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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Part B · Chapter 2 — National Emergency Management

§ 725. Prepositioned equipment program

Statutory text

(a)

In general

The Administrator shall establish a prepositioned equipment program to preposition standardized emergency equipment in at least 11 locations to sustain and replenish critical assets used by State, local, and tribal governments in response to (or rendered inoperable by the effects of) natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters.

(b)

Notice

The Administrator shall notify State, local, and tribal officials in an area in which a location for the prepositioned equipment program will be closed not later than 60 days before the date of such closure.

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. Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006

    Pub. L. 109–295 title VI § 637 · 120 Stat. 1355

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 725

    (Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 637, Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1422.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 637, Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1422.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 637. PREPOSITIONED EQUIPMENT PROGRAM. (a) In General.— The Administrator shall establish a prepositioned equipment program to preposition standardized emergency equipment in at least 11 locations to sustain and replenish critical assets used by State, local, and tribal governments in response to (or rendered inoperable by the effects of) natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters. (b) Notice.— Deadline. The Administrator shall notify State, local, and tribal officials in an area in which a location for the prepositioned equipment program will be closed not later than 60 days before the date of such closure.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 637, , 120 Stat. 1422.)

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