[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR321.2]

[Page 549-550]
 
              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 
                                SECURITY
 
PART 321--MAINTENANCE OF THE MOBILIZATION BASE (DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, 
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MARITIME ADMINISTRATION)--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 321.2  Selection of the mobilization base.

    (a) The Department of Defense shall select, for its mobilization 
base, facilities which produce or are capable of producing critically 
important military items or components (military class A components used 
entirely in the production, maintenance, or repair of military items) 
which meet one of the following:
    (1) Those items which would be so urgent to the defense of this 
country that utmost effort must be exerted to produce them even in case 
of general war involving severe damage to the facilities necessary to 
produce these items and the components thereof.
    (2) Those items essential to survival and retaliation, maintenance 
of health, or combat efficiency required to support peripheral war and 
which meet one or more of the following criteria:

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    (i) Items requiring a long lead-time or long manufacturing cycle.
    (ii) Items currently not in production or which are required in 
quantities far in excess of peacetime production.
    (iii) Items requiring the conversion of an industry or a number of 
plants within an industry.
    (iv) Items requiring materials or manufacturing processes 
essentially different from those in current use.
    (v) Items for which industry does not have production experience.

Paragraph (a)(2) of this section is inclusive of the Department of 
Defense Preferential Planning List of End Items.
    (b) In selecting facilities for the Department of Defense 
mobilization base, consideration shall be given to their vulnerability 
to nuclear attack, with particular attention to the possibility of (1) 
minimizing vulnerability of facilities producing ``urgent'' items under 
paragraph (a)(1) of this section, including the need for dispersal, 
protective construction, and special security measures to safeguard 
against sabotage of clandestine attack, and (2) reducing concentration 
of uncommon critical production facilities so that a productive segment 
of each critical industry would be likely to survive a nuclear attack.
    (c) The Department of Energy and the Maritime Administration, in 
cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, shall 
determine the items and facilities which meet the above criteria for 
their respective programs for maintaining the mobilization base.