6 U.S.C. § 824 — Enhanced catastrophic incident annex

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The Secretary must add an annex to each Federal Interagency Operational Plan for catastrophic incidents. The annex must address civilian needs, coordination, readiness, international assistance, infrastructure failures, and federal authorities.

(a) The Secretary, coordinating with the Administrator and the federal partners listed in section 822(b), must add to each Federal Interagency Operational Plan an annex with a strategy to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of civilians affected by catastrophic incidents. The strategy must provide basic needs for affected civilians in the United States; coordinate with State, local, and Indian Tribal governments, private entities, and nonprofit relief groups; promote personal and local readiness and less reliance on government relief during heightened tension or after an incident; and develop partnerships with allied countries to provide relief services and goods. (b) The strategy must describe: (1) federal actions to meet basic civilian needs; (2) coordination that multiplies resources and relief capability, including with State and local governments, Indian Tribes, State relief agencies, State and local relief managers, State National Guards, law-enforcement and first-response entities, and nonprofit relief services; (3) federal actions to strengthen individual resilience, including public readiness alerts during elevated threats, efforts to improve domestic supplies of critical goods and necessities, and information campaigns about response plans and services; (4) federal efforts and agreements with allies to improve United States readiness to protect general welfare; (5) implementation if several levels of critical infrastructure are destroyed or offline for an extended time; and (6) federal authorities that should be used in responding. (c) In designing the strategy, the Secretary and the listed partners must account for operational factors, including that: (1) multiple infrastructure levels are offline or destroyed; (2) affected sectors may include transportation, communications, energy, health care and public health, and water and wastewater; (3) State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments are similarly affected or largely unable to operate; (4) the emergency exceeds their response abilities under the Robert T. Stafford Act and other relevant laws; and (5) the military is sufficiently involved in armed or cyber conflict with State or non-State adversaries, or cannot significantly add to domestic response because of the incident.

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(a) In general

The Secretary, in coordination with the Administrator and the Federal partners listed in section 822(b) of this title, shall supplement each Federal Interagency Operational Plan to include an annex containing a strategy to ensure the health, safety, and general welfare of the civilian population affected by catastrophic incidents by—

(1)

providing for the basic needs of the civilian population of the United States that is impacted by catastrophic incidents in the United States;

(2)

coordinating response efforts with State, local, and Indian Tribal governments, the private sector, and nonprofit relief organizations;

(3)

promoting personal and local readiness and non-reliance on government relief during periods of heightened tension or after catastrophic incidents; and

(4)

developing international partnerships with allied nations for the provision of relief services and goods.

(b) Elements of the strategy

The strategy required under subsection (a) shall include a description of—

(1)

actions the Federal Government should take to ensure the basic needs of the civilian population of the United States in a catastrophic incident are met;

(2)

how the Federal Government should coordinate with non-Federal entities to multiply resources and enhance relief capabilities, including—

(A)

State and local governments;

(B)

Indian Tribal governments;

(C)

State disaster relief agencies;

(D)

State and local disaster relief managers;

(E)

State National Guards;

(F)

law enforcement and first response entities; and

(G)

nonprofit relief services;

(3)

actions the Federal Government should take to enhance individual resiliency to the effects of a catastrophic incident, which actions shall include—

(A)

readiness alerts to the public during periods of elevated threat;

(B)

efforts to enhance domestic supply and availability of critical goods and basic necessities; and

(C)

information campaigns to ensure the public is aware of response plans and services that will be activated when necessary;

(4)

efforts the Federal Government should undertake and agreements the Federal Government should seek with international allies to enhance the readiness of the United States to provide for the general welfare;

(5)

how the strategy will be implemented should multiple levels of critical infrastructure be destroyed or taken offline entirely for an extended period of time; and

(6)

the authorities the Federal Government should implicate in responding to a catastrophic incident.

In designing the strategy under subsection (a), the Secretary, in coordination with the Administrator and the Federal partners listed in section 822(b) of this title, shall account for certain factors to make the strategy operationally viable, including the assumption that—

(1)

multiple levels of critical infrastructure have been taken offline or destroyed by catastrophic incidents or the effects of catastrophic incidents;

(2)

impacted sectors may include—

(A)

the transportation sector;

(B)

the communication sector;

(C)

the energy sector;

(D)

the healthcare and public health sector; and

(E)

the water and wastewater sector;

(3)

State, local, Indian Tribal, and territorial governments have been equally affected or made largely inoperable by catastrophic incidents or the effects of catastrophic incidents;

(4)

the emergency has exceeded the response capabilities of State, local, and Indian Tribal governments under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and other relevant disaster response laws; and

(5)

the United States military is sufficiently engaged in armed or cyber conflict with State or non-State adversaries, or is otherwise unable to augment domestic response capabilities in a significant manner due to a catastrophic incident.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 117–263, div. G, title LXXIII, § 7305, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3687.)

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2022Enacted · Pub. L. 117-263 · 136 Stat. 3687

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