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 Public Works Administration
Created by the National Industrial Recovery Act on June 16, 1933, the Public Works Administration (PWA) budgeted several billion dollars to be spent on the construction of public works as a means of providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, improving public welfare, and contributing to a revival of American industry.
It provided the federal government with its first systematic network for the distribution of funds to localities, ensured that conservation would remain an element in the national discussion, and provided federal administrators with a broad amount of badly needed experience in public policy planning.
Frances Perkins had first suggested a federally financed public works program, and the idea received considerable support from Harold Ickes, James Farley, and Henry Wallace.
http://www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/pwa.htm   (388 words)

  
 Department of Public Works - County of Hawaii Directory
The Public Works Administration Office coordinates the fiscal, procurement and personnel activities of the department.
Sidewalk use permits include permits to place garbage receptacles, decorative planters, public benches, required provisions for the disabled or other items which will be placed in or on the county street for non-commercial purposes that are deemed by the director to promote public welfare.
The purpose of the codes is to ensure that the construction meets minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property, and public welfare.
http://www.hawaii-county.com/directory/dir_pubworks.htm   (1006 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Public administration
The aim is to rank countries by the extent of corruption in public administration, as the determination of an integrity performance is a useful instrument in assessing country risks, of importance to prospective investors.
Through research, advocacy, and public education, the Project on Government Secrecy works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight.
It is one of the largest libraries in the world devoted exclusively to the social sciences, with particular strength in economics, government and politics, international, political, economic and social history, international law, international relations, social policy and public administration, sociology, and statistics (economic, political, and social).
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/p/publicadministration.htm   (1103 words)

  
 Department of Public Works
Public Works Administration manages and guides six divisions whose responsibilities include the long term planning, development and maintenance of the County’s infrastructure.
Additional responsibilities of DPW Administration include Aviation (Crystal Aero Group), ADA compliance, and the design, development and implementation of County building projects.
This website is best viewed with Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher with your screen resolution set to 800 x 600.
http://www.bocc.citrus.fl.us/pubworks/public_works.htm   (76 words)

  
 Queen Anne's County Department of Public Works
The Public Works Department is comprised of an administration group and three divisions:
Public Works Agreements are construction agreements between the County and developers/contractors for the construction and maintenance of public improvements.
The Department of Public Works assists the County Commissioners in the efficient operation and maintenance of County roads, vehicles and equipment, as well as the County's engineering projects and sanitary district.
http://www.qac.org/depts/dpw/dpwhome.htm   (208 words)

  
 Public Works
The Public Works Department has the responsibility for the administration, design, construction, maintenance and operation of the city’s streets, street lights, bridges, water, storm drainage, vehicle fleet and park facilities.
The Public Works Department is responsible for the maintenance of the City public works infrastructure.
It is the goal of each Public Works employee to reach out and understand the service level expectations of its citizens and to provide those services that enhance the quality of life for the community in which we live and work.
http://www.bogalusa.org/Citypgs/PubWorks.htm   (291 words)

  
 City of Houston -- Department of Public Works and Engineering -- Home Page
The responsibilities of the Public Works and Engineering department are distributed among six divisions: Engineering and Construction Division, Planning and Development Services Division, Public Utilities, Resource Management, Right-of-Way and Fleet Maintenance Division and Traffic and Transportation.
The main office of the Department of Public Works and Engineering is located at 611 Walker, Houston, TX 77002, one block from City Hall and Hermann Square, bounded by Smith, Louisiana, Walker, and Rusk.
The Public Works and Engineering Department is staffed with a trained work force of approximately 3,300 employees under the leadership of Michael S. Marcotte, P.E., DEE.
http://www.publicworks.cityofhouston.gov   (331 words)

  
 North Richland Hills (TX): The City of Choice
One area, Administration, provides overall administrative support and direction for the Public Works Department.
The other area, Engineering, provides public service, project review, review of plats and plans for developments, capital planning, project development, construction management and all inspections affecting Public Works improvements.
If you are aware of any public maintenance issues needing attention call 817-427-6440.
http://www.ci.north-richland-hills.tx.us/dept_public.cfm   (262 words)

  
 NARA - Guide to Federal Records - Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA]
Photographic Negatives (1,205 images): Program activities of the Public Housing Administration, U.S. Housing Authority, Public Road Administration, and the Federal Works Agency, 1939-44 (B, H, R, F).
Among the holdings are films documenting WPA educational and vocational training, public works, fine arts, flood relief activities, and cooperative programs with the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Textual Records: Administrative correspondence and procedural manuals of library service and newspaper indexing projects, 1935- 42; Library of Congress project to inventory and arrange records of WPA arts projects, 1940-41; the workers service program, 1935- 43; and a project to teach Spanish to members of the Army Air Forces, 1941-42.
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/069.html?template=print   (4323 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Vatican
The departments of building, furnishing, administration of the magazine, household management, fire brigade, accountancy, the stables, printing works, gardening, and some other divisions are administered, under the supervision of the prefect, by more or less independent boards, whose directors -- e.g.
These are not accessible to the general public.
Both rooms, which are not accessible to the public, are decorated with tapestries of beautiful colour, the walls are overarched with red damask, and the ceiling richly gilt.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15276b.htm   (4323 words)

