Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455108 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Katharine D. Kane, Boston; committee on urban affairs Selected signatures:Massachusetts Committee on Discrimination in HousingKatharine D. KaneMartin A. Linsky Actions taken on dates: 1968-01-03,1968-01-04,1968-03-27 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 3, 1968 and referred to the committee on urban affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 4, 1968 and concurred and received in the House on March 27, 1968 and recommitted Total signatures: 7 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, received, recommitted Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female signatures: 1 Unidentified signatures: 5 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Massachusetts Committee on Discrimination in Housing, Massachusetts Chapter Americans for Democratic Action, Massachusetts Federation for Fair Housing and Equal Rights, American Friends Service Committee, United Church of Christ, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: amendment of the housing authority law, includes addresses, towns next to names including Boston, West Concord, Roxbury, Norfolk county Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1968, c.249, passed May 8, 1968 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.

These reports, plans, and drawings review the achievements of Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) and its partners to plan and design a network of interconnected ground-source heat pump systems, or geothermal network, in an area encompassing multiple environmental justice (EJ) neighborhoods in the City of Framingham, MA. The materials provided in this dataset include, a) stakeholder and design best practices, b) study on optimal method to interconnect geothermal loops, c) guidelines for monitoring and metering, d) operations and maintenance plans, e) permitting guidelines and f) 10-day driller tutorial curriculum. These materials can guide the efficient and ethical design of future geothermal networks nationwide. The capacity of the system is estimated at 217 tons and is designed to provide 100% of heating and cooling needs for the buildings connected to the loop. In this project, 80 boreholes are used as the main thermal resources, the distribution system (or loop) consists of 0.61 miles of an 8-inch single-pipe at ambient temperature, with the capacity to connect 44 buildings, including 13 apartment buildings from the Framingham Housing Authority, one transitional home, one school building and 29 single family homes. While Framingham already has a geothermal network loop that is currently in the commissioning stage, our proposed project is unique because it is the first utility-led expansion loop (2nd loop) project that will connect to an adjacent existing geothermal loop (1st loop) in a pre-existing neighborhood. Both the 1st and 2nd loops are being installed, owned and operated by Eversource Energy, the utility Deployment Partner.