ROLE OF THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PLANNING

Journal Article · Wed May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1963 · Health Physics (England)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1097/00004032-196305000-00011· OSTI ID:4705972

Brewer, C

A national state of readiness must be achieved and maintained for the mobilization of the Nation to deal with all degrees of emergency such as cold war, limited war, and general war including attack upon the United States. National security and current economic actions should be mutually supporting with due attention directed to emergency preparedness measures which will contribute to the improvement of our current economy or national well-being. The acceleration of mobilization can be accomplished most effectively and efficiently through the performance by departments and agencies of Government of those emergency preparedness functions related to their established roles and capabilities. The responsibility for emergency preparedness involves virtually every department and agency of the Federal Government, and there is a need to provide a central point of leadership and coordination in the Executive Office of the President. Therefore, the Office of Emergency Planning (OEP) was formed to advise and assist the President in the coordination and in the determination of policy for the emergency plans and preparedness assignments of the Federal departments and agencies designed to make possible the mobilization at Federal, State and local levels of the human, natural and industrial resources of the Nation to meet all conditions of national emergency. OEP is responsible for the preparation of plans and preparedness programs with respect to organization and the functioning of the Federal Government under mobilization conditions and with respect to specific areas of emergency Federal activity necessary in time of war which are not performed in the normal operations of the regular departments and agencies. OEP also exercises its assigned statutory operating functions relative to defense production, stockpiling, and development and maintenance of the mobilization base. (auth)

• Research Organization: Office of Emergency Planning, Washington, D.C.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• NSA Number: NSA-17-024753
• OSTI ID: 4705972
• Journal Information: Health Physics (England), Journal Name: Health Physics (England) Vol. Vol: 9; ISSN HLTPA
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

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