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National Emergency Powers
Updated May 13, 2004
Harold C. Relyea
Specialist in American National Government
Government and Finance Division
Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress

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National Emergency Powers
Summary
The President of the United States has available certain powers that may be
exercised in the event that the nation is threatened by crisis, exigency, or emergency
circumstances (other than natural disasters, war, or near-war situations). Such
powers may be stated explicitly or implied by the Constitution, assumed by the Chief
Executive to be permissible constitutionally, or inferred from or specified by statute.
Through legislation, Congress has made a great many delegations of authority in this
regard over the past 200 years.
There are, however, limits and restraints upon the President in his exercise of
emergency powers. With the exception of the habeas corpus clause, the Constitution
makes no allowance for the suspension of any of its provisions during a national
emergency. Disputes over the constitutionality or legality of the exercise of
emergency powers are judicially reviewable. Indeed, both the judiciary and
Congress, as co-equal branches, can restrain the executive regarding emergency
powers. So can public opinion. Furthermore, since 1976, the President has been
subject to certain procedural formalities in utilizing some statutorily delegated
emergency authority. The National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601-1651)
eliminated or modified some statutory grants of emergency authority, required the
President to declare formally the existence of a national emergency and to specify
what statutory authority, activated by the declaration, would be used, and provided
Congress a means to countermand the President’s declaration and the activated
authority being sought. The development of this regulatory statute and subsequent
declarations of national emergency are reviewed in this report, which is updated as
events require.

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Contents
Background and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Emergency Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Law and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Congressional Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The National Emergencies Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
National Emergency Powers:
A Selected Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
List of Tables
Table 1. Declared National Emergencies, 1976-2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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National Emergency Powers
Federal law provides a variety of powers for the President to use in response to
crisis, exigency, or emergency circumstances threatening the nation. Moreover, they
are not limited to military or war situations. Some of these authorities, deriving from
the Constitution or statutory law, are continuously available to the President with
little or no qualification. Others — statutory delegations from Congress — exist on
a stand-by basis and remain dormant until the President formally declares a national
emergency. These delegations or grants of power authorize the President to meet the
problems of governing effectively in times of crisis. Under the powers delegated by
such statutes, the President may seize property, organize and control the means of
production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, institute martial law,
seize and control all transportation and communication, regulate the operation of
private enterprise, restrict travel, and, in a variety of ways, control the lives of United
States citizens. Furthermore, Congress may modify, rescind, or render dormant such
delegated emergency authority.
Until the crisis of World War I, Presidents utilized emergency powers at their
own discretion. Proclamations announced the exercise of exigency authority.
However, during World War I and thereafter, Chief Executives had available to them
a growing body of standby emergency authority which became operative upon the
issuance of a proclamation declaring a condition of national emergency. Sometimes
such proclamations confined the matter of crisis to a specific policy sphere, and
sometimes they placed no limitation whatsoever on the pronouncement. These
activations of stand-by emergency authority remained acceptable practice until the
era of the Vietnam war. In 1976, Congress curtailed this practice with the passage
of the National Emergencies Act.
Background and History
The exercise of emergency powers had long been a concern of the classical
political theorists, including the eighteenth-century English philosopher John Locke,
who had a strong influence upon the Founding Fathers in the United States. A
preeminent exponent of a government of laws and not of men, Locke argued that
occasions may arise when the executive must exert a broad discretion in meeting
special exigencies or “emergencies” for which the legislative power provided no
relief or existing law granted no necessary remedy. He did not regard this
prerogative as limited to wartime, or even to situations of great urgency. It was
sufficient if the “public good” might be advanced by its exercise.1
1 Thomas I. Cook, ed., Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke (New York: Hafner,
1947), pp. 203-207; Edward S. Corwin, The President: Office and Powers, 1787-1957,
fourth revised edition (New York: New York University Press, 1957), pp. 147-148.

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Emergency powers were first expressed prior to the actual founding of the
Republic. Between 1775 and 1781, the Continental Congress passed a series of acts
and resolves which count as the first expressions of emergency authority.2 These
instruments dealt almost exclusively with the prosecution of the Revolutionary War.
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, emergency powers, as such, failed
to attract much attention during the course of debate over the charter for the new
government. It may be argued, however, that the granting of emergency powers by
Congress is implicit in its Article I, section 8 authority to “provide for the common
Defense and general Welfare,” the commerce clause, its war, armed forces, and
militia powers, and the “necessary and proper” clause empowering it to make such
laws as are required to fulfill the executions of “the foregoing Powers, and all other
Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any
Department or Officer thereof.”
There is a tradition of constitutional interpretation that has resulted in so-called
implied powers, which may be invoked in order to respond to an emergency
situation. Locke seems to have anticipated this practice. Furthermore, Presidents
have occasionally taken an emergency action which they assumed to be
constitutionally permissible. Thus, in the American governmental experience, the
exercise of emergency powers has been somewhat dependent upon the Chief
Executive’s view of the presidential office.
Perhaps the President who most clearly articulated a view of his office in
conformity with the Lockean position was Theodore Roosevelt. Describing what
came to be called the “stewardship” theory of the presidency, Roosevelt wrote of his
“insistence upon the theory that the executive power was limited only by specific
restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the
Congress under its constitutional powers.” It was his view “that every executive
officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, was a steward of the
people,” and he “declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for
the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific
authorization to do it.” Indeed, it was Roosevelt’s belief that, for the President, “it
was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation
demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws.”3
Opposed to this view of the presidency was Roosevelt’s former Secretary of
War, personal choice for, and actual successor as Chief Executive, William Howard
Taft. He viewed the presidential office in more limited terms, writing “that the
President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to
some specific grant of power or justly implied and included within such express grant
as proper and necessary to its exercise.” In his view, such a “specific grant must be
2 See J. Reuben Clark, Jr., comp., Emergency Legislation Passed Prior to December 1917
Dealing with the Control and Taking of Private Property for the Public Use, Benefit, or
Welfare, Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders Thereunder, to and Including
January 31, 1918, to Which Is Added a Reprint of Analogous Legislation Since 1775
(Washington: GPO, 1918), pp. 201-228.
3 Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1913), pp. 388-389.

