Expand All Collapse All Extent 147 folders, approximately 17,303 pages Summary This collection consists of Brian Burke's records from his work in the Domestic Policy Council. Specific topics include: Midwest flood plain management; environmental regulations; the U.S. Forest Service; the National Science and Technology Council; air and water quality standards; climate change; re-organization of the Environmental Protection Agency; the Domestic Gas and Oil Initiative; and departmental budget priorities for the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. Scope and Content Note Brian Burke served on President Clinton’s Domestic Policy Council from 1993 through 1997, and also held a variety of other senior leadership positions in the federal government. He came to the White House after serving as a senior lawyer to the Secretary of the Department of Energy, representing the Secretary at the White House and before Congress. Before joining the D.O.E., he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, where he provided counseling, strategic planning, crisis management, and legislative assistance to the Army Corps of Engineers. During his time at the Army Corps of Engineers, he was involved in numerous civil works projects, including riverfront development, river and harbor navigation, flood damage reduction, hydroelectric power resource management, and environmental restoration. Prior to his work with the Army, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service, on natural resource and environmental law. In that position, Mr. Burke oversaw a wide range of public and private land management issues, including oil and gas leasing, timber harvesting, mining, grazing, wildlife management, urban forestry, rural development, and wildland fire fighting. He began his career as a litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he tried cases enforcing the federal environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA"), and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"). Mr. Burke received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1988 and a B.A. from Brown University in 1982. After completing his service in the Clinton White House, Mr. Burke entered private law practice in Washington, D.C. As of 2010, he was a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was the chair of the D.C. Bar Association's Natural Resources Committee The Brian Burke collection includes notes, correspondence, faxes and legislative policy papers on the topics of flood plain management, environmental regulation, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Science and Technology Council, air and water quality standards, climate change, the re-organization of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Domestic Gas and Oil Initiative, and executive department budgets for the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. It also includes copies of numerous civil rights law cases related to environmental laws and regulations. Record Type Textual System of Arrangement Records of this series were found in Clinton Presidential Records: Domestic Policy Council. The folders are arranged alphabetically by topic. Access Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 USC 2201) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 USC 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or part in accordance with legal exemptions. Copyright Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States government as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Researchers are advised to consult the copyright law of the United States (17 USC, 101) which governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Provenance Official records of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency are housed at the Clinton Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA). Processed by Staff Archivist, 2013. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released. Container List The following is a list of folders processed: Box 1 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files Domestic Policy Council Burke, Brian Association of Midwest Floodplain Managers [1] [OA/ID 4791] Association of Midwest Floodplain Managers [2] [OA/ID 4791] Conference Announcement and Preregistration Materials [OA/ID 4430] Corps of Engineers Correspondence [OA/ID 4431] Environmental Committee on the Long-Term Recovery [OA/ID 4430] Federal Emergency Management Agency – Disaster Activities FY 93 [OA/ID 4430] Federal Levee Policy [OA/ID 4430] Federal Spending on the Mid-West Flood Recovery [OA/ID 4791] Final Report