"In 1986 the U.S. Congress passed the Federal Superfund Amendments Authorization Act requiring each governor to establish a state commission and local planning committees to implement a similar federal planning and right-to-know law. The former OES Hazardous Materials Division grew to support this state commission and six
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"Several other programs that began in the 1970s and 1980s still continue having influence today. Some of those include:
"Although the office was created to fill a civil defense need in the years immediately following World War II, the planning and response focus shifted very early to include natural hazards as well. Floods, earthquakes, and fires were the source of nearly all of the large scale activations of the State Operations Center. Throughout the 1970s
"The duties and responsibilities of the Director of the Office of Emergency Services, who reports directly to the Governor, are defined in the Government Code, Chapter 7. Other duties and responsibilities are delegated to the Director by the Governor. More specifically, the duties included but are not limited to:
"A revised Civil Defense and Disaster Plan in January 1958 gave equal emphasis to civil defense and disaster aspects of the program. It also included the first series of Administrative Orders issued to 16 state agencies pursuant to an Executive Order by Governor Goodwin J. Knight summarizing emergency assignments of state agencies
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