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either in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance
thereof. There is,” Taft concluded, “no undefined residuum of power which he can
exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest....”4
Between these two views of the presidency lie various gradations of opinion,
resulting in perhaps as many conceptions of the office as there have been holders.
One authority has summed up the situation in the following words:
Emergency powers are not solely derived from legal sources. The extent of their
invocation and use is also contingent upon the personal conception which the
incumbent of the Presidential office has of the Presidency and the premises upon
which he interprets his legal powers. In the last analysis, the authority of a
President is largely determined by the President himself.5
Finally, apart from the Constitution, but resulting from its prescribed
procedures, there are statutory grants of power for emergency conditions. The
President is authorized by Congress to take some special or extraordinary action,
ostensibly to meet the problems of governing effectively in times of exigency.
Sometimes these laws are only of temporary duration. The Economic Stabilization
Act of 1970, for example, allowed the President to impose certain wage and price
controls for about three years before it expired automatically in 1974.6 The statute
gave the President emergency authority to address a crisis in the nation’s economy.
Of course, many of these laws are continuously maintained or permanently
available for the President’s ready use in responding to an emergency. The Defense
Production Act, originally adopted in 1950 to prioritize and regulate the manufacture
of military material, is exemplary of this type of statute.7
Finally, there are various stand-by laws that convey special emergency powers
once the President formally declares a national emergency activating them. In 1973,
a Senate special committee studying emergency powers published a compilation
identifying some 470 provisions of federal law delegating to the executive
extraordinary authority in time of national emergency.8 The vast majority of them
are of the stand-by kind — dormant until activated by the President. However,
formal procedures for invoking these authorities, accounting for their use, and
4 William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1916), pp. 139-140; for a direct response to Theodore Roosevelt’s
expression of presidential power, see William Howard Taft, The Presidency (New York,
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916), pp. 125-130.
5 Albert L. Sturm, “Emergencies and the Presidency,” Journal of Politics, vol. 11, Feb.
1949, pp. 125-126.
6 See 84 Stat. 799-800, 1468; 85 Stat. 13, 38, 743-755; and 87 Stat. 27-29.
7 See 64 Stat. 798; 50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq. (1994).
8 U.S. Congress, Senate Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency,
Emergency Powers Statutes, 93rd Cong., 1st sess., S.Rept. 93-549 (Washington: GPO, 1973).

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regulating their activation and application were established a while ago by the
National Emergencies Act of 1976.9
The Emergency Concept
Relying upon constitutional authority or congressional delegations made at
various times over the past 200 years, the President of the United States may exercise
certain powers in the event that the continued existence of the nation is threatened by
crisis, exigency, or emergency circumstances. What is a national emergency?
In the simplest understanding of the term, the dictionary defines an emergency
as “an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for
immediate action.”10 In the midst of the crisis of the Great Depression, a 1934
Supreme Court majority opinion characterized an emergency in terms of urgency and
relative infrequency of occurrence as well as equivalence to a public calamity
resulting from fire, flood, or like disaster not reasonably subject to anticipation.11 An
eminent constitutional scholar, the late Edward S. Corwin, explained emergency
conditions as being those “which have not attained enough of stability or recurrency
to admit of their being dealt with according to rule.”12 During congressional
committee hearings on emergency powers in 1973, a political scientist described an
emergency in the following terms: “It denotes the existence of conditions of varying
nature, intensity and duration, which are perceived to threaten life or well-being
beyond tolerable limits.”13 Corwin also indicated it “connotes the existence of
conditions suddenly intensifying the degree of existing danger to life or well-being
beyond that which is accepted as normal.”14
There are perhaps at least four aspects of an emergency condition. The first is
its temporal character: an emergency is sudden, unforeseen, and of unknown
duration. The second is its potential gravity: an emergency is dangerous and
threatening to life and well-being. The third, in terms of governmental role and
authority, is the matter of perception: who discerns this phenomenon? The
Constitution may be guiding on this question, but not always conclusive. Fourth,
there is the element of response: by definition, an emergency requires immediate
action, but is, as well, unanticipated and, therefore, as Corwin notes, cannot always
be “dealt with according to rule.” From these simple factors arise the dynamics of
9 90 Stat. 1255; 50 U.S.C. 1601-1651.
10 Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (Springfield, MA: G & C Merriam, 1974), p. 372.
11 Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, 440 (1934).
12 Edward S. Corwin, The President: Office and Powers, 1787-1957, p. 3.
13 U.S. Congress, Senate Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency,
National Emergency, hearings, 93rd Cong., 1st sess., Apr. 11-12, 1973 (Washington: GPO,
1973), p. 277.
14 Ibid., p. 279.

