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Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Environment records 4078607Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-01-10 11:49:52 -0500.Description is written in: English, Latin script.appm2009-06-26File created.2013-01-04XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi2019-05-20EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration. Rare Book and Manuscript Library Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Environment records Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Environment (Ossining, N.Y.) 4078607 Ms Coll\CCPE English . 9.5 linear feet 4650 items in 22 boxes 1966-1969 Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. The material is arranged into five series.

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This collection has no restrictions.

Restrictions on Access

The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 2-22. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Summary

Records of the Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Environment (CCPE) include correspondence, memoranda, reports, statements, notes, news releases, U.S. Atomic Energy/Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing records, and printed material. The correspondence contains letters from supporters, members of other environmental groups, New York State legislators, U.S. senators and congressmen, scientists, and CCPE's attorney for the Indian Point hearings. Chief correspondents of the group are Larry Bogart, Executive Director, Dr. George Candreva, President, and Irene P. Dickinson (Mrs. Leon A.), Executive Secretary and Coordinator, whose file these are. There are numerous letters from Congressmen John G. Dow, Richard Ottinger, and Peter Peyser. The cataloged correspondence contains three letters from Senator Jacob K. Javits, and one each from Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, and Louis J. Lefkowitz, New York State Attorney General.

Summary

In addition to CCPE's own memoranda, statements, news releases, brochures, and other printed ephemera, Mrs. Dickinson maintained an environmental subject file which includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, newsletters, and other printed ephemera issued by a variety of environmental groups as well as some related correspondence. The files on the Indian Point nuclear power plant, approximately 1,800 items, contain photocopies of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission/Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings, documents such as testimony before the commission, inspection reports, correspondence of the commission, Consolidated Edison, CCPE and its attorney, Anthony Z. Roisman, of Berlin, Roisman and Kessler, Washington, D.C. The printed materials include pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters, and other publication issued by a variety of citizens' action groups.

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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Dickinson, Mrs. Irene P. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1979. Accession number--M-79.

Biographical / Historical

Citizens action group founded in 1968. This organization has devoted its activity to the quality of the environment in the lower Hudson River Valley, particularly the environmental hazards of Consolidated Edison's Indian Point nuclear power plants.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Mrs Irene P. Dickinson, 1979.

Processing Information

Surveyed Christina Hilton Fenn 05/03/89.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Environment Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

Accruals

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Nuclear power plants -- New York (State) -- Indian Point Nuclear energy -- United States Nuclear energy -- New York (State) Conservation of natural resources -- New York (State) -- Citizen participation Environmental protection -- New York (State) -- Citizen participation New York (State) -- Politics and goverment -- 1951- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 Bogart, Larry, 1914-1991 Candreva, George J. (George John), 1923-1973 Dickinson, Irene Power Dickinson, Leon A. Dow, John G., 1905-2003 Ottinger, Richard L (Richard Lawrence), 1929- Peyser, Peter A., 1921-2014 Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986 Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996 Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995 Lefkowitz, Louis J. Roisman, Anthony Z U.S. Atomic Energy Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission New York (State). Department of Law Consolidated Edison Company of New York, inc. Berlin, Roisman, and Kessler (Washington, D.C.) Series I: Cataloged CorrespondenceJacob K. Javits1Louis J. Lefkowitz1Edmund S. Muskie1Margaret Chase Smith1Series II: Arranged CorrespondenceIrene P. Dickinson1969-19771Series III: Subject FilesGeneral files of CCPE1966-19792Scope and Contents

(some correspondence; chiefly news releases, notes, memos, clippings, AEC/NRC documents)

Abnormal Occurrences2ALAP Hearings-AEC2Alliances2Alternative Sources of Energy-Milaca, Minnesota2Benson, Jim2Bertell, Rosalie2Bibliography2Breeder Reactor/CRBR2CCPE Testimony3Citizens Waste Information Committee3Clearwater3Comey, David D.3Committee for Nuclear Responsibility3Commoner, Barry3Conversion Conference-Washington, D.C.19713Decommissioning3Decontamination3Emergency Plans3Ethics of Nuclear Power3Fluoridation-Water3Funding for Public Participation3Heronemus, William3Initiatives-People's Lobby3Intervenor Funding3Jobs and Energy3JCAE3Komanoff Associates4KV Lines4Labor Action Coalition4Labor and Energy4Legislators4Licensing4Lovins, Amory4Low-level Radiation4Media, Press5Microwaves5Nader, Ralph5National Assessment of Educational Progress5National Council of the Churches of Christ-- Statement/Response--Rossin, A. David5National Intervenors5National Rural Electric Cooperative Association5Natural Resources Defense Council5Natural Resources Defense Council--Spent Fuel Disposal Costs5New Roots6New York City Council on the Environment6New York City Department of Health6New York State Legislature-- Energy6New York State Public Service Commission6Nuclear Moratorium6Nuclear Plant Workers6Nuclear Reactors6Nuclear Waste Incinerator6Nuclear Waste ManagementCitizen Participation6Interagency Review Group6Report TID288176Other Cases6Plutonium Lawsuit19757Pollard, Robert--Testimony7Price-Anderson Act7Public Power7Radioactive Waste Incinerator7Radioactive Waste Transport7Safe Energy Act19757Safe Energy Coalition--New York State7Secrecy--Nuclear Power7Sierra Club--Radioactive Waste Proposal7Silkwood Supporters7Siting and Licensing7Solar Access7Union of Concerned Scientists7Weik, Mary H.7Weil, George--Coal and Radioactivity7Women7"The Matriarchist" vol. 1 issue 3197815-B-11Separated Materials

Separated from "Women" folder due to being oversized.

World Council of Churches--Statement on Nuclear Energy7Worldwatch Institute7Series IV: United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Indian Point Station Units 1 & 21970- 19728197491975101976 January -March197611Scope and Contents

(seismic)

1976 April -December197612Scope and Contents

(seismic)

1976 Inspections1976131977 February1977141977 March-19781977151977 Inspections197716Series V: Printed MaterialsPeriodicalsA-C17Scope and Contents