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[CITE: 42USC5185]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 68--DISASTER RELIEF
 
            SUBCHAPTER IV--MAJOR DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
 
Sec. 5185. Emergency communications

    The President is authorized during, or in anticipation of, an 
emergency or major disaster to establish temporary communications 
systems and to make such communications available to State and local 
government officials and other persons as he deems appropriate.

(Pub. L. 93-288, title IV, Sec. 418, formerly Sec. 415, May 22, 1974, 88 
Stat. 158; renumbered Sec. 418, Pub. L. 100-707, title I, Sec. 106(j), 
Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4705.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 418 of Pub. L. 93-288 was renumbered section 421 by 
Pub. L. 100-707 and is classified to section 5188 of this title.
