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• Rescue Assault Forces: Integrated Strategic Role in National Security

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  From the thesis abstract: "This study examines the adequacy of present U.S. counterterrorist strategy and force development as an integral part of U.S. National Security policies. Emphasis is placed on countering the hostage and kidnapping duration event forms of terrorism and their destabilizing effect on U.S.--Third World relationships. The study includes a historical review of force development as a function of national security objective since the end of World War II. The historical aspect identifies those major weapons system programs which will likely dominate defense expenditures in the decade(s) ahead. The concept of an inadequate counterterrorist strategy will focus on the threat to U.S. National Security posed by changes taking place in the Third World. The increased U.S. dependence on foreign Third World natural resources and Soviet geostrategic gains are presented as a basis for challenging the current force development emphasis on nuclear and conventional forces. To meet the challenge of the possible inadequacy of current counterterrorist priority, a corollary to this thesis examines the potential contribution to National Security which could be made by a permanently organized rescue assault force equipped with the best available strategic transport technology."

  U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

  Prichard, Joe Douglas

  1982-06-04
• Security of the South Atlantic: Is It a Case for 'SATO' - South Atlantic Treaty Organization?

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  From the thesis abstract provided by the Combined Arms Research Library: "The growing dependence of the industrialized nations on the South Atlantic area, whose value was sufficiently proved during both world wars, increased considerably the importance of this strategic region to the security of the West, since through its sea-lanes flows a large amount of the raw materials desperately needed by the US, Europe and Japan to feed their industries. The South Atlantic has become an area of intense East-West confrontation and in recent years it has witnessed a large Soviet influence particularly on the west coast of Africa, giving the USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] the capability to disrupt the vital shipping lanes in the area. This thesis attempts to analyze the strategic importance of the South Atlantic area to the western world and to ascertain whether the countries located within the boundaries of that area are prone to build a new alliance to cope with the Soviet influence. Analysis reveals that the South Atlantic countries do not possess either the military power or the political will to create a valid and efficient security pact, due to the lack of a clear-cut consensus on the importance of a potential SATO [South Atlantic Treaty Organization] to protect West interests in the region. Analysis also points out the existence of some valid alternatives that if carefully implemented would considerably upgrade the security of the South Atlantic area, without creating insurmountable political obstacles. However, a more comprehensive approach toward the creation of a formal security alliance is still not ripe, and for the time being the South Atlantic Treaty Organization will remain a challenge to be met by both South American and African countries."

  U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

  Lessa, Luiz G. S.

  1982-04-06
• US Army Special Warfare: Its Origins, Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952

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  "In the first half of the twentieth century, American leaders employed US Armed Forces to support American foreign policy in 'conventional warfare' against the organized, uniformed forces of enemy nations. Although the size and nature of the forces varied in two world wars and Korea, in each of these conflicts the US Army performed its role with regularly organized divisions and without the use of nuclear weapons. Whether infantry, mechanized infantry, armored, or airborne, the division was the basic formation of the Army, the key organization by which strength was measured in conventional war. After World War II, political and military leaders began to consider other forms of conflict in which US forces might be engaged. Organization, equipment, and doctrine were reexamined in view of the possibility of nuclear war, but in this process the division remained a fundamental military organization. Simultaneously, however, a few thinkers began to consider the possibility of forces capable of operating at the opposite end of the conflict spectrum from nuclear war, below the level of conventional war-to consider, in short, a capability to conduct guerrilla, or 'unconventional' warfare. Regular divisions were never designed or equipped for unconventional warfare, so special units, training, and doctrine would be necessary for such a task."

