3. Policies for unifying, in time of war, the activities of Federal agencies and departments engaged in or concerned with production, procurement, distribution, or transportation of military or civilian supplies, materials, and products.

4. The relationship between potential supplies of, and potential requirements for, manpower, resources, and productive facilities in time of war.

5. Policies for establishing adequate reserves of strategic and critical material, and for the conservation of these

reserves.

6. The strategic relocation of industries, services, Government and economic activities, the continuous operation of which is essential to the Nation's security.

The Director is authorized and directed under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act, as amended (50 U. S. C. 98-98h), to determine from time to time, which materials are strategic and critical and the quality and quantities of such materials which shall be stockpiled. To the fullest extent practicable the Director shall secure the advice of industry advisory committees selected from the industries concerned with the materials to be stockpiled. It shall be the general function of the industry advisory committees to advise with the Director and with any agencies through which he may exercise any of his functions with respect to the purchase, sale, care, and handling of such materials. The Director shall give direction to the General Services Administrator for the purchase, storage, refinement, rotation, and disposal of

materials.

Under the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, as amended, and pursuant to Reorganization Plan 3, strategic and critical materials acquired by Commodity Credit Corporation in exchange for agricultural commodities shall, to the extent approved by the Director, be transferred to the stockpile. Under section 204 (e) of

the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 any executive agency entitled to receive cash under any contract covering the lease, sale, or other disposition of surplus property may in its discretion accept, in lieu of cash, any property determined by the Director to be strategic or critical material at the prevailing market price thereof at the time the cash payment or payments became or become due.

Pursuant to Executive Order 10460 of June 16, 1953, the Director assists and advises the President with respect to telecommunications functions in the executive branch of the Government, including: (1) coordinating the development of telecommunications policies and standards; (2) assuring high standards of telecommunications management; (3) coordinating the development by Government agencies of telecommunications plans and programs designed to assure maximum security to the United States in time of national emergency with a minimum interference to continuing nongovernmental requirements; (4) assigning radio frequencies to Government agencies; and (5) developing Government frequency requirements. The Director coordinates with the Federal Communications Commission in this process. The Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee reports to and assists the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization in the performance of his functions as he may request.

The Director cooperates with other agencies in the executive branch to implement United States telecommunications treaty obligations and with the Department of State on the projection of national telecommunications policy into international telecommunications matters.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR MANPOWER.-The Assistant Director for Manpower is the principal adviser to the Director on all manpower policy questions. He is responsible for directing and coordinating all the manpower

activities of the Federal Government necessary to achieve and maintain the current and projected mobilization program. He is also responsible for assuring that appropriate manpower actions are taken now which would enable the Nation to move quickly and effectively to full mobilization.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR MATERIALS. The Assistant Director for Materials has the principal responsibility in the Office of Defense Mobilization for the coordination and direction of Government activities in the defense materials area. He is responsible for recommending action in the materials field on expansion programs, stockpiling, and control. In exercising this responsibility he will attempt to have developed a supply of materials for the Nation to meet immediate defense needs and those that would arise in the event of war. He has the principal policy and programming responsibilities for the administration of the national stockpile of strategic and critical materials.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR PRODUC

TION. This Assistant Director is responsible for developing policies and reviewing the exercise of delegations of authority by other agencies in connection with current and future production programs and controls. He is responsible for the collection and validation of requirements and for determining the availability of capacity to meet these requirements. He is the principal adviser to the Director on all financial policy questions involving the use of incentives authorized under section 168 of the Internal Revenue Code, the Defense Production Act, and the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. He is responsible for developing policies and standards for the protection of the mobilization base and to assure the continuity of essential production in event of attack.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR STABILIZATION. This Assistant Director is responsible for developing all those stabilization measures which would be

required at the outset of war to prevent upward spiraling of prices, wages, and rents and the hoarding of commodities by consumers. He is also responsible for the development of longer-run stabilization measures including rationing which will be designed to assure continued stability and the equitable distribution of scarce commodities at the consumer level in the event of full war.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS.-The Assistant Director for Telecommunications assists, advises, and acts for the Director in relation to his duties to assist and advise the President with respect to telecommunication functions in the executive branch of the Government. These duties include the formulation, planning, and coordination of Federal policies, programs, and actions dealing with national telecommunications matters. Such activities previously described under activities of the Office are included in his responsibilities. He also has joint responsibility with the Secretary of Defense for the approval of plans relating to the control of electro-magnetic radiation (CONELRAD). The Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee functions through the Assistant Director. He is also advised and assisted by the Telecommunications Planning Committee, of which he is chairman. This committee is composed of senior communications officials of departments and agencies of the Government. Designees of these and other departments and agencies form panels of the Telecommunications Planning Committee to develop and coordinate telecommunication information, plans, programs, and actions under work programs established by the Assistant Director and adopted by the Telecommunications Planning Committee. The functions of this position are not restricted to mobilization but are of a continuing nature during normal as well as abnormal conditions.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR PLANS AND READINESS. This Assistant Director

is responsible for coordinating the development of integrated mobilization plans and preparedness measures to meet various degrees of mobilization, and the testing of the adequacy and operational readiness of such plans. In this he reviews for balance plans for utilization of manpower, material, and services in the various programs and coordinates procedures to assure rapid computation of damage from enemy attacks and the continuity of Government functions and community services in event of attack.

COORDINATOR OF DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION.-The Coordinator of Defense Transportation is responsible for the development and implementation of policies to meet the transportation needs of the Nation in an emergency. He is responsible for coordinating the development by other Government agencies of programs required to ready the transport industries to operate under attack conditions, during periods when capacity is restricted, and while arranging procedures for appropriate priority in their restoration. He is the principal adviser to the Director and staff of ODM on all aspects of defense transportation.

DEFENSE MOBILIZATION BOARD.

This Board, established by Executive Order 10200 of January 3, 1951, provides a means for coordinating the pol

icies and activities of the principal departments and agencies participating in the defense program.

SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

This committee, which was established by the President on April 20, 1951,

advises the President and the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization in matters relating to scientific research and development for defense.

HEALTH RESOURCES ADVISORY COM

MITTEE.-Transferred from the National Security Resources Board to the Office of Defense Mobilization on April 26, 1951, this Committee advises and assists the Director on problems of the Nation's health relating to national mobilization.

Government Organization was estab

January 24, 1953. The Committee derives authority also from the act approved March 6, 1954 (Pub. Law 304, 83d Cong., 2d sess.; 68 Stat. 24).

PURPOSE. The purpose of the ComImittee is to advise the President, the Assistant to the President, and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget with respect to changes in the organi

zation and activities of the executive

branch of the Government which, in its opinion, would promote economy and efficiency in the operations of that branch.

ORGANIZATION.-Members of the Committee are appointed by the President and serve without compensation. Approved.

NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER,
Chairman.

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