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be contracted for or purchased for a supplemental stockpile with foreign currencies pursuant to the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1704 (b)).

SEC. 404. Imports threatening the national security. (a) The Director, under the authority of, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 2 of the Act of July 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 360; 19 U.S.C. 1352a), shall make appropriate investigations of the effects of imports on the national security and shall advise the President of any case in which the Director is of the opinion that an article is being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security.

(b) The Director, under authority of, and in accordance with the provisions of, Section 3 (d) of Executive Order No. 10582 of December 17, 1954, shall furnish advice to procuring agencies with respect to the rejection of bids or offers to furnish materials of foreign origin on the ground that such rejection is necessary to protect essential national security interests.

SEC. 405. Disaster relief. The Director, under authority of, and in accordance with the provisions of, Executive Order No. 10427 of January 16, 1953, and Executive Order No. 10737 of October 29, 1957, shall exercise authority under the Act of September 30, 1950, entitled "An Act to authorize Federal assistance to States and local governments in major disasters, and for other purposes" (42 U.S.Č. 1855 et seq.).

SEC. 406. Telecommunications. Under authority of, and in accordance with the provisions of, Executive Order No. 10995 of February 16, 1962, the Director shall perform functions in respect of telecommunications.

PART V. GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 501. Rules and regulations. In carrying out his responsibilities under this order, the Director is authorized to issue such rules and regulations, and directives, consonant with law and Executive order, as he deems necessary and appropriate to the functions involved.

SEC. 502. Boards and committees. The Director is hereby authorized to establish in headquarters and in the field such boards and committees as he deems necessary to advise him in the conduct of activities outlined herein.

SEC. 503. Certain additional authorities. (a) There are hereby delegated to the Director all those now-existing functions under the National Security Act of 1947 which were transferred to the President by the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799).

(b) In performing the functions under the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 assigned to him, and subject to applicable provisions of Executive orders, the Director is authorized to exercise the authority conferred by Title IV of that Act. The foregoing provision of this subsection shall not be deemed to derogate from any authority under Title IV heretofore available to the Secretary of Defense.

SEC. 504. Reports. The Director is authorized to require from Federal agencies such statistical data and progress reports at such intervals as he deems necessary to discharge his responsibilities under this order.

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SEC. 505. Prior actions. All orders, regulations, rulings, certificates, directives, and other actions relating to any function affected by this order shall remain in effect except as they are inconsistent herewith or are hereafter amended or revoked under proper authority, and nothing in this order shall affect the validity or force of anything done under previous delegations or other assignments of the functions affected by this order.

SEC. 506. Executive Order 11030. Nothing in this order or in any order amended by this order shall derogate from the provisions of Executive Order No. 11030 of June 19, 1962.

SEC. 507. References to orders and Acts. Except as may for any reason be inappropriate, references in this order to any other Executive order or to any Act, and references in this order or in any other Executive order to this order, shall be deemed to include references thereto, respectively, as amended from time to time.

PART VI. PRIOR EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND PROCLAMATIONS

SEC. 601. General amendments. Each reference to the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization or to the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization in the following is hereby amended to refer to the Office of Emergency Planning and the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning, respectively:

(1) Executive Order No. 10296 of October 2, 1951

(2) Executive Order No. 10312 of December 10, 1951

(3) Executive Order No. 10346 of April 17, 1952 (penultimate
sentence of Section 2, only)

(4) Executive Order No. 10421 of December 31, 1952
(5) Executive Order No. 10427 of January 16, 1953
(6) Executive Order No. 10480 of August 14, 1953
(7) Executive Order No. 10494 of October 14, 1953
(8) Executive Order No. 10601 of March 21, 1955
(9) Executive Order No. 10634 of August 25, 1955
(10) Executive Order No. 10660 of February 15, 1956
(11) Executive Order No. 10705 of April 17, 1957
(12) Executive Order No. 10737 of October 29, 1957
(13) Executive Order No. 10900 of January 5, 1961
(14) Executive Order No. 10952 of July 20, 1961
(15) Executive Order No. 10958 of August 14, 1961
(16) Proclamation No. 3279 of March 10, 1959

SEC. 602. Executive Order 10242. Executive Order No. 10242 of May 8, 1951, is hereby amended:

(1) By deleting from subsection 101 (a) thereof the following: "upon the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, hereinafter referred to as the Director,".

(2) By deleting from Sections 101 (c), 101 (d), 102, 103, 104, 106 (preamble), 201, and 301 the following: "upon the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization".

(3) By substituting for the words "the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization", at each place where they occur in the order and are not deleted or otherwise amended by this order, the following: "the delegate of the President".

(4) By substituting for the words "shall not be delegated" in subsection 101 (d) the following: "shall not be redelegated by the delegate of the President".

(5) By adding after Section 106 new Sections 107, 108, and 109, reading as follows:

"SEC. 107. The words 'the delegate of the President' as used in this order:

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"(1) In respect of functions under the Act delegated or otherwise assigned to the Secretary of Defense, mean the Secretary of Defense. "(2) In respect of functions delegated or otherwise assigned to the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning, mean the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning.

"SEC. 108. The authority conferred by Section 401(a) of the Act to employ part-time or temporary advisory personnel deemed necessary in carrying out the provisions of the Act, and delegated by the provisions of Section 101(a) of this order, shall be available as follows: (1) To the Secretary of Defense in respect of not to exceed eighty personnel (including not to exceed twenty subjects of the United Kingdom and Canada), and (2) to the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning in respect of not to exceed twenty personnel (including not to exceed five subjects of the United Kingdom and Canada).

