the Executive Agent, National Communications System.

(c) The following pertains to Group B circuit requirements processing: State, County, Municipal Governments, quasiState and Local Government agencies and essential Industrial/Commercial customers of the communications common carriers will forward requests for restoration priority assignments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for approval. Users and requestors will reexamine their circuit requirements at least every 6 months, and inform the Commission of any appropriate reclassifications.

(d) Subject to the policy guidance of the Director of Telecommunications Management/Special Assistant to the President for Telecommunications, the Executive Agent of the National Communications System is authorized to establish subpriorities within Priorities 1 and 2 and to notify all concerned. The Executive Agent, National Communications System and the Federal Communications Commission will arrange with the carriers for quantities of circuits and the restoration sequence to be followed for Federal and Foreign Government and those Industrial/Commercial private line services which are earmarked for prearranged voluntary participation with the Federal Government in an emergency which are designated within each of the four priority categories.

(e) U.S. carriers shall, so far as practicable, effect the restoration of U.S. portions of interrupted private line services in accordance with this part. In dealing with interrupted foreign portions of international leased private line services, the U.S. carriers should endeavor, by advance agreements with their foreign correspondents (except as indicated below), to effect the restoration of private line services in accordance with this order. Lacking such arrangement, U.S. carriers should handle service restoration in accordance with any system acceptable to their foreign correspondents which meets, or comes closest to meeting the procedures described herein. Procedures affecting Government services which in the judgment of the U.S. carriers, are not reasonably consistent with this order, should be referred to the Executive Agent of the National Communications System. In some instances, U.S. Government/Foreign Government arrangements exist for the restoration of U.S. Govern

ment foreign leased private line extension. The Executive Agent, National Communications System, will keep the U.S. carriers informed of those arrangements made by him.

(f) To insure the effectiveness of this system of priorities it is required that a rigorous examination be made by users to determine whether the requirements for a private line service justify placing it into one of the priority categories. It should be understood that communication facilities other than private line service may be available to qualified users during emergencies. These other facilities include the public correspondence message services of the common carriers and the U.S. mail service. In addition, experience indicates that:

(1) The Federal Government must strictly limit priority assignments to those circuit requirements which qualify under the stringent criteria of the priorities set forth in this order.

(2) Communications common carriers must plan for the use of all of their available resources to satisfy valid requirements during emergency periods.

(3) Restoration priorities must be realistically applied to available resources. This objective can be achieved only by continuous and close cooperative working relationships between responsible Federal Government and common carrier authorities.

(g) Additional detailed criteria for assignment of intercity leased private line switched networks for Federal Government use shall be promulgated at a later date by the Executive Agent, National Communications System, and the Federal Communications Commission in cooperation with the carriers and the Director of Telecommunications Management/Special Assistant to the President for Telecommunications.

(h) Requests for restoration priority assignments which do not appear to qualify within the criteria stated in this order shall be coordinated with the requestor of the priorities by the Executive Agent of the National Communications System or the Federal Communications Commission, as appropriate. Initial requests for restoration priority assignments which are denied by the certifying agency may be resubmitted by the requestor for reconsideration. Final disposition of such requests will be made by the appropriate certifying agency after coordination with the Director of Telecommunications

Management/Special Assistant to the President for Telecommunications.

(i) Special critical conditions may arise from time-to-time requiring the temporary raising of circuit requirement restoration priorities. Some examples are: Tracking and control of manned space flight; overseas political tenseness; and national disasters. Activities desiring that existing circuit requirement restoration priorities be temporarily raised to meet critical conditions shall forward such requests with full justification to the Executive Agent, National Communications System, or the Federal Communications Commission, as appropriate. Approved requests shall be forwarded immediately through established channels to the common carriers involved and to interested Government agencies.

§ 201.7 Implementation.

The procedures for implementing this system, so that its effectual use can be attained, will be as follows:

(a) All existing priority certifications for private line services made in accordance with DMO 3000.1 are hereby canceled.

(b) Lists of Federal and Foreign Government private line circuits to be included in the priority categories will be furnished by the Executive Agent, National Communications System, to the carriers. Non-NCS circuit certifications I will be so designated to the carriers.

(c) A list of those Industrial/Commercial private line services which are earmarked for prearranged voluntary participation with the Federal Government during emergencies, and which are included in the priority categories 1, 2, 3 and 4, will be furnished to the carriers by the Federal Communications Commission, after coordination with the Executive Agent, National Communications System.

(d) Applications for priority certifications for State and local governments and quasi-State and local government agencies and for Industrial/Commercial private line circuits within the priority 3 and 4 categories will be submitted to the Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C. 20554, and the carriers will be notified of certifications issued.

(e) Requestors will be notified of actions taken regarding their applications.

(f) To assist the Commission in maintaining accurate records of Federal Com

munications Commission-certified priority circuits, the carriers will notify the Commission when any such circuits are relinquished by the user.

(g) To assist the Executive Agent, National Communications System, in maintaining accurate records, the carriers will notify the Executive Agent when a Federal or Foreign Government private line service which is not a part of the National Communications System, but which carries a priority certification, is relinquished by the user.

(h) Federal Departments and Agencies are authorized to issue such additional Orders as are necessary to effect implementation of this part.

§ 201.8 Effective date.

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(a) Authority to prescribe procedures for obtaining telecommunication resources during an emergency is contained in Executive Order 10995 (27 F.R. 1519, 3 CFR, 1959-1963 Comp., p. 535, amended, 28 F.R. 1531; 3 CFR, 1959-1963 Comp., p. 719), and the President's National Communications Memorandum of August 21, 1963 (28 F.R. 9413, 3 CFR, 1959-1963 Comp., p. 858).

(b) These procedures are applicable to the communications common carriers and non-Federal Government users under the President's authority contained in subsection 606(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. The authority under subsection 606 (a) has been

§ 202.3

Circuit restoration procedures.

The restoration priority procedures for these emergency requirements shall be in accordance with the order entitled "Priority System for the Use and Restoration of Leased Intercity Private Line Services During Emergency Conditions," FCC Order 67-51 and DTM, 32 F.R. 791. § 202.4 Responsibilities.

(a) Executive departments and agencies of the United States, whether or not components of the National Communications System (NCS), shall submit their international emergency telecommunications requirements to the Executive Agent, National Communications System, for coordination and consolidation of mobilization requirements.

(b) The Department of Defense shall coordinate NATO requirements in con

sonance with approved NATO/U.S. procedures for subsequent processing by the Executive Agent, National Communications System.

(c) The Department of State shall coordinate and approve foreign government circuit requirements and then forward them to the Executive Agent, NCS, for further processing.

§ 202.5 Other requirements.

Those entities, other than Executive departments and agencies of the United States, having need for emergency international telecommunication service shall present their requirements to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

§ 202.6 Coordination of requirements.

(a) The NCS and FCC shall meet periodically to review the total mobilization requirements and to evaluate the impact of these requirements upon the common carriers' capability. If the situation develops in which emergency requirements cannot be provided by the communications common carriers, the Executive Agent, NCS, or the FCC, as appropriate, shall immediately notify the Director of Telecommunications Management that situation.

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