42 USC 5195 c

42 USC 5195c
NB: This unofficial compilation of the U.S. Code is current as of Jan. 4, 2012 (see http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscprint.html).

TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 68 - DISASTER RELIEF
SUBCHAPTER IV-B - EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
§ 5195c. Critical infrastructures protection
(a) Short title
This section may be cited as the “Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001”.
(b) Findings
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The information revolution has transformed the conduct of business and the operations of
government as well as the infrastructure relied upon for the defense and national security of the
United States.
(2) Private business, government, and the national security apparatus increasingly depend
on an interdependent network of critical physical and information infrastructures, including
telecommunications, energy, financial services, water, and transportation sectors.
(3) A continuous national effort is required to ensure the reliable provision of cyber and physical
infrastructure services critical to maintaining the national defense, continuity of government,
economic prosperity, and quality of life in the United States.
(4) This national effort requires extensive modeling and analytic capabilities for purposes of
evaluating appropriate mechanisms to ensure the stability of these complex and interdependent
systems, and to underpin policy recommendations, so as to achieve the continuous viability and
adequate protection of the critical infrastructure of the Nation.
(c) Policy of the United States
It is the policy of the United States—
(1) that any physical or virtual disruption of the operation of the critical infrastructures of
the United States be rare, brief, geographically limited in effect, manageable, and minimally
detrimental to the economy, human and government services, and national security of the United
States;
(2) that actions necessary to achieve the policy stated in paragraph (1) be carried out in a
public-private partnership involving corporate and non-governmental organizations; and
(3) to have in place a comprehensive and effective program to ensure the continuity of essential
Federal Government functions under all circumstances.
(d) Establishment of national competence for critical infrastructure protection
(1) Support of critical infrastructure protection and continuity by National Infrastructure
Simulation and Analysis Center
There shall be established the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) to
serve as a source of national competence to address critical infrastructure protection and continuity
through support for activities related to counterterrorism, threat assessment, and risk mitigation.
(2) Particular support
The support provided under paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(A) Modeling, simulation, and analysis of the systems comprising critical infrastructures,
including cyber infrastructure, telecommunications infrastructure, and physical infrastructure,
in order to enhance understanding of the large-scale complexity of such systems and to
facilitate modification of such systems to mitigate the threats to such systems and to critical
infrastructures generally.
(B) Acquisition from State and local governments and the private sector of data necessary to
create and maintain models of such systems and of critical infrastructures generally.
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NB: This unofficial compilation of the U.S. Code is current as of Jan. 4, 2012 (see http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscprint.html).

(C) Utilization of modeling, simulation, and analysis under subparagraph (A) to provide
education and training to policymakers on matters relating to—
(i) the analysis conducted under that subparagraph;
(ii) the implications of unintended or unintentional disturbances to critical
infrastructures; and
(iii) responses to incidents or crises involving critical infrastructures, including the
continuity of government and private sector activities through and after such incidents
or crises.
(D) Utilization of modeling, simulation, and analysis under subparagraph (A) to provide
recommendations to policymakers, and to departments and agencies of the Federal
Government and private sector persons and entities upon request, regarding means of
enhancing the stability of, and preserving, critical infrastructures.
(3) Recipient of certain support
Modeling, simulation, and analysis provided under this subsection shall be provided, in particular,
to relevant Federal, State, and local entities responsible for critical infrastructure protection and
policy.
(e) Critical infrastructure defined
In this section, the term “critical infrastructure” means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual,
so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have
a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any
combination of those matters.
(f) Authorization of appropriations
There is hereby authorized for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2002, $20,000,000 for the
Defense Threat Reduction Agency for activities of the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis
Center under this section in that fiscal year.
(Pub. L. 107–56, title X, § 1016, Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 400.)
Codification
Section was enacted as the Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 and also as part of the Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 or
USA PATRIOT Act, and not as part of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act which
comprises this chapter.

Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center
of the Department of Energy, including the functions of the Secretary of Energy relating thereto, to the Secretary
of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 121 (g)(4), 551 (d), 552 (d), and 557 of
Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as
modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.

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