DMO I-1-Creating Regional Defense Mobilization Committees and a Central Coordinating Committee. DMO I-2-Reconstituting the Committee on Defense Transportation and Storage: DMO I-3-Establishing procedures for determination of critical defense housing areas and for authorization of defense housing and community facilities assistance by designation of particular periods or projects. DMO I-4-Agency responsibilities in completing and maintaining the mobilization base. DMO I-7-Delegation of authority to certain officers and agencies. DMO I-8—Assignment of defense mobilization responsibilities to the Department of Commerce. DMO I-9-Assignment of defense mobilization responsibilities to the U. S. Department of Agriculture. DMO I-10-Assignment of defense mobilization responsibilities to the U. S. Department of Labor. DMO I-11-Delegation of authority to issue payment certificates under section 168 (g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. DMO I-12-Assignment of defense mobilization responsibilities to the U. S. Department of Defense. DMO I-13-Assignment of defense mobilization responsibilities to the U. S. Department of the Interior. DMO I-14-Assignment of defense mobilization responsibilities to the Housing and Home Finance Agency. DMO I-15-Assignment of defense mobilization responsibilities to Interstate Commerce Commissioner. DMO I-16-Making the Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration a member of the Defense Mobilization Board. DMO I-17—Further assignment of defense mobilization authority to the General Services Administration. DMO III-1-Policy directive governing issuance of tax amortization certificates under section 124A of the Internal Revenue Code, and defining the extent to which accelerated amortization can be allowed as a cost in negotiated contract pricing. DMO III-1, Supp. 1-Policy for the establishment of expansion goals for tax amortization. DMO IV-1-Creation of a Committee on Manpower Policy and a Committee on Specialized Personnel. DMO IV-2-Establishing a Labor-Management Manpower Policy Committee. DMO IV-3-Establishment of an Advisory Committee on the Watch Industry. DMO V-1—Creating an Interdepartmental Materials Advisory Committee. DMO V-1, Supp. 1-Establishment of Interdepartmental Commodity Advisory Committees. DMO V-1, Supp. 2-Establishment of Interdepartmental Stockpile Storage Committee. DMO V-2-Establishment of a Titanium Advisory Committee. DMO V-3-Policy regarding surplus materials acquired under the Defense Production Act. DMO V-4-Delegation of authority to the Administrator, General Services Ad ministration. DMO V-5-Programs for expansion of supplies of materials needed for defense purposes in the event of a major disaster. DMO V-6—Provision of materials under Government control as needed to supplement supplies commercially available in the event of a major disaster for use in reconstruction or to meet defense orders. DMO VI-1—Reestablishment of the Facilities Protection Board. DMO VI-2-Policy guidance and delegation of responsibility with respect to transportation in preparation for attack conditions, under attack conditions, and in post-attack rehabilitation. DMO VI-4-Protective construction for industrial facilities and availability of tax amortization incentive. DMQ VII-1A-Providing for transfer to the Department of Defense of management of Department of Defense equipment in the central inventory production equipment group. DMO VII-1B-Providing for the establishment of a defense mobilization production equipment inventory. DMO VII-3—Outlining basic policy on the control of materials and facilities by the use of priorities and allocations authority. DMO VII-3, Supp. 1-Policy on the control of materials and facilities by the use of priorities and allocation authority under disaster conditions. DMO VII-4—ODM policy guidance on Government-owned production equip ment. DMO VII-4, Supp. 1-ODM policy guidance of Government-owned production equipment. DMO VII-5-Designation of supply and requirements agencies. DMO VII-6-Expansion goals. DMO VII-6, Supp. 1-Expansion goals. DMO VII-6, Supp. 2-Expansion goals. DMO VII-6, Supp. 3-Expansion goals for tax amortization. DMO VII-7-Maintenance of the mobilization base (Department of Defense, Atomic Energy Commission and the Maritime Administration). DMO VII-7, Supp. 1-Emergency action for maintenance of the mobilization base under disaster conditions. DMO VII-8-Establishment of an Industrial Defense Committee. DMO VII-9-Establishment of Mobilization Production Committee. DMO IX-1-Reestablishment of Telecommunications Planning Committee. DMO X-1-Establishment of an Inter-agency Committee on National Censorship Planning. DMP 1-Implementation of national manpower mobilization policy with respect to procurement and production scheduling. DMP 2-Manpower program for the machine tool industry. DMP 3-Policy and procedure