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Executive Order No. 10773, July 1, 1958 (23 Federal Register 5061) DELEGATING AND TRANSFERRING CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AND AFFAIRS TO THE OFFICE OF DEFENSE AND CIVILIAN MOBILIZATION

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, including authority vested in me by the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 and including also authority vested in me by provisions of law cited in the preambles of, or relied upon in connection with the issuance of, orders amended by this order, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. The "Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization" and the "Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization", referred to in this order, are the Office of that name and the officer with that title, respectively, provided for in Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958.

SEC. 2. (a) There are hereby delegated to the Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, with power to redelegation by him, all functions transferred to the President by the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958.

(b) Subject to the provisions of section 7 of this order, all functions of the President of the United States heretofore delegated or assigned to the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, the Office of Defense Mobilization, the Federal Civil Defense Administrator (or the Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration), or the Federal Civil Defense Administration are, to the extent that those delegations or assignments were in effect June 30, 1958, redelegated or reassigned, as the case may be, to the Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization.

SEC. 3. Except in instances wherein the provisions concerned are for any reason inapplicable as of the effective date of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958: (a) Each reference in any prior Executive order to the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization and each reference in any prior Executive order to the Federal Civil Defense Administrator (or to the Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration) is hereby amended to refer to the Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization.

(b) Each reference in any prior Executive order to the Office of Defense Mobilization and each reference in any prior Executive order to the Federal Civil Defense Administration is hereby amended to refer to the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization.

SEC. 5. Each reference in Executive Order No. 10737 of October 29, 1957, to a Regional Administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration is hereby amended to refer to a Regional Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization.

SEC. 6. (a) There is hereby established in the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization the Defense and Civilian Mobilization Board. The Board shall be composed of the Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, who shall be the chairman of the Board, and of the heads of such executive departments and agencies of the Government as may be designated, with their consent, from time to time by the Director.

(b) The Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization may from time to time establish subsidiary units of the Board and assign suitable names thereto. The Director and the heads of any executive departments and agencies may be designated, with their consent, as members of such units. The Director shall be the chairman of any subsidiary unit of which he is a member and he shall designate the chairman of any other subsidiary unit from among the members thereof.

(c) The Board established by this section, and each subsidiary unit thereof established under this section, shall advise the Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization with respect to matters relating to his responsibilities as he shall request.

SEC. 9. The Director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization is hereby authorized to issue such regulations as he may deem necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this order.

SEC. 10. The provisions of this order shall be effective as of July 1, 1958, the effective date of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE, July 1, 1958.

Executive Order No. 10802, January 23, 1959 (24 Federal Register

557)

ESTABLISHING THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES AFFECTING PRICES AND COSTS*

WHEREAS serious injury to the national economy may result from a lack of reasonable stability in the level of prices and costs; and

WHEREAS it is essential that the programs and activities of the Federal Government affecting prices and costs be administered in the light of the need for reasonable stability of the price level:

NOW THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including the Employment Act of 1946, as amended (60 Stat. 23; 15 U.S.C. 1021, et seq.) and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. There is hereby established the Committee on Government Activities Affecting Prices and Costs (hereinafter referred to as the "Committee”). The Committee shall be composed of the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, who shall serve as Chairman; and a representative of each of the following agencies, to be designated by the head of such agency-the Department of Defense, the Post Office Department, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Bureau of the Budget, the General Services Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Federal Aviation Agency and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization; and a representative to be designated by the head of each other Federal agency the President may from time to time request to participate in the activities of the Committee.

SEC. 2. The Committee shall:

(a) Examine and study the operation of Federal procurement, stockpiling, commodity price support, rate regulation subsidy and similar programs and activities as to their effect upon the level and trends of prices and costs;

(b) Recommended to the agencies involved administrative actions, procedures, and policies to assure that existing programs and activities are, insofar as practicable under existing law and with due regard to national security requirements, being carried out in the light of the need for reasonable stability of the price level, and in the light of other national economic objectives;

(c) Advise the President periodically as to

(i) the effect of Federal programs and activities within the scope of this order upon the level and trends of prices and costs; and

(ii) its recommendations for improving administrative actions, procedures, and policies under which programs and activities are being conducted, in order to carry out more effectively the policy recited in this order.

