A Guide to his files related to the Committee on Public Works in the
Modern Political Papers Collections in the Indiana University
Libraries
Finding aid prepared by Kate Cruikshank.
Birch Bayh Congressional Papers:
Committee on Public Works, 1963-1973
There are no access restrictions for this collection. However, it is in offsite
storage, thus arrangements for use must be made in advance.
Researchers will be required to sign an agreement to protect third-party privacy with
regard to all correspondence. Permission must be obtained for any use beyond
conventional academic quotation and citation.
Photocopying and scanning are possible with permission.
Upon entering the Senate, Bayh was appointed to the Judiciary Committee and the
Committee on Public Works, the latter becoming the main vehicle through which he
could provide direct service to the citizens of Indiana. For his full term on the
committee (1963-1972) he served on the Subcommittee on Flood Control, Rivers, and
Harbors, working toward needed flood control projects in Indiana as well as the
Indiana Port on Lake Michigan, and from 1964 to 1972 on the Subcommittee on Air and
Water Pollution. As a result of his tenacious pursuit of disaster relief legislation
following the Palm Sunday tornadoes of 1965 that ravaged northern Illinois and
Indiana, he was appointed chair of a Special Subcommittee on Disaster Relief
(1969-1970), and in 1971 he became chair of the Subcommittee on Roads.
In August 1972 he secured a much desired appointment to the Appropriations Committee,
which terminated his membership on the Committee on Public Works but gave him a
potentially greater role in the funding of public works projects for which he had
been working.
Materials consist of bills, reports, legislative working files, supporting materials
from agencies, and staff memos and correspondence relating to the public works
legislation upon which Bayh and his staff worked.
For an overview of the entire Birch Bayh Senatorial Papers collection,
click here.
The collection is divided into the 12 subseries listed below, with six of those being
chronological divisions on disaster relief. Folders within the subseries are in
alphabetical order, although within the disaster relief subseries an effort has been
made to provide a chronological flow for the development of legislation.
Letter-size documents and legal-size and other oversize documents are stored in
separate containers. The folder list groups all folders on a given topic together
regardless of size, with indications to the left of the relevant box number. Folders
with no box number are in the box last indicated above them.
Original photographs have been replaced in the files with photocopies. Digital images
are available through the
Birch Bayh Collection in Image Collections Online.
Related materials may be found in both the Legislative Working Files and the Indiana
Working Files, for which there are separate findinga aids.
Additional information about Birch Bayh and his senatorial career is available in the "Related Pages" of the
Modern Political Papers website.
[item and date], [folder title], [subseries], Committee on Public Works, Birch Bayh
Congressional Papers, Modern Political Papers Collection, Indiana University
Libraries, Bloomington.
Series:
Committee on Public Works 1963-1973
Subseries:
Administration 1965-1972
Box PW-1
Appropriations FY 1966, 1965
(CFN)
Area Redevelopment Administration - Maps, 1969
Correspondence, 1970-1971
Correspondence - Internal, 1971-1972 Apr
Correspondence - Subcommittee on Roads, 1971
Correspondence - Subcommittee on Roads, 1972
