2 years from date of award of a contract. Negotiations pertaining to this contract are in the final stages. Rutile production expansion program.—The Office of Emergency Planning announced in January 1967 that an expansion goal of 70,000 additional short tons per year had been set for domestic production of rutile, the ore from which titanium is refined. Substantially, all of the rutile used for defense purposes in the United States is imported, with Australia being the principal source. Because of the potential emergency transportation problems and increasing requirements, particularly for the high-strength titanium used in jet aircraft, the national stockpile objective was increased on November 17, 1966, to 200,000 short tons from its previous level of 51,000 short tons. At the end of the report period, questionnaires were being distributed to producers of rutile to study the prospects for developing new ore bodies. Several inquiries have been received, but no detailed proposals. In connection with the rutile expansion program, the Department of the Interior is undertaking research covering domestic titanium-bearing ores. Small business In cooperation with the Small Business Administration and the Department of Commerce, PMDS plans its disposals of strategic materials to assure that small business can participate through various techniques including set-asides when deemed appropriate. In fiscal year 1967 such sales amounted to $78,359,027.96 which is approximately 18 percent of the total sales to industry of $436,038,476.65, including those sales to industry which resulted from indirect Government-use requirements. Public buildings service Shelter areas have been selected in 490 buildings having a total shelter capacity of 2,411,184 persons. Supplies for 1,188,307 persons have been stocked in these buildings. The difference in these totals results essentially from identifying the maximum number of usable spaces and the necessity of stocking only to the extent of current available stocking space. Operational disaster control and civil defense organizations have been established at 380 locations. Others are in varied stages of development. GSA has cooperated further with the Office of Civil Defense in the development of a motion picture to stimulate interest in facility participation. The motion picture has been completed and is now being edited. Construction of fallout shelters has been authorized in new buildings in the Independent Offices Appropriations Acts, 1965, 1966, and 1967. Plans for each of these buildings have been developed and shelters included in construction drawings. Improvement of shelters in existing buildings has been limited to a trapped water program with funds provided by OCD. Ninety-two buildings have been surveyed and costs of conversion of water systems for shelter use estimated. Water systems in 10 buildings have been adapted for shelter usage. Part 101-24, emergency preparedness plan for public buildings and space, of the Federal property management regulations was approved November 23, 1966, and forwarded for inclusion in the Code of Emergency Regulations. This states that should an emergency occur, the policies and procedures prescribed in the public buildings service emergency preparedness plan will supplement, and supersede only where at variance with, those prescribed in parts 101-17 through 101–20 of the Federal property management regulations. The PBS emergency preparedness plan is in the final stages of a complete revision, and when completed will be published and distributed with a covering FPMR bulletin to all interested agencies. GSA delivered to the Office of Emergency Planning on magnetic tape specially prepared data, as of December 31, 1966, and June 30, 1967, for emergency planning purposes. This data is prepared at the request of OEP for the use of all Federal agencies. The data is also necessary for GSA emergency planning activities. This data is developed by the GSA computer program "GSA Resource Evaluation Program" (REP), and is designed to provide data quarterly. Since first delivering data in 1965, it has been forwarded semiannually at the request of OEP. GSA is the first agency to have data, designed in the new OEP Ready I format, processed by OEP and distributed to other agencies for use in their emergency planning programs. At the request of OEP, the GSA damage assessment officer participated as an instructor in the single OEP damage assessment training workshop held during the past year. This workshop was at the Defense Supply Agency General 85-568-68- -25 Supply Center at Richmond, Va. The GSA damage assessment officer also conducted a 3-day GSA workshop at the GSA region 6 office in Kansas City, Mo. (April 5-7, 1967). At this latter workshop other Federal agency personnel in the Kansas City area, with damage assessment responsibilities, were in attendance. Similar GSA regional training workshops are being scheduled during the coming months. Transportation and communications service During the reporting period the following actions were completed in connection with the Federal telecommunications system: 1. Additional circuitry has been added in order to increase the degree of survivability during a period of emergency. Such circuitry provides for an alternate transmission path bypassing areas considered to be target areas. Because of budget limitations the additions have not been up to our desired progress in this area. 2. More than 800 additional terminal stations have been added to the advanced record system. The increased acceptance of the system by other agencies, resulting in increased terminal locations, increases the efficiency of day-to-day operations and enhances the survivability of it. 3. TCS is participating in four additional national communications system task groups. These are: (a) Survivability and flexibility of the NCS-CONUS-switched networks. (b) Radiofrequency emergency utilization. (c) Restoration priority system improvement. (d) Development of a concept identifying