 10.1007/s12237-013-9701-5
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- Community respiration
- National Estuarine Research Reserves
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- Jane M. Caffrey (1)
- Michael C. Murrell (2)
- Kendra S. Amacker (1)
- Jennifer W. Harper (3)
- Scott Phipps (4)
- Mark S. Woodrey (5) (6)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Center for Diagnostics and Bioremediation, University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL, 32514, USA
- 2. Gulf Ecology Division, U S Environmental Protection Agency, 1 Sabine Island Drive, Gulf Breeze, FL, 32561, USA
- 3. Apalachicola Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, 108 Island Drive, Eastpoint, FL, 32328, USA
- 4. Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, 11300 U.S. Highway 98, Fairhope, AL, 36567, USA
- 5. Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, 6005 Bayou Heron Road, Moss Point, MS, 39564, USA
- 6. Coastal Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University, 1815 Popps Ferry Road, Biloxi, MS, 39532, USA


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July 4th Celebration, part 2
July 5th, 2009
Happy 4th of July.
I am posting a collection of photos from yesterday's (Saturday) celebration of our 40th anniversary and our nations anniversary.
We had beautiful songs, yummy food, and great company. Swamiji visited each of the booths that showed the many aspects of Ananda Worldwide. He sang with the choir and also greeted many of the guests personally.
I was a very happy tired after spending the day chatting with many friends visiting us from all-over and taking pictures to share with you.
Bless you all.
P.S. At the end of the weekend I will post a link to a larger collection of photos for you to enjoy.
Please visit Ananda's website for the video and audio of all the talks from July 4th celebration weekend.
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Thank-you for these wonderful photos Barbara.
You can feel the love and joy. We are so blessed to be disciples of a great guru, Parmahansa Yogananda. Swami looks so vibrant and strong.
Many Blessings to all.
Chandi and Joel Holliman
Thank you , thank you !
The Ananda website is always a source of joy and upliftment .
Hi Barbara:
Your photos of the Ananda Village events and people are a gift from God. If I thanked you a thousand times it wouldn't be enough. (I write these words in the midst of sharing a few of them, in various ways, with other truth thirsty souls.)
In Master's Love, Lorne
Dear Barbara,
Thank you for these wonderful photos. It is really great to see such joy emanating from all the people that were there.
I feel we are all blessed beyond imagination to have such a great Guru as Yoganandaji and also such a great example of discipleship in Swamiji.
Aum Guru
Dear Barbara,thank you so much for the wonderful photos of July 4th,2009.We are blessed to be a part of this ray.In friendship,Jerry.
Thank you very much, everyone, for your greetings and comments, I haven't figured out how to respond to each one separately. But, I am thinking of you all. And I hope to see you all soon!
In Light and Love, Barbara
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Mast seeding in Abies balsamea, Acer saccharum and Betula alleghaniensis in an old growth, cold temperate forest of north-eastern North America
1 Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain the phenomenon of masting or mast seeding, i.e. the supra-annual, periodic production of a large number of seeds in long-lived plants. Some of these hypotheses deal with the proximate causes of masting (e.g. the climate hypothesis) but others are concerned mostly with ultimate, evolutionary explanations (e.g. the pollination efficiency hypothesis).
2 The seed production of three tree species, Abies balsamea, Acer saccharum and Betula alleghaniensis, was followed over a 7-year period in an old-growth, cold temperate forest of north-eastern North America. The main objectives were to determine the extent of interannual variations in seed production, to investigate the relationship between viable and potential seed crop and crop efficiency, and to explore the effects of climate on seed production.
3 Potential and viable seed production varied significantly among years for all three species. However, the timing of dispersal remained the same regardless of the level of seed production.
4 Seed rain was spatially less heterogeneous in years of high seed production, suggesting that most trees were reproducing in such years.
5 Over the 7-year period, there was a significant concordance among species in their viable seed crop and crop efficiency, but not in their potential seed crop. Crop efficiency was positively correlated to potential seed crop for Abies and Betula, but not for Acer.
6 High seed production was related to warm, dry conditions in the spring of the previous year (i.e. at reproductive bud initiation) but to a moist summer in the year of seed maturation.
7 Masting in these three species thus appears to be controlled by several factors, including climate and pollination efficiency.


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33:0512(70)NG - - IAM, Local Lodge 2424 and Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD - - 1988 FLRAdec NG - - v33 p512
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The decision of the Authority follows:
33 FLRA No. 70
October 28, 1988
Before Chairman Calhoun and Member McKee.
I. Statement of the Case
This case is before the Authority on remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. U.S. Department of the Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland v. FLRA, No. 88-1311 (D.C. Cir. July 18, 1988). The court granted the motion of the U.S. Department of the Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (the Agency) to remand this case to the Authority so that the Authority could further consider its decision in light of the final Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on April 11, 1988 (final Guidelines).
