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(B) be provided by the heads of all components of the Depart-
ment with statistical data maintained by the Department regard-
ing the operations of the Department. 
(C) conduct or oversee analysis and reporting of the data by the 
Department as required by law or as directed by the Secretary; 
and 
(D) ensure the accuracy of metrics and statistical data provided 
to Congress. 
(2) TRANSFER OF RESPONSIBILITIES.—There shall be transferred to 
the Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans the maintenance 
of all immigration statistical information of U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. 
Citizenship and Immigration Services, which shall include information 
and statistics of the type contained in the publication entitled ‘‘Year-
book of Immigration Statistics’’ prepared by the Office of Immigration 
Statistics, including region-by-region statistics on the aggregate num-
ber of applicants and petitions filed by an alien (or filed on behalf of 
an alien) and denied, and the reasons for the denial, disaggregated by 
category of denial and application or petition type. 
(e) LIMITATION.—Nothing in this section overrides or otherwise affects 
the requirements specified in section 10312 of this title. 
Chapter 117—Coordination With Other 
Entities 
Sec. 
11701.
Responsibilities of Office for State and Local Government Coordination. 
11702.
Responsibilities of Office for National Capital Region Coordination. 
11703.
Joint Interagency Task Force. 
11704.
Coordination with Department of Health and Human Services under the Public 
Health Service Act. 
11705.
Aviation security. 
11706.
Investigation of violent acts, shootings, and mass killings. 
11707.
Facilitating homeland security information sharing procedures. 
11708.
Information sharing. 
11709.
Prevention of international child abduction. 
11710.
Limitation of liability. 
§ 11701. Responsibilities of Office for State and Local Gov-
ernment Coordination 
The Office for State and Local Government Coordination oversees and co-
ordinates departmental programs for and relationships with State and local 
governments. The Office shall— 
(1) coordinate the activities of the Department relating to State and 
local government; 
(2) assess, and advocate for, the resources needed by State and local 
government to implement the national strategy for combating ter-
rorism; 
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(3) provide State and local government with regular information, re-
search, and technical support to assist local efforts at securing the 
homeland; and 
(4) develop a process for receiving meaningful input from State and 
local government to assist the development of the national strategy for 
combating terrorism and other homeland security activities. 
§ 11702. Responsibilities of Office for National Capital Re-
gion Coordination 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Office for National Capital Region Coordination 
oversees and coordinates Federal programs for and relationships with State, 
local, and regional authorities in the National Capital Region, as defined 
under section 2674(f)(2) of title 10. 
(b) COOPERATION WITH NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION OFFICIALS.—The 
Secretary shall cooperate with the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the 
Governors of Maryland and Virginia, and other State, local, and regional 
officers in the National Capital Region to integrate the District of Colum-
bia, Maryland, and Virginia into the planning, coordination, and execution 
of the activities of the Federal Government for the enhancement of domestic 
preparedness against the consequences of terrorist attacks. 
(c) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Office for National Capital Region Coordi-
nation shall— 
(1) coordinate the activities of the Department relating to the Na-
tional Capital Region, including cooperation with the Office for State 
and Local Government Coordination; 
(2) assess, and advocate for, the resources needed by State, local, 
and regional authorities in the National Capital Region to implement 
efforts to secure the homeland; 
(3) provide State, local, and regional authorities in the National Cap-
ital Region with regular information, research, and technical support 
to assist the efforts of State, local, and regional authorities in the Na-
tional Capital Region in securing the homeland; 
(4) develop a process for receiving meaningful input from State, 
local, and regional authorities and the private sector in the National 
Capital Region to assist in the development of the homeland security 
plans and activities of the Federal Government; 
(5) coordinate with Federal agencies in the National Capital Region 
on terrorism preparedness, to ensure adequate planning, information 
sharing, training, and execution of the Federal role in domestic pre-
paredness activities; 
(6) coordinate with Federal, State, local, and regional agencies, and 
the private sector in the National Capital Region on terrorism pre-
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paredness to ensure adequate planning, information sharing, training, 
and execution of domestic preparedness activities among these agencies 
and entities; and 
(7) serve as a liaison between the Federal Government and State, 
local, and regional authorities, and private-sector entities in the Na-
tional Capital Region to facilitate access to Federal grants and other 
programs. 
