University of Wyoming
Collection is arranged into two accretions for the materials received in 1981 and 2005.
Floyd E. Dominy (1909-2010 ) was appointed Commmissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation in 1959 by President Eisenhower, and was continually reappointed to that position until his retirement in 1969. He had served in other Bureau of Reclamation capacities since 1946 and prior to that had worked as a field representative with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1938-1942). Dominy was originally from Nebraska and went to school at the University of Wyoming.
The Bureau of Reclamation, under the Department of the Interior, administers programs in the areas of water resources, hydroelectric power, river regulation, and flood control. As Commissioner, Dominy administered national and international programs and directed the following major projects: Colorado River Storage Project, Colorado River Basin Project, Missouri River Basin Project, Columbia River Basin Project, Central Valley Project in California, and Mekong River Basin Project in Thailand.
The collection includes Dominy's official Bureau of Reclamation files (1946-1969) and Agricultural Adjustment Administration files (1937-1945) including project, subject, speech, administrative, travel, meeting, and award files. These contain correspondence, memorandums, reports, speeches, press releases, photographs, budgets, agendas, and articles. They include information on operations, programs, personnel, legislation, public relations, many B of R projects in the United States and abroad, and rationing and re-vegetation programs of the AAA. There are many photographs of B of R projects and of Dominy with government officals and dignitaries. Dominy frequently met with special interest organizations and groups local to B of R projects. There is much material on these various groups, including correspondence with David Brower of the Sierra Club.
In addition there are reel-to-reel audiotapes (1962-1969) of Dominy's speeches, and 16mm motion picture films (1961-1966) of interviews and trips. Also included are Dominy's personal subject files, biographical information and family genealogy, personal and family correspondence and memorabilia (1938-1969), including letters (1959-1969) from his son, Charles while in training with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and while serving in Vietnam.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Floyd E. Dominy at the date of processing.
This material was received from Floyd Dominy in 1981, Charles E. Dominy from 2005-2010, and the University of Wyoming, Coe Library in 2023.
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The majority of this collection is correspondence, professional files, speech files, and related information from his career with the Bureau of Reclamation, and other government service. In these files is information on all aspects of reclamation projects such as the Colorado River Storage Project, Columbia Basin Project, Missouri River Basin, Central Arizona Project, and many others. Most of the material in the collection is thermofax, carbon, or photocopied material, unless noted otherwise.
There are extensive photographs of Bridge and Marble Canyons, Rainbow Bridge, and Lake Powell, as well as-portraits of Floyd Dominy, and photographs with other government officials, dignitaries, and other prominent individuals. Some films and audiotapes pertaining to the Bureau of Reclamation are also included.
In addition there are personal files, awards, certificates, and biographical materials concerning Floyd Dominy, and his family.
Typed addresses on index file cards, including personal, professional and business associates. Primarily government officials, many with the Bureau of Reclamation, or concerning the Bureau projects, water resources, irrigation districts, related topics. Included are business cards.
Painting on paper of Gibson Dam, several cartoons of the Bureau of Reclamation.
Reel to reel tapes, primarily as labeled by donor.
Certificate of Appreciation from the American Forestry Association
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, invitations, programs, material relating to awards and honors accorded Floyd Dominy.
Includes summary statement of government service, and photocopy of letter from Milward Simpson on receiving the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Wyoming.
From Department of Interior honoring outstanding personnel, with letters of congratulations from senators, congressmen, friends and associates. Includes list of recipients.
With letters of nomination, endorsement, biographical sketch.
From Pueblo Army Depot, Special Citation,Order of the Antelope.
Nomination of Floyd Dominy by letter of Stewart Udall, copy of supporting statement. Includes endorsements from Director of Associated General Contractors of America, the Chief of Forest Service, Senators Carl Hayden and Wayne Aspinall, the National Wildlife Federation, and others.
From Order of Isabel the Catholic, also awarded Certificate of Honorary Membership in the Spanish Institute of Civil Engineers, and public works bronze medal for outstanding cooperation and assistance to the government of Spain. Includes pamphlet on history of the award, arrangements for reception of Spanish Embassy Celebrities, and correspondence.
With copy of news release.
With May issue of Associated General Contractors of America (ASGC) newsletter featuring Floyd Dominy and award, personal data sheets and biographical sketches.
Correspondence with U.W. officials concerning arrangements, congratulations.
Files, primarily as arranged and labeled by donor, containing genealogies, magazine articles, correspondence, biographical sketches, civil service forms, employment information, and related material.
With membership roster, reports.
With application and personal history statement, carbon of statement of experience, summary of 1936 and 1937 Range Improvement Program in Campbell County, Wyoming.
With copy of Constructor magazine containing article on Floyd Dominy.
Correspondence between family members, genealogies, 1952 list of graduates of U.W. College of Agriculture, Bureau of Reclamation teletypes, statement of training and experience, informal report concerning Crow Creek Incident to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, with memorandum outlining Dominy position, summary of Interior Department statistics, 1954, on Missouri River Basin Project, and a copy of Winterthur Illustrated containing article mentioning the Dominy Family history, and related material.
With letters from Wayne Aspinall, Joseph O'Mahoney, resolution of endorsement, statement of Commissioner Dexheimer, memorandum on reorganization of office, memorandum on congressional liason, and issue of The Reclamation Era, with article on Dominy.
News releases, letter from Secretary of Interior, correspondence.
Biographical sketch and data for Western Resources Conference.
Copy of hearing before Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, newspaper clippings, letter from President Eisenhower to Commissioner Dexheimer, payroll change data, and letter of endorsement from Fred Seaton.
Bureau of Reclamation official code and telephone directory.
Statements of employment and financial interests.
Correspondence, photographs.
Copy of personnel manual, Presidential Commission for files (1961), and 1959 Presidential Commission. With forms for personnel action, descriptions of duties.
Newspaper clippings, formal letter of retirement to President Nixon, copy of civil service retirement planning survey, roster of officials of water users organizations, lists of Bureau of Reclamation foreign team leaders, related material.
Supplement on U.S. budget, salary, letters to Congressmen regarding omnibus salary, executive pay raise bill.
May issue with article, "BuRec's Dominy: Water is Survival". Letters of congratulations.
Cover sheets of biography in agriculture, paper, "Incident On A Nebraska Farm", by Floyd Dominy, a contribution to written report on events in Nebraska, biographical sheet.
Personal correspondence files, as labeled by donor, with carbons of letters.
Primarily letters between Floyd Dominy and his son while attending West Point, and throughout service with U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in Vietnam. Includes summary of Glen Canyon Dam background materials.
Many concern matters of Department of Interior.
With friends, associates in Bureau of Reclamation, many from the Western States, and those connected with water resource development, irrigation, and agriculture.
Alphabetically arranged, with letters from Carl Hayden to Secretary of Interior, Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, regional districts of Bureau.
With California Water Commission, North Dakota Water Users, and Water Service Commission, Mid West Consumers, and California Water Commission.
Correspondence with Jack Gage, Governor of Wyoming.
Concerning Wyoming Natural Resources Board, copy of roposed Lower Colorado River Project, Coachella Water District, Nevada Irrigation District, Lower Colorado River Authority,projects in West and Wyoming, copy of paper by Dominy, "Western Irrigation 20 Years From Now".
With specifications of proposed Marble and Bridge Canyon Dams, information on National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Lower Colorado River, Secretary's Advisory Comm., Metropolitan Water District, United Water Conservation District, power associations, Consulting Engineers Council, copy of speech before National Reclamation Association (NRA), National Safety Council Award for Bureau, and carbon of article by Dominy, "Let's Protect Our Good Farmlands".
With streamflow records, Mississippi Valley Association, American Public Power Association, and Senator Frank Church, Idaho.
Primarily congratulatory letters on appointments as Assistant, Associate, and Commissioner of Bureau of Reclamation. As arranged and labeled by donor.
From Bureau of Reclamation officials, engineers, irrigation districts, and others, including A. J. Dexter, Northern Pacific Railway; Senator Carl Hayden; Senator Goodrich Lineweaver; Henry Taliaferro, Director of Power Authority of the State of New York; Fred Seaton, Secretary of Interior, and other government officials and prominent individuals.
Letters of congratulations similar to those received as Assistant Commissioner in 1957
Includes letters and telegrams from project managers, USGS Associate Director, Arthur Baker; the regional offices of Bureau; NRA officials; the Sacramento Municipal Utility District; Salt Lake City Regional Offices; Garrison Diversion Conservancy District; water users associations; Arizona Power Authority; reclamation districts; attorneys; senators and representatives; others. Includes letters concerning reappointment in 1961.
