Sec. 4. Capacity to manage critical supplies
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Title II of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5131 et seq.) is further amended by adding at the end the following: The Administrator shall establish an Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response within the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate the procurement, distribution, and tracking of the critical nonpharmaceutical materials needs of the United States, when necessary, during a public health emergency. The Administrator shall appoint an Associate Administrator to run the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
The Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response shall— develop and maintain a data repository that tracks demand for critical nonpharmaceutical materials in the event of a national pandemic emergency, including 30-, 60-, and 90-day demand projections; require the data repository described in clause
(i)to track inventory and productive capacity to meet national critical nonpharmaceutical material needs, including 30-, 60-, and 90-day inventory and productive capacity forecasts; and develop, publish, implement, and maintain a stakeholder engagement plan, including ensuring that the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall consult with private-sector representatives and regional and local public health and emergency management organizations to coordinate data collection, in accordance with applicable privacy or other data collection and storage regulations or statutes. The data repository developed under subparagraph
(A)shall not be public. The Office shall make available summary information of the data repository in a public format. In developing the data repository and stakeholder engagement plan under subparagraph (A), the Associate Administrator shall consult with ASPR to avoid duplication and to encourage coordinated data collection and use. Annually, the Associate Administrator shall submit to Congress, and make public, a report that includes a list of agencies or entities in compliance and noncompliance with data collection efforts necessary for the data repository developed under subparagraph (A). The Associate Administrator of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response shall convene exercises not less than biennially with stakeholders (including senior representatives of the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services (except the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Preparedness and Response), the National Institute of Health, the Veterans Affairs Administration, the Department of Defense, the Indian Health Service, and the United States intelligence community) determined by the Associate Administrator to be essential to the pandemic response to ensure the agency’s readiness to procure, distribute, and track critical nonpharmaceutical materials during a public health emergency. .
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