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Show II. $. Establishes New Emergency Broadcast Met An imminent or actual attack on fie United States would find the Nation better prepared than ever to fitt official information find survival instructions to the people through the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) established estab-lished by the Federal Communications Communi-cations Commission. EES allows selected AM radio stations to continue broadcasting broadcast-ing on their normal frequencies and with regular power even after an attack emergency is declared in order to get vital warning and survival information informa-tion to the public. It would carry essential news and official information from the President and officials of Federal, State, and local governments. EBS SUCCEEDED the old CONELRAD system on August 5 after the Department of Defense De-fense determined that the continued con-tinued operation of the Nation's broadcasting stations no longer constituted a significant navigation naviga-tion aid to enemy bombers and missiles. The new EBS system permits stations to begin broadcasting broad-casting emergency information almost instmtly after an attack warning is received. Stations not affiliated with EBS. and all FM and television televi-sion stations, would go off tha air. Some of these facilities will be incorporated into future fu-ture refinements and extensions exten-sions of EBS. To assure that vital emergency emer-gency broadcasting is not interrupted inter-rupted by fallout suu.cient to force evacuation of the stations, the Office of Civil Defense, Department De-partment cf Dcfc-n:2, ii providing provid-ing fallout protection, emergency emergen-cy generators, irti emergency radio program li"J to .?uctd emergency brciucci sUt'.ons |