Letters of support and endorsement on his assumed reappointment by President Nixon, and letters concerning his retirement, from senators, representatives, other government officials, colleagues and associates. Includes letter of endorsement from Congressman George Bush to Walter Hickel. Includes copy of Dominy's letter of retirement to President Nixon, and copy of letter from office of President-Elect Nixon. Numerous letters from associates and supporters.
As arranged and labeled by donor, these files contain "blue envelope" or personal and confidential memoranda within the Bureau of Reclamation, not offical memoranda and correspondence. Information on projects, office and personnel business, all aspects of Bureau of Reclamation administration. The "blue envelope" correspondence series continues through box 4.
With information regarding Flaming Gorge Savory-Pot Hook Project, Eden Project, John Saylor visit to Shasta, Region 1 Activities in Wyoming, reports on status of operating projects, North Platte River Basin, power development in Wyoming, Shoshone Project, Cheyenne River Basin, Worland Municipal Golf Course-Hanover Bluff Unit of Missouri River Basin Project, Black Canyon Irrigation District-Idaho, Heart Mountain Irrigation District, Okanogan-Omak Region, and Bureau assignment in Afghanistan.
Concerning Colorado River Storage Project, acquisition of New Mexico State lands, condemnation in Region I (Idaho), the Alaska,District, Vitro Corp. contract dispute, information on construction power at Flaming Gorge, Helmsand Valley Project in Afghanistan, selection of Project Manager for Columbia Basin Project, Riverton Irrigation-relocation of county road, Yellowtail Reservoir, Glen Canyon specifications, development of Collbran Project, Canadian River Project, Rogue River Basin Project, power delivery, program for development of Lower Colorado River, Red River Valley Association, Columbia Basin Project, proposed amendatory repayment contract, Folsam Canal, and others. Includes personnel and organizational matters, automatic data processing systems to be set up within the Bureau, and upgrading the Denver office. Included are many departmental memoranda with Grant Bloodgood.
Concerning Lower Colorado River Meeting of Chamber of Commerce, repayment contract discussions, Foss Reservoir Master Conservancy District, building at Denver Federal Center, Blue Mesa Dam and Reservoir Right of Way, power system average rate and repayment studies for Missouri River Basin Project (Garrison Diversion Project), Alaska-Devil Canyon Project, Rogue River release, Blue Mesa Power Plant, Jackson Lake Reservoir operation, direct current transmission, underground power plants, the Riverton Project, Central Arizona, accounting policies and other administrative matters.
Concerning Glen Canyon filling and power plant, Columbia Basin Project Conference, Prosser Irrigation District personnel, Central Utah Projects (Grant Bloodgood), status of Anchor Reservoir, transmission line surveys, selection of Chief Research Engineer, Jackson Lake Water levels, Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Initial Closure of Glen Canyon Dam, Columbia Basin Repayment Program, discussions with acting governor of Wyoming, Jack Gage, Anchor Dam, agreement with Corps of Engineers, Alaska Resources Development Commission, the establishment of position of Assistant to the Regional Director, delivery of water to Mexico, the Mexican Water Treaty, Investigations of Fryingpan-Arkansas Canadian River Aqueduct, Riverton Project settler data, and comparison studies—Central Arizona. Also contains memoranda concerning position vacancies, resignations, promotions, retirements, conflicts of interest, and other administrative matters within the Bureau of Reclamation.
Concerning Russian River Report by Army Corps of Engineers, Eden Project, Ruedi situation, land problems in Baker Project-Oregon, housing projects, drainage equipment, the Construction Engineers Conference, Navajo Indian Irrigation, organization changes, administrative organization of Chief Engineers Office, contracts of Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP), fissure at Lake Powell Reservoir, marketing of power in Snake River Area, drafts of legislation to authorize Region I projects, Knowles Dam Project, Sacramento River Diversion, Land acquisition in Region 2 and 6, coordination of Mexican diversions with Welton-Mohawk pumping, Lower Colorado land use problem, Bonneville Power Administration report, outline of Lower Colorado River Project, Big Sand Wash Dam and Reservoir reports, Navajo irrigation, Pacific Southwest Water Plan. With information on administrative organization of Chief Engineer's Office, the retirement of Grant Bloodgood, grievances, and other matters.
concerning flood control projects cost by Corps of Engineers, contractors claims, comprehensive River Basin Planning-Missouri River Basin, Central Arizona Project, contract for surveys of transmission line of Colorado River Storage Project, comprehensive Basin Planning Co-ordination for Missouri River Basin, the Pinnacle Peak Transmission Line, Baker Project-Oregon, Santa Cruz River Basin investigations, and proposal of Corps of Engineers investigation, reorganization of Glen Canyon Unit, Big Blue River Compact Commission.
Concerning economics seminar in Denver, Water Plan Details for Central Arizona Project, Marysville Reservoir on Uyba River, Fontanelle Dam, weather modification, Atmospheric Water Resources Program, Marble and Bridge Canyon Reservoirs-water holding capacity, Colorado Flood situation, Yellowtail Afterbay Dam, Glen Canyon leakage, history of Ruck-a-Chucky Dam, flood damage-Dalles Project, cement testing and inspection during construction, Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie negotiations, safety of dams, Columbia Basin Project-third powerplant, excess lands at Central Valley Project and Boulder Canyon Project, generating plants for Colorado River Storage Project, Page, Arizona zoning and city management, underground transmission research, Lake Powell and Lake Mead filling criteria. With material on public relations, Meritorious Service Award, and National Organization for Weather Modification.
Concerning Wyoming Water Resources Board Meeting, Texas water situation, Upper Basin discussions summary, drainage for Columbia Basin Project, review of design and construction, Grand Coulee powerplants, Silver Jack Dam costs, canal lining and subsurface draining, Westinghouse proposal, development of Garrison Unit, atmospheric water resources program, review of delegation of design and construction, contract administration. With material on landslides at Yellowtail, drains for Columbia Basin, claims from Ets-Hokin Corporation, draft of address by Stewart Udall at Construction Engineers' Conference, capability statements, Colorado River presentation, project expansion-Columbia Basin Project, Resolutions of Colorado River Water Users Association, the Navajo Reservoir, Central Utah Projects construction financing, San Juan River-crude oil break, copy of contract at Fort Cobb Reservoir Conservancy District and Chickasha Municipal Authority. Includes material on spillway at Tiber Dam, the Jefferson-Whitehall Unit, Yellowtail Visitor Center, Garrison Diversion Project office, Tiber Reservoir, the Job Corps, administrative, personnel, the Denver Office proposed building, and other management matters. Includes material on address of Frank M. Clinton to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Concerning Parker Davis Project, Seedskadee Project planning, Navajo Reservoir long-term contracts, coordination of Upper Colorado River Basin Type I Framework Studies, CRSP Power Contracting, North Dakota Governor's Conference on Federal-State Regulations, dedication of Yellowtail, Swift and Two Medicine Dams, federal-state relations, Fryingpan-Arkansas Project-Hunter Creek Diversions, Central Arizona. Also correspondence concerning Columbia Basin Powerplant, Klamath Project, Grand Coulee-third powerplant, Crescent Lake Dam, Mohave Pump Station-confidential memorandum on Movave Pumped Storage Proposal, Colorado Open Space Foundation, Hunter Creek Water, status report on Central Arizona Legislation, Crescent Lake Dam Project, West Canal Lining Failure, preliminary specifications for generating units at Grand Coulee, replacement of American Falls Dam, Construction Engineers Conference, Congressman Aspinall's statement to Colorado Water : Conservation Board, Limpopo Project, and water quality investigations. Included is information on Denver office costs for preparing feasibility design and estimates.
Containing information on Tsengwen Reservoir, Conference on Progress in Overhead Lines and Cables at University of Nevada Desert Research Institute, contracts, Morrow Point Dam-Curecanti Unit, cooperation with Office of Saline Water, purchase of converter terminals-Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie, Japanese contracts with Bureau, atmospheric water resources programs, the Glen Canyon visitor facilities, protest of Allis-Chambers regarding award of turbine contract to Guy F. Atkinson Co., the third powerplant at Grand Coulee, bids for generators, and Bureau film, "Rivers in the Sky". Also contains information on foreign activities of the Bureau, the Missouri River Basin Project-protest of Lindberg Construction Co. bid, the Salt River Project, National Science Foundation Symposium, concrete, Russian Power Report, the Divide Tunnel of Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, transmission line of Missouri River Basin Project, the Water Resources Scientific Information Center, NOHAB turbines at Boundary Powerplant, Auburn Dam, and Upper Colorado River Basin Commission. There is also information on Idaho Water Resource Board hearing, administration of Civilian Conservation Centers, Columbia Basin right-of-way, Chief Joseph Dam Program, Environmental Planning Studies, Central Valley Project, Lake Adair Development, water service from Lake Powell, housing at Page, Az, Oahe Pumping Plant, Glen Elder irrigation investigations, Leadville Drainage Tunnel, CRSP cost ceiling and expenditure comparison, Eel River Basin planning, Kellog Unit, extension of Columbia River Basin Account, and other.
