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(1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (4); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing new paragraph (3): 
‘‘(3) A description of each base of operation or 
training facility established, constructed, or operated 
using the assistance, including any minor construc-
tion projects carried out using such assistance, and 
the amount of assistance expended on base of oper-
ations and training facilities.’’. 
SEC. 1023. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY FOR JOINT TASK 
FORCES TO SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT 
AGENCIES 
CONDUCTING 
COUNTER-TER-
RORISM ACTIVITIES. 
Section 1022 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108–136; 117 Stat. 
1594) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (c); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing new subsection (b): 
‘‘(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Funds available to 
a joint task force to support counter-drug activities may 
also be used to provide the counter-terrorism support au-
thorized by subsection (a).’’.
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Subtitle D—Matters Related to 
Homeland Security 
SEC. 1031. RESPONSIBILITIES OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY 
OF DEFENSE FOR HOMELAND DEFENSE RE-
LATING TO NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL, AND BIO-
LOGICAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE. 
Subsection (a) of section 1413 of the Defense Against 
Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 
2313) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE.—The Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense is responsible 
for the coordination of Department of Defense assistance 
to Federal, State, and local officials in responding to 
threats involving nuclear, radiological, biological, chemical 
weapons, or high-yield explosives or related materials or 
technologies, including assistance in identifying, neutral-
izing, dismantling, and disposing of nuclear, radiological, 
biological, chemical weapons, and high-yield explosives and 
related materials and technologies.’’.
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SEC. 1032. TESTING OF PREPAREDNESS FOR EMERGENCIES 
INVOLVING NUCLEAR, RADIOLOGICAL, CHEM-
ICAL, BIOLOGICAL, AND HIGH-YIELD EXPLO-
SIVES WEAPONS. 
(a) SECRETARY
OF HOMELAND SECURITY FUNC-
TIONS.—Subsection (a) of section 1415 of the Defense 
Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 (50 
U.S.C. 2315) is amended—
(1) in the subsection heading, by striking 
‘‘CHEMICAL OR’’ and inserting ‘‘NUCLEAR, RADIO-
LOGICAL, CHEMICAL, OR’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Secretary of Defense’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Secretary of Homeland Security’’; 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘biological weapons and re-
lated materials and emergencies involving ’’ and 
inserting 
‘‘nuclear, 
radiological, 
biological, 
and’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘during each 
of fiscal years 1997 through 2013’’ and inserting 
‘‘in accordance with sections 102(c) and 430(c)(1) of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
112(c), 238(c)(1))’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (3)—
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(A) by inserting ‘‘the Secretary of De-
fense,’’ before ‘‘the Director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the Director of the Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency,’’. 
(b) REPEAL
OF SECRETARY
OF ENERGY FUNC-
TIONS.—Such section is further amended by striking sub-
section (b). 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Subsection (c) of 
such section—
(1) is redesignated as subsection (b); and 
(2) is amended—
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘The 
official responsible for carrying out a program 
developed under subsection (a) or (b) shall re-
vise the program’’ and inserting ‘‘The Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall revise the program 
developed under subsection (a)’’; and 
(B) in the second sentence, by striking 
‘‘the official’’ and inserting ‘‘the Secretary’’. 
(d) REPEAL OF OBSOLETE PROVISIONS.—Such sec-
tion is further amended by striking subsections (d) and 
(e).