The Federal Power Commis- sion shall assist the Department of the Interior, in conformity with Part 7, in the preparation of national emergency plans and the development of preparedness programs for electric power and natural gas in the areas as set forth in the Memorandum of Agreement dated August 9, 1962, between the Secretary of the Interior and the Chairman of the Federal Power Commission.
The Administrator of General Services shall prepare national emergency plans and develop preparedness programs designed to permit modification or expansion of the activities of the General Services Administration under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended and other statutes prescribing the duties and responsibilities of the Administrator. These plans and programs shall include, but not be limited to:
(1) operation, maintenance, and protec- tion of Federal buildings
and their sites; construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings;
and acquisition; utilization, and disposal of real and personal properties;
(2) public utilities service management for Federal agencies;
(3) telecommunications to meet the essential requirements of civilian
activities of executive departments and agencies;
(4) transportation management to meet the traffic service requirements
of civilian activities of Federal agencies;
(5) records management;
(6) Emergency Federal Register;
(7) Government-wide supply support;
(8) service to survival items stockpiles;
(9) national industrial reserve;
(10) guidance and consultation to Government agencies regarding facilities
protection measures;
(11) administration of assigned functions under the Defense Production
Act; and
(12) administration and operation of the stockpile of strategic and
critical materials in accordance with policies and guidance furnished by
the Office of Emergency Preparedness.
The Administrator of General Services shall:
(1) Public buildings. Develop emergency plans and proce- dures
for the operation, maintenance, and protection of both existing and new
Federally-owned and Federally-occupied buildings, and construction, alteration,
and repair of public buildings. Develop emergency operating procedures
for the control, acquisition, assignment, and priority of occupancy of
real property by the Federal Government and by State and local governments
to the extent they may be performing functions as agents of the Federal
Government.
(2) Public utility service management. Develop emergency operational
plans and procedures for the claimancy, procure- ment, and use of public
utility services for emergency activities of executive agencies of the
Government.
(3) Communications. Plan for and provide, operate, and maintain appropriate
telecommunications facilities designed to meet the essential requirements
of Federal civilian departments and agencies during an emergency within
the framework of the National Communications System. Plans and programs
of the Administrator shall be in consonance with national telecom- munications
policies, plans, and programs developed pursuant to Executive Order No.
10705, Executive Order No. 10995, Executive Order No. 11051, and the Presidential
Memorandum of August 21, 1963, "Establishment of the National Communi-
cations System," or other appropriate authority.
(4) Transportation. Develop plans and procedures for providing:
(a) general transportation and traffic management services
to civilian activities of Federal agencies in connection with movement
of property and supplies, including the claimancy, contracting, routing,
and accounting of Government shipments by commercial transportation in
time of emergency; and
(b) motor vehicle service to meet the administrative needs of Federal
agencies, including dispatch and scheduled Government motor service at
and between headquarters, field offices, relocation sites, and other installa-
tions of the Federal and State governments.
(5) Records. Provide instructions and advice on appraisal, selection, preservation,
arrangement, reference, reproduction, storage, and salvage of essential
records needed for the operation of the Federal Government after attack,
on an emergency basis, including a decentralized system.
(6) Federal Register. Develop emergency procedures for providing and
making available, on a decentralized basis, a Federal Register of Presidential
Proclamations and Executive Orders, Federal administrative regulations,
Federal emergen- cy notices and actions, and Acts of Congress during a
national emergency.
(7) Government-wide procurement and supply. Prepare plans and procedures
for the coordination and/or operation of Government-wide supply programs
to meet the require- ments of Federal agencies under emergency conditions,
including the development of policies, methods, and proce- dures for emergency
procurement and for emergency requisi- tioning of private property when
authorized by law and competent authority; identification of essential
civil agency supply items under the Federal catalog system;development
of emergency Federal specifications and standards; deter- mination of sources
of supply; procurement of personal property and non-personal services;
furnishing appropriate inspection and contract administration services;
and establish- ment, coordination, and/or operation of emergency storage
and distribution facilities.
(8) Survival item stockpiles. Assist the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare, insofar as civil defense medical stockpile items under its
jurisdiction are concerned, and the Department of Defense, insofar as survival
items under its jurisdiction are concerned, in formulating plans and programs
for service activity support relating to stockpiling of such supplies and
equipment. The Administrator shall arrange for the procurement, storage,
maintenance, inspec- tion, survey, withdrawal, and disposal of supplies
and equipment in accordance with the provisions of interagency agreements
with the departments concerned.
(9) National industrial reserve and machine tool program. Develop plans
for the custody of the industrial plants and production equipment in the
national industrial reserve and assist the Department of Defense, in collaboration
with the Department of Commerce, in the development of plans and procedures
for the disposition, emergency reactivation, and utilization of the plants
and equipment of this reserve in the custody of the Administrator.
(10) Excess and surplus real and personal property. Devel- op plans
and emergency operating procedures for the utilization of excess and surplus
real and personal property by Federal Government agencies with emergency
assignments or by State and local governmental units as directed, including
review of the property holdings of Federal agencies which do not possess
emergency functions to determine the availability of property for emergency
use, and including the disposal of real and personal property and the rehabilitation
of personal property.
(11) Facilities protection and building and shelter mana- ger service.
In accordance with the guidance from the Department of Defense, promote,
with respect to Federal buildings and installations, a Government-wide
program
(a) to stimulate protection, preparedness, and control in emergencies
in order to minimize the effects of overt or covert attack, including dispersal
of facilities; and
(b) to establish shelter manager organizations, including safety and
service personnel, shelter manager service, first aid, police, and evacuation
service.
