Title 6 — Domestic SecurityRelease 119-73

§747 Equipment and training standards

Title 6 › Chapter CHAPTER 2— - NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - COMPREHENSIVE PREPAREDNESS SYSTEM › Part Part A— - National Preparedness System › § 747

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator must work with federal agency leaders and the National Advisory Council to help create, issue, and update national voluntary consensus standards for equipment used by Federal, State, local, and tribal governments and nongovernmental emergency responders. The standards must support the national preparedness goal and protect responders’ health and safety. As much as possible, they should match existing standards, consider new threats, and make equipment work together, be interchangeable, durable, flexible, efficient, portable, sustainable, and safe. The Administrator must also help create and update national voluntary consensus standards for training and make sure the national training program follows them. The Administrator must consult with public and private standards organizations while doing this.

Full Legal Text

Title 6, §747

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(a)(1)The Administrator, in coordination with the heads of appropriate Federal agencies and the National Advisory Council, shall support the development, promulgation, and updating, as necessary, of national voluntary consensus standards for the performance, use, and validation of equipment used by Federal, State, local, and tribal governments and nongovernmental emergency response providers.

(2)The national voluntary consensus standards shall—

(A)be designed to achieve equipment and other capabilities consistent with the national preparedness goal, including the safety and health of emergency response providers;

(B)to the maximum extent practicable, be consistent with existing national voluntary consensus standards;

(C)take into account, as appropriate, threats that may not have been contemplated when the existing standards were developed; and

(D)focus on maximizing operability, interoperability, interchangeability, durability, flexibility, efficiency, efficacy, portability, sustainability, and safety.

(b)The Administrator shall—

(1)support the development, promulgation, and regular updating, as necessary, of national voluntary consensus standards for training; and

(2)ensure that the training provided under the national training program is consistent with the standards.

(c)In carrying out this section, the Administrator shall consult with representatives of relevant public and private sector national voluntary consensus standards development organizations.

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Citation

6 U.S.C. § 747

Title 6 — Domestic Security

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73