materials, including self-help program materials for use with welfare organizations and professional schools, and develop and distribute civil defense information relative to emergency welfare services to States, voluntary agencies, and professional groups.

(3) Financial aid. Develop plans and procedures for financial assistance to individuals injured or in want as a result of enemy attack and for welfare institutions in need of such assistance in an emergency.

(4) Non-combatant evacuees to the Continental United States. Develop plans and procedures for assistance, at ports of entry to U.S. personnel evacuated from overseas areas, their onward movement to final destination, and follow-up assistance after arrival at final destination.

SEC. 1105 Social Security Functions. With respect to social security, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall:

(1) Social security benefits. Develop plans for the continuation or restoration of benefit payments to those on the insurance rolls as soon as possible after a direct attack upon the United States, and prepare plans for the acceptance and disposition of current claims for social security benefits.

(2) Health insurance. Develop plans for the payment of health insurance claims for reimbursement for items or services provided by hospitals, physicians, and other providers of medical services submitted by or on behalf of individuals who are eligible under the Medicare program.

SEC. 1106 Credit Union Functions. With respect to credit union functions, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall:

(1) Credit union operations. Provide instructions to all State and Federally chartered credit unions for the development of emergency plans to be put into effect as soon as possible after an attack upon the United States in order to guarantee continuity of credit union operations.

·(2) Economic stabilization. Provide guidance to credit unions that will contribute to stabilization of the Nation's economy by helping to establish and maintain a sound economic base for combating inflation, maintaining confidence in public and private financial institutions, and promoting thrift.

SEC. 1107 Education Functions. With respect to education, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall:

(1) Program guidance. Develop plans and issue guidance for the continued function of educational systems under all conditions of national emergency. Although extraordinary circumstances may require the temporary suspension of education, plans should provide for its earliest possible resumption.

(2) Educational adjustment. Plan to assist civilian educational institutions, both public and private, to adjust to demands laid upon them by a large expansion of government activities during any type of emergency. This includes advice and assistance to schools, colleges, universities, and other educational institutions whose facilities may be temporarily needed for Federal, State, or local government programs in an emergency or whose faculties and student bodies may be affected by the demands of a sudden or long-standing emergency.

(3) Post-attack recovery. Develop plans for the rapid restoration and resumption of education at all levels after an attack. This includes assistance to educators and educational institutions to locate and use surviving facilities, equipment, supplies, books, and educational personnel. Particular emphasis shall be given to the role of educational institutions and educational leadership in reviving education and training in skills needed for post-attack recovery.

(4) Civil defense education. In consonance with national civil defense plans, programs, and operations of the Department of Defense, develop and issue instructional materials to assist schools, colleges,

and other educational institutions to incorporate emergency protective measures and civil defense concepts into their programs. This includes assistance to various levels of education to develop an understanding of the role of the individual, family, and community for civil defense in the nuclear age.

EMPLOYMENT

Mr. STEED. How many people do you have on board at this time? Dr. SENCER. On board at the present time we have 103 permanent positions.

Mr. STEED. What is going to happen to these people?

Dr. SENCER. We are going through a major reduction in our staff in the whole Health Services and Mental Health Administration, of which this is one part. We have an active program of out-placements going on. I am encouraged at the present time that we are perhaps going to be able to out-place most of our people so that we will not have to run an actual reduction in force.

DISPOSAL OF EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, OR SUPPLIES

Mr. STEED. Do you have any equipment and facilities or supplies that will be left over and that will have to be disposed of in relation to the drugs?

Dr. SENCER. The facilities will be turned back to GSA. There will probably be some supplies and equipment that will have to be literally put into a landfill, or something like that, having far outlived their usefulness.

BASIS FOR DETERIORATION

Mr. STEED. In your statement where you say, "To attempt to bring the emergency health stockpile up to current usefulness and to maintain it would be costly and duplicative of existing resources", how did it get into this shape? What were the factors that caused it to reach such a condition?

Dr. SENCER. If you look at the appropriation history of this program, it has been one of ups and downs. When there has been a major concern for the protection of the civilian population, there has been a high level appropriation and then it would fall to zero. It has been literally impossible to get the funds over the years to maintain it at a consistent level.

Mr. STEED. Without intending to put the blame on anybody in particular, the end result of all this was to waste manpower and materials. Could you give any estimate as to how wasteful this was, and for the fact it wasn't operated in a more orderly and businesslike way?

Dr. SENCER. I don't think I could, right at the moment. We could try and supply something for the record. I would like to say that, although much of the materiel may have to be disposed of at a cost to the Government, there has been a good deal of useful purpose put to the packaged disaster hospitals such as those used in Hurricane Agnes. Some packaged disaster hospitals have been cannibalized, if you will, for the supplies that have been needed to meet a particular emergency.

In addition, the community preparedness program's usefulness has developed a cadre of people in this country who are well trained in emergency first aid. There is no measurable dollar value that you can put on this. We have trained millions of people who are better prepared now to meet either home accidents or accidents in the community.

APPROPRIATION-1973

Mr. STEED. What use did you make of the $3 million that was contained in the 1973 budget?

Dr. SENCER. The $3 million that was contained in the 1973 budget has been used to begin a phaseout of the program and to maintain the key staff that we have had.

CURRENT CONDITION OF STOCKPILE

Mr. STEED. Could you give us a general opinion as to what the condition of the stockpile is at the present time?

Dr. SENCER. I think, as was pointed out in last year's hearing, the condition of the stockpile at the present time is such that much of it is not useful. We have material that dates back almost to World War II and is not useful at the present time.

Mr. MCRAE. Would you want any quantitative figure?

Roughly $30 million is unusable. That is the best figure I have on it.

LOCATION OF INVENTORIES AND VALUE

Mr. STEED. Would you furnish for the record a list of the places where stockpiles are, what the original input was and what your estimated value of them is today?

Dr. SENCER. Yes, sir.

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