Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 06/29/05 to Chairman Principi from State of LA House of Representatives Clerk Alfred Speer enclosing Resolution No. 136 calling on the BRAC Commission to favorably consider the “Federal City Concept” for New Orleans.

Community Input from New Orleans, LA for Area Bases dtd 17 June 2005. Document includes a BRAC Commission Power Point briefing and copies of official correspondence.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Florida Senator Bill Nelson to Chairman Principi regarding the state of Florida BRAC Commission Hearing in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Memorandum of meeting with community representatives regarding the recommendation for Naval Support Activity New Orleans.

Naval Air Station, Joint Reserve Base, New Orleans, Louisiana is located 20 minutes south of downtown New Orleans, and is home to VP-94, VFA-204, VR-54, Louisiana Air National Guard, U.S. Air Force Reserve, U.S. Coast Guard, and the U.S. Customs Service. When the base was redesignated in May 1994 to add "Joint Reseke Base," it broke the paradigm of Naval Air Station.

Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL B. Suggested Talking Points C. Suggested Qs & As D. Sampling of Local Media Coverage Relating to BRAC Naval Ordinance Test Unit at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL E. Suggested Talking Points F. Suggested Qs & As G. Sampling of Local Media Coverage Relating to BRAC Naval Support Activity New Orleans, LA H. Suggested Talking Points I. Suggested Qs & As J. Sampling of Local Media Coverage Relating to BRAC Naval Station Pascagoula, MS K. Suggested Talking Points L. Suggested Qs & As M. Sampling of Local Media Coverage Relating to BRAC

Memorandum of meeting with Naval Support Activity New Orleans, LA representatives.

Commissioner's Base Visit Book for Naval Support Activity New Orleans, LA Closure Recommendations

Memorandum of Meeting with community leaders from Slidell, Louisiana regarding the proposed realignment of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).

Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.

Patent for improved process and apparatus for baling cotton. Improvement relates to a mechanical device by means of which raw cotton is thoroughly compressed into bales suitable for handling.

Patent for a combination-plow that "may be combined with facility to form a variety of plows designed for work of different kinds, the present invention being an improvement upon that shown and described in Patent No. 492,462, granted to [the inventor] February 28, 1893" (lines 10-15).

Patent for improvements in electric belts.

Report examining evacuation procedures using existing forecasting models in the gulf coast states and discusses ways to improve the use of forecasting models by government officials.

Report that provides information on federal financial assistance provided to the Gulf States after major disasters were declared in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in response to the widespread destruction that resulted from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005 and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008. This includes a brief summary of each hurricane and a discussion concerning federal to state cost-shares.

Patent "to furnish for railway-companies a form of excursion-ticket whose return portion or stop-over portion, as the case may be, is not capable of successful use by scalpers" (lines 11-15).

"The purpose of this report is to consolidate data gathered by the Corps of Engineers in various geologic investigations, and to augment this material with pertinent information garnered from the extensive investigations and studies [of the Mississippi River deltaic plain and its associated offshore area]" (p. 1). The report focuses primarily on those materials that are most important from an engineering standpoint.

Foldout poster detailing the physical setting and socioeconomics of the Chenier Plain ecosystem. Discussion of habitats including ridge, upland forest, wetlands, aquatic, agricultural, and urban.

An historical evaluation and documentation of the offshore oil and gas industry and its impact on the economy of Southern Louisiana from its inception in the early decades of the twentieth century.

This report is about the study of subsurface high-speed current jets in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico.

This study is about the history and evolution of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana in an objective and comprehensive way.

This report is about the importance of Zooplankton in the diet of the blue runner.

This report is about how local residents respond to the presence of immigrants, in the ways in which migrants supply their labor and employers demand it, and in how migrants socially and economically incorporate into their receiving communities.