and the NRP and such standards developed by other 
public, private, or professional groups. 
‘‘(4) Facilitating the development and publica-
tion of materials and standardized templates to sup-
port the implementation and continuous refinement 
of the NIMS and the NRP. 
‘‘(5) Developing performance measures and as-
sessment criteria for the various components of the 
NIMS and the NRP and compliance requirements 
and compliance timelines for implementation by 
Federal, State, local, and tribal entities. 
‘‘(6) Establishing a peer review process for 
NIMS compliance certifications that verifies the sat-
isfaction of training, planning, exercising, and other 
activities. 
‘‘(7) Defining, in consultation with the Assist-
ant Secretary for Training and Exercises, the gen-
eral training requirements and the national training 
standards and course curricula associated with the 
NIMS and the NRP. 
‘‘(8) Facilitating the development of national 
voluntary consensus standards, guidelines, and pro-
tocols for incident management training and exer-
cises, including consideration of existing exercise and 
training programs at all levels of government. 
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‘‘(9) Facilitating the establishment and mainte-
nance of a publication management system for docu-
ments supporting the NIMS and the NRP and other 
related publications and materials related to the 
NIMS and the NRP, including the development or 
coordination of general publications. 
‘‘(10) Reviewing and certifying, in coordination 
with accrediting organizations and in consultation 
with Federal, State, local, tribal, private-sector, and 
nongovernmental entities, the discipline-specific pub-
lication management requirements submitted by pro-
fessional organizations and associations. 
‘‘(11) Facilitating the development and publica-
tion of national voluntary consensus standards, 
guidelines, and protocols for the qualification and 
certification of emergency response providers and in-
cident management personnel, as appropriate. 
‘‘(12) Reviewing and approving, in coordination 
with appropriate national professional organizations 
and with input from Federal, State, local, tribal, pri-
vate-sector, and other nongovernmental entities, the 
discipline-specific qualification and certification re-
quirements submitted by emergency responder and 
incident management organizations and associations. 
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‘‘(13) Facilitating the establishment and main-
tenance of a documentation and database system re-
lated to qualification, certification, and credentialing 
of incident management personnel and organiza-
tions, including reviewing and approving, in coordi-
nation with appropriate national professional organi-
zations and with input from the Federal, State, 
local, tribal, private-sector and nongovernmental en-
tities, of the discipline-specific requirements sub-
mitted by functionally oriented incident management 
organizations and associations. 
‘‘(14) Establishing a data maintenance system 
to provide incident managers with the detailed quali-
fication, experience, and training information needed 
to credential personnel for prescribed national inci-
dent management positions. 
‘‘(15) Coordinating minimum professional cer-
tification standards and facilitation of the design 
and implementation of a credentialing system that 
can be used nationwide. 
‘‘(16) Facilitating the development and issuance 
of national standards for the typing of resources. 
‘‘(17) Facilitating the definition and mainte-
nance of the information framework required to 
guide the development of NIMS information sys-
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tems, including the development of data standards 
for— 
‘‘(A) incident notification and situation re-
ports; 
‘‘(B) status reporting; 
‘‘(C) analytical data; 
‘‘(D) geospatial information; 
‘‘(E) wireless communications; 
‘‘(F) identification and authentication; and 
‘‘(G) incident reports, including lessons 
learned reports. 
‘‘(18) Performing such other duties relating to 
such responsibilities as the Secretary may require. 
‘‘SEC. 542. USE OF NATIONAL PRIVATE SECTOR NETWORKS 
IN EMERGENCY RESPONSE. 
‘‘To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary, 
acting through the Under Secretary for Emergency Man-
agement, shall use national private sector networks and 
infrastructure for emergency response to acts of terrorism, 
natural disasters, and other emergencies. 
‘‘SEC. 543. NUCLEAR INCIDENT RESPONSE. 
‘‘(a) NUCLEAR INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAM.—In con-
nection with actual or threatened acts of terrorism, nat-
ural disasters, or other emergencies in the United 
States— 
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‘‘(1) the Nuclear Incident Response Team shall 
operate as an organizational unit of the Department; 
and 
‘‘(2) while so operating, the Secretary shall 
have direction, authority, and control of the Nuclear 
Incident Response Team. 
‘‘(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—In addition to the author-
ity under subsection (a), the Secretary, acting through the 
Under Secretary for Emergency Management, shall at all 
times carry out the following responsibilities: 
‘‘(1) Establishing standards for performance of 
the Nuclear Incident Response Team and, when 
such standards have been met, certifying that they 
have been met. 
‘‘(2) Conducting joint and other exercises and 
training and evaluating performance. 
‘‘(3) Providing funds to the Department of En-
ergy and the Environmental Protection Agency, as 
appropriate, for homeland security planning, exer-
cises and training, and equipment. 
‘‘(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to limit the responsibility of the 
Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency for organizing, training, 
equipping, and utilizing their respective entities that par-
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ticipate in the Nuclear Incident Response Team, or (sub-
ject this section) from exercising direction, authority, and 
control over such entities when they are not operating as 
a unit of the Department. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘Nuclear 
Incident Response Team’ means a resource that in-
cludes— 
‘‘(1) those entities of the Department of Energy 
that perform nuclear or radiological emergency sup-
port functions (including accident response, search 
response, advisory, and technical operations func-
tions), radiation exposure functions at the medical 
assistance facility known as the Radiation Emer-
gency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS), 
radiological assistance functions, and related func-
tions; and 
‘‘(2) those entities of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency that perform such support functions (in-
cluding radiological emergency response functions) 
and related functions. 
‘‘SEC. 544. NATIONAL URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE RE-
SPONSE SYSTEM. 
‘‘(a) NATIONAL URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE RE-
SPONSE SYSTEM.—There is in the Directorate of Emer-
gency Management an emergency response system known 
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