(3) Identify probable emerging threats to first
responders.
(4) Identify needed improvements to first re-
sponse techniques and training.
(5) Identify efficient means of communication
and coordination between first responders and local,
State, and Federal officials.
(6) Identify areas in which the Department can
assist first responders.
(7) Evaluate the adequacy and timeliness of re-
sources being made available to local first respond-
ers.
(d) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—The Council shall
report to the Congress by October 1 of each year on how
first responders can continue to be most effectively used
to meet the ever-changing challenges of providing home-
land security for the United States.
TITLE II—INFORMATION ANAL-
YSIS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
PROTECTION
Subtitle A—Under Secretary for In-
formation Analysis and Infra-
structure Protection
SEC. 201. UNDER SECRETARY FOR INFORMATION ANALYSIS
AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION.
The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary
for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection,
shall be responsible for the following:
(1) Conducting analysis of information, includ-
ing foreign intelligence and open source information,
lawfully collected by Federal, State and local law en-
forcement agencies and by elements of the intel-
ligence community with respect to threats of ter-
rorist acts against the United States.
(2) Integrating information, intelligence, and
intelligence analyses to produce and disseminate in-
frastructure vulnerability assessments with respect
to such threats.
(3) Identifying priorities for protective and sup-
port measures by the Department, by other execu-
tive agencies, by State and local governments, by the
private sector, and by other entities.
(4) Reviewing, analyzing, and recommending
improvements in law, policy, and procedure for the
sharing of intelligence and other information with
respect to threats against the United States within
the Federal Government and between the Federal
Government and State and local governments.
(5) Developing a comprehensive national plan
to provide for the security of key resources and crit-
ical infrastructures including, but not limited to,
power production, generation, and distribution sys-
tems, information technology and telecommuni-
cations systems (including satellites), electronic fi-
nancial and property record storage and trans-
mission systems, emergency preparedness commu-
nications systems, and the physical and technological
assets that support such systems.
(6) Coordinating with other executive agencies,
State and local government personnel, agencies, and
authorities, and the private sector, to provide advice
on implementation of such comprehensive national
plan.
(7) Supporting the intelligence and information
requirements of the Department.
(8) Administering the Homeland Security Advi-
sory System, exercising primary responsibility for
public advisories relating to terrorist threats, and (in
coordination with other executive agencies) providing
specific warning information to State and local gov-
ernment personnel, agencies, and authorities, the
private sector, other entities, and the public, as well
as advice about appropriate protective actions and
countermeasures.
SEC. 202. FUNCTIONS TRANSFERRED.
In accordance with title VIII, there shall be trans-
ferred to the Secretary the functions, personnel, assets,
and obligations of the following:
(1) The National Infrastructure Protection
Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (other
than the Computer Investigations and Operations
Section), including the functions of the Attorney
General relating thereto.
(2) The National Communications System of
the Department of Defense, including the functions
of the Secretary of Defense relating thereto.
(3) The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Of-
fice of the Department of Commerce, including the
functions of the Secretary of Commerce relating
thereto.
(4) The Energy Security and Assurance Pro-
gram of the Department of Energy, including the
National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis
Center and the functions of the Secretary of Energy
relating thereto.
(5) The Federal Computer Incident Response
Center of the General Services Administration, in-
cluding the functions of the Administrator of Gen-
eral Services relating thereto.
SEC. 203. ACCESS TO INFORMATION.
The Secretary shall have access to all reports, assess-
ments, and analytical information relating to threats of
terrorism in the United States, and to all information con-
cerning 
infrastructure 
vulnerabilites 
or 
other
vulnerabilites of the United States to terrorism, whether
or not such information has been analyzed, that may be
collected, possessed, or prepared by any executive agency,
except as otherwise directed by the President. The Sec-
retary shall also have access to other information relating
to the foregoing matters that may be collected, possessed,
or prepared by an executive agency, as the President may
further provide. With respect to the material to which the
Secretary has access under this section—
(1) the Secretary may obtain such material by
request, and may enter into cooperative arrange-
ments with other executive agencies to share such
material on a regular or routine basis, including re-
quests or arrangements involving broad categories of
material;
(2) regardless of whether the Secretary has
made any request or entered into any cooperative ar-
rangement pursuant to paragraph (1), all executive
agencies promptly shall provide to the Secretary—
(A) all reports, assessments, and analytical
information relating to threats of terrorism in
the United States;
(B) all information concerning infrastruc-
ture vulnerablilites or other vulnerablities of the
United States to terrorism, whether or not such
information has been analyzed;
(C) all information relating to significant
and credible threats of terrorism in the United
States, whether or not such information has
been analyzed, if the President has provided
that the Secretary shall have access to such in-
formation; and
(D) such other material as the President
may further provide;
(3) the Secretary shall have full access and
input with respect to information from any national
collaborative information analysis capability (as re-
ferred to in section 924 of the National Defense Au-