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national emergency powers.15 These dynamics can be seen in the history of the
exercise of emergency powers.
Law and Practice
During the summer of 1792, residents of western Pennsylvania, Virginia, and
the Carolinas began forcefully opposing the collection of a federal excise tax on
whiskey. Anticipating rebellious activity, Congress enacted legislation providing for
the calling forth of the militia to suppress insurrections and repel invasions.16 Section
3 of this statute required that a presidential proclamation be issued to warn insurgents
to cease their activity.17 If hostilities persisted, the militia could be dispatched. On
August 17, 1794, President Washington issued such a proclamation. The insurgency
continued. The President then took command of the forces organized to put down
the rebellion.18
Here was the beginning of a pattern of policy expression and implementation
regarding emergency powers. Congress legislated extraordinary or special authority
for discretionary use by the President in a time of emergency. In issuing a
proclamation, the Chief Executive notified Congress that he was making use of this
power and also apprised other affected parties of his emergency action.
Over the next 100 years, Congress enacted various permanent and standby laws
for responding largely to military, economic, and labor emergencies. During this
span of years, however, the exercise of emergency powers by President Abraham
Lincoln brought the first great dispute over the authority and discretion of the Chief
Executive to engage in emergency actions.
By the time of Lincoln’s inauguration (March 4, 1861), seven states of the lower
South had announced their secession from the Union; the Confederate provisional
government had been established (February 4, 1861); Jefferson Davis had been
elected (February 9, 1861) and installed as president of the confederacy (February 18,
1861); and an army was being mobilized by the secessionists. Lincoln had a little
over two months to consider his course of action.
When the new President assumed office, Congress was not in session. For
reasons of his own, Lincoln delayed calling a special meeting of the legislature, but
15 While some might argue that the concept of emergency powers can be extended to
embrace authority exercised in response to circumstances of natural disaster, this dimension
is not within the scope of this report. Various federal response arrangements and programs
for dealing with natural disasters have been established and administered with no potential
or actual disruption of constitutional arrangements. With regard to Corwin’s
characterization of emergency conditions, these long-standing arrangements and programs
suggest that natural disasters do “admit of their being dealt with according to rule.”
16 1 Stat. 264-265.
17 This authority may presently be found at 10 U.S.C. 334.
18 See James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the
Presidents, vol. 1 (New York: Bureau of National Literature, 1897), pp. 149-154.

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soon ventured into its constitutionally designated policy sphere. On April 19, he
issued a proclamation establishing a blockade on the ports of the secessionist states,19
“a measure hitherto regarded as contrary to both the Constitution and the law of
nations except when the government was embroiled in a declared, foreign war.”20
Congress, of course, had not been given an opportunity to consider a declaration of
war.
The next day, the President ordered the addition of 19 vessels to the navy “for
purposes of public defense.”21 A short time later, the blockade was extended to the
ports of Virginia and North Carolina.22
By a proclamation of May 3, Lincoln ordered that the regular army be enlarged
by 22,714 men, that navy personnel be increased by 18,000, and that 42,032
volunteers be accommodated for three-year terms of service.23 Such a directive, of
course, antagonized many Representatives and Senators, because Congress is
specifically authorized by Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution “to raise and
support armies.”
In his July message to the newly assembled Congress, Lincoln suggested that,
while his actions with regard to the expansion of the armed forces might be legally
suspect, “[t]hese measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under
what appeared to be a popular and a public necessity, trusting then, as now, that
Congress would readily ratify them. It is believed,” he wrote, “that nothing has been
done beyond the constitutional competency of Congress.”24
Indeed, Congress subsequently did legislatively authorize, and thereby approve,
the President’s actions regarding his increasing armed forces personnel, and would
do the same later concerning some other questionable emergency actions. In the case
of Lincoln, the opinion of scholars and experts is “that neither Congress nor the
Supreme Court exercised any effective restraint upon the President.”25 The
emergency actions of the Chief Executive were either unchallenged or approved by
Congress, and were either accepted or, because of almost no opportunity to render
judgment, went largely without notice by the Supreme Court. The President made
19 Ibid., vol. 7, pp. 3215-3216.
20 Clinton L. Rossiter, Constitutional Dictatorship (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World,
1963), p. 225.
21 Ibid.
22 See James D. Richardson, comp., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the
Presidents, vol. 7, p. 3216.
23 Ibid., pp. 3216-3217.
24 Ibid., p. 3225.
25 James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln (Urbana, IL: University of
Illinois Press, 1951); also see Wilfred E. Binkley, President and Congress (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), pp. 124-127; Clinton L. Rossiter, Constitutional Dictatorship, pp.
233-234; and Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1907), p. 58.

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a quick response to the emergency at hand, a response which Congress or the courts
might have rejected in law, but which, nonetheless, had been made in fact and with
some degree of popular approval. Similar controversy would arise concerning the
emergency actions of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Both
men exercised extensive emergency powers with regard to world hostilities, and
Roosevelt also used emergency authority to deal with the Great Depression. Their
emergency actions, however, were largely supported by statutory delegations and a
high degree of approval on the part of both Congress and the public.
Furthermore, during the Wilson and Roosevelt presidencies, a major procedural
development occurred in the exercise of emergency powers — use of a proclamation
to declare a national emergency and thereby activate all stand-by statutory provisions
delegating authority to the President during a national emergency. The first such
national emergency proclamation was issued by President Wilson on February 5,
1917.26 Promulgated on the authority of a statute establishing the United States
Shipping Board, the proclamation concerned water transportation policy.27 It was
statutorily terminated, along with a variety of other wartime measures, on March 3,
1921.28
President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the next national emergency
proclamation some 48 hours after assuming office.29 Proclaimed March 6, 1933, on
the somewhat questionable authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917,30
the proclamation declared a so-called “bank holiday” and halted a major class of
financial transactions by closing the banks. Congress subsequently gave specific
statutory support for the Chief Executive’s action with the passage of the Emergency
Banking Act on March 9.31 Upon signing this legislation into law, the President
issued a second banking proclamation, based upon the authority of the new law,
continuing the bank holiday until it was determined that banking institutions were
capable of conducting business in accordance with new banking policy.32
Next, on September 8, 1939, President Roosevelt promulgated a proclamation
of “limited” national emergency, though the qualifying term had no meaningful legal
significance.33 Almost two years later, on May 27, 1941, he issued a proclamation
of “unlimited” national emergency.34 This action, however, actually did not make
any important new powers available to the Chief Executive in addition to those
activated by the 1939 proclamation. The President’s purpose in making the second
26 39 Stat. 1814.
27 39 Stat. 728.
28 41 Stat. 1359.
29 48 Stat. 1689.
30 40 Stat. 411.
31 48 Stat. 1.
32 48 Stat. 1691.
33 54 Stat. 2643.
34 55 Stat. 1647.

