A Guide to the Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979 Transportation, Virginia Secretary of, Correspondence and Subject Files 30965

A Guide to the Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979

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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 30965

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Processed by: Erin Faison

Repository

The Library of Virginia

Accession Number

30965

Title

Correspondence and Subject Files of the Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979

Extent

5 cu. ft. (5 boxes)

Creator

Virginia. Office of the Secretary of Transportation

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979. Accession 30965, State Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Transferred by the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, 1980 Novemeber 5.

Processing Information

This collection has been processed using minimal processing standards: the originial arrangement has been maintained, the container list is brief and simple, and the records have not been refoldered and fastners have not been removed.

Material found loose in boxes was foldered and given a title determined by the archivist. In cases where folder titles were inaccurate, the titles have been corrected to more adequately describe material.

Biographical Information

In 1970, the Governor's Management Commission Study recommended the creation of six "Deputy Governors" to assist the Chief Executive in his managerial duties. Compatible functions of government were grouped under these administrative heads, who would serve as the Governors top management team or "secretariats," as they are called now.

Governor Linwood Holton's top priority for the 1972 session of the General Assembly was a proposal for a Governor's Cabinet, reorganizing state agencies into six major departments--each headed by a secretary appointed by the governor. Transportation and public safety was one of these six departments. The office of Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was created on April 8, 1972, by an act passed by the General Assembly. Governor Holton appointed Wayne A. Whitham, a member of the Winchester City Council, as the first Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety. When Whitham took office on July 1, 1972, he was responsible for State Highway Commission, Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of State Police, Highway Safety Division, Office of Emergency Services, Department of Military Affairs, Virginia State Crime Commission and the Law Enforcement Officers Training Standards Commission. The Office has undergone a series of administrative reorganizations since. On April 12, 1976, the Legislature established separate secretariats for transportation and for public safety, effective July 1, 1976. On July 1, 1984, the offices were again combined. Most recently, the Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was divided into separate secretariats on February 22, 1990. The Secretary of Transportation is a member of the Governor's Cabinet, and is appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly. The Secretary is responsible to the governor for the Department of Transportation, Department of Rail and Public Transportation, Department of Aviation, Department of Motor Vehicles, Virginia Port Authority and the Motor Vehicle Dealers Board.

Wayne A. Whitham, the first Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety, was reappointed by Governor-elect Miles E. Godwin, Jr., in December 1973 and by Governor-elect John N. Dalton in December 1977. Whitham suffered a heart attack in August 1978 and resigned in December 1978. On June 7, 1984, Whitham died in Richmond, Virginia. Governor Dalton named George M. Walters, a former top executive of the Reynolds Metals Corporation, to succeed Whitham as Secretary of Transportation. Walters served until the end of Dalton's term in January 1982. Governor-elect Charles S. Robb, the first Democrat to be elected governor since 1965, did not retain any of Dalton's cabinet secretaries. Robb appointed Andrew B. Fogarty, Dalton's assistant secretary for financial policy, as Secretary of Transportation. On July 1, 1984, the secretariats of transportation and public safety were combined again. As a result this partial reorganization of state government, Governor Robb appointed Fogarty Secretary of Administration and Franklin E. White, Secretary of Public Safety, assumed Fogarty's Transportation duties. White, who served as a White House liaison official under President Jimmy Carter, resigned in June 1985 to become the New York state commissioner of transportation. He was replaced by Andrew Fogarty who served until the end of the Robb administration. He later served as Governor Gerald L. Baliles chief of staff from August 1986 to October 1989 when he resigned to become a vice president with CSX Corporation.

In December 1985, Governor-elect Gerald L. Baliles, picked Vivian E. Watts, a northern Virginia legislator, as Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety. Watts served until the end of Baliles' term in 1990. In 1995 she was elected to her old seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. On February 22, 1990, the Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was divided into separate secretariats. Governor L. Douglas Wilder, appointed John G. Milliken, a member of the Arlington County Board of Supervisors, as the Secretary of Transportation. Milliken resigned on December 17, 1993.