Primarily as arranged and labeled by donor, files contain professional correspondence concerning the Bureau of Reclamation. Included are invitations for speaking engagements and replies, invitations to officiate at various functions, paper presentations, conferences and other events.
National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Inland Empire Waterways, Miss. Valley Assoc, Nebraska Congressional Reception, Silver Quill Award Dinner, Mountain States Association, others.
Handwritten stenographer notebooks, of telephone calls, appointments, messages, and related information concerning the office of the Commissioner of The Bureau of Reclamation. Notebooks are dated as follows:
11/13/58-2/5/59
2/6/59-4/6/59
4/7/59-4/30/59
6/1/59-8/6/59
8/7/59-10/13/59
10/14/59-1/7/60
1/8/60-2/29/60
3/1/60-2/28/60
4/29/60-6/20/60
6/21/60-8/24/60
8/25/60-11/3/60
11/4/60-12/31/60
1/3/61-1/31/61
2/1/61-3/7/61
3/8/61-3/31/61
4/3/61-5/4/61
5/5/61-6/27/61
8/29/61-10/6/61
10/9/51-12/29/61
1/2/62-2/19/62
2/12/62-3/26/62
3/27/62-5/8/62
5/9/62-6/11/62
6/12/62-7/26/62
7/27/62-9/19/62
9/20/62-11/13/62
11/14/62-1/18/63
1/21/63-3/19/63
3/20/63-5/15/63
5/16/63-7/12/63
7/15/63-8/28/63
8/29/63-10/25/63
10/28/63-11/30/63
1/2/63-1/22/64
1/23/64-3/19/64
3/20/64-5/6/64
5/7/64-6/17/64
6/18/64-8/5/64
8/6/64-10/8/64
10/9/64-12/17/64
12/18/64-2/8/65
2/9/65-3/22/65
3/23/65-4/30-65
5/3/65-6/18/65
6/21/65-8/10/65
8/11/65-10/13/65
10/14/65-12/21/65
12/22/65-2/15/66
2/16/66-3/31/66
4/1/66-5/16/66
5/17/66-7/11/66
7/12/66-9/8/66
9/9/66-12/6/66
12/7/66-1/25/67
1/26/67-3/17/67
3/20/67-5/4/67
5/5/67-6/21/67
6/22/67-8/11/67
8/14/67-10/27/67
10/30/67-12/29/67
1/2/68-1/29/68
1/30/68-3/27/68
3/28/68-5/22/68
5/23/68-7/10/68
7/1/68-9/5/68
9/6/68-11/15/68
11/18/68-1/23/69
1/24/69-3/7/69
3/9/69-4/23/69
4/24/69-7/10/69
7/11/69-10/24/69
16mm reel to reel films, as labeled by donor.
16mm reel to reel films, as labeled by donor.
U.S. Government notebooks, with typescript indexes and copies of public laws concerning the Bureau of Reclamation projects. With annotation. Included are loose Public Laws for 82nd Congress, 1952.
With summary of first session prepared by Department of Interior.
With 1959 summary of first session.
As arranged and labeled by donor, files are of subjects of personal interest, organizations and affiliations of Floyd Dominy.
With copy of letter from Robert Nixon offering to discuss book possibilities on Dominy's experiences in government service.
IDRA Camera Club, with meeting notices, announcements, slide presentation by Floyd Dominy.
Copy of letters regarding nomination of Floyd Dominy for membership.
National Lumber Manufacturers' Association booklets.
Copy of letter regarding dues.
Request for personal papers of Floyd Dominy, correspondence.
Correspondence and USDA bulletins and pamphlets on weed control, waterweed, guides for weed control, and information on by-product feeds.
Correspondence.
Primarily relating to Floyd Dominy's employment as field representative, Western Division of Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), and while in Naval Reserve during WWII. Material includes publications of Dept. of Agriculture, reports, pamphlets and papers prepared for use by USDA, and correspondence. Primarily as arranged and labeled by donor.
Weed control and irrigation.
With carbon of report on Seminar on Civilian Supply, Rationing and Price Control, "Operational Plan For Civilian Supply, Price Control and Rationing for Formosa", co-authored by Floyd Dominy.
With papers for Columbia University class in military governments.
With report of Emergency Wind Erosion Control Program Committee on Land Use Practices.
Concerning Land. Use Practices In The Southern Great Plains Area.
With report of conference of the Regional Agricultural Council for Southern Great Plains States on Radio As An Aid To Extension, Water Resources of the Southern Plains, Aims and Procedures of County Land Use Planning, Suggested Program for Revegetation In the Southern Great Plains, Coordinated Revegetation In the Southern Great Plains, and carbon of paper by Dominy, "Changes In The Program of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration for 1940 and Problems In Keeping Submarginal and Restoration Land Out of Production".
On such subjects as economics of grassland agriculture, revegetation, range management research in grass establishement, history and ecology of grass, utilization of range forage, application and summary of the AAA Program.
Papers on problem of Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, proposed remedial legislation, suggestions for compilation of data.
Agriculture paper on national agricultural security, letter to chairman USDA AAA.
On under-consumption.
List of all graduates of the U.W. Agricultural College
Office files, concerning all aspects of administration of the Bureau of Reclamation. The files are primarily from Floyd Dominy1s service as Commissioner of the Bureau. Files contain information on administration, legislation, Bureau projects, personnel, policy, public relations, and other aspects of operation of the Bureau of Reclamation. Primarily as arranged and labeled by donor, files contain correspondence, memoranda, plans, reports, charts, specifications, work sheets, government publications, statements, press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, and other related material. This series of office files continues through box 19.
With correspondence regarding Imperial Irrigation District compliance, memoranda on repayment of contracts, acceptance of trusts, acreage limitation policy study report, and government hearings and bills concerning acreage limitations.
Lists of departmental officials, Netherlands addresses, the Utah Department of Natural Resources, and holiday mailing lists.
With letters between Stewart Udall and Orville Freeman, memoranda on Columbia Basin Project, letters from Orville Freeman to Wayne Aspinall and Carl Albert, data on agricultural research and soil and water conservation.
Information on irrigation potential of Sand Mountain Area, correspondence with senators and representatives, copy of speech by Dominy, with report on proposed government assistance.
Memorandum from Dominy on Alaska Reclamation Problems, statements on programs, hearings on hydroelectric requirements and resources in Alaska; draft of Bureau Activities In Alaska.
With correspondence, applications for membership for Floyd and Charles Dominy.
With reviews, report on financial justification, letters to Congressman Aspinall, cost estimates.
Concerning hearings of Commission on Balanced Economic Development, testimony by Congressman Harry M. Caudill before Senate Committee, statement of Lewis G. Smith.
Newspaper articles, briefing statement from Secretary of Interior.
With business cards, directory, correspondence.
Presented by Floyd Dominy in his capacity as Commissioner of Bureau of Reclamation. Includes papers presented at International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, World Power Conference in Spain, remarks on resource development.
With articles for California Crossroads, and proceedings of American Society of Civil Enqineers.
With discussions of paper by Dominy, "Role of Irrigation In The West's Expanding Economy".
Articles for Reclamation Era, and American Water Works Association Journal.
With research report, plan to develop technology, memoranda on staffing, news activities, copy of statement before House Committee, photographs, conference papers for proposed Skywater Project Conference. Also includes copy of planning program, statement by Dominy at informational hearings, program fiscal summary, statement of authority from solicitor, "Review of Weather Modification Progress", progress reports, presentation paper, and statements by advisory committee.
Memoranda on Application of Federal Water Project Recreation Act, authorization of power plant at Seedskadee Project, and Flood Control Act of 1944 concerning Isabella and Pine Flat Reservoir Projects.
Chronology of Events, maps, statement from Bear River Protective Community, presentation of possible modifications, outline of points of opposition, economic data, estimated power losses.
