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[CITE: 42USC5132]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 68--DISASTER RELIEF
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--DISASTER PREPAREDNESS ASSISTANCE
 
Sec. 5132. Disaster warnings


(a) Readiness of Federal agencies to issue warnings to State and local 
        officials

    The President shall insure that all appropriate Federal agencies are 
prepared to issue warnings of disasters to State and local officials.

(b) Technical assistance to State and local governments for effective 
        warnings

    The President shall direct appropriate Federal agencies to provide 
technical assistance to State and local governments to insure that 
timely and effective disaster warning is provided.

(c) Warnings to governmental authorities and public endangered by 
        disaster

    The President is authorized to utilize or to make available to 
Federal, State, and local agencies the facilities of the civil defense 
communications system established and maintained pursuant to section 
5196(c) of this title or any other Federal communications system for the 
purpose of providing warning to governmental authorities and the 
civilian population in areas endangered by disasters.

(d) Agreements with commercial communications systems for use of 
        facilities

    The President is authorized to enter into agreements with the 
officers or agents of any private or commercial communications systems 
who volunteer the use of their systems on a reimbursable or 
nonreimbursable basis for the purpose of providing warning to 
governmental authorities and the civilian population endangered by 
disasters.

(Pub. L. 93-288, title II, Sec. 202, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 145; Pub. L. 
103-337, div. C, title XXXIV, Sec. 3412(b)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 
3111.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103-337 substituted ``section 5196(c) of 
this title'' for ``section 2281(c) of title 50, Appendix,''.
