Independent Agencies, 1969-1975

This subseries contains files related to various administrations, commissions, and independent agencies of the United States federal government that Hogan worked with or was concerned with during his time as Representative for Maryland’s 5th District in the House of Representatives (1969-1975). In addition, there are files related to the United Nations. Many of these documents are correspondence with constituents regarding their concerns and issues related to these various agencies.

Administrations include: the General Services Administration (GSA); the Federal Energy Administration (FEA) (formerly the Federal Energy Office); the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); the Small Business Administration (SBA); and the Veterans’ Administration.

Commissions include: the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC); the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC; dissolved into the Department of Energy in 1975); the Civil Service Commission (dissolved into the Office of Personnel Management and Merit Systems Protection Board in 1978); the Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling; the District of Columbia Commission; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC); the Federal Power Commission (former name of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission); the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC; abolished in 1995); the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Independent Agencies include: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Federal Reserve Board); the General Accounting Office (GAO; former name of the U. S. Government Accountability Office); the Government Printing Office (GPO; former name of the Government Publishing Office); the National Endowment on the Arts and Humanities; the National Science Foundation (NSF); the Selective Service System (SSS); the Smithsonian Institution; the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA); the United Planning Organization (UPO); the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the United States Postal Service (USPS); and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). There are several folders related to the development of the Piscataway Wastewater Treatment Plant built along the Potomac River in Maryland and began in 1967 by the WMATA.

Materials include articles, correspondence, memorandums, newspaper clippings, publications, reports, speeches, and testimonies.