the arrangements and facilities required to control the NCS in an emergency and to insure continuity of operations. In the transportation program area, TCS is working with the new Department of Transportation in a joint effort to clarify the question of the jurisdictional areas of responsibility for the Government-wide emergency preparedness program. Representatives of the carrier industries, with whom TCS has been negotiating and executing memorandums of understanding for emergency operations, have expressed concern respecting the execution of such agreements with GSA, in light of the creation of the new department. No further action in regard to preparation of emergency regulations and industry agreements will be taken pending the outcome of the GSA-DOT studies. The average number of vehicles by class available from interagency motor pool dispatch as of June 30, 1967, is as follows: INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Hon. WRIGHT PATMAN, INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, Chairman, Joint Committee on Defense Production, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. DEAR CHAIRMAN PATMAN: Reference is made to my letter of July 24, 1967, in connection with your request for a summary of mobilization activities of the Interstate Commerce Commission during the fiscal year 1967 for inclusion in the 17th Annual Report of the Joint Committee on Defense Production to the Congress. I am enclosing our report prepared in the format suggested by you and trust that this document will be helpful in your preparation of the committee's report. Sincerely yours, WILLIAM H. TUCKER, Chairman. SUMMARY OF MOBILIZATION ACTIVITIES, FISCAL YEAR 1967 A. MOBILIZATION PROGRAMS CONDUCTED BY THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION During the fiscal year 1967 the Interstate Commerce Commission continued the emergency preparedness planning activities previously begun, including national emergency programs designed to maximize domestic surface transportation capabilities in the event of a national defense emergency ranging to nuclear attack upon the United States. The Commission prepares national emergency guidance concerning railroad, motor carrier, and inland water carrier industry operations in an emergency; and provides guidance and consultation to the public storage industries and to the States in the development of their preparedness plans. These programs cover such functions as emergency organization, continuity of operation, planning concepts and criteria, capability assessment, facilities protection, reduction of vulnerability, maintenance of operations, and restoration activities. Also included are standby plans for assistance in economic stabilization, financial aids, and damage assessment proposals and procedures related to domestic surface transportation. B. AUTHORITIES The following are the authorities relied upon for the Commission's emergency preparedness programs and mobilization planning activities: 1. The Interstate Commerce Act, as amended. 2. The Defense Production Act, as amended. 3. Executive Orders 10346, 10421, 10480, 10537, 10952, 11005, 11051, and 11179. 4. Defense Mobilization Orders 8400.1 and 8500.1A. 5. Office of Emergency Planning Circulars 6500.1, 7300.1, 8500.4, and 9700.1. 6. Organizational Order DTA-1, as amended. 7. Organization minutes of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 8. The national plan for emergency preparedness. C. SUMMARY OF EACH PROGRAM 1. Emergency standby organizations The Commission, in order to assure a capability to implement its emergency functions, has established three model emergency standby organizations to be staffed by designated Commission personnel and members of the National Defense Executive Reserve. These standby organizations are maintained by the Commission, through its Bureau of Operations as an integral part of its normal functions. (a) Railroads. The railroad emergency organization is planned on a national, regional, State, and local basis. During fiscal year 1967, the rail organization adhered to the Office of Emergency Planning eight geographic regional areas, with regional senior railroad executive reservists and alternates functioning for the regions. Within each region a State senior railroad executive reservist and an alternate have continued to progress the activities in each State, together with the terminal reservists at key railroad complexes in order to provide leadership in emergency railroad operations if the activation of the emergency organization is required. The railroad group of the ICC unit of the National Defense Executive Reserve included 549 members appointed and 148 additional nominees in process as of June 30, 1967. The rail emergency standby organization is over 90 percent staffed. (b) Motor carriers.—To meet the distinct need for a Federal-State cooperative approach in the emergency direction of motor carriage in a national defense emergency, the Commission, with the support of the several States (except Hawaii, which has a separate program to meet its unique geographic requirement) and the District of Columbia, had established 50 emergency motor transport boards. The board in each State is composed of a State representative, an ICC representative, and a motor carrier industry representative. During fiscal year 1967 the Commission followed closely the development and staffing of the emergency transport boards. In the preemergency period the boards promote the adoption of uniform or compatible transport mobilization orders, select desirable assembly and dispersal vehicle areas, and recruit local transport officers to serve in predesignated area subdivisions. In support of the ICC member to each EMTB, the previously appointed four motor carrier executive reservists having expertise in for-hire property carriage, private motor carriage, passenger carriage, and motor vehicle maintenance, respectively, were retained and continued to function. The motor group of the ICC unit of the NDER, as of June 30, 1967, had 208 members appointed and eight nominees in process. (c) Inland water carriers.