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6 U.S.C. § 747 — Target capabilities and preparedness priorities
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**(a) Establishment of guidelines on target capabilities** Not later than 180 days after October 4, 2006, the Administrator, in coordination with the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, the National Council on Disability, and the National Advisory Council, shall complete, revise, and update, as necessary, guidelines to define risk-based target capabilities for Federal, State, local, and tribal government preparedness that will enable the Nation to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against all hazards, including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters.
**(b) Distribution of guidelines** The Administrator shall ensure that the guidelines are provided promptly to the appropriate committees of Congress and the States.
**(c) Objectives** The Administrator shall ensure that the guidelines are specific, flexible, and measurable.
**(d) Terrorism risk assessment** With respect to analyzing and assessing the risk of acts of terrorism, the Administrator shall consider—
(1) the variables of threat, vulnerability, and consequences related to population (including transient commuting and tourist populations), areas of high population density, critical infrastructure, coastline, and international borders; and
(2) the most current risk assessment available from the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Department of the threats of terrorism against the United States.
**(e) Preparedness priorities** In establishing the guidelines under subsection (a), the Administrator shall establish preparedness priorities that appropriately balance the risk of all hazards, including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, with the resources required to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against the hazards.
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**(a) Establishment of guidelines on target capabilities** Not later than 180 days after October 4, 2006, the Administrator, in coordination with the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, the National Council on Disability, and the National Advisory Council, shall complete, revise, and update, as necessary, guidelines to define risk-based target capabilities for Federal, State, local, and tribal government preparedness that will enable the Nation to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against all hazards, including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters.
**(b) Distribution of guidelines** The Administrator shall ensure that the guidelines are provided promptly to the appropriate committees of Congress and the States.
**(c) Objectives** The Administrator shall ensure that the guidelines are specific, flexible, and measurable.
**(d) Terrorism risk assessment** With respect to analyzing and assessing the risk of acts of terrorism, the Administrator shall consider—
(1) the variables of threat, vulnerability, and consequences related to population (including transient commuting and tourist populations), areas of high population density, critical infrastructure, coastline, and international borders; and
(2) the most current risk assessment available from the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Department of the threats of terrorism against the United States.
**(e) Preparedness priorities** In establishing the guidelines under subsection (a), the Administrator shall establish preparedness priorities that appropriately balance the risk of all hazards, including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, with the resources required to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against the hazards.
**(f) Mutual aid agreements** The Administrator may provide support for the development of mutual aid agreements within States.
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Administrator of FEMA** — The term “Administrator of FEMA” means the Administrator of FEMA, acting through the Administrator.
(2) **Available grant funds** — The term “available grant funds”, with respect to a fiscal year, means those funds appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in subsection (q)(1) for such fiscal year less any funds used for administrative costs pursuant to subsection (q)(2) in such fiscal year.
(3) **Career fire department** — The term “career fire department” means a fire department that has an all-paid force of firefighting personnel other than paid-on-call firefighters.
(4) **Combination fire department** — The term “combination fire department” means a fire department that has—
(A) paid firefighting personnel; and
(B) volunteer firefighting personnel.
(5) **Firefighting personnel** — The term “firefighting personnel” means individuals, including volunteers, who are firefighters, officers of fire departments, or emergency medical service personnel of fire departments.
(6) **Institution of higher education** — The term “institution of higher education” has the meaning given such term in [section 1001 of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1001&num=0&edition=prelim).
(7) **Nonaffiliated EMS organization** — The term “nonaffiliated EMS organization” means a public or private nonprofit emergency medical services organization that is not affiliated with a hospital and does not serve a geographic area in which the Administrator of FEMA finds that emergency medical services are adequately provided by a fire department.
(8) **Paid-on-call** — The term “paid-on-call” with respect to firefighting personnel means firefighting perso
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**(a) Permitted uses** The Administrator shall permit the recipient of a grant under section 604 or 605 of this title to use grant funds to achieve target capabilities related to preventing, preparing for, protecting against, and responding to acts of terrorism, consistent with a State homeland security plan and relevant local, tribal, and regional homeland security plans, including by working in conjunction with a National Laboratory (as defined in [section 15801(3) of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section15801/3&num=0&edition=prelim)), through—
(1) developing and enhancing homeland security, emergency management, or other relevant plans, assessments, or mutual aid agreements;
(2) designing, conducting, and evaluating training and exercises, including training and exercises conducted under [section 321a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section321a&num=0&edition=prelim) and [section 748 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section748&num=0&edition=prelim);
(3) protecting a system or asset included on the prioritized critical infrastructure list established under [section 664(a)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section664/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim);
(4) purchasing, upgrading, storing, or maintaining equipment, including computer hardware and software;
(5) ensuring operability and achieving interoperability of emergency communications;
(6) responding to an increase in the threat level under the Homeland Security Advisory System, or to the needs resulting from a National Special Security Event;
(7) establishing, enhancing, and staffing with appropriately qualified personne
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TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY
§ 745
(4) Comprehensive assessment system.
(5) Remedial action management program.
(6) Federal response capability inventory.
(7) Reporting requirements.
(8) Federal preparedness.
(c) National planning scenarios
The national preparedness system may include
national planning scenarios.
(Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 644, Oct. 4, 2006, 120
Stat. 1425.)
§ 745. National planning scenarios
(a) In general
The Administrator, in coordination with the
heads of appropriate Federal agencies and the
National Advisory Council, may develop plan-
ning scenarios to reflect the relative risk re-
quirements presented by all hazards, including
natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other
man-made disasters, in order to provide the
foundation for the flexible and adaptive develop-
ment of target capabilities and the identifica-
tion of target capability levels to meet the na-
tional preparedness goal.
(b) Development
In developing, revising, and replacing national
planning scenarios, the Administrator shall en-
sure that the scenarios—
(1) reflect the relative risk of all hazards and
illustrate the potential scope, magnitude, and
complexity of a broad range of representative
hazards; and
(2) provide the minimum number of rep-
resentative scenarios necessary to identify
and define the tasks and target capabilities re-
quired to respond to all hazards.
(Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 645, Oct. 4, 2006, 120
Stat. 1425.)
§ 746. Target capabilities and preparedness prior-
ities
(a) Establishment of guidelines on target capa-
bilities
Not later than 180 days after October 4, 2006,
the Administrator, in coordination with the
heads of appropriate Federal agencies, the Na-
tional Council on Disability, and the National
Advisory Cou
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