Title 6 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT › § 321d
Creates the National Operations Center as the Department’s main operations hub. It must provide situational awareness and a shared picture of events to the Federal Government and, as needed, to State, local, tribal, and territorial governments, the private sector, and international partners for natural disasters, terrorism, or other man-made disasters. It must make sure critical terrorism- and disaster-related information reaches decision-makers, may make agreements with other centers to share information, and must keep a rotating State or local emergency responder position at the Center managed like other rotating posts. Situational awareness: information from many sources that helps emergency managers and officials make incident decisions.
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6 U.S.C. § 321d
Title 6 — Domestic Security
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73