DATE SUPPLEMENTAL NEEDED Mr. SHYTLE. May I make a statement on the timing of the supplemental? Under readjustment benefits, we will need money by the 15th of April to supplement this appropriation. For pay and for compensation and pensions, we are all right until June. With the transferability provision that is provided, we can get by in readjustment benefits until May, by moving over funds from compensation and pensions. That will help us get through April. Mr. GIAIMO. I can appreciate the significance of your making that statement for the record. Are there any other questions? SUBCOMMITTEE ON TREASURY, POST OFFICE AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT TOM STEED, Oklahoma, Chairman OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana HOWARD W. ROBISON, New York DONALD W. RIEGLE, JR., Michigan Aubrey A. Gunnels and Thayer A. Wood, Staff Assistants THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1971. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS WITNESSES GEORGE A. LINCOLN, DIRECTOR DARRELL M. TRENT, DEPUTY DIRECTOR GEORGE M. GRACE, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR FIELD OPERATIONS DAVID J. PATTISON, ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR FOR CONGRESSIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS RICHARD MURRAY, ACTING GENERAL COUNSEL ROBERT F. KEARNEY, ACTING COMPTROLLER Mr. STEED. The committee will be in order. The committee is in session this morning to take up a request for the supplemental items for fiscal year 1971. We are pleased to have General Lincoln and his associates from the Office of Emergency Preparedness. General, since this your first appearance before the subcommittee we want to extend you a special welcome at this point and we will be pleased to have you identify your associates for the record. Then we will be happy to have whatever presentation you want to make in the way you want to make it. Mr. LINCOLN. I will say for the record, this is Mr. Darrell Trent, Deputy Director of the OEP: Mr. Gordon Gillis our Congressional Liaison; Mr. George Grace, Assistant Director for Field Operations; Mr. Dokken from his office; Mr. Murray, who is our acting general counsel; Mr. Kearney, our acting comptroller; Mr. Volland from his office; Mr. Pattison, Assistant to the Director for Congressional and Public Affairs; and Mr. Ray Karam of our planning review office. (13) GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE DIRECTOR Mr. LINCOLN. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, it is a pleasure to meet with this subcommittee for the first time and I look forward to working with you in the future and to receiving your counsel on our plans and problems, not only formally in the committee meetings but informally at other times. We do, in our organization, invite the counsel of the committees to which we are responsible. The supplemental we are requesting for the President's disaster relief fund is $25 million. This fiscal year 1971 supplemental request is necessary to continue effectively the President's disaster assistance program. Two major reasons have made this request necessary: the first is the recent changes in the basic statute authorizing disaster assistance and the second is the recent occurrence of costly and widespread natural disasters. The Federal disaster program has been in existence since enabling legislation was enacted in 1950. This law. Public Law 81-875, was the basic authority until December 31, 1970, when a comprehensive, omnibus law, Public Law 91-606, was signed by the President. I have put on a chart here, showing a summary on the left of the major provisions in the previous legislation, and then, on the right, the provisions that were added in the new law. All of the significant provisions in the previous legislation were continued; some of them in a changed and usually more costly form. Mr. STEED. Without objection, the chart will be made a part of the record at this point. (The chart follows:) |