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Texas State Archives
Railroad Commission of
Texas.
Railroad Commission
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee records
1954-1956
bulk 1955
The Arkansas-White-Red
Basins Inter-Agency Committee was created in 1950 at the request of the
President of the United States to conduct water and resource development
studies under the auspices of the federal Flood Control Act of 1950. The chief
engineer of the Railroad Commission was a committee member. These are reports,
drafts, collection data, and correspondence on water and other resources in the
Arkansas, White, and Red River Basins, dating 1954-1956, bulk 1955. The river
basins cover areas in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas. The
reports in this series were produced by the Arkansas-White-Red Basins
Inter-Agency Committee. The bulk of the materials consist of the published
reports. A small amount of correspondence accompanies the reports, consisting
of memoranda to work group members from John J. Ledbetter, who served as
Governor Allan Shivers' representative on the Arkansas-White-Red Basins
Inter-Agency Committee. Topics covered in the reports include mosquito control,
oil and gas by-products, and water resources.
These materials are written in
English.
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Agency History
The Railroad Commission of Texas regulates the exploration,
production, and transportation of oil and natural gas in Texas. Its statutory
role is to prevent waste of the state's natural resources, to protect the
correlative rights of different interest owners, to prevent pollution, and to
provide safety in matters such as hydrogen sulfide. It oversees hazardous
materials pipelines and natural gas pipelines and distribution systems as well
as propane, butane, compressed natural gas, and liquefied natural gas. It works
to make sure a continuous, safe supply of natural gas is available to Texas
consumers at the lowest reasonable price. Additionally, the Commission
regulates surface mining for coal, uranium, and iron ore gravel, and conducts a
program for reclaiming lands that were mined and abandoned before 1975.
The Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee was created in
1950 at the request of the President of the United States. Legislative basis
for this committee was contained in the Flood Control Act of 1950, Public Law
516, 81st Congress. The Committee was made up of representatives from federal
agencies concerned with water and related resource development and governors of
the states involved. Each state had a work group composed of representatives
from state agencies or similar bodies involved in the process. The Texas work
group members were: Chief Engineer, Railroad Commission; Chairman, Texas Board
of Water Development; Executive Secretary, Game and Fish Commission; State
Health Officer; Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas;
Director, State Parks Board; Executive Director, State Soil Conservation Board;
Director, Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas; and Vice
Chancellor, Texas A&M University. The Committee conducted water and
resource development studies. It produced an initial set of reports that were
sent to the various federal and state work groups to solicit comments to
accompany the report before it was submitted to Congress and the President. The
comprehensive reports were published in 1955.
(Sources: Guide to Texas State Agencies,
various editions; general laws and statutes; and the records themselves.)
Scope and Contents of the Records
The Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee was created in
1950 at the request of the President of the United States to conduct water and
resource development studies under the auspices of the federal Flood Control
Act of 1950. The chief engineer of the Railroad Commission was a committee
member. These are reports, drafts, collection data, and correspondence on water
and other resources in the Arkansas, White, and Red River Basins, dating
1954-1956, bulk 1955. The river basins cover areas in Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas. The reports in this series were produced by
the Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee. The bulk of the materials
consist of the published reports. A small amount of correspondence accompanies
the reports, consisting of memorandum to work group members from John J.
Ledbetter, who served as Governor Allan Shivers' representative on the
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee. Topics covered in the reports
include mosquito control, oil and gas by-products, and water resources.
Elements in the reports include descriptive data, summaries of research and
data gathered, cost analysis, recommendations for programs to initiate, and
maps. The title of this set of reports is Arkansas-White-Red River Basins : A Report on the Conservation
and Development of the Water and Land Resources, 23 volumes.
Some preliminary reports and drafts of the Committee not found in this
series can be found in the federal Documents Collection of the Library and
Archives Commission or in the library at the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality (TCEQ). Titles of all the reports produced by the Inter-Agency
Committee are unknown. Minutes of the Inter-Agency Committee from 1955 to 1959
can be found in the federal Documents Collection. Transcripts of public
hearings of the committee in 1950 are in the library at TCEQ.
This finding aid describes a single series of the Railroad Commission
of Texas records. See
Railroad Commission of Texas: An Overview of
Records for more records series.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily
reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to
provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
Arrangement of the Records
These records are arranged by type of record; reports are arranged as
published, in chronological order. Arrangement was done by State Archives
staff.
Index Terms
The terms listed here were used to catalog the
records. The terms can be used to find similar or related records.
Corporate Names:
Arkansas-White-Red Basins
Inter-Agency Committee.
Subjects:
Water resources
development--Arkansas River Watershed.
Conservation of natural resources--Arkansas River Watershed.
Places:
Arkansas River Watershed.
Arkansas River.
Document Types:
Reports--Arkansas River
Watershed--Water resources development--1954-1956.
Functions:
Protection of natural
resources.
Conservation of natural
resources.
Related Material
The following materials are offered as possible
sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by the
records. The listing is not exhaustive.
