CENTRAL OFFICE RECORDS. These include records of OHE prede- There are also general records of the Office of Operations, 1946-47; subject and locality files and publicity materials of the Director of the Community Action Advisory Service, 1946-47; reports concerning Land and Public Utilities Advisory Service activities, and correspondence and memorandums maintained by Service officials, 1946-47; reports, correspondence, and memorandums of the Director of the Labor Advisory Service, 1944-47; administrative records of the Office of Industry Advisory Committees, 1945-47; and correspondence, mem orandums, and reports of industrial labor specialists, 1946-47. Records of the Non-Residential Construction Branch, including reports and memorandums, 1946-48, and general records, 1946-47; and selected case files of the national office, 1946-48, and district construction offices, 1946-47. Reports, memorandums, charts, tables, and other records documenting Statistics and Analysis Branch activities, 1946-47. Also minutes of staff meetings of the OHE Policy Council and the National Housing Agency, and administrative orders, memorandums, monographs, and other records documenting the administration, operation, and policy of the veterans emergency housing program, 1946-47; and orders, monographs, reports, and related records on the history of rent control, 1941-50. REGIONAL AND AREA OFFICE Eight regional offices administered OHE field projects. These records (those of OHE Region IV are in FRC Atlanta) include those of all regional offices except for Region VII, which had its headquarters in Seattle, and generally consist of Office of Price Administration, 1942-46, and ORS, 1947-53, general rent records; minutes of rent advisory boards, 1947-53; records of the regional attorney and other officials, 1942-53; serial memorandums, 1942-46; and policy, procedural, and statistical materials maintained by regional and area officials, 1942-51. Records (in WNRC) of area offices include narrative reports and related records of area rent offices, 1942-51, sample case files, 1942-52, sample rent enforcement case files, 194253, interpretations of rent regulations, 1942-43, rent advisory board decontrol files, 1947-52, and publications and issuances relating to the housing and rent program, 1947-53. AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1946-52. 74 items. These consist of a motion picture about housing for veterans, 1946, and sound recordings (73 items) of public hearings on rent control and broadcasts of speeches, interviews, and panel discussions by housing officials, Congressmen, and others on rent control, 195052. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: All records relating to the rent control and veterans emergency housing programs that contain information that was deemed confidential by the Rent Stabilizer or with reference to which a request for confidential treatment was made by the person supplying such information. Restrictions: Such information may not be published or disclosed in any way, unless the Archivist of the United States determines that the withholding of such information is contrary to the interest of the national defense and security. In general, the types of information so restricted are data about the technical and financial operations of individual firms. Statu tory exceptions to these restrictions are as follows: information may be released in statistical totals or summaries in such manner that the source thereof is not disclosed or identified directly or indirectly; information may be released if the persons who supplied the information agree to its release; the Defense Department and the Maritime Administration may obtain such data and information as may be requested by them for use in the performance of their official duties; and information may be released to any Federal agency that has authority supported by provisions of legal penalties to collect the same information itself. Statutory authority for the imposition of these restrictions is contained in the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, title II, section 202(h) (56 Stat. 23); Federal Reports Act of 1942, section 4(b) (56 Stat. 1078); Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945, title I, section providing for the Office of Price Administration (59 Stat. 412); and the Housing and Rent Act of 1949, title II, section 206(g)(63 Stat. 18). Specified by: Congress of the United RECORDS OF THE PUBLIC HOUSING ADMINISTRATION (RECORD GROUP 196) The Public Housing Administration was a successor to the U.S. Housing Authority (USHA), established in the Department of the Interior to administer the U.S. Housing Act of 1937. This act authorized a system of loans, grants, and subsidies to assist local housing authorities develop low-rent housing projects. In 1939 the USHA, which had assumed responsibility for the public housing projects of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, was transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Federal Works Agency (see RG 162). In 1942 USHA functions were consolidated with public housing functions of the Federal Works Agency and its subordinate units (the U.S. Housing Authority, the Public Buildings Administration, the Division of Defense Housing, and the Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Division), the War and Navy Departments, the Farm Security Administration, and the NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES Defense Homes Corporation into the Federal Public Housing Authority (FPHA) under the National Housing Agency. During World War II the FPHA chiefly provided housing for workers in war industries under such legislation as the Lanham Act. In 1947 the FPHA was succeeded by the Public Housing Administration (PHA) under the Housing and Home Finance Agency (see RG 207). The PHA resumed public housing functions authorized by the 1937 act, liquidated properties constructed under the Lanham Act, converted barracks into temporary housing for World War II veterans, and, during Korean hostilities, performed defense housing activities under the Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951. The PHA lapsed when the functions, powers, and duties of the Housing and Home Finance Agency were transferred to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1965. There are 257 cubic feet of records dated between 1895 and 1962 in this record group. RECORDS OF PREDECESSOR AGENCIES. 