-The inland waterway emergency organization remained on an eight-region basis, with specified inland water districts, for purposes of emergency reporting and mobilization measures. Field staff members at the regional and district levels render preemergency support to the organization, assist in recruiting for emergency staffing, and stand ready to support the implementation of the program in the event its activation is necessary. The inland water group of the ICC unit of the NDER, as of June 30, 1967, had 43 appointed members and nine nominees. (d) National.-There were 15 national reservists and four nominees as of June 30, 1967. 2. Transport mobilization orders Revised ICC General Orders TM-1 through TM-13, which had been reproduced and distributed to industry, industry associations, emergency planners, and State agencies for their information and guidance, were retained as part of the mobilization working material. These 13 standby self-triggering transport mobilization orders, by their terms, are to become effective upon the proclamation of the existence of a state of civil defense emergency by the President or by concurrent resolution of the Congress. The orders cover each mode of domestic surface transport and include guidance on such items as preference and priority for the transportation of military and civil defense personnel, embargoes covering attacked areas, directions for disposal of undeliverable shipments, control of bulk liquid tank cars and vessels, diversion and rerouting of motortruck shipments, and related measures. 3. Continuity of the agency Arrangements for alternate headquarters sites, in the event relocation is required, were reviewed, and further study was made of space and communications requirements. Prepositioned documents were supplemented with updated material. Additional working aids were added to increase capability to function in an emergency. The previously developed system of alternate regional field offices, in lieu of field relocation sites, was checked to determine their efficacy as field guidance. In the event of denial of access to an established regional office in a national defense emergency, regional direction would come from successive field offices as predetermined. Periodic tests of agency internal alerting procedures were conducted, in conjunction with routine tests of agency defense condition notification by the Office of Civil Defense. 4. Railroad industry guidance The draft of a railroad industry emergency preparedness guidance publication, being jointly developed by the Commission, the Office of Civil Defense, and the Association of American Railroads, is near completion. This publication will be a companion document to the motor carrier and inland water carrier emergency preparedness pamphlets previously published by the Commission and the respective industry associations. These pamphlets give broad planning guidance on such matters as continuity of management, facilities protection, and voluntary measures that can be taken to prepare for a possible national defense emergency. 5. Emergency Planning and Operations Manual The ICC Emergency Planning and Operations Manual provides direction to staff and reservists and constitutes the Commission's nonclassified plan for accomplishing national defense emergency functions assigned by law or Executive order. The manual has been revised to incorporate current planning concepts and current policy determinations of the Office of Emergency Planning. 6. Training and orientation Present Commission training and orientation plans have been directed toward a system of national meetings for regional level rail reservists and staff officials, followed by regional level meetings for State level reservists and officials and State meetings for local level reservists and staff members. These plans are being progressed. Individual Emergency Motor Transport Board meetings were held during the year to review motor preparedness progress and to process replacements required by personnel changes. Inland water reservists were advised of the inland water program reevaluation, and their suggestions and comments were considered in the reorganization of this effort. 7. State planning participation Commission field staff participation in State transportation planning task group activity, under the OEP "Comprehensive Program for the Survival of Government and Management of Resources" was continued during the year, resulting in the formal review of 13 drafted State transportation plans during the year. Approval by OEP of the final plans will provide compatible Federal-State responses to a national defense emergency. 8. Interagency coordination and cooperation The Commission, in developing its emergency preparedness plans and programs, continued its coordinating efforts with the Office of Emergency Planning, in the Executive Office of the President; the Office of Emergency Transportation, in the Department of Transportation; the Office of Civil Defense and the Military Traffic Management and Terminal Service, in the Department of Defense; and other agencies responsible for segments of transportation or having a shipper interest in transportation. Headquarters representation was furnished to interagency committees and groups including the Interagency Emergency Planning Committee, the National Supply-Requirements Study Group, the Interagency Civil Defense Committee, the Interagency Committee on the National Defense Executive Reserve, and others. Field representation was furnished to the eight OEP Regional Preparedness Committees, and to the eight OCD Regional Civil Defense Coordinating Boards. The Commission provided liaison representation to the OEP National Resources Evaluation Center and to the FCC National Industry Advisory Committee (land transportation communications subcommittee) to advise and keep informed on developments concerning domestic surface transportation. |