Research

Scope and Content Note

Assemblyman Hinchey was chairman of the Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation; this series documents the budgeting process of the Department of Environmental Conservation. Records include material related to budget hearings held by the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee; assembly records of proceedings copies of budget bills; handwritten notes; material relative to the Environmental Regulatory Fund; projected costs of programs; statistical tabulations; expected revenues; correspondence with department officials; memoranda to and from staff and other assembly members; and other material relative to the budgeting process.