Special Subcommittee on Economic Development - Indianapolis
Hearing, 1965 Sep
16
Subseries:
Disaster Relief 1962-1964
Box PW-1
Agency Information - Small Business Administration (SBA),
1962
Aid to Schools - (S. 2725) (88th Congress), 1964
Alaskan Earthquake, 1964, 1964
Background - Federal Disaster Relief Program, 1963
Disaster Relief - Resources, 1962-1964
Subseries:
Disaster Relief (89th Congress) 1965-1966
Box PW-1
Agency Information - Civil Defense Council, 1965
Agency Information - Department of Agriculture, 1963-1966
Agency Information - Department of Commerce, 1959-1966
Agency Information - Miscellaneous, 1966
Disaster Relief (S. 1861) - Bayh File, 1965
Box PW-6
Disaster Relief (S. 1861) - Bayh File, 1965 (Oversize)
Box PW-6
Disaster Relief - Bayh Statements and Press Releases,
1965-1967 (Oversize)
Box PW-1
Disaster Relief Legislation, 1965
Jan-May
Disaster Relief Legislation, 1965
Jun
Box PW-6
Disaster Relief Legislation, 1965
Jun (Oversize)
Box PW-1
Federal Disaster Assistance Program, 1965
House Bills: H.R. 7898, 1965
House Bills - Agency Comments (H.R. 9885, 9888, 9890, 9919),
1965
Office of Emergency Planning - Disaster Reports, 1966
Office of Emergency Planning - Disaster Report on Hurricane
Betsy, 1966
Staff Memos, 1965
Tornadoes - Midwest, Apr 1965, 1965-1967
S. 289 - Aid to Schools (H. R. 9022), 1965
S. 327 - Pacific Northwest Disaster Relief Act (H. R. 7303),
1965
S. 408 - Housing and Home Finance Administrator, 1965
S. 1795 - Farm Home Administration Loans, 1965
S. 1796 - Small Business Administration (SBA) Loans,
1965
S. 1850 - Disaster Loans, 1965
S. 1861 - Analysis, 1965
S. 1861 - Background, 1964-1965
S. 1861 - Bill Versions, 1965
S. 1861 - Bills (H.R. 7964 - Roush), 1965
S. 1861 -
Congressional
Record,
1965
Box PW-6
S. 1861 - Drafts, 1965 Apr-May (Oversize)
Box PW-1
S. 1861 - Hearings and Reports - House, 1965
S. 1861 - Hearings and Reports - Senate, 1965
S. 1861 - Memos and Correspondence, 1965
S. 1861 - Staff File, 1965 Jan-Apr
S. 1861 - Staff File, 1965 May-Jun
S. 1861 - Staff File, 1965 Jul-Aug
S. 1861 - Analysis, 1966
S. 1861 - Background, 1966
S. 1861 - Bill Versions, 1966
S. 1861 -
Congressional
Record
, 1966
Box PW-6
S. 1861 - Correspondence - Hurricane Betsy, 1966 Oct (Oversize)
Box PW-2
S. 1861 - Hearings and Reports, 1966
Box PW-6
S. 1861 - House (H.R. 7964) Roush, 1966 (Oversize)
Box PW-2
S. 1861 - Passage, 1966
Box PW-6
S. 1861 - Statements, 1965-1966 (Oversize)
Box PW-2
S. 2591 - Hurricane Betsy (Russell Long) - H.R. 11559
(Fallon), 1965 Oct
S. 2782 - Disaster Loans for Farmers, 1966
Jan-Apr
S. 3493 - Kansas Tornado Relief, 1966
Subseries:
Disaster Relief (90th Congress) 1967-1968
Box PW-2
Agency Materials - Office of Emergency Preparedness,
1968
S. 438 - Agency Letters, 1967
S. 438 - Amendment (Yarborough), 1967 Dec
S. 438 - Bill, 1967
S. 438 - Hearing - Dunlap, Indiana, 1967 Jun 9
S. 438 - Hearing - D.C., 1967
Jul 25
S. 438 - Hearing Prints, 1967 Jun-Jul
S. 438 - Memos, 1967
S. 438 - Memos, 1968
S. 438 - Small Business Association (SBA) Loan Problem,
1967
S. 438 - Report, 1968
S. 438 - Staff File, 1967-1968
S. 1985 - Flood Insurance (Harrison Williams), 1967
S. 1985 - National Flood Insurance, 1967-1969
Disaster Insurance - Civil Disorders, 1968
Box PW-6
Federal Loan Adjustments (S. 3497) - Amendments, 1968 (Oversize)
Box PW-2
Small Business Association (SBA) Loans - Indiana, 1968
Subseries:
Disaster Relief (91st Congress) 1969-1970
Materials in this subseries overlap with those in the subseries for
the Special Subcommittee on Disaster Relief, created in November
1969.