On February 22, 1988, we issued our decision and order on negotiability issues in International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local Lodge 2424 and U.S. Department of the Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 31 FLRA 205 (1988) (Aberdeen). The collective bargaining proposals submitted by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local Lodge 2424 (the Union) in Aberdeen related to the Agency's testing of selected categories of civilian employees for drug abuse. We found three proposals in whole or in part to be negotiable and dismissed the remainder of the petition for review. According to the Agency, the only issue in dispute involves the negotiability of portions of Proposal 12. Agency's Supplemental Brief at 1.
On April 11, 1988, the final Guidelines were issued. On April 21, 1988, the Agency petitioned the court for review of the Authority's decision as to the portions of Proposal 12 found negotiable. On June 2, 1988, the Agency filed a motion with the court requesting remand of the case to the Authority. On July 18, 1988, the court granted the Agency's motion and remanded the case to the Authority to permit it to further consider its decision in Aberdeen in light of the final Guidelines.
On September 9, 1988, the Authority requested the parties to submit supplemental briefs addressing the applicability of the final Guidelines to the portions of Proposal 12 found negotiable. The Agency submitted a supplemental brief. The Union did not file a submission.
The portions of Proposal 12 at issue address procedures to be followed by the Agency in implementing a Department of Defense Directive concerning civilian employee drug abuse testing. Proposal 12(a)(2) provides for the refrigeration of specimens, if not tested on the day collected, and further provides procedures for examining specimens which have been refrigerated. Proposal 12(b) provides that the manufacturer's manual shall be used for test set-up. The first sentence of Proposal 12(c)(1) similarly states that the manufacturer's instructions for the systems used shall be followed. Proposal 12(c)(2)-(6) provides specific scientific procedures and calibrations which shall be observed. Proposal 12(d) covers safety considerations. For the reasons stated below, we find that the portions of Proposal 12 at issue are moot.
II. Proposal 12
Section 12(a)(2)
The urine specimens shall be collected and maintained in accordance with AR 600-85, change [I]11. The specimens will either be tested that day or be refrigerated until assayed. If they are refrigerated, the specimen will be brought to room temperature and visually inspected for the presence of [pre]cipitated salts prior to being assayed. If salts are present, the specimen will not be tested and a new specimen will be obtained.
Section 12(b)
Test Set Up: See the manufacturer[']s manual for this information (who will be conducting tests).
Section 12(c)(1)
(c) Procedures
1. Follow the manufacturer[']s instructions for the systems used. Operators shall be trained in the use of the equipment and in good laboratory practices by qualified instructors.
Sections 12(c)(2)-(6)
2. The spectrophotometer wavelength shall be calibrated daily using a calibrating standard.
3. The spectrophotometer transmittance shall be adjusted every 10% hours [sic] of instrument operation using the test standards. Expand to include warm up per manufacturers directions including everytime it is turned on.
4. In the event of a positive test the spectrophotometer transmittance shall be adjusted as indicated above and a new sample of the specimen will be re-tested.
5. To reduce the chances of cross contamination of specimens:
(a) The urine specimens will be individually presented to the [pipets].
(b) The tip of the [pipets] will either be changed after each test or be flushed using at least a 60 rinse ratio with the exterior of the tip being wiped clean.
6. The operator will visually inspect the cells for cleanliness. Debris and fingerprints shall be removed from the cells using tissue wetted in solvent.
Section 12(d)
(d) Safety considerations:
1. The operator[s] will use standard medical laboratory practices to protect themselves from infection.
2. All (RIA) samples and contaminated solid waste must be placed in containers and disposed of as hazardous waste materials per APGR 200-2.
[Only the underscored portions are in dispute.]
A. Positions of the Parties
The Agency contends that Proposal 12 is intended to be applied to field testing. According to the Agency, the proposal anticipates "on-site field testing followed by off-site confirmatory testing of positive specimens." Agency's Supplemental Brief at 6. The Agency contends, as to on-site testing, that "[s]uch an event cannot occur under the final HHS Guidelines; in fact, such an event is prohibited by the Guidelines." Agency's Supplemental Brief at 6, emphasis in original. The Agency states that after the promulgation of the final Guidelines, the Agency amended its procedure and ceased on-site or field testing of civilians. Agency's Supplemental Brief at 6, 12. The Agency argues that because Proposal 12 pertains to on-site testing, the proposal no longer has any validity under the Federal drug testing program and is moot. Agency's Supplemental Brief at 12.
The Agency also contends that Proposal 12 is inconsistent with provisions of the final Guidelines, which are Government-wide regulations. Agency's Supplemental Brief at 1, 2. The Agency contends that because the final Guidelines preclude field testing and Proposal 12 specifically applies to a situation in which field testing is used, the proposal is inconsistent with the final Guidelines.