With draft of report on natural beauty, copy of speech by B. P. Bellport, "Beautification--Guidelines for New Projects", memoranda on reclamation's contribution to the beauty of America, memoranda concerning White House Conference on Natural Beauty.
Invitations to Awards Dinners, copy of speech by Dominy.
Newspaper clippings, correspondence.
With memorandum to Secretary of Interior regarding designation as power marketing agency.
Quotations from Congressional Record, magazines, newspapers.
With briefing papers, background for trip to Asia, with information and notes on Philippines, Cambodia, Japan, Thailand, Laos, South Vietnam, and biographical sketch, prepared by U.S. Department of Interior, for Eugene Black Trip. Also autographed menu.
For Williamsburg Trip, with research questionnaire on top administrators in government.
Copy of house and senate bills.
With memoranda on reclamation budget considerations, government documents, Bureau of Reclamation general investigations, congressional bills on appropriations.
Bills, public laws, amendments, comparisons, reconciliation of statements, requests for supplemental funds, memoranda on budget review sessions, detailed estimates, summary comparison, problem areas reductions, additional fund requirement, summary of financial problems.
Includes 1960 budget for other Bureaus of the Department of Interior, statement on fund requests for engineeering research, announcement of construction program, revised estimates, memoranda on goals, progress reports, supplementary budget material, summary of operations, criteria for preliminary estimates.
Congressional Appropriation Bill, status of bills, detailed analyses of fund requirements, proposed new construction starts, handwritten estimates for construction on different projects.
Annual financial report, press release on 1962 construction program, authorized projects background information statement before senate subcommittee, re-estimate of fund utilization, blue envelope memorandum on proposed programs.
List of items added by committee, copy of commissioner's opening statement before house interior and insular affairs committee, typescript status of appeals, projects before congress, typescript new construction starts.
With summary of projects programmed, opening remarks by Commissioner, study of deletion of F.Y. 1964 construction starts, table of proposed revisions, copy of budget, typescript analysis of Application of Proposed Reduction in Construction Appropriation, memorandum on appeals to Secretary.
With memorandum from Director of Budget, news release regarding program slippage.
Typescript budget review and summary analysis, sheet of cost allocation on reclamation projects, copy of questions from budget bureau to Secretary, copy of opening remarks of commissioner, appeal of budget allowances, copies of topics for discussion.
Memorandum from 1967 contract face value reducton study, program accomplishment review, congressional justification material, budget estimates, handwritten and typescript ceiling allowance, preliminary estimates.
Memoranda on hearings on Pacific Northwest Intertie, preliminary budget estimate, history of Annual Appropriations Act, list of Bureau officials, copy of statement by Stewart Udall before subcommittee on public works, Bureau planning program, statement on department-wide research programs.
Opening statement for hearings on proposed supplemental, schedule of public works construction programs, copies of senate memoranda, copy of letter from Secretary to Charles Schultze, Director of Budget.
Memorandum on hearings for 1971 estimates, review of 1970 budget, schedule for budget hearings, copy of opening remarks by Commissioner of Reclamation, copy of 1970 budget.
Newspaper clippings, speech by Kermit Gordon, Director of Budget, clippings concerning Gordon-Dominy dispute.
Memoranda regarding reassignment of information specialist for Bureau. Authorizations for leave, equipment, travel, for bureau-wide photojournalist.
Typescript, annotated reply to editorials regarding proposed Burns Creek Project, typescript statement by Dominy regarding the proposal.
List of California state assembly, congress and elected officials in Arizona.
4 reprints of "The Case For Federal Reclamation", by Honorable George D. Clyde.
Memoranda, copies of newspaper articles, appraisal report, data, other.
Departmental report, statement by Dominy before Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs regarding economic and engineering details.
Congressional bills and hearings, pages of Congressional Record, copy of bill to authorize project, typescript memorandum on Denver office building, alternative plans for Colorado River Basin Project, draft of statement for Secretary Holum, carbon of bill authorizing Central Arizona Project.
Correspondence from Department to Senator Jackson regarding views on S. 1658-Central Arizona Project, with supplemental report.
With resolution in opposition to San Luis Interceptor drain, memoranda on initiation of construction, statement, Water Association publication, bills and hearings on Unit.
Concerning Trinity transmission facilities, with typescript chronology of transmission lines for Trinity power, information on legislation, typescript Redetermination of Tunnel and Powerplant Capacities, fund requirement for construction of power facilities, statement for Trinity hearings, and notes.
Memoranda regarding emergencies, defense, establishing procedures, guidelines, programs, guide for defense action.
Testimony of Dominy before Public Utilities Commission of State of Colorado, memoranda regarding hearings, power marketing criteria, schedule of rates, acquisition of coal reserves, proposed Hayden Steamplant.
Memoranda on repayment problems, stenographic transcript of hearings, reports on hearings on land limitations, memoranda regarding farm size, comparisons, briefing material for repayment contract negotiations, farm unit data, pamphlet on Columbia Basin Project, public laws.
With newspaper clippings, status of long form repayment contracts, carbon of status report on project, memoranda on third power plant, repayment contract, personal service costs, drainage assessments, adverse publicity, peak delivery criteria. Includes official report of proceedings before department of Interior on Columbia Basin Project Contract, report of board of consultants on repayment problems, copy of 1960 Amendatory Contract, press release, blue envelope memo on Activities of Landowners Association, Inc., copy of amendatory contract between U.S. and Quincy Columbia Basin Irrigation District. Includes copy of statement by Dominy, hearings and senate resolutions.
Designation of persons to serve on committees, invitations to join organizations, appointments to committees and commissions, copy of letter from Udall recommending appointment of Hugh Dugan to Chair the Upper Colorado River Commission, memoranda on inter-agency committee, Bureau employee development committee, National Research Council, U.S. Committee on Large Dams.
Memoranda appointing Dominy to Vice President's Working Committee-Federal Construction of the President's Council on Recreation and Natural Beauty.
Report on cost trends, memoranda regarding relationship with respect to construction of projects, memos of agreement between army/interior on division of responsibilities in the Central Valley Basin, proposed fiscal year 1963 investigation programs of bureau/army areas of overlap of responsibilities, cost comparisons for* Teton Basin. Includes rriemos regarding corps of engineer's responsibilities and activities concerning flood control on Grand River, comments on Corps report on Rogue River Basin, proposed developments, agreement, and memoranda to Secretary of Interior.
With text of speech by Dominy on Denit's retirement from Department of Interior.
With statement by Assistant Secretary Kenneth Holum on proposed legislation to authorize the Dixie Project, bills, statement by Dominy.
With photographs of overtopping of Gibson Dam, the Great Falls Flood, June, 1964 Flood of North Central Montana, Eastern slope. With statement by Dominy, memorandum on disaster relief assistance, Department of Interior bibliography of dam failures, teletype reports of flood conditions, memoranda on dam failures in Montana, copy of LBJ letter declaring disaster area, memoranda on reconstruction of Two Medicine Dam, Blackfoot Indian Irrigation Project, report on 1964 floods in Northern California, the 1965 Seattle Earthquake reports, plan for North Coast Project, the establishment of emergency flood rehabilitation division, memo on flood inspection, and summary, "The West--A Potential Future Food Deficit Area".
Primarily letters by Dominy concerning Bureau projects from such papers as Deseret News, Las Vegas, Denver Post, Sunset Magazine, Rocky Mountain News, Idaho Daily Statesman, Washington Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Great Falls Tribune, National Observer, Salt Lake Tribune, Harper's, etc. on such projects as Columbia Basin, Lower Colorado River Basin, marketing of hydro-electric power, the'Central Arizona Project, and Pacific Southwest Water Plan.
Memoranda regarding Bureau assistance on President Eisenhower's Gettsyberg farm.
With memoranda on relationship of Region 7, Office of Emergency Planning, with Bureau.
Memorandum on contracts with English Electric.
Policy statement, use of consulting engineers by commissioners.
Claim, and 1964 Department of Interior Review of Ets-Hokin Corp., newspaper clippings.
Carbon of report, federal reclamation program.
Hearings on Pacific Northwest Floods. With blue envelope report, booklet on reclamation's role in Colorado flood control, background material, dams on South Platte River, statement by Bureau on performance of reclamation reservoirs during Pacific Northwest floods, water and power operations report and forecast, damages, estimates.
Report on cost sharing, covering economic and financial aspects of Central and Southern Florida Project.
With report on leak at Fontanelle, Seedskadee Project, with photographs and correspondence.