Box PW-2
Agency Materials, 1968-1969
Agency Materials - Civil Defense, 1968-1969
Agency Materials, 1970
Box PW-6
Disaster-Related Materials, 1970 (Oversize)
Box PW-2
Floods - Army Corps of Engineers, 1969
Hearings (Prints), 1969
Box PW-6
Hurricane Camille - Clippings, 1969 Aug (Oversize)
Box PW-2
Hurricane Camille - Clippings, 1969
Sep-Dec
Hurricane Camille - Clippings, 1970
Box PW-6
Hurricane Camille - Clippings, 1970 (Oversize)
Box PW-2
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Actions and Evaluations,
1969
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Agencies - Economic
Development Administration, 1969
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Agencies - Governor's
Emergency Council, 1969
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Agencies - Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), 1969
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Agencies - Private
Organizations, 1969
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Agencies - Red Cross,
1969
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Civil Rights, 1969
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Consumer Protection,
1969
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Food, 1969
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Jobs, 1969
Hurricane Camille - Reports - American Friends Service
Committee, Southern Regional Council, 1969 Nov
Hurricane Camille - Reports - Department of Commerce,
Environmental Science Services Administration, 1969 Sep
Hurricane Camille - Reports - Mississippi Civil Defense
Council, 1969 Sep
Hurricane Camille - Reports - Office of Emergency
Preparedness, 1969
Sep
Hurricane Camille - Reports - Office of Emergency
Preparedness, 1969
Dec
Hurricane Camille - Reports - Office of Emergency
Preparedness, 1970
Jan
Hurricane Camille - Reports - Office of Emergency
Preparedness, 1970
Apr
Hurricane Camille - Reports - Office of Emergency
Preparedness, 1970
Aug
Hurricanes - National Hurricane Operations Plan
(Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Sciences), 1969 Apr
Hurricanes - Resources - Department of Commerce Environmental
Science Services Administration, 1969
International and United States Relief, 1969
S. 993 - California Relief Act, 1969
S. 1685 - Analysis, 1969
S. 1685 - Background Chronology 1965-1968, 1969
S. 1685 - Bill, 1969
S. 1685 - Farmers Home Administration (FHA) Loans, 1969
S. 1685 - Report, 1969
H.R. 6508 - California Relief, 1969 Jul
S. 1685, H.R. 6508 - Conference Report, Sep 1969
S. 1685 - Small Business Administration Loans (SBA) - Alaska,
1967-1969
S. 1685 - Staff File: Background, 1969
Box PW-3
S. 1685 - Staff File, 1969 Mar-Sep
S. 1685, H.R. 6508 - Staff File, 1969
Mar-Jul
S. 1685, H.R. 6508 - Staff File, 1969 Aug-Sep
16
S. 1685, H.R. 6508 - Staff File, 1969 Sep
17-18
Box PW-7
Comparative Committee Print - S. 2853 and Conference Bill
(Disaster Relief Act of 1969), 1969 Sep
17-18 (LARGE OVERSIZE)
Box PW-3
S. 2853, S. 2854 - Hurricane Camille Relief, 1969
Staff Memos (CFN), 1969
Aug-Sep
Subseries:
Special Subcommittee on Disaster Relief (91st Congress),
1969-1970
These files contain photocopies of documents determined to be part of
the official files of the Special Subcommittee on Disaster Relief,
which have been sent to the Center for Legislative Archives at the
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). There is some
overlap with documents in the preceding subseries.
Box PW-3
Creation of Subcommittee, 1969 Nov-Dec
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Call for Hearings, 1969 Nov
Hurricane Camille - Follow-Up - Bayh Planning File, 1970
Internal Documents and Background, 1969 Dec -
1970
Box PW-6
Hurricane Camille - Hearings - Biloxi MS, 1970 Jan
6-9 (Oversize)
Box PW-6