of the Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee [OA/ID 4430] Flood Material [OA/ID 4430] Flood Plain Management [folder 1] [OA/ID 4430] Box 2 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) Domestic Policy Council Burke, Brian Flood Plain Management [folder 2] [1] [OA/ID 4430] Flood Plain Management [folder 2] [2] [OA/ID 4430] Flood Plain Management [folder 2] [3] [OA/ID 4430] Flood Task Force Chairpersons Meeting September 1993 [loose] [OA/ID 4430] Midwest Flood – General [OA/ID 4430] Midwest Flood Recovery Year-End Report, December 22, 1993 [OA/ID 4430] Public Policy Issue Paper on Flood Insurance [loose] [OA/ID 4430] Report of the Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee [1] [OA/ID 4791] Box 3 Report of the Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee [2] [OA/ID 4791] Report of the Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee [3] [OA/ID 4791] Wetlands Material – Flood Material [1] [OA/ID 4430] Wetlands Material – Flood Material [2] [OA/ID 4430] Wetlands Material – Flood Material [3] [OA/ID 4430] White House Floodplain Management Task Force Report [OA/ID 4433] American Resources Coalition Report on Takings Bills [OA/ID 4433] Box 4 Ark Monroe – Association of Scrap Metal Recyclers [OA/ID 4791] Center for Risk Management Newsletter Issue 7, Winter 1995 [OA/ID 4433] Chernobyl Proposal [OA/ID 4791] Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Toxics and Waste Strategy [OA/ID 4433] Congressional Testimony of D. Ferris on Environmental Justice [OA/ID 4433] Defining the Urban Storm Runoff Problem [OA/ID 4433] Dioxin Materials [1] [OA/ID 4432] Dioxin Materials [2] [OA/ID 4432] Dioxin Materials [3] [OA/ID 4432] Dioxin materials [4] [OA/ID 4432] Dioxin Materials [5] [OA/ID 4432] Environmental and Natural Resource Accounting [report] [OA/ID 4433] Box 5 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) Domestic Policy Council Burke, Brian Environmental Landscaping [OA/ID 4791] Environmental Protection Agency Enforcement Reorganization [OA/ID 4791] Environmental Protection Agency Memo on Superfund Accelerated Cleanup [OA/ID 4433] Environmental Protection Agency Toxic Substances Draft on Risk Strategy [OA/ID 4433] Environmental Protection Designs Inc. Correspondence [OA/ID 4433] Enviro-Text [Environmental Law Retrieval System] [OA/ID 4791] Executive Order for Recycled Paper Products [1] [OA/ID 4791] Executive Order for Recycled Paper Products [2] [OA/ID 4791] Executive Order for Recycled Paper Products [3] [OA/ID 4791] Executive Order for Recycled Paper Products [4] [OA/ID 4791] Box 6 Executive Order for Recycled Paper Products [5] [OA/ID 4791] Federal Focus, Inc. Report on Environmental Risk Assessment Policy [OA/ID 4433] Hudson Institute Report on Biodiversity and Biotechnology [OA/ID 4433] Massachusetts Water Resource Authority [OA/ID 4791] Missing Links: Technology and Environmental Improvement [OA/ID 4433] National Science and Technology Council National Institute for the Environment [OA/ID 4433] National Wildlife Federation Report: Not Just Prosperity [OA/ID 4433] North American Free Trade Agreement Pleadings and Review of Environmental Issues [1] [OA/ID 4791] North American Free Trade Agreement Pleadings and Review of Environmental Issues [2] [OA/ID 4791] Report of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Contingent Valuation [4433] Box 7 Sea Pride [OA/ID 4430] Superfund Liability Reform Act [OA/ID 4433] [Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste Meeting September 1994] [OA/ID 4433] USDA [Department of Agriculture] Environmental Justice Strategy [OA/ID 4433] World Resources 1994-95 Guide to the Global Environment [OA/ID 4433] [World Wildlife Fund Draft Research Paper on Pesticides] [OA/ID 4433] Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) Domestic Policy Council Burke, Brian World Wildlife Fund, Reassessing Pollution [folder] [OA/ID 4433] Yucca Mountain – Presidential Press Clippings [OA/ID 4432] Yucca Mountain Background Material [OA/ID 4432] America Outdoors [folder 1] [1] [OA/ID 4430] Box 8 America Outdoors [folder 1] [2] [OA/ID 4430] America Outdoors [folder 2] [OA/ID 4430] America’s Defense Monitor: A New Range War [videotape] [OA/ID 4433] Department of the interior News Summary 1994 [OA/ID 4433] Eastside Forest [OA/ID 4791] Standardization of Permitting Policy Among Federal Agencies [OA/ID 4430] The Parks Council Material on the Greening of America [OA/ID 4433] Memorandum on National Space Transportation Policy [OA/ID 4433] National Science and Technology Council Meeting June 1994 [OA/ID 4433] National Space Transportation Policy [OA/ID 