Executive Order Number

Meaning

10990

Allows the government to take control over all modes of transportation, highways, and seaports.

10995

Allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

10997

Allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels, and minerals.

10998

Allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

11000

Allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

11001

Allows the government to take over all health, education, and welfare functions.

11002

Designates the Postmaster General to operate national registration of all persons.

11003

Allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

11004

Allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

11005

Allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities.

11051

Specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis. 

11310

Grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

11049

Assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

11921

Allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and flow of money in the U.S.A. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.