1932-58. 227 lin. ft. and 783 rolls of microfilm. These include records of the Housing Division of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, consisting chiefly of loan applications under the limited dividend program, and correspondence, reports, surveys, and an analysis of the program and of housing conditions, 1932-34; records about the "Carl Mackley houses," an approved limited dividend housing project in the Philadelphia area, 1933-58; Federal program project files (in WNRC) of correspondence, reports, surveys, and related records documenting applications by cities for Federal aid, the construction of approved projects, and the transfer of completed projects to local housing authorities, 1933-42; and microfilmed construction plans (106 rolls) for housing projects, 1933-37. Records of the Farm Security Administration include histories of projects in Greenbelt, Md., and Greendale, Wis., prepared in 1938; and microfilmed construction plans (24 rolls) of subsistence homestead and "greentown" programs, 1933-37. Records of the USHA consist of orders, bulletins, other issuances, and general records, 1937-42; microfilmed press clippings (4 rolls) relating to various housing programs, 1938-40; and microfilmed construction plans of housing projects under USHA programs, 1938-41 (254 rolls), and under the Lanham Act war housing program, 1940-45 (392 rolls). RECORDS OF THE PUBLIC Included are reports and correspondence maintained by the Commissioner, 1947-48; reports, surveys, and general records of the Division of Statistical Standards, 1942-49; and reports of the Statistics Division, 1945-47. Records of the Administrative Planning Division consist of general records and bulletins, circulars, directives, manuals, and other policy and procedural issuances, 193849; reports, memorandums, and issuances relating to organizational and operational procedures, 1942-47; monthly reports, 1943-47; memorandums and other records relating to 1947 and 1948 reorganizations, 1946-49; issuances of the National Housing Agency, including those of the Federal Public Housing Authority, 1942-47; forms, with amendments and revisions, 1938-47; site acquisition records and land plats for projects, 1941-55; project operating budgets, fiscal year 1957; and financial statements, fiscal years 1953-62. There are also sample field records, consisting of housing managers' files on the administration of two projects in the war housing program, 1943-47; five sample case files from publicly funded proj ects under which housing units were converted into multiple-family dwellings, 1943-49; and sample case files of correspondence, reports, and plans relating to proposed constructions, finances, and equipment for project houses, 1942 46. AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1898-1946. 285 items. Photographs, collected ca. 1937 (210 items), showing slum conditions in the United States and London, 1898-1903. Sound recordings (75 items) of "Slums Cost You Money," "Famous Homes of Famous Americans," "Agency Series," and other radio broadcasts, concerning defense housing and the need for lowcost housing, explaining the Federal housing program and the role of local government in its implementation, describing famous Americans' homes, and containing reports from several executive agencies, 1938-46. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION RECORDS OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (RECORD GROUP 26) The U.S. Coast Guard, established in the Department of the Treasury by an act of January 28, 1915, was formed by consolidating the Department's Revenue-Cutter and Lifesaving Services. It took over lighthouse administration in 1939, and in 1942 functions of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (see RG 41) relating to navigation and vessel inspection laws and to merchant seamen were transferred to the Coast Guard. On April 1, 1967, under an act of October 15, 1966, the Coast Guard became a part of the Department of Transportation. Under the same act, the functions of admeasuring and documenting American vessels were transferred from the Bureau of Customs to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard, which operates on the high seas and navigable waters of the United States and its territories and possessions, is a military service and operates as part of the Navy in time of war or when the President directs. In 1946 an International Air-Sea Rescue Service was established, and the Coast Guard was made responsible for international civil aviation over water. In 1948 it became responsible for operating LORAN and other warning stations. Its major duties include enforcing customs and navigation laws, supervising vessel anchorages and movements, reporting marine casualties, protecting life and property at sea, installing and maintaining aids to navigation and to transoceanic aviation, and carrying on oceanographic observations as part of an interagency program. There are 10,290 cubic feet of records dated between 1789 and 1963 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF The maintenance of lighthouses was performed by Treasury Department officials from 1789 until the Light-House Board was organized in 1852. This Board, transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903, was superseded in 1910 by the Bureau of Lighthouses, which remained in the Department of Commerce when the Department of Labor became a separate agency in 1913. It was consolidated with the Coast Guard in 1939. The records include correspondence, with indexes, of Board predecessors, including letters received, 1789-1852, and sent, 17921852, and general correspondence of the Board, 1852-1910, and the Bureau, 191039 (2,122 lin. ft.); and minutes and journals of the Board and the naval and engineer secretaries, 1852-1910. Other records, 1789-1939, comprise legal case files on the acquisition and disposition of sites; deeds and contracts for lighthouse construction, equipment, and supplies; drawings of lighthouses and lighthouse sites (including some lifesaving stations), 1840-1935; logbooks (in WNRC) of lighthouses, tenders, and light vessels, 1873-1939; title papers to vessels owned by the Board, 1853-95; appointment and salary registers and miscellaneous personnel records, 18331912; and accounting records, ca. 1852 1912. |