(d) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Office for National Capital Region Coordina-
tion shall submit an annual report to Congress that includes— 
(1) the identification of the resources required to fully implement 
homeland security efforts in the National Capital Region; 
(2) an assessment of the progress made by the National Capital Re-
gion in implementing homeland security efforts; and 
(3) recommendations to Congress regarding the additional resources 
needed to fully implement homeland security efforts in the National 
Capital Region. 
(e) LIMITATION.—Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as 
limiting the power of State and local governments. 
§ 11703. Joint Interagency Task Force 
The Secretary may establish and operate a permanent Joint Interagency 
Homeland Security Task Force composed of representatives from military 
and civilian agencies of the United States Government for the purposes of 
anticipating terrorist threats against the United States and taking appro-
priate actions to prevent harm to the United States. 
§ 11704. Coordination with Department of Health and 
Human Services under the Public Health Service 
Act 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The annual Federal response plan developed by the 
Department shall be consistent with section 319 of the Public Health Serv-
ice Act (42 U.S.C. 247d). 
(b) DISCLOSURES AMONG RELEVANT AGENCIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Full disclosure among relevant agencies shall be 
made under this subsection. 
(2) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.—During the period in which the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services has declared the existence of 
a public health emergency under section 319(a) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d(a)), the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall keep relevant agencies, including the Department of 
Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, fully and currently informed. 
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(3) POTENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.—In cases involving, 
or potentially involving, a public health emergency, but in which no de-
termination of an emergency by the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services under section 319(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 247d(a)) has been made, all relevant agencies, including the De-
partment, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation, shall keep the Secretary of Health and Human Services and 
the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fully 
and currently informed. 
§ 11705. Aviation security 
(a) CONSULTATION WITH FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION.—The 
Secretary and other officials in the Department shall consult with the Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Aviation Administration before taking an action 
that might affect aviation safety, air carrier operations, aircraft airworthi-
ness, or the use of airspace. The Secretary shall establish a liaison office 
in the Department to consult with the Administrator of the Federal Avia-
tion Administration. 
(b) LIMITATIONS ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.— 
(1) GRANT OF AUTHORITY.—Nothing in this subtitle may be con-
strued to vest in the Secretary or another official in the Department 
authority over transportation security that is not vested in the Admin-
istrator of the Transportation Security Administration, or that was not 
vested in the Secretary of Transportation under chapter 449 of title 
49 on November 24, 2002. 
(2) OBLIGATION OF AIP FUNDS.—Nothing in this subtitle may be 
construed to authorize the Secretary or any other official in the De-
partment to obligate amounts made available under section 48103 of 
title 49. 
§ 11706. Investigation of violent acts, shootings, and mass 
killings 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) MASS KILLINGS.—The term ‘‘mass killings’’ means 3 or more 
killings in a single incident. 
(2) PLACE OF PUBLIC USE.—The term ‘‘place of public use’’ has the 
meaning given the term under section 2332f(e)(6) of title 18. 
(b) PROVIDING ASSISTANCE.—At the request of an appropriate law en-
forcement official of a State or political subdivision, the Secretary, through 
deployment of the Secret Service or U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement, may assist in the investigation of violent acts and shootings oc-
curring in a place of public use, and in the investigation of mass killings 
and attempted mass killings. Any assistance provided by the Secretary 
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under this subsection shall be presumed to be within the scope of a Federal 
office or of Federal employment. 
§ 11707. Facilitating homeland security information sharing 
procedures 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION.—The term ‘‘homeland se-
curity information’’ means information possessed by a Federal, State, 
or local agency that— 
(A) relates to the threat of terrorist activity; 
(B) relates to the ability to prevent, interdict, or disrupt ter-
rorist activity; 
(C) would improve the identification or investigation of a sus-
pected terrorist or terrorist organization; or 
(D) would improve the response to a terrorist act. 
(2) INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘intelligence commu-
nity’’ has the meaning given the term in section 3(4) of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). 
(3) STATE AND LOCAL PERSONNEL.—The term ‘‘State and local per-
sonnel’’ means any of the following persons involved in the prevention 
of, preparation for, or response to terrorist attack: 
(A) State Governors, mayors, and other locally elected officials. 
(B) State and local law enforcement personnel and firefighters. 
