Material on smoke control and air pollution, 1941-1978.

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Material on smoke control and air pollution, 1941-1978.

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Includes: minutes (1947-1954) and organizational charts (1948-1949) of the Allegheny County Smoke Control Advisory Committee; annual reports (1941-1955) of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Smoke Prevention; annual reports (1950-1962) of the Allegheny County Bureau of Air Pollution Control; rules and regulations (1949-1978) of the Allegheny County Health Department in re smoke prevention and pollution control; annual reports of the Allegheny County Smoke Control Advisory Committee; miscellaneous research reports, external studies, and informational reports related to air pollution.

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Pittsburgh (Pa.). Bureau of Smoke Prevention

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Allegheny County (Pa.). Health Dept.

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Allegheny County (Pa.). Smoke Control Advisory Committee.

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Allegheny County (Pa.). Bureau of Air Pollution Control

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In 1941 Pittsburgh instituted its first smoke control ordinance and established the Bureau of Smoke Prevention, under the city's Department of Health, in order to collect data and administer the new law. In 1949, Allegheny County passed its first smoke control ordinance and simultaneously established its own smoke control agency, the Bureau of Air Pollution Control (alternately called the Bureau of Smoke Control). Both the city and the county continued to act separately until the county took ful...