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Thanks. From the order:

SEC. 703 Resource functions. With respect to the resources defined in Section 702, the Secretary of the Interior shall:

(1) Minerals development. Develop programs and encourage the exploration, development, and mining of strategic and critical minerals for emergency purposes.
(2) Production. Provide guidance and leadership to assigned industries in the development of plans and programs to insure the continuity of production in the event of an attack, and cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the identification and evaluation of essential facilities.
(3) Water. Develop plans with respect to water, including plans for the treatment and disposal, after use, of water after its withdrawal into a community system or an emergency system for treatment, storage, and distribution for public use. In developing any plans relating to water for use on farms and in food facilities, assure that those plans are in consonance with plans and programs of the Department of Agriculture.
(4) Electric power and natural gas. In preparedness planning for electric power and natural gas, the Federal Power Commission shall assist the Secretary of the Interior as set forth in Section 1901 of this order.

Nothin' quite like those "enumerated powers," eh? Looks like I'm going to have to chase this monster all the way through the revision history. Something tells me however, that none of these EOs reduce Federal power to confiscate private food stocks in an emergency.

From EO 12656 that revoked EO 11490 the revoked EO 10998 (http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12656.html):

Sec. 203. Resource Management. The head of each Federal department and agency, as appropriate within assigned areas of responsibility, shall:
(1) Develop plans and programs to mobilize personnel (including reservist programs), equipment, facilities, and other resources;
(2) Assess essential emergency requirements and plan for the possible use of alternative resources to meet essential demands during and following national security emergencies;
(3) Prepare plans and procedures to share between and among the responsible agencies resources such as energy, equipment, food, land, materials, minerals, services, supplies, transportation, water, and workforce needed to carry out assigned responsibilities and other essential functions, and cooperate with other agencies in developing programs to ensure availability of such resources in a national security emergency;

Now THAT's what we call broad. I chased down the amendments to this EO and from what I can tell, it remains on the books unamended as specifically regards Federal power to confiscate food and water resources and control their distribution.