EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 11490

WHEREAS our national security is dependent upon our ability to assure
continuity of government, at every level, in any national emergency type
situation that might conceivably 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 emergency
preparedness plans and has provided funds for the accomplishment thereof; and
WHEREAS this national emergency preparedness planning activity has been an
established program of the United States Government for more than twenty years;
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the
United States, 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 as follows--

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