Executive Order 10819—Amendment of Executive Order No. 10480, as Amended, Relating to the Defense Mobilization Program

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Executive Order No. 10480 of August 14, 1953, entitled "Further Providing for the Administration of the Defense Mobilization Program," as amended, be, and it is hereby, further amended by substituting for section 301 thereof, as amended by Executive Order No. 10574 of November 5, 1954, a new section 301 reading as follows:

"SEC. 301. The Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Commerce, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the General Services Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in this Part referred to as guaranteeing agencies, each officer having functions delegated to him pursuant to section 201(a) of this order, and each other agency of the Government having mobilization functions, shall, within areas of production designated by the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, develop and promote measures for the expansion of productive capacity and of production and supply of materials and facilities necessary for the national defense."

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

May 8, 1959.