Emergency Preparedness Mobilization Board (EMPB) 1
Emergency Preparedness Mobilization Board (EMPB) 1 : "Resource mobilization planning for a coordinated federal response was energized when on December 17, 1981, the President through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs signed a memorandum establishing the Emergency Preparedness Mobilization Board (hereinafter EMPB). This action was taken in response to a Memorandum for Edwin Meese, III, Counselor to the President from Frank C. Carlucci, Deputy Secretary of Defense and Louis O. Giuffrida, Director of FEMA, dated May 26, 1981 "Two National Security Decisions (NSD 30 "Managing Terrorist Incidents" April 10, 1982 and NSD 47 "Emergency Mobilization Preparedness" July 22, 1982) were soon issued that established two fundamentals. First in the event of threatened or actual terrorist attacks lead agencies were designated as responsible, principally State for international terrorism, Justice for domestic terrorism, and FEMA for response to actual events. Second, the principal was established that even natural disasters could impact national security, and a single system was required for the national security community and its assets to respond. NSD 47 in particular identified a large catastrophic earthquake (the placement of the principal research, development, and manufacturing capability of the nation for the technology sector in California was the specific catalyst) as potentially damaging national security. It therefore concluded that a single response system was necessary and empowered the EMPB to design such as system. By 1985, in NSD 188 the EMPB was disestablished having completed a plan of action. (It should be noted that the Los Angeles Olympics had energized the Department of Justice in the assigned lead role in domestic terrorism and DOJ was increasingly anxious to assert that role)". (Cumming, "The NSC's 1988 Staff Effort to Create a National Security Emergency Plan for Large Scale Domestic Events," VLG Backgrounder, October 2005, 1-2)
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