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New River Valley Planning District Commission

Reports and files, 1959-91, n.d., 3.0 cu. ft., Ms98-024

Scope and Content:

The New River Valley Planning District Commission records consist of reports, files, and other literature gathered and used by the commission to aid their planning for the New River Valley of Virginia. Some of the records, spanning from 1959 to 1991, deal with forestation, wilderness management, water systems, economic concerns, and housing in the New River Valley and other areas of southern Appalachia. Also includes several publications from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Provenance:

The New River Valley Planning District Commission records were donated in December 1998 by the organization of the same name. It was organized in January and February 1999 by Sarah Gouger, student assistant, and Laura Katz Smith, Manuscripts Curator, Special Collections Department.

Contents List:

Box 1:

  • Folder 1: 1959 -- Bulletin of VPI, Geology and Mineral Resources of Floyd County, 1 of 2
  • Folder 2: 1959 -- Bulletin of VPI, Geology and Mineral Resources of Floyd County, 2 of 2
  • Folder 3: 1964 -- Public Law 86 - 577, 88th Congress S.4
  • Folder 4: 1969 -- Economic Activity Areas in Appalachia Pennsylvania
  • Folder 5: 1969 -- Summary of Changes in Volume 25 of the Appalachia Report
  • Folder 6: 1970 -- Report for Development of Water Resources in Appalachia
  • Folder 7: 1970 -- Planning Advisory Service, Manual, January 1970
  • Folder 8: 1971 -- Unit Plan Number One, Poverty Creek, Jefferson National Forest, Blacksburg Ranger District
  • Folder 9: 1971 -- Planning Advisory Service, Reports Numbers 276, 268
  • Folder 10: 1971 -- Planning Advisory Service, Reports Numbers 269, 270
  • Folder 11: 1971 -- Planning Advisory Service, Reports Numbers 272, 273, 274
  • Folder 12: 1972-73 -- Information sent to State Representatives from the Appalachian Regional Commission
  • Folder 13: 1972-73 -- ARC, Development Directory
  • Folder 14: 1972-73 -- Appalachian Regional Commission Appropriations
  • Folder 15: 1972-73 -- Information sent to Commission Members from the Appalachian Regional Commission
  • Folder 16: 1972 -- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Improvement of Costs
  • Folder 17: 1972 -- Annual Report of the Appalachian Regional Commission
  • Folder 18: 1972 -- Planning Advisory Service, Report Numbers 278, 281
  • Folder 19: 1972 -- Planning Advisory Service, Report Numbers 282, 283
  • Folder 20: 1972 -- Planning Advisory Service, Report Numbers 284, 285, 286, index
  • Folder 21: 1973 -- Planning Advisory Service, Report Numbers 287, 288, 289, 290
  • Folder 22: 1973 -- Planning Advisory Service, Report Numbers 292, 293
  • Folder 23: 1973 -- Health Continuation Burden Summary, Fiscal Year 1973
  • Folder 24: 1973 -- Planning Advisory Services, Reports Numbers 295, 296, 297
  • Folder 25: 1973 -- Summary of Actions taken at Commission Meeting
  • Folder 26: 1974 -- Planning Advisory Services, Reports Numbers 298, 300, 302, 304
  • Folder 27: 1974 -- Virginia’s Development Strategy, Appalachian Region, Preliminary Draft, 1 of 2
  • Folder 28: 1974 -- Virginia’s Development Strategy, Appalachian Region, Preliminary Draft 2 of 2
  • Folder 29: 1975 -- Public Law 93_662, 93rd Congress S.3433
  • Folder 30: 1975 -- Appalachian Regional Commission Project Preparation Guidelines, 1 of 2
  • Folder 31: 1975 -- Appalachian Regional Commission Project Preparation Guidelines, 2 of 2
  • Folder 32: 1975-- Consulting Engineering, A Guide for the Engagement of Engineering Services
  • Folder 33: 1976 -- Planning Advisory Services, Memos
  • Folder 34: 1977 -- Report Number 329; Index of Planning Advisory Service Projects
  • Folder 35: 1977 -- Planning Advisory Service Memos
  • Folder 36: 1978 -- Planning Advisory Service Memos
  • Folder 37: 1979 -- Best Management Practices Handbook, Agriculture, 1 of 2
  • Folder 38: 1979 -- Best Management Practices Handbook, Agriculture, 2 of 2
  • Folder 39: 1979 -- Planning Advisory Service Memos
  • Folder 40: 1979 -- Appalachian Regional Commission, Annual Implementing Investment Program
  • Folder 41: 1979 -- Appalachian Regional Commission Annual Report
  • Folder 42: 1979-82 -- Planning Assistance Bulletins
  • Folder 43: 1978 -- Development Strategy for the Appalachian Region of Virginia

Box 2:

