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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4029
To direct the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to
establish and operate a university-affiliated national integrative center
that brings together a broad range of expertise to address the needs
of homeland security.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 20, 2002
Mr. BRADY of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To direct the Director of the Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency to establish and operate a university-affili-
ated national integrative center that brings together a
broad range of expertise to address the needs of home-
land security.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Integrative
Center for Homeland Security Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that—
(1) the events of September 11, 2001, have for-
ever changed how Americans view the security and
defense of their homeland;
(2) potential biological, nuclear, incendiary,
chemical, explosive, and cyberterrorism threats sur-
round most daily activities and endanger everything
from the food, agriculture, and water supplies to the
physical transportation, building, power, and infor-
mation infrastructures;
(3) there is an immediate need to develop new
technologies and products, as well as preparedness,
prevention, reaction, detection, mitigation, decon-
tamination, attribution, and educational applications
in response to these potential threats; and
(4) there is a need for a nationally coordinated
university-based activity to collect and disseminate
information, to focus on critical research and edu-
cational needs, and to provide national templates for
response and recovery to ensure homeland security.
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to estab-
lish an integrative university-affiliated homeland security
program that integrates the full spectrum of information
services, research, development, evaluation, education,
training, and field delivery of responder services that leads
to a safer, better-prepared society.
SEC. 3. NATIONAL INTEGRATIVE CENTER FOR HOMELAND
SECURITY.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, together with a college
or university in the United States selected by the Director,
shall establish and operate a National Integrative Center
for Homeland Security to provide a coordinated, science-
based approach to enhance the Nation’s homeland secu-
rity.
(b) SELECTION.—In selecting a college or university
to participate in establishing and operating the National
Integrative Center for Homeland Security, the Director
shall consider whether or not the college or university has
each of the following:
(1) Demonstrated expertise in the training of
first responders.
(2) Membership in the National Domestic Pre-
paredness Consortium.
(3) Affiliation with a national urban search and
rescue team and a regional airport from which the
team is or could be deployed.
(4) Demonstrated expertise in responding to in-
cidents involving weapons of mass destruction.
(5) Demonstrated expertise in health sciences.
(6) Demonstrated expertise in emergency med-
ical services.
(7) Demonstrated expertise in the area of biol-
ogy and life sciences.
(8) Demonstrated expertise in the area of plant
and animal diseases.
(9) Strong affiliations with animal and plant di-
agnostic laboratories.
(10) Demonstrated expertise in food safety.
(11) Affiliation with Department of Agriculture
laboratories or training centers.
(12) Close coordination with State cooperative
extension programs.
(13) Demonstrated expertise in water and
wastewater operations.
(14) Nationally recognized programs in environ-
ment and rural health.
(15) Demonstrated expertise in port and water-
way security.
(16) Demonstrated expertise in multi-model
transportation.
(17) Nationally recognized programs in infor-
mation security.
(18) Nationally recognized programs in engi-
neering.
(19) Demonstrated expertise in educational out-
reach and technical assistance.
(20) Demonstrated expertise in border trans-
portation and security.
(21) Demonstrated expertise in interdisciplinary
public policy research and communication outreach
regarding science, technology, and public policy.
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out
this Act $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2003 through
2007.
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