Memo on staffing, National Advisory Comm.
With resume of Bureau foreign assistance programs and current projects.
Briefing. Memoranda with information on foreign ministers, civil employees concerning science mission to Australia, India, U.S.-Australia Cooperation, Brazilian Minister of Interior, the Agricultural Attache from Netherlands. Also concerning Afghanistan delegation, director of Litani River Authority, the Kansai Electric Power Co. officials, delegation from Czechoslovakia, Thailand. With typescript report on Saudi Arabian visit of Hassan Mishari, officials from Nigeria, Ghana, Australia, and Iranian officials. With Bureau report on foreign activities.
With press release on contract for dam, memoranda regarding seepage investigations, geologic investigations of gypsum-halite, correspondence between Congressman Wayne Aspinall and Orville Freeman, statement by Secretary Udall on project-releases, reevaluation statement by Udall.
Concerning film at Glen Canyon and other Bureau projects.
Points of opposition to Bureau accomplishments in Wyoming.
Letter concerning Lake Powell.
Concerning marketing of Bonneville Power Administration in Southern Idaho.
With tabulation of information on land ownership.
Regarding meritorious service awards, distinguished service awards. With lists.
With carbon of speech by Dominy at banquet honoring Herbert G. West, of Inland Empire Waterways Association.
With directory of members, and papers by Dominy, "New Sources of Water Supply through Improved Utilization and Management", "Methods of Investigating Hydroelectric Energy Potential on Multiple-Purpose Reclamation Projects".
Regarding San Carlos Project, Central Arizona Project, Oahe Project, Cibolo Project, 1964-1965 disaster assistance, departmental research, runoff tabulations, Sacramento River diverters, personnel matters, leakage at Anchor Dam, Jackson Lake Reservoir actions, evaporation suppression research. With review of operations.
Concerning operation of reservoirs, effect on other programs of the Departmeni of the Interior, and operations at Jackson Lake.
Correspondence with Secretary Udall regarding Montezuma pumped storage project by Arizona Power Authority and interests of Salt River Project. With copy of Protest and Petition to Intervene.
Information on land utilization in Upper Klamath Basin, legislation regarding administration of wildlife refuges, correspondence with Klamath Basin Water Users Protective Association.
Resume
Listing of multiple-purpose reclamation projects concerning M & I."
With correspondence, requests for Bureau maps. Maps include Federal Reclamation Dams such as Salt River Project, Colorado Water Resource Development, Central Valley Project, map and operational diagram of Lower Colorado River, Lower Rio Grand, Rogue River Basin Project, operational diagram of Lower Colorado River, and maps and paper on irrigation in the Soviet Union.
With copy of Exceptions Before Federal Power Commission by Secretary Udall. Includes proposal for joint federal-state development of Kanab Creek Power Development.
Concerning meetings on status of contract of San Luis Unit Drain, the Casper Wyoming Natural Resource Board on Green River Basin, energy production, distribution and supply, power coordination negotiation synopsis, South Dakota Research Programs, Contra Costa Canal System. With material on the 12th National Watershed Congress, water development in Lebanon, other.
Concerning Corning Canal construction halt, Texas Water Plan, landowner complaints in Townsend, Mt., informal report on Crow Creek Pump Unit, irrigation in Heart River Valley, No. Dakota, with repayment contract negotiations for Heart River Division, Missouri River Basin Project, Riverton Project, and the Belle Fourche Irrigation District, other.
With typescript information on funds for Colorado River Storage Project, landowner protests against construction of White Rock Canal Extension Irrigation District, discussion of Proposed program in Colorado River Basin, proposal to strengthen Department functions, other.
Concerning inspection of 1964 floods in California and Oregon, budget allowances, Mexican Salinity Problem, correspondence with Senator Frank Moss. With Richard Bradley statement, other.
Land purchases, analyses of alternative plans for Colorado River Basin Project, hearings on need for water resources development in Colorado River Basin, scheduling of reclamation events, other. With copy of affadavit by Dominy regarding California consumptive use of Colorado River water.
Concerning Colorado River water supply issue, annual construction program, evaluation of Co. River Storage Project, transmission routes, funding of Tehama-Colusa Canal, third powerplant at Grand Coulee Dam, letter concerning Udall family, Central Arizona Project investigations, the Garrison Diversion Unit, San Juaquin Valley, other.
Concerning executive order to transfer functions of Lower Co. River Land Use Office to Bureau of Land Management, game and fish conservation, departmental policy, Public Works Appropriations, paper by Dominy on protection of farmlands, federal land exchange in Idaho, lease proposal and maps concerning use of Reclamation withdrawn lands for agricultural purposes.
At Page, Arizona, regarding testimony of Dominy before Subcommittee on Boards of Contracts concerning appeals, strike and wage increase. Includes appeal of Bureau, claims for escalation payment, points for discussion, correspondence concerning adjustment in charges for labor, briefing statement, copy of National Agreement.
Material concerning the Lower Colorado River Groundwater Recovery Program. Includes correspondence with International Boundary and Water Commission outlining plan for installation and operation of low water' check gates, water import studies. With copy of U.S.-Mexican Desalting Study Program and the Co. River Salinity Problem, with memoranda on groundwater recovery. Includes material on U.S. obligations under the International Waters Treaty of 1944. There is correspondence between U.S. State Department and Mexican Embassy, memoranda from Secretary Udall to Secretary of State, with outlines of proposed bypass, essential provisions of a Minute between U.S. and Mexico.
Files include memoranda on estimated monthly distribution of discharge of salts, negotiations, by-pass channel. Included are drafts of negotiating positions, transcript of senate hearings on proposed water release, Official Report of Proceedings before Dept. of Interior Secretary's Conference, record of delivery of water to Mexico (1956-1963), correspondence outlining California position, review of 1963 report on delivery of water, letters from Imperial Irrigation District, memorandum from Commissioner of International Boundary Commission, recommendations of State Department, memoranda on proposed sluicing operations, special engineering studies, and International Groundwater Program, with map showing Region 7, U.S. Program for Groundwater Recovery in the Yuma Area. Also contains memoranda on Chamizel settlement, meetings with science advisor, and interim alleviation of salinity problem, other.
Correspondence with Mountain states Telephone Co., typescript Microwave System Cost Analysis.
Memoranda on water resources exchange agreement, U. S. and Libya, prospectus on total natural resources potential in the Middle East, proposed studies of Middle East Water Resource Development, and potential for assistance by U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, with map of Southwest Asia. Includes "The Unified Development of the Water Resources of the Jordan Valley Region", by TVA, Charles T. Main, Inc., 1953, prepared at the request of UN, and paper on problems of the Middle East as related to water.
Charts, plans for dwelling construction at Page, Az., information on dam at Goshen, Va., hand colored map of Kanawha River Basin, copies of Dominy's identification, membership, and credit cards.
With proposal letter to Senator Carl Hayden to accelerate construction of Glen Elder Unit, background on reanalysis of project repayment studies, Bureau report on financial position, memoranda on power rates, status report on proposed intertie, economic and financial analysis, project data on new transmission lines, press releases, and speech by Goodrich Lineweaver.
Establishment and personnel.
Correspondent for Washington, and Farmington NM Times, other newspapers.
Concerning wheeling contract with Montana Power Company.
Memoranda regarding visitor use.
Report of survey team on which Dominy served, to investigate, analyze and present recommendations for organization and operation of National Park Services Washington, regional and field offices. Includes papers on personnel, signs, suggestions for improvement of service, organization and management survey report, summary of delegations and redelegations of authority, accounting function charts, statistical data for management and survey team, draft of final organizational and management survey report, and chronology of concession contracts in Yellowstone National Park, other. Also includes memorandum to Assistant Secretary Lewis on reorganization of the National Park Service.
With speech by Dominy, articles on the congress, 1966 briefing statements at visit of National Rivers and Harbors Board, Page, Az. Includes correspondence about bill for construction of government facility for water research, draft of bill, examination and classification of project.
Letter to Harold Christy regarding article on reclamation for magazine, Nation's Business.
E. M. Correspondence Utah Power and Light Co. concerning transmission of power for Weber Basin and Provo River Projects.
Copies of hearing on Mid-State Project, 1962 special economic study, correspondence with Wayne Aspinall, memoranda on hearings, statement by Commissioner on bills regarding Mid-State Reclamation District.
Data on new construction starts by Bureau.
On Glen Canyon policy, Fryingpan Dam, Colorado River water, Lake Powell, other.