In February 1994 Governor George Allen, the first Republican elected governor since 1977, appointed Robert Martinez as Secretary of Transportation. Martinez was born in Cuba and had served as Deputy Administrator for the Marine Administration and Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation during President George H.W. Bush's administration. At the end of Governor Allen's term in January 1998, Martinez joined the Norfolk Southern Corporation. Shirley Ybarra, deputy Secretary of Transportation in the Allen administration, was named Martinez's successor by Governor-elect James Gilmore. Ybarra previously worked as a special assistant to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole during President Ronald Reagan's administration. Ybarra served until the end of Gilmore's administration in January 2002. Whittington W. Clement, a former lawyer and long-time member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing the City of Danville, was appointed Secretary of Transportation by Governor Mark R. Warner in 2002. Pierce R. Homer, Deputy Secretary of Transportation, replaced Clement in 2005.

Extent: 5 cu. ft. (5 boxes).

Original arrangement of the agency has been maintained, which is generally alphabetical.

Box 1 Folder 1
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, 1979 Oct 13-16 .
Box 1 Folder 2
Appalachian Power Company - Energy Seminar/Roanoke, Virginia, 1979 Oct 17 .
Box 1 Folder 3
Airports Authority, Virginia, undated .
Box 1 Folder 4
Airports Authority, Virginia - Meetings, undated .
Box 1 Folder 5
Asbestos - General, undated .
Box 1 Folder 6
Aviations - Airport Lannd Use/Seminar Workshop, undated .
Box 1 Folder 7
Aviation - Demonstration Program, State of Virginia, undated .
Box 1 Folder 8
Aviation - Charlottesville/Albemarle Airport - Access Road, undated .
Box 1 Folder 9
Aviation - Federal Aviation Administration/Air Transportation Security Office, undated .
Box 1 Folder 10
Aviation - Conference, 1979 Sept 9-12 .
Box 1 Folder 11
Brown Boveri Corporation, undated .
Box 1 Folder 12
Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Areas Management Signing Ceremony, 1979 Aug 22 .
Box 1 Folder 13
Civil Rights - Presidents Task Force, undated .
Box 1 Folder 14
Clean Air Act, undated .
Box 1 Folder 15
Conference of State Depatments of Transportation - Membership List, undated .
Box 1 Folder 16
Conference of State Depatments of Transportation - Member States, undated .
Box 1 Folder 17
Conference of State Depatments of Transportation - General, undated .
Box 1 Folder 18
Conference of State Depatments of Transportation - Meeting in Washington D.C., 1979 Sept .
Box 1 Folder 19
Crater Planning District Commission/Petersburg, Virginia, undated .
Box 1 Folder 20
Crime Commission, Virginia State, undated .
Box 1 Folder 21
Dowden Terrace, Northren Virginia, undated .
Box 1 Folder 22
Eastern Regional Internation Trade Seminar/New York, 1979 June 28 .
Box 1 Folder 23
Econometric Model, Virginia, undated .
Box 1 Folder 24
Emergency Numbers 911, undated .
Box 1 Folder 25
Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council (State Health Department), undated .
Box 1 Folder 26
Emergency Medical Training Exercise, undated .
Box 1 Folder 27
Office of Emergency and Energy Services - Hurricane Preparedness Symposium, Norfolk, 1979 June 5 .
Box 1 Folder 28
Office of Emergency and Energy Services - Ice Storm and Bad Weather, Southwest, Virginia, 1979 Jan .
Box 1 Folder 29
Office of Emergency and Energy Services - Patrick and Henry Counties Flooding, 1979 Sept .
Box 1 Folder 30
Office of Emergency and Energy Services - State Assistance to Victims of Small Disasters, 1979 Jan 6 .
Box 1 Folder 31
Emergency Services - National Catastrphic (flood) Insurance, undated .
Box 1 Folder 32
Emergency Services - Resource Problems, GSA/FPA Reports, undated .
Box 1 Folder 33
Energy - Virginia Energy Office: Lawson, undated .
Box 1 Folder 34
Energy - Virginia Energy Resource Advisory Commission, undated .
Box 1 Folder 35
Energy Division - Energy Task Force: H.R. Johnson, chairman, undated .
Box 1 Folder 36
Energy - Gasohol, undated .
Box 1 Folder 37
Energy - Gasohol Subcommittee of the House Committee: Studying Potential of Gasohol, undated .
Box 1 Folder 38
Energy - Geothermal Energy (DOE briefing, movement of geothermal rigs), undated .
Box 1 Folder 39
Emergency Services - Surplus Property Executive Orders, undated .
Box 2 Folder 1
Firemen and Rescue Vehicles, Study volunteers, undated .
Box 2 Folder 2