with respect to applications for wage adjustments filed on grounds of present or imminent manpower shortages. DMP 4-Placement of procurement and facilities in areas of current or imminent labor surplus. DMP 5-Policy on defense training. DMP 6-Policy on agricultural manpower. DMP 7-Employment of older workers in the defense program. DMP 8-Policy on training and utilization of scientific and engineering manpower. DMP 9-Utilization of the handicapped in the mobilization program. DMP 10-Use of domestic and foreign migratory agricultural workers. DMP 11-Providing vocational assistance to men being released from the Armed Forces. GAO I-2—Administrative proceedings under Title IV of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. ODM Reg. 1-Issuance of necessity certificates under section 124A of the Internal Revenue Code. ODM Reg. 2—Providing for the issuance of payment certificates under section 124A (g) of the Internal Revenue Code. DMO I-1-Creating Regional Defense Mobilization Committees and a Central Coordinating Committee 1. There is hereby created for each region of the Department of Commerce and the Defense Manpower Administration, Department of Labor, an interagency committee to be known as the Regional Defense Mobilization Committee. These Committees shall, within the framework of national policies and programs, provide in each region the advice, cooperation, and coordination necessary to: (a) The identification and solution of defense mobilization problems relating to such matters as defense production, labor supply, housing and community facilities. (b) Planning and execution of nonmilitary defense activities such as continuity of essential functions of government, civilian defense activities, reduction of urban vulnerability and post-attack rehabilitation of essential production facilities and services. 2. Each Regional Defense Mobilization Committee shall consist of the Regional Directors of the Department of Commerce and the Defense Manpower Administration, as co-chairmen, one or more representatives of the Department of Defense, and a representative each from the Department of Agriculture, Federal Civil Defense Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Housing and Home Finance Agency and Small Defense Plants Administration. The co-chairmen may invite representatives of other Federal agencies to participate in meetings when problems of concern to them are under discussion. 3. There is also hereby created a Central Coordinating Committee on Regional Defense Mobilization which shall: (a) Advise and assist the Regional Defense Mobilization Committees and its own member agencies in making the most effective use of the Regional Defense Mobilization Committees, and (b) Advise the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization on the progress achieved and the problems encountered in the defense mobilization program in the several regions. 4. The Central Coordinating Committee shall be co-chaired by representatives of the Department of Commerce and the Defense Manpower Administration of the Department of Labor, and shall be comprised of representatives of the Federal agencies represented on the Regional Defense Mobilization Committees and a representative of the Office of Defense Mobilization. 5. In order that special surveys of production capacity, labor requirements and supply, housing, community facilities, and similar resources are conducted with a minimum of cost to the Government and inconvenience to local officials and organizations, any Federal agency which proposes to initiate such a survey, not subject to the Federal Reports Act of 1942, shall first so advise the appropriate Regional Defense Mobilization Committee. The Committee shall ascertain the extent of available information and arrange for its release to the requesting agency. Full consideration shall be given by the requesting agency to the availability of such information in de termining the need for the specific survey, and if needed, in planning its scope and content. [DMO 6, Rev., 18 F. R. 4099, July 14, 1953. Redesignated at 18 F. R. 6736, Oct. 23, 1953] DMO 1-2-Reconstituting the Committee on Defense Transportation and Storage By virtue of the authority vested in me by Executive Order 10461 of June 17, 1953 (3 CFR, 1953 Supp.), and in accordance with Executive Order 10219 of February 28, 1951 (3 CFR, 1951 Supp.), and in order to insure coordination and effectiveness of Federal policies and programs relating to transportation and storage, it is hereby ordered: 1. The Committee on Defense Transportation and Storage, heretofore created by Defense Mobilization Order No. 7 of March 13, 1951 (16 F. R. 2335, Mar. 13, 1951; 16 F. R. 2473, Mar. 16, 1951; 17 F. R. 369, Jan. 11, 1952), is hereby reestablished and shall consist of a representative of the Office of Defense Mobilization who is hereby designated as Chairman; the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation who is designated as Vice Chairman, and a representative designated by the head of each of the following agencies: Department of State. Department of the Treasury. Defense Transport Administration. and such other members as the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization may hereafter provide. 