Tile Administrator of General Services shall assist the Office of Emergency Preparedness in the formulation of plans and programs relating to the certification of procurement programs, subsidy payments, and plant improvement programs provided for by the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended.
The Administrator of General Services shall assist the Office of Emergency Preparedness in formulating plans, programs, and reports relating to the stockpiling of strategic and critical materials. Within these plans and programs, the Administrator shall provide for the procure- ment (for this purpose, procurement includes upgrading, rotation, and beneficiation), storage, security, maintenance, inspection, withdrawal, and disposal of materials, supplies, and equipment.
The Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, under the coordina- ting authority of the Secretary of Transportation, shall prepare national emergency plans and develop preparedness programs covering railroad utilization, reduction of vulnera- bility, maintenance, restoration, and operation in an emer- gency (other than for the Alaska Railroad - see Section 1303(6)); motor carrier utilization, reduction of vulnera- bility, and operation in an emergency; inland waterway utilization of equipment and shipping, reduction of vulnera- bility, and operation in an emergency; and also provide guidance and consultation to domestic surface transportation and storage industries, as defined below, regarding emergency preparedness measures, and to States regarding development of their transportation plans in assigned areas.
As used in this part:
(1) "Domestic surface transportation and storage" means rail,
motor, and inland water transportation facilities and services and public
storage;
(2) "Public storage" includes warehouses and other places which are
used for the storage of property belonging to persons other than the persons
having the ownership or control of such premises;
(3) "Inland water transportation" includes shipping on all inland waterways
and Great Lakes shipping engaged solely in the transportation of passengers
or cargo between United States ports on the Great Lakes;
(4) Specifically excluded, for the purposes of this part, are pipelines,
petroleum and gas storage, agricultural food resources storage, including
the cold storage of food resources, the St. Lawrence Seaway, ocean ports
and Great Lakes ports and port facilities, highways, streets, roads, bridges,
and related appurtenances, maintenance of inland waterways, and any transportation
owned by or pre-allocated to the military.
The Interstate Commerce Commission shall:
(1) Operational control. Develop plans with appropriate private
transportation and storage organizations and associations for the coordination
and direction of the use of domestic surface transportation and storage
facilities for movement of passenger and freight traffic.
(2) Emergency operations. Develop and maintain necessary orders and
regulations for the operation of domestic surface transport and storage
industries in an emergency.
The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall:
(1) Research and development. Adapt and utilize the scientific and technological capability of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, consistent with over-all requirements to meet priority needs of the programs of the Federal Government in an emergency. This will include the direction and conduct of essential research and development activities relating to
(a) aircraft, spacecraft, and launch vehicles,
(b) associated instrumentation, guidance, control and payload, propulsion,
and communications systems,
(c) scientific phenomena affecting both manned and unman- ned space
flights,
(d) the life sciences (biology, medicine, and psychology) as they apply
to aeronautics and space, and
(e) atmospheric and geophysical sciences.
(2) Military support. Provide direct assistance as requested by the Department of Defense and other agencies in support of the military effort. This may include
(a) undertaking urgent projects to develop superior aircraft,
spacecraft, launch vehicles, and weapons systems,
(b) developing methods to counter novel or revolutionary enemy weapons
systems.
(c) providing technical advice and assistance on matters involving
air and space activities, and
(d) furnishing personnel and facilities to assist in emergency repairs
of equipment deficiencies and for other essential purposes.
The Director of the National Science Foundation shall:
(1) Manpower functions. Assist the Department of Labor in sustaining readiness for the mobilization of civilian manpower by:
(a) maintaining the Foundation's register of scientific and
technical personnel in such form and at such locations as will assure maximum
usefulness in an emergency;
(b) being prepared for rapid expansion of the Foundation's current
operation as a central clearing house for information covering all scientific
and technical personnel in the United States and its possessions; and
(c) developing, in consultation with the Department of Labor, the Selective
Service System, the Department of Defense, and the Office of Science and
Technology, plans and procedures to assure the most effective distribution
and utilization of the Nation's scientific and engineering manpower in
an emergency.
(2) Special functions.
(a) Provide leadership in devel- oping, with the assistance
of Federal and State agencies and appropriate non-governmental organizations,
the ability to mobilize scientists, in consonance with over-all civilian
manpower mobilization programs, to perform or assist in performance of
special tasks, including the identification of and defense against unconventional
warfare;
(b) advance the national radiological defense capability by including,
in consultation with appropriate agencies, pertinent scientific information
and radiological defense techniques in the Foundation's scientific institute
program for science, mathe- matics, and engineering teachers;
(c) assemble data on the location and character of major scientific
research facilities, including non-governmental as well as government facilities,
and their normal inventories of types of equipment and instruments which
would be useful in identification and analysis of hazards to human life
in the aftermath of enemy attack; and
(d) prepare to carry on necessary programs for basic research and for
training of scientific manpower.
(1) Manpower functions. Within the framework of the over-all
manpower plans and programs of the Department of Labor, assist in the mobilization
of civilian manpower in an emergency by developing plans for the recruitment
and referral of that segment of the Nation's manpower recources subject
to the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts.
(2) Benefit payments. Develop plans for administering, under
emergency conditions, the essential aspects of the Railroad Retirement
Act and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act consistent with overall Federal
plans for the continuation of benefit payments after an enemy attack.