"Sec. 109. The relevant provisions of this Part shall be subject to the provisions of the Memorandum of the President, pertaining to conflicts of interest, dated February 9, 1962 (27 F.R. 1341ff.)."

(6) By amending Section 401 to read as follows:

"SEC. 401. The approval of the President is hereby given for the employment of retired personnel of the armed services, pursuant to the provisions of subsection 401(a) of the Act as follows: (1) By the Secretary of Defense, not to exceed twenty persons, and (2) by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning, not to exceed five persons."

SEC. 603. Other orders. (a) Executive Order No. 10260 of June 27, 1951, is hereby amended by striking from Section 1 thereof the following: "Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, the".

(b) Executive Order No. 10346 of April 17, 1952, is hereby amended by substituting for the reference therein to the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, and for each reference therein to the Office of Defense Mobilization except that in the penultimate sentence of Section 2, the following: "the Office of Emergency Planning or the Department of Defense or both, as may be determined under the provisions of appropriate Executive orders".

(c) Executive Order No. 10421 of December 31, 1952, is hereby amended by inserting before the period at the end of Section 3 (b) (9) thereof a comma and the following: "including recommendations as to actions necessary to strengthen the program provided for in this order".

(d) Executive Order No. 10529 of April 22, 1954, is hereby amended by substituting for each reference therein to the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization the following: "the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning or the Secretary of Defense or both as may be determined under appropriate Executive orders".

(e) Executive Order No. 10582 of December 17, 1954, is hereby amended by striking from Section 3(d) thereof the words "from any officer of the Government designated by the President to furnish such advice" and by inserting in lieu of the stricken words the following: "from the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning. In providing this advice the Director shall be governed by the principle that exceptions under this section shall be made only upon a clear showing that the payment of a greater differential than the procedures of this section generally prescribe is justified by consideration of national security".

(f) Executive Order No. 10789 of November 14, 1958, is hereby amended by striking from Section 21 thereof the words "Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization".

SEC. 604. Superseded orders. To the extent that the following have not heretofore been made or become inapplicable, they are hereby superseded and revoked:

(1) Executive Order No. 9981 of July 26, 1948

(2) Executive Order No. 10219 of February 28, 1951
(3) Executive Order No. 10269 of July 6, 1951
(4) Executive Order No. 10438 of March 13, 1953
(5) Executive Order No. 10461 of June 17, 1953
(6) Executive Order No. 10524 of March 31, 1954

(7) Executive Order No. 10539 of June 22, 1954 (without prejudice to final liquidation of any affairs thereunder)

(8) Executive Order No. 10638 of October 10, 1955
(9) Executive Order No. 10773 of July 1, 1958
(10) Executive Order No. 10782 of September 6, 1958
(11) Executive Order No. 10902 of January 9, 1961

JOHN F. KENNEDY

Executive Order 11075-January 15, 1963

ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRADE EXPANSION ACT OF 1962

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Public Law 87-794, approved October 11, 1962; 76 Stat. 872), and by Section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Definition. As used in this order the term "the Act" means the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Public Law 87-794, approved October 11, 1962), exclusive, however, of chapters 2, 3, and 5 of title III thereof.

SEC. 2. Special Representative. (a) The Special Representative for Trade Negotiations provided for in Section 241 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the Special Representative) shall be located in the Executive Office of the President and shall be directly responsible to the President.

(b) There shall be a Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations with the rank of Ambassador, whose principal functions shall be to conduct negotiations under title II of the Act, and who

shall perform such additional duties as the Special Representative may direct.

SEC. 3. Functions of Special Representative. (a) The Special Representative shall have the functions conferred upon him by the Act, the functions delegated or otherwise assigned to him by the provisions of this order, and such other functions as the President may from time to time direct.

(b) The Special Representative generally shall assist the President in the administration of, and facilitate the carrying out of, the Act. Except as may be unnnecessary by reason of delegations of authority contained in this order or for other reasons, the Special Representative shall furnish timely and appropriate recommendations, information, and advice to the President in connection with the administration and execution of the Act by the President.

(c) As he may deem to be necessary for the proper administration and execution of the Act and of this order, the Special Representative (1) shall draw upon the resources of Federal agencies, and of bodies established by or under the provisions of this order, in connection with the performance of his functions, and (2) except as may be otherwise provided by this order or by law, may assign to the head of any such agency or body the performance of duties incidental to the administration of the Act.

(d) In connection with the performance of his functions the Special Representative shall, as appropriate and practicable, consult with Federal agencies.

(e) The Special Representative shall from time to time furnish the President lists of articles proposed for publication and transmittal to the Tariff Commission by the President under the provisions of Section 221 (a) of the Act.

(f) The functions conferred upon the President by Section 222 of the Act are hereby delegated to the Special Representative.

(g) The functions conferred upon the President by the first sentence of Section 223 of the Act are hereby delegated to the Special Representative. The Special Representative is hereby designated to perform the functions prescribed by the second sentence of that section.

(h) The Special Representative shall make arrangements under which the committee established by Section 4 of this order shall provide for public hearings in pursuance of the second sentence of Section 252 (d) of the Act. The functions conferred upon the President by the first sentence of that section are hereby delegated to the Special Representative.

(i) Any proclamation proposed for issuance under Section 201(a) or Section 351 (a) of the Act (submitted pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section) shall be subject to the provisions of Executive Order No. 11030 of June 19, 1962.

(j) Advice furnished by the Secretaries of Commerce and Labor under Section 351 (c) of the Act shall be transmitted by the respective Secretaries to the President through the Special Representative.

(k) Subject to available financing, the Special Representative may employ such personnel as may be necessary to assist him in the performance of his functions.

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