Title: Wisconsin. Division of Emergency Government: Emergency Resource Management Planning Project Files
Inclusive Dates: 1960-1968

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Division of Emergency Government

Call Number: Series 1773

Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (2 record center cartons)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

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Abstract:

Correspondence, reports and minutes of a project assigned to draft emergency resource management plans. The plans were drafted by state government officials and representatives of private industry and were to be used in the event of a nuclear attack. The plans provide for stabilization of the economy and management of essential resources such as food, water, gas, electric power, telecommunications, solid fuels, manpower, and health resources.

Language: English

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Chapter 628, Laws of 1959, placed the former Office of Civil Defense within the Executive Office as the Bureau of Civil Defense. In 1967, the Bureau was incorporated into the Department of Local Affairs and Development as the Division of Emergency Government. The bureau coordinated state and local emergency response plans for natural and man-made disasters, including floods, tornadoes, drought, nuclear power plant accidents and nuclear attack.

In June 1964 the federal Office of Emergency Planning awarded a contract to the Bureau of Civil Defense to produce an “Emergency Management of Resources Plan.” The plan was to serve as a resource management guide for the state in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. The contract further specified that the bureau was to maintain the plan in a condition of operational readiness through continued planning and revision.

In 1965, the bureau recruited individuals from private industry and state government to form an Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) and several “Task Groups” to write portions of the plan dealing with food, water, gas, electric power, telecommunications, solid fuels, manpower, health resources and economic stabilization. The bureau also created an Office of Emergency Planning and Resource Management to coordinate the activities of the EPC and Task Groups. Drafts of the plans were submitted to the federal Office of Emergency Planning for evaluation and underwent several revisions between 1966 and 1967. Final plans were printed and distributed in 1968.

Directors of the Emergency Resource Management Planning Project included Harold Hasfjord (1964-1966) and Blake Smith (1966-?).

Processing Information

Processed by Lee C. Grady, July 23, 1998.

	Agriculture
Box   1 Folder   1	Federal Information, 1962-66
Box   1 Folder   2-6	U.S. Department Of Agriculture
Box   1 Folder   7	Bourgin, Frank
Box   1 Folder   8	Budget - Bureau of Civil Defense - Summary
Box   1 Folder   9	Change Order System, 1966
Box   1 Folder   10	Communications, 1964-65
Box   1 Folder   11	Construction and Housing, 1964-66
Box   1 Folder   12	Contract
Box   1 Folder   13	Directories
Box   1 Folder   14	Economic Stabilization, 1961-63
Box   1 Folder   15	Electric Power, 1964-66
Box   1 Folder   16	Emergency Management of Resources - Formation of Office
Box   1 Folder   17	Emergency Resource Planning Committee Materials, 1965-67
Box   1 Folder   18	Federal Aviation
Box   1 Folder   19	Federal Housing Administration
Box   1 Folder   20	Federal Materials
Box   1 Folder   21	Food, 1962-66
Box   1 Folder   22	Fuel Reports, 1961
Box   1 Folder   23	Gas Plan, 1965-66
Box   1 Folder   24	Governor's Industrial Conference - Milwaukee, Sept. 18, 1964
Box   1 Folder   25	Green Bay Target Area, 1962-63
Box   1 Folder   26	Health and Water, 1965-66
	Industrial Production
Box   1 Folder   27	Committee Make-up, 1965
Box   1 Folder   28	Correspondence, 1964-66
Box   1 Folder   29	Emergency Requirements, 1964-66
Box   1 Folder   30	Meetings, 1964-66
Box   1 Folder   31	Plan B, 1964-67
Box   1 Folder   32	Plan - Production and Overall
Box   1 Folder   33	Productivity Capability, 1963-65
Box   1 Folder   34	Interior, Department of (Fuel)
Box   1 Folder   35	Manpower, 1963-66
	Meetings
Box   2 Folder   1	1964, June 22
Box   2 Folder   2	1964, December 16
Box   2 Folder   3	1965, August 8
Box   2 Folder   4	1966, June 8 and July 7
Box   2 Folder   5	1966, October 7
Box   2 Folder   6	1967, June 27
Box   2 Folder   7	Miscellaneous, 1966-67
Box   2 Folder   8	Midwest Emergency Planning Conference, 1964
Box   2 Folder   9	Milwaukee Metropolitan Target Area, Robert L. Williams, 1962-63
Box   2 Folder   10	Natural Disasters, 1960-67
Box   2 Folder   11	Northwest Reception Area, 1962-64
	Office of Emergency Planning (OEP)
Box   2 Folder   12	National, 1964-67
Box   2 Folder   13	Project Materials
Box   2 Folder   14	Organizations, 1966
Box   2 Folder   15	Petroleum, 1965-66
Box   2 Folder   16	Petroleum and Gas, 1964-66
Box   2 Folder   17	Production, 1964-65
Box   2 Folder   18	Program for Maintenance of Operational Readiness, 1966
Box   2 Folder   19	Public Information
Box   2 Folder   20	Reading File, 1967
Box   2 Folder   21	Reports, 1964-67
Box   2 Folder   22	Ruetz, Edward J.
Box   2 Folder   23	Skubal, Leonard A.
Box   2 Folder   24	Solid Fuels, 1963-1966
Box   2 Folder   25	Southeast Reception Area
Box   2 Folder   26	Staff Meetings
Box   2 Folder   27	Telecommunications
Box   2 Folder   28-31	Transportation, 1965
Box   2 Folder   32	Water - Executive Order, c.1965