Love Canal Area Revitalization Agency

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These are Louise Lewis's files, who was the secretary of the Love Canal Area Action Committee (LCAAC). They contain: EPA publications, NYSDEC Reports, Love Canal Area Action Committee notes and petitions, New York State Department of Health reports and meeting transcripts, etc.

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Sister Margeen Hoffmann, OSF, Ed., Earthcare: Lessons from Love Canal, A resource and response guide (Niagara Falls, NY: Ecumenical Task Force of the Niagara Frontier, Inc., 1987).

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Tom Welty, Center of Disease Control memorandum. Defines "habitability" as suitable for human habitation. Analyzes air, water, soil, lists chemicals that were most likely dumped at Love Canal, etc.

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Newsletters, annual reports, and other publications from Hooker Electrochemical and Durez Plastics. Also, 2 bound volumes of the newsletter "Hooker Gas" from 1938-1945. Hazardous Waste Reports from Durez plastics, Hooker Family Biographies.

Also called: Hooker Gas, Hooker Chemical Company and later OxyChem or Occidental Chemical Corporation.

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Documents related to the Love Canal Area Revitalization Agency, Black Creek Village, Love Canal 2000 project group and includes feasibility studies for the Love Canal Education/Interpretation Center. Includes VHS tapes labeled "TV Interviews" and "Love Canal 2000".

Scope and Contents Documents related to the Niagara Beautification Commission, Black Creek Block Club, LaSalle Business & Professional Association, Citizens Police Academy, and Love Canal Area Revitalization Agency. Materials include bank statements, newsletters, meeting agendas/minutes, Love Canal Follow-Up Health Study report and newsletters, US Environmental Protection Agency Habitability Statement, organization bylaws, rosters, job descriptions, salary figures, Financial Statements 98-97 report,...

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Files of newspaper clippings document residents' efforts to get compensated, to move back to LC, "S" Area, Oxy Chemical, Hooker, CECOS, Greenpeace, NYPIRG, NEWCO, Government Actions, etc.

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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, CH2H Hill Southeast, Inc. for US EPA (soil assessment), meeting minutes, memorandums, 1 large bound US EPA report: "Love Canal Emergency Declaration Area Habitability Study" (Vol. 5 Peer review summary--TRC responses), New York State Commissioner of Health's Decision on Habitability.

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Grants for non-profits to increase education of environmental projects as well as meeting minutes related to preserving Love Canal area

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Photos of meetings, residents, and abandoned houses in Love Canal