who have looked at the whole thing over a period of years-the types of disasters we have had, and the way they have been dealt withand ways to improve and take advantage of these experiences so that we would be in a better position in the future. MS. SHELDON. This is what we are trying to do right now, with our teams going in to work with local government, to help them take a look at their resources, see what they have, and see how they can apply it to their own situations, where heretofore they may have just overlooked various aspects. FISCAL 1973 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE WORKLOAD Mr. STEED. Could you provide for the record a breakdown of the workload that you accomplished during the last year under the $60 million appropriation? MS. SHELDON. Yes. Mr. STEED. By broad category at least. [The information follows:] DISCUSSION OF WORKLOAD, FISCAL YEAR 1973 DCPA OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE APPROPRIATION The fiscal year 1973 "Operation and maintenance" appropriation of $60,335,000 provides the annual financing for planning, development, and execution of the national civil defense program. It covers the Federal staff expenses of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency involved in the development and implementation of national policy guidance as well as matching funds and other assistance to State and local governments to carry out specific programs in emergency preparedness. Some examples are given in the following paragraphs of activities carried out under this appropriation heading which provide direct assistance to maintaining and improving the disaster readiness posture at the local level. Radiation detection and measuring instruments are the only known means for determining the exact hazard to people from radioactive fallout in the event of enemy attack. To provide this detection and monitoring capability, the Federal Government has procured the necessary instrumentation and issued the equipment to States to establish local monitoring coverage. Federal assistance has also been provided in training personnel to operate the equipment. To date, instrument kits have been issued to 120,041 individual shelter facilities and 73,358 fixed monitoring stations (such as police and fire stations) across the Nation. The equipment issued consists of over 4.2 instruments valued at $37.2 million. To insure reliable operational capability, these sensitive instruments must be periodically inspected, calibrated, and repaired. This maintenance function is carried out by DCPA contracts with the States. Trained technicians in each State calibrate, replace batteries, and perform maintenance as necessary on all operational instruments in the State once every 2 years. The funds required to perform this vital maintenance service are budgeted under the "Operation and maintenance" appropriation. DCPA is charged by law with the mission of conducting training and instruction programs on civil defense. The training and education programs to carry out this program are carried in the "Operation and maintenance" appropriation and are designed to: (1) instruct school pupils and the public on survival techniques applicable to a wide variety of environmental hazards, natural and war related; (2) train key State and local officials in civil preparedness involving emergency operations; (3) train private and volunteer groups to assist local governments in emergencies; and (4) provide practicing architects and engineers the latest developments in protective construction techniques. Several avenues of instruction are used to carry out the program including a Federal staff college, institutions of higher learning in each State, State departments of education, the U.S. Public Health Service, and the Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For the first three quarters of fiscal year 1973 the program has provided instruction to over 1.5 million people and the cumulative total of people trained as of March 31, 1973, amounts to almost 23 million. As authorized by the Federal Civil Defense Act, DCPA makes matching-fund financial contributions to the States for necessary and essential State and local civil defense personnel and administrative expenses. This program is financed under the "Operation and maintenance" appropriation and provides a nationally organized and coordinated capability for conducting operations at State and local level during an emergency. The civil defense staffs are skilled planners and local government technicians serving their governments, operating under the direct authority of their elected officials. To a substantial degree, the civil defense personnel are performing a coordinating or specialist function, involving the training or preparation of other regular elements of government for emergency functions. This group of civil defense employees, amounting to 1,602 State employees and 4,484 local employees as of March 31, 1973, are in turn responsible for the planning, organization, and training of State and local government employees and volunteers who carry out segments of civil defense programs assigned to regular departments of government. All departments of government are to be used to carry out the civil defense program, and civil defense personnel do not duplicate the functions of these regular departments. Following are some key statistics for the total DCPA program involving both of the two available appropriation accounts reflecting progress made through the first three quarters of the current fiscal year 1973 together with cumulative progress from program inception through March 31, 1973: Mr. STEED. The more concise and pointed you can make this, the better your own cause is served. You can use this opportunity, I think, to good advantage. