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PUBLIC LAW 109–163—JAN. 6, 2006 (2) the Department of Defense should install maritime radar on the Lajas, Puerto Rico, aerostat.

Subtitle D—Matters Related to Homeland Security SEC. 1031. RESPONSIBILITIES OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR HOMELAND DEFENSE RELATING TO NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL 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, neutralizing, dismantling, and disposing of nuclear, radiological, biological, chemical weapons, and high-yield explosives and related materials and technologies.’’. SEC.

1032.

TESTING OF PREPAREDNESS FOR EMERGENCIES INVOLVING NUCLEAR, RADIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, AND HIGH-YIELD EXPLOSIVES WEAPONS.

(a) SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY FUNCTIONS.—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, RADIOLOGICAL, 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 related 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)— (A) by inserting ‘‘the Secretary of Defense,’’ before ‘‘the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’’; and (B) by striking ‘‘the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency,’’. (b) REPEAL OF SECRETARY OF ENERGY FUNCTIONS.—Such section is further amended by striking subsection (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 revise the program’’ and inserting ‘‘The Secretary of Homeland Security shall revise the program developed under subsection (a)’’; and

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