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Digitized from Box 27 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 11, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
EXECUTIVE ORDER
ADJUSTING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS ASSIGNMENTS
TO ORGANIZATIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHANGES
IN FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
By virtue of the authority vested in me as
President of the United States, and pursuant to
Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799),
Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1973 (87 Stat. 1089),
the National Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C.
401 et seq.), the Defense Production Act of 1950, as
amended (50 App. U.S.C. 2061 et seq.), and the Federal
Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended (50 App. U.S.C.
2251 et seq.), Executive Order No. 11490 of October 28,
1969, is hereby amended as follows:
Section 1. The "Table of Contents" is amended as
follows: (a) In Part 6, delete "Post Office Department"
and substitute therefor "United States Postal Service".
(b) After Part 15 insert "15A Environmental
Protection Agency."
(c) After Part 22 insert "22A National Credit
Union Administration."
(d) After Part 28 insert "28A United States
Information Agency."
Sec. 2. The phrase "the Office of Emergency
Preparedness" is deleted wherever it occurs, and in
its place is inserted the phrase "the Federal
Preparedness Agency (GSA)".
Sec. 3. At the end of Section 102(a) add a new
sentence as follows:
"The activities undertaken by the departments
and agencies pursuant to this order, except as
provided in Section 3003, shall be in accordance
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with guidance provided by, and subject to
evaluation by, the Administrator of General
Services who has established within the General
Services Administration a subordinate agency, the
Federal Preparedness Agency, to assume those
functions of the former Office of Emergency
Preparedness transferred to the Administrator of
General Services by Section 3 of Executive Order
No. 11725 of June 27, 1973. 11
Sec. 4. Amend Section 301 (13) to read as follows:
" (13) administration of customs laws, tax
laws, the laws on control of alcohol, alcoholic
beverages, tobacco, and firearms, and Title XI
(Regulation of Explosives) of the Organized Crime
Control Act of 1970 (18 U.S.C. Chapter 40) ;
Sec. 5. (a) In Section 401 (27) delete the
phrase "Management (OEP) and substitute therefor
"Policy (35 FR 6421) "
(b) Add a new Section 401 (28) as follows:
" (28) Develop, under the guidance of the
Department of the Interior, plans and programs
designed to help meet water requirements in an
emergency in watershed areas regulated by the
Corps of Engineers or other Department of
Defense elements. "
(c) Add a new Section 401 (29) as follows:
If (29) Develop plans for emergency assistance
to public water supply utilities, working as neces-
sary through agencies having primary responsibility,
and with State and local governments. II
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(d) Add a new Section 401 (30) as follows:
" (30) In coordination with the Department
of Transportation and other responsible Federal
agencies, and in cooperation with the Tennessee
Valley Authority in matters affecting the
Tennessee River and certain of its tributaries,
and with respect to all other inland waterways,
canals, harbors, and navigation channels within
the United States and possessions and territories,
develop emergency plans and procedures for im-
provement, restoration, rehabilitation, operation
and maintenance of components of Federally authorized
river and harbor projects; locating and removing
obstructions to navigation; accomplishing dredging
to clear and straighten navigation channels;
collecting, compiling, and publishing information
on the physical characteristics and facilities of
ports of the United States and possessions and
territories for the use and benefit of navigation."
Sec. 6. (a) Amend the title of Part 6 to read
"Part 6--United States Postal Service".
(b) In Section 601 (1), delete the phrase "Post
Office activities" and substitute therefor "Postal
Service activities"; and delete the phrase "Post Office
Department" and substitute therefor "United States
Postal Service".
(c) Delete Section 601 (2) (d) and renumber
601 (2) (e) as Section 601 (2) (d) .
Sec. 7. (a) Amend Section 702 (6) to read as
follows:
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"(6) "Water" means all usable waters, from all
sources, within the jurisdiction of the United States,
which can be managed, controlled and allocated to
meet emergency requirements.
