ducted jointly with the Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and coordinated with Federal departments and agencies assigned emergency responsibilities. The results of Rex-1 should prove most valuable to the total preparedness effort of the Federal Establishment and provide the President with an indication of the status of readiness within the Federal Government.

Another exercise activity in which OEP has been actively engaged is planning for the international NATO-sponsored civil logistics exercise called Civlog-69. OEP has represented U.S. interest at NATO Headquarters and will continue to do so through fiscal year 1968. Extent of U.S. participation in Civlog-69 will be limited to Federal departments and agencies having international responsibilities in the areas of interest to the NATO civil wartime agencies.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ADVISORY GROUPS

Emergency planning responsibilities present many common goals for action by Government, management organizations, and friendly foreign countries. OEP works with governments at all levels, the leaders of national organizations, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to strengthen the capabilities for survival of the Nation and allied countries.

National Activities

Objective

To achieve and maintain productive relationships with individuals and representatives of governments and quasi-governmental business, labor, farm, professional, and other organizations concerned with political, social, and economic affairs to improve the civil emergency preparedness at all levels of government and in the private sector within the United States.

Status

In fiscal year 1967, OEP developed stronger support for civil preparedness with State and local governments and national organizations. Policy statements, resolutions, and reports were developed and adopted by the National Governors' Conference, the National Association of State Civil Defense Directors, the U.S. Civil Defense Council, the American Legion, and the American Ordnance Association.

In addition, liaison was maintained through personal interest and attendance at meetings with the International City Managers' Association, the National Association of Counties, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Council of State Governments, and approximately 25 additional trade organizations interested in civil emergency preparedness programs.

As the President's "Ambassador to the Governors," the Director, during the past fiscal year, strengthened the Federal-State partnership in the planning and administration of grant programs and helped keep open the vital channels of communication between State and Federal executives. The Director, with a team of high ranking Federal officials, visited 40 State capitals to meet with the Governors and State officials. The purpose of these Federal-State conferences was to insure that the Governor and the State take their rightful place as coequals in the Federal process and to establish the Office of the Governor as the focal point for the coordination of all Federal-aid programs.

Civil Defense Advisory Council

The Civil Defense Advisory Council, established by Public Law 81-920, is composed of the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning, who is Chairman, and 12 additional members appointed by the President for 3-year terms.

The purpose of the Council is to consult with the Director of OEP in his capacity as Presidential adviser with respect to general or basic policy matters relating to civil emergency preparedness for the Nation. It is the highest advisory group on nonmilitary preparedness and its recommendations are submitted to the President by the Chairman.

Council members are:

Hon. Farris Bryant, Chairman

Hon. Richard J. Hughes, Governor of New Jersey
Hon. Otto Kerner, Governor of Illinois

Hon. Winthrop Rockefeller, Governor of Arkansas

Hon. John F. Collins, mayor of Boston, Mass.

Hon. Joseph Barr, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Hon. Thomas G. Currigan, mayor of Denver, Colo.

Daniel W. Gray, Anniston, Ala.

Victor Bussie, Baton Rouge, La.

John P. Chase, Boston, Mass.

Francis S. Levien, New York, N.Y.

Mrs. Marceline W. Yohn, Manchester, N.H.

Mrs. Margaret C. Goebel, Grand Rapids, Mich.

A meeting of the Council was held on December 20, 1966. Program Advisory Committee

The Program Advisory Committee is composed of experts and top executives from the academic, industrial, and financial sectors of the Nation with long experience in mobilization matters. As a group they advise and assist the OEP Director in several ways: (1) advise and recommend improvements in OEP plans and programs; (2) represent a source of new ideas and information relating to the impact of new technologies on emergency planning; and (3) provide a channel for bringing the resources outside of Government to bear on the solution of the national security problems with which OEP is concerned on a continuing basis. During the 15 years of its existence, the PAC has been a constructive influence in shaping the mobilization policies and plans of OEP and its predecessor agencies. In fiscal year 1967, the Committee gave valuable help and advice with respect to the Government's response to the impact of current crises such as the Vietnam situation.