SEC. 3. The heads of all Federal departments and agencies engaged in procurement, stockpiling, commodity price support, rate regulation, subsidy and similar programs which directly affect prices and costs shall re-examine their programs in the light of the need for reasonable stability of the price level, and shall take such administrative actions or recommend such changes in legislation as are deemed desirable after such review.

SEC. 4. The heads of all departments and agencies referred to in section 3 shall cooperate to the fullest possible extent with the Committee.

SEC. 5. The agencies designated in section 1 of this order shall, as may be necessary for the purpose of effectuating the provisions of this order, furnish assistance to the Committee in accordance with section 214 of the act of May 3, 1945 (59 Stat. 134; 31 U.S.C. 691). Such assistance may include detailing employees to the Committee, one of whom may serve as its executive officer, to perform such functions consistent with the purpose of this order as the Committee may assign to them.

THE WHITE HOUSE, January 23, 1959.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

*This Committee was abolished by E.O. 10928 of March 23, 1961.

Executive Order No. 10819, May 8, 1959 (24 Federal Register 3779)

AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10480 AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE DEFENSE MOBILIZATION PROGRAM

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Executive Order No. 10480 of August 14, 1953, entitled "Further Providing for the Administration of the Defense Mobilization Program," as amended, be, and it is hereby, further amended by substituting for section 301 thereof, as amended by Executive Order No. 10574 of November 5, 1954, a new section 301 reading as follows:

"SEC. 301. The Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Commerce, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the General Services Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in this Part referred to as guaranteeing agencies, each officer having functions delegated to him pursuant to section 201(a) of this order, and each other agency of the Government having mobilization functions, shall, within areas of production designated by the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, develop and promote measures for the expansion of productive capacity and of production and supply of materials and facilities necessary for the national defense." DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE, May 8, 1959.

Executive Order No. 10952, July 20, 1961 (26 Federal Register

6577)

ASSIGNING CIVIL DEFENSE RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND

OTHERS

WHEREAS the possibility of enemy attack upon the United States must be taken into account of developing our continental defense program; and

WHEREAS following a thorough review and consideration of our military and nonmilitary defense activities, I have concluded that adequate protection of the civilian population requires a substantial strengthening of the Nation's civil defense capability; and

WHEREAS the rapid acceleration of civil defense activities can be accomplished most effectively and efficiently through performance by the regular departments and agencies of government of those civil defense functions related to their established roles and capabilities; and

WHEREAS I have concluded that the undertaking of greatly accelerated civil defense activities, including the initiation of a substantial shelter program, requires new organizational arrangements:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the United States, including the authority contained in the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended, and other authorities of law vested in me pursuant to Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE. (a) Except as hereinafter otherwise provided and as is reserved to the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization in section 2 of this order, the Secretary of Defense is delegated all functions (including as used in this order, powers, duties, and authority) contained in the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the Act), vested in me pursuant to Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799), subject to the direction and control of the President.

SEC. 3. EXCLUDED FUNCTIONS. The following functions of the President under the provisions of the Act are excluded from delegations to the Secretary of Defense made by this order and are reserved to the President:

(a) Those under subsections (h) and (i) of section 201 of the Act (50 U.S.C. App. 2281 (h), (i)) to the extent that they pertain to medical stockpiles and food stockpiles.

(b) Those under the following provision of the Act: Sections 102 (a), 201(b), and 402 and Title III.

SEC. 7. AMENDMENT.

The Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization is hereby relieved of responsibilities under the Act except as otherwise provided herein, and the provisions of Executive Order No. 10773, as amended, are amended accordingly.

SEC. 8. PRIOR ACTIONS.

(b) This order shall not terminate any delegation or assignment of any substantive (program) function to any delegate agency made by any emergency preparedness order heretofore issued by the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (26 F.R. 651-662; 835-840) (which emergency preparedness order shall remain in effect until amended or revoked by or at the specific direction of the President). No such emergency preparedness order shall limit the delegation or assignment of any substantive (program) function to the Secretary of Defense made by the foregoing sections of this order.

