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 Sub-Series

Sub-Series II: Special Projects Departmental Correspondence,, 1974-1977.

Dates

  • 1974-1977.

Scope and Contents

Special Projects Departmental Correspondence consists generally of two types of content: project documentation of the type found in the Special Projects sub-series and issue-oriented correspondence of the type found in the series DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. The sub-series arrangement is based on department/agency, rather than on project or issue, so both types of material are combined in the same folders.

There is a broad range of projects represented in this sub-series, but the documentation for each project tends to be physically leaner than the contemporaneous files of Special Projects. Multiple projects related to particular departments/agencies are combined in the same folder. Some material relates to projects or underlying institutions found in other sub-series of SPECIAL PROJECTS FILES and may simply have not been filed by HAW's staff with its associated material in an individual project file. Nevertheless, there is much substantive material.

Well-represented projects include those involving:

  • · Army Corps of Engineers (e.g., flood control, beach erosion, dredging, etc.);
  • · Federal Office of Education (e.g., cooperative education, vocational training, literacy, bilingual education, etc.);
  • · Housing and Urban Development (e.g., urban renewal, senior citizen housing, etc.);
  • · Department of Transportation (e.g., highways, commuter transport, bus service, railroad lines, etc.);
  • · Health (e.g., medical research, facilities construction, etc.);
  • · Department of Commerce (e.g., economic development, business loans); and
  • · State and Federal environmental protection agencies.
The category "NJ State" includes a wide range of matters concerning state-wide issues or specific state government departments.

Correspondence from individual constituents referred (or "bucked") to departments and agencies on public policy issues and regulatory matters constitute a substantial portion of the sub-series. The range of topics is broad, including inquiries and complaints regarding commuter services, gasoline shortages/allocations, housing conditions, postal service, and the like. This correspondence includes individual perspectives on local conditions and associated projects being conducted (or not being conducted) by the Corps of Engineers, HUD, and other departments/agencies.

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Undetermined .

Physical Description

(25 cubic feet)

Arrangement

Following original order as reflected in the shipment of the files by HAW's office to the Federal Records Center, there are four sets of files, one for each year 1974-1977. Each set is arranged alphabetically by department/agency. (See Appendix A for information on department/agency acronyms used.)

Folders contain both project and issue-oriented correspondence. Multiple projects are included in the folders. Documentation regarding projects or related projects that extended over years will be found in more than one year's set of folders (e.g., correspondence on a housing project might be found in the HUD files for 1974, 1975, etc.).

Material related to many of the projects or underlying institutions in this sub-series (e.g. Fort Dix, NARCO Inc, etc.) can also be found in other sub-series of SPECIAL PROJECTS FILES. Department/agency references in the folder description are the most useful for tracing specific projects or themes from other sub-series.

Folder descriptions are taken from the original labels. Dates on the container list are generally from the original folder label, not from the documents in the folder.

Related Series

DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE includes the same type of content as Special Projects Departmental Correspondence, particularly for the 1960s and early 1970s. In the mid-1970s when these two filing structures overlapped, DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE tends to include only issue-related correspondence.

Appraisal and Discard Information

Following the standard approach for the project, annual reports, government publications, and other such documents with minimal or no other contextual material, and which would be more accessible if cataloged individually, were removed and sent to a Special Collections and University Archives bibliographer for disposition. Otherwise, all files were retained.

General

  1. · Army Corps of Engineers (e.g., flood control, beach erosion, dredging, etc.);
  2. · Federal Office of Education (e.g., cooperative education, vocational training, literacy, bilingual education, etc.);
  3. · Housing and Urban Development (e.g., urban renewal, senior citizen housing, etc.);
  4. · Department of Transportation (e.g., highways, commuter transport, bus service, railroad lines, etc.);
  5. · Health (e.g., medical research, facilities construction, etc.);
  6. · Department of Commerce (e.g., economic development, business loans); and
  7. · State and Federal environmental protection agencies.

General

  1. · Army Corps of Engineers (e.g., flood control, beach erosion, dredging, etc.);
  2. · Federal Office of Education (e.g., cooperative education, vocational training, literacy, bilingual education, etc.);
  3. · Housing and Urban Development (e.g., urban renewal, senior citizen housing, etc.);
  4. · Department of Transportation (e.g., highways, commuter transport, bus service, railroad lines, etc.);
  5. · Health (e.g., medical research, facilities construction, etc.);
  6. · Department of Commerce (e.g., economic development, business loans); and
  7. · State and Federal environmental protection agencies.

General

Index Terms

Because of the broad range of subjects within each folder, key index terms were used to identify municipalities, companies and other institutions, issues, etc. that appeared to have the most extensive content within a folder. These terms were applied within the time constraints of processing and by no means do they reflect the entire contents of a folder.