§576 Emergency Communications Preparedness Center

Summary

Creates the Emergency Communications Preparedness Center. The Secretary, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney General of the United States, and other federal department and agency leaders or their designees must run the Center together under an agreement called the ECPC Charter. The Center is the main place for agencies to share information and coordinate so emergency responders and officials can keep communicating during natural disasters, terrorist acts, and other man-made incidents. It also works to improve systems that let different agencies talk to each other. Each year it must send Congress a strategic report on federal coordination to advance these goals and must follow the National Emergency Communications Plan and other duties in the ECPC Charter.