Sec. 273. Comptroller General of the United States review and report on the surge capacity of the Coast Guard
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Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report setting for the results of a comprehensive review, conducted by the Comptroller General for purposes of the report, on the surge capacity of the Coast Guard to respond to a catastrophic incident (such as a hurricane), including the findings, and any recommendations for improvement, of the Comptroller General. The review required under subsection
(a)shall include— a description and review of each Coast Guard deployment in response to a catastrophic incident after 2005; identification of best practices informed by the deployments described in paragraph (1); a review of the ability of the surge force of the Coast Guard to meet the demands of the response roles in which it was serving during each deployment described in paragraph (1); identification of any statutory or regulatory impediments, such as adaptability, planning, training, mobilization, or information and resource integration, to the surge capacity of the Coast Guard in response to a catastrophic incident; review of the impacts of a surge of the Coast Guard in response to a catastrophic incident on the capacity of the Coast Guard to perform its statutory missions; review of the capability of the Coast Guard to surge in response to concurrent or subsequent catastrophic incidents; and review and description of existing voluntary and involuntary deployments of Coast Guard personnel and assets in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection response to a national emergency (as defined in Presidential Proclamation 9844) on the surge capacity of the Coast Guard in the event of a catastrophic incident. In this section, the terms catastrophic incident and surge capacity have the meaning given such terms in section 602 of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 ( 6 U.S.C. 701 ).
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Comptroller General of the United States review and report on the surge capacity of the Coast Guard
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