  National Defense University

  Paddock, Alfred H., 1937-

  1982
• Amerasian Immigrants Proposals: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 1698, A Bill to Amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to Provide Preferential Treatment in the Admission of Certain Children of United States Armed Forces Personnel, June 21, 1982

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  From the opening statement of the Hon. Alan K. Simpson, a U.S. Senator from the State of Wyoming, Chairman, Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy: "Today's hearing concerns the plight of thousands of children fathered by American servicemen and other U.S. citizens serving in Asia, and born of Asian mothers. We understand that such children frequently become social outcasts in their homelands because of their mixed parentage, and often have difficulty in finding employment and making lives for themselves. I do feel that the support which has been demonstrated in the Congress and by this administration for various proposals to assist Amerasians indicates a willingness on the part of the American people to provide some relief for these children. But I also believe that the American people wish to be certain that we are admitting an identifiable group of persons, that we are avoiding fraud, and that we are not creating new financial burdens on the Federal Treasury. Many of the proposals which will be discussed this afternoon have attempted to address these concerns, and certainly our witnesses include experts who have been working with and for these children, and these adults, because many of them indeed are adults now, and have been working with them throughout the years." Materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Diego Asencio, Jeremiah Denton, Judith Foster, Alfred V. Keane, Carl Levin, Walter Martindale, Stewart B. McKinney, Alan Nelson, and John Shade, as well as the American Council on Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service, Inc and Fort Sanders Obstetrical and Gynecological Group P.C.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1982
• Requests for Federal Disaster Assistance Need Better Evaluation

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  "Since 1970 the President's Disaster Relief Fund has provided over $3.8 billion to individuals and State and local governments. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in assessing eligibility for disaster assistance, has had difficulty in determining whether State and local governments are capable of handling their own disasters and whether they are committing a reasonable amount of their available funds for disaster relief. GAO [General Accounting Office] also found that the Agency has adopted a controversial costsharing policy and has funded other than natural disasters. GAO recommends that the Congress clarify the extent of supplemental Federal assistance to be given and (2) what kinds of disasters are eligible for Federal assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency should analyze the impact potential State inequities have on Federal disaster assistance and submit a detailed plan and legislative changes to the Congress to correct such weaknesses."

  United States. General Accounting Office

  1981-12-07
• Health Hazard Evaluation Report HETA 81-137-990; Federated Fire Fighters of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada

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  "On November 22, 1980, a fire occurred in the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Approximately 400 firemen from Las Vegas and surrounding counties were involved in fighting the fire. A considerable number of fatalities were caused by the fire, although none among firemen. In December 1980, NIOSH [National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health] was requested to evaluate the possibility that the fire may have led to lasting adverse health effects among the firemen. The request, which was submitted by the Federated Fire Fighters of Nevada through the International Association of Fire Fighters, stated that firemen were still, several weeks after the fire, experiencing respiratory and other symptoms and that these symptoms may have been caused by exposure to smoke and fumes during the fire. The request also stated that firemen had suffered untoward psychological effects due to the great number of fatalities and that these effects warranted evaluation."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

  Jannerfeldt, E.

  1981-11
• Master Planning Report to Congress

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  "Scarce resources coupled with a need for increased emergency response capabilities at the local level are forcing many communities to do a better job of planning for and managing their public safety programs. Many communities surveyed for this report indicate that Fire and Emergency Master Planning is essential if these new emergency response needs are to be addressed cost-effectively. The fire service in our country has evolved into one of the best equipped and trained fire suppression forces in the world. However, the emergency management problems which communities face today have expanded the fire department's responsibilities far beyond that of fire suppression. Code enforcement, fire investigation, public education, emergency medical services, and response to a variety of emergencies--ranging from hazardous material spills to floods to radiological incidents are typical services provided to communities by the fire department. The fire department represents the largest manpower resource available to respond to and mitigate local emergencies and disasters. Good management dictates the efficient use of this valuable resource. Implementation of recommendations proposed in this report will do much to improve local emergency response capabilities. The USFA [United States Fire Association] is committed to assisting communities in meeting these new emergency management challenges and to making the fire department a well-trained and effective 'First Responder' to a range of local emergencies and disasters."

