DISASTERS
(DI)
A
primary category containing information pertaining to disasters and disaster
relief, including aid in the form of materials, services, gifts, and loans.
Subject
categories and sub-categories fully available for research are bolded. Closed categories and
sub-categories have a simple phrase describing their contents.
DESCRIPTION OF
SECONDARY FILE CODES
File Code Description
DI Disasters (0.2 ft.; box 1)
A
primary subject category containing material relating to: proposed regulatory
changes in the Small Business Administration’s Disaster Relief Program; the
amending of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974; and requests for federal aid to
prevent future natural disasters, or help economically depressed areas.
DI001 Accidents
(0.5 ft.;
Material
in this secondary subject category relates to: the accidents at the Three Mile
Island and Chernobyl nuclear power plants; the 1981 sewer explosion in
Louisville, Kentucky; the 1983 sinking of the Glomar Java Sea off the coast
of Vietnam; the Air Force jet crash at Gander, Newfoundland (1985); the 1987
explosion at the Henderson, Nevada rocket fuel plant; the dioxin contamination
at Times Beach, Missouri; the 1981 levee break at McDonald Island, California;
the 1988 plane crashes at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport and at Lockerbie, Scotland;
and international agreements regarding nuclear accidents and collisions at sea.
DI002 Natural
Disasters (10.4 ft.; boxes 1-26)
A secondary subject category containing
reports from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reviewing a natural
disaster and then requesting a declaration or denial of a major disaster. Letters from Congressional, state, and local officials
supporting the need for major disaster declarations are also included. Natural disasters covered are storms,
flooding, tornados, earthquakes, crop freezes, landslides, drought and the
hurricanes Alicia, Diana, Elena, Gloria, Kate, Juan, and Gilbert. This category also contains letters, memos,
reports, talking points, speech drafts and publications on the following
subjects: amendments to the Earthquake Hazards Relief Act of 1977, personal
requests for assistance due to a disaster or difficulty with a federal agency,
the dioxin clean-up of Times Beach, MO, the clean-up of river sedimentation
following the Mt. St. Helens eruption, requests for fire suppression
assistance, material covering the drought that affected agriculture from 1983
through 1988 - including material on H.R. 5015, Drought Assistance Bill of
1988, assistance for international disasters, particularly the Mexico City
earthquake of 1985 and the Armenian earthquake of 1988, and H.R. 2707 - the
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Amendments of 1988.