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6 U.S.C. § 124h — Homeland security information sharing

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6 U.S.C. § 124h — Homeland security information sharing

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**(a) Information sharing** Consistent with [section 485 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section485&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, shall integrate the information and standardize the format of the products of the intelligence components of the Department containing homeland security information, terrorism information, weapons of mass destruction information, or national intelligence (as defined in [section 3003(5) of title 50](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3003/5&num=0&edition=prelim)) except for any internal security protocols or personnel information of such intelligence components, or other administrative processes that are administered by any chief security officer of the Department. **(b) Information sharing and knowledge management officers** For each intelligence component of the Department, the Secretary shall designate an information sharing and knowledge management officer who shall report to the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis regarding coordinating the different systems used in the Department to gather and disseminate homeland security information or national intelligence (as defined in [section 3003(5) of title 50](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3003/5&num=0&edition=prelim)). **(c) State, local, and private-sector sources of information** (1) **Establishment of business processes** — The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis or the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as appropriate, shall— (A) establish Department-wide procedures for the review and analysis of information provided by State, local, and tribal governments and the private sector; (B) as appropriate, integrate such information into the information gathered by the Department and other departments and agencies of the Federal Government; and (C) make available such information, as appropriate, within the Department and to other departments and agencies of the Federal Government. (2) **Feedback** — The Secretary shall develop mechanisms to provide feedback regarding the analysis and utility of information provided by any entity of State, local, or tribal government or the private sector that provides such information to the Department. **(d) Training and evaluation of employees** (1) **Training** — The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis or the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, as appropriate, shall provide to employees of the Department opportunities for training and education to develop an understanding of— (A) the definitions of homeland security information and national intelligence (as defined in [section 3003(5) of title 50](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3003/5&num=0&edition=prelim)); and (B) how information available to such employees as part of their duties— (i) might qualify as homeland security information or national intelligence; and (ii) might be relevant to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the intelligence components of the Department. (2) **Evaluations** — The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis shall— (A) on an ongoing basis, evaluate how employees of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the intelligence components of the Department are utilizing homeland security information or national intelligence, sharing information within the Department, as described in this subchapter, and participating in the information sharing environment established under [section 485 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section485&num=0&edition=prelim); and (B) provide to the appropriate component heads regular reports regarding the evaluations under subparagraph (A).

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6 U.S.C. § 124a — Sensitive Security Information

Using funds made available in this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide that each office within the Department that handles documents marked as Sensitive Security Information (SSI) shall have at least one employee in that office with authority to coordinate and make determinations on behalf of the agency that such documents meet the criteria for marking as SSI: Provided, That not later than December 31, 2005, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives: (1) Department-wide policies for designating, coordinating and marking documents as SSI; (2) Department-wide auditing and accountability procedures for documents designated and marked as SSI; (3) the total number of SSI Coordinators within the Department; and (4) the total number of staff authorized to designate SSI documents within the Department: Provided further, That not later than January 31, 2006, the Secretary shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives the title of all DHS documents that are designated as SSI in their entirety during the period October 1, 2005, through December 31, 2005: Provided further, That not later than January 31 of each succeeding year, starting on January 31, 2007, the Secretary shall provide annually a similar report to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the titles of all DHS documents that are designated as SSI in their entirety during the period of January 1 through December 31 for the preceding year: Provided further, That the Secretary shall promulgate guidance that includes common but extensive examples of SSI that further define the individual categories of information cited under 49 CFR 1520(b)(1) th

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28 U.S.C. § 994 — Duties of the Commission

**(a)** The Commission, by affirmative vote of at least four members of the Commission, and pursuant to its rules and regulations and consistent with all pertinent provisions of any Federal statute shall promulgate and distribute to all courts of the United States and to the United States Probation System— (1) guidelines, as described in this section, for use of a sentencing court in determining the sentence to be imposed in a criminal case, including— (A) a determination whether to impose a sentence to probation, a fine, or a term of imprisonment; (B) a determination as to the appropriate amount of a fine or the appropriate length of a term of probation or a term of imprisonment; (C) a determination whether a sentence to a term of imprisonment should include a requirement that the defendant be placed on a term of supervised release after imprisonment, and, if so, the appropriate length of such a term; (D) a determination whether multiple sentences to terms of imprisonment should be ordered to run concurrently or consecutively; and (E) a determination under paragraphs (6) and (11) 11 See References in Text note below. of [section 3563(b) of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section3563/b&num=0&edition=prelim); (2) general policy statements regarding application of the guidelines or any other aspect of sentencing or sentence implementation that in the view of the Commission would further the purposes set forth in [section 3553(a)(2) of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section3553/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim), United States Code, including the appropriate use of— (A) the sanctions set forth in sections 3554, 3555, and 3556 of title 18; (B) the conditions of proba

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6 U.S.C. § 485 — Transnational Criminal Investigative Units

**(a) In general** The Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall operate Transnational Criminal Investigative Units within Homeland Security Investigations. **(b) Composition** Each Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit shall be composed of trained foreign law enforcement officials who shall collaborate with Homeland Security Investigations to investigate and prosecute individuals involved in transnational criminal activity. **(c) Vetting requirement** (1) **In general** — Before entry into a Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit, and at periodic intervals while serving in such a unit, foreign law enforcement officials shall be required to pass certain security evaluations, which may include a background check, a polygraph examination, a urinalysis test, or other measures that the Secretary determines to be appropriate. (2) **Leahy vetting required** — No member of a foreign law enforcement unit may join a Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit if the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of State, has credible information that such foreign law enforcement unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, consistent with the limitations set forth in [section 2378d of title 22](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2378d&num=0&edition=prelim). (3) **Approval and concurrence** — The establishment and continued support of the Transnational Criminal Investigative Units who are assigned under paragraph (1)— (A) shall be performed with the approval of the chief of mission to the foreign country to which the personnel are assigned; (B) shall be consistent with the duties and powers of the Secretary of State and the chief of mission for a foreign country under [section 4802 of title 2

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50 U.S.C. § 401a — Transferred

### Statutory Notes #### Codification Section 442b, comprising section 1103 of the National Security Act of 1947, act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, was editorially reclassified as [section 3233 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3233&num=0&edition=prelim).

