REGULATIONS OF JANUARY 11, 1941

REGULATIONS GOVERNING DEFENSE

HOUSING COORDINATION

Pursuant to the Executive Order of January 11, 1941,1 entitled, "Coordination of National Defense Housing," the following regulations are prescribed in the interest of effective coordination of national defense housing.

1. The definition and use of the terms "defense housing," "Federal housing agency," and "Coordinator" contained in the above mentioned Executive Order of January 11, 1941 shall also apply to these terms as used in these regulations.

2. All defense housing programs or projects requiring certification, approval, allocation of funds, a finding, or other action by the President as prescribed by any of the statutes mentioned in paragraph 1 of the Executive Order of January 11, 1941, mentioned above, or in any statute now or hereafter enacted relating to the provision of housing for persons engaged in national defense activities, shall, prior to presentation to the President, be submitted by the Federal housing agency concerned to the Coordinator for his review and recommendation. The recommendations of the Coordinator shall cover all items to be determined by the President under the legislation pursuant to which such defense housing is being provided and shall further cover the relationship of such housing to the defense housing program of the Government, method of financing, agency to be utilized, character of the project, development, operation, and management plans, and such other considerations relating to the coordination of the defense housing program as may be pertinent. All submittals to the President as required by the above mentioned statutes shall be accompanied by the recommendations of the Coordinator. Any revisions in such defense housing

1 See p. 133 this Supplement.

projects effected subsequent to review and clearance by the Coordinator substantially changing the scope and character of the original project shall be reported to the Coordinator, who shall advise the agency concerned of the effect of such changes upon the coordinated defense housing program.

3. Each Federal housing agency shall promptly furnish to the Coordinator for his review and recommendation the standards which it has established, or which it proposes to establish or revise, for the development, operation, and management of defense housing projects with respect to:

(a) Physical characteristics, including standards of design, construction, site selection, amenities, and community facilities.

(b) Labor standards.

(c) Standards of occupancy, operation, and management including rent levels and policies.

Any Federal housing agency submitting a proposed defense housing project to the Coordinator for his review and recommendation, as set forth in paragraph 2, shall certify that the standards established for such agency have been or will be complied with except as the project proposal may indicate.

4. In order to coordinate site acquisition for defense housing purposes, all proposed site locations under consideration for defense housing projects shall be reported to the Coordinator by the Federal housing agency concerned. The Coordinator shall advise such agency of the relationship of its proposed sites to other actual or proposed defense housing sites in the same locality.

5. Each Federal housing agency shall furnish to the Coordinator copies of such available housing surveys and reports and such other available information and data relating to housing needs and housing markets as he may request; and

shall cooperate with the Coordinator in obtaining and developing additional information necessary to a determination of the amount and character of defense housing needs.

6. Each Federal housing agency shall keep the Coordinator advised reasonably in advance of all proposed housing surveys and investigations relating to housing conditions and the housing market in any locality where the defense program has or is expected to have a significant effect on the need for housing. The Coordinator shall advise each agency of the correlation of its proposed survey and investigation activities with other surveys and analyses completed or in progress in the same locality.

7. Each Federal housing agency shall promptly furnish to the Coordinator, at his request, such reports with respect to its activities and the progress of its program as may be necessary in coordinating and expediting the financing, construction, and operation of public and private housing facilities.

8. The Coordinator shall furnish to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget such information and reports with respect to the planning, development, and progress of the Government's defense housing program, in such form and at such times, as the Director may require. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

transferred or received by the United States:

1. The Executive Officer of the Division of Defense Aid Reports, or his designee from that Division, after consultation with representatives of the Treasury Department and the Bureau of the Budget, shall determine the value of defense articles, defense services and defense information transferred or received by the United States. The Executive Officer is also empowered to obtain any information which he may deem necessary to a proper valuation from any department or agency of the Government.

2. Defense articles transferred or received by the United States under the Act of March 11, 1941, shall be valued by the Executive Officer, subject to the procedure set forth in Section 1, by giving such consideration as he deems necessary and proper to the cost, age, character and condition of the defense articles, the degree of depreciation or obsolescence, the use or uses to which the articles are to be or can be put, and any other criteria which he deems relevant to the proper valuation of such defense articles.

3. Defense services rendered or received by the United States under the Act of March 11, 1941, shall be valued by the Executive Officer, subject to the procedure set forth in Section 1, by giving such consideration as he deems necessary and proper to the character, cost, and utility of such services and to any other criteria which he deems relevant to the proper valuation of such defense services.

4. Defense information transferred or received by the United States under the Act of March 11, 1941, shall be valued by the Executive Officer, subject to the procedure set forth in Section 1, by giving such consideration as he deems necessary and proper to the cost of developing such defense information, the use or uses to which the information is to be or can be put, and any plan, specification, design, prototype or other data conveyed in connection with or as a part of such information, and any other criteria which he deems relevant to the proper valuation of such defense information.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 20, 1941.