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  1981-08
• Federal Electrical Emergency Preparedness Is Inadequate

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  GAO reviewed the vulnerability of the nation's electric power systems to disruptions from acts of war, sabotage, and terrorism and analyzed the federal role in dealing with major, long-term electrical emergencies resulting from such acts. Federal leadership for electrical emergency planning and preparation is unorganized and ineffective. GAO found that: (1) the Department of Energy (DOE) has an inadequate program for dealing with major electrical disruptions; (2) DOE Emergency Electric Power Administration representatives are unsure of their status, roles, authority, and responsibility, and doubtful that the organization could operate during an emergency; (3) DOE does not have adequate plans to manage and mitigate electric power disruptions; (4) emergency plans to manage such disruptions and restore the power system are needed; and (5) problems exist in federal coordination with respect to electric emergency preparedness.

  United States. General Accounting Office

  1981-05-12
• Our Missing Shield: The U.S. Civil Defense Program in Historical Perspective

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  "This volume traces the development of American Civil Defense (CD), 1916-1980. It focuses on policies, plans, programs, budgets, organization and management, and on the central problems and critical issues in planning for survival in a nuclear attack. The study analyzes CD experience in two World Wars; planning by the Department of Defense and the National Security Resources Board after WW II; the events leading to the enactment of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950; and the experience of successive agencies: the Federal Civil Defense Administration (1950-58); the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (1958-61); the Office of Civil Defense in the Department of Defense (1961-64) and in the Department of the Army (1964-72); the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency again under the Secretary of Defense (1972-79); and the merger with emergency preparedness and natural disaster programs into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (1979). The study concludes that after three decades of effort, the U.S. has only a marginal CD program. Impediments to progress have been: the failure to grasp early, and to act on, implications of the experience of Britain, Germany and Japan under heavy bombing in WW II; delays in discarding outmoded concepts; difficulties in adjusting to the fast pace of weapons technology; excessive secrecy about the threat of nuclear weapons and radioactive fallout; limited Federal power in CD; confusion regarding civil-military relations in this field; ambiguity as to the strategic impact of CD; problems in designing a balanced program and strategy for survival; instability in Federal CD organization; and, of highest significance, Presidential and Congressional indifference and neglect and attendant budgetary constraints."

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  Yoshpe, Harry B.

  1981-04
• Guidelines for ADP Contingency Planning

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  This document provides guidelines to be used in the preparation of ADP contingency plans. The objective is to ensure that ADP personnel, and others who may be involved in the planning process, are aware of the types of information which should be included in such plans; to provide a recommended structure and a suggested format; and generally to make those responsible aware of the criticality of the contingency planning process.

  United States. Department of Commerce

  1981-03-27
• U.S. Crisis Relocation Planning

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  This U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency report addresses a possible nuclear attack against the United States and outlines the effects of a nuclear attack, maps the nuclear fallout distribution, estimates percent survival of such an attack, estimates the capability of the Soviet Union to withstand a U.S. counterstrike, and estimates the benefits to the U.S. of an effective civil defense system.

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  1981-02
• NWS Simplified Dam-Break Flood Forecasting Model

