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and water. 1987 The United States signs the Montreal Protocol, pledging to phase-out production of chloro-fluoro- carbons (CFC’s) used in refrigerators and air conditioners. 1988 Congress bans ocean dumping of sewage sludge and industrial waste. 1989 The “EXXON Valdez'' oil supertanker spills 11 million gallons of crude oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound. 1990 President Bush signs the Pollution Prevention Act, emphasizing the importance of preventing, not just correcting, environmental damage. 1991 Federal agencies begin using recycled content products. 1992 EPA launches the Energy Star Program, to help consumers identify energy efficient products. 1993 EPA reports secondhand smoke contaminates indoor air, posing serious health risks to nonsmokers. 1994 EPA launches Brownfields Program to clean up abandoned, contaminated sites for productive use. 1995 EPA launches incentive-based acid rain program to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions. 1996 Congress enacts the Food Quality Protection Act to tighten standards for pesticides used to grow food. 1997 President Clinton signs Executive Order to pro tect children from environmental health risks, in cluding childhood asthma and lead poisoning. 1998 EPA's Web site, http://www.epa.gov provides the public with important information on air qual ity, water quality, toxic releases, drinking water safety, and waste for each zip code. 1999 President Clinton announces new emissions standards for cars, sport utility vehicles, minivans and trucks. THE IMMIGRATION HISTORY RESEARCH CENTER by Olha Trytyak, UNWLA Archives Committee Chair The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota conducts research on the history of American immigration. It is a leading repository of the source of material on immigration and ethnicity, containing the records of 24 ethnic groups primarily of European origin. The Center serves scholars within and outside the United States. Its extensive educational program is carried out by means of student exchanges, press releases, newsletters, correspondence with representatives of ethnic communities and institutions, public lectures and many other initiatives. The IHRC's collections include printed, manuscript and audio-visual materials. Its print collection consists of 25,000 books and pamphlets and over 900 newspaper titles. The manuscript holdings consist of some 900 collections which typically include the personal papers of community leaders, journalists, service agencies, publishing companies and many others. The Ukrainian American Collection at the IHRC is considered to be the largest collection of primary and secondary source material in the United States on the Ukrainian American experience. It relates primarily to the period of Ukrainian migration from the end of World War One to the present. Its monograph collection numbers nearly 4,400 volumes and includes autobiographies, community histories, Ukrainian history, literature, art, religion and political archives among many other topics. Among some 650 titles of its serial holdings are all major Ukrainian periodicals, and ca 100 newspaper titles including Ameryka, Narodna Volya, Ukr. Narodne Slovo, and Svoboda, the latter being indexed at the IHRC. Manuscript collections consist of records of various Ukrainian American organizations, such as the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, the Ukrainian Congress Committee, Minnesota Branch, and personal papers of various community and religious leaders, social and political activists and many others. The holdings of the IHRC are available for research use Monday through Friday and Saturday by appointment. For additional information write to Immigration History Research Center, Ukrainian American Collection, 311 Elmer L., Andersen Library, 222 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439. Telephone: 612-625-4800, fax: 612-626-0018. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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