2. The Committee on Defense Transportation and Storage shall: a. Advise the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization on problems relating to transportation and storage which come within his jurisdiction. b. Review Federal policies, plans, and programs relating to defense transportation and storage, and advise the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization concerning policies, methods, and measures for improving the coordination and obtaining the most effective utilization of the various forms and facilities of transportation and storage, including among other matters, policies, methods, and measures for the coordination of inland and ocean transportation and the operation of ports. c. Review for the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization such proposed legislation, Executive Orders, and administrative orders and regulations relating to transportation and storage as he may direct. [DMO 7, Rev., 18 F. R. 4909, Aug. 18, 1953, as amended by Amdt. 1, 20 F. R. 1345, Mar. 4, 1955; Amdt. 2, 20 F. R. 7574, Oct. 11, 1955. Redesignated at 18 F. R. 6736, Oct. 23, 1953] By virtue of the authority vested in me by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1953, effective June 12, 1953, Executive Order 10480 of August 14, 1953, and Executive Order 10296 of October 2, 1951, as amended by Executive Orders 10433 of February 4, 1953, and 10593 of January 27, 1955, and pursuant to the Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951, as amended, and the Defense Production Act Amendments of 1952, as amended, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. Defense Areas Advisory Committee. a. There is established in the Office of Defense Mobilization a Defense Areas Advisory Committee which shall consist of representatives of the Department of Defense and the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and a Chairman designated by the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization. b. The Defense Areas Advisory Committee shall advise the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization with respect to: (1) The determination of critical defense housing areas pursuant to section 101 of the Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the act); and (2) The designation, pursuant to section 104 of the act, of periods during which, or projects for which, (i) mortgages on defense housing may be insured under title IX of the National Housing Act, as amended, or (ii) pursuant to title III of the act, agreements may be made to extend assistance for the provision of defense community facilities or services, or the construction of temporary housing or community facilities may be begun by the United States. c. Any Federal agency shall, to the fullest practicable extent, furnish such information in its possession to the Defense Areas Advisory Committee as such Committee may request from time to time relevant to its operations. 2. Procedure. (a) It shall be the responsibility of the Housing and Home Finance Administrator to make recommendations to the Defense Areas Advisory Committee for the determination of critical defense housing areas and for the designation of periods or projects described in section 1-b of this order. In carrying out this responsibility the Housing and Home Finance Administrator, for each area under consideration, shall: i. Secure from the appropriate defense agencies information and recommendations necessary to determine whether the area does or does not contain defenseconnected activities. ii. Secure from the Bureau of Employment Security of the Department of Labor, or from the Department of Defense, or both, information and judgments necessary to a determination on in-migration of defense workers or military personnel. iii. Make the necessary studies of the present and prospective housing supply in the area and of the need for community facilities and services resulting from defense activities in the area. iv. Assemble and analyze the information provided by the several agencies and determine, in the light of all the facts and their interrelations, whether or not the conditions contained in section 101 of the act for determination of a critical defense housing area have been met, if such area has not already been determined to be a critical defense housing area, or whether the designation under section 104 of the act of the proposed period, project, or projects is required in connection with national defense activities. |