Mr. PEPITONE. When you go to the local board you realize you are going to fill out your registration card and you are going to get a draftstatus card for yourself and at that time you know easily, I am certain, that nothing is going to happen to you until the lottery and for 1 year. It is at the end of that 1 year that you are interested in what is going to happen. When you get your lottery number and it happens to be a low one, it's at that point in time we are going to mail it as a Government service.

Mr. TIERNAN. How much is it going to cost you to mail that?

Mr. PEPITONE. We are talking about perhaps one-fourth of a total range. There will be 500,000 copies of this document.

Mr. TIERNAN. How much?

Mr. PEPITONE. I would have to give you a number for the record. I don't know.

Mr. TIERNAN. I want that information supplied for the record. (The information follows:)

The program to mail the brochures to registrants below the APN does not represent an additional cost to our informational programs. The booklets are part of the 9 million brochures we discussed earlier, and there is no substantial mailing cost, because we plan to send them with the registrant's status card when he is classified out of 1-A.

Mr. FELSENSTEIN. Sir, there is the additional consideration that not everybody does register at a local board.

Mr. TIERNAN. It doesn't say that in your statement. It says "sent to new registrants." I assume what you are saying in the statement is what you mean.

Mr. FELSENSTEIN. A young man who registers with a high school guidance counselor will be registering with somebody who will not have supplies of the backup documents. We don't know that that high school guidance counselor will have sufficient supplies.

RADIO AND TELEVISION ADS

Mr. TIERNAN. The next paragraph you have concerns radio and television news spots. Is this going to be free or is this going to be paid by the Government?

Mr. PEPITONE. I suspect it will be part of the public service advertising, as you know, which is free, and is part of the Department of Defense advertising budget. We have asked them if they would include material for us as well, just a reminder to the young man that he has to register.

Mr. TIERNAN. Hasn't it been indicated that it's necessary that there be continued pressure put on the young people to register for the draft to help us to obtain the numbers that we need for the volunteer Army? Mr. PEPITONE. Not to my knowledge.

Mr. TIERNAN. That has not been discussed with the Defense Department by Selective Service authorities?

Mr. PEPITONE. No, sir. As a matter of fact, I do business with them on a constant basis. They are interested in a free opportunity to assess their ability to go into the all-volunteer force. One of the reasons I suspect they are willing to cut off 5 months early was to see if it was really going to work, as we all hope it will work.

Mr. TIERNAN. Isn't it true that the Defense Department is concerned about whether or not the fact that an 18-year-old has to register for the draft might have some effect on those who would volunteer for the service?

Mr. PEPITONE. I don't really think so, Congressman.

Let me say something else about that. I made a proposal to the Department of Defense that I thought my requirements in the administration of section 4 of the law would cause us to continue preinduction physical examinations. The Department of Defense asked me not to do preinduction physical examinations. That ought to be a fair indication that they are not interested in having people exposed to a military situation as a means of increasing their enlistments.

Mr. TIERNAN. Would you detail for me in the record what the costs are and how you are going to handle this program of radio and TV and newspaper response?

Mr. PEPITONE. Yes. I would be happy to do that.

(The information follows:)

There will be no costs involved to the Government in the radio and TV public service ad campaign planned for Selective Service. These ads are placed with major networks and local affiliates through the endorsement of the National Advertising Council and aired at no cost to the Government by each station as a public service. The same policy is in effect for newspaper ads.

Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Chappell?

Mr. CHAPPELL. I have no questions. I simply want to associate myself with the remarks made by Mr. Talcott. I think the gentleman and his staff have done an outstanding job and I want to commend them on their fair and efficient interest approach to the problem.

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Mr. BOLAND. We will turn to the budget justifications and insert the summary tables and pages 1 through 7, 10 through 36, and 38 through 46 in the record at this point.

(The material follows:)

Selective Service System

Program and Performance

The Selective Service System must be prepared to furnish the men necessary to maintain the Armed Forces at authorized strength to the extent that this cannot be done by voluntary means. This is accomplished by means

of inductions, the magnitude of which is determined by the Department of Defense. Since January 1, 1970, the order of registrants to be selected for induction has been determined by lottery drawings which assign random sequence numbers. Since March 1972, under the authority of the 1971 mendments to the Military Selective Service Act, the random sequence mmbers have been used in a Uniform National Call method. Section 10 (h) of the Act requires that the System maintain a readiness, notwithstanding the expiration of the induction authority, to satisfy possible emergency mobilization requirements by registering and classifying young men. The classification process includes the determination of physical acceptability prior to induction.

1. Service to registrants.

--This activity includes registering,

classifying, selecting, inducting, and providing service to registrants including information. Over 35,000 uncompensated citizens, including the

members of local boards, advisors to registrants, and Youth Advisory Committees, help provide service to registrants.

2. Examination services. --As the draft call varies, so do the costs of selectee travel to preinduction examinations. Preinduction travel costs are based on fulfillment of the requirements of section 4(a).

3. General and administrative. --Fiscal, personnel, and other administrative support is provided to carry out the program of the System.

4. Executive direction. --This activity includes top policy-making officials, heads of major divisions at National Headquarters, and State Directors.

5. Special programs. --For fiscal year 1974, this activity consists of the Selective Service Reserve.

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