Four-Day Work Week (DMV Project and other 4 day material), undated .
Box 2 Folder 3
Fuel Economy Standards (US department of Transportation - light trucks), undated .
Box 2 Folder 4
Federal - Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, undated .
Box 2 Folder 5
Federal - Disaster Assistance Administration, undated .
Box 2 Folder 6
Federal - Disaster Preparedness Assistance, application for, undated .
Box 2 Folder 7
Federal Emergency Preparedness and response reorganization, undated .
Box 2 Folder 8
Federal - Earthquake Hazards, undated .
Box 2 Folder 9
Federal - Preparedness Agency - General Services Administration, undated .
Box 2 Folder 10
Federal - Emergency Preparedness, Office of, undated .
Box 2 Folder 11
Gas - Liquefied Natural: Federal Safety Standards, undated .
Box 2 Folder 12
Governor Godwin - Statement to General Assembly: goals, objectives and policies, 1978-1980 .
Box 2 Folder 13
Governor's Cabinet - Public Cabinet Meetings, 1979 .
Box 2 Folder 14
Governor's People's Meeting - Lebanon, Virginia, 1978 July 17 .
Box 2 Folder 15
Governor's People's Meeting - Richmond, Virginia, 1978 Oct 18 .
Box 2 Folder 16
Governor's People's Meeting - Fairfax, Virginia, 1978 Aug 8 .
Box 2 Folder 17
Governor's People's Meeting - Virignia Beach, Virginia, 1978 May 16 .
Box 2 Folder 18
Governor, Lieutenant John N. Dalton, undated .
Box 2 Folder 19
Heliport - MCV, undated .
Box 2 Folder 20
Herrity, John, undated .
Box 2 Folder 21
Highway Allocation - House Joint Resolution 172, undated .
Box 2 Folder 22
Firemen and Rescue Vehicles, Study volunteers, 1979 Oct 31-Nov 2 .
Box 2 Folder 23
Housing and Urban Development - Miscellaneous, undated .
Box 2 Folder 24
Intergovernmental Affairs - Special Programs (Lynn Curry) Office, undated .
Box 2 Folder 25
Inspection, Motor Vehicles (Semi-Annual vs. Annual), undated .
Box 2 Folder 26
Interstate 66 - Wage Rates, undated .
Box 2 Folder 27
Interstate 66 - US Department of Transportation: secretary decision, undated .
Box 2 Folder 28
Interstate 66 - Concepts for the I-66 Traffic Management Systems, undated .
Box 2 Folder 29
Joint Legislative Audit Review Commission - Capital Outlay Process, undated .
Box 2 Folder 30
Joint Legislative Audit Review Commission - Sunset Legislation and Zero Base Budget, undated .
Box 2 Folder 31
Johnson, Hiram R., undated .
Box 2 Folder 32
land - State-Land Use Task Force, undated .
Box 2 Folder 33
Leases - State Facilities (Agencies and Institutions), undated .
Box 2 Folder 34
Leesburg Airport, undated .
Box 2 Folder 35
Legislation Transportation Session - Proposals: General, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 1
Legislation - Self-Insurance (Senate Joint Resolution 88), 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 2
Legislation - Emergency Services and Disaster Law, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 3
Legislation - Highways and Transportation: General, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 4
Legislation - Caboose Law, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 5
Legislation - Coal Haul Roads in Southwest Virginia, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 6
Legislation - House Bill 602: Highways Maintenance Payments, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 7
Legislation - Department of Motor Vehicles: General, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 8
Legislation - DMV Position Paper, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 9
Legislation - Railroad, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 10
Legislation - Transportation Safety Department, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 11
Legislation - Aviation Department Senate Bill 250/Senate Bill 76 (no. 1), 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 12
Legislation - Aviation Department Senate Bill 250/Senate Bill 76 (no. 2), 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 13
Legislation - Aviation: Senate Bill 76 Master Copy of Testimony, 1979 .
Box 3 Folder 14
Legislation - department of Aviation, 1977 .
Box 3 Folder 15
Mid-Atlantic Federal Regional Council, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 16
Miller, Robert L., Jr. (Maryland Construction Executive), 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 17
Military Affairs - Office Space Move, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 18
Military Assistance to Safety and Traffic (MAST), 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 19
