E.__Conduct studies and surveys and take inventories of the industries, resources and facilities of the State necessary to ascertain the State's emergency management capabilities, and plan for their most efficient emergency use, including emergency economic controls to ensure adequate production and equitable distribution of essential commodities;

F.__Whenever a shortage of critical material supplies appears imminent in the State, establish emergency reserves of those products necessary to ensure the health, welfare and safety of the people of the State.__To establish those reserves, the Governor may purchase quantities of those materials for resale on a cost plus expenses basis for priority end users within the State;

G.__On behalf of the State, enter into mutual aid arrangements with other states and foreign countries, and their political subdivisions, and coordinate mutual aid plans between political subdivisions of the State.__If an arrangement is entered into with a jurisdiction that has enacted the Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact, chapter 15, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, chapter 16, or the International Emergency Management Assistance Compact, chapter 16-A, any resulting agreement or agreements may be considered supplemental agreements pursuant to those compacts.__If the other jurisdiction or jurisdictions with which the Governor proposes to cooperate have not enacted one of those compacts, the Governor may negotiate special agreements with the jurisdiction or jurisdictions.__Any agreement, if sufficient authority for its making does not otherwise exist, becomes effective only after approval by the Legislature; and

H.__Delegate any authority vested in the Governor under this chapter and provide for the subdelegation of that authority.

Sec. 55. 37-B MRSA §782, as amended by PL 2001, c. 614, §14 and c. 662, §83, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

§782. Agency directors