Guide to the Environmental Coalition of Orange County Records
MS.R.164
Finding aid prepared by Chris S. Ervin
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, 92623-9557
949-824-3947
spcoll@uci.edu
© 2012
Title: Environmental Coalition of Orange County records
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.164
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2.0 Linear feet
(5 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1967-1981
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Abstract: This collection consists of materials related to the Environmental Coalition of Orange County (ECOC), a non-profit environmental
group based in Santa Ana, California. The collection includes subjects divided into various county environmental issues from
the mid-to-late 1970s to the early 1980s. In addition to correspondence to and from ECOC Executive Director, Harold (Hal)
M. Thomas sprinkled throughout the collection, there are a variety of printed materials on many different local environmental
issues.
Creator:
Environmental Coalition of Orange County, Inc. (California)
Access
This collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head
of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Environmental Coalition of Orange County Records. MS-R164. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine,
California.
Acquisition Information
Transferred by UCI Reference Librarian Yvonne Wilson, May 2012.
Processing History
Processed by Chris S. Ervin, 2012 September.
Historical Background
Formed in 1972, the purpose of the Environmental Coalition of Orange County, Inc. was stated, "...to preserve and enhance
the environmental quality of Orange County." The Coalition informed its members and the public through its newsletter, "Environmental
News" which was described as a clearinghouse of all environmentally concerned groups and individuals in Orange County.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection consists of materials related to the Environmental Coalition of Orange County (ECOC), a non-profit environmental
group based in Santa Ana, California. Formed in 1972, the ECOC described itself as a clearinghouse of all environmentally
concerned groups and individuals in Orange County. The collection includes subjects divided into various county environmental
issues from the mid-to-late 1970s to the early 1980s. In addition to correspondence to and from ECOC Executive Director, Harold
(Hal) M. Thomas sprinkled throughout the collection, there are a variety of printed materials on many different local environmental
issues.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 5 series:
- Series 1. Correspondence
- Series 2. Operational records
- Series 3. Program records
- Series 4. Project records
- Series 5. Public relations records
Related Material
Related material can be found in the following collections:
Laguna Greenbelt, Inc. Records (Collection MS-R064). Department of Special Collections and Archives, University of California,
Irvine. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7v19p15z/
Orange County Environmental Issues, Land Use, and Planning Collection (Collection MS-R065). Department of Special Collections
and Archives, University of California, Irvine. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4f59n9gg/
Laguna Beach Historic Survey Board Records, 1980-1981 (Collection MS-R098). Department of Special Collections and Archives,
University of California, Irvine. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2h4nb12j/
Ray E. Williams Files on Newport Bay Environmental Issues (Collection MS.R.108). Department of Special Collections and Archives,
University of California, Irvine. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3b69r8n9/
Raymond L. Watson Papers (Collection MS.R.120). Department of Special Collections and Archives, University of California,
Irvine. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt867nf5qj/
August S. Carstens Collection (Collection MSS 0042). Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San
Diego. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6d5nb4pj/
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Environmental Coalition of Orange County, Inc. (California)
Activists -- California -- Orange County.
Coastal ecology -- California -- Orange County
Correspondence
Environmental impact statements -- California -- Orange County.
Environmental protection -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources
Environmentalists -- California -- Orange County
Land use -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Orange County
Maps -- California -- Orange County.
Newsletters -- California -- Orange County -- 20th century.
Nonprofit organizations -- United States
Open spaces -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources.
Regional planning -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources
Slides -- 20th century.
Correspondence Series 1.
1977-1981
Physical Description:
4.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of correspondence collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange County (ECOC) including
communications with local, state, and federal elected officials.
Arrangement
The materials in this series are arranged alphabetically by file.
Box 1, Folder 3
Elected representatives
1975-1980
Operational records Series 2.
1978-1979
Physical Description:
5.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of operational records collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange County (ECOC)
including correspondence with the City of Garden Grove, and Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce.
Arrangement
The materials in this series are arranged alphabetically by file.
Box 1, Folder 5
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Garden Grove correspondence
1978-1979
Box 1, Folder 6
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act requirements, Garden Grove
1978
Box 1, Folder 7
Garden Grove administrative report, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
1979
Box 1, Folder 8
Garden Grove Chamber Of Commerce
1978-1979
Box 1, Folder 9
Human resources, Garden Grove
1978-1979
Program records Series 3.