(b) Amend Section 703(3) to read as follows:
"(3) Water. Develop overall plans for the
management, control, and allocation of the water
resources of the nation in an emergency. Establish
a system of priorities for the use of water in periods
of emergency. Coordinate the emergency water planning
efforts of those departments and agencies having
specific statutory or delegated water responsibilities.
Coordinate the overall plans with those developed by
the Environmental Protection Agency to provide potable
water for community needs. In developing any plans
relating to water for use on farms and in food
facilities, assure that those plans are in consonance
with plans and programs of the Department of Agriculture.
Provide national leadership and coordination for the
development of Federal emergency plans for the manage-
ment and allocation of water resources in the national
interest during an emergency. Coordinate emergency
water resource planning at the State, interstate, and
local levels through the appropriate Federal depart-
ments and agencies concerned with each area of planning.
Sec. 8. (a) Amend Section 801(4) to read "(4) defense
against hazardous agents (nuclear, biological and chemical)
and effects pertaining to agricultural activities; and".
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(b) Amend Section 803(2) to read as follows:
"(2) Stockpiles. Take all possible measures in
the administration of Commodity Credit Corporation
inventories of food resources to assure the avail-
ability of such inventories when and where needed in
an emergency. The Secretary shall also develop
plans and procedures for the proper utilization of
agricultural items stockpiled for survival purposes.".
(c) Amend Section 804(2) to read as follows:
"(2) Nuclear, biological, and chemical
hazards protection for agriculture. Develop, in
consonance with overall planning of the Environmental
Protection Agency, plans for a national program,
direct Federal activities, and furnish technical
guidance to State and local authorities concerning
(a) diagnosis and strengthening of defensive
barriers and control or eradication of diseases,
pests, or chemicals introduced as agents of
biological or chemical warfare against animals,
crops or products thereof; (b) protective measures,
treatment and handling of livestock, including
poultry or products thereof, which have been
exposed to or affected by radiation; and, (c) use
of crops, agricultural commodities on farms and
ranches, agricultural lands, forest lands, and
water for agricultural purposes, any of which have
been exposed to or affected by radiation. Develop
plans for a national program and direction of
Federal activities to assure the safety and
wholesomeness and to minimize losses from
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hazardous agents (nuclear, biological and chemical)
and other emergency hazards of livestock, meat and
meat products, poultry and poultry products in
establishments under the continuous inspection of
the Department of Agriculture, and agricultural
commodities and products owned by the Commodity
Credit Corporation or by the Department of
Agriculture.
(d) Add a new Section 804 (4) as follows:
" (4) Develop, under guidance of the
Department of the Interior, plans and programs
for water to be used in agricultural production
and food processing in an emergency.
Sec. 9. (a) In Section 901 (1), delete the phrase
"involving the following: " and substitute therefor
"otherwise assigned, including:"
(b) Amend Section 901 (1) (h) to read " (h) Con-
struction, use and management of highways, streets,
and appurtenant structures; and".
(c) Add a new Section 901 (1) (i) as follows:
" (i) Domestic distribution of health resources. "
(d) Amend Section 902 (3) to read as follows:
" (3) Industry evaluation. Identify those
industrial products which are essential, or of
very great importance, to mobilization readiness,
national defense, or postattack survival and
recovery; identify the facilities capable of pro-
ducing the identified products and evaluate the
importance of such facilities to the national
security.'
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(e) Add a new Section 902(6) as follows:
"(6) Water claimancy. Develop a system and
procedures to provide essential industrial water
resource claimancy requirements to the Department
of the Interior in an emergency.
(f) At the end of Section 903(7), add the following
new sentence: "Claimancy for resources shall include
materials, manpower, equipment, supplies, services, and water. "
(g) Add a new Section 906 as follows:
"Sec. 906. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service
functions. Under a redelegation of authority from the
Department of Agriculture to the Department of Commerce,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall
develop overall plans and programs to ensure that the
fishing industry continues to produce essential protein.
