3. Efforts to develop acceptable postnuclear attack policies and programs designed to produce necessary revenues to finance the agreed-upon policy of warloss sharing. The Office of Tax Analysis within the Department of the Treasury has completed a preliminary draft of the study of postattack financial requirements, including a number of alternative methods by which necessary revenues might be raised. PART IV. COORDINATING AND MONITORING OF FEDERAL AGENCY EMERGENCY ASSIGNMENTS OEP advises and assists the President in the central planning, coordination, and monitoring of progress in all fields of civil emergency planning. PREPAREDNESS ASSIGNMENTS TO EXISTING FEDERAL AGENCIES To provide for the development of Federal readiness with respect to all conditions of national emergency through assignments of responsibility to Federal departments and agencies for the development of the necessary perparedness plans and programs within their areas of concern. Status To capitalize in the inherent peacetime capabilities of the Federal departments and agencies to utilize their existing competence to the fullest in developing emergency plans and programs, 34 agencies, including the Office of Emergency Planning, have been given emergency assignments by Executive order or statute. Table 8 (p. 151) shows the emergency assignments, including primary and support responsibilities, of each department or agency. In addition, an Executive order is being prepared to establish emergency assignments for the Department of Transportation. Several other Executive orders covering special emergency responsibility areas are still under consideration. Revisions of some existing Executive orders are also planned to reflect changes due to reassignments within the executive branch; for example, the Executive order to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Specific Executive order assignments under development include the following: Transportation The creation of the Department of Transportation requires issuance of an order assigning primary emergency preparedness functions to the new Department as well as modification to orders assigning transportation planning functions to such agencies as the Department of Commerce, Federal Aviation Administration, Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Civil Aeronautics Board. The order is now being formulated. Housing and Urban Development The establishment of the Department of Housing and Urban Development outdates Executive Order 11004 which assigned emergency preparedness functions to the Housing and Home Finance Agency. A new order, which would rescind the HHFA order and include the added responsibilities of the new Department, has been drafted and transmitted to the Bureau of the Budget for final clearance. Education Sections of the Executive Order 11001 assigning preparedness functions to DHEW have been revised to authorize planning to revive education in the postattack period and to assign planning responsibilities for assistance to educational institutions in adjusting to Government emergency programs. This revision has been developed as a new Executive order and submitted to the Bureau of the Budget for final processing. Physical Security of Industrial Facilities Executive Order 10421, issued in 1952 and giving prime responsibility for the Security of Industrial Facilities to the Chairman of the National Security Resources Board, has been revised and submitted to BOB for final clearance. Water Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1966 transferred the primary responsibility for water pollution control to the Department of the Interior. To reflect this shift, revisions to Executive Order 10997, assigning emergency preparedness functions to the Secretary of the Interior, and Executive Order 11001, assigning functions to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, are under development. For the period of this report, the Office of Emergency Planning had primary responsibility for communi cations. stabilization, economic warfare, emergency information, censorship, reconstruction, and reSources evaluation. ** State and local governments have primary responsibility for maintaining law and order. Legend: P-Primary responsibility. S-Support responsibility 85-568-68-11 Commerce The Executive order assigning emergency functions to the Secretary of Commerce requires revision principally to eliminate transportation responsibilities. This revision is under way. PREPAREDNESS FOR EMERGENCY FUNCTIONS Objectives 1. To develop and maintain plans for a standby National Censorship Agency ready for operations, to censor international communications in wartime. 2. To develop and maintain plans for an emergency information program, including the emergency broadcasting system, designed to permit the President and other national officials to communicate with the American people immediately in time of extreme emergency. Censorship Agency Status The Standby National Censorship Agency and supporting plans are substantially operational. A protected emergency operating facility for national censorship headquarters operations in time of war has been completed and, in its main aspects, is operational. Training is programed monthly; plans are reviewed and updated periodically; and the emergency facility and communications undergo monthly tests to insure their optimum readiness. Standby agreements have been completed with Post Office, Treasury and other agencies. These agreements are subject to continuing review and updating to insure adequate support of program objectives. Emergency Information Program The necessary facilities for the operation of the emergency information program have been completed. The emergency broadcast system plan has been revised through the combined efforts of the major networks, FCC, OCD, and OEP to make it a more efficient instrument. The system is operational and is being tested monthly from various points in and outside Washington. The system provides Presidential capability to communicate with the Nation at large within 5 minutes from any one of 63 points throughout the country over a net of more than 2,500 stations. Approximately one-fourth of the broadcasting stations have been protected against radiological fallout with Federal assistance. Many others have been similarly protected at the owners' expense. COORDINATING FEDERAL ASSIGNMENTS To provide the mechanism for coordinating emergency plans and preparedn'ess measures of Federal departments and agencies. This is done to: 1. Achieve an adequate level of preparedness in each agency to cope with emergency conditions. 2. Attain balance in capability between programs which are necessarily interdependent. 