SEC. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE. This order shall become effective on the first day of August, 1961.

THE WHITE HOUSE, July 20, 1961.

JOHN F. KENNEDY.

Executive Order No. 10997, February 16, 1962 (27 Federal

Register 1522)

ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

INTERIOR

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, including authority vested in me by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799), it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. SCOPE. The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the Secretary) shall prepare national emergency plans and develop preparedness programs covering (1) electric power; (2) petroleum and gas; (3) solid fuels; and (4) minerals. These plans and programs shall be designed to provide a state of readiness in these resource areas with respect to all conditions of national emergency, including attack upon the United States.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. As used in this order:

(a) The term "electric power" means all forms of electric power and energy, including the generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization thereof.

(b) The term "petroleum" means crude oil and synthetic liquid fuel, their products, and associated hydrocarbons, including pipelines for their movement and facilities specially designed for their storage.

(c) The term "gas” means natural gas (including helium) and manufactured gas, including pipelines for the movement and facilities specially designed for their storage.

(d) The term "solid fuels" means all forms of anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, and lignitic coals, coke, and coal chemicals produced in the coke making process.

(e) The term "minerals" means all raw materials of mineral origin (except petroleum, gas, solid fuels, and source materials as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended) obtained by mining and like operations and processed through the stages specified and at the facilities designated in an agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce as being within the emergency preparedness responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior.

SEC. 3. RESOURCE FUNCTIONS. With respect to the resources defined above, the Secretary shall:

(g) STOCKIPES. Assist the Office of Emergency Planning in formulating and carrying out plans and programs for the stockpiling of strategic and critical materials, and survival items.

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SEC. 7. EMERGENCY ACTIONS. Nothing in this order shall be construed as conferring authority under Title III of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended, or otherwise, to put into effect any emergency plan, procedure, policy, program, or course of action prepared or developed pursuant to this order. Such authority is reserved to the President.

SEC. 8. REDELEGATION. The Secretary is hereby authorized to redelegate within the Department of the Interior the functions hereinabove assigned to him.

SEC. 9. PRIOR ACTIONS. To the extent of any inconsistency between the provisions of any prior orders and the provisions of this order, the latter shall control. Emergency Preparedness Order No. 7 (heretofore issued by the Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization) (26 F.R. 659–660), is hereby revoked. JOHN F. KENNEDY.

THE WHITE HOUSE, February 16, 1962.

Executive Order No. 10998, February 16, 1962 (27 Federal

Register 1524)

ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF

AGRICULTURE

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, including authority vested in me by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799), it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. SCOPE. The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the Secretary) shall prepare national emergency plans and develop preparedness programs covering: Food resources, farm equipment, fertilizer, and food resource facilities, as defined below; rural fire control; defense against biological warfare, chemical warfare, and radiological fallout pertaining to agricultural activities; and rural defense information and education. These plans and programs shall be designed to develop a state of readiness in these areas with respect to all conditions of national emergency, including attack upon the United States.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. As used in this order:

(a) "Food resources" means all commodities and products, simple, mixed, or compound, or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of being eaten or drunk, by either human beings or animals, irrespective of other uses to which such commodities or products may be put, at all stages of processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for human or animal consumption. For the purposes of this order the term "food resources" shall also include all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal fats and oils, cotton, tobacco, wool, mohair, hemp, flax fiber, and naval stores, but shall not include any such material after it loses its identity as an agricultural commodity or agricultural product.

(b) "Farm equipment" means machinery, equipment and repair parts manufactured primarily for use on farms in connection with the production or preparation for market or use of "food resources."

(c) "Fertilizer" means any product or combination of products for plant nutrition in form for distribution to the users thereof.

(d) "Food resource facilities" means plants, machinery, vehicles (including on farm) and other facilities for the production, processing, distribution and storage (including cold storage) of food resources, and for domestic distribution of farm equipment and fertilizer.

SEC. 6. STOCKPILES. The Secretary shall assist the Office of Emergency Planning in formulating and carrying out plans for stockpiling strategic and critical materials. In the administration of Commodity Credit Corporation inventories of food resources he shall take all possible measures to assure the availability of such inventories when and where needed in an emergency. The Secretary

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