Part 20
General Services Administration
SECTION 2001 Resume of Responsibilities.
The Administrator of General Services shall prepare national emergency plans and
develop preparedness programs designed to permit modification or expansion of the
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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.
SEC. 2002 Functions.
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 Federallyoccupied
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.
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(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
requirements of Federal agencies under emergency conditions, including the development
of policies, methods, and proce- dures for emergency procurement and for emergency
requisitioning 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; determination of
sources of supply; procurement of personal property and non-personal services;
furnishing appropriate inspection and contract administration services; and establishment,
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, inspection, 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. Develop 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.
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(11) Facilities protection and building and shelter manager 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.
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SEC. 2003 Defense Production.
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.
SEC. 2004 Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiles.
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 procurement (for this purpose, procurement includes upgrading, rotation, and
beneficiation), storage, security, maintenance, inspection, withdrawal, and disposal of
materials, supplies, and equipment.
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Part 21
Interstate Commerce Commission
SECTION 2101 Resume of Responsibilities.
The Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, under the coordinating authority
of the Secretary of Transportation, shall prepare national emergency plans and develop
preparedness programs covering railroad utilization, reduction of vulnerability,
maintenance, restoration, and operation in an emergency (other than for the Alaska
Railroad - see Section 1303(6)); motor carrier utilization, reduction of vulnerability, and
operation in an emergency; inland waterway utilization of equipment and shipping,
reduction of vulnerability, 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.
SEC. 2102 Definitions.
As used in this part:
(1) "Domestic surface transportation and storage" means rail, motor, and inland water
transportation facilities and services and public storage;
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(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.
SEC. 2103 Transportation Functions.
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.
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Part 22
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SECTION 2201 Functions.
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 unmanned 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.
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(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.
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Part 23
National Science Foundation
SECTION 2301 Functions.
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 developing, 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, mathematics, 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.
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Part 24
Railroad Retirement Board
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SECTION 2401 Functions. The Railroad Retirement Board shall:
(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.