1967-1981
Physical Description:
36.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of program materials collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange County (ECOC) covering
local air quality, conservation efforts, educational programs, transportation issues, and water quality.
Arrangement
This series is arranged into 5 subseries:
- Subseries 1. Air quality, 1967-1981, 12 folders
- Subseries 2. Conservation, 1976-1981, 12 folders
- Subseries 3. Education, 1976-1979, 6 folders
- Subseries 4. Transportation, 1977-1980, 5 folders
- Subseries 5. Water quality, 1981, 1 folder
Within each subseries, materials are arranged alphabetically by file.
Air quality Subseries 3.1.
1967-1981
Physical Description:
12.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Scope and Content Summary
This subseries consists of air quality program materials collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange County
(ECOC) including; studies, position statements, mailers, education, newsletters, reports, plan critiques, rules and regulations,
newspaper articles, profiles, brochures, amendments, workshop schedules, and correspondence.
Box 1, Folder 10
Air and Lung Association
1974-1979
Box 1, Folder 12
Air quality standards, Orange County
1971-1981
Box 1, Folder 13
Air quality workshops
1979
Box 1, Folder 14
Air resource, Coal Canyon
1978
Box 2, Folder 1
Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP)
1978
Box 2, Folder 2
Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP), correspondence
1981 March 17
Box 2, Folder 3
Air Resource Board (ARB)
1978-1981
Box 2, Folder 4
Clean indoor air
1978-1979
Box 2, Folder 5
Lung Association
1977-1979
Box 2, Folder 6
Sohio Transportation Company South Coast Air Quality Management
1977-1979
Box 2, Folder 7
South California Air Pollution Control Board (SCAPCD)
1976-1978
Conservation Subseries 3.2.
1976-1981 and undated
Physical Description:
12.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Scope and Content Summary
This subseries consists of conservation program materials collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange
County (ECOC) including; management plans, workshop schedules, cover letters, fact sheets, correspondence, agendas, notices
of public hearings, newsletters, reports, notes, testimony, briefing paper, meeting reminders, regulations, guidelines, conference
paper, reports bibliography, newspaper articles, Senate energy study, projections, tip sheets, conference report, housing
designs, minutes, government reports, and a resume.
Box 2, Folder 8
Conservation guidelines
1976
Box 2, Folder 10
Energy conservation program
1977-1978
Box 2, Folder 11
Energy resources, California
circa 1978
Box 2, Folder 12
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
1977
Box 2, Folder 13
Federal Energy Administration (FEA)
1976-1977
Box 2, Folder 14
Liquified natural gas
1977 December 16
Box 2, Folder 15
Solar energy, meetings
1980 September 10
Box 2, Folder 16
Solar energy, legislation
1978
Box 2, Folder 18
SUEDC
1978 November - 1978 October
Educational Subseries 3.3.
1976-1979 and undated
Physical Description:
6.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
35mm color slide transparencies
Folder labeled, Environmental Education General Public Recycling, contains a 35mm color slide show on the subject of recycling.
The (38-count) color transparencies include 1970s images of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) campus, Upper Newport
Bay, and Sierra Nevada mountain locations. The slides are numbered and are keyed to an accompanying script.
Scope and Content Summary
This subseries consists of educational program materials collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange County
(ECOC) including; notes, meeting proposal, progress report, correspondence, minutes, slide show and script, water rights law
topics, newsletters, and contact lists.
Box 3, Folder 1
Education, economics lecture
undated
Box 3, Folder 2
Environmental education forum
1977-1979
Box 3, Folder 3
Environmental education, general public, recycling
circa 1979
Box 3, Folder 4
Library actuation
undated
Box 3, Folder 5
Santa Ana Environmental Learning Center
1979 October
Transportation Subseries 3.4.
1977-1980
Physical Description:
5.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Scope and Content Summary
This subseries consists of transportation program materials collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange
County (ECOC) including; organization charts, newsletters, goals, and objectives, reports, maps, notices of study availability,
correspondence, reference package, mailers, progress summary, summary of alternatives, agendas, updates, program draft, program
final, resignation letter, news bulletin, route location study, and litigation.
