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Energy Conservation Update, Abstracts 1-924, 1979 January
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 44
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Asbestos: Waste Management Guidance, EPA, 1985 May
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 46
Archival Component
The Toxics-Release Inventory: National Perspective, 1989 June
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 46
Archival Component
Riparian Policy Summary and Analysis, EPA, 1991 February
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office Collection
Box/Folder: Box 49
Archival Component
Reports, agenda, and correspondence, 1977-1981
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Sheilagh Brooks Collection on Nevada Historical Sites and Museums
Box/Folder: Box 01
Archival Component
Nomination Forms: Carson City County, 1980-1981
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Sheilagh Brooks Collection on Nevada Historical Sites and Museums
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
Gerald L. Connor oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Gerald Connor conducted by James Bonnell on February 22, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Connor first discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada and serving as a pilot in the United States Air Force. He then discusses his education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and his church membership. Topics that Connor discusses during the interview also include changes in the school district and properties located in Downtown Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Strip, his political activity within the Democratic Party, the Helldorado Parades, and the early atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site.
Archival Collection
Peter F. Perazzo oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Peter F. Perazzo conducted by Claytee D. White on July 22, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Perazzo discusses his personal history and moving from Reno, Nevada to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1940s. Perazzo talks about his Native American ancestry, his career in land surveying, and how construction and land surveying have changed over the years. He then describes designing public and residential buildings in Las Vegas, and at the Nevada Test Site. Later, Perazzo discusses his employment at the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 1985 and in 1995 at the Nevada Department of Transportation, where he was involved in many state projects such as the Hoover Dam bypass, Red Rock state road, and freeway widening.
Archival Collection
Mary Eaton oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Mary Eaton conducted by Dennis McBride on November 15, 1986 for the Boulder City Library Oral History Project. Eaton joined her husband Bruce in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1932, soon after he found work at the Hoover Dam building site. Within months of her arrival, the couple welcomed their first child and moved to Boulder City, Nevada. In this interview, Eaton recalls the early community formed by the wives of the dam workers, the establishment of the Grace Community Church and the death of the church's first pastor, "Parson Tom" Stevenson. She discusses the beginning of the school system in Boulder City and her career as an educator, as well as her involvement in numberous community projects and groups including the hospital and the Rainbow Club for young women.
Archival Collection
Roy Waite oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Roy Waite conducted by Dale Haley in approximately 1974 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Waite begins by discussing his athleticism, being a part of the first basketball team in Las Vegas, Nevada, and his general store in Bunkerville, Nevada. Waite lists the different social organizations and boards he was affiliated with, describes the arrival of the railroads, and the ranch he used to own near Bunkerville. He talks about the construction of Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) and how Southern Nevada has changed socially and environmentally. Waite also discusses smelting lead for bullets and relocating Native American remains away from a grave site that would be submerged by Lake Mead.
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