Sec. 13. Authority and responsibilities
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The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall provide Federal leadership necessary to prepare for, respond to, recover from, or mitigate against all disasters, including natural or manmade, including— helping to ensure the effectiveness of emergency response providers to major disasters (as that term is defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5122 )) and other emergencies; with respect to the Nuclear Incident Response Team— establishing standards and certifying when such standards have been met; and conducting joint and other exercises and training and evaluating performance; providing the Federal Government's response to all disasters, including— managing such response; directing the Domestic Emergency Support Team and the Nuclear Incident Response Team; overseeing the Metropolitan Medical Response System; and coordinating other Federal response resources, including requiring deployment of the Strategic National Stockpile, in the event of a disaster; aiding the recovery from a disaster; building a comprehensive national incident management system with Federal, State, and local government personnel, agencies, and authorities, to respond to such attacks and disasters; consolidating existing Federal Government emergency response plans into a single, coordinated national response plan; helping ensure the acquisition of operable and interoperable communications capabilities by Federal, State, local, and Tribal governments and emergency response providers; assisting the President in carrying out the functions under the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. ) and carrying out all functions and authorities given to the Administrator under such Act; carrying out the mission of the Agency to reduce the loss of life and property and prepare the Nation for all hazards by leading and supporting the Nation in a comprehensive emergency management system of— mitigation, by taking sustained actions to reduce or eliminate long-term risks to people and property from hazards and their effects; preparedness, by planning, training, and building the emergency management profession to prepare effectively for, mitigate against, respond to, and recover from any hazard; response, by conducting emergency operations to save lives and property through positioning emergency equipment, personnel, and supplies, through evacuating potential victims, through providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to those in need, and through restoring critical public services; and recovery, by rebuilding communities so individuals, businesses, and governments can function on their own, return to normal life, and protect against future hazards; increasing efficiencies, by coordinating efforts relating to preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation; helping to ensure the effectiveness of emergency response providers in responding to all hazards, including natural or man-made; supervising grant programs administered by the Agency; administering and ensuring the implementation of the National Response Plan, including coordinating and ensuring the readiness of each emergency support function under the National Response Plan; coordinating with the National Advisory Council established under section 508 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 318 ); preparing and implementing the plans and programs of the Federal Government for— continuity of operations; continuity of government; and continuity of plans; minimizing, to the extent practicable, overlapping planning and reporting requirements applicable to State, local, and Tribal governments and the private sector; maintaining and operating within the Agency the National Response Coordination Center or its successor; developing a national emergency management system that is capable of preparing for, responding to, recovering from, and mitigating against catastrophic incidents; assisting the President in carrying out the functions under the national preparedness goal and the national preparedness system and carrying out all functions and authorities of the Administrator under the national preparedness System; carrying out all authorities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and otherwise carrying out the mission of the Agency as described in section 11(b).
In carrying out the responsibilities under this section, the Administrator shall coordinate the implementation of an all-hazards strategy that builds those common capabilities necessary to prepare for, respond to, recover from, or mitigate against all-hazards whether natural or manmade, while also building the unique capabilities necessary to prepare for, respond to, recover from, or mitigate against the risks of specific types of incidents that pose the greatest risk to the Nation.
In this section: The term interoperable has the meaning given the term interoperable communications under section 7303(g)(1) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 ( 6 U.S.C. 194(g)(1) ). The term local government means— a county, municipality, city, town, township, local public authority, school district, special district, intrastate district, council of governments (regardless of whether the council of governments is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under State law), regional or interstate government entity, or agency or instrumentality of a local government; an Indian tribe or authorized tribal organization, or in Alaska a Native village or Alaska Regional Native Corporation; and a rural community, unincorporated town or village, or other public entity.
The term resources means personnel and major items of equipment, supplies, and facilities available or potentially available for responding to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other manmade disaster. The term State means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any possession of the United States. The term Tribal government means the government of an Indian tribe or authorized tribal organization, or in Alaska a Native village or Alaska Regional Native Corporation.
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