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6 U.S.C. § 101 — Cyber incident review

**(a) Activities** The Center shall— (1) receive, aggregate, analyze, and secure, using processes consistent with the processes developed pursuant to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 ([6 U.S.C. 1501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) reports from covered entities related to a covered cyber incident to assess the effectiveness of security controls, identify tactics, techniques, and procedures adversaries use to overcome those controls and other cybersecurity purposes, including to assess potential impact of cyber incidents on public health and safety and to enhance situational awareness of cyber threats across critical infrastructure sectors; (2) coordinate and share information with appropriate Federal departments and agencies to identify and track ransom payments, including those utilizing virtual currencies; (3) leverage information gathered about cyber incidents to— (A) enhance the quality and effectiveness of information sharing and coordination efforts with appropriate entities, including agencies, sector coordinating councils, Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations, State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, technology providers, critical infrastructure owners and operators, cybersecurity and cyber incident response firms, and security researchers; and (B) provide appropriate entities, including sector coordinating councils, Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations, State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, technology providers, cybersecurity and cyber incident response firms, and security researchers, with timely, actionable, and anonymized reports of cyber incident campaigns and trends, including, to the maximum extent practicable

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6 U.S.C. § 111 — Definitions

In this chapter, the following definitions apply: (1) Each of the terms “American homeland” and “homeland” means the United States. (2) The term “appropriate congressional committee” means any committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate having legislative or oversight jurisdiction under the Rules of the House of Representatives or the Senate, respectively, over the matter concerned. (3) The term “assets” includes contracts, facilities, property, records, unobligated or unexpended balances of appropriations, and other funds or resources (other than personnel). (4) The term “critical infrastructure” has the meaning given that term in [section 5195c(e) of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5195c/e&num=0&edition=prelim). (5) The term “Department” means the Department of Homeland Security. (6) The term “emergency response providers” includes Federal, State, and local governmental and nongovernmental emergency public safety, fire, law enforcement, emergency response, emergency medical (including hospital emergency facilities), and related personnel, agencies, and authorities. (7) The term “EMP” means an electromagnetic pulse caused by a nuclear device or nonnuclear device, including such a pulse caused by an act of terrorism. (8) The term “executive agency” means an executive agency and a military department, as defined, respectively, in sections 105 and 102 of title 5. (9) The term “functions” includes authorities, powers, rights, privileges, immunities, programs, projects, activities, duties, and responsibilities. (10) The term “GMD” means a geomagnetic disturbance caused by a solar storm or another naturally occurring phenomenon. (11) The term “intelligence component of the Department” means any elem

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6 U.S.C. § 124n — Threat information sharing

**(a) Prioritization** The Secretary of Homeland Security shall prioritize the assignment of officers and intelligence analysts under [section 124h of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section124h&num=0&edition=prelim) from the Transportation Security Administration and, as appropriate, from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security, to locations with participating State, local, and regional fusion centers in jurisdictions with a high-risk surface transportation asset in order to enhance the security of such assets, including by improving timely sharing, in a manner consistent with the protection of privacy rights, civil rights, and civil liberties, of information regarding threats of terrorism and other threats, including targeted violence. **(b) Intelligence products** Officers and intelligence analysts assigned to locations with participating State, local, and regional fusion centers under this section shall participate in the generation and dissemination of transportation security intelligence products, with an emphasis on such products that relate to threats of terrorism and other threats, including targeted violence, to surface transportation assets that— (1) assist State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies in deploying their resources, including personnel, most efficiently to help detect, prevent, investigate, apprehend, and respond to such threats; (2) promote more consistent and timely sharing with and among jurisdictions of threat information; and (3) enhance the Department of Homeland Security’s situational awareness of such threats. **(c) Clearances** The Secretary of Homeland Security shall make available to appropriate owners and operators of surface transportat

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6 U.S.C. § 124h — Department of Homeland Security State,

Page 44 TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY § 124g 1 So in original. A closing parenthesis probably should precede the comma. (2) ensure that the curriculum includes exec- utive level training for senior level State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers, in- telligence analysts, and other emergency re- sponse providers. (b) Training To the extent possible, the Federal Law En- forcement Training Center and other existing Federal entities with the capacity and expertise to train State, local, and tribal government offi- cials based on the curriculum developed under subsection (a) shall be used to carry out the training programs created under this section. If such entities do not have the capacity, re- sources, or capabilities to conduct such train- ing, the Secretary may approve another entity to conduct such training. (c) Consultation In carrying out the duties described in sub- section (a), the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis shall consult with the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other ap- propriate parties, such as private industry, in- stitutions of higher education, nonprofit institu- tions, and other intelligence agencies of the Federal Government. (Pub. L. 107–296, title II, § 209, as added Pub. L. 110–53, title V, § 503(a), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 312.) § 124g. Information sharing incentives (a) Awards In making cash awards under chapter 45 of title 5, the President or the head of an agency, in consultation with the program manager des- ignated under section 485 of this title, may con- sider the success of an employee in appro- priately sharing information within the scope of t

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