6 U.S.C. § 796: Registry of disaster response…

Summary

The Administrator must create and keep an online list of contractors who want to do debris removal, deliver supplies, rebuild, or help in disasters and emergencies. Businesses sign up on their own and must keep their entries up to date. Each business must send a statement that the information is true and provide documents that back it up. The Administrator will check those documents. Federal agencies must look at the list when planning contracts for disaster work. The list will show each business’s name, location, area served, what goods or services it offers, its bonding level, and whether it is a small business (including small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, owned by women, or owned by service‑disabled veterans). The small business labels use the definitions from the Small Business Act.

Title 6, §796

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(a)Definitions

In this section

(1)

(2)the terms “small business concern”, “small business concern owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals”, “small business concern owned and controlled by women”, and “small business concern owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans” have the meanings given those terms under the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.).

(b)Registry

(1)In general

The Administrator shall establish and maintain a registry of contractors who are willing to perform debris removal, distribution of supplies, reconstruction, and other disaster or emergency relief activities.

(2)Contents

The registry shall include, for each business concern—

(A)the name of the business concern;

(B)the location of the business concern;

(C)the area served by the business concern;

(D)the type of good or service provided by the business concern;

(E)the bonding level of the business concern; and

(F)whether the business concern is—

(i)a small business concern;

(ii)a small business concern owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals;

(iii)a small business concern owned and controlled by women; or

(iv)a small business concern owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.

(3)Source of information

(A)Submission

Information maintained in the registry shall be submitted on a voluntary basis and be kept current by the submitting business concerns.

(B)Attestation

Each business concern submitting information to the registry shall submit—

(i)an attestation that the information is true; and

(ii)documentation supporting such attestation.

(C)Verification

The Administrator shall verify that the documentation submitted by each business concern supports the information submitted by that business concern.

(4)Availability of registry

The registry shall be made generally available on the Internet site of the Agency.

(5)Consultation of registry

As part of the acquisition planning for contracting for debris removal, distribution of supplies in a disaster, reconstruction, and other disaster or emergency relief activities, a Federal agency shall consult the registry.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Small Business Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), is Pub. L. 85–536, § 2(1 et seq.), July 18, 1958, 72 Stat. 384, which is classified generally to chapter 14A (§ 631 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 631 of Title 15 and Tables.

§796 Registry of Disaster Response Contractors