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 PUBLIC LAW 109–295—OCT. 4, 2006

120 STAT. 1421

SEC. 632. EVACUATION PREPAREDNESS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

6 USC 721.

The Administrator, in coordination with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall provide evacuation preparedness technical assistance to State, local, and tribal governments, including the preparation of hurricane evacuation studies and technical assistance in developing evacuation plans, assessing storm surge estimates, evacuation zones, evacuation clearance times, transportation capacity, and shelter capacity. SEC. 633. EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS.

Section 303 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5144) is amended— sec. 303.’’ and all that follows through ‘‘The (1) by striking ‘‘ President shall’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘SEC. 303. EMERGENCY SUPPORT AND RESPONSE TEAMS.

‘‘(a) EMERGENCY SUPPORT TEAMS.—The President shall’’; and (2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(b) EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS.— ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—In carrying out subsection (a), the President, acting through the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, shall establish— ‘‘(A) at a minimum 3 national response teams; and ‘‘(B) sufficient regional response teams, including Regional Office strike teams under section 507 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002; and ‘‘(C) other response teams as may be necessary to meet the incident management responsibilities of the Federal Government. ‘‘(2) TARGET CAPABILITY LEVEL.—The Director shall ensure that specific target capability levels, as defined pursuant to the guidelines established under section 646(a) of the PostKatrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006, are established for Federal emergency response teams. ‘‘(3) PERSONNEL.—The President, acting through the Director, shall ensure that the Federal emergency response teams consist of adequate numbers of properly planned, organized, equipped, trained, and exercised personnel to achieve the established target capability levels. Each emergency response team shall work in coordination with State and local officials and onsite personnel associated with a particular incident. ‘‘(4) READINESS REPORTING.—The Director shall evaluate team readiness on a regular basis and report team readiness levels in the report required under section 652(a) of the PostKatrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006.’’. SEC. 634. URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE RESPONSE SYSTEM.

6 USC 722.

(a) IN GENERAL.—There is in the Agency a system known as the Urban Search and Rescue Response System. (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the system for fiscal year 2008, an amount equal to the amount appropriated for the system for fiscal year 2007 and an additional $20,000,000. SEC. 635. METROPOLITAN MEDICAL RESPONSE GRANT PROGRAM.

6 USC 723.

(a) IN GENERAL.—There is a Metropolitan Medical Response Program.

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