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Requested an Interdepartmental Committee, consisting of
representatives of the Federal Civil Defense Administra-
tion (Chairman), the Department of Defense, the Office
of Defense Mobilization, the Bureau of the Budget, and
the Atomic Energy Comumission-~consulting as appropriate
with representatives of the Departments of State and the
Treasury, the Special Assistants to the President for
Science and Technology and for Public Works Planning-to develop recommendations as to appropriate measures
to carry out the concept in d above; including in each
case the magnitude, nature, timing, cost, means of fineancing, and assignment of responsibility. Such recommendations are to be submitted to the Council by March 15,
1958, and should indicate whether these measures should
include:
(1)
(2)
Research and development program on fallout shelters
--and to a lesser extent on blast shelters--including prototype testing and site-planning of various
sizes and types.
Incorporation of fallout shelter in all new Federal
construction and by remodelling existing Federal
facilities.
(3) Urging states and municipalities to incorporate
fallout shelter in their new construction and by
remodelling their existing facilities.
(4)
Urging private industry to incorporate fallout
(5)
Multi-purpose use of shelters.
shelter for employees in any new construction and
by remodelling its existing facilities.
(6) Wide dissemination of information and instruction
on means and methods by which, and the extent to
which, private citizens may provide in their homes
faliout protection for themselves and their families.
Noted that the Director of Central Intelligence would
prepare a revised estimate on Soviet Civil Defense and
Shelter Programs for submission to the Council before
March 15, 1958.
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