By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
(a) National Strategy. The Office shall work with executive departments
and agencies, State and local governments, and private entities to
ensure the adequacy of the national strategy for detecting, preparing
for, preventing, protecting against, responding to, and recovering
from terrorist threats or attacks within the United States and shall
periodically review and coordinate revisions to that strategy as necessary.
(b) Detection. The Office shall identify priorities and coordinate
efforts for collection and analysis of information within the United
States regarding threats of terrorism against the United States and
activities of terrorists or terrorist groups within the United States.
The Office also shall identify, in coordination with the Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs, priorities for collection
of intelligence outside the United States regarding threats of terrorism
within the United States.
(i) In performing these functions, the Office shall work with Federal,
State, and local agencies, as appropriate, to:
(A) facilitate collection from State and local governments and
private entities of information pertaining to terrorist threats
or activities within the United States;
(B) coordinate and prioritize the requirements for foreign intelligence
relating to terrorism within the United States of executive departments
and agencies responsible for homeland security and provide these
requirements and priorities to the Director of Central Intelligence
and other agencies responsible for collection of foreign intelligence;
(C) coordinate efforts to ensure that all executive departments
and agencies that have intelligence collection responsibilities
have sufficient technological capabilities and resources to collect
intelligence and data relating to terrorist activities or possible
terrorist acts within the United States, working with the Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs, as appropriate;
(D) coordinate development of monitoring protocols and equipment
for use in detecting the release of biological, chemical, and
radiological hazards; and
(E) ensure that, to the extent permitted by law, all appropriate
and necessary intelligence and law enforcement information relating
to homeland security is disseminated to and exchanged among appropriate
executive departments and agencies responsible for homeland security
and, where appropriate for reasons of homeland security, promote
exchange of such information with and among State and local governments
and private entities.
(ii) Executive departments and agencies shall, to the extent permitted
by law, make available to the Office all information relating to
terrorist threats and activities within the United States.
(c) Preparedness. The Office of Homeland Security shall coordinate
national efforts to prepare for and mitigate the consequences of terrorist
threats or attacks within the United States. In performing this function,
the Office shall work with Federal, State, and local agencies, and
private entities, as appropriate, to:
(i) review and assess the adequacy of the portions of all Federal
emergency response plans that pertain to terrorist threats or attacks
within the United States;
(ii) coordinate domestic exercises and simulations designed to
assess and practice systems that would be called upon to respond
to a terrorist threat or attack within the United States and coordinate
programs and activities for training Federal, State, and local employees
who would be called upon to respond to such a threat or attack;
(iii) coordinate national efforts to ensure public health preparedness
for a terrorist attack, including reviewing vaccination policies
and reviewing the adequacy of and, if necessary, increasing vaccine
and pharmaceutical stockpiles and hospital capacity;
(iv) coordinate Federal assistance to State and local authorities
and nongovernmental organizations to prepare for and respond to
terrorist threats or attacks within the United States;
(v) ensure that national preparedness programs and activities for
terrorist threats or attacks are developed and are regularly evaluated
under appropriate standards and that resources are allocated to
improving and sustaining preparedness based on such evaluations;
and
(vi) ensure the readiness and coordinated deployment of Federal
response teams to respond to terrorist threats or attacks, working
with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs,
when appropriate.
(d) Prevention. The Office shall coordinate efforts to prevent terrorist
attacks within the United States. In performing this function, the
Office shall work with Federal, State, and local agencies, and private
entities, as appropriate, to:
(i) facilitate the exchange of information among such agencies
relating to immigration and visa matters and shipments of cargo;
and, working