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New York State Modern Political Archive

New York State Modern Political Archive

Elected officials, interest groups, and activists from New York State.
The New York State Modern Political Archive (NYSMPA) was established in 1982 to document the work of individuals and private interest groups concerned with New York State public policy issues in the 20th century. Originally named the Archives of Public Affairs and Policy, the NYSMPA collects, preserves, and facilitates access to primary sources pertaining to New York State public affairs and policy, and now includes the personal papers of members of the gubernatorial administrations of Nelson A. Rockefeller; papers of former New York Congressional members and elected officials who served in New York State Legislature; and the official records and papers of numerous private groups, professional associations, individuals, public-sector labor unions, community groups, and other organizations concerned with Empire State public-policy issues.

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This series contains the records of major projects undertaken by the League, starting with Saratoga Springs City Charter Activities to the Famous Person Fundraisers. Other significant topics include: Emergency Services Study, Elder Services Program, Polling Place Accessibility Studies, Russian Delegation visits, and Student Voting Rights. These project files contain program descriptions, grant applications, studies, surveys, reports, news clippings, and photographs (unlabeled). Also included in this series are videotapes, DVDs, and CDs documenting chapter events.

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BASF, 1979-2003 0.7 cubic ft.

This series contains information on the history of BASF back to its corporate roots in Germany. The history of the dye industry in Rensselaer traced back to 1868 is also available. This series also includes statistics of the BASF brownfield in Rensselaer, information on BASFs response to RCGs claims, the history of the BASFs landfill, and the land investigation that took place.

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Since the 1940's, DOE has been involved in the research, testing and production of nuclear weapons. Facilities supporting that effort generated large quantities of radioactive and hazardous materials which resulted in contamination of many of the facilities and surrounding areas. Series 4 includes information on these facilities and subsequent efforts of DOE to clean up and modernize the nuclear weapons complex. Box 1 contains facilities overviews, including the Final Report on DOE Nuclear Facilities by the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Facility Safety to the Secretary of Energy (November, 1991). It also includes information on environmental restoration, the process by which contaminated sites and facilities are identified and contamination is contained or removed. Box 2 contains information on individual DOE facilities.

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Online

This series includes materials on OCCA projects not involving Otsego Lake or s olid waste management, as well as subject files on various conservation issues. Topics of particular interest include the Cherry Valley sewer project, the Glimmerglass Opera Theater shed project, Otsego 2000s lawsuit against the Otsego County Planning Board, the Leatherstocking Creek Stream Corridor project, and the Wal-Mart distribution center near Sharon Springs, New York, as well as subject files on agriculture and water quality issues.

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This series contains correspondence to interviewees to provide them with instructions on reviewing the transcript of their interview and the types of materials to correct, as well as release forms from the interviewees. Also included are the transcripts that were marked by the interviewees with their corrections. The correspondence is predominantly form letters. However, there is occasional correspondence specifically directed to an individual either to address concerns they raised about the transcript or to follow up regarding the status of the respective transcript and release. (Some additional correspondence with interviewees can be found in the Interview Notes and Background Materials in Series 3). Release forms and transcripts have been marked by the interviewees regarding any seals that they wished to place on their interview as well as information they wished to have deleted from the transcript, making the transcripts unavailable to researchers until the seals expires, or not at all in cases were text was deleted. Some interviewees did not return corrected copies of their transcripts. If correspondence in this series reflected the narrator's opinion and/or reservations regarding the transcript and interview, the original was placed with the interview transcript for that individual and a copy retained in this series. As noted above, access to some of the corrected narrator transcripts in this series is either permanently or temporarily restricted. All such restrictions are noted in the box and folder list.