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[120 STAT. 1395]
PUBLIC LAW 109-000—MMMM. DD, 2006
[120 STAT. 1395]

PUBLIC LAW 109–295—OCT. 4, 2006

120 STAT. 1395

(11) the terms ‘‘local government’’ and ‘‘State’’ have the meaning given the terms in section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101); (12) the term ‘‘National Incident Management System’’ means a system to enable effective, efficient, and collaborative incident management; (13) the term ‘‘National Response Plan’’ means the National Response Plan or any successor plan prepared under section 502(a)(6) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (as amended by this Act); (14) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of Homeland Security; (15) the term ‘‘surge capacity’’ means the ability to rapidly and substantially increase the provision of search and rescue capabilities, food, water, medicine, shelter and housing, medical care, evacuation capacity, staffing (including disaster assistance employees), and other resources necessary to save lives and protect property during a catastrophic incident; and (16) the term ‘‘tribal government’’ means the government of an Indian tribe or authorized tribal organization, or in Alaska a Native village or Alaska Regional Native Corporation.

Subtitle A—Federal Emergency Management Agency SEC. 611. STRUCTURING THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY.

Title V of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 311 et seq.) is amended— (1) by striking the title heading and inserting the following:

‘‘TITLE V—NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT’’; (2) by striking section 501; (3) by striking section 503; (4) by striking section 507; (5) by striking section 510 (relating to urban and other high risk area communications capabilities); (6) by redesignating sections 504, 505, 508, and 509 as sections 517, 518, 519, and 520, respectively; (7) by redesignating section 510 (relating to procurement of security countermeasures for the strategic national stockpile) as section 521; (8) by redesignating section 502 as section 504; (9) by redesignating section 506 as section 502 and transferring that section to before section 504, as redesignated by paragraph (8) of this section; (10) by inserting before section 502, as redesignated and transferred by paragraph (9) of this section, the following: ‘‘SEC. 501. DEFINITIONS.

‘‘In this title— ‘‘(1) the term ‘Administrator’ means the Administrator of the Agency;

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