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  "A simplified model for predicting the downstream flooding produced by a dam failure is presented. This model has been developed to aid flash flood hydrologists who, because warning response time is short or adequate computing facilities are not available, are unable to utilize the NHS Dam-Break Flood Forecasting Model. Using only a hand-held calculator and the dimensionless graphs presented in this paper, the hydrologist may within minutes produce forecasts of the dam-break floodwave peak stages, discharges, and travel times. […]The ability of this model to predict the extent and timing of downstream inundation is tested with good results using data obtained during the dam-break floods produced by the failures of Teton Dam and the Buffalo Creek coal-waste dam. Prediction accuracy and the time required to use the model are examined for each application. A step-by-step example application is also presented. Advising the public of downstream flooding during a dam failure emergency is the responsibility of the National Weather Service (NWS). To aid NWS flash flood hydrologists in forecasting the inundation resulting from dam-failures, the numerical DAMBRK Model (Fread 1977, 1980) was developed for use with high-speed computers to model the outflow hydrograph produced by a time-dependent, partial dam breach and route this hydrograph downstream using the complete onedimensional unsteady flow equations while accounting for the effects of downstream dams, bridges, and off-channel storage. However, in some situations the use of the DAMBRK Model may be precluded because warning response-time is short or adequate computing facilities are not available. To alleviate this potential problem and to improve upon the accuracy and versatility of existing simplified dam breach modelling procedures (Saakas and Strelkoff, 1973; McQuivey and Keefer, 1975; Snyder, 1977; and SCS, 1979), the NWS has developed the Simplified Dam-Break (SMPDBK) Flood Forecasting Model. Employing only a handheld calculator and dimensionless graphs, the user may within minutes produce forecasts of the dam-break floodwave peak discharges, stages, and travel times. It should be noted here however, that the use of the NWS SMPDBK Model is not limited to NWS flash flood hydrologists. Planners, designers, civil defense officials, and consulting engineers who are concerned with the potential effects of a dam failure and who have limited time, resources, data, computer facilities, and/or experience with unsteady flow models may also wish to employ the model to delineate the areas facing danger in a dam-break emergency."

  United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; United States. National Weather Service

  Wetmore, Jonathan N.; Fread, D.L.

  1981
• Design Guidelines for Flood Damage Reduction

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  "It is within this context that the present manual of design guidelines for flood damage reduction has evolved. The purpose of this manual is to assist designers in their task-in effect to give them the basic information and the tools necessary to reduce the losses that continue to result from flooding Specifically the manual tries to meet this need by answering the following questions: 1)What are flooding's inherent characteristics? 2) How does flooding relate to the built environment? 3) What steps have been taken to mitigate flood damage? 4) What programs influence development in flood-prone areas? 5) What essential information is needed to design in floxd-prone areas? 6) What design techniques are available to mitigate flood damage to the built environment? 7) Where can the designer obtain additional information about flooding?"

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  1981
• International Terrorism: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, First Session on S. 873, A Bill to Strengthen Federal Programs and Policies for Combating International and Domestic Terrorism; The Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (Exec. H, 96-2); The International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (Exec. N, 96-2), June 10, 1981

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  From the opening statement of Charles H. Percy: "The Committee on Foreign Relations meets this morning to hear administration witnesses on the subject of terrorism. We have with us Under Secretary of State Richard Kennedy, who has been designated by Secretary of State Haig to speak for the Department on this question. He is accompanied by Ambassador Anthony Quainton, Director of the Office for Combating Terrorism in the Department of State, and by other colleagues. We will ask Secretary Kennedy to identify them when he begins his testimony. This is the first opportunity the committee has had to discuss with the administration its announced intention to make terrorism a principal concern of its foreign policy." […]. Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Richard T. Kennedy, Charles H. Percy, John Glenn, Charles Mathias and Alan Cranston.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1981
• Enforcement of Major Refiner Cases: Getty Oil and Other Settlements, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session, October 14, 1980

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  This is the October 14, 1980 hearing on "Enforcement of Major Refiner Cases: Getty Oil and Other Settlements," held before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. From the Opening Statement of John D. Dingell: "This morning the Subcommittee on Energy and Power goes into matters relative to settlements by the Department of Energy on overcharges within the petroleum industry." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Milton J. Socolar, John H. Shenefield, Lynn Coleman, Paul Bloom, Robert D. Chelberg, and John Kilcoyne.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1981
• Emergency Preparedness for Nuclear Electric Generating Facilities in Foreign Countries: A Brief Survey of Practices

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  "This report summarizes the emergency plans for accidents at nuclear power plants in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Soviet Union documents were examined, but no published information was found on the subject. The study of foreign plans was to determine what U.S. planners might learn that could be useful to them. Plans of the foreign countries were published before the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island and reflected a generally accepted premise that a serious nuclear emergency would never occur. Therefore, there are few ideas of immediate use to U.S. planners. Most countries have since begun to re-examine their emergency planning. The study also discusses the emergency action levels, warning systems, evacuation management and procedures, and public information and education for people living near nuclear power plants and defines roles of nuclear facility operators and roles of the government."

