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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Part B · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 591g. Mission of the Office

Statutory text

The Office shall be responsible for coordinating with other Federal efforts and developing a strategy and policy for the Department to plan for, detect, and protect against the importation, possession, storage, transportation, development, or use of unauthorized chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear materials, devices, or agents in the United States and to protect against an attack using such materials, devices, or agents against the people, territory, or interests of the United States.

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 XIX § 1921 · 116 Stat. 2135

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 591g

    (Pub. L. 107–296, title XIX, § 1921, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(a)(3), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5163.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–296, title XIX, § 1921, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(a)(3), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5163.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XIX, § 1921, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(a)(3), , 132 Stat. 5163.)

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