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO STATES AND LOCAL UNITS On the matter of allocation of funds to State and local units, could you tell us what these are and the amounts of money that are currently involved? Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. Chairman, we have a State breakdown of the proposed allocation of the personnel and administrative expenses program for 1974. Mr. STEED. We will make that a part of the record. That will give the detail that we want. [The information follows:] DEFENSE CIVIL PREPAREDNESS AGENCY, Memorandum for: all DCPA regional directors. Subject: Distribution of Personnel and Administrative Expenses Funds, by State and Region. The attached table reflects distribution of personnel and administrative funds for 1972, 1973, and 1974 by State. The census population data for 1970 are also included. The table takes into account transfers of Kentucky (to region 3), Ohio (to region 4) and Utah (to region 6) and the establishment of field offices in New York City, N.Y., and Kansas City, Mo. In compliance with Office of Management and Budget instructions, we are providing the Federal regional councils with information on anticipated distribution of personnel and administrative expenses funds for fiscal year 1973 and fiscal year 1974, and fiscal year 1972 obligations as of June 30, 7972. Federal regional councils will be making the data available to Governors and State planners. It should be noted that the fiscal year 1974 estimated distribution is tentative. Final allocation for fiscal year 1974 will be based upon review of State submission of requirements and the appropriation enacted. These tentative allocations are for use in your discussions with State directors. At the time of the House mark we will ask for your best estimates of State requests. JOHN E. DAVIS, Director. Attachment. Distribution: D(HqProfPers), H(FldProfPers). DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION, 1970, AND FUNDS FOR PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FISCAL YEARS 1972, 1973, 1974-BY STATE AND REGIONS (DCPA AND STANDARD) DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION, 1970, AND FUNDS FOR PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FISCAL YEARS 1972, 1973, 1974-BY STATE AND REGIONS (DCPA AND STANDARD)—Continued 1 Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands are in standard region 2; Montana is in standard region 8. 2 Kentucky, Ohio, and Utah in new region, effective Feb. 1, 1973. Note: Standard regions apply to HUD, GSA, OEP, HEW, etc. Mr. STEED. Does that compare with the current year? Mr. JOHNSON. Yes. There is the current year and the prior year. MS. SHELDON. 1972, 1973, and 1974. DCPA EMPLOYMENT Mr. STEED. How many employees are you authorized and how many have on board? do you MS. SHELDON. At the beginning of this fiscal year we were authorized 721 and we are coming down to 699 by the end of June. We were assessed a cut of 22 people by the Department of Defense, and this will be accomplished by June 30. We are not going into any reduction in force. We are taking this merely by retirements and resignations. Mr. STEED. Is this a management decision? Ms. SHELDON. Yes. Mr. STEED. And it has nothing to do with any program cutbacks? MS. SHELDON. It is merely a management decision. Mr. STEED. Mr. Robison. DUAL PURPOSE CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAM Mr. ROBISON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is nice of you to yield because I was going to ask you if you would, because I have to leave to attend a conference at HUD, not over the Office of Emergency Preparedness, but to put up a spirited defense for my Model City housing program, which seems to be in danger of dying. I noticed an article in the Washington Post last January—maybe you saw it, probably you did back then. Ms. SHELDON. Yes. Mr. ROBISON. It says, among other things: Without fanfare the Nixon administration has decided that, to stay alive politically, the Pentagon's $88 million a year civil defense effort has to expand its concerns from H-bomb attacks to preparation for natural disasters-hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods. It goes on to talk about mayor Kevin White, up in Boston, killing off the city's small civil defense agency just a few days before the article came out, at which time Mayor White is quoted as saying: "10 men in the basement of city hall will not save us from an atomic holocaust," White told Bostonians on TV. "But their departure will save $115,000. I doubt our national security will be jeopardized by this decision." "On the other hand," continues the article. "New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller told the State legislature on the same day that he wanted to increase civil defense spending, primarily to cope with natual disasters." So I would say, Mr. Chairman, one can point, and the critics will point, to the dual purpose emphasis now being presented by defense civil-or civil defense and I prefer the latter as being a device summoned forth to keep the operation alive, but I truly think that there is a Federal and a proper national interest in trying to encourage States and localities to prepare for natural disasters, as well as to maintain a residual capacity to deal with the effects of a nuclear attack, should we ever have one, and God forbid we ever do. I think, really, that this has been a very good move, this change. from the old single-minded purpose of the old civil defense agency to the new dual purpose approach, and I would like to think this sub |