NASULGC:  Office of Federal Relations Subject File, 1939-97 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Subject file of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), Office of Federal Relations containing membership lists, correspondence, reports, publications, agendas, minutes, proceedings, congressional testimony, speeches, news releases, and newspaper/magazine clippings; submitted by Eddie Gouge, assistant director for Food, Natural Resources, Environmental Affairs and Council for Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching.  Correspondents include:  the Agricultural Competitiveness Initiative; Agricultural Experiment Stations; Association of Administrators of Home Economics; Commission on Food, Environment and Renewable Resources; Congressional Agriculture, Appropriations, and Budget Committees and their subcommittees; Cooperative Extension Service Users' Advisory Board; Environmental Protection Agency; Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy; Extension Committee on Organization and Policy; Joint Council for Food and Agricultural Sciences; NASULGC member institutions and their faculties; National Agricultural Library; National Association of Mineral Institutes Directors; National Association of Professional Forestry Schools and Colleges; National Association of Water Institutes Directors; National Biological Survey; National Biological Service; National Council on Private Forests; National Institutes for the Environment; United States Department of Agriculture; United States Department of the Interior; and United States Senators, Representatives, and their staffs; as well as NASULGC boards and sections.  Documents cover NASULGC lobbying for Appropriations, Budget, and Farm Bill funding, including the 1990 Farm Bill; NASULGC reports on government agriculture, research, appropriations, and environment policies; and congressional testimony given by NASULGC or on the NASULGC's behalf.