§576 Emergency Communications Preparedness Center

Summary

Creates the Emergency Communications Preparedness Center and requires it to be run together by the Secretary, the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, the U.S. Attorney General, and other federal department and agency leaders or their chosen representatives, under the ECPC Charter. The Center must be the central place for sharing interagency information to help emergency responders and government officials keep talking during natural disasters, terrorism, and other man-made disasters, and to promote communications systems that work with each other while avoiding duplication or conflicting efforts. Each year the Center must send Congress a report on how well federal agencies are coordinating on these goals, must take into account the goals in the National Emergency Communications Plan when making that report, and must carry out other duties in the ECPC Charter.