Part 25
Securities and Exchange Commission
SECTION 2501 Functions.
The Securities and Exchange Commission shall collaborate with the Secretary of the
Treasury in the development of emergency financial control plans, programs, procedures,
and regulations for:
(1) Stock trading. Temporary closure of security exchanges, suspension of redemption
rights, and freezing of stock and bond prices, if required in the interest of maintaining
economic controls.
(2) Modified trading. Development of plans designed to reestablish and maintain a stable
and orderly market for securities when the situation permits under emergency conditions.
(3) Protection of securities. Provision of a national records system which will make it
possible to establish current ownership of securities in the event major trading centers
and depositories are destroyed.
(4) Flow of capital. The control of the formation and flow of private capital as it relates to
new securities offerings or expansion of prior offerings for the purpose of establishing or
reestablishing industries in relation to the Nation's needs in or following a national
emergency.
(5) Flight of capital. The prevention of the flight of capital outside this country, in
coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, and the impounding of securities in the
hands of enemy aliens.
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Part 26
Small Business Administration
SECTION 2601 Functions.
The Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall:
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(1) Prime contract authority. Develop plans to administer a program for the acquisition of
prime contracts by the Administration and, in turn, for negotiating or otherwise letting of
subcontracts to capable small business concerns in an emergency.
(2) Resource information. Provide data on facilities, inventories, and potential production
capacity of small business concerns to all interested agencies.
(3) Procurement. Develop plans to determine jointly with Federal procurement agencies,
as appropriate, which defense contracts are to go to small business concerns and to certify
to the productive and financial ability of small concerns to perform specific contracts, as
required.
(4) Loans for plant modernization. Develop plans for providing emergency assistance to
essential individual industrial establishments through direct loans or participation loans
for the financing of production facilities and equipment.
(5) Resource pools. Develop plans for encouraging and approving small business defense
production and research and development pools.
(6) Financial assistance. Develop plans to make loans, directly or in participation with
private lending institutions, to small business concerns and to groups or pools of such
concerns, to small business investment companies, and to State and local development
companies to provide them with funds for lending to small business concerns, for defense
and essential civilian purposes.
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Part 27
Tennessee Valley Authority
SECTION 2701 Functions.
The Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority shall:
(1).Electric power. Assist the Department of the Interior in the development of plans for
the integration of the Tennessee Valley Authority power system into national emergency
programs and prepare plans for the emergency management, operation, and maintenance
of the system and for its essential expansion.
(2) Waterways. Assist the Interstate Commerce Commission, under the coordinating
authority of the Secretary of Transportation, in the development of plans for integration
and control of inland waterway transportation systems and, in cooperation with the
Department of Defense and the Department of the Interior, prepare plans for the
management, operation, and maintenance of the river control system in the Tennessee
River and certain of its tributaries for navigation during an emergency.
(3) Flood control. Develop plans and maintain its river control operations for the
prevention or control of floods caused by natural phenomena or overt and covert attack
affecting the Tennessee River System and, in so doing, collaborate with the Department
of Defense with respect to the control of water in the lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
(4) Emergency health services and sanitary water supplies. Assist the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare in the development of plans and programs covering
emergency health services, civilian health manpower, and health resources in the
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Tennessee Valley Authority area and, in collaboration with the Department of the Interior
and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, prepare plans for the
management, operation. and maintenance of the Tennessee River System consistent with
the needs for sanitary public water supplies, waste disposal, and vector control.
(5) Coordination of water use. Develop plans for determining or proposing priorities for
the use of water by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the event of conflicting claims
arising from the functions listed above.
(6) Fertilizer. Assist the Department of Agriculture in the development of plans for the
distribution and claimancy of fertilizer; assist the Department of Commerce and the
Department of Defense in the development of Tennessee Valley Authority production
quotas and any essential expansion of production facilities, and prepare plans for the
management, operation, and maintenance of its facilities for the manufacture of nitrogen
and phosphorous fertilizers.
(7) Munitions production. Perform chemical research in munitions as requested by the
Department of Defense, maintain standby munitions production facilities, and develop
plans for converting and utilizing fertilizer facilities as required in support of the
Department of Defense's munitions program.
(8) Land management. Develop plans for the maintenance, management, and utilization
of Tennessee Valley Authority-controlled lands in the interest of an emergency economy.
(9) Food and forestry. Assist the Department of Agriculture in the development of plans
for the harvesting and processing of fish and game, and the Department of Commerce in
the development of plans for the production and processing of forest products.
