A Guide to the Director's correspondence and subject files of the Virginia Dept. of Mines, Minerals and Energy, 1978-2018
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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 54495
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Preferred Citation
Director's correspondence and subject files of the Virginia Dept. of Mines, Minerals and Energy, 1978-2018. Accession 54495, State government records collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va.
Acquisition Information
Accession 54495 was transferred by the Virginia Dept. of Energy, 8 May 2025.
Processing Information
This collection has been processed using minimal processing standards: the original arrangement has been maintained, the container list is brief and simple, and the records have not been refoldered and fasteners have not been removed.
Biographical/Historical Information
In 1983 a series of mine accidents helped to trigger the consolidation of mining and mineral activities into the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. The act, which was approved April 7, 1984, brought together the divisions of mineral resources, mines and quarries, mined land reclamation, energy, and included the duties with regard to mine safety previously administered by the Department of Labor and Industry. The mission was to enhance the development and conservation of energy and mineral resources in a safe and environmentally sound manner in order to support a more productive economy in Virginia. The name of the Dept. of Mines, Minerals and Energy was changed to the Dept. of Energy effective October 1, 2021 (HB 1855, Chapter 532, approved April 7, 2021).
Scope and Content
Correspondence and Subject Files, 1978-2018, consist of 7 boxes and are arranged in original order. These records document the planning, administrative activities, functions, major achievements and initiatives, and the implementation of agency programs, and are evidence of actions and policy decisions. Includes Director's correspondence, 1990-2017 (chronological order) and Subject files, 1978-2018. Files may include correspondence, legislation, policies, regulations and reports. Topics may include abandoned mine line reclamtion, alternative fuels, clean energy, coal mining and regulations, drilling, gas, mine safety, mineral mining, oil, renewable energy and the Southmountain Explosion.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into the original order.
Contents List
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 1990-1996 .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2000-2009 .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2010 Jan-Oct .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2010 Nov-Dec .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2011 Jan .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2011 Feb .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2011 Mar .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2011 Apr-May .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2011 July-July .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2011 Aug-Dec .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2012 Jan-Apr .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2012 May-Dec .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2013 .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2014 Jan-Apr .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2014 May-Dec .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2015 .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2016 .
- Box 1
Director's correspondence, 2018 .
- Box 2
Administrative Process Act, 1985-1987 .
- Box 2
Economic Development - Southwest Virginia, 1986-1996 .
- Box 2
Emergency Management, 2002-2005 .
- Box 2
Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC), 1992-2008 .
- Box 2
Statewide Shared Land Mobile Radio System, 1992-2006 .
- Box 2
Alternative Fuels - Electrice vehicles, 1993-2009 .
- Box 2
Alternative Fuels - Biofuels, 2006-2008 .
- Box 2
Alternative Fuels - Compressed natural gas, 2007-2009 .
- Box 2
Alternative Fuels - Ethanol, 1992-2009 .
- Box 2
Alternative Fuels - Hydrogen, 2002-2009 .
- Box 2
Alternative Fuels - Miscellaneous, 2006-2010 .
- Box 2
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 2009 .
- Box 2
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 2010-2013 .
- Box 2
Clean Energy - Global Warming - Climate Change, 2006-2009 .
- Box 2
Cook v. Prins Autogassystem, 2011 .
- Box 2
Electric restructuring, 1999-2009 .
- Box 2
Electric transmission lines, 2007-2009 .
- Box 2
Energy conservation / efficiency, 1989-2009 .
- Box 2
Energy Division, 1989-2010 .
- Box 2
Energy financial incentives / Grants / Rebates, 2006-2009 .
- Box 2
Energy proposals - Letters of support, 1987-2009 .
- Box 2
Green Energy jobs - Training, 2009-2010 .
- Box 3
Nuclear Energy, 2001-2009 .
- Box 3
Power Plants, 2001-2009 .
- Box 3
Renewable Energy - Algae, 2008-2009 .
- Box 3
Renewable Energy - Biomass, 2007-2009 .
- Box 3
Renewable Energy - Miscellaneous, 1994-2007 June .
- Box 3
Renwable Energy - Miscellaneous, 2007 Sept-2009 .
- Box 3
Renewable Energy - Solar, 1987-2007 .
- Box 3
Renewable Energy - Solar, 2008-2009 .
- Box 3
Renewable Energy - Wind, 1999-2010 .
- Box 3
Southern Governors Association, 191-1992 .
- Box 3
Virginia Energy Operational Review, 2010 .
- Box 3
Virginia Energy Policy, 1990-2008 .
- Box 3
Virginia Fuel Conversion Authority, 1981-1988 .
- Box 3
Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund, 2011-2014 .
