Sec. 103. National Biosurveillance Strategy
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The Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense shall publish a National Biosurveillance Strategy that shall— identify the purpose and scope of a nationally integrated biosurveillance capability; establish goals, objectives, priorities, milestones, and performance measures to guide the development of such capability; define and prioritize costs, benefits, and resource and investment needs, with particular attention to leveraging existing resources; delineate Federal, State, local, tribal, and private roles and responsibilities; and describe how the Strategy is integrated with related national strategies.
In developing the strategy required under subsection (a), the Special Assistant shall take into consideration— the state of biosurveillance domestically and internationally; material threat assessments and determinations developed by the Secretary of Homeland Security in accordance with the Project BioShield Act of 2004 ( Public Law 108–276 ) and the amendments made by that Act; risk assessments consistent with section 2102 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended by this Act; reports on global trends produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding the biological threat;
Intelligence Community needs as articulated in relevant intelligence strategies; information available in biosurveillance systems and changes to information technology including systems used commercially to allow for the incorporation and integration of this information; and costs associated with establishing and maintaining the necessary infrastructure to integrate biosurveillance systems. In addition to the strategy required under subsection (a), the Special Assistant shall publish an implementation plan for such strategy that includes benchmarks for measuring the success of the Strategy.
The implementation plan shall— include a plan for advancing situational awareness of biological threats, by rapid detection and dissemination of biosurveillance information in real time, and through other means; include a plan for fostering information sharing among national biosecurity and biodefense stakeholders— to identify potential threats, reduce vulnerabilities, and improve collective response activities to, and investigations of, suspected biological attacks; that addresses the type of information to be shared and how it will be shared; and that identifies critical sensitivities to be protected; and include a plan for enhancing the capability of the Federal Government to rapidly identify, characterize, localize, and track a biological event of national concern by integrating and analyzing data relating to human health, animal, plant, food, and environmental monitoring systems (both national and international).
The Special Assistant shall— publish the strategy, and submit it to the appropriate congressional committees, by not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act; and publish an implementation plan for such strategy not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and update the implementation plan at least once every 4 years.
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Sec. 103
National Biosurveillance Strategy
Pub. L.Pub. L. 108-276
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