The Agency argues that Proposal 12(a)(2) clearly contemplates on-site or screening testing, and conflicts with the final Guidelines. Agency's Supplemental Brief at 5. The Agency states that the final Guidelines specifically preclude on-site or field testing. Section 3.5, final Guidelines and 53 Fed. Reg. 11972. The Agency argues that "[a]pplying the proposal to the current Guidelines requirement of no on-site testing makes no sense." Agency's Supplemental Brief at 6.
The Agency further argues that Proposal 12(a)(2) would require that the sample be tested that day or be refrigerated. The Agency contends that the final Guidelines provide specific procedures to be followed for the collection and processing of samples. Section 2.2(f) and (g), final Guidelines. The Agency states that the final Guidelines require refrigeration of samples only if the samples have not been tested within 7 days of arrival at the laboratory. Section 2.4(c), final Guidelines. The Agency argues that the final Guidelines' procedures would make same-day testing or refrigeration impossible where samples are transported to a laboratory for initial and confirmatory testing. Agency's Supplemental Brief at 7.
The Agency also argues that Proposal 12(a)(2) would establish conditions of employment for employees who are not within the bargaining unit and, therefore, the proposal is outside the scope of bargaining. Specifically, the Agency contends that Proposal 12(a)(2) would affect contractor employees or employees at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, U.S. Army Forensic Toxicology Drug Testing Laboratory, Fort Meade, Maryland who now perform the urinalysis tests. The Agency points out that when the proposal was first advanced, both the collection and the initial testing personnel were under the Aberdeen Proving Ground's control; however, this is no longer the case. Agency's Supplemental Brief at 7.
The Agency contends that Proposal 12(b), (c) and (d) establishes testing procedures which deviate from the procedures established by the final Guidelines. The Agency argues that the final Guidelines' procedures are the exclusive standards to be used for employee drug testing. Section 3.6, final Guidelines. The Agency further argues that since on-site testing is no longer performed, the proposed testing procedures can no longer be applied. Agency's Supplemental Brief at 10.
Finally, the Agency argues that Proposal 12(c)(4) requires the use of a split urine sample, but the use of split samples was specifically rejected by HHS. See 53 Fed. Reg. 11971. The Agency also argues that Proposal 12(c)(4) directly conflicts with the final Guidelines' requirements for confirmatory tests. The Agency states that the final Guidelines require that the initial and confirmatory tests be performed on the same sample, and that the confirmatory test uses gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GS/MS) techniques. Section 2.4(e) and (f)(1), final Guidelines, 53 Fed. Reg. 11983. Agency's Supplemental Brief at 11-12.
The Agency did not address Proposal 12(d) in its Supplemental Brief.
The Union did not file a supplemental brief.
B. Background
On February 10, 1986, the Department of the Army promulgated regulations implementing a Department of Defense Directive concerning civilian employee drug abuse testing. Interim Change No. I11 to Army Regulation 600-85, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program (Interim Change to AR 600-85). Agency Statement of Position, Enclosure. Paragraph 5-14.f.(5) of the Interim Change to AR 600-85 provided for the use of field testing in civilian employee drug testing. Id. The proposal at issue in this case is part of the initial Proposal 12 introduced by the Union in May 1986 in response to the implementation of the Interim Change to AR 600-85 at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Id. at 2-3.
The Union's proposals addressed in detail the various functions connected with field testing and its effect on employees or applicants for employment. Id. Proposal 9 addressed the objective of drug screening and Proposal 10 covered the background of the drug screening program using the radioimmunoassay test. Proposal 12 contained the Union's proposal on the procedure for the radioimmunoassay test. Proposals 20-22 specifically addressed positive field test results. Id. at 2, 4. On September 15, 1986, Executive Order 12564, Drug-Free Federal Workplace was issued. Union's Statement of Position, Exhibit 11. The HHS final Guidelines were issued April 11, 1988. Therefore, the proposal at issue in this case pre-dates the final Guidelines by almost 2 years.
C. Discussion
For the reasons stated below, we find that the portions of Proposal 12 at issue are moot.
In our lead drug testing decision, National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 15 and Department of the Army, U.S. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command, Rock Island, Illinois, 30 FLRA 1046 (1988), decision on remand 33 FLRA No. 60 (1988), we stated that we would "take no position on whether field testing is permissible under the proposed Guidelines." Rock Island, 30 FLRA at 1068. We also noted, however, that if field testing was precluded by the final Guidelines, proposals which specifically concerned field testing would be moot because the circumstances which they addressed "would no longer be legally possible." Rock Island, 30 FLRA at 1069. The final Guidelines were published after issuance of our decisions in Rock Island and Aberdeen. The final Guidelines require that both the initial and confirmatory screenings occur at


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