Title 6 — Domestic Security
Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization
§ 574. Coordination of Department emergency communications grant programs
Statutory text
Coordination of grants and standards programs
The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Director for Emergency Communications, shall ensure that grant guidelines for the use of homeland security assistance administered by the Department relating to interoperable emergency communications are coordinated and consistent with the goals and recommendations in the National Emergency Communications Plan under section 572 of this title.
Denial of eligibility for grants
In general
The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Grants and Planning, and in consultation with the Assistant Director for Emergency Communications, may prohibit any State, local, or tribal government from using homeland security assistance administered by the Department to achieve, maintain, or enhance emergency communications capabilities, if—
such government has not complied with the requirement to submit a Statewide Interoperable Communications Plan as required by section 194(f) of this title;
such government has proposed to upgrade or purchase new equipment or systems that do not meet or exceed any applicable national voluntary consensus standards and has not provided a reasonable explanation of why such equipment or systems will serve the needs of the applicant better than equipment or systems that meet or exceed such standards; and
as of the date that is 3 years after the date of the completion of the initial National Emergency Communications Plan under section 572 of this title, national voluntary consensus standards for interoperable emergency communications capabilities have not been developed and promulgated.
Standards
The Secretary, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and other Federal departments and agencies with responsibility for standards, shall support the development, promulgation, and updating as necessary of national voluntary consensus standards for interoperable emergency communications.
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.
Homeland Security Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–296 title XVIII § 1804 · 116 Stat. 2135
Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 574
Pub. L. 107–296, title XVIII, § 1804, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 671(b), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1438
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 107–296, title XVIII, § 1804, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 671(b), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1438Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018
Pub. L. 115–278 § 2(g)(6)(B) · 132 Stat. 4168
Substituted · 6 U.S.C. § 574(a); 6 U.S.C. § 574(b)(1)
Pub. L. 115–278 substituted “Assistant Director for Emergency Communications” for “Director for Emergency Communications”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsecs. (a), (b)(1). Pub. L. 115–278 substituted “Assistant Director for Emergency Communications” for “Director for Emergency Communications”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(B) in sections 1802 through 1805 (6 U.S.C. 572 through 575), by striking “Director for Emergency Communications” each place that term appears and inserting “Assistant Director for Emergency Communications”;
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Another section 1804 of Pub. L. 107–296 was renumbered section 1904 and is classified to section 594 of this title.
Amendments
2018—Subsecs. (a), (b)(1). Pub. L. 115–278 substituted “Assistant Director for Emergency Communications” for “Director for Emergency Communications”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Reference to the Assistant Director for Emergency Communications deemed to be a reference to the Executive Assistant Director for Emergency Communications, see section 571(g) of this title, enacted .
Credits
2006–2018 · 2 acts
- 2006Pub. L. 107–296, title XVIII, § 1804, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 671(b), , 120 Stat. 1438
- 2018amended Pub. L. 115–278, § 2(g)(6)(B), , 132 Stat. 4179.
Show as published
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XVIII, § 1804, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 671(b), , 120 Stat. 1438; amended Pub. L. 115–278, § 2(g)(6)(B), , 132 Stat. 4179.)