Motor Vehicles - Branch Offices: Eastern Shore, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 20
Motor Vehicles - Branch Offices: Martinsville, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 21
Motor Vehicles - Branch Offices: Petersburg, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 22
Motor Vehicles - Branch Offices: Roanoke, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 23
Motor Vehicles - Branch Offices: West End, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 24
Motor Vehicles - Branch Offices: Winchester, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 25
Motor Vehicles - Driver Improvement Program, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 26
Motor Vehicles - License Tags Production, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 27
Motor Vehicles - Update Question, 1978 Jan .
Box 3 Folder 28
Motor Vehicles - Site Selection for Branch Offices, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 29
Motor Vehicles - Personnel, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 30
National Governor's Association - File 2, 1978 .
Box 3 Folder 31
National Governor's Association - Meeting: Louisville, Kentucky, 1979 July 8 .
Box 3 Folder 32
National Governor's Association - Policy Positions, 1978-1979 .
Box 3 Folder 33
National Governor's Association - Supplement, 1979 .
Box 4 Folder 1
National Radio Quiet Zone, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 2
Outdoor Advertising - Committee: Sight of Public Highways, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 3
Paint Manufacture (corrections/ Virginia Department of Transportation and Highways), 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 4
Personnel and Training, 1972-1978 .
Box 4 Folder 5
Personnel - Study of Personnel Management: House Joint Resolution 64, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 6
Personnel - Position Approvals, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 7
Perosnnel - Establishing and filling Positions, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 8
Personnel - Management Advisory Committee, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 9
Petroleum Project, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 10
Pollution - Control Strategies, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 11
Pollution - Reduction in Air Pollution: House Joint Resolution 254, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 12
Pollution - Air Study Commission: Chaired by Senator H.P. Anderson, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 13
Ril - Eastern Shore, 1978-1979 .
Box 4 Folder 14
Rail - Federal Railroad Administration, 1972-1977 .
Box 4 Folder 15
Rail - Federal Railroad Administration Meeting, 1978 Apr 11 .
Box 4 Folder 16
Rail - Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad Company, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 1
Rail - State Rail Plan, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 2
Rail - Tidewater Rail: Virginia Beach, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 3
Secondary Road System of Virginia - Highways, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 4
Southwest Virginia Roads, 1978 May-June .
Box 5 Folder 5
Southwest Virginia Legislative Tour - Highways, 1978 Nov .
Box 5 Folder 6
Tanker Standards Rulemaking Petition, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 7
3-M Company, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 8
Transportation Safety Advisory Committee Annual Meeting, 1979 May 24 .
Box 5 Folder 9
Transportation Advisory Council Meeting, 1979 Mar 13 .
Box 5 Folder 10
Transportation Advisory Council Meeting - First, 1978 Nov 28 .
Box 5 Folder 11
United States Department of Transportation - National Highway Safety Advisory Committee, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 12
Virginia Agribusiness Council, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 13
Virginia Association of Rescue Squads, Inc., 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 14
Virginia Port Authority, 1972-1978 .
Box 5 Folder 15
Virginia Port Authority, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 16
Virignia Advisory Committee on Aviation, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 17
Wide Loads - 14 foot housing units, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 18
Yorktown Bicentennial Committee, 1978-1979 .
Box 5 Folder 19
Assistant to the Secretary of Transportation - Applicants: Replacement of H. Johnson, 1978-1979 .