Texas State
Archives
[Governor Shivers' records contain minutes of formal and informal
meetings of Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee. Also contains
correspondence between Shivers and John J. Ledbetter and A.P. Rollins, who
served as the Governor's representatives from Texas on the Arkansas-White-Red
Basins Inter-Agency Committee. The minutes are scattered over several boxes,
generally one folder for each year between 1950-1955.]
Texas Governor Allan Shivers records, General files,
Water: Arkansas-White-Red, 1950-1955, less
than one cubic ft.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, Arkansas-White-Red
Basins Inter-Agency Committee, 1950-1955, 1 cubic ft.
Publications
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
<emph render="italic">Minutes of the meeting -
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-agency Committee</emph>, 1955-1959.
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
<emph render="italic">Minutes of the recreation work group
meeting,</emph> 1954
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
<emph render="italic">Arkansas-White-Red River Basins : a
report on the conservation and development of the water and land resources
</emph>, 1955, 23 volumes. This was reissued in 1957 through the serial
set (85th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document 13) as Development of Water and Land Resources of the
Arkansas-White-Red River Basins/ letter from the director of the Bureau of the
Budget transmitting a report on the conservation and development of the water
and related land resources of the Arkansas-White and Red River Basins, with
accompanying papers and illustrations, requested in the Flood Control Act of
1950.
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
<emph render="italic">Arkansas-White-Red River
Basins,</emph> 1955
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
<emph render="italic">Transcript of regional joint public
hearing, Denison, Texas, September 12, 1950</emph>
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
<emph render="italic">Transcript of regional joint public
hearing, Amarillo, Texas, October 18, 1950</emph>
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
<emph render="italic">Transcript of comprehensive joint public
hearing, Amarillo, Texas, October 19, 1950</emph>
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item) Railroad Commission of Texas Arkansas-White-Red
Basins Inter-Agency Committee records, Archives and Information Services
Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Processing Information
Processed by Laura K. Saegert and Ben Stone, April 2003
DACS compliance by Laura K. Saegert, February 2009
Accession Information
Accession number: 2002/003
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information
Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the
Railroad Commission of Texas on September 5, 2001.
Detailed Description of the Records
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee records,
1954-1956,
bulk 1955,
2 cubic ft.
2002/003-1
Correspondence, Governor's Representative for Texas
Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
1955
2002/003-1
Metallic and Nonmetallic Mineral
Resources of the Washita River Sub-Basin, Texas and Oklahoma. First Draft of
Final Report.
April
1954
2002/003-1
Metallic and Nonmetallic Mineral
Resources of the Washita River Sub-Basin, Texas and Oklahoma. Final Report.
July
1954
2002/003-1
Arkanas-White-Red River Basins.
First Draft. Section 17. Part II--Mineral Resources and Geology.
May
1954
2002/003-1
Oil, Gas, and By-Products in
Ouachita River Sub-Basin, Arkansas and Louisiana: Final Report.
September
1954
2002/003-1
Oil, Gas, and By-Products In The
Washita River Sub-Basin, Oklahoma: Final Report.
June
1955
2002/003-1
Report of the Arkansas-White-Red
Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
1955:
2002/003-1
Part I. A Report on the
Conservation and Development of Water and Land Resources.
2002/003-1
Part II:
2002/003-1
Section 1. Population, Labor
Force, Manufacturing and Health.
2002/003-1
Section 2. Water Resources
Project Data. Volume A. Arkansas River Basin above Keystone Dam.
2002/003-1
Section 2. Water Resources
Project Data. Volume B. Cimarron and Canadians River Basins.
2002/003-1
Section 2. Water Resources
Project Data. Volume C. Arkansas River Basin below Keystone Dam.
2002/003-1
Section 2. Water Resources
Project Data. Volume D. White River Basin.
2002/003-1
Section 2. Water Resources
Project Data. Volume E. Red River Basin above Denison Dam.
2002/003-1
Section 2. Water Resources
Project Data. Volume F. Red River Basin below Denison Dam.
2002/003-1
Section 3. Flood Control,
Waterflow Retardation, and Flood Forecasting.
2002/003-1
Section 4. Navigation.
2002/003-2
Section 5. Drainage.
2002/003-2
Section 6. Irrigation and
Reclamation.
2002/003-2
Section 7. Hydroelectric
Power Development and Utilization.
2002/003-2
Section 8. Domestic and
Industrial Water Supply.
2002/003-2
Section 9. Water Pollution
Control.
2002/003-2
Section 10. Mosquito Control
and Allied Problems.
2002/003-2
Section 11. Agriculture.
2002/003-2
Section 12. Fish and
Wildlife.
2002/003-2
Section 13. Recreation.
2002/003-2
Section 14. Mapping.
2002/003-2
Section 15. Hydrologic Data
Collection Program.
2002/003-2
Section 16. Minerals and
Geology.
2002/003-2
Section 17. Availability,
Use, and Control of Water.
2002/003-2
Report of the Arkansas-White-Red
Basins Inter-Agency Committee, for the year 1955-56,
June 30,
1956
2002/003-2
Minutes of the Sixth Meeting of
the Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee,
July 12-13,
1956