The governors and state defense councils used the Planning Board to collect information and to prepare long range defense studies of basic state resources, including agriculture, transportation, power facilities, water and fuel supply, housing, industrial plants and equipment, labor, raw materials, and sites for new defense establishments. This series contains reports and correspondence concerning the development of these news sites of defense. Several major Army supply and attack bases were shifted to the Salt Lake-Ogden region in the early 1940's. The Planning Board supplied maps and resource data for the desert areas and they also worked with the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense to provide specific information regarding Utah's defense resources.
Series is arranged alphabetically by report.
This series was processed by M. Call in June 1999.