existing Department-reviewed Master’s Degree curricula in 
homeland security, including curricula pending accredita-
tion, together with associated learning materials, quality 
assessment tools, digital libraries, asynchronous distance 
learning, video conferencing, exercise systems, and other 
educational facilities, including the National Domestic Pre-
paredness Consortium, the National Fire Academy, and the 
Emergency Management Institute. The Administrator may 
develop additional educational programs, as appropriate.’’. 
SEC. 512. REPEAL OF CHAPTER 97 OF TITLE 5, UNITED 
STATES CODE. 
(a) REPEAL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Effective as of the date speci-
fied in section 4 of the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 note), chapter 97 of title 5, 
United States Code (as added by section 841(a)(2) of 
such Act), section 841(b)(3) of such Act, and sub-
sections (c) and (e) of section 842 of such Act are re-
pealed. 
(2) REGULATIONS.—Any regulations prescribed 
under authority of chapter 97 of title 5, United States 
Code, are void ab initio. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of chapters for 
part III of title 5, United States Code, is amended by strik-
ing the item relating to chapter 97. 
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SEC. 513. UTILIZATION OF NON-LAW ENFORCEMENT FED-
ERAL EMPLOYEES AS INSTRUCTORS FOR 
NON-LAW ENFORCEMENT CLASSES AT THE 
BORDER PATROL TRAINING ACADEMY. 
The Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Train-
ing Center (FLETC) of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity, in consultation with the Chief of the Border Patrol, 
is authorized to select appropriate employees of the Federal 
Government other than law enforcement officers (as defined 
in section 8401(17) of title 5, United States Code) to serve 
as instructors of non-law enforcement classes. 
TITLE VI—BIOPREPAREDNESS 
IMPROVEMENTS 
SEC. 601. CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER AND OFFICE OF HEALTH 
AFFAIRS. 
Section 516 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
U.S.C. 321e) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 516. CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is in the Department a 
Chief Medical Officer, who shall be appointed by the Presi-
dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
and shall have the rank and title of Assistant Secretary for 
Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer (in this section 
referred to as the ‘Chief Medical Officer’). 
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‘‘(b) OFFICE OF HEALTH AFFAIRS.—There is in the 
Department an Office of Health Affairs, which shall be 
headed by the Chief Medical Officer. 
‘‘(c) QUALIFICATIONS.—The individual appointed as 
the Chief Medical Officer shall possess a demonstrated abil-
ity in and knowledge of medicine, public health, and the 
treatment of illnesses caused by chemical, biological, nu-
clear, and radiological agents. 
‘‘(d) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Chief Medical Officer 
shall have the primary responsibility within the Depart-
ment for medical and health issues related to the general 
roles, responsibilities, and operations of the Department, 
and terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emer-
gencies, including— 
‘‘(1) serving as the principal advisor to the Sec-
retary and leading the Department’s medical care, 
public health, food, water, veterinary care, and agro- 
security and defense responsibilities; 
‘‘(2) providing oversight for all medically-related 
actions and protocols of the Department’s medical 
personnel; 
‘‘(3) administering the Department’s responsibil-
ities for medical readiness, including— 
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‘‘(A) planning and guidance to support im-
provements in local training, equipment, and ex-
ercises funded by the Department; and 
‘‘(B) consistent with the National Response 
Plan established pursuant to Homeland Security 
Presidential Directive 8, assisting in fulfilling 
the Department’s roles in related emergency sup-
port functions; 
‘‘(4) serving as the Department’s primary point 
of contact with the Department of Agriculture, the 
Department of Defense, the Department of Health and 
Human Services, the Department of Transportation, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other Federal 
departments and agencies, on all matters of medical 
and public health to ensure coordination consistent 
with the National Response Plan; 
‘‘(5) serving as the Department’s primary point 
of contact for State, local, tribal, and territorial gov-
ernments, the medical community, and the private 
sector, to ensure that medical readiness and response 
activities are coordinated and consistent with the Na-
tional Response Plan and the Secretary’s incident 
management requirements; 
‘‘(6) managing the Department’s biodefense and 
biosurveillance activities including the National Bio-
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surveillance Integration System, and the Departments 
responsibilities under Project BioShield in coordina-
tion with the Under Secretary of Science and Tech-
nology as appropriate; 
‘‘(7) assuring that the Department’s workforce 
has science-based policy, standards, requirements, and 
metrics for occupational safety and health; 
‘‘(8) supporting the operational requirements of 
the Department’s components with respect to protec-
tive medicine and tactical medical support; 
‘‘(9) developing, in coordination with appro-
priate Department entities and other appropriate 
Federal agencies, end-to-end plans for prevention, 
readiness, protection, response, and recovery from cat-
astrophic events with human, animal, agricultural, or 
environmental health consequences; 
‘‘(10) integrating into the end-to-end plans devel-
oped under paragraph (9), Department of Health and 
Human Services’ efforts to identify and deploy med-
ical assets (including human, fixed, and material as-
sets) used in preparation for or response to national 
disasters and catastrophes, and to enable access to pa-
tient electronic medical records by medical personnel 
to aid treatment of displaced persons in such cir-
cumstance, in order to assure that actions of both De-
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partments are combined for maximum effectiveness 
during an emergency consistent with the National Re-
sponse Plan and applicable emergency support func-
tions; 
‘‘(11) performing other duties relating to such re-
sponsibilities as the Secretary may require; and 
‘‘(12) directing and maintaining a coordinated 
system for medical support of the Department’s oper-
ational activities.’’. 
SEC. 602. IMPROVING THE MATERIAL THREATS PROCESS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 319F–2(c)(2)(A) of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6b(c)(2)(A)) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as sub-
clauses (I) and (II), respectively; 
(2) by moving each of such subclauses two ems 
to the right; 
(3) by striking ‘‘(A) MATERIAL THREAT.—The 
Homeland Security Secretary’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) MATERIAL THREAT.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of 
Homeland Security’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following clauses: 
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