Finding Aid for the South Coast Air Quality Management District Records, ca. 1955-1983
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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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Descriptive Summary
Title: South Coast Air Quality Management District Records,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1955-1983
Collection number: 1675
Creator: South Coast Air Quality Management District (Calif.)
Extent: 122 boxes (61 linear ft.)
Abstract: The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) formed as a result of the passage of the Lewis Air Quality Management
Act (1976). In 1977, smaller county air pollution control programs merged together to form the AQMD; the AQMD's primary responsibility
is to develop and implement the region's air quality management plan to provide a framework for air pollution control efforts
in the South Coast basin. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, films, slides, reports, and various files
related to the activities of the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of the South Coast Air Quality Management District Technical Information Center, 1991.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], South Coast Air Quality Management District Records (Collection 1675). Department of Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Biography
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) covers a region in California made up of the non-desert portion of
San Bernardino County in addition to Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties; it formed as a result of the passage of
the Lewis Air Quality Management Act in 1976; in 1977, smaller county air pollution control programs merged together to form
the AQMD; the AQMD's primary responsibility is to develop and implement the region's air quality management plan to provide
a framework for air pollution control efforts in the South Coast basin.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, films, slides, reports, and various files related to the activities of
the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
South Coast Air Quality Management District (Calif.)--Archives.
Air--Pollution--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Air quality management--California, Southern.
Container List
Box 4
Revenue, permit conditions, testimony.
Box 5
Procedures, media response.
Box 6
SOHIO, SCAQMD
vs. Barnett Roofing.
Boxes 7-10
Archive drawer “C”.
Note
Material not in folders.
Box 12
Bi-monthly reports.
1960s
Box 14
Archives drawer “A” and “D”.
Boxes 19-23
Archive drawer, no label.
Boxes 35-36, 39-44, 62-69, Oversize Boxes 109-112
Box 37
Photographs and publications.
Box 38
Photographs “names” files.
Box 45
Photographs, includes Olympics.
Boxes 46-48, 56-58, 88-89, 99-101, Cartons 113-114
Boxes 51-52
News releases,
APCD Digest.
1960s-1970s
Box 61
Correspondence, Murray, and Williamson.
Boxes 73-75
School outreach.
ca. 1980
Boxes 80-81
T.I.C. Chemical lab reports.
ca. 1983
Boxes 85-87
Reports, Air Pollution Foundation.
1950s
Boxes 90-91
Consolidated monthly reports.
1950s
Boxes 92-93
Laboratory reports.
1970s-1980s
Oversize Boxes 115, 118, Boxes 116-117, Shoe Box 119
Glass slides
Physical Description: [5 boxes.]
Oversize Box 120
Office biographies (from SCAQMD newsletter?).
Oversize Boxes 121-124
Films
Physical Description: [Each box contains 3 reels]
Scope and Content Note
Box 121 contains 3 reels and 4 small boxes of slides.