  
 New Deal
Federally funded construction projects put thousands of idle men and women to work and refashioned much of the cityscape: Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Public Works Administration expenditures resulted in the completion of Lake Shore Drive from Foster Avenue to Jackson Park, including the Outer Drive Bridge, as well as the State Street Subway.
Federal government funds provided for the building of 30 new schools and the city's first public housing projects.
With New Deal programs aiding an unprecedented number of African Americans and because of the Roosevelt administration's comparatively liberal record on race, Chicago's black voters (who also found much to admire in Mayor Kelly's record) switched allegiances from the Republican to the Democratic Party.
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/883.html   (552 words)

  
 The WPA
Created to replace earlier attempts to bring the Depression under control with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Public Works Administration (PWA), and the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the purpose of the Works Progress Administration was to provide jobs for the unemployed who were able to work.
Brought into being on May 6, 1935, as an independent agency funded directly by Congress, the Works Progress Administration was the Federal Government’s most ambitious undertaking yet to provide employment for the jobless.
With the establishment of the WPA in 1935, the Federal Art Project (FAP) began as a part of Federal One with Holger Cahill as its director.
http://www.co.broward.fl.us/library/bienes/lii10204.htm   (2076 words)

  
 Inventory to the Luther Hartwell Hodges Papers,Mss. Dept., UNC-Chapel Hill.
During his administration Governor Hodges was concerned, among other things, with desegregation of public facilities, balancing the budget, raising taxes, highway spending, road safety, higher education, water resources, increased industrialization of the state economy, travel and speech making, and successive hurricanes, especially in 1955.
In North Carolina during this period, Hodges served as a member of the State Board of Education and the State Highway and Public Works Commission.
In 1944, while living in New York, he volunteered for service with the federal government and was made price administrator of the textile division of the Office of Price Administration.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hodges,Luther_Hartwell.html   (2076 words)

  
 Economic Development Administration Federal Grants
EDA provides Public Works investments to support the construction of rehabilitation of essential public infrastructure and development facilities...
Aids the long-range economic development of areas with severe unemployment and low family income problems; aids in the development of public facilities and private enterprise to help create new, permanent jobs.
There are 6 federal grants, government grants and loans for the Economic Development Administration, Department Of Commerce.
http://www.federalgrantswire.com/economic_development_administration_department_of_commerce_federal_grants.html   (2076 words)

  
 FR Doc 03-8612
EDA will provide Public Works investments to support the construction or rehabilitation of essential public infrastructure and development facilities necessary to generate private sector jobs and investment, including investments that support technology-led development, redevelopment of brownfield sites, and eco-industrial development.
EDA is not authorized to provide grants directly to individuals or to other for-profit entities seeking to start or expand a business.
In FY 2002, the average Economic Development District planning investment was $59,000; the average Indian planning investment was $46,000; and the average state and other planning organization investment was $64,000.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-8612.htm   (2076 words)

  
 University Archives - AC 5 - Cecil Creel Collection
Personal correspondence and reports concerning reclamation (includes Land Appraisal Records), Civil Works Administration, and Rural Rehabilitation.
And in November 1933, he was appointed State Civil Works Administrator and was in charge of the Civil Works Program until its termination in 1934.
Creel removed as administrator of Civil Works Administration, 1933.
http://www.library.unr.edu/univarch/colls/ac5.html   (551 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Federal Emergency Management Agency
Public Works Administration (PWA), former U.S. government agency established by Congress as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration under the...
Work Projects Administration (WPA), United States government agency created to put unemployed people to work on public projects during the depression...
General Services Administration (GSA), independent agency of the U.S. government responsible for the management of property and records belonging to...
http://encarta.msn.com/Federal_Emergency_Management_Agency.html   (187 words)

  
 Federal Emergency Relief Administration Your reference guide for Federal Emergency Relief Administration and more.
the Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the National Recovery Administration, the Public Works Administration and the...
The Civil Works Administration was an early New Deal program and a subdivision of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration which provided work relief for a large number of people during the winter...
BATON ROUGE, La. - Critics accusing Gov. Kathleen Blanco's administration of boosting state spending in her 2006-07 budget proposal are overlooking the fact that the budget includes more than $2 billion in federal hurricane relief aid, Blanco's chief financial officer said Tuesday.
http://www.pajournal.com/Emergencies/federalemergencyreliefadministration   (1153 words)

  
 Economic Development Administration
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) was established under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. § 3121), as amended, to generate jobs, help retain existing jobs, and stimulate industrial and commercial growth in economically distressed areas of the United States.
EDA helps distressed communities address problems associated with long-term economic distress, as well as sudden and severe economic dislocations including recovering from the economic impacts natural disasters, the closure of military installations and other Federal facilities, changing trade patterns, and the depletion of natural resources.
EDA uses a national network of 12 Trade Adjustment Assistance Centers to help manufacturers and produces injured by increased imports prepare and implement strategies to guide their economic recovery.
http://www.epa.gov/region8/land_waste/bfhome/bftools/eda.html   (1153 words)