Hurricane Camille - Hearings - Biloxi, MS - Follow-Up,
1970
Jan 12-14 (Oversize)
Box PW-3
Hurricane Camille - Hearings - Roanoke, VA, 1970 Feb
2-3
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Amendments Proposed, 1970
Jan-Jul (Oversize)
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Analysis, 1970
(Oversize)
Box PW-3
S. 3619 - Background, 1970
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Background, 1970
(Oversize)
Box PW-3
S. 3619 - Bill (Committee Print), 1970 Mar 12
S. 3619 - Bill, 1970 Mar
20
S. 3619 - Bill and Report, 1970
Aug 30
S. 3619 - Correspondence with Governors, 1970
Jan-Feb
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Intro Statement, 1970
Mar 20 (Oversize)
Box PW-3
S. 3619 - Cosponsors, 1970
Apr
S. 3619 - House Bills (H.R. 17518, H.R. 17728), 1970 May
S. 3619 and S. 3848 (Yarborough), 1970 Jun
S. 3619 and S. 3745 - Executive Session, 1970 Jun 24
S. 3619 and S. 3745 - Hearings, 1970 Apr
Box PW-7
S. 3619 and S. 3745 - Comparative Committee Print, 1970 Jun (LARGE OVERSIZE)
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Committee Print 1, 1970 (Oversize)
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Committee Print 2, 1970 (Oversize)
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Committee Print 3, 1970 (Oversize)
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Committee Print 4, 1971 (Oversize)
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Committee Print 5, 1972 (Oversize)
Box PW-3
S. 3619 - Passage, 1970 Sep
9
S. 3619 - Staff File, 1970 Jan-Feb
S. 3619 - Staff File, 1970 Mar-Apr
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Staff File, 1970 May-Sep (Oversize)
Box PW-6
S. 3619 - Statements, 1970
(Oversize)
Subseries:
Disaster Relief (92nd Congress) 1971-1972
Box PW-3
Correspondence, 1971 Jan-Jun
Correspondence, 1971
Jul-Dec
Correspondence, 1972
S. 903 - Disaster Insurance, 1971
Feb
S. 2358 - Introduction, 1971
Jul
San Fernando Hearings - Follow-up, 1971
Jun-Aug
Subseries:
Highways 1965-1973
Box PW-3
Bayh Position on Highways, 1971
May
Clippings (HP), 1971
Environment (FWJ), 1972
Box PW-6
Environment (FWJ), 1972
(Oversize)
Box PW-3
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970 (H. R. 14741) - Memo,
1970
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970 - Prints, 1970
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1972 (MH), 1972
Jan-Jun
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1972 (MH), 1972
Jul-Aug
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1972 (MH), 1972
Sep-Dec
Box PW-6
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1972 (MH), 1972 (Oversize)
Box PW-3
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1972 - Report, 1972 Aug
Federal Aid to Highways - Revenue Sharing (MH), 1970-1972
Federal Highway Administration - National Environmental
Protection Act (HP), 1970-1972
Box PW-6
Federal Highway Administration - National Environmental
Protection Act (HP), 1970-1972 (Oversize)
Box PW-6
Federal Highway Fund Impoundment - Amendment, 1967 (Oversize)
Box PW-3
Funding Deferment (S. Con. Res. 10) (Bill) (CFN), 1967
Highway Beautification, 1965-1971
Highway 41 to Interstate (Evansville-Chicago) (CFN),
1968
Highway Safety, 1970-1973 (FWJ)
Box PW-6
Highway Safety (FWJ), 1970-1973 (Oversize)
Box PW-3
Highway Safety Appropriations - National Safety Council
Testimony, 1968
Box PW-4
Highway Trust Fund (FWJ), 1971-1973
Box PW-6
Highway Trust Fund (FWJ), 1971-1973 (Oversize)
Box PW-4
1972 National Highway Needs Report, Part 1, 1972 Mar
Outdoor Advertising, 1965
Staff File (CFN), 1966-1969
Box PW-6
Staff File (CFN), 1966-1969 (Oversize)
Subseries:
Indiana Projects 1962-1972
Materials on Indiana public works projects may also be found in the
separate Indiana Working Files finding aid.