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proclamation was largely to apprise the American people of the worsening conflict
in Europe and growing tensions in Asia.
These two war-related proclamations of a general condition of national
emergency remained operative until 1947, when certain of the provisions of law they
had activated were statutorily rescinded.35 Then, in 1951, Congress terminated the
declaration of war against Germany.36 In the spring of the following year, the Senate
ratified the treaty of peace with Japan. Because these actions marked the end of
World War II for the United States, legislation was required to keep certain
emergency provisions in effect. Initially, the Emergency Powers Interim
Continuation Act temporarily maintained this emergency authority.37 It was
subsequently supplanted by the Emergency Powers Continuation Act, which kept
selected emergency delegations in force until August 1953.38 By proclamation in
April 1952, President Harry S. Truman terminated the 1939 and 1941 national
emergency declarations, leaving operative only those emergency authorities
continued by statutory specification.39
President Truman’s 1952 termination, however, specifically exempted a
December 1950 proclamation of national emergency he had issued in response to
hostilities in Korea.40 Furthermore, this condition of national emergency would
remain in force and unimpaired well into the era of the Vietnam war.
Two other proclamations of national emergency also would be promulgated
before Congress once again turned its attention to these matters. Faced with a postal
strike, President Richard M. Nixon declared a national emergency in March 1970,41
thereby gaining permission to use units of the Ready Reserve to assist in moving the
mail.42 A second national emergency was proclaimed by President Nixon in August
1971 to control the balance of payments flow by terminating temporarily certain trade
agreement provisos and imposing supplemental duties on some imported goods.43
Congressional Concerns
In the years following the conclusion of U.S. armed forces involvement in active
military conflict in Korea, occasional expressions of concern were heard in Congress
regarding the continued existence of President Truman’s 1950 national emergency
proclamation long after the conditions prompting its issuance had disappeared. There
35 61 Stat. 449.
36 65 Stat. 451.
37 66 Stat. 54; extended at 66 Stat. 96, 137, and 296.
38 66 Stat. 330; extended at 67 Stat. 18 and 131.
39 66 Stat. c31.
40 64 Stat. A454.
41 84 Stat. 2222.
42 See 10 U.S.C. 673 (1970).
43 85 Stat. 926.