(C) Public health and medical professionals. 
(D) Regional, State, and local emergency management agency 
personnel, including State adjutant generals. 
(E) Other appropriate emergency response agency personnel. 
(F) Employees of private-sector entities that affect critical in-
frastructure, cyber, economic, or public health security, as des-
ignated by the Federal Government in procedures developed under 
this section. 
(b) PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING EXTENT OF SHARING OF HOME-
LAND SECURITY INFORMATION.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROCEDURES.—The President shall pre-
scribe and implement procedures under which relevant Federal agen-
cies— 
(A) share relevant and appropriate homeland security informa-
tion with other Federal agencies, including the Department, and 
appropriate State and local personnel; 
(B) identify and safeguard homeland security information that 
is sensitive but unclassified; and 
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(C) to the extent the information is in classified form, determine 
whether, how, and to what extent to remove classified information, 
as appropriate, and with which personnel it may be shared after 
the information is removed. 
(2) APPLICABILITY.—The President shall ensure that the procedures 
apply to all agencies of the Federal Government. 
(3) NO CHANGE IN SUBSTANTIVE REQUIREMENTS.—The procedures 
shall not change the substantive requirements for the classification and 
safeguarding of classified information. 
(4) NO
CHANGE
IN
PROTECTIVE
AUTHORITIES.—The procedures 
shall not change the requirements and authorities to protect sources 
and methods. 
(c) PROCEDURES
FOR SHARING
OF HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMA-
TION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Under procedures prescribed by the President, all 
appropriate agencies, including the intelligence community, shall, 
through information sharing systems, share homeland security informa-
tion with Federal agencies and appropriate State and local personnel 
to the extent the information may be shared, as determined under sub-
section (b), together with assessments of the credibility of the informa-
tion. 
(2) SYSTEM
CAPABILITIES.—Each information sharing system 
through which information is shared under paragraph (1) shall— 
(A) have the capability to transmit unclassified or classified in-
formation, though the procedures and recipients for each capa-
bility may differ; 
(B) have the capability to restrict delivery of information to 
specified subgroups by geographic location, type of organization, 
position of a recipient within an organization, or a recipient’s need 
to know the information; 
(C) be configured to allow the efficient and effective sharing of 
information; and 
(D) be accessible to appropriate State and local personnel. 
(3) USE CONDITIONS.—The procedures prescribed under paragraph 
(1) shall establish conditions on the use of information shared under 
paragraph (1)— 
(A) to limit the re-dissemination of the information to ensure 
that the information is not used for an unauthorized purpose; 
(B) to ensure the security and confidentiality of the informa-
tion; 
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(C) to protect the constitutional and statutory rights of individ-
uals who are subjects of the information; and 
(D) to provide data integrity through the timely removal and 
destruction of obsolete or erroneous names and information. 
(4) INCLUSION OF EXISTING SYSTEMS.—The procedures prescribed 
under paragraph (1) shall ensure, to the greatest extent practicable, 
that the information sharing system through which information is 
shared under that paragraph include existing information sharing sys-
tems, including the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications 
System, the Regional Information Sharing System, and the Terrorist 
Threat Warning System of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
(5) AGENCY ACCESS.—Each appropriate Federal agency, as deter-
mined by the President, shall have access to each information sharing 
system through which information is shared under paragraph (1), and 
shall therefore have access to all information, as appropriate, shared 
under that paragraph. 
(6) SHARING INFORMATION.—The procedures prescribed under para-
graph (1) shall ensure that appropriate State and local personnel are 
authorized to use the information sharing systems— 
(A) to access information shared with the personnel; and 
(B) to share, with others who have access to the information 
sharing systems, the homeland security information of their own 
jurisdictions, which shall be marked appropriately as pertaining to 
potential terrorist activity. 
(7) ASSESSMENT AND INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION.—Under pro-
cedures prescribed jointly by the Director of National Intelligence and 
the Attorney General, each appropriate Federal agency, as determined 
by the President, shall review and assess the information shared under 
paragraph (6) and integrate the information with existing intelligence. 
(d) SHARING OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION AND SENSITIVE BUT UN-
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION WITH STATE AND LOCAL PERSONNEL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall prescribe procedures under 
which Federal agencies may, to the extent the President considers nec-
essary, share with appropriate State and local personnel homeland se-
curity information that remains classified or otherwise protected after 
the determinations prescribed under the procedures set forth in sub-
section (b) are made. 
