‘‘(b) INTEGRATED BIOSURVEILLANCE NETWORK.—As 
part of the NBIC, the Director shall develop, operate, and 
maintain an integrated network to detect, as early as pos-
sible, a biological event that presents a risk to the United 
States or the infrastructure or key assets of the United 
States. The network shall— 
‘‘(1) consolidate data from all relevant surveil-
lance systems maintained by the Department and 
other governmental and private sources, both foreign 
and domestic, to the extent practicable; and 
‘‘(2) use an information technology system that 
uses the best available statistical and other analytical 
tools to identify and characterize biological events in 
as close to real-time as possible. 
‘‘(c) RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall— 
‘‘(A) monitor on an ongoing basis the avail-
ability and appropriateness of candidate data 
feeds and solicit new surveillance systems with 
data that would enhance biological situational 
awareness or overall performance of the NBIC; 
‘‘(B) review and seek to improve on an on-
going basis the statistical and other analytical 
methods used by the NBIC; 
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‘‘(C) establish a procedure to enable Fed-
eral, State and local government, and private 
sector entities to report suspicious events that 
could warrant further assessments by the NBIC; 
‘‘(D) receive and consider all relevant home-
land security information; and 
‘‘(E) provide technical assistance, as appro-
priate, to all Federal, State, and local govern-
ment entities and private sector entities that 
contribute data relevant to the operation of the 
NBIC. 
‘‘(2) ASSESSMENTS.—The Director shall— 
‘‘(A) continuously evaluate available data 
for evidence of a biological event; and 
‘‘(B) integrate homeland security informa-
tion with NBIC data to provide overall biologi-
cal situational awareness and determine whether 
a biological event has occurred. 
‘‘(3) 
INFORMATION
SHARING.—The 
Director 
shall— 
‘‘(A) establish a mechanism for real-time 
communication with the National Operations 
Center; 
‘‘(B) provide integrated information to the 
heads of the departments and agencies with 
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which the Director has entered into an agree-
ment under subsection (d); 
‘‘(C) notify the Secretary, the head of the 
National Operations Center, and the heads of 
appropriate Federal, State, tribal, and local en-
tities of any significant biological event identi-
fied by the NBIC; 
‘‘(D) provide reports on NBIC assessments 
to Federal, State, and local government entities, 
including departments and agencies with which 
the Director has entered into an agreement under 
subsection (d), and any private sector entities, as 
considered appropriate by the Director; and 
‘‘(E) use information sharing networks 
available to the Department for distributing 
NBIC incident or situational awareness reports. 
‘‘(d) INTERAGENCY AGREEMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, where 
feasible, enter into agreements with the heads of ap-
propriate Federal departments and agencies, includ-
ing the Department of Health and Human Services, 
Department of Defense, the Department of Agri-
culture, the Department of State, the Department of 
Interior, and the Intelligence Community. 
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