  U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

  Schuller, C. R. (C. Richard); Marcus, A. A.; Huelshoff, M.

  1980-12
• Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants [1980]

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  "The purpose of this document is to provide a common reference and guidance source for: [1.] State and local governments and nuclear facility operators in the development of radiological emergency response plans and preparedness in support of nuclear power plants. [2.] Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and other Federal agency personnel engaged in the review of State, local government and licensee plans and preparedness. [3.] The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other Federal agencies in the development of the National Radiological Emergency Preparedness Plan."

  U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  1980-11
• Department of the Interior Departmental Manual, Part 190: Emergency Preparedness, Chapter 1: Basic Organizational Arrangements

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  This U.S. Department of the Interior Departmental Manual, Part 190, Emergency Preparedness, Chapter 1 outlines the purpose, The Federal Structure for Emergency Preparedness, and The Interior Structure for Emergency Preparedness. This document 8/22/80 #3596 replaces 8/22/80 #2290.

  United States. Department of the Interior

  1980-08-22
• Department of Defense Instruction 5030.36: Plan for the Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids, April 24, 1980

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  "This Instruction reissues reference (a), and transmits the revised 1975 SCATANA [Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids](enclosure 1) for information and guidance. SCATANA is an emergency preparedness plan that prescribes the joint action to be taken by appropriate elements of the Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration, and the Federal Communications Commission in the interest of national security to effect control of air traffic and air navigation aids under emergency conditions. Inquiries regarding this plan may be addressed to: North American Air Defense Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado 80914."

  United States. Department of Defense

  1980-04-24
• Influence of Safeguards and Fire Protection on Criticality Safety

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  "Criticality safety experts establish Fissile Material Control Areas (FMCA's). Safeguards personnel establish Material Balance Areas (MBA's). Safeguards personnel deal with nuclear material (NM) or, better yet, special nuclear material (SNM) and criticality safety personnel deal with fissile materials (FM). Fire protection personnel establish protection zones or criteria and deal with combustible, hazardous or flammable materials. Fire protection personnel love to use water; criticality personnel calculate the effects of water; safeguards personnel drink water. Safeguards personnel are happiest when nuclear material is locked up; criticality experts are similarly disposed when fissile material is neatly stacked in arrays or cells or flowing purposefully through process vessels and piping systems. Safeguards personnel perform vulnerability analyses of MBA's; criticality personnel perform safety analyses of FMCA's; fire protection personnel perform loss potential evaluations. Management has been known to have nightmares sorting out the nomenclature, priorities and regulations of safeguards, criticality and fire protection. The poor program or project people are caught in the middle. They just want to use their nuclear material in a safe, economical and effective manner."

  United States. Department of Energy

  Six, D. E.

  1980-01
• Three Mile Island: A Report to the Commissioners and to the Public, Volume 1

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  This report was released the NRC's [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] Special Inquiry Group to review and report on the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. "The principal objectives of the inquiry were to determine what happened and why, to assess the actions of utility and NRC personnel before and during the accident and to identify deficiencies in the system and areas where further investigation might be warranted."

  U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

  Rogovin, Mitchell; Frampton, George T., Jr.

  1980
• NRC's Response to the Report of the President's Commission on Three Mile Island, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, First Session, November 5, 1979

