Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

Scope and Contents These manuals provide management personnel detailed explanations of the steps for carrying out certain tasks and sources of reference on the proper procedures of the Department. The manuals are formulated from the laws, policies, rules and regulations of the Natural Resources Board, the State Merit System, the State Auditor and the State Department of Administrative Services. A typical manual contains the following tabbed chapters: I Introduction; II Personnel; III Leave; IV Employee...

Scope and Contents These publications address themselves to the myriad administrative interests of the Department. For the publications which deal with the various specific functions of the Department, see the Divisional Record Groups, Game and Fish, RG 25, Parks and Historic Sites, RG 30, and Environmental Protection, RG 88. See also those agencies which preceded those mentioned above. For example, the Georgia Water Quality Control Board, a former subdivision of the Department of Public Health (RG 26), was...

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This is a magazine - publication issued every two months and features the department's activities in restoring and maintaining the natural resources of the Georgia coastal area and the department's employees who are engaged in those activities.

Scope and Contents This series consists of: (1) studies (2) reports (3) maps and charts (4) minutes of staff conferences (5) memorandums and (6) position papers. These records were created in the review of Federal project grant proposals by the Office of the Commissioner. Also included are copies of forms used by the Office including: (1) Notification of Intent to Apply for Federal Assistance (2) Receipt of Notification of Intent to Apply for Federal Assistance and (3) Results of Reviewing of Notification of...

Scope and Contents This series contains the landmark water pollution case involving the Georgia Environmental Protection agency and the American Cyanamid plant in Savannah. Included are transcripts of court proceedings including depositions submitted by experts in various fields, briefs, both initial and rebuttal, company and State exhibits including many water quality analyses of the Savannah River water performed both by private firms and the Georgia Water Quality Control Board, maps, charts, projections of...

Scope and Contents These subject files of the Commissioner of the Dept. of Natural Resources document the varied activities of this multi-faceted Department as indicated by the folder-by-folder listing. Included are: (1) correspondence; (2) memoranda; (3) reports; (4)directives; (5) minutes of staff meetings and authorities closely linked to the department; (6) legislative and budget material; (7) communications with state and federal officials; (8) appointments; (9) research project material; and (10) reading...

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These files include: (1) reports, (2) studies, (3) research material, (4) contract agreements, and (5) related correspondence dealing with the many legal matters with which the Department of Natural Resources is involved. Among these are: (1) reviewing and executing contracts, (2) holding hearings on personnel matters, (3) providing liaison with the State Attorney General's Office, and (4) providing legal consultation services to all divisions of the department.

Scope and Contents This series contains: (1) correspondence and memorandums between Departmental staff and the Governor, state and federal legislators, other government officials and interested citizens; (2) records of staff briefings and proposals; (3) Department position statements; (4) maps and technical specifications pertaining to each special project, issue or area of interest; (5) master plans for special projects; (6) newspaper clippings; (7) data summaries; (8) related professional studies and...

Scope and Contents This series consists of files for contracts and information sources, general legislative correspondence, legislation passed and failed, legislative activities, outside proposals, progress reports, and information of the Southern Legislation Conference for 1977. The State Legislation function within the Special Projects section of the Commissioner's Office includes, (1) developing the Department's legislative proposals, (2) monitoring the activities of the Georgia General Assembly, and (3)...

Scope and Contents This series includes documents relating to all areas of responsibility and interest of the Commissioner of the Department and his deputy. Included are: (1) correspondence; (2) memorandums; (3) directives; (4) minutes of staff meetings; (5) legislative and budget material; (6) communications with state and federal officials; (7) appointments; (8) research projects. Among the important areas of interest are (1) water, land and mineral resource conservation, (2) wildlife conservation, and (3)...