Box PW-4
Big Walnut Valley (CFN), 1967-1968
Big Walnut Valley (CFN), 1969-1972
Box PW-6
Big Walnut Valley (CFN), 1968-1969 (Oversize)
Box PW-4
Burns Waterway Harbor - Public Health Service Report, Jun
1962, 1963
Burns Waterway Harbor (Port of Indiana), 1964
Burns Waterway Harbor (Port of Indiana), 1965
Jan-Mar
Burns Waterway Harbor (Port of Indiana) - Hearings,
Subcommittee on Flood Control, Central Regions, 1965
Mar-Jun
Box PW-6
Burns Waterway Harbor (Port of Indiana) - Hearing, Apr 21,
1965, 1965 Apr
(Oversize)
Box PW-4
Burns Waterway Harbor (Port of Indiana), 1965
May-Dec
Burns Waterway Harbor (Port of Indiana), 1966-1969
Indiana - Calumet-Sag Navigation Project, Illinois Waterway
(CFN), 1967-1968
Indiana - East Chicago Tunnel (S. 3663) (CFN), 1966
Indiana Dunes - Henry Schricker Naming (CFN), 1967
Box PW-6
Indiana Dunes and Burns Harbor (CFN), 1964-1965
(Oversize)
Box PW-4
Indiana Dunes and Indiana Port (CFN), 1963-1965
Indiana Port - Burns Waterway (CFN), 1963
Box PW-6
Wabash Valley, 1963 (Oversize)
Box PW-4
Wabash Valley - Bayh Statements (CFN), 1968-1971
Box PW-6
Wabash Valley - Bayh Statements (CFN), 1968-1971
(Oversize)
Box PW-4
Wabash Valley - Bills and Reports (CFN), 1968-1971
Water Projects - Appropriations (CFN), 1965-1969
Water Projects - Appropriations (CFN), 1970-1973
Box PW-6
Water Projects - Appropriations (CFN), 1966-1972
(Oversize)
Box PW-4
Water Projects - Appropriations (Prints), 1966-1971
Watershed Projects - Authorizations and Appropriations -
Reports (Prints), 1964-1970
Watershed Projects - Authorizations and Appropriations FY
1969-1970 (CFN), 1968-1969
Watershed Projects - Authorizations and Appropriations FY
1971 and 1972 (CFN), 1970-1971
Box PW-6
Watershed Projects - Authorizations and Appropriations FY
1963 - FY 1973 (CFN), 1962-1972 (Oversize)
Box PW-7
Watershed Projects - Authorizations and Appropriations FY
1963 - FY 1973 - Proposed Omnibus Bil: Projects Favorably
Recommended by the Chief of Engineers snd Cleared by the Bureau of
the Budget, 1962-1972 (LARGE OVERSIZE)
Subseries:
Pollution 1963-1973
Box PW-4
Air and Water Pollution (LAC), 1963
Box PW-6
Air and Water Pollution (LAC), 1963 (Oversize)
Box PW-4
Air and Water Pollution - Prints, 1963-1971
Air and Water Pollution - Speech Excerpts, 1967 Apr
Air Pollution, 1965-1967
Air Pollution, 1970
Box PW-6
Air Pollution (FWJ), 1970-1973 (Oversize)
Box PW-4
Water Pollution - Federal Agencies (CFN), 1965
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (FWJ), 1971
Box PW-6
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (FWJ), 1971 (Oversize)
Box PW-4
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (FWJ), 1972
Box PW-6
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (FWJ), 1972 (Oversize)
Box PW-4
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 - Correspondence (FWJ),
1971
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 - Correspondence (FWJ),
1972 Feb-May
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 - Correspondence (FWJ),
1972
Jun-Jul
Box PW-6
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 - Correspondence (FWJ),
1972 (Oversize)
Box PW-4
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 - Working Papers,
1972
Subseries:
Transportation 1967-1972
Box PW-4
Mass Transit (FWJ), 1971-1972
Box PW-6
Mass Transit (FWJ), 1971-1972 (Oversize)
Box PW-4
1972 National Transportation Report(Department of
Transportation), 1972
Jul
Pre-Apprenticeship Training - Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO) (CFN), 1968
Box PW-5
Pre-Apprenticeship Training - Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO) - Hearings (CFN), 1969
Box PW-6
Pre-Apprenticeship Training - Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO) - Hearings (CFN), 1968-1969 (Oversize)
Box PW-5
Railroads - High Speed Ground (CFN), 1969
Railroads - Interstate Railroad Act of 1972, 1972
Railroads - Passenger Service (CFN), 1970
Railroads - Passenger Service (CFN), 1971
Railroads - Safety, 1964
Railroads - Tax Deductions, 1967
Statement on National Transportation Policy (Department of
Transportation), 1971
Transportation Legislation (American Enterprise Institute),
1972 Jun
Urban Mass Transportation (Bills - Prints), 1969
Subseries:
Water Resources 1966-1971
Box PW-5
Great Lakes Conference of Senators, 1971
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 1969
Water Resource Development - Correspondence, Memos, and Notes
(CFN), 1966-1967
Water Resource Development - Speeches and Statements (CFN),
1966-1967
Watershed Legislation - General Information (CFN), 1966-1971
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (S. 1423),
1968