This includes responsibility for priority and allocation
functions, acting as claimant agency for critical
materials and additional facilities, labor supply,
production and processing of fishery products, and
the control and protection of fishing vessels.
Sec. 10. (a) Amend Section 1101 to read as follows:
"Section 1101. Resume of Responsibilities.
The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall
prepare national emergency plans and develop prepared-
ness programs covering health services, civilian health
manpower, health resources, welfare services, social
security benefits, and educational programs as defined
below. "
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(b) Amend Section 1102(1) to read as follows:
"(1) "Emergency health services" means
medical and dental care for the civilian
population in all of the specialities and adjunct
therapeutic fields, and the planning, provision,
and operation of first aid stations, hospitals,
and clinics; preventive health services, including
detection, identification, and control of
communicable diseases, their vectors, and other
public health hazards, inspection and control of
purity and safety of food, drugs, and biologicals;
vital statistics services, rehabilitation and related
services for disabled survivors; preventive and
curative care related to human exposure to hazardous
agents (nuclear, biological and chemical): sanitary
aspects of disposal of the dead; and food and milk
sanitation. It shall be understood that health serv-
ices for the purposes of this order do not encompass
the following areas for which the Department of
Agriculture has responsibility: plant and
animal diseases and pest prevention, control,
and eradication; wholesomeness of meat and
meat products, and poultry and poultry products,
in establishments under continuous inspection
service by the Department of Agriculture;
veterinary biologicals, agricultural commodities
and products owned by the Commodity Credit
Corporation or the Department of Agriculture;
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livestock; agricultural commodities stored or
harvestable on farms and ranches; agricultural
lands and water. "
(c) Delete Section 1102(6) and renumber Section
1102(7) as Section 1102(6).
(d) Delete Section 1103(2) and renumber all
following subsections.
(e) Delete Section 1106 and renumber Section 1107
as Section 1106.
Sec. 11. (a) Amend Section 1301(3) to read as
follows:
"(3) Determination of the proper apportion-
ment and allocation for control of the total civil
transportation capacity (service, equipment and
facilities), or any portion thereof, to meet
overall essential civil and military needs;".
(b) Amend Section 1303(1) to read as follows:
"(1) Allocating specifically designated
civil air carrier type aircraft to the Civil
Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) and to the War Air
Service Program (WASP) .".
(c) Amend Section 1303(2) to read as follows:
"(2) Emergency resource management of the
National Aviation System, which is the physical
complex of civil airmen, aircraft (including air
carrier and general aviation aircraft), airports,
airspace, airways and facilities and services,
regulations, plans, standards, procedures and
practices associated with the complex, for
emergency management of the National Airspace
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System, and for control of civil and military air
traffic, except as provided in Part 15 herein. In
the performance of these responsibilities:
"(a) The Secretary of Transportation, assisted
by the Civil Aeronautics Board as appropriate, shall,
with respect to WASP and CRAF aircraft, be responsible
for the functions enumerated in Sections 3001 (excluding
evaluation), 3002, 3003 and 3005. When CRAF is
activated by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary
of Transportation retains the responsibility for the
claimancy function for CRAF aircraft.
"(b) The Secretary of Transportation, assisted
by the Secretary of Defense, shall, with respect
to the CRAF program, specifically when civil air
carrier aircraft allocated thereto are withdrawn
for use in the program, retain responsibility for
claimancy as provided in Section 3001.
