118 STAT. 3841 PUBLIC LAW 108–458—DEC. 17, 2004 (B) includes Presidential inaugurations, public gath- erings, demonstrations and protests, and law enforcement, fire, rescue, emergency health and medical services, transportation, communications, public works and engineering, mass care, and other support that require human resources, equipment, facilities or services supple- mental to or greater than the requesting jurisdiction can provide. (10) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State of Mary- land, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia. (11) TRAINING.—The term ‘‘training’’ means emergency and public service event-related exercises, testing, or other activities using equipment and personnel to simulate performance of any aspect of the giving or receiving of aid by National Capital Region jurisdictions during emergencies or public service events, such actions occurring outside actual emergency or public service event periods. (b) MUTUAL AID AUTHORIZED.— (1) IN GENERAL.—The mayor of the District of Columbia, any authorized representative of the Federal Government, the Governor of the State of Maryland, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or the chief operating officer of a locality, or their designees, acting within his or her jurisdic- tional purview, may, in accordance with State law, enter into, request or provide assistance under mutual aid agreements with localities, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, and any other governmental agency or authority for— (A) law enforcement, fire, rescue, emergency health and medical services, transportation, communications, public works and engineering, mass care, and resource support in an emergency or public service event; (B) preparing for, mitigating, managing, responding to or recovering from any emergency or public service event; and (C) training for any of the activities described under subparagraphs (A) and (B). (2) FACILITATING LOCALITIES.—The State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia are encouraged to facilitate the ability of localities to enter into interstate mutual aid agreements in the National Capital Region under this section. (3) APPLICATION AND EFFECT.—This section— (A) does not apply to law enforcement security oper- ations at special events of national significance under sec- tion 3056(e) of title 18, United States Code, or other law enforcement functions of the United States Secret Service; (B) does not diminish any authorities, express or implied, of Federal agencies to enter into mutual aid agree- ments in furtherance of their Federal missions; and (C) does not— (i) preclude any party from entering into supple- mentary Mutual Aid Agreements with fewer than all the parties, or with another party; or (ii) affect any other agreement in effect before the date of enactment of this Act among the States VerDate 11-MAY-2000 13:54 Nov 10, 2005 Jkt 029194 PO 00000 Frm 00375 Fmt 6580 Sfmt 6581 C:\STATUTES\2004\29194PT4.001 APPS10 PsN: 29194PT4
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