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  This is the November 5, 1979 hearing on "NRC's [Nuclear Regulatory Commission's] Response to the Report of the President's Commission on Three Mile Island," held before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the U.S. House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. From the opening statement of Albert Gore, Jr.: "Last Wednesday, the President's. Commission on the accident at Three Mile Island released its final report. The Chairman of the President's Commission, Dr. Kemeny, subsequently categorized that report as an indictment of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Unquestionably, the events surrounding the accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Powerplant and the response of not only the NRC but of the officials of utility, State and local governments involved raised serious questions as to the capacity of the present structures to respond to such situations. [...] Because one of the principal recommendations of the Kemeny Commission is that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission be replaced by a single administrator within the executive branch, the subcommittee has asked the present members of the Commission to appear this morning to provide their personal views on the present structure of the Commission and its statutory authority, together with whatever additional comments they may wish to make about the findings and recommendations of the Kemeny Commission." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Joseph M. Hendrie, Peter A. Bradford, Victor Gilinsky, and John F. Ahearne.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1980
• Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Oil Supply and Construction Problems, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, First Session, September 10, 1979

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  This is the September 10, 1979 hearing on "Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Oil Supply and Construction Problems," held before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the U.S. House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. From the opening statement of Albert Gore, Jr.: "Today's hearing is a continuation of the subcommittee's oversight responsibilities into the strategic petroleum reserve program and the way it is being administered by the Department of Energy [DOE]. At past hearings, the sucommittee [sic] found the construction phase of the program was bogged down because of faulty construction work, missed schedules, cost overruns, and lack of cost control measures. Since then, the program managers have made substantial progress toward correcting these problems. In the process, they have become the experts in the construction of salt dome storage for crude oil. For this reason, the subcommittee was concerned when DOE indicated they intended to turn over all future construction to private industry in a turnkey approach. Just as the subcommittee predicted, DOE discovered that allowing private industry to repeat the mistakes of the Government gained nothing for the taxpayers. After serious evaluation, the DOE found: There were no new technical innovations included in the industry proposals." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Craig Bamberger, F. Kevin Boland, John Deutch, Harry Jones, Don Mazur, Flora Milans, and Wilbur Robinson.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1980
• United Nations Reform, Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-Sixth Congress, First Session on Various United Nations Reform Proposals, October 26, 1976

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  This is the October 26, 1976 hearing titled "United Nations Reform" held before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. From the opening statement of Claiborne Pell: "Today our committee meets to hear testimony from the administration and public witnesses on various United Nations reform proposals. As we all know, the world is currently facing serious problems with respect to peace and security, the international economic order, the quality of human life, and the protection of human life." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Walter Hoffmann, Donald Keys, John J. Logue, and Charles W. Maynes.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1980
• Department of Energy's Emergency Energy Conservation Programs, Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session, September 4, 1980

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  This is the September 4, 1980 hearing on the "Department of Energy's Emergency Energy Conservation Programs," held before the House Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations. From the opening statement of Toby Moffett: "Today's oversight hearing is focused on the 1979 Emergency Energy Conservation Act, commonly referred to as EECA. That legislation, passed shortly after the seizure of American embassy personnel in Iran, is designed to prepare the Nation in the event of an oil shortage. […] Without such protections, the Nation will be forced once again to undergo the inconveniences and hardships which result from oil supply cutoffs. Perhaps more importantly, we send the signal to OPEC [Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries] nations that we are totally unprepared to deal with shortages, that we continue to be vulnerable to cutoffs and threats that oil sales will be discontinued if we do not follow their foreign policy dictates." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Lex Hester, Toby Moffett, Ken Nelson, and Thomas E. Stelson.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1980
• Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1981, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session, Part 11: Testimony of Members of Congress and Other Interested Individuals and Organizations, March 31, April 1, and 2, 1980

