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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 350. Workforce health and medical support

Statutory text

(a)

In general

The Under Secretary for Management shall be responsible for workforce-focused health and medical activities of the Department. The Under Secretary for Management may further delegate responsibility for those activities, as appropriate.

(b)

Responsibilities

The Under Secretary for Management, in coordination with the Chief Medical Officer, shall—

(1)

provide oversight and coordinate the medical and health activities of the Department for the human and animal personnel of the Department;

(2)

establish medical, health, veterinary, and occupational health exposure policy, guidance, strategies, and initiatives for the human and animal personnel of the Department;

(3)

as deemed appropriate by the Under Secretary, provide medical liaisons to the components of the Department, on a reimbursable basis, to provide subject matter expertise on occupational medical and public health issues;

(4)

serve as the primary representative for the Department on agreements regarding the detail of Commissioned Corps officers of the Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department, except that components of the Department shall retain authority for funding, determination of specific duties, and supervision of such detailed Commissioned Corps officers; and

(5)

perform such other duties relating to the responsibilities described in this subsection as the Secretary may require.

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 VII § 710 · 116 Stat. 2135

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 350

    (Pub. L. 107–296, title VII, § 710, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(d), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5167.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–296, title VII, § 710, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(d), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5167.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VII, § 710, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(d), , 132 Stat. 5167.)

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