cations purposes of customers, over integrated communications pathways, including facilities, local channels which are integral components of intercity private line services and station equipments, between specified locations for a continuous period or for regularly recurring periods at stated hours. The term "resumption" means the recommencement of private line services by patching, rerouting, substitution of component parts, or otherwise as determined by the common carrier involved.

3. When interrupted, private line service shall be resumed by the common carriers in the following order of priority, insofar as practicable:

PRIORITY I

The Priority I classification shall be afforded only to those private line services which are used to transmit and/or receive communications which are vital to the Nation under the following categories:

a. Immediate dangers due to the presence of the enemy, including civil and military air defense warning.

b. Intelligence reports on matter leading to enemy attack requiring immediate action. c. "Flash," "Emergency," and "Operational Immediate" communications to or from the United States Armed Forces.

d. Urgent communications of or in support of the U.S. Armed Forces and their Allies, and/or with U.S. diplomatic missions abroad.

e. Proclamations of Civil Defense Emergency.

Private line service within this classification shall receive precedence of resumption over all other private line service, applying the principles described in paragraph 4.

PRIORITY II

The Priority II classification shall be afforded only to those private line services which are used to transmit and/or receive communications which are vital to the Nation under the following categories:

a. Initial reports of damage due to enemy action.

b. Civil defense activities immediately subsequent to and resulting from enemy action.

c. "Priority" communications to or from the United States Armed Forces.

d. High precedence U.S. Government communications with foreign governments and U.S. diplomatic missions abroad.

e. Natural disaster of extreme seriousness. Private line service within this classification shall receive precedence of resumption over all other private line service except those listed under Priority I, applying the principles described in paragraph 4.

PRIORITY III

The Priority III classification shall be afforded only to those private line services which are used to transmit and/or receive communications which are vital to the Nation under the following categories:

a. Civil Defense or the public health and safety.

b. Important governmental functions. c. Maintenance of essential public services. d. Communications concerning production, procurement, and distribution of food, essential materials and supplies which require rapid completion of transmission.

e. Communications to or from United States Armed Forces which require rapid completion of transmission.

f. Official U.S. Government communications with foreign governments and U.S. diplomatic missions abroad which require rapid completion of transmission.

Private line service within this classification shall receive precedence of resumption over all other private line service except those listed under Priorities I and II, applying the principles described in paragraph 4.

4. The order of listing of lettered items under each priority classification does not indicate or imply differences in priority treatment within a given classification. When necessary, in order to resume a service having a given priority classification, services having lower priority classifications will be interrupted in the reverse order of priority starting with non-priority services. It is recognized that, as a practical matter, in providing for the resumption of a priority service or services operating within a multiple circuit type of facility (such as a carrier band, cable or multiplex system), lower priority or non-priority services on parallel channels within the band or system may enjoy resumption well. Reactivation of such lower priority or non-priority services resulting therefrom shall not, however, interfere with the expeditious resumption of priority service. It is further recognized that operational circuits are needed by common carriers during the process of circuit reactivation and for maintenance purposes. Such circuits have precedence in resumption over all other circuits and are exempt from interruption for the purpose of resuming priority service.

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5. The priorities outlined herein are available for the private line services of Federal, State and Municipal governmental agencies, essential industries and services and such other private line customers as can meet the criteria set forth in paragraph 3 above.

6. Foreign governments desiring to obtain priority of resumption for their private line services which terminate in the United States should submit requests therefor to the U.S. Department of State.

7. It will be the responsibility of private line customers to determine which, if any, of their private line services are sufficiently critical to qualify for priority under the terms of Priority Classifications I, II, or III, set forth in paragraph 3, and to certify to the common carriers the priority classifications to be accorded the services so determined. Private line services should be certified by the customers within 120 days of the initial service date.

TION; PRIORITIES AND ALLOCA-
TIONS AUTHORITY

(1) Policy guidance with regard to the use of the Priorities and allocations authority of title 1 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, and,

(2) Delegation of such authority to certain officers and agencies.

