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Briefing Note for Hs
Meeting of 10/31/57

October 29, 1957
O. A. Haskins/acw

ITEM 3 ~ A FEDERAL SHELTER PROGRAM FOR CIVIL DEFENSE
The next item on the agenda concerns the Federal Shelter Program for Civil Defense.

You will reccll that on April 4, 1957, after considering the

Civil Defense Shelter Program initially proposed by Governor Peterson
on December 20, 1956, the Council directed that four studies should be
made dealing with vericus aspects of this whole program. The first
three of these studies, the receipt of which the Council has earlier
xoted, will be presented to us this morning. Againnt the background
of these first three studies, the Council will next week teke up the
fourth study, which will be a report by a panel of the Science Advisory Committee of ODM on the relative value of verlons active and passive defense measures.
First, then, we shell turn to the study mete by a Committee
representing FCDA, ODM, AEC, and Defense, of simmificently different
shelter programs (not to exceed five), the percentage of the civil
population which would be protected by each, the degree cf protection
of the civil population afforded by each, and the materiel requirements and approximate costs of each. The presentation will be made
by Mr. Gallagher of FODA who served as chairmen cf the Coumittee.
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We next come to ea study by the Council of Economic Advisers,
of the broad economic effects and consequences of the variots ealternative shelter programs developed in the first study.
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We now come to the third study, which was made by the Treasury, of the types of Federal financial assistance to private industry
and individuals (including consideration of grants, loans end tax incentives), to stimulate constraction of shelters under the various
alternative shelter programs developed.
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