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER OF JANU

ARY 7, 1941

FURTHER DEFINING THE STATUS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

WHEREAS Executive Order No. 8248,1 dated September 8, 1939, provides, in part, as follows:

"There shall be within the Executive Office of the President the following principal divisions, namely: (1) The White House Office, (2) the Bureau of the Budget, (3) the National Resources Planning Board, (4) the Liaison Office for Personnel Management, (5) the Office of Government Reports, and (6) in the event of a national emergency, or threat of a national emergency, such office for emergency management as the President shall determine";

AND WHEREAS the Office for Emergency Management was formally established by Administrative Order of May 25, 1940, and it is deemed advisable to modify the said order and further define the duties and functions of the said office;

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Statutes, and in pursuance of Part I of the aforesaid Executive Order of September 8, 1939, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. The Office for Emergency Management shall have the following duties and functions:

(a) To advise and assist the President in the discharge of extraordinary responsibilities imposed upon him by any emergency arising out of war, the threat of war, imminence of war, flood, drought, or other condition threatening the public peace or safety.

13 CFR, 1939 Supp., p. 217. 23 CFR, 1940 Supp., p. 346.

(b) To serve as a division of the Executive Office of the President, with such subdivisions as may be required, through which the President, during any emergency, may coordinate and supervise and, in appropriate cases, direct the activities of agencies, public or private, in relation thereto.

(c) To serve as a channel of communication between such agencies and the President concerning emergency activities, to keep the President currently advised of their progress, to assemble and analyze information concerning additional measures that should be taken, and to assist in the preparation of recommendations for any necessary legislation.

(d) To provide and maintain liaison during any such emergency with other divisions of the Executive Office of the President and with other agencies, public or private, for the purpose of bringing about maximum utilizations and coordination of their services and facilities.

(e) To advise and assist the President upon or before termination of any such emergency with respect to any measures that may be needful to facilitate a restoration of normal administrative relations and to ameliorate the consequences of the emergency.

(f) To perform such other duties and functions with respect to any such emergency as the President may from time to time direct.

2. The work and activities of the following-named agencies, and such other agencies as the President may from time to time designate, shall be coordinated in and through the Office for Emergency Management under the direction and supervision of the President:

(a) The Council of National Defense, the Advisory Commission to the Council

of National Defense and all subordinate bodies and agents of the Council and Commission.

(b) Defense Communications Board. (c) Office of Production Management (to be created immediately hereafter 1). 3. Provision may be made in the Office for Emergency Management for liaison facilities and for the maintenance of routine office services required in the conduct of the work and activities of the agencies 1 See E.O. No. 8629, p. 130 this Supplement.

coordinated through or established in the Office for Emergency Management.

4. Any provisions of the Administrative Order of May 25, 1940 establishing the Office for Emergency Management inconsistent with this order are hereby superseded by this order.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 7, 1941.

PETROLEUM COORDINATOR FOR

NATIONAL DEFENSE

THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, May 28, 1941.

The Honorable, The Secretary of the
Interior,

MY DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Recent significant developments indicate the need of coordinating existing Federal authority over oil and gas and insuring that the supply of petroleum and its products will be accommodated to the needs of the Nation and the national defense program. Government functions relating to petroleum problems are now divided among numerous officers and agencies of the Federal Government and the principal oil-producing States. The various phases of operation in the petroleum industry itself are numerous and complex. One of the essential requirements of the national defense program, which must be made the basis of our petroleum defense policy in the unlimited national emergency declared on May 27, 1941, is the development and utilization with maximum efficiency of our petroleum resources and our facilities, present and future, for making petroleum and petroleum products available, adequately and continuously, in the proper forms, at the proper places, and at reasonable prices to meet military and civilian needs.

Some of the problems with which we are now confronted and which require immediate action are: The proper development, production, and utilization of those reserves of crude oils and natural gas that are of strategic importance both in quality and location; elimination or reduction of cross hauling of petroleum and its products and the development of transportation facilities and of methods by which more efficient use can be made of existing transportation and storage facilities; balancing refining operations to secure the maximum yields of specific products with full consideration

for requirements, the most economical use of the raw materials, and efficiency of production and distribution; and the elimination of the drilling of unnecessary wells in proven fields and of other unnecessary activities and equipment.

In order to provide the desired coordination, I am hereby designating you as Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense. In that capacity it will be your function and responsibility as my representative:

1. To obtain currently from the States and their agencies, from the petroleum and allied industries, from the officers and agencies of your Department, and from other appropriate Federal departments and agencies information as to (a) the military and civilian needs for petroleum and petroleum products, (b) the factors affecting the continuous, ready availability of petroleum and petroleum products for those needs, and (c) any action proposed which will affect such availability of petroleum and petroleum products.

2. To make specific recommendations to any appropriate department, officer, corporation or other agency of the Federal Government particularly the Office of Production Management and the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, to the appropriate agency representing any State or any combination of States, and to any appropriate industry or part thereof, as to action which is necessary or desirabie, on the basis of your determinations, to insure the maintenance of a ready and adequate supply of petroleum and petroleum products.

In carrying out these responsibilities, it is expected that you will consult with the several officers and agencies of the Federal Government, and with the States acting severally or in any joint capacity, to the end that all governmental participation shall consistently further the purposes above outlined. It is also expected that you will consult with the petroleum