International Activities

Objectives

To cooperate with the Department of State in

1. Strengthening the collective nonmilitary defense capabilities of the United States and its NATO allies.

2. Developing with Canada cooperative nonmilitary defense arrangements and machinery essential to the provision of effective mutual assistance in the event of general war.

3. Insuring effective representation and protection of U.S. interests in international civil emergency planning.

4. Providing leadership and coordination of executive branch participation in international civil emergency planning and related preparedness activities.

Status

OEP's international activities are conducted jointly with the Department of State and in consultation with other Departments, mainly Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Interior, and Transportation. These activities derive from U.S. membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and specific Governmentto-Government agreements between the United States and Canada.

The Department of State looks to OEP for leadership and coordination of U.S. participation in international activities designed to strengthen the individual and collective nonmilitary defense capability of member nations of NATO. The major goal is to insure, in the event of general war, the maximum survival of allied populations, the cooperative use of essential resources available to the Alliance, effective support of military operations, and the recovery of member nations.

U.S. initiatives in the North Atlantic Council in the fall of 1966 and at subsequent meetings of the Senior Civil Emergency Planning Committee brought about the resolution of several pending issues of long standing. They also resulted in a further streamlining of the NATO civil emergency planning structure, the establishment of an accelerated program of work for all committees, and substantial progress in plans for civil wartime agencies. Essential operating documentation received from several NATO member nations was prepositioned at the site of one of the NATO civil wartime agencies to be located in the United States.

The Director of the Office of Emergency Planning represented the United States at two plenary sessions of the NATO Senior Civil Emergency Planning Committee. Other OEP staff members, at the request of the Department of State, also represented the United States at meetings of the Senior Committee in permanent session, the Industrial Planning Committee, and the National Exercise Advisors Planning Group. OEP also provided technical advice and assistance to the Department of State in developing the U.S. position of several NATO problems and on international telecommunications matters.

Close liaison and cooperation was maintained between OEP and the Canadian Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) and the Department of Defense Production.

The draft new United States-Canada Agreement on Civil Emergency Cooperation was approved by the Canadian Cabinet. It will be implemented by an exchange of notes between the two countries early in fiscal year 1968.

Acting upon recommendations of the United States-Canada Regional Civil Advisory Committee and a decision of the United States-Canada Civil Emergency Planning Committee, a series of three regional border conferences were held in Canada under joint OEP-OCD-EMO sponsorship. These conferences brought together the regional directors of the sponsoring agencies and State and Provincial civil emergency planning directors for the purpose of exchanging views on problems of common concern and establishing the groundwork for consultation, exchange of information and, as necessary, joint or coordinated planning at the State-Provincial level.

Consultations and preliminary negotiations have been initiated with key Canadian officials in an effort to develop a mutually satisfactory memorandum of understanding regarding United States-Canada coordination in the implementation of their national wartime censorship programs.

Considerable progress was made by the United States-Canada Joint Emergency Resources Planning Committee (JERPC), a subcommittee of the United States-Canada Civil Emergency Planning Committee (Senior Committee). It established working groups to deal with joint planning with respect to three major problem areas: Food resources; fuels and energy (including electric power, oil and gas, and solid fuels); and industrial production and materials resources. The Committee met in Ottawa in June 1967 to review the reports and recommendations of the three working groups. In addition to the U.S. cochairman and Executive Secretary of OEP, representatives from six U.S. departments and agencies with membership on the Committee participated in the meeting. The progress and status of JERPC's work to date and its recommended future work program will be reported to the Senior Committee for consideration at its yearly meeting in September 1967.

In addition, OEP held extensive briefings and conferences for visiting government officials from Canada, Germany, Korea, Lebanon, and Thailand.

