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The National Security Institute (NSI) presents the full text of H.R. 4210, a bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide for improved federal efforts to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks and other disasters. The act may be cited as the Preparedness Against Terrorism Act of 2000. The sections include the findings and purposes of the bill, definitions of a major disaster, the administration of emergency preparedness programs by the president, and the detailed functions of administration, among others.
Overall, we believe that H.R. 4210 would address some of the problems of fragmentation and duplication that we and others have found in programs to combat terrorism. Specifically, the bill would create a new Office of Terrorism Preparedness to centralize leadership and coordination of federal programs to help state and local governments prepare for terrorist incidents involving weapons of mass destruction. However, the duties of the new office, as currently described in the bill, may overlap with some functions of the recently created National Domestic Preparedness Office. Our work on the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), on which the Office of Terrorism Preparedness is patterned, suggests that success in achieving the bill's goals depends on the Office head's ability to build consensus among the involved agencies. In addition, the new office may take some time to accomplish its objectives as laid out in the bill. The limited scope of the new statutory office would not address some of the larger problems with fragmented leadership and coordination in federal programs to combat terrorism.