LETTER TO ROBERT C. MCFARLANE FROM LOUIS O. GINFFRIDA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 20, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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Washington, D.C. 20472
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Honorable Robert C. McFarlane
Assistant to the President
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Please refer to my previous letter to you dated December 7, 1984, concerning
the Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board (EMPB) and the necessity to
reduce my resource commitment to the Secretariat.
Since then, as you are aware, all FY 1986 budgets have been cut drastically,
and I am faced with the possibility of a reduction in force or employee
furlough during FY 1985 in order to stay within my salary and expense
allocation. I have had to rethink the solution that was suggested in the
referenced letter.
I do have another workable solution which will allow me to accommodate the
budget reduction. I will disestablish the Secretariat, a separate administrative
entity at the agency, and still fulfill my function as Executive Secretary in
accordance with the requirements of the December 17, 1981, Executive Memorandum
establishing the Board for the remaining life of the EMPB.
You will recall that in 1981 I briefed the President and the Cabinet on the
need to establish the EMPB in order to put the weight of the White House
behind governmentwide mobilization activities. In my detailed discussions
with Mr. Meese about the need for an EMPB and in my briefing to the President
and the Cabinet, the President directed that the EMPB "not become another
bureaucracy."
On April 1, 1985, my agency staff will resume its assigned role of coordinating
the preparedness activities of the departments and agencies. The functions of
the Secretariat will be carried out as follows:
o The Associate Director for National Preparedness Programs, Bernard J.
Maguire, will aid me in providing staff support to you and the Board
for its remaining life by maintaining the National Plan of Action and
preparing agendas and providing administrative support for Board meetings,
if you call one. He will also provide direct liaison with other departments
and agencies.
o The function of coordinating activities of the working groups will be
carried out by the appropriate FEMA program offices.
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The agency working group coordinators currently detailed to the Secretariat
from the departments and agencies will continue to function in support of
their agency emergency mobilization preparedness effort and will be identified
as liaisom officers to the A$sociate Director for. National Preparedness
Programs. I- am" informing those departthent_ and .agency ? heads that- have-,
individuals detiiled.t.o- the Secretariat at the, present. time'.
Sincerely,
cc: Edwin Meese III
Board Members
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