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was some annoyance that the President was retaining extraordinary powers intended
only for a time of genuine emergency, and a feeling that the Chief Executive was
thwarting the legislative intent of Congress by continuously failing to terminate the
declared national emergency.44
Growing public and congressional displeasure with the President’s exercise of
his war powers and deepening U.S. involvement in hostilities in Vietnam prompted
interest in a variety of related matters. For Senator Charles Mathias, interest in the
question of emergency powers developed out of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and
the incursion into Cambodia. Together with Senator Frank Church, he sought to
establish a Senate special committee to study the implications of terminating the
1950 proclamation of national emergency that was being used to prosecute the
Vietnam war, “to consider problems which might arise as the result of the
termination and to consider what administrative or legislative actions might be
necessary.” Such a panel was initially chartered by S.Res. 304 as the Special
Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency in June of 1972, but did
not begin operations before the end of the year.45
With the convening of the 93rd Congress in 1973, the special committee was
approved again with S.Res. 9. Upon exploring the subject matter of national
emergency powers, however, the mission of the special committee became more
burdensome. There was not just one proclamation of national emergency in effect,
but four such instruments, issued in 1933, 1950, 1970, and 1971. The United States
was in a condition of national emergency four times over, and with each
proclamation, the whole collection of statutorily delegated emergency powers was
activated. Consequently, in 1974, with S.Res. 242, the study panel was rechartered
as the Special Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency
Powers to reflect its focus upon matters larger than the 1950 emergency
proclamation. Its final mandate was provided by S.Res. 10 in the 94th Congress,
although its termination date was necessarily extended briefly in 1976 by S.Res. 370.
Senator Church and Senator Mathias co-chaired the panel.46
The Special Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency
Powers produced various studies during its existence.47 After scrutinizing the United
44 The historical record suggests that, prior to 1973, when congressional research revealed
their existence, other outstanding proclaimed national emergencies were not apparent to, or
much discussed by, Members of Congress.
45 U.S. Congress, House Committee on the Judiciary, National Emergencies Act, hearings,
94th Cong., 1st sess., Mar. 6, 13, 19, and Apr. 9, 1975 (Washington: GPO, 1975), p. 20.
46 Other members of the Special Committee included Senators Clifford P. Case, Clifford P.
Hansen, Philip A. Hart, James B. Pearson, Claiborne Pell, and Adlai E. Stevenson III.
47 See U.S. Congress, Senate Special Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated
Emergency Powers, A Brief History of Emergency Powers in the United States, committee
print, 93rd Cong., 2nd sess. (Washington: GPO, 1974); U.S. Congress, Senate Special
Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers, A Recommended
National Emergencies Act, 93rd Cong., 2nd sess., S.Rept. 93-1170 (Washington: GPO, 1974);
U.S. Congress, Senate Special Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated
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States Code and uncodified statutory emergency powers, the panel identified 470
provisions of federal law which delegated extraordinary authority to the executive in
time of national emergency. Not all of them required a declaration of national
emergency to be operative, but they were, nevertheless, extraordinary grants. The
special committee also found that no process existed for automatically terminating
the four outstanding national emergency proclamations. Thus, the panel began
developing legislation containing a formula for regulating emergency declarations in
the future and otherwise adjusting the body of statutorily delegated emergency
powers by abolishing some provisions, relegating others to permanent status, and
continuing others in a standby capacity. In addition, the panel also began preparing
a report offering its findings and recommendations regarding the state of national
emergency powers in the nation.
The National Emergencies Act
The special committee, in July 1974, unanimously recommended legislation
establishing a procedure for the presidential declaration and congressional regulation
of a national emergency. The proposal also modified various statutorily delegated
emergency powers. In arriving at this reform measure, the panel consulted with
various executive branch agencies regarding the significance of existing emergency
statutes, recommendations for legislative action, and views as to the repeal of some
provisions of emergency law.
This recommended legislation was introduced by Senator Church for himself
and others on August 22, 1974, and became S. 3957. It was reported from the Senate
Committee on Government Operations on September 30 without public hearings or
amendment.48 The bill was subsequently discussed on the Senate floor on October
7, when it was amended and passed.49
Although a version of the reform legislation had been introduced in the House
on September 16, becoming H.R. 16668, the Committee on the Judiciary, to which
the measure was referred, did not have an opportunity to consider either that bill or
the Senate adopted version due to the press of other business — chiefly the
47 (...continued)
Emergency Powers, Executive Orders in Times of War and National Emergency, committee
print, 93rd Cong., 2nd sess. (Washington: GPO, 1974); U.S. Congress, Senate Special
Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers, Executive Replies,
3 parts, committee print, 93rd Cong., 2nd sess. (Washington: GPO, 1974); U.S. Congress,
Senate Special Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers,
National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers, 94th Cong., 2nd sess., S.Rept. 94-
922 (Washington: GPO, 1976); U.S. Congress, Senate Special Committee on the
Termination of the National Emergency, Emergency Powers Statutes, 93rd Cong., 1st sess.,
S.Rept. 93-549 (Washington: GPO, 1973); U.S. Congress, Senate Special Committee on the
Termination of the National Emergency, National Emergency, 3 parts, hearings, 93rd Cong.,
1st sess., Apr. 11-12, July 24, and Nov. 28, 1973 (Washington: GPO, 1973).
48 See U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Government Operations, National Emergencies
Act, 93rd Cong., 2nd sess., S.Rept. 93-1193 (Washington: GPO, 1974).
49 See Congressional Record, vol. 120, Oct. 7, 1974, pp. 34011-34022.

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impeachment of President Nixon and the nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller to be
Vice President of the United States. Thus, the National Emergencies Act failed to
be considered on the House floor before the final adjournment of the 93rd Congress.
With the convening of the next Congress, the proposal was introduced in the
House on February 27, 1975, becoming H.R. 3884, and in the Senate on March 6,
becoming S. 977. House hearings occurred in March and April before the
Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee
on the Judiciary.50 The bill was subsequently marked-up and, on April 15, was
reported in amended form to the full committee on a 4-0 vote. On May 21, the
Committee on the Judiciary, on a voice vote, reported the bill with technical
amendments.51 During the course of House debate on September 4, there was
agreement to both the committee amendments and a floor amendment providing that
national emergencies end automatically one year after their declaration unless the
President informs Congress and the public of a continuation. The bill was then
passed on a 388-5 yea and nay vote and sent to the Senate, where it was referred to
the Committee on Government Operations.52
The Senate Committee on Government Operations held a hearing on H.R. 3884
on February 25, 1976,53 The bill was subsequently reported on August 26 with one
substantive and several technical amendments.54 The following day, the amended bill
was passed and returned to the House.55 On August 31, the House agreed to the
Senate amendments,56 clearing the proposal for President Gerald Ford’s signature on
September 14.57
As enacted, the National Emergencies Act consisted of five titles. The first of
these generally returned all standby statutory delegations of emergency power,
activated by an outstanding declaration of national emergency, to a dormant state two
years after the statute’s approval. However, the act did not cancel the 1933, 1950,
50 See U.S. Congress, House Committee on the Judiciary, National Emergencies Act,
hearings, 94th Cong., 1st sess., Mar. 6, 13, 19, and Apr. 9, 1975 (Washington: GPO, 1975).
51 U.S. Congress, House Committee on the Judiciary, National Emergencies, 94th Cong.,
1st sess., H.Rept. 94-238 (Washington: GPO, 1975).
52 Congressional Record, vol. 121, Sept. 4, 1975, pp. 27631-27647; Ibid., Sept. 5, 1975, p.
27745.
53 See U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Government Operations, National Emergencies
Act, hearing, 94th Cong., 2nd sess., Feb. 25, 1976 (Washington: GPO, 1976).
54 See U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Government Operations, National Emergencies
Act, 94th Cong., 2nd sess., S.Rept. 94-1168 (Washington: GPO, 1976).
55 See Congressional Record, vol. 122, Aug. 27, 1976, pp. 28224-28228.
56 Ibid., Aug. 31, 1976, p. 28466.
57 90 Stat. 1255; 50 U.S.C. 1601-1651 (1988); see U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on
Government Operations and Special Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated
Emergency Powers, The National Emergencies Act (Public Law 94-412). Source Book:
Legislative History, Texts, and Other Documents, committee print, 94th Cong., 2nd sess.
(Washington: GPO, 1976).