- Box 3
Gas and Oil Program, 1985-2016 .
- Box 3
Gas and oil drilling - OCS Leasing Program, 1988-2015 .
- Box 3
Gas and oil drilling - Offshore, 2005-2008 Aug .
- Box 3
Gas and oil drilling - Offshore, 2008 Sept-2010 .
- Box 4
Gas and oil prices, 1990-2009 .
- Box 4
Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, 1990-2018 .
- Box 4
Natural gas pipelines, 2000-2009 .
- Box 4
Virginia Offshore Oil and Gas Readiness Study, 2014-2015 .
- Box 4
General shale mine, 2002-2004 .
- Box 4
Mineral Mining Program, 1990-2009 .
- Box 4
Uranium mining, 2007-2013 .
- Box 4
Virginia Aggregate Association, 1992-1993 .
- Box 4
Mineral Resources Program, 1990-2010 .
- Box 4
George Washington National Forest - Land and Resource Management Plan, 2011-2014 .
- Box 4
Abandoned Mine Land Program, 1980-1986 .
- Box 4
Abandoned Mine Land Program, 1987-1989 .
- Box 4
Abandoned Mine Land Program, 1990-1992 .
- Box 4
Abandoned Mine Land Program, 1993-1998 .
- Box 4
Abandoned Mine Land Program, 1999-2010 .
- Box 5
Blasting Study - National Academy of Science Effects on Adjacent Residences and Structures, 2005 .
- Box 5
Chesapeake Bay Wetland Policy, 1989-1991 .
- Box 5
Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, 2011-2014 .
- Box 5
Coal mining - Complaints / Concerns, 1989-2004 .
- Box 5
Coal mining - Complaints / Concerns, 2005-2010 .
- Box 5
Coal mining - Miscellaneous, 198-2011 .
- Box 5
Coal Regulatory Program - Applicant Violator System, 1988-2000 .
- Box 5
Coal Regulatory Program - Civil penalties, 1982-1992 .
- Box 5
Coal Regulatory Program - Coal preparation plants, 1985 .
- Box 5
Coal Regulatory Program - General, 1978-1988 .
- Box 5
Coal Regulatory Program - General, 1989-1990 .
- Box 5
Coal Regulatory Program - General, 1991-1994 .
- Box 5
Coal Regulatory Program - General, 1995-2011 .
- Box 5
Coal Regulatory Program - Ownership and control, 1985-1994 .
- Box 5
Coal Regulatory Program - Two acres of less history, 1983-1986 .
- Box 5
Explosive Taggants Feasibility Study, 1989 .
- Box 5
Groundwater data management, 1983-1989 .
- Box 5
Hydrogen sulfide gas - Dickenson County Public Service Authority, 2011-2014 .
- Box 5
Inman fatality, 2004 .
- Box 5
Interstate Mining Compact Commission, 1979-2018 .
- Box 5
Ison Rock Ridge Surface Mining permit, 2009-2010 .
- Box 5
Longwall Mining - Subsidence, 1989-1990 .
- Box 6
Mountain top mining / Valley fills, 2000-2009 .
- Box 6
Pool Bond Fund (Coal Surface Mining Reclamation Fund), 1982-1997 .
- Box 6
Severence tax revenues - Coalfield Economic Development Fund, 1989-1999 .
- Box 6
Stream Protection Rule - OSM Proposal, 2010-2016 .
- Box 6
Streams / Wetlands - Nationwide CORPS Permit Program, 1991-1999 .
- Box 6
Underground injection control, 1986-1991 .
- Box 6
McClure #1 mine explosion, 1983 .
- Box 6
Mine rescue teams - Miner Act of 2006, 1997-2009 .
- Box 6
Mine Safety Campaign Kickoff, 1985 .
- Box 6
Mine Safey Law re-write - Side by side analysis, 1987 .
- Box 7
Mine Safety Program, 1983-1988 .
- Box 7
Mine Safety Program, 1989-1994 .
- Box 7
Mine Safety Program, 1995-2010 .
- Box 7
Mine Safety Program - Certification, 1983-1993 .
- Box 7
Mine safety - Elimination of MSHA training grant, 1 .
- Box 7
Southmountain explosion investigation, 1992-1993 Jan .
- Box 7
Southmountain explosion investigation, 1993 Feb-1994 .
- Box 7
Southmountain explostion litigation, 1998-1999 .
- Box 7
Southmountain Explosion Task Force, 1992-1994 .
- Box 7
Substance abuse in Virginia coal mines, 2007-2013 .
- Box 7
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) - Contract dispute, 1989 .
- Box 7
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) - Retirement health benefits, 1991-1992 .
- Box 7
Virginia coal marketing and usage, 1985-2000 .