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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 321h. Use of national private sector networks in emergency response

Statutory text

To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall use national private sector networks and infrastructure for emergency response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive disasters, and other major disasters.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Homeland Security Act of 2002

    Pub. L. 107–296 title V § 519 · 116 Stat. 2135

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 321h

    Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 519, formerly § 508, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2215

    Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 519, formerly § 508, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2215

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 508. USE OF NATIONAL PRIVATE SECTOR NETWORKS IN EMERGENCY RESPONSE. To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall use national private sector networks and infrastructure for emergency response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive disasters, and other major disasters.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 318 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 109–295.

Credits

2002–2006 · 2 acts
  1. 2002Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 519, formerly § 508, , 116 Stat. 2215
  2. 2006renumbered § 519, Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(6), , 120 Stat. 1395.
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(Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 519, formerly § 508, , 116 Stat. 2215; renumbered § 519, Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(6), , 120 Stat. 1395.)

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