Sec. 5. Authorization for surge capacity for Federal Emergency Management Agency

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The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall appoint, administer, and expedite the training of an additional 10,000 Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees, under the Response and Recover Directorate (referred to in this section as CORE employees ) under the Office of Response and Recovery, above the level of such employees in fiscal year 2019, to address the coronavirus public health emergency. A CORE employee may be detailed, through mutual agreement, to any Federal agency that is a participating agency in the White House Coronavirus Task Force, to fulfill an assignment for the Task Force, including— logistical support for the supply chain of medical equipment; tracing contacts of infected individuals and their status while being quarantined; providing nutritional assistance to vulnerable populations; and administrative duties such as staffing call centers to disseminate public-health related information to the public.

As soon as feasible, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall make public job announcements to fill the CORE employee positions authorized under subsection (a), which shall prioritize hiring from among the following groups of individuals: Unemployed veterans of the Armed Forces. Individuals who have become unemployed or underemployed as a result of the coronavirus public health emergency. AmeriCorps members, or Peace Corps Volunteers, who have had their service ended as a result of the coronavirus public health emergency.

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 2020, 2021, and 2022 to carry out this section. In this section, the term coronavirus public health emergency has the meaning given the term in section 4(e).