Memoranda about awards, wild river studies, Federal Assistance Institute, Nationwide System of Trails study, coordination with programs, articles on creation of Bureau of Outdoor Recreation.
Copy of Interior Department regulations, memoranda concerning private employment of Bureau employees, particularly in Denver office, review of employment practices.
(Anchor Dam, Wy.). With copies of 1904 Department of Interior memoranda concerning Hondo Project, leakage, and 1962 memoranda on leakage of Anchor Dam.
Concerning delegation of authority, account legislation, bills, fact sheet on proposed intertie, letters to Udall from congressmen, statement by Udall before Senate Appropriations Committee on intertie, feasibility reports, including the Dalles Hoover D-C Intertie. Includes "Answers by the Department of the Interior to Questions Submitted", in letter to Assistant Sec. Kenneth Holum before joint hearing of the Calif. Senate Fact Finding Committee on Water Resources and the Assembly Interim Committee On Water In Sacramento. Includes proposal from International Utilities Corp., list of supporters, and information on promotion of BPA lines in Southern Idaho, Pacific NW Coordination Agreement.
Bill for authorization, Pacific Southwest Project Act, copy of modifications, presentation and legislation plan, resume of Water Plan, outline of report to Secretary, fact sheet, memoranda to White House on "Guarantees" in plan, review of supplemental information, comments of State of Calif., typescript bill to approve regional approach to develop resources of Pacific S.W. Plan, weekly progress reports, other.
Blue envelope memoranda concerning proposed employment of Robert J. Pafford as Regional Director, Region 2, and reassignment of personnel.
Memoranda concerning Palo Duro Project, North Canadian River Basin.
Typescript report on project.
With expired passports, innoculation information, international driving permits, other, for Floyd Dominy.
Remarks by Gordan Ebersole, Resources Program Staff, letter to Sec. Udall concerning The Metropolitan Water District, draft of commissioner's memorandum on congressional liason and other agency coordination, letter from International Platform Association, other.
Regarding staffing key positions, public law concerning conduct, requests for transfers on re-employment, listing of pay scales with appointing authority, realignment of Washington headquarters organization, resumes. Includes files compiled by L. Ray Awtrey concerning division of organization management, ADP systems development, excessive administration staff, and improvement.
Booklet, "The Phoenix Story", by S. C. Shedegg, and 1957 report of the Salt River Project.
With Departmental statement before Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Power, proposed bill to amend Federal Water Pollution Control Act, report of meeting of National League of Cities Committee on Water Resources, memoranda concerning water pollution control program.
Population and irrigation investment data.
Report by President's National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty.
Review of power sales and transmission contracts, Central Valley Project, statement by Dominy on Central Valley Project Power, history of negotiations with Utah Power and Light Co. for wheeling and sale of power, information release on Missouri River Basin Power Allocation. Includes municipalities served by Bureau powerplants, constructed and operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, other.
Copies of "Special Message on Natural Resources".
President Kennedy's Message on Conservation.
Concerning attendance by Bureau officials, transcript of press conference held by Dominy at Salt Lake City, Utah, 1961, and excerpts from Udall's press conference, 1961.
Review of problem area in construction repayment , review of Missouri River Basin Project, review of Central Valley Project, Missouri River Basin Project, Robert Lee Project, Uncompahgre Project, and list of federal reclamation projects, roster of water user organizations.
Memoranda from Office of The Solicitor, with lists of public laws, summaries of public laws affecting the Department of Interior.
Concerning pumped back storage of Upper Colorado River Project, and potential storage projects.
Background information on Alex Radin, general manager, American Public Power Association.
New release on Bureau accomplishements.
Refusals to invitations extended Floyd Dominy.
Department of Interior reorganization, reduction in force.
Letter to Clair Engle with compilation of data dealing with repayment contract's.
Reports to Dominy during absence, primarily concerning calls and activity at Bureau office. Some typescript, some carbon. Includes reports from W. Darlington Denit, Acting Commissioner, and Assistant commissioners Palmer and Bennet.
Annual flow of principal rivers in the Western United States.
Memoranda concerning Indian oil and gas leases, settler data, farm size, Review Commission for Wyoming Reclamation Projects. With statements in support of reauthorization by Bureau, draft of bill on Project Legislation, information on Wyoming Reclamation Projects Survey Team, statement in support of delivery of water to lands in Third Division, reports.
With map of basin.
Report by B. Bell port, Chief Engineer.
Memoranda by Bureau design engineers on stability of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch.
Concerns realignment and transfer of functions, water desalination, desalting studies, coordination between office of saline water and Bureau, summary of proposals, report by task group on large nuclear powered sea water distillation plants.
With address by J. A. Riggins, Jr., "The Indian Problem".
Concerning Twin Buttes Dam.
Detailed statement by Dominy and Udall, Interior Department memoranda concerning authorization of construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, copy of hearing before sub-committee on constructon of Navajo Indian Irrigation and San Juan Chama Project.
Correspondence with Ray J. Lyman concerning funds for scholarships.
Concerning water conservation and saline water.
With list of sensitive positions personnel of Bureau, and handbook of security instructions.
Monthly progress report, settlement of Heart Mountain Division, correspondence concerning proposed development of airport.
Correspondence with David Brower concerning releases on Lower Colorado Water Plan, articles about Sierra Club, position on Bridge Canyon Dam, bulletins of Sierra Club, and correspondence with Ellis Armstrong.
Concerning conservation Service Award by Dominy at National Rivers and Harbors meeting.
Chronology of actions, memoranda on status of project loan applications.
Concerning project investigations, Mountain Sheep Dam, 1962 petition for intervention in Pacific Northwest Power Co., memoranda on power marketing in Southern Idaho, digest of agreement on principles and responsibilities of corps of engineers/Bureau on Columbia River Basin.
Report on status by states, approximate acreage, number of operating units, land utilizations, soil conservation districts.
With cost estimates, supplemental detail, design data, planning construction, justification for new building, summary on office and special purpose space, correspondence with GSA concerning construction of new building, photographs.
Agenda and minutes for staff meetings.
Concerning Knowles Dam Project, Missouri River Basin Project, Marysville Project, Saline Water Conversion Program, Coulee Dam-third power house, Shasta Dam Service, Loup Basin Reclamation District, 1962 Operations of Lake Mead for Flood Control Purposes, Salt Fork, Mann Creek Project, Ruedi Reservoir site, other.
Pamphlet.
Biographical data on Michael Straus, Commissioner of Bureau, letter of resignation, report on South Asian food, water and power development.
Potential of corps of engineers federal flood control program on agricultural production, memoranda on crop report and related data, federal reclamation projects. With report on relationship of reclamation crop production to agricultural surpluses.
Concerning hydraulic turbines, solicitation for bids, architectural concept, preliminary specifications, generating units procurement procedures, agenda on meeting, newspaper articles, other. Includes correspondence with Marcel Breuer concerning design and construction.
Correspondence concerning private ditch.
Concerning channelization program on Colorado River
With status report on Arch Hurley conservancy Project.
Concerning award of contracts for hydraulic turbines involving bids from foreign manufacturers, information on award of conracts, bids on powerplants, including memoranda on bids from foreign manufacturers. With awards contracts for four project powerplants.
Memoranda on taping of "Public Office", other radio and television interviews with Floyd Dominy on reclamation, different projects, other.
Concerning transmission of high voltage electricity.
With correspondence, membership directory, annual meeting minutes (1966), report on study tour (Cairo) of 30th executive Meeting, other.
Letter to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation and to Secretary of Interior, from H. S. Varner.
Program of International Conference on Water For Peace, list of delegates, provisional list of participants, index of documents, news releases, summary of Bureau program.
With report on "Water Resources Activities In The United States", by senate committee on water resources, statement on plans for use and development of water and related land resources, draft of, "The Case For Redefining Federal Agency Responsibilities for National Water Resources Development", information from the Secretary on departmental water research activities, statement before senate committee, and 1960 Vice Presidential statement on natural resources.
By Food and Agricultural Organization, with schedule, comments, itinerary for Watershed Management Seminar tour by Food and Agricultural Organization, suggested outline for comments by Floyd Dominy, and typescript background of the Department of the Interior as a conservation agency.
Concerning development of project, statement of Dominy on project, correspondence between Sec. Udall and Wayne Aspinall, Chairman of Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, memoranda on corps of engineers public hearing.
With notes for meeting of the Secretary and WEST, including background information on WEST.
Statement of progress on Wheatland Unit Feasibility Studies.
Remarks at Mid-West Electric Consumers Association.