1. Purpose. This order (1) establishes policy guidance in accordance with section 101 of Executive Order 10480 and section 401 of Executive Order 11051, (2) delegates authority in accordance with section 201 of Executive Order 10480, as amended, and (3) delegates other authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended.

2. Cancellation. This order supersedes Defense Mobilization Order I-7, dated August 14, 1953 (18 F.R. 5366) (redesignated at 18 F.R. 6737, October 23, 1953); Defense Mobilization Order I-7, Amendment 1, Revised, dated November 12, 1954 (19 F.R. 7348); Defense Mobilization Order VII-3, Revised, dated January 10, 1956 (21 F.R. 253); and Defense Mobilization Order VII–3, Supplement 1, dated August 27, 1955 (20 F.R. 6339).

3. Policies. a. Authority of title I of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, to control the distribution and use of materials and facilities, shall not be used except to require preference in the performance of contracts and orders and to allocate materials and facilities to accomplish the following:

(1) Direct military and atomic energy programs.

(2) Other programs and activities which are related to the military and atomic energy programs and which are certified by the Department of Defense or the Atomic Energy Commission and specifically authorized by the Office of Emergency Planning.

(3) Deliveries, production, and construction in industry required to fulfill direct military and atomic energy programs and the related programs and activities authorized under (2) above.

(4) The general distribution in the civilian market of materials found to be scarce and critical pursuant to the provisions of section 101(b) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, and approved by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning under section 201

(5) Assistance in providing materials and facilities for the restoration of productive capacity damaged or destroyed by a major disaster as defined and determined under the provisions of Public Law 875, 81st Congress (42 U.S.C. 1855):

(a) Whenever the facility to be restored has delivery orders identified by authorized program identification symbols under the defense materials system. (b) Whenever failure to restore the facility would result in failure to meet a defense delivery schedule.

(c) Whenever failure to restore the facility would prevent the provision of a service necessary to meet a defense delivery schedule.

(d) When and to the extent that assistance is necessary to restore mobilization base capacity for the production of defense items including materials and services covered by the Office of Emergency Planning expansion goals whether or not such goals remain open.

b. The distribution of steel, copper, aluminum and nickel alloys for military and atomic energy and authorized related programs and activities shall

assure:

(1) That supplies of these materials are available to those programs and activities on time and in proper quantity.

(2) That demands of these programs and activities shall be distributed among suppliers on a generally fair and equitable basis.

(3) That allotments are not made in excess of actual current requirements of these programs and activities.

These criteria shall also apply to the maximum practicable extent to the use of priorities for materials other than steel, copper, aluminum and nickel alloys in support of direct military and atomic energy programs and other authorized programs and activities.

c. The Office of Emergency Planning shall review requirements and issue program determinations approving programs and making allotments of steel, copper, aluminum and nickel alloys to the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission for direct military and atomic energy programs and related programs and activities that have been authorized and assigned to these agencies for purposes of establishing them as programs eligible for priori

ties and allocations support, in accordance with the Business and Defense Services Administration regulations issued pursuant to title 1 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended.

d. All agencies now or hereafter designated by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning to furnish supply and requirements data shall be responsible for the provision of such data and shall be entitled to be heard in connection with the determination of programs by the Director. The evaluation of supply and requirements data and the determination of programs shall be the function of the Director of Economic Affairs of the Office of Emergency Planning with right of appeal to the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning by any designated agency.

e. Exceptions to the foregoing basic policy may be made in the interests of the national defense by or with the authority of the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning.