  • Folder 1: 1978 -- Development Strategy for the Appalachian Region of Virginia
  • Folder 2: 1980 -- Housing Innovation Handbook for Appalachia, 1 of 2
  • Folder 3: 1980 -- Housing Innovation Handbook for Appalachia, 2 of 2
  • Folder 4: 1980 -- Appalachian Regional Commission Boundary
  • Folder 5: 1980 -- Planning Advisory Service Memo
  • Folder 6: 1980 -- Appalachian Regional Commission, Research on the Cost of Public Services
  • Folder 7: 1980 -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Index 1949-1980
  • Folder 8: 1982 -- Appalachian Settlement Patterns Study, Final Report
  • Folder 9: 1982 -- Letter Regarding the Cool Springs Public Water System in Pulaski County
  • Folder 10: 1981 -- Approved Projects, Appalachian Regional Commission
  • Folder 11: 1982 -- Information Relating to the New River Valley Planning District Commission Budget
  • Folder 12: 1982 -- Appalachian Regional Commission, Materials for the July 28, 1982, meeting
  • Folder 13: 1983 -- Appalachian Regional Commission, Materials for the February 2, 1983, meeting
  • Folder 14: 1983 -- Appalachia, Journal of the Appalachia Regional Commission
  • Folder 15: 1984 -- Public Law 98-586, Oct. 30, 1984, 98th Congress
  • Folder 16: 1985 -- Seventeenth Annual Report, Kentucky Area Development District
  • Folder 17: 1985 -- Annual Report, Appalachian Regional Commission
  • Folder 18: 1985 -- Draft, Virginia Agricultural Access Network Pilot Study; Final Report
  • Folder 19: 1986 -- Annual Report, Appalachian Regional Commission
  • Folder 20: 1986 -- A Call from the Wilderness
  • Folder 21: 1986 -- Breaking New Ground in the New Development
  • Folder 22: 1986 -- New River Valley Planning District Commission, Semi-Annual Progress Report, draft
  • Folder 23: 1986-87 -- ARC Budget- first draft and total
  • Folder 24: 1987 -- Semi Annual Progress Report, April 1, 1987- September 30, 1987
  • Folder 25: 1988 -- Best Management Practices for Forestry
  • Folder 26: 1988 -- Appalachian Regional Commission Development District Directory
  • Folder 27: 1988 -- Appalachian Regional Commission
  • Folder 28: 1990 -- Annual Report, Appalachian Regional Commission
  • Folder 29: 1991 -- New Acquisitions List, Geology Library, VA Tech March-June
  • Folder 30: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 305, 306
  • Folder 31: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 307, 308
  • Folder 32: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 311, 312
  • Folder 33: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 314, 315
  • Folder 34: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 322, 323
  • Folder 35: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 317, 318
  • Folder 36: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 319, 321
  • Folder 37: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 324, 325, 326, 327
  • Folder 38: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 330, 331, 332, 333
  • Folder 39: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 334, 335, 336
  • Folder 40: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 338, 339
  • Folder 41: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 342, 343, 344
  • Folder 42: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 345, 346, 347, 348
  • Folder 43: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 353, 355, 356, 357
  • Folder 44: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 358, 359, 361, 362
  • Folder 45: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 363, 364, 365
  • Folder 46: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 367, 368, 369
  • Folder 47: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Services, Report Numbers 370, 371, 372

Box 3:

  • Folder 1: n.d. -- Appalachian Regional Commission Administrative Grant Application
  • Folder 2: n.d. -- Poverty Creek Plan Number 1
  • Folder 3: n.d. -- Special Business Report for the National Business Incubation Association
  • Folder 4: n.d. -- Unit Plan for the Management of Poverty Creek Unit
  • Folder 5: n.d. -- Fiscal Year 1981 Project Package
  • Folder 6: n.d. -- Appalachian Regional Commission, Part One, Organization, Administration
  • Folder 7: n.d. -- Appalachian Regional Commission, Part Two, Policies, Programs, Procedures
  • Folder 8: n.d. -- Best Management Practices Handbook, Forestry
  • Folder 9: n.d. -- President’s Appalachia Regional Commission
  • Folder 10: n.d. -- Research Management, Notes numbers 5-8
  • Folder 11: n.d. -- Discussion Paper on ARC Evaluation Strategy
  • Folder 12: n.d. -- Geologic Map of Floyd County, VA
  • Folder 13: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Service, Report Index, 1949-1982
  • Folder 14: n.d. -- Planning Advisory Service, Memos numbers m-1, m-3, m-4, m-6, m-7, m-8 , m-11, m-12
  • Folder 15: n.d. -- Housing Innovation Handbook, Innovative Houses; Resource Organizations and Activists
  • Folder 16: n.d. -- Housing Innovation Handbook; National and Regional Resource Organizations
  • Folder 17: n.d. -- Housing Innovation Handbook; Bibliography
  • Folder 18: n.d. -- New River Valley Economic Development Alliance, Rules and Procedure
  • Folder 19: n.d. -- New River Valley District Commission By- Laws
  • Folder 20: n.d. -- The Need for Wilderness Management Philosophical Direction
  • Folder 21: n.d. -- Roadless Area Evaluation
  • Folder 22: n.d. -- The Need to Develop Wilderness Management Direction
  • Folder 23: n.d. -- Concerns and Issues for the State Wide Groups at the Wilderness Conference
  • Folder 24: n.d. -- Draft Issues and Concerns for the Wilderness Committee to spend time on
  • Folder 25: n.d. -- Prescription for Management Area Number 3
  • Folder 26: n.d. -- Summary of the Unit Plan for Managing the Upper Craig Creek Unit
  • Folder 27: n.d. -- A Proposal, Mill Creek Wilderness. Draft Environment Impact Statement
  • Folder 28: n.d. -- Pen and Ink Changes for Volumes 6-10; Explanatory Note for Volume 12
  • Folder 29: n.d. -- Housing Innovation Handbook for Appalachia
  • Folder 30: n.d. -- Housing Innovation Handbook; Housing Technology Briefs, 1 of 2
  • Folder 31: n.d. -- Housing Innovation Handbook; Housing Technology Briefs, 2 of 2
  • Folder 32: n.d. -- Program Policy Statement
  • Folder 33: n.d. -- Housing Innovation Handbook for Appalachia, ARC, 1 of 2
  • Folder 34: n.d. -- Housing Innovation Handbook for Appalachia, ARC, 2 of 2
  • Folder 35: n.d. -- Appalachian Regional Commission, 1 of 2
  • Folder 36: n.d. -- Appalachian Regional Commission, 2 of 2

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