3. Accomplish adjustments in program emphasis to keep Federal agencies and the States attuned to changing national security requirements. Status Interagency Emergency Planning Committee The Interagency Emergency Planning Committee (IEPC), chaired by OEP and with membership from the 33 other agencies having emergency preparedness assignments as well as regular observers from various components of the Executive Office, is now in its fifth year of operation. The IEPC is the only standing committee that regularly brings together representatives of all the agencies having emergency preparedness responsibilities. Serving as a principal mechanism for coordinating the programs of the several agencies, the IEPC is a valuable forum for discussion of ideas and the expeditious clearance of plans and documents. During the past fiscal year the committee has met 10 times to consider a variety of subjects such as: care of dependents of emergency relocatees, current manpower problems, Federal agency funding for emergency planning, stockpile objectives for nuclear war, and national readiness exercises. Reports have been made on such subjects as the resource mobilization plan for limited war, emergency preparedness activities in regional offices, Federal-State telecommunications cooperation, effects of the Vietnam war on agriculture, and the petroleum situation. Briefings and discussions were held on OEP's economic impact studies, Hazard-65 and its uses, emergency preparedness of records, and the Federal-State conferences conducted by the Director of OEP at the request of the President. Regional Preparedness Committees The eight regional offices of OEP have as their major function the coordination of the emergency preparedness activities of the Federal field establishment with each other and with the States. To facilitate this coordination, heads of the Federal departments and agencies have designated their senior representative in the OEP region to sit as their representative on the OEP Regional Preparedness Committee. There follows, characterized by specific resource areas, statements which characterize policy direction and coordination activities undertaken by OEP on its own behalf or with the delegate agencies. TELECOMMUNICATIONS To develop within the Federal Government, and between the Federal Government and State and local governments, a national telecommunications management system and capability for administering the national telecommunications resource under all emergency conditions. Status Planning for the mobilization of the Nation's telecommunications resource in time of national emergency is an OEP responsibility under Executive Order 11051. Presidential authority to assign radio frequencies to Federal radio stations in peacetime and in an emergency pursuant to Executive Orders 10995 and 10705 are vested in the Director of Telecommunications Management under redelegation by the Director, OEP. The Director of Telecommunications Management also holds the position of Special Assistant to the President for Telecommunications in accordance with a Presidential memorandum, dated August 21, 1963, concerning the establishment of a National Communications System. The preparation of certain national emergency telecommunications plans and the development of preparedness programs for non-Government telecommunications are responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission, subject to the policy guidance of the Director, OEP under the terms of Executive Order 11092. A major telecommunications project during fiscal year 1967 was the develop ment and promulgation by the Director of Telecommunications Management of a telecommunications mobilization order-"A Priority System for the Use and Restoration of Leased Intercity Private Line Services." This system was effective for use throughout the Nation on July 15, 1967. The new telecommunications mobilization order cancels paragraph 3 and attachment C to annex 3 of DMO 3000.1 (28 F.R. 12273, Nov. 20, 1963); and Director of Telecommunications Management notice dated Feb. 18, 1966 (31 F.R. 3204, Feb. 26, 1966). Federal-State Telecommunications Advisory Committee The Director, OEP, has established a Federal-State Telecommunications Advisory Committee in order to provide a forum where telecommunication activities of mutual interest to Federal and State Governments may be referred for advice and assistance. The need of the committee is a direct outgrowth of the many new and complex communication requirements brought about by the increasing enactment of Federal assistance legislation. The impact of such legislation is creating a desire within the States for allpurpose statewide systems to meet the modern needs of governments-Federal, State, and local. The development of such systems is innovative to the States and has brought about Federal and State telecommunication problems having financial, legislative, operational, and administrative implications of considerable magnitude. The committee is chaired by the Director of Telecommunications Management. The Vice Chairman is the Defense Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Eleven other Federal departments and agencies are represented on the committee, and nine States have nominated committee members. The committee has held two meetings and is developing a program of study leading to the formulation of policies which can be mutually accepted by Federal and State Governments. June 5 Power Blackout-Communications During the June 5, 1967, Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland power crisis, no significant telecommunications difficulties were experienced. Although the National Communications System experienced some outages, vital communications circuitry was not seriously affected. International circuits were unaffected. Communications service was available to the general public at all times because of the use of emergency power provided by the communications industry. HEALTH Objective To develop and maintain a capability to support the highest feasible level of health services necessary to meet the requirements of a national emergency, including the capability to care for casualties, relieve suffering, and maintain the health of the population at maximum productive level. Status OEP continued to monitor the progress of the Public Health Service in implementing the reoriented objectives to the emergency medical stockpile program which were referred to in the 16th annual report to the Committee on Defense Production. Effective Federal direction has been asserted over the program. Medical Stockpile Program Analysis continues of the requirements for components of the 6-month postattack central depot supply of certain critical medical items. This analysis involves a complete and current review of the probable capability of industry to respond to postattack production and distribution needs as a basis for deriving 6-month-stockpile objectives. Due to the scope of the study, it is doubtful that it will be completed in time to permit procurement and stockage of material in fiscal year 1968. The Interagency Task Force on Emergency Health Preparedness, which was established in August 1965 to review and recommend improvements in the civilian medical stockpile program, having substantially fulfilled its assigned function, was disbanded in April 1967. The task force was chaired by OEP, with members representing the Bureau of the Budget; Office of Science and Technology; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and the Office of Civil Defense. The modifications of policy and program direction outlined in the July 1966 report of the task force on the emergency health preparedness program are now in the operational stage. The Public Health Service is successfully implementing the revised program, including prepositioning of the packaged disaster hospitals. Packaged Disaster Hospitals In fiscal year 1967, contracts were signed between the Public Health Service and 180 community hospitals for affiliation with packaged disaster hospitals, or for rotation of a 30-day community hospital backup inventory of critical medical items. A fiscal year 1968 target of approximately 450 200-bed packaged disaster hospital affiliations and approximately 700 200-bed community hospital 30-day backup supply agreements were projected. According to information provided by the Public Health Service, recently revised vulnerability studies have provided data which justify the programing |