4. Delegation of authority. a. The functions of the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning under title 1 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, are hereby delegated to those offices and agencies named in section 201 of Executive Order 10480, as amended, with respect to the areas of responsibilities designated, and subject to the limitations prescribed in that section.

b. The functions conferred upon the Director of the Office of Emergency Plan

ning by section 310(b) and 311(b) of

Executive Order 10480, as amended, to certify the essentiality of loans to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Export-Import Bank of Washington are hereby delegated to the Administrator of General Services to the extent that such loans are a part of and in accordance with the terms of programs certified by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning pursuant to section 312 of Executive Order 10480.

c. The functions conferred upon the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning by section 304 of Executive Order 10480, as amended, relative to the encouragement of exploration, development and mining of strategic and critical metals and minerals are hereby delegated to the Secretary of the Interior.

d. The functions delegated by this order may be redelegated with or without authority for further redelegation, and redelegations on the date hereof shall continue in effect until rescinded or modified by appropriate authority.

e. Officers and agencies performing the functions delegated by this order or redelegated by, or by authority of, the delegates hereunder shall perform such functions subject to the direction and control of the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning as provided by section 101 of Executive Order 10480, as amended. Such officers and agencies shall furnish such reports on the use of the authority as the Director may require.

[28 F.R. 12164, Nov. 15, 1963]

DMO 8500.1A-GUIDANCE ON PRIORITY USE OF RESOURCES IN IMMEDIATE POSTATTACK PERIOD

1. Purpose. This Order (1) states the policy of the Federal Government on use of resources in the period immediately following a nuclear attack on the United States, (2) provides general guidance for Federal, State, and local government officials on activities to be accorded priority in the use of postattack resources, and (3) lists those items essential to national survival in the immediate postattack period.

2. Cancellation. Defense Mobilization Order 8500.1, Guidance on Priority Use of Resources in Immediate Postattack Period, dated April 24, 1964 (29 F.R. 5796) is hereby superseded.

3. General policy. In an immediate postattack period all decisions regarding the use of resources will be directed to the objective of national survival and recovery. In order to achieve this objective, postattack resources will be assigned to activities concerned with the maintenance and saving of lives, immediate military defense and retaliatory operations, and economic activities essential to contined survival and recovery.

This guidance is designed to achieve a degree of national equity in the use of resources and to assign and conserve resources effectively in the immediate postattack period. Until more specific instructions are available, these are the general guidelines within which managerial judgment and common sense must be used to achieve national objectives under widely differing emergency conditions.

4. Responsibilities. As stated in The National Plan for Emergency Preparedness, the direction of resources mobilization is a Federal responsibility. However, in the period immediately following an attack, certain geographical areas may be temporarily isolated, and State and local governments will assume responsibility for the use of resources remaining in such areas until effective Federal authority can be restored. State and local governments will not assume responsibility for resources under the jurisdiction of a Federal agency where the Federal agency is able to function.

As soon as possible after an attack and until specific national direction and guidance on the use of resources is provided, Federal, State, and local officials

will determine what resources are available, to what needs they can be applied, how they are to be used, and the extent to which resources are deficient or in excess of survival needs. They will base determinations as to the relative urgency for use of resources primarily upon the importance of specific needs of defense, survival, and recovery.

5. Priority activities in immediate postattack period. The following activities are to be accorded priority over all other claims for resources. There is no significance in the order of the listing—all are important. The order in which and the extent to which they are supported locally may vary with local conditions and circumstances. If local conditions necessitate the establishment of an order of priority among these activities, that order shall be based on determinations of relative urgency among the activities listed, the availability of resources for achieving the actions required, and the feasibility and timeliness of the activities in making the most rapid and effective contribution to national survival.

a. The immediate defense and retaliatory combat operations of the Armed Forces of the United States and its Allies: This includes support of military personnel and the production and distribution of military and atomic weapons, materials and equipment required to carry out these immediate defense and retaliatory combat operations.

b. Maintenance or reestablishment of Government authority and control to restore and preserve order and to assure direction of emergency operations essential for the safety and protection of the people. This includes:

(1) Police protection and movement direction;

(2) Fire defense, rescue and debris clearance;

(3) Warnings;

(4) Emergency information and instructions;

(5) Radiological detection, monitoring and decontamination.

c. Production and distribution of survival items and provision of services essential to continued survival and rapid recovery. (For list of survival items, see Appendix 1 to this order.) These include:

(1) Expedient shelter;

(2) Food, including necessary processing and storage;

(3) Feeding, clothing, lodging, and other welfare services;