Sec. 5201. Chemical Security Analysis Center
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Title III of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 181 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, shall designate the laboratory described in subsection
(b)as an additional laboratory pursuant to the authority under section 308(c)(2). Such laboratory shall be used to conduct studies and analyses for assessing the threat and hazards associated with an accidental or intentional large-scale chemical event or chemical terrorism event. The laboratory described in this subsection is the laboratory known, as of the date of the enactment of this section, as the Chemical Security Analysis Center. The Chemical Security Analysis Center shall— identify and develop countermeasures to chemical threats, including the development of comprehensive, research-based definable goals for such countermeasures; provide an enduring science-based chemical threat and hazard analysis capability; provide expertise in risk and consequence modeling, chemical sensing and detection, analytical chemistry, chemical toxicology, synthetic chemistry and reaction characterization, and nontraditional chemical agents and emerging chemical threats; staff and operate a technical assistance program that provides operational support and subject matter expertise, design and execute laboratory and field tests, and provide a comprehensive knowledge repository of chemical threat information that is continuously updated with data from scientific, intelligence, operational, and private sector sources; and carry out such other activities as the Secretary determines appropriate. Nothing in this section may be construed as affecting in any manner the authorities or responsibilities of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office of the Department. . The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 322 the following new item: Sec. 323. Chemical Security Analysis Center. .
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