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NATURAL RESOURCES - FORESTRY - WPA REAL PROPERTY SURVEYS OF GREATER ATLANTA - January 1939. Sections A - D, Mortgage Status Maps, Sanitary Facilities Maps, Condition of Residence Structures, Area 1 Including Chamblee, Area 2 Including Avondale Estates and Decatur Area 3 Including East Point, College Park and Hapeville, Area 4 Including city of Atlanta Identification Maps: Hapeville, Avondale, Chamblee, Decatur, East Point, College Park

Scope and Contents This series contains (1) correspondence, (2) memorandums, (3) reports, (4) publications, (5) news releases, (6) copies of Federal and state legislation, (7) budget data and (8) other records documenting the establishment of policies and procedures for the Office of Information and Education, also called the Public Relations and Information Office. This office, abolished in 1979, had responsibility for information services, printing and publications, graphics and photography and the statewide...

Scope and Contents This series consists of copies of the Department newsletter published bi-monthly for the information and enjoyment of the Department's employees. The publication was at first called the DNR Newsletter, but this title changed to Inside and Outside DNR after only one issue. Each division of the Department has its own reporter who furnished news from his or her division. Most of this news is of a human interest nature concerning individual employees. Also included are a report from the...

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These are very similar to any agency's news releases in that they keep the public informed as to the official activities of the agency. There are very few of these news releases.

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These publications were produced by the Department of Natural Resources. They deal with material of a professional nature rather than that of an administrative nature which R.G. 86, S.G. 2, Series 4 contains. For similar publications produced by the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology please see RG 50, Series 28.

Scope and Contents This series consists of (1) studies, (2) reports, (3) maps and charts, (4) minutes of staff conferences, (5) memorandums and (6) position papers created in the review of Federal project grant proposals by the Office of Planning and Research. Also included in this series are copies of forms used by the Office including (1) Notification of Intent to Apply for Federal Assistance, (2) Receipt of Notification of Intent to Apply for Federal Assistance and (3) Results of Reviewing of Notification...

Scope and Contents This Departmental bibliography is designed to inform the citizens of Georgia as to what environmental information is available to them and where and how it might be acquired. The Price Gilbert Library at the Georgia Institute of Technology was used as the base depository and research center in the publication's compilation, but most of the information cited might be obtained anywhere in Georgia. Updated supplements to the initial guide are compiled periodically. A subject index is...

Scope and Contents This series contains: (1) correspondence, (2) memorandums, (3) reports, (4) news releases, (5) copies of federal and state legislation, (6) maps, (7) project studies, and (8) related papers. These records document the office director's role in providing planning assistance and policy coordination for the Department. Many of these files are duplicated in the records of the Commissioner and in the grant files of the Planning and Research Office. Some of the folder labels in this series are...

Scope and Contents This series contains the summary-style minutes of the meetings of the Management Advisory Council, the decision making body for the Outdoor Therapeutic Program Task Force. Made up of members from several divisions of the Department of Natural Resources and the departments of Human Resources and Education as well, all names of attendees for each meeting are included. The council might deliberate and render decisions on: (1) budgetary matters (2) therapeutic camping including such specifics...

Scope and Contents This series contains publications prepared for the Outdoor Therapeutic Program Task Force by the Office of Planning and Research., Many representatives of several divisions of the Department of Natural Resources served on the task force and thus it is only natural that the Office of Planning and Research would publish items for it. Included are such items as a master plan study for the entire program conducted with partial funding from the federal government. Complemented with photographs,...

Scope and Contents This series contains miscellaneous publications prepared by the Resource Planning Section of the Office of Planning and Research of the Department of Natural Resources. Included are studies on beach and dune erosion, fishing and boating, soil conservation, proposals for parks and other environmental protection subjects. As such, they are related to other records to be found in Record Group 88, Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources. For other publications of...

Scope and Contents This series contains (1) A-95 review documents, (2) A-85 review documents, (3) environmental impact statements, (4) project design plans and specifications, (5) resource assessments performed for structural sites to determine eligibility for nomination to the National Register of Historic Sites, (6) memorandums of agreement executed by the State Historic Preservation Officer, the Advisory Council and the project sponsor to comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of...

Scope and Contents This series contains the minutes of the monthly and special meetings of the Georgia State Board of Natural Resources. Each meeting usually includes reports from the commissioner, the deputy commissioner and the directors' of the various divisions of this multi-faceted department. Among the subjects discussed at a typical meeting would be: (1) hunting and fishing regulations and amendments thereto, (2) budgetary matters, (3) development of new state parks and historic sites, (4) training...