Part B - Additional Preparedness

6 USC 761 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact grants

(a) In general 
The Administrator may make grants to administer the Emergency Management Assistance Compact consented to by the Joint Resolution entitled Joint Resolution granting the consent of Congress to the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (Public Law 104321; 110 Stat. 3877).
(b) Uses 
A grant under this section shall be used
(1) to carry out recommendations identified in the Emergency Management Assistance Compact after-action reports for the 2004 and 2005 hurricane season;
(2) to administer compact operations on behalf of all member States and territories;
(3) to continue coordination with the Agency and appropriate Federal agencies;
(4) to continue coordination with State, local, and tribal government entities and their respective national organizations; and
(5) to assist State and local governments, emergency response providers, and organizations representing such providers with credentialing emergency response providers and the typing of emergency response resources.
(c) Coordination 
The Administrator shall consult with the Administrator of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact to ensure effective coordination of efforts in responding to requests for assistance.
(d) Authorization 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2008. Such sums shall remain available until expended.

6 USC 762 - Emergency management performance grants program

(a) Definitions 
In this section
(1) the term program means the emergency management performance grants program described in subsection (b); and
(2) the term State has the meaning given that term in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122).
(b) In general 
The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall continue implementation of an emergency management performance grants program, to make grants to States to assist State, local, and tribal governments in preparing for all hazards, as authorized by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.).
(c) Federal share 
Except as otherwise specifically provided by title VI of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act [42 U.S.C. 5195 et seq.], the Federal share of the cost of an activity carried out using funds made available under the program shall not exceed 50 percent.
(d) Apportionment 
For fiscal year 2008, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Administrator shall apportion the amounts appropriated to carry out the program among the States as follows:
(1) Baseline amount 
The Administrator shall first apportion 0.25 percent of such amounts to each of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands and 0.75 percent of such amounts to each of the remaining States.
(2) Remainder 
The Administrator shall apportion the remainder of such amounts in the ratio that
(A) the population of each State; bears to
(B) the population of all States.
(e) Consistency in allocation 
Notwithstanding subsection (d), in any fiscal year before fiscal year 2013 in which the appropriation for grants under this section is equal to or greater than the appropriation for emergency management performance grants in fiscal year 2007, no State shall receive an amount under this section for that fiscal year less than the amount that State received in fiscal year 2007.
(f) Authorization of appropriations 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the program
(1) for fiscal year 2008, $400,000,000;
(2) for fiscal year 2009, $535,000,000;
(3) for fiscal year 2010, $680,000,000;
(4) for fiscal year 2011, $815,000,000; and
(5) for fiscal year 2012, $950,000,000.

6 USC 763 - Transfer of Noble Training Center

The Noble Training Center is transferred to the Center for Domestic Preparedness. The Center for Domestic Preparedness shall integrate the Noble Training Center into the program structure of the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

6 USC 764 - National exercise simulation center

The President shall establish a national exercise simulation center that
(1) uses a mix of live, virtual, and constructive simulations to
(A) prepare elected officials, emergency managers, emergency response providers, and emergency support providers at all levels of government to operate cohesively;
(B) provide a learning environment for the homeland security personnel of all Federal agencies;
(C) assist in the development of operational procedures and exercises, particularly those based on catastrophic incidents; and
(D) allow incident commanders to exercise decisionmaking in a simulated environment; and
(2) uses modeling and simulation for training, exercises, and command and control functions at the operational level.