  
 Public & Utility Projects
With the city's public works, parks and fleet management divisions all outgrowing the current municipal maintenance facility, the City of Kirkland needed ideas and a plan to better utilize the existing facility and to identify opportunities for expansion.
After this exploration was completed, the District settled on extending their current site from three to ten acres and building a new administration building, a new vehicle maintenance facility, and converting the existing District office into inventory and shops.
Work was completed on time and within a very tight budget.
http://www.driftmier.com/public__utility_projects.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Federal Emergency Relief Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Faced with continued high unemployment and concerns for public welfare during the coming winter of 1933-34, FERA instituted the Civil Works Administration (CWA) as a short-term measure to get people to work.
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was terminated in 1935 and its work taken over by the WPA and the Social Security Board.
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was the new name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the "Emergency Relief Administration" set up by the Hoover Administration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Relief_Administration   (274 words)

  
 Etproj16.htm
Correspondence re: Southwestern Power Administration transmission lines; conferences concerning the future of the Southwestern Power Administration; use of public or private companies for the REA; a government power policy; the proposal to sell the steam power plant at the Oklahoma Ordnance Works.
Correspondence re: Senator E. Moore requesting to be a witness before the House Appropriations Subcommittee meeting on the Southwestern Power Administration budget.
Correspondence re: funding of the Southwestern Power Administration; government or local control of electricity.
http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives/ThomasLegInventory/Etproj16.htm   (274 words)

  
 Printable Version
In this position, Canlas will perform laboratory testing of soils and concrete for residential, commercial and public works projects in the Las Vegas area.
In her position, Allred will be overseeing lease administration, as well as monthly and yearly budgeting and forecasting.
Nominated by its employees, the Nevada Public Radio Corporation (NPRC) which operates Las Vegas public radio station KNPR 89.5 FM and three other stations, was recognized at the event for exceptional human resource practices that have contributed to the corporation's overall success.
http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2003/05/09/columnists/col08.prt   (1288 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
Activities of the Work Projects Administration in any given area of the country were dependent on the needs and skills of the persons on relief in that area, since the main prerequisite for WPA employment was one's certified relief status.
The name of the agency was changed to Work Projects Administration on July 1, 1939, when it was made a part of the Federal Works Agency, but its continuity was unbroken and the purposes of the WPA remained the same.
Harry Hopkins, who had been chief of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration during 1933 and 1934, was appointed head of the new WPA, which succeeded these organizations.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/WW/ncw1.html   (1439 words)

  
 Bridge That Never Was
Within the last six months, the Public Works Administration refused to make a loan for the bridge, on the grounds it would not be self-supporting." The state was in no financial position to bail out Monroe County.
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was the second phase and emphasized public construction.
The administration was aware of Monroe County's need for an improved through highway and with the transfer of Fort Jefferson at a snail's pace, the use of the WW-1 veterans was diverted to the highway project.
http://www.keyshistory.org/Bridge-that-never-was.html   (3386 words)

  
 WPA Federal Art Project
Joan van Breeman's bas relief sculptures were placed in 127 public schools, libraries and public buildings according to one WPA document.
To qualify for work in FAP, artists had to meet the professional standards as artists, and also the relief requirements of their state WPA relief board.
This program was short lived, however, Harry Hopkins transitioning from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), created the Federal Arts Project (FAP) in 1935 and directed by Holger Cahill.
http://www.keyshistory.org/artwpa.html   (976 words)

  
 U.S. Chief Acquisition Officers Council//
The Council works closely with the Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to promote these business practices in the acquisition system.
The Council promotes effective business practices that ensure the timely delivery of best value products and services to the agencies, achieve public policy objectives, and further integrity, fairness, competition, and openness in the federal acquisition system.
The Council is focused on promoting the President’s Management Agenda in all aspects of the acquisition system.
http://www.fac.gov   (305 words)

  
 Ex-public works head at Hamilton helm
When he retired from the city administration, he was the public works director.
Samoviski was the man for the job, they didn't see the point of undertaking an expensive, time-consuming search for a new city manager.
Use of this site signifies agreement to terms of service updated 12/19/2002.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/07/02/loc_ex-public_works_head.html   (428 words)

  
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION  METAL AND NONMETAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH   REPORT OF
Since the 1970's, MSHA and its predecessor agency, the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (MESA), have enforced the provisions of the federal mine safety and health law at all alumina processing facilities, such as the Gramercy Works Plant.
A 1979 Interagency Agreement between MSHA and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") clarified that the alumina refining process constitutes "mineral milling" and that alumina facilities are subject to MSHA jurisdiction.
MSHA subpoenaed 30 Kaiser officials to testify at the public hearing, but 28 of these company officials refused to testify, invoking their privilege against self incrimination, under the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
http://ncsp.tamu.edu/reports/MSHA/msha.htm   (10042 words)

  
 Document Library: Subject Index
Library Projects Under Public Works, Civil Works, and Relief Administrations
White House Statement On a Plan For Relief
A Side-Light on the N.Y.A. Rural Library Service Projects of the National Youth Administration
http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/subject.htm   (2910 words)

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