SURVIVAL SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT, AND TRAINING The facing page provides a distribution by purpose of contributions to States for civil defense supplies, equipment, facilities, and training under the authority of subsection 201 (i) of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 as amended. The States and their political subdivisions are required to match Federal funds on an equal basis. This account is used to provide items required to meet the unique operational needs of a particular applicant. It does not include national programs for standard categories of supplies and equipment such as austere shelter stocks and radiation detection and monitoring instruments which can be more economically and effectively procured centrally by the Federal Government. Fiscal year 1963 applications for supplies, equipment, and training far exceeded funds available and the number of applications during fiscal year 1964, through December 31, 1963, has increased over fiscal year 1963 by 17 percent. Notwithstanding the increased trend in applications, fiscal year 1964 and fiscal year 1965 estimated obligations are being programed at the fiscal year 1963 level of operations in line with the more rigid criteria within OCD for the approval of applications. CHART 12 Matching funds for State and local equipment and operations (survival supplies, equipment and training) Federal matching funds on a 50-50 basis are made available to State and local governments for the construction of emergency operating centers (EOC) which will protect against radiation fallout, and in some cases, against blast. Under current policy, States and localities are urged to build emergency operating centers close to the point of government so that operating personnel can reach them quickly. Construction plans for such emergency operating centers are approved on an individual case basis. As of June 30, 1963, a total of 39 emergency operating centers had been constructed. As the chart on page 730 indicates, the fiscal year 1965 budget estimate provides for construction costs related to EOC's initiated during prior fiscal years as well as to new EOC's to be initiated during fiscal year 1965. PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES It is at the State and local level that the Federal civil defense program must be translated into specific actions-getting agreements from building owners for use of shelter space, stocking the space with emergency supplies, recruiting and training radiological monitors, shelter managers, and other personnel to man shelter areas, installing and maintaining warning systems, organizing for recovery operations. The goal of the personnel and administrative expenses program is the establishment of professionally staffed State and local civil defense organizations by the application of merit plans for personnel administration. The effect of plac ing civil defense organizations under a merit system is to establish stability of organization and to provide for quality and continuity of staff. With the financial assistance given by this program, the States and cities have built an organizational and operational capability upon which we must depend for accomplishment of the local part of the job of developing a working shelter system. Funding in fiscal year 1965 will continue to support those States and political subdivisions currently participating in the program and will add an estimated 470 subdivisions. The number of personnel employed under the program is expected to increase to 6,769. MANAGEMENT As shown below, this program supports the civilian payroll, travel and transportation, and administrative and housekeeping expenses of the Office of Civil Defense management activities. These activities include program and policy development, technical guidance of program implementation, and progress evaluation of the total national civil defense preparations. Although the increasing workloads of selected facets of the civil defense program will require personnel increases, most of this requirement will be met by— 1. Planned increases in productivity of present personnel. 2. Internal reassignments of present staff to programs of increasing workload. 3. Savings through automation of systems supporting the decisionmaking process. 4. Savings through refinement of contracting, procurement, and other procedures. 5. Appropriately increasing the utilization of other organizations (both Federal and non-Federal, military and nonmilitary) involved in civil defense preparations. After the above offsts have been made, it is estimated that a net requirement for 29 additional spaces will remain. These positions are needed for the new workloads outlined below: Positions Develop and provide standards, policies, and guidance within OCD, and to State and local governments, for implementation and execution of the new dual-purpose shelter development program---Develop and provide policies, standards, course materials, and guidance within OCD, and to State and local governments, in the conduct of expanding education and training programs--. To provide a central management system for storage of data, retrieval and rapid evaluation system in the Office of Civil Defense____ Total___ 12 8 9 29 This program provides for (a) continued survey, marking, and stocking of public fallout shelters, (b) identification of existing fallout protection in smaller structures, (c) the design of local shelter assignment systems, (d) incorporation of shelter features in new construction, or modification of existing facilities, of State and local governments and nonprofit institutions or instrumentalities, and (e) incorporation of fallout protection in existing Federal structures. The chart provides a breakdown of the fiscal year 1965 budget request for these purposes, including a comparison with prior fiscal years. Major program activities are more fully described in succeeding pages. |