Humbly report, "Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities" Executive Order 12656:
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Federal Register
Vol. 53. No. 228
Wednesday, November 23, 1988
Presidential Documents
Title 3-
The President
Executive Order 12656 of November 18, 1988
Assigmment of Emergency Preparedness
Responsibilities
WHEREAS our national security is dependent upon
our ability to assure continuity of government, at
every level, in any national security emergency
situation that might confront the Nation; and
WHEREAS effective national preparedness planning
to meet such an emergency, including a massive
nuclear attack, is essential to our national
survival; and
WHEREAS effective national preparedness planning
requires the identification of functions that would
have to be performed during such an emergency, the
assignment of responsibility for developing plans
for performing these functions, and the assignment
of responsibility for developing the capability to
implement those plans; and
WHEREAS the Congress has directed the
development of such national security emergency
preparedness plans and has provided funds for the
accomplishment thereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested
in me as President by the Constitution and laws of
the United States of America, and pursuant to
Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799),
the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, the
Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, and
the Federal Civil Defense Act, as amended, it is
hereby ordered that the responsibilities of the
Federal departments and agencies in national
security emergencies shall be as follows:
[ . . .]
Sec. 2901. Executive Order Nos. 10421 and 11490,
as amended, are hereby revoked. This Order shall be
effective immediately.
RONALD REAGAN
THE WHITE HOUSE.
November 18,1988.
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Seems y2k relevant, so I read the whole thing,
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