4433] Science Policy Statement – Science in the National Interest [OA/ID 4791] Technology for a Sustainable Future: A Framework for Action [OA/ID 4791] American Lung Association [OA/ID 4791] Automotive Fuel Economy, How Far Should We Go? Report by the National Research Council [OA/ID 4433] Box 9 Business Council on Indoor Air [OA/ID 4432] Car Talk Stuff [Auto Industry Briefing Materials] [1] [OA/ID 4432] Car Talk Stuff [Auto Industry Briefing Materials] [2] [OA/ID 4432] Car Talk Stuff [Auto Industry Briefing Materials] [3] [OA/ID 4432] Car Talk Stuff [Auto Industry Briefing Materials] [4] [OA/ID 4432] [Chem-Less Systems Letter on Use of Chlorine] [OA/ID 4433] Fast Food, Growing Children and Passive Smoke, State Attorneys General Report [OA/ID 4433] Ozone NAAQS [National Ambient Air Quality Standard] [folder 1] [1] [OA/ID 4430] Ozone NAAQS [National Ambient Air Quality Standard] [folder 1] [2] [OA/ID 4430] Box 10 Ozone NAAQS [National Ambient Air Quality Standard] [folder 2] [1] [OA/ID 4430] Ozone NAAQS [National Ambient Air Quality Standard] [folder 2] [2] [OA/ID 4430] Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) Domestic Policy Council Burke, Brian Population Action International Report: Stabilizing the Atmosphere [OA/ID 4433] Climate – “Beyond 2000” [OA/ID 6136] Climate – Climate Change Action Plan 10/93 [OA/ID 6136] Climate – Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion [OA/ID 6136] Climate – Global Climate Change [OA/ID 6136] Climate – Joint Implementation: Climate Convention [OA/ID 6136] Climate – U.S. Climate Action Report 9/94 [OA/ID 6136] Climate Change Action Plan [OA/ID 4432] Climate Change Mitigation Group [1] [OA/ID 4432] Box 11 Climate Change Mitigation Group [2] [OA/ID 4432] Climate Change Mitigation Group [3] [OA/ID 4432] Country Studies to Address Climate Change [OA/ID 4433] Directory of Federal Activities Related to Mitigation of or Adaptation to Global Change [OA/ID 4433] Global Climate Coalition Resources Guide for Exporting [OA/ID 4433] National Science Foundation Report on the U.S. Interagency U.V. Monitoring Plan [OA/ID 4433] U.S. Global Change Data and Information System Implementation Plan [OA/ID 4433] Clean Coal Technology for Sustainable Development Report from the National Coal Council [OA/ID 4433] Consumer Electronics Group Opposition to Television Energy Standards [OA/ID 4433] Domestic Gas and Oil Initiative [1] [OA/ID 4791] Box 12 Domestic Gas and Oil Initiative [2] [OA/ID 4791] Domestic Gas and Oil Initiative [3] [OA/ID 4791] Domestic Oil and Gas Initiative [1] [OA/ID 4431] Domestic Oil and Gas Initiative [2] [OA/ID 4431] Domestic Oil and Gas Initiative [3] [OA/ID 4431] Domestic Oil and Gas Initiative [4] [OA/ID 4431] Export of Coal and Coal Technology Report from National Coal Council [OA/ID 4433] LIHEAP [Low Income Home Energy Assistance program] [OA/ID 4791] Box 13 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) Domestic Policy Council Burke, Brian Budget – Asset Acquisition FY 97 [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Common Cent$ Plan [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Crosscutting Issues FY 95 [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Department of Agriculture FY 94 [1] [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Department of Agriculture FY 94 [2] [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Department of Energy FY 96 [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Department of Interior FY 94 [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Department of Interior FY 96 [1] [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Department of Interior FY 96 [2] [OA/ID 6136] Box 14 Budget – Environmental Protection Agency FY 96 [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Office of Management and Budget FY 95 [OA/ID 6136] Budget – Science and Technology FY 96 [OA/ID 6136] Department of Agriculture FY 96 – Office of Management and Budget Review [OA/ID 6136] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Draft Summary and Budget Analysis [OA/ID 4433] Asbestos in New York Schools [OA/ID 4791] Aspen Institute [OA/ID 4791] Civil Rights Cases [1] [OA/ID 4431] Civil Rights Cases [2] [OA/ID 4431] Civil Rights Cases [3] [OA/ID 4431] Box 15 Civil Rights Cases [4] [OA/ID 4431] Civil Rights Cases [5] [OA/ID 4431] Civil Rights Cases [6] [OA/ID 4431] Civil Rights Cases [7] [OA/ID 4431] [Community Enterprise Board] [OA/ID 4433] Economic Talking Points, June and October 1994 [OA/ID 4433] Leading Public Entrepreneurs Report of Ashoka Innovators for the Public [OA/ID 4433] Pathogen Reduction Act of 1994 [OA/ID 4433]