Summary of actions by the Bureau of Reclamation to accelerate procurement and construction on public works programs, 1961 Special Message on Natural Resources.
With copy of paper by Dominy, "Economic and Design considerations of the Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie", copy of U.S. National Committee membership list.
Concerning candidates.
concerning production of abstract bulletin.
Concerning cement shipment, development of recreation area, relocatable houses, construction. With copy of bidding for Yellowtail Powerplant.
Correspondence between Attorney General of California Northcutt Ely and Fred Seaton, Secretary of Interior.
Annotated memoranda on farm size.
These files, through box 22, contain information concerning the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP). Files contain correspondence, memoranda, studies, reports, charts, maps, statements, press releases, records, government documents, published material and related information on all aspects of the Colorado River Storage Project, including planning, legislation, cost allocations, construction, power, public reaction. As labeled by donor, the files are arranged alphabetically.
With revision plans, memoranda on economy of plan, comparative studies, memorandum for the president and others in Department of Interior.
Concerning article by Richard Bradley, draft of statement for Senator Hayden, press conference on Lower Co. River Basin Project, remarks and statements by government officials, summary of project. Includes correspondence with Navajo Tribal Council on proposed land exchange, correspondence between Udall and Wayne Aspinall, and letter from Barry Goldwater on Rainbow Bridge Area.
Concerning Glen Canyon filling and Lake Mead during Lake Powell filling, with typescript index and data, including material on San Juan Chama Project, the criteria used in evaluation of utility wheeling offer with Arizona Public Service transmission line. With 1960 contracts underway and scheduled for award, report of board of consultants on Flaming Gorge Dam and information on compatibility of irrigation development and trona mining of Seedskadee Project, Wy.
Synopsis of the Colorado River Development Fund, from the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act of July 19, 1940-1962.
With handwritten chart showing Upper Co. River Basin Fund, copy of principles and operating criteria for Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge, Navajo and Curecanti reservoirs, typescript status of Glen Canyon Filling Criteria negotiations.
Bureau capability chart showing discharge and dissolved solids of Colorado River, charts showing Bureau contract face value, 1967 reduction study and Bureau supplemental requests for Upper Colorado River Storage Project, reference maps.
Concerning power marketing, energy transmission, copy of transmission system report, release on power marketing area and criteria, first annual report on status of CRSP (typescript outline) to congress, copy of hydrologic bases for financial studies, report on federal transmission system, fourth annual report to Congress.
Concerning private wheeling proposals, principles for filling Upper Co. River Basin reservoirs, fact sheet on CRSP transmission system controversy, program for power marketing arrangements, copies of Resolution of Upper Co. River Commission, 5th annual report to congress, list of bid openings for transmission, evaluation of wheeling proposals, statements by Dominy, review of private utilities, letter of intent by Co. Basin Consumers Power, Inc, 15th Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission, synopsis of inquiries pertaining, to thermal-electric generating plant.
Concerning proposed contract for interconnection by Utah Power and Light Co., draft of statement on comprehensive development of Lower Colorado, bid information, correspondence with Navajo Tribal Council, breakdown of progress of construction on CRSP, results of discussions with private utilities on wheeling arrangements, 6th and 7th annual reports to congress, memorandum on allocation and marketing of power, partial chronology of events, jurisdictional dispute on Morrison-Knutson transmission line contract, press releases, statements.
With, policy recommendations, annual runoff chart (1965), preliminary examination of power marketing activities, data on Central Arizona ;Project for Senator Jackson, analysis of Los Angeles Department of Water, and power proposal for Hualapai Dam.
Statement by Dominy at Colorado River Commission meeting in Denver, copy of Bureau forecasts of Lake Powell inflow (1964), statement by E. C. Johnson, Commissioner from Colorado, elevation chart (1964), report on Snake River Diversion.
Report of information on steps taken toward control of waste of Co. River water, briefing statement on Glen Canyon filling, with statistics, filling criteria, proposal, forecasted flow, reservoir operation studies, power purchase, charts of operating curves, financial data, water logs, tables of river flow and diversions, charts of Hoover Dam releases, annual requirements, and stream depletions. Includes record of water delivery to Mexico, filling criteria for Lakes Powell and Mead, hearings on release of Co. River water, Mexican Treaty, and Opinions of Supreme Court on Arizona v. California.
Concerning bids on hydraulic turbines, letter from Upper Co. River Governors concerning Glen Canyon filling (1964), replies to editorials, correspondence and memoranda to Merrit, Chapman and Scott on progress on powerplant construction delays, status of Glen Canyon filling criteria negotiations, statistics of Glen Canyon unit, preliminary objectives on the results of the engineering group studies, letter to Sec. Udall from comptroller general regarding award of contract for hydraulic turbines, copy of proposed principles to govern criteria for filling period, generator installation, naming of Glen Canyon Reservoir, housing criteria and commercial development of Page, Az, with proposed contract for reclamation housing.
Correspondence between Wayne Aspinall and Stewart Udall, statements by Dominy and Assistant Secretary Kenneth Holum, proposed amendment to recommend revision of HR 5671, chart of annual runoff patterns, copy of joint statement on behalf of the state of California, Co. River Basin Project reference maps.
Photographs, material on distribution of booklet, "Lake Powell-Jewel of the Colorado", mailing lists, copies of booklet, with memoranda concerning filling operations, reports on flow and quality of water, operation study, reservoir and precipitation information, statements on opening of gates, official length, other.
Photographs, correspondence on creation and distribution of booklet, correspondence concerning persons receiving booklet, other.
Operational diagram, memoranda on operations of Lower Colorado Land Use office, press releases on land use and trespass, minutes of Graham Hollister and the Lower Co. River Planning Group, development program for conference on Lower Colorado land use.
Government reports, copy of HR3300 and HR14834, charts and graphs of water depletions for consumptive use, correspondence with senator Frank Moss, copy of remarks from White House on signing bill for authorization of project, comparison chart of different bills introduced which concern Colorado River Basin Project, reference maps.
Data on Colorado River Basin Project accumulations to Lower Co. River development fund, memorandum on agreement between Az. and Calif, and WEST Management Committee meeting. Includes letter from Bureau of Budget Deputy Director Hughes to Udall concerning provisions for authorizations of Upper Co. Projects. Included are letters and newspaper clippings on Sierra Club lobbying, and use of nuclear power compared with power from Grand Canyon dams. With government paper, "Is the Marble Canyon Project Economically Justified".
With bills, hearings, amendment, reports on Lower Co. River Basin Development Fund, potential pumped storage, hydroelectric plants, 1967 Bureau summary report, "Central Arizona Project With Federal Prepayment Power Arrangements", report from Secretary, lists. Included are a suggested revision of bill authorizing construction, operation and maintenance of Co. River Basin Project, information on sediment problem, with records, analyses, and projections, and fact sheet on Hualapai Plan-Bridge Canyon to Pierces Ferry Dam. Included are letters between the committee on interior and insular affairs concerning CRSP.
Primarily U.S. Geological Survey color maps of Grand Canyon, Glen Canyon and Marble Canyon area.
Press release on Navajo Dam dedication, correspondence with Navajo Tribal Council concerning right of way, memoranda on the status of the Navajo Unit.
Statements by Stewart Udall, official report of proceedings before Department of Interior in matter of Conference on Rainbow Bridge National Monument, petitions concerning protection of Rainbow Bridge, preliminary report on protective works at Rainbow Bridge, geologic examination of Rainbow Bridge National Monument, cost of protective works and facilities. Includes typescript remarks by Dominy at Fremont Canyon Powerplant, cost sheet on Secretarial inspection trip of Rainbow Bridge, other.
With correspondence, newspaper clippings, cost allocations, press releases, concerning CRSP.
With reconnaisance report on augmentation of plan, desalting study discussion, including information on Central Utah Project, summary report "Central Arizona Project with Federal Prepayment Power Arrangements", report on rate of depletion of Upper Co. River Basin, handwritten notes on Page plant, correspondence between Wayne Aspinall, Stewart Udall.
Statement by Dominy on analysis of utility proposals for transmission of CRSP power, memorandum from L. M. Alexander regarding transmission to Flagstaff, Az., and 1961 review of proposal by private utilities to wheel power to preference customers.
Material concerning official travel by Floyd Dominy, primarily with the Bureau of Reclamation as Commissioner, but also while with the Department of Agriculture. Files contain itineraries, correspondence, vouchers, lists, memoranda, invitations for speaking engagements, and related material. As labeled by donor, files are primarily in chronological order except for agriculture files and extended trips, which are labeled by name of country or event within the year taken. Travel files continue through box 31.
