Title 6, Domestic SecurityRelease 119-110
§321k Model Standards and Guidelines for Critical Infrastructure Workers
Title 6 › CHAPTER 1 — HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › SUBCHAPTER V — NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT › § 321k
Summary
The Administrator must, within 12 months after August 3, 2007, create model standards states can use to give credentials to critical infrastructure workers who may respond to natural disasters, terrorism, or other man-made disasters. The Administrator must give those standards and detailed written guidance to State, local, and tribal governments and offer technical help.
Full Legal Text
Title 6, §321k
Domestic Security, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)In general
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)Distribution and assistance
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
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110