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ate, and the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
House of Representatives written notification of the re-
programming.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The items relating to 
title V in the table of contents in section 1(b) of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 are amended to read as follows: 
‘‘TITLE V—EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 
‘‘Subtitle A—Directorate of Emergency Management 
‘‘Sec. 501. Directorate of Emergency Management. 
‘‘Sec. 502. Responsibilities of the Under Secretary. 
‘‘Sec. 503. Principal advisor on emergency management. 
‘‘Sec. 504. Regional offices. 
‘‘Sec. 505. Chief Medical Officer. 
‘‘Sec. 506. Office of State, Local, and Tribal Government Coordination. 
‘‘Sec. 507. Office of National Capital Region Coordination. 
‘‘Sec. 508. National Advisory Council on Emergency Management. 
‘‘Sec. 509. Reorganization of Directorate. 
‘‘Subtitle B—Emergency Preparedness 
‘‘Sec. 521. Office of Grants and Planning. 
‘‘Sec. 522. Office of Training and Exercises. 
‘‘Sec. 523. Essential capabilities. 
‘‘Sec. 524. Catastrophic planning. 
‘‘Sec. 525. System assessment and validation for emergency responders pro-
gram. 
‘‘Sec. 526. Homeland Security Education Program. 
‘‘Sec. 527. Office of Public and Community Preparedness. 
‘‘Subtitle C—Emergency Response 
‘‘Sec. 541. National incident management system and national response plan 
integration center. 
‘‘Sec. 542. Use of national private sector networks in emergency response. 
‘‘Sec. 543. Nuclear incident response. 
‘‘Sec. 544. National urban search and rescue response system. 
‘‘Sec. 545. Metropolitan Medical Response System. 
‘‘Sec. 546. Emergency Management Assistance Compact authorization. 
‘‘Subtitle D—Emergency Communications 
‘‘Sec. 561. Office of Emergency Communications. 
‘‘Sec. 562. National emergency communications strategy. 
‘‘Sec. 563. Assessments and reports. 
‘‘Sec. 564. Coordination of Federal emergency communications grant programs. 
‘‘Sec. 565. Regional emergency communications coordination. 
‘‘Sec. 566. Emergency Communications Preparedness Center. 
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‘‘Sec. 567. Urban and other high risk area communications capabilities. 
‘‘Sec. 568. Integrated national alert and warning system. 
‘‘Subtitle E—Emergency Logistics 
‘‘Sec. 581. Prepositioned equipment program. 
‘‘Sec. 582. National Asset Inventory Program. 
‘‘Sec. 583. Small business database for Federal contracting related to major 
disasters and emergency assistance activities. 
‘‘Sec. 584. Fraud prevention training program. 
‘‘Subtitle F—Infrastructure Protection and Cybersecurity 
‘‘Sec. 591. Office of Infrastructure Protection. 
‘‘Sec. 592. Office of Cybersecurity and Telecommunications.’’. 
SEC. 102. GULF COAST LONG-TERM RECOVERY OFFICE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall establish in the Department of Homeland 
Security a Gulf Coast Long-Term Recovery Office to ad-
minister amounts available to the Department for pro-
viding assistance to the residents of the Gulf Coast region 
for recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 
(b) DIRECTOR.—The Office shall be headed by a Di-
rector, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of Home-
land Security. 
(c) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Director of the Gulf 
Coast Long-Term Recovery Office shall work with State, 
local, and tribal governments, the private sector, and non-
governmental organizations, including faith-based and 
other community humanitarian relief entities, to provide 
assistance to residents of the Gulf Coast region for recov-
ering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, including the fol-
lowing: 
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(1) To assess the social and economic con-
sequences in the areas affected by Hurricanes 
Katrina and Rita and coordinate Federal efforts to 
address long-term community recovery issues. 
(2) To advise the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity on the long-term community recovery implica-
tions of response activities. 
(3) To conduct comprehensive market disrup-
tion and loss analysis and develop a forward looking 
market-based comprehensive long-term recovery plan 
for the affected areas. 
(4) To identify appropriate Federal programs 
and agencies to support the implementation of the 
long-term community recovery plan, to ensure co-
ordination across appropriate Federal departments 
and agencies, and to identify any gaps in the avail-
able resources. 
(5) To avoid duplication of assistance, to co-
ordinate, to the extent possible, program application 
processes and planning requirements in order to 
streamline assistance, and to identify and coordinate 
the resolution of policy and program issues. 
(6) To determine responsibilities for recovery 
activities, to provide a method of maintaining con-
tinuity in the delivery of assistance under programs 
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administered by various Federal departments and 
agencies, and to oversee coordination with State, 
local, and tribal governments and other involved par-
ties, to ensure follow-through of recovery and hazard 
mitigation efforts. 
(7) To encourage implementation of mitigation 
measures during recovery. 
(8) To carry out such other activities as deter-
mined appropriate by the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity. 
(d) TERMINATION.—The Gulf Coast Long-Term Re-
covery Office established under subsection (a) shall termi-
nate at the discretion of the Secretary. 
SEC. 103. NATIONAL DISASTER MEDICAL SYSTEM. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
2811 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300hh– 
11), as added by section 102 of the Public Health Security 
and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 
(116 Stat. 599), is amended in subsection (h) by striking 
‘‘such sums’’ and all that follows and inserting 
‘‘$85,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 
2010.’’. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 9 months after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Medical Officer 
of the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation 
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with the Under Secretary for Emergency Management, 
shall submit to Congress a report that provides— 
(1) an assessment of the need to expand the 
National Disaster Medical System, including an ex-
amination of the feasibility of maintaining a full 
time, non-volunteer operational unit or units; 
(2) an evaluation of the relationship between 
the National Disaster Medical System and the Met-
ropolitan Medical Response System; 
(3) an assessment of the coordination between 
the Department and the Department of Health and 
Human Services during deployment; and 
(4) an evaluation of whether the National Dis-
aster Medical System should remain in the Depart-
ment and, if not, which Department should have re-
sponsibility. 
SEC. 104. OFFICE OF INTEROPERABILITY AND COMPAT-
IBILITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
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