Primarily travel vouchers, memoranda, statements of travel by motor vehicle, requests for funds.
While chief, Division of Irrigation of Bureau. Includes program, list of addresses, itinerary, memoranda regarding visit of Professor Eijsvoogel of the Netherlands and correspondence with Nederlands Reclamation Sevice, agriculture and irrigation publications, related material.
With copy of speech by Dominy, "Financing and Repayment of Water Projects", statement of personal expenses for Kuljian Corporation, typescript log of interviews with Cuban producers, rainfall charts, paper on rainfall and relationship to irrigation, outline of report, Guantanamo Valley, Cuba. Also contains personal correspondence. This project was consulting work undertaken by Floyd Dominy.
Program for preliminary economic considerations of the Arizona Watershed Program. With carbon of speech by Dominy, "Reclamation's Interest in Sound Watershed Management"
Republican Valley Conservation Association Meeting, 1958. Briefing notes, copy of remarks by Dominy at annual meeting.
Draft of speech on potential Cheney division of Wichita Project. Also included is a draft of remarks by Floyd Dominy for the Wichita meeting.
Included is a typescript speech for presentation by Floyd Dominy, and correspondence concerning meeting.
Memoranda on inspection of Blue Nile Project, Ethiopia under auspices of International Cooperation Administration, Helmand Valley Project. With itinerary, maps of Blue Nile River Basin, project map of Arghandab Valley, personnel list for Ethiopia, with typescript report on progress in Helmand Valley development. Includes memoranda concerning travel arrangements, and Bureau of Reclamation technical assistance for project.
International'Commission' on Large Dams of the World Power Conference. With discussion for presentation by Dominy, "Rainmaking and Prevention of Evaporation", list of U. S. registrants, paper by Dominy, "Methods of Investigating Hydroelectric Energy Potential on Multiple-Purpose Reclamation Projects". With memoranda on International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage. Includes correspondence with Ministerio Das Obras Publicas, and correspondence concerning the U.S. National Committee-World Power Conference list of delegates.
Information relating to travel as Commissioner of Bureau of Reclamation. Primarily arranged in chronological order, or in the case of lengthy trips, by name of country visited. Contains correspondence, speeches and presentation material, itineraries, vouchers, travel arrangements, related items.
Includes material for Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project Golden Anniversary. Speech by Dominy.
Includes handwritten notes.
Includes World Power Conference paper by Dominy, "Methods of Investigating Hydroelectric Energy Potential on Multiple-Purpose Reclamation Projects", minutes of special meeting of executive board of U.S. National Committee, World Power Conference, report of the Madrid Sectional Meeting of the World Power Conference.
Other projects, including Kittitas Reclamation District, memoranda on Colorado River Storage Project, transmission system and marketing.
Map of Asia, pamphlets on 7th International Congress on Large Dams, Rome, with copy of paper, "Water Resources In The U.S.S.R. and Their Exploitation" addresses of U.S. officials in Asia, position paper of Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, summary from Reconnaissance Report on Lower Mekong River Basin.
List of U.S. officials in Thailand, program of 7th Congress ICOLD, preliminary study of Pa Mong Project, review of Ford Foundation report, draft of preliminary basic data examination and suggested feasibility study program prepared by Bureau. With interview on Mekong River Basin Project, description of Pa Mong Project, official report of Pa Mong Project visit.
Statement by Dominy on Third Powerhouse at Grand Coulee, article by Udall, "A Tour of Soviet Dams", copy of report of U.S. Delegation tour, "Recent Electric Power Developments in the U.S.S.R.", memoranda on trip from Charles Luce, Bonneville Power Administration, memoranda on utilization of Russian construction practices, list of officials making exchange, copies of department of state telegrams.
Concerning Russian delegations to U.S. Includes correspondence with Russian officials, newspaper articles on Soviet engineers and irrigation specialists, report of executive council meeting, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, letter from Udall to Foy D. Kohler, Asst. Secy. for European Affairs, with proposal for exchange visit, outline, chart comparing U.S.S.R. and U.S. water resource development programs.
Information on large dams and high voltage installations in U.S.S.R. With photographs of U.S. delegation, customs regulations, article, "A Survey of Power Development in the U.S.S.R.", articles on hydro development in U.S.S.R, with data on dams and hydroplants.
Publications on Russian power construction survey of status and development of the electric power industry. With pamphlets, booklets, and photographs of dam and powerplant construction in U.S.S.R. Some in Russian.
Travel authorization, guidebook, general reclamation statistics, lists of Russian officials.
With report on "Irrigation in the Soviet Union", by Bureau of Reclamation and "Recent Electric Power Developments in the U.S.S.R.". Includes CIA report on irrigation in U.S.S.R., copy of dissertation on water resources and irrigation potential of the U.S.S.R. by N. H. Greenwood. Includes exchange agreement, schedules, rough draft of notes by H. Sanford, notes by E.E. Rippon, and reports of J. B. Fuller, L. E. Coles, and Bob Nelson.
With photographs of Indian officials of Central Water and Power Commission. Includes personnel roster of Bureau employees in India. Information on annual inspection trip to Afghanistan and Blue Nile River investigations. Includes itinerary for Helmand Valley Project, lists of personnel in Afghanistan, project brief, articles on Bhakra Dam, economic analysis of Far Eastern agriculture, information on Beas Dam Project.
Correspondence with officials, executives of Hitachi, Marubeni, and other businesses. List of key personnel in the Philippines with Philippine River Basin Development Study, registration for 5th International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage.
Includes address lists and correspondence with Jose Toran Pelaez
Review of reclamation work in Mekong Basin, background notes on Portugal, maps of Angola, and Israel, list of diplomatic and AID officials, International Commission on Large Dams in Switzerland.
Requests for foreign travel approval, Canberra, Australia for Seventh Regional Conference on Water Resources Development, American team study of Mekong River, map of Waikato River Power Development, Commissioner's Report on 7th Regional Conference on Water Resources Development, news release on South East Asian Regional Development.
Study tours in Thailand, list of ambassadors, correspondence with Australian Embassy, U.S. AID, paper by Dominy, "The Development of Cost Allocation Methods", Bureau report on Upper Pampanga River Project in Philippines.
Bureau alumni biographies from Royal Irrigation Department, Thailand, summary of status of program on Philippines Water Resources Survey Project, clippings of presentation of Order of Thai Crown to Floyd Dominy, correspondence Litani River Authority, addresses and worksheets for costs.
List of AID Mission heads, correspondence concerning Philippines Water Resources Survey Project, Australia Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, U.S. Operations Mission to Thailand, 1968 Budget Allowance Program Review by Bureau of Budget, memoranda on adjustment in Bureau Contract Repayment Arrangements, Coachella County Water District, All-American Canal System.
Reports on activities at Bureau of Reclamation office, including scatus report on Central Arizona Project Legislation, budgets for Comprehensive River Basin Studies, reports on water and land operations, project development, power operations, remarks of Wayne Aspinall before National Conference of State and Federal Water Officials.
Addresses in Thailand, list of delegations to International Conference on Water for Peace, and International Commission on Large Dams-Istanbul, review of Mekong River Basin work of Bureau in Thailand and Laos, Nigeria, foreign travel certification, bureau personnel assigned to Pa Mong Dam on Mekong River, correspondence concerning Israel and Portugal, paper, "Water Resources Developments In Angola", report on Economic Commission For Asia and the Far East.
Included are reports on Bureau activity during absence
Reports to Floyd Dominy during absences from office, primarily from Alice Quinn, secretary to the commissioner, and from N.B. Bennett, Jr., Acting Commissioner. Contain information on Geothermal Resources International, Inc., and Shenandoah Gas Co. representations to the Commissioner
Memoranda. Included are travel authorizations, travel by bureau plane, procedures, approvals, instructions on travel and amendments, foreign travel, speaking schedules
Concern travel, primarily vouchers and trip arrangements, with some hand-written notes on field trips. Contain vouchers and other material from service in Department of Agriculture, although most concern travel as Commissioner of Bureau of Reclamation. Also included is 1957 Guantanamo Valley's Irrigation Potential (Cuba), by Dominy as irrigation consultant.
Arranged chronologically, by donor, contain speeches and presentations by Floyd Dominy, primarily in capacity as Assistant Commissioner and as Commissioner of Bureau. Includes printed, typescript, and annotated material.
This accretion contains reports, correspondence, books, and scrapbooks (1935-2002).
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