Box 3, Folder 7
Northeast Orange County Circulation Study, citizen participation
1977-1978
Box 3, Folder 8
Northeast Orange County Circulation Study, survey
1977-1978
Box 3, Folder 9
Northeast Orange County Circulation Study (NEOCCS)
1978
Box 3, Folder 10
OCTD number 2- minutes, agenda, meetings
1978-1979
Box 3, Folder 11
San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor
1978-1980
Water quality Subseries 3.5.
1981
Physical Description:
1.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Scope and Content Summary
This subseries consists of water quality materials collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange County
(ECOC) including correspondence and a memo.
Box 4, Folder 1
California Regional Water Quality Control Board - Santa Ana Region
1981 March - 1981 April
Project records Series 4.
1975-1981 and undated
Physical Description:
27.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of materials collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange County (ECOC) related to
specific projects including; notes, correspondence, a grant proposal, a field study, environmental impact statements (EIS)
and a variety of local publications. These materials cover issues confronting Orange County and describe activities designed
to protect environmental resources such as; coastal development, unsightly advertising, wilderness planning, urban beautification,
transportation corridors, river encroachment, city parks, nuclear power development, roadless areas, and solar projects.
Arrangement
The materials in this series are arranged alphabetically by file.
Box 4, Folder 2
Action against proposed South Coast Drive, Costa Mesa
undated
Box 4, Folder 3
Aliso Viejo
1979 January - 1979 July
Box 4, Folder 4
Bolsa Chica
1977 March - 1980 January
Box 4, Folder 5
Central Newport Beach Homeowners Association
1978 July - 1978 September
Box 4, Folder 6
Citizens against blimp
1976 - 1977
Box 4, Folder 7
Cleaveland National Forest
1978 October - 1979 April
Box 4, Folder 8
Community gardening
1979 February 9
Box 4, Folder 9
Environmental Revolving Legal Aid Fund, grant proposal
1975-1977
Box 4, Folder 10
Friends of the Irvine Coast
1979 August 6
Box 4, Folder 11
Friends of the River
1978-1979
Garden Grove environmental park
1978 May - 1979 July
Box 4, Folder 13
Hills For Everyone, mailing list
1978-1979
Box 4, Folder 14
Irvine Coast National Park
1978-1979
Jaggin project, fund raising
1976 August - 1979 January
Box 4, Folder 16
Laguna Greenbelt
1976 December - 1977 June
Box 4, Folder 17
Let's Improve Santa Ana (LISA)
1977 February - 1978 December
Box 4, Folder 18
Live Christmas tree project
1976 November 29
Box 4, Folder 19
Miles Square Park National Area, proposal
undated
Box 4, Folder 20
Nuclear
1977 May - 1980 July
Box 5, Folder 1
RARE II (Roadless Area Review and Evaluation)
1979 January - 1979 February
Box 5, Folder 2
Resources agency, parks and recreation
1979 February
Box 5, Folder 4
Solar box, Cerritos, solar project
1978 November 13
Box 5, Folder 5
Solar greenhouses
1977 January
Box 5, Folder 6
Stop Polluting Our Newport (SPON)
1975 January - 1978 April
Box 5, Folder 7
Vista Del Rio
1978 November
Public relations records Series 5.
1973-1980
Physical Description:
14.0 folders
Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are in
English.
Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of materials collected or generated by the Environmental Coalition of Orange County (ECOC) as part of
its public outreach to individuals and other organizations including; publications from other environmental organizations,
internal and external planning documents, membership packets and lists, and newsletter masters and supplements.
Arrangement
The materials in this series are arranged alphabetically by file.
Box 5, Folder 10
Audubon
1977 May - 1980 July
Box 5, Folder 11
Basic info packet
1973 August - 1977 February
Box 5, Folder 12
Bulk mailing
1976 December 24
Box 5, Folder 13
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
1979 March 1
Box 5, Folder 14
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
1978 November 27
Box 5, Folder 16
Media plan
1976 November - 1979 March
Box 5, Folder 18
Membership and mailing lists
1976
Box 5, Folder 19
Newsletter masters
1977-1979
Box 5, Folder 20
Newsletter supplement
1975 July - 1975 August
Box 5, Folder 21
Sierra Club
1977 August - 1977 Septembe
Box 5, Folder 22
Yosemite National Park
1975
