Executive Orders And Laws relating to National Emergencies Laws

    The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Assistance And Emergency Relief Act,

    13CFR123.1 Chapter I--Small Business Administration Part 123--Disaster Loan Program

  US Code TITLE 50 - War and National Defence CHAPTER 34 - National Emergencies


Executive Orders

    Executive Order 10995
    Telecommunications Management 

    Executive Order 10997 --
    Electric power, petroleum and gas, solid fuels, and minerals

    Executive Order 10998 --
     Food resources, farms, fertilizer, and facilities

    Executive Order 10999 --
    Transportation, the production and distribution of all materials

    Executive Order 11000 --


     Manpower management    

     Executive Order 11001 --
    Health and welfare services, and educational programs
   
     Executive Order 11002 --
    National emergency registration system
   
      Executive Order 11003 --
    Air travel, airports, operating facilities

       Executive Order 11004 --
    Housing and community facilities

       Executive Order 11005 --
    Interstate Commerce

      Executive Order 11051 --
    Emergency Planning 

      Executive Order 11490 --
    Federal departments and agencies

      Executive Order 12472 --   
    Telecommunications functions

      Executive Order 12656 --
    Continuity of Government

      Executive Order 12919 --
    National Defense Industrial  Preparedness
        
     Executive Order 12938 --
    Weapons Of Mass Destruction
       
     Executive Order 13074 --
    Noncombatant Evacuation Operations
"The President has the power to seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2 1/2 million men to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all menas of transportation, regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all Americans...

Most [of these laws] remain a a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a President should he choose to activate them. It is possible that some future President could exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian rule.

While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Weimar Republic."

--Joint Statement, Sens. Frank Church (D-ID) and Charles McMathias (R-MD) September 30, 1973

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    The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Assistance And Emergency Relief Act, --  It is the intent of the Congress, by this Act, to provide an orderly and continuing 
    means of assistance by the Federal Government to State and local governments in 
    carrying out their responsibilities to alleviate the suffering and damage which result 
    from such disasters
    13CFR123.1 Chapter I--Small Business Administration Part 123--Disaster Loan Program --  SBA offers low interest, fixed rate loans to disaster victims, enabling them to repair or replace property damaged or destroyed in declared disasters. It also offers such loans to affected small businesses to help them recover from economic injury caused by such disasters. SBA also offers interim guaranteed disaster loans, in participation with financial institutions, to affected small businesses (“IDAP loans”). Disaster declarations are official notices recognizing that specific geographic areas have been damaged by floods and other acts of nature, riots, civil disorders, or industrial accidents such as oil spills.

  US Code TITLE 50 - War and National Defence CHAPTER 34 - National Emergencies  --  Declaration of national emergency by President; publication in Federal Register; effect on other laws; superseding legislation


Executive Orders

Executive Order 10995 
Assigning Telecommunications Management Functions
    Executive Order 10997 
    Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of The Interior:
    • electric power, petroleum and gas, solid fuels, and minerals
    Executive Order 10998 
     Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Agriculture
    • Food resources, farm equipment, fertilizer, and food resource facilities
    Executive Order 10999 
    Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Commerce
    • transportation, the production and distribution of all materials
    Executive Order 11000 
    Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Labor
    • Manpower management  employment stabilization
    Executive Order 11001 
    Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Health, Education, And Welfare
    • health services, civilian health manpower, health resources, welfare services, and educational programs
    Executive Order 11002 
    Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Postmaster General
    • national emergency registration system
    Executive Order 11003 
    Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The  Administrator Of The Federal Aviation Agency
    • emergency management of the Nation's  airports, operating facilities
    Executive Order 11004 
    Assigning Certain Emergency Preparedness Functions To The  Housing And Home Finance Administrator
    • all aspects of lodging or housing and community facilities
    Executive Order 11005 
    Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Interstate Commerce Commission
    • railroad utilization, motor carrier utilization,  inland waterway utilization
    Executive Order 11051 
    Prescribing Responsibilities Of The Office Of Emergency Planning  In The Executive Office Of The President 
    Executive Order 11490 
    Assigning emergency preparedness functions to Federal departments and agencies

    Executive Order 12472 
    Executive Order 12472--Assignment of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications functions

    • In order to provide for the consolidation of assignment and responsibility for improved execution of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications functions, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Executive Order 12656 
    Executive Order 12656 Assigmment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities
    • National Security Emergency Preparedness Policy: Continuity of Government
    Executive Order 12919 
    National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness
    • (a) Identify requirements for national  emergencies, including military, industrial, and essential civilian demand
    • (b) Assess continually the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to   satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically  evaluating the availability of adequate industrial resource and production sources,  including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and  technical personnel;
    • (c) Be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate industrial resources and production capability, including services and critical technology for national defense requirements;
    • (d) Improve the efficiency and responsiveness, to defense requirements, of the domestic industrial base; and
    • (e) Foster cooperation between the defense and commercial sectors for research and development and for acquisition of materials, components, and equipment to enhance  industrial base efficiency and responsiveness.
    Executive Order 12938 
    Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction
    • weapons of mass destruction constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
    Executive Order 13074
    • Amends Executive Order 12656 adding a new section 501(16) regarding Noncombatant Evacuation Operations