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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 321k. Model standards and guidelines for critical infrastructure workers

Statutory text

(a)

In general

Not later than 12 months after , and in coordination with appropriate national professional organizations, Federal, State, local, and tribal government agencies, and private-sector and nongovernmental entities, the Administrator shall establish model standards and guidelines for credentialing critical infrastructure workers that may be used by a State to credential critical infrastructure workers that may respond to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster.

(b)

Distribution and assistance

The Administrator shall provide the standards developed under subsection (a), including detailed written guidance, to State, local, and tribal governments, and provide expertise and technical assistance to aid such governments with credentialing critical infrastructure workers that may respond to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other manmade disaster.

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 § 522 · 116 Stat. 2135

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 321k

    (Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 522, as added Pub. L. 110–53, title IV, § 409(a), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 305.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 522, as added Pub. L. 110–53, title IV, § 409(a), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 305.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 522, as added Pub. L. 110–53, title IV, § 409(a), , 121 Stat. 305.)

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