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

Hon. WRIGHT PATMAN,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, D.C., September 15, 1967.

Chairman, Joint Committee on Defense Production, Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: In accordance with your request of July 19, there is enclosed a summary of defense activties of this Department for the fiscal year 1967.

The report is designed to cover the subjects suggested in your letter of July 19, 1967.

There have been no changes in the organization of this Department which affect the defense program.

IV. Barter activities under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act.
V. Availability of food and fiber in event of nuclear attack.

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I. DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS PROGRAMS OF USDA

Primary objectives of defense preparedness in USDA are to protect the Nation's food and agricultural resources and to assure their availability_and equitable use in a defense emergency. Within USDA, emergency preparedness and defense operating responsibilities have been assigned to those USDA agencies presently administering similar peacetime programs. Preparedness is

a part of each agency's continuing activity. A cadre of USDA headquarters personnel has been selected to carry out national level defense preparedness and emergency operating assignments. These designees receive defense training from their agencies and have been given relocation instructions.

USDA has established 50 USDA State defense boards, one in Puerto RicoVirgin Islands, about 3,000 USDA county defense boards, and 10 USDA metropolitan area defense boards. Emergency operating authority has been delegated to board chairmen. Board members represent USDA agencies which have major defense field assignments.

Coordination and direction of the defense preparedness program in USDA has been assigned to the Assistant to the Secretary (for Defense Mobilization Planning). He also directs the activities of the USDA emergency program coordinators who provide liaison with OEP-OCD regional offices and give technical assistance to USDA State defense boards. Each emergency program coordinator is assisted by a staff of USDA agency representatives headquartered within his region.

Future preparedness objectives include further training and testing of personnel to strengthen their defense operations capability, and to maintain a state of readiness to cope with any emergency, with special emphasis on nuclear war.

II. DEFENSE PROGRAM AUTHORITIES

Responsibility for defense planning and emergency operations by USDA is contained in major legislation authorizing regular and continuing programs. In addition, defense assignments have been made under the Defense Production Act, the Federal Civil Defense Act, the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, the Reserve Forces Act of 1955, the National Security Act, the Export Control Act, the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act, and Executive Orders 10958 and 10998.

III. SUMMARY OF EACH PROGRAM

A. DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS FOR FOOD RESOURCES

1. Food demand and supply situation

Total civilian food consumption in the 1967 calendar year is increasing at about the same overall rate as during 1966. Military procurement may not increase as much. Exports of food commodities during calendar year 1967 are expected to be below a year earlier. However, indicated food production may rise well above 1966 levels-particularly for crops-and imports likely will hold about stable. As a result, end-of-year stocks of food commodities likely will exceed the relatively low levels at the close of 1966. If so, it will be the first noticeable increase in food stocks since 1960.

2. Food resources data

Machine listings of food facilities are prepositioned with all USDA State and county defense boards. In a defense emergency, USDA county defense boards would report the postattack status of these listed facilities to the USDA State defense board.

During the reporting period USDA purchased computer tapes from Dun & Bradstreet to improve and expand its defense food facility information. Commodity Credit Corporation grain storage listings were supplemented and brought up to date by the State statisticians of the Statistical Reporting Service. USDA State and county defense boards report revisions in existing listings periodically. Food facility listings are also provided the National Resources Analysis Center where a computer would make national summary estimates of the postattack status of these facilities. Plans are underway to improve these listings and participate in NRAC's "READY" program.

Improved methods of calculating radiological protection factors for livestock are under study. A survey to gather data useful in estimating livestock losses from radiation has been recommended.

3. Attack analysis

A survival exercise involving some attack analysis techniques was conducted by USDA county defense boards.

Selected technicians assigned to the USDA headquarters attack analysis staff held an attack analysis exercise at the USDA national relocation site. A study was made of each operation. The results of this test are being incorporated in a standard operating procedure for use in event of an emergency.