Title 6 — Domestic SecurityRelease 119-73not60
§321k Model Standards and Guidelines for Critical Infrastructure Workers
Title 6 › Chapter 1— HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › Subchapter V— NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT › § 321k
Summary
Within 12 months after August 3, 2007, the Administrator must create model standards to certify critical infrastructure workers who respond to natural disasters, terrorism, or other man-made disasters, with others, and give standards, detailed guidance, and technical help to state, local, and tribal governments.
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Title 6, §321k
Domestic Security — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)Not later than 12 months after August 3, 2007, and in coordination with appropriate national professional organizations, Federal, State, local, and tribal government agencies, and private-sector and nongovernmental entities, the Administrator shall establish model standards and guidelines for credentialing critical infrastructure workers that may be used by a State to credential critical infrastructure workers that may respond to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster.
(b)The Administrator shall provide the standards developed under subsection (a), including detailed written guidance, to State, local, and tribal governments, and provide expertise and technical assistance to aid such governments with credentialing critical infrastructure workers that may respond to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other manmade disaster.
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Citation
6 U.S.C. § 321k
Title 6 — Domestic Security
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60