(d) Amend Section 1303(3) to read as follows:
"(3) Emergency resource management of all
Federal, State, city, local and other highways,
roads, streets, bridges, tunnels, and
appurtenant structures, and publicly-owned
highway maintenance equipment, including:
"(a) The adaptation, development,
construction, reconstruction and maintenance
of the nation's highway and street systems to
meet emergency requirements; and
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"(b) The regulation of highway traffic in
an emergency through a national program in coopera-
tion with all Federal, State, and local governmental
units concerned to assure efficient and safe utiliza-
tion of available road space. "
Sec. 12. (a) In Section 1502, amend all before sub-
section (1) to read as follows:
"Sec. 1502. Functions. The Civil Aeronautics
Board, under the coordinating authority of the
Secretary of Transportation, shall exercise emergency
resource management of the WASP. Except for those
functions enumerated in Sections 3001 (excluding eval-
uation), 3002, 3003, and 3005, which have been reserved
to the Secretary of Transportation with assistance
from the Civil Aeronautics Board as appropriate. The
Civil Aeronautics Board, in exercising emergency
resource management of the WASP, shall:"
(b) Add a new Section 1502(6) as follows:
"(6) Interagency assistance. Assist the
Secretary of Transportation in planning for those
responsibilities enumerated in Section 1303(2)(a). .". "
Sec. 13. Add a new part after Part 15 as follows:
"Part 15A--Environmental Protection Agency.
"Sec. 1550. Resume of responsibilities.
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency is responsible for diagnosis of quality
problems and hazards in the environment which
would impede the survival and recovery efforts
of the nation and for developing coordinated
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Federal plans and fostering State and local plans
designed to prevent or minimize the long-term
ecological impact of hazardous agents introduced
into the environment in an emergency situation, and
to assist and coordinate with all primary resource
agencies regarding plans to preserve the quality of
a resource needed in an emergency.
"Sec. 1551. Definitions. As used in this part:
"(1) "Potable water" means drinkable water
from all sources required for use in community water
supply systems.
"(2) "Hazardous agents" means nuclear, bio-
logical, and chemical, or other agents introduced
into the environment in an emergency to affect
adversely the health of the population and to impede
resumption of normal operations of a community or
nation.
"Sec. 1552. Functions. The Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency shall:
"(1) Develop, in coordination with the Depart-
ment of the Interior and other responsible Federal
agencies, emergency plans to assure the provision
of potable water supplies to meet community needs;
develop plans and procedures to safeguard water
quality under emergency conditions; and develop
emergency programs and procedures designed to assure
the availability of materials and equipment for
water supply systems.
"(2) Provide guidance on acceptable
emergency levels for hazardous agents, and
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support plans of other Federal agencies that are
responsible for developing plans for the detection,
reporting, assessment, protection against, and
reduction of effects of hazardous agents introduced
into the environment.
"(3) Develop these plans in close coordina-
tion with appropriate primary resource and support
agencies. "
Sec. 14. Delete "10995" in Section 1802 and sub-
stitute therefor "11556".
Sec. 15. Amend Section 1901 to read as follows:
"Section 1901. Functions. The Federal Power
Commission shall assist the Department of the Interior,
in conformity with Part 7, in the preparation of
national emergency plans and the development of
preparedness programs for electric power and natural
gas in accordance with current agreements between the
Secretary of the Interior and the Chairman of the
Federal Power Commission "
Sec. 16. (a) In Section 2001(12) delete the
language after "materials" and substitute therefor:
"in accordance with such guidance as may be
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provided by the National Security Council and, with
respect to the economic and disposal aspects of
stockpiling of strategic and critical materials by
the Council on Economic Policy."
(b) Delete "10995" in Section 2002(3) and sub-
stitute therefor "11556".
Sec. 17. Add a new part after Part 22 as follows:
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"Part 22A--National Credit Union Administration
"Section 2250. Functions. The Administrator
of the National Credit Union Administration shall:
"(1) Credit union operations. Provide
instructions to all State and Federally chartered
credit unions for the development of emergency plans
to be put into effect as soon as possible after an
attack upon the United States in order to guarantee
continuity of credit union operations.
"(2) Economic stabilization. Provide guidance
and funds as necessary to credit unions that will
contribute to stabilization of the nation's economy
by helping to establish and maintain a sound economic
base for continuing operations, combating inflation,
maintaining confidence in public and private financial
institutions, and promoting thrift."