(2) TRAINING PROGRAM.— 
(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall establish a program 
to provide appropriate training to officials described in subpara-
graph (B) in order to assist the officials in— 
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(i) identifying sources of potential terrorist threats through 
the methods the Secretary determines are appropriate; 
(ii) reporting information relating to the potential terrorist 
threats to the appropriate Federal agencies in the appropriate 
form and manner; 
(iii) assuring that all reported information is systematically 
submitted to and passed on by the Department for use by ap-
propriate Federal agencies; and 
(iv) understanding the mission and roles of the intelligence 
community to promote more effective information sharing 
among Federal, State, and local officials and representatives 
of the private sector to prevent terrorist attacks against the 
United States. 
(B) TRAINING COVERAGE.—The officials referred to in subpara-
graph (A) are officials of State and local government agencies and 
representatives of private-sector entities with responsibilities relat-
ing to the oversight and management of first responders, counter-
terrorism activities, or critical infrastructure. 
(C) CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL.—The Secretary 
shall consult with the Attorney General to ensure that the training 
program established in subparagraph (A) does not duplicate the 
training program established in section 908 of the USA PA-
TRIOT Act (Public Law 107–56, 28 U.S.C. 509 note). 
(D) OTHER CONSULTATION.—The Secretary shall carry out this 
paragraph in consultation with the Director of National Intel-
ligence and the Attorney General. 
(e) RESPONSIBLE OFFICIALS.—For each affected Federal agency, the 
head of the agency shall designate an official to administer this subtitle with 
respect to the agency. 
(f) FEDERAL CONTROL OF INFORMATION.—Under procedures prescribed 
under this section, information obtained by a State or local government 
from a Federal agency under this section shall remain under the control of 
the Federal agency, and a State or local law authorizing or requiring a gov-
ernment to disclose information shall not apply to the information. 
(g) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed as au-
thorizing a department, bureau, agency, officer, or employee of the Federal 
Government to request, receive, or transmit to another Government entity 
or any Government personnel, or transmit to a State or local entity or State 
or local personnel otherwise authorized by the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 (Public Law 107–296, 116 Stat. 2135) to receive homeland security 
information, information collected by the Federal Government solely for sta-
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tistical purposes in violation of any other provision of law relating to the 
confidentiality of the information. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. 
§ 11708. Information sharing 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION.—The term ‘‘homeland se-
curity information’’ has the meaning given the term in section 
11707(a) of this title. 
(2) INFORMATION SHARING COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘Information Shar-
ing Council’’ means the Information Sharing Council established by 
Executive Order 13388 (Oct. 25, 2005, 70 F.R. 62023), or any suc-
cessor body designated by the President, and referred to under sub-
section (e). 
(3) INFORMATION SHARING ENVIRONMENT; ISE.—The terms ‘‘infor-
mation sharing environment’’ and ‘‘ISE’’ mean an approach that facili-
tates the sharing of terrorism and homeland security information, 
which may include any method determined necessary and appropriate 
for carrying out this section. 
(4) PROGRAM MANAGER.—The term ‘‘program manager’’ means the 
program manager designated under subsection (d). 
(5) TERRORISM
INFORMATION.—The term ‘‘terrorism informa-
tion’’— 
(A) means all information, whether collected, produced, or dis-
tributed by intelligence, law enforcement, military, homeland secu-
rity, or other activities relating to— 
(i) the existence, organization, capabilities, plans, inten-
tions, vulnerabilities, means of finance or material support, or 
activities of foreign or international terrorist groups or indi-
viduals, or of domestic groups or individuals involved in 
transnational terrorism; 
(ii) threats posed by the groups or individuals to the 
United States, United States persons, or United States inter-
ests, or to those of other nations; 
(iii) communications of or by the groups or individuals; or 
(iv) other groups or individuals reasonably believed to be 
assisting or associated with the groups or individuals; and 
(B) includes weapons of mass destruction information. 
(6) WEAPONS
OF
MASS
DESTRUCTION
INFORMATION.—The term 
‘‘weapons of mass destruction information’’ means information that 
could reasonably be expected to assist in the development, proliferation, 
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