(10) Coordination with Valley States. Prepare plans and agreements with Tennessee
Valley States, consistent with Federal programs, for appropriate integration of Tennessee
Valley Authority and State plans for the use of available Tennessee Valley Authority
resources.
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Part 28
United States Civil Service Commission
SECTION 2801 Functions.
The United States Civil Service Commission shall:
(1) Personnel system. Prepare plans for adjusting the Federal civilian personnel system to
simplify administration and to meet emergency demands.
(2) Utilization. Develop policies and implementing procedures designed to assist Federal
agencies in achieving the most effective utilization of the Federal Government's civilian
manpower in an emergency.
(3) Manpower policies. As the representative of the Federal Government as an employer,
participate, as appropriate, in the formulation of national and regional manpower policies
as they affect Federal civilian personnel and establish implementing policies as
necessary.
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(4) Manpower administration. Prepare plans, in consonance with national manpower
policies and programs, for the administration of emergency civilian manpower and
employment policies within the executive branch of the Government, including the
issuance and enforcement of regulations to implement such policies.
(5) Wage and salary stabilization. Participate, as appropriate, with the Office of
Emergency Preparedness and the Department of Labor in the formulation of national and
regional wage and salary stabilization policies as they affect Federal civilian personnel.
Within the framework of such policies, prepare plans for the implementation of such
policies and controls established for employees within the executive branch of the
Government, including the issuance and enforcement of necessary regulations.
(6) Assistance. Develop plans for rendering personnel management and staffing
assistance to new and expanding Federal agencies.
(7) Recruiting. Develop plans for the coordination and control of civilian recruiting
policies and practices by all Federal agencies in order to increase the effectiveness of the
total recruitment efforts during an emergency and to prevent undesirable recruitment
practices.
(8) Reassignment. Develop plans to facilitate the reassignment or transfer of Federal
civilian employees, including the movement of employees from one agency or location to
another agency or location, in order to meet the most urgent needs of the executive
branch during an emergency.
(9) Registration. Develop plans and procedures for a nationwide system of post-attack
registration of Federal employees to provide a means for locating and returning to duty
those employees who become physically separated from their agencies after an enemy
attack, and to provide for the maximum utilization of the skills of surviving employees.
(10) Deferment. Develop plans and procedures for a system to control Government
requests for the selective service deferment of employees in the executive branch of the
Federal Government and in the municipal government of the District of Columbia.
(11) Investigation. Prepare plans, in coordination with agencies having responsibilities in
the personnel security field, for the conduct of national agency checks and inquiries,
limited suitability investigations, and full field investigations under emergency
conditions.
(12) Salaries, wages, and benefits. Develop plans for operating under emergency
conditions the essential aspects of salary and wage systems and such benefit systems as
the Federal Employees Retirement System, the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance
Program, the Federal Employees and Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits
Programs, and the Federal Employees Compensation Program.
(13) Federal manpower mobilization. Assist Federal agencies in establishing manpower
plans to meet their own emergency manpower requirements; identify major or special
manpower problems of individual Federal agencies and the Federal Government as a
whole in mobilizing a civilian work force to meet essential emergency requirements;
identify sources of emergency manpower supply for all agencies where manpower
problems are indicated; and develop Government-wide plans for the use of surplus
Federal civilian manpower.
(14) Distribution of manpower. Participate in the formulation of policies and decisions on
the distribution of the nation's civilian manpower resources, obtain appropriate civilian
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manpower data from Federal agencies, and establish necessary implementing policies and
procedures within the Executive Branch.
(15) Training. Develop, organize, and conduct, as appropriate, interagency training
programs in emergency personnel management for Federal employees.
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Part 29
Veterans Administration
SECTION 2901 Functions.
The Administrator of Veterans Affairs shall develop policies, plans, and procedures for
the performance of emergency functions with respect to the continuation or restoration of
authorized programs of the Veterans Administration under all conditions of national
emergency, including attack upon the United States. These include:
(1) The emergency conduct of inpatient and outpatient care and treatment in Veterans
Administration medical facilities and participation with the Departments of Defense and
Health, Education, and Welfare as provided for in interagency agreements.
(2) The emergency conduct of compensation, pension, rehabilitation, education, and
insurance payments consistent with over-all Federal plans for the continuation of Federal
benefit payments.
(3) The emergency performance of insurance and loan guaranty functions in accordance
with indirect stabilization policies and controls designed to deal with various emergency
conditions.