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6 U.S.C. § 591g — Regional emergency communications coordination
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**(a) In general** There is established in each Regional Office a Regional Emergency Communications Coordination Working Group (in this section referred to as an “RECC Working Group”). Each RECC Working Group shall report to the relevant Regional Administrator and coordinate its activities with the relevant Regional Advisory Council.
**(b) Membership** Each RECC Working Group shall consist of the following:
(1) **Non-Federal** — Organizations representing the interests of the following:
(A) State officials.
(B) Local government officials, including sheriffs.
(C) State police departments.
(D) Local police departments.
(E) Local fire departments.
(F) Public safety answering points (9–1–1 services).
(G) State emergency managers, homeland security directors, or representatives of State Administrative Agencies.
(H) Local emergency managers or homeland security directors.
(I) Other emergency response providers as appropriate.
(2) **Federal** — Representatives from the Department, the Federal Communications Commission, and other Federal departments and agencies with responsibility for coordinating interoperable emergency communications with or providing emergency support services to State, local, and tribal governments.
**(c) Coordination** Each RECC Working Group shall coordinate its activities with the following:
(1) Communications equipment manufacturers and vendors (including broadband data service providers).
(2) Local exchange carriers.
(3) Local broadcast media.
(4) Wireless carriers.
(5) Satellite communications services.
(6) Cable operators.
(7) Hospitals.
(8) Public utility services.
(9) Emergency evacuation transit services.
(10) Ambulance services.
(11) HAM and amateur radio operators.
(12) Representatives from other priva
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**(a) In general** There is established in each Regional Office a Regional Emergency Communications Coordination Working Group (in this section referred to as an “RECC Working Group”). Each RECC Working Group shall report to the relevant Regional Administrator and coordinate its activities with the relevant Regional Advisory Council.
**(b) Membership** Each RECC Working Group shall consist of the following:
(1) **Non-Federal** — Organizations representing the interests of the following:
(A) State officials.
(B) Local government officials, including sheriffs.
(C) State police departments.
(D) Local police departments.
(E) Local fire departments.
(F) Public safety answering points (9–1–1 services).
(G) State emergency managers, homeland security directors, or representatives of State Administrative Agencies.
(H) Local emergency managers or homeland security directors.
(I) Other emergency response providers as appropriate.
(2) **Federal** — Representatives from the Department, the Federal Communications Commission, and other Federal departments and agencies with responsibility for coordinating interoperable emergency communications with or providing emergency support services to State, local, and tribal governments.
**(c) Coordination** Each RECC Working Group shall coordinate its activities with the following:
(1) Communications equipment manufacturers and vendors (including broadband data service providers).
(2) Local exchange carriers.
(3) Local broadcast media.
(4) Wireless carriers.
(5) Satellite communications services.
(6) Cable operators.
(7) Hospitals.
(8) Public utility services.
(9) Emergency evacuation transit services.
(10) Ambulance services.
(11) HAM and amateur radio operators.
(12) Representatives from other private sector entities and nongovernmental organizations as the Regional Administrator determines appropriate.
**(d) Duties** The duties of each RECC Working Group shall include—
(1) assessing the survivability, sustainability, and interoperability of local emergency communications systems to meet the goals of the National Emergency Communications Plan;
(2) reporting annually to the relevant Regional Administrator, the Assistant Director for Emergency Communications, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of the Department of Commerce on the status of its region in building robust and sustainable interoperable voice and data emergency communications networks and, not later than 60 days after the completion of the initial National Emergency Communications Plan under [section 572 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section572&num=0&edition=prelim), on the progress of the region in meeting the goals of such plan;
(3) ensuring a process for the coordination of effective multijurisdictional, multi-agency emergency communications networks for use during natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters through the expanded use of emergency management and public safety communications mutual aid agreements; and
(4) coordinating the establishment of Federal, State, local, and tribal support services and networks designed to address the immediate and critical human needs in responding to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters.
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**(a) Baseline requirements**
(1) **In general** — Before the Administration implements any security-related technology acquisition, the appropriate acquisition official of the Department shall establish and document a set of formal baseline requirements.
(2) **Contents** — The baseline requirements under paragraph (1) shall—
(A) include the estimated costs (including lifecycle costs), schedule, and performance milestones for the planned duration of the acquisition;
(B) identify the acquisition risks and a plan for mitigating those risks; and
(C) assess the personnel necessary to manage the acquisition process, manage the ongoing program, and support training and other operations as necessary.
(3) **Feasibility** — In establishing the performance milestones under paragraph (2)(A), the appropriate acquisition official of the Department, to the extent possible and in consultation with the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, shall ensure that achieving those milestones is technologically feasible.
(4) **Test and evaluation plan** — The Administrator, in consultation with the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, shall develop a test and evaluation plan that describes—
(A) the activities that are expected to be required to assess acquired technologies against the performance milestones established under paragraph (2)(A);
(B) the necessary and cost-effective combination of laboratory testing, field testing, modeling, simulation, and supporting analysis to ensure that such technologies meet the Administration’s mission needs;
(C) an efficient planning schedule to ensure that test and evaluation activities are completed without undue delay; and
(D) if commercial aviation passengers are expected to interact with the security-related techno
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In this subchapter:
(1) **Assistant Secretary** — The term “Assistant Secretary” means the Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office.
(2) **Intelligence community** — The term “intelligence community” has the meaning given such term in [section 3003(4) of title 50](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3003/4&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Office** — The term “Office” means the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office established under [section 591(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section591/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
(4) **Weapon of mass destruction** — The term “weapon of mass destruction” has the meaning given the term in [section 1801 of title 50](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section1801&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY
§ 592
Act, except for the functions, personnel, budget au-
thority, and assets of such office necessary to per-
form the functions specified in section 710 of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 [6 U.S.C. 350] (relat-
ing to workforce health and medical support), as
added by this Act; and
‘‘(B) the Management Directorate of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security all functions, personnel,
budget authority, and assets of the Office of Health
Affairs, as in existence on the day before the date of
the enactment of this Act, that are necessary to per-
form the functions of such section 710.
‘‘(2) ABOLISHMENT.—Upon completion of all transfers
pursuant to paragraph (1)—
‘‘(A) the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office of the
Department of Homeland Security and the Office of
Health Affairs of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity are abolished; and
‘‘(B) the positions of Assistant Secretary for Health
Affairs and Director for Domestic Nuclear Detection
are abolished.’’
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY CHEMICAL,
BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, AND NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES
Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(g), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5169, pro-
vided that: ‘‘Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act [Dec. 21, 2018], and annually
thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall
provide a briefing and report to the appropriate con-
gressional committees (as defined in section 2 of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101)) on—
‘‘(1) the organization and management of the chem-
ical, biological, radiological, and nuclear activities of
the Department of Homeland Security, including re-
search and development activities, and the location
of each activity under the organizational structure of
the Countering Weapons of Mass De
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