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  This document contains the March 31, April 1, and 2, 1980 hearings titled "Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1981, Part 11: Testimony of Members of Congress and Other Interested Individuals and Organizations," held before the House Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations. Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Gunn McKay, Scott Matheson, Robert B. Hilbert, L. Y. Siddoway, Mike McCormack, Steve Lanes, Phil Gram, Martin Frost, James M. Collins, Amon G. Carter, Jr., Sam Scott, Robert D. Hardy, David Clayton, Ray Keller, Don Hicks, Ray Stephens, Scott Parker, Marvin Leath, Frank D. Thurmond, Jack Dobbs, Walter Wells, Glynn Williams, Henry Boehm, Al Brooks, J. C. Chatmas, Arthur Davisdon, Douglas McCrary, Harry Moore, Dunman Perry, Harry Trippet, Herb Grubb, Allan Hanson, Jo Ed Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Eubank, Joe Swillling, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harvey, Henry Moore, Kyle Cowan, Clay Cowan, A. M. Wise, Bob Gammage, G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery, Beryl Anthony, Jr., Bill D. Burlison, John Whitten, Richard Swaim, Richard L. Bennett, Newman Bolls, Larry D. Dowdy, Beryl Anthony, John Paul Hammerschmidt, H. K. Thatcher, Lloyd M. Platt, Luther Harpers, Lawrence H. Derby, John Maroney, James R. Burchfield, Wieldon Smith, Merlin Pistorius, Gillis W. Long, Jack Hightower, Sam B. Hall, Jr., Sam B. Hall, Chester Wells, Wincent W. Foster, Troyce McGovern, Dewey Burchett, Daniel K. Akaka, Cecil (Cec) Heftel, James B. McCormick, Clarence E. Miller, Robert W. Teater, Robert anderson, Carl D. Perkins, William J. Hull, Arthur Parker, Edward G. Dietz, Robert L. Gray, Marvin J. Barloon, William W. Worrell, Paul Findley, William H. Klingner, Donald C. McConnell, Elmer H. Meyer, William B. Trent, James Heitman, William Pieper, Jim Santini, Warren Monroe, Dale Porter, Jr., Paul Sawyer, Charles E. Grassley, Robert Aldrich, Leo P. Rooff, Dale C. Mercer, Fedon N. Petrides, Jonh A. Downs, and Eric Tanzberger.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1980
• Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island The Need for Change: The Legacy of TMI

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  On March 28, 1979, the United States experienced the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power generation. Two weeks later, the President of the United States established a Presidential Commission. The President charged the 12-member Commission whose purpose was to conduct a comprehensive study and investigation of the accident involving the nuclear power facility on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. The Commission concluded that: To prevent nuclear accidents as serious as Three Mile Island, fundamental changes will be necessary in the organization, procedures, and practices -- and above all -- in the attitudes of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, to the extent that the institutions we investigated are typical, of the nuclear industry.

  Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)

  1979-10-30?
• Staff Reports to the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island: Reports of the Public Health and Safety Task Force

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  "The following summary of the task force reports defines the key issues and identifies the major findings from the accident concerned with four major health areas of the investigation: (1) the amount of radioactivity released and the radiation exposures to the general population and the workers; (2) the real and potential radiation risks to health of the general public and the workers, such as radiation- induced cancer, developmental abnormalities, and genetically related ill-health; (3) the behavioral responses of the public and the workers to the stress of the nuclear emergency; and (4) the broad and substantive health issues that bear directly on public health and safety of the workers during the normal operation of a nuclear power plant and during a nuclear accident, specifically at TMI [Three Mile Island]. The body of the task force report consists of four interrelated reports; namely, those of the Health Physics and Dosimetry Task Group, the Radiation Health Effects Task Group, the Behavioral Effects Task Group, and the Public Health and Epidemiology Task Group."

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1979-10
• Executive Order 12148: Federal Emergency Management

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  This executive order transfers emergency functions to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "All functions vested in the President that have been delegated or assigned to the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, Department of Defense, are transferred or reassigned to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. All functions vested in the President that have been delegated or assigned to the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development, are transferred or reassigned to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including any of those functions redelegated or reassigned to the Department of Commerce with respect to assistance to communities in the development of readiness plans for severe weather-related emergencies."

  United States. Office of the Federal Register

  Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

  1979-07-20
• Executive Order 12146: Management of Federal Legal Resources

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  Executive Order 12146 establishes the Federal Legal Council. "There is hereby established the Federal Legal Council, which shall be composed of the Attorney General and the representatives of not more than 15 other agencies. The agency representative shall be designated by the head of the agency."

  United States. Office of the Federal Register

  Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

  1979-07-18