Sec. 18. (a) Amend Section 2301(1) to read as
follows:
"(1) Manpower functions. Assist the
Department of Labor in sustaining readiness for
the mobilization of civilian manpower by:
(a) being prepared for rapid expansion of the
Foundation's current operation as a central
clearinghouse for information covering all
scientific and technical personnel in the
United States and its possessions; and (b)
developing, in consultation with the Department
of Labor, the Selective Service System, and the
Department of Defense, plans and procedures to
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assure the most effective distribution and utili-
zation of the nation's scientific and engineering
manpower in an emergency.".
(b) Amend Section 2301(2) to read as follows:
"(2) Specific functions. (a) Provide leader-
ship in developing, with the assistance of Federal
and State agencies and appropriate non-governmental
organizations, the ability to mobilize scientists,
in consonance with overall civilian manpower
mobilization programs, to perform or assist in
performance of special tasks, including the
identification of and defense against unconven-
tional warfare; (b) advance the national
radiological defense capability by including, in
consultation with appropriate agencies, pertinent
scientific information and radiological defense
techniques in the Foundation's science education
programs for science, mathematics and engineering
teachers; (c) assemble data on the location and
character of major scientific research facilities,
including non-governmental as well as governmental
facilities, and their normal inventories of types
of equipment and instruments which would be useful
in identification and an analysis of hazards to
human life in the aftermath of enemy attack; and
(d) prepare to carry on necessary programs for
research and for training of scientific manpower.
Sec. 19. Add a new part after Part 28 as follows:
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"Part 28A--United States Information Agency
"Section 2850. Functions. (a) The Director
of the United States Information Agency shall pre-
pare national emergency plans and develop prepared-
ness programs for the continuation of essential
emergency foreign information activities. These
plans and programs shall be designed to develop a
state of readiness which will permit continuing
necessary activities under all conditions of
national emergency including attack upon the United
States.
"(b) The Director shall (1) develop plans
for the formulation and execution of foreign
information programs utilizing the Agency's
overseas posts and all media designed to promote
an intelligent understanding abroad of the status
of the emergency within the United States and the
efforts, policies, activities, needs, and aims of
the United States in dealing with the inter-
national situation then existing; (2) develop
emergency plans and programs, and emergency
organizational structures required thereby, as
an integral part of the continuing activities of
the United States Information Agency on the basis
that it will have the responsibility for carrying
on such programs during an emergency; (3) provide
and maintain the capability necessary for
simultaneous direct radio broadcasting in major
languages to all areas of the world, and
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wireless teletype to all United States Embassies;
(4) provide advice to the executive branch on
foreign opinion, and its implications for United
States policies, programs, and official state-
ments; (5) maintain liaison with the information
agencies of friendly nations for the purpose of
relating the United States Government information
programs and facilities to those of such nations;
(6) participate in the development of policy with
regard to the psychological aspects of defense
and develop plans for assisting the appropriate
agencies in the execution of psychological
operations with special attention to overseas
crises short of war; (7) maintain United States
Information Service staffs abroad for the con-
duct of public information for all agencies of
the Government, recognizing that in a theater of
operations the United States Information Agency
would make available to the appropriate Commander
all United States citizen personnel on the staff
of the Agency, who agree to remain, to serve in
support of psychological operations; and (8) lend
appropriate support in psychological warfare to
the military command in the theater or theaters
of active military operations, and provide daily
guidance and basic informational materials.
"(c) The Director shall insure development
of appropriate plans necessary under this Part
and issue emergency instructions required to
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implement all appropriate plans developed under
this Part. ".
Sec. 20. (a) Executive Order No. 11522 of
April 6, 1970, and Executive Order No. 11746 of
November 7, 1973, are hereby superseded.
(b) Section 7 of Executive Order No. 11556
of September 4, 1970, is hereby superseded.
GERALD R. FORD
THE WHITE HOUSE
June 11, 1976