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1970, and 1971 national emergency proclamations because these were issued by the
President pursuant to his Article II constitutional authority. Nevertheless, it did
render them ineffective by returning to dormancy the statutory authorities they had
activated, thereby necessitating a new declaration to activate standby statutory
emergency authorities.
Title II provided a procedure for future declarations of national emergency by
the President and prescribed arrangements for their congressional regulation. The
statute established an exclusive means for declaring a national emergency.
Furthermore, emergency declarations were to terminate automatically after one year
unless formally continued for another year by the President, but could be terminated
earlier by either the President or Congress. Originally, the prescribed method for
congressional termination of a declared national emergency was a concurrent
resolution adopted by both houses of Congress. This type of so-called “legislative
veto” was effectively invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1983.58 The National
Emergencies Act was amended in 1985 to substitute a joint resolution as the vehicle
for rescinding a national emergency declaration.59
When declaring a national emergency, the President must indicate, according
to Title III, the powers and authorities being activated to respond to the exigency at
hand. Certain presidential accountability and reporting requirements regarding
national emergency declarations were specified in Title IV, and the repeal and
continuation of various statutory provisions delegating emergency powers was
accomplished in Title V.
Since the 1976 enactment of the National Emergencies Act, various national
emergencies, identified in Table 1, have been declared pursuant to its provisions.
Some were subsequently revoked, while others remain operative. All original
declarations made pursuant to the National Emergencies Act are identified in Table
1. Unless otherwise indicated (in italic), their status is operational. A Code of
Federal Regulations or Federal Register citation is provided to enable examination
of their full text.
58 See Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983).
59 See 99 Stat. 405, 448.

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Table 1. Declared National Emergencies, 1976-2003
Declaration
Date
Title
Citation/Status
E.O. 12170
11/14/79
Blocking Iranian
3 C.F.R., 1979 Comp.,
Government Property
pp. 457-458.
E.O. 12211
04/17/80
Further Prohibitions on
3 C.F.R., 1980 Comp.,
Transactions with Iran
pp. 253-255.
E.O. 12444
10/14/83
Continuation of Export
3 C.F.R., 1983 Comp.,
Control Regulations
pp. 214-215; revoked
by E.O. 12451 of
12/20/83.
E.O. 12470
03/30/84
Continuation of Export
3 C.F.R., 1984 Comp.,
Control Regulations
pp. 168-169; revoked
by E.O. 12525 of
07/12/85.
E.O. 12513
05/01/85
Prohibiting Trade and
3 C.F.R., 1985 Comp.,
Certain Other Transactions
p. 342; revoked by
Involving Nicaragua
E.O. 12707 of
03/13/90.
E.O. 12532
09/09/85
Prohibiting Trade and
3 C.F.R., 1985 Comp.,
Certain Other Transactions
pp. 387-391; revoked
Involving South Africa
by E.O. 12769 of
07/10/91.
E.O. 12543
01/07/86
Prohibiting Trade and
3 C.F.R., 1986 Comp.,
Certain Transactions
pp. 181-182.
Involving Libya
E.O. 12635
04/08/88
Prohibiting Certain
3 C.F.R., 1988 Comp.,
Transactions with Respect to
pp. 563-564; revoked
Panama
by E.O. 12710 of
04/05/90.
E.O. 12722
08/02/90
Blocking Iraqi Government
3 C.F.R., 1990 Comp.,
Property and Prohibiting
pp. 294-295.
Transactions with Iraq
E.O. 12730
09/30/90
Continuation of Export
3 C.F.R., 1990 Comp.,
Control Regulations
pp. 305-306; revoked
by E.O. 12867 of
09/30/93.
E.O. 12735
11/16/90
Chemical and Biological
3 C.F.R., 1990 Comp.,
Weapons Proliferation
pp. 313-316; revoked
by E.O. 12938 of
11/11/94.
E.O. 12775
10/04/91
Prohibiting Certain
3 C.F.R., 1991 Comp.,
Transactions with Respect to
pp. 349-350; revoked
Haiti
by E.O. 12932 of
10/14/94.

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Declaration
Date
Title
Citation/Status
E.O. 12808
05/30/92
Blocking “Yugoslav
3 C.F.R., 1992 Comp.,
Government” Property and
pp. 305-306; revoked
Property of the Governments
by E.O. 13304 of
of Serbia and Montenegro
05/28/03.
E.O. 12865
09/26/93
Prohibiting Certain
3 C.F.R., 1993 Comp.,
Transactions Involving
pp. 636-638; revoked
UNITA
by E.O. 13298 of
05/06/03.
E.O. 12868
09/30/93
Restricting the Participation
3 C.F.R., 1993 Comp.,
by United States Persons in
pp. 650-651; revoked
Weapons Proliferation
by E.O. 12930 of
Activities
09/29/94.
E.O. 12923
06/30/94
Continuation of Export
3 C.F.R., 1994 Comp.,
Control Regulations
pp. 916-917; revoked
by E.O. 12924 of
08/19/94.
E.O. 12924
08/19/94
Continuation of Export
3 C.F.R., 1994 Comp.,
Control Regulations
pp. 917-919; revoked
by E.O. 13206 of
04/04/01.
E.O. 12930
09/29/94
Measures to Restrict the
3 C.F.R., 1994 Comp.,
Participation by United
pp. 924-925; revoked
States Persons in Weapons
by E.O. 12938 of
Proliferation Activities
11/14/94.
E.O. 12934
10/25/94
Blocking Property and
3 C.F.R., 1994 Comp.,
Additional Measures With
pp. 930-932; revoked
Respect to the Bosnian Serb-
by E.O. 13304 of
Controlled Areas of the
05/28/03.
Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina
E.O. 12938
11/14/94
Proliferation of Weapons of
3 C.F.R., 1994 Comp.,
Mass Destruction
pp. 950-954.
E.O. 12947
01/23/95
Prohibiting Transactions with
3 C.F.R., 1995 Comp.,
Terrorists Who Threaten to
pp. 319-320.
Disrupt the Middle East
Peace Process
E.O. 12957
03/15/95
Prohibiting Certain
3 C.F.R., 1995 Comp.,
Transactions with Respect to
pp. 332-333; revoked
the Development of Iranian
in part by E.O. 12959
Petroleum Resources
of 05/06/95.
E.O. 12978
10/21/95
Blocking Assets and
3 C.F.R., 1995 Comp.,
Prohibiting Transactions with
pp. 415-417.
Significant Narcotics
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Declaration
Date
Title
Citation/Status
Proc. 6867
03/01/96
Regulation of the Anchorage
3 C.F.R., 1996 Comp.,
and Movement of Vessels
pp. 8-9.
with Respect to Cuba
E.O. 13047
05/22/97
Prohibiting New Investment
3 C.F.R., 1997 Comp.,
in Burma
pp. 202-204; revoked
in part by E.O. 13310
of 07/28/03.
E.O. 13067
11/03/97
Blocking Sudanese
3 C.F.R., 1997 Comp.,
Government Property and
pp. 230-231.
Prohibiting Transactions with
Sudan
E.O. 13088
06/09/98
Blocking Property of the
3 C.F.R., 1998 Comp.,
Governments of the Federal
pp. 191-193; revoked
Republic of Yugoslavia
by E.O. 13304 of
(Serbia and Montenegro), the
05/28/03.
Republic of Serbia, and the
Republic of Montenegro, and
Prohibiting New Investment
in the Republic of Serbia in
Response to the Situation in
Kosovo
E.O. 13129
07/04/99
Blocking Property and
3 C.F.R. 1999 Comp.,
Prohibiting Transactions with
pp. 200-203; revoked
the Taliban
by E.O. 13268 of
07/02/02.
E.O. 13159
06/21/00
Blocking Property of the
3 C.F.R. 2000 Comp.,
Government of the Russian
pp. 277-278.
Federation Relating to the
Disposition of Highly
Enriched Uranium Extracted
from Nuclear Weapons
E.O. 13194
01/18/01
Prohibiting the Importation
3 C.F.R. 2001 Comp.,
of Rough Diamonds from
pp. 741-743; revoked
Sierra Leone
by E.O. 13224 of
01/15/04.
E.O. 13219
06/26/01
Blocking Property of Persons
3 C.F.R. 2001 Comp.,
Who Threaten International
pp. 778-782; revised
Stabilization Efforts in the
by E.O. 13304 of
Western Balkans
05/28/03.
E.O. 13222
08/17/01
Continuation of Export
3 C.F.R. 2001 Comp.,
Control Regulations
pp. 783-784.
Proc. 7463
09/14/01
Declaration of National
3 C.F.R. 2001 Comp.,
Emergency by Reason of
p. 263.
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Declaration
Date
Title
Citation/Status
E.O. 13224
09/23/01
Blocking Property and
3 C.F.R. 2001 Comp.,
Prohibiting Transactions with
pp. 786-789
Persons who Commit,
Threaten to Commit, or
Support Terrorism
E.O. 13288
03/06/03
Blocking Property of Persons
68 Fed. Reg. 11457-
Undermining Democratic
11458.
Processes or Institutions in
Zimbabwe
E.O. 13303
5/22/03
Protecting the Development
68 Fed. Reg. 31931-
Fund for Iraq and Certain
31932; scope
Other Property in Which Iraq
expanded by E.O.
has an Interest
13315 of 08/28/03.
E.O. 13338
05/11/04
Blocking Property of Certain
69 Fed. Reg. 26751-
Persons and Prohibiting the
26754.
Export of Certain Goods to
Syria
In its final report, issued in late May 1976, the special committee concluded “by
reemphasizing that emergency laws and procedures in the United States have been
neglected for too long, and that Congress must pass the National Emergencies Act
to end a potentially dangerous situation.”60 The panel’s recommended legislation, of
course, was enacted into law before the end of the year.
Other issues identified by the special committee as deserving attention in the
future, however, did not fare so well. The panel, for example, was hopeful that
standing committees of both houses of Congress would review statutory emergency
power provisions within their respective jurisdictions with a view to the continued
need for, and possible adjustment of, such authority.61 Actions in this regard
probably were not as ambitious as the special committee expected. A title of the
Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, granting the President or Congress power to
declare a civil defense emergency in the event an attack on the United States occurred
or was anticipated, expired in June 1974 after the House Committee on Rules failed
to report a measure continuing the statute.62
A provision of emergency law was refined in May 1976. Legislation was
enacted granting the President the authority to order certain selected members of an
armed services reserve component to active duty without a declaration of war or
60 U.S. Congress, Senate Special Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated
Emergency Powers, National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers, p. 19.
61 Ibid., p. 10.
62 See 50 U.S.C. App. 2297 (1970); U.S. Congress, House Committee on Armed Services,
Extending Civil Defense Emergency Authorities, 93rd Cong., 2nd sess., H.Rept. 93-1243
(Washington: GPO, 1974); Associated Press, “Rules Panel Halts Bill on War Powers,”
Washington Post, Sept. 19, 1974, p. A5.

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national emergency.63 Previously, such an activation of military reserve personnel
had been limited to a “time of national emergency declared by the President” or
“when otherwise authorized by law.”64
Another refinement of emergency law occurred in 1977 when action was
completed on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).65 Reform
legislation containing this statute66 modified a provision of the Trading with the
Enemy Act of 1917, authorizing the President to regulate the nation’s international
and domestic finance during periods of declared war or national emergency.67 The
enacted bill limited the President’s Trading with the Enemy Act power to regulate the
country’s finances to times of declared war. In IEEPA, a provision conferred
authority on the Chief Executive to exercise controls over international economic
transactions in the future during a declared national emergency and established
procedures governing the use of this power, including close consultation with
Congress when declaring a national emergency to activate IEEPA. Such a
declaration would be subject to congressional regulation under the procedures of the
National Emergencies Act.68

Other matters identified in the final report of the special committee for
congressional scrutiny included:
! investigation of emergency preparedness efforts conducted by the
executive branch;
! attention to congressional preparations for an emergency and
continual review of emergency law;
! ending open-ended grants of authority to the executive;
! investigation and institution of stricter controls over delegated
powers; and
63 90 Stat. 517; 10 U.S.C. 12302
64 10 U.S.C. 673 (1970).
65 50 U.S.C. 1701-1706.
66 91 Stat. 1625.
67 12 U.S.C. 95a and 50 U.S.C. App. 5(b) (1976).
68 Of related interest to these statutory developments, President Ford, by a proclamation of
February 19, 1976, gave notice that E.O. 9066, providing for the internment of Japanese-
Americans in certain military areas during World War II, was canceled as of the issuance
of the proclamation formally establishing the cessation of World War II on December 31,
1946. See 3 C.F.R., 1976 Comp., pp. 8-9. Certain statutory authority relevant to this
executive order, concerning the creation of military areas and zones, was canceled by the
National Emergencies Act. See 18 U.S.C. 1383 (1976).

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! improving the accountability of executive decisionmaking.69
There is some public record indication that certain of these points, particularly
the first and the last, have been addressed in the past two decades by congressional
overseers.70
Conclusion
The development, exercise, and regulation of emergency powers, from the days
of the Continental Congress to the present, reflect at least one highly discernable
trend: those authorities available to the executive in time of national crisis or
exigency have, since the time of the Lincoln Administration, come to be increasingly
rooted in statutory law. The discretion available to a Civil War President in his
exercise of emergency power has been harnessed, to a considerable extent, in the
contemporary period. Furthermore, due to greater reliance upon statutory expression,
the range of this authority has come to be more circumscribed, and the options for its
use have come to be regulated procedurally through the National Emergencies Act.
Since its enactment, however, the National Emergencies Act has not been revisited
by congressional overseers. Nonetheless, as the final report of the Senate Special
Committee on National Emergencies suggests, the prospect remains that further
improvements and reforms in this policy area might be pursued and perfected.
69 See U.S. Congress, Senate Special Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated
Emergency Powers, National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers, pp. 11-18.
70 See, for example, U.S. Congress, House Committee on Government Operations,
Presidential Directives and Records Accountability Act, hearing, 100th Cong., 2nd sess., Aug.
3, 1988 (Washington: GPO, 1989; U.S. Congress, House Committee on Interior and Insular
Affairs, Emergency Preparedness and the Licensing Process for Commercial Nuclear
Power Reactors, 2 parts, hearings, 98th Cong., 1st sess., Apr. 18 and July 8, 1983
(Washington: GPO, 1985).

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National Emergency Powers:
A Selected Bibliography
Articles
Bowman, Mary M. C., “Presidential Emergency Powers Related to International
Economic Transactions.” Vanderbilt Journal of Transactional Law, vol. 11,
Summer 1978: 515-534.
Culp, Maurice S., “Executive Power in Emergencies. Michigan Law Review, vol. 31,
June 1933: 1066-1096.
Fuller, Glenn E., “The National Emergency Dilemma: Balancing the Executive’s
Crisis Powers with the Need for Accountability.” Southern California Law
Review, vol. 52, July 1979: 1453-1511.
Genovese, Michael A., “Democratic Theory and the Emergency Powers of the
President.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 9, Summer 1979: 283-289.
Klieman, Aaron S., “Preparing for the Hour of Need: Emergency Powers in the
United States.” Review of Politics, vol. 41, April 1979: 235-255.
——“Preparing for the Hour of Need: The National Emergencies Act.” Presidential
Studies Quarterly, vol. 9, Winter 1979: 47-64.
Miller, Arthur S., “Constitutional Law: Crisis Government Becomes the Norm.”
Ohio State Law Journal, vol. 39, 1978: 736-751.
Relyea, Harold C., “Emergency Powers,” in Katy J. Harriger, ed., Separation of
Powers: Documents and Commentary. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2003, pp.
80-97.
——“Stretch Points of the Constitution: National Emergency Powers,” in Ralph S.
Pollock, ed., Renewing the Dream: National Archives Bicentennial ‘87 Lectures
on Contemporary Constitutional Issues. Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 1986, pp. 75-91.
Robinson, Donald L., “The Routinization of Crisis Government.” Yale Review, vol.
63, Winter 1974: 161-174.
Roche, John P., “Executive Power and Domestic Emergency: The Quest for
Prerogative.” Western Political Quarterly, vol. 5, December 1952: 592-618.
Rossiter, Clinton L., “Constitutional Dictatorship in the Atomic Age.” Review of
Politics, vol. 11, October 1949: 395-418.
Sturm, Albert L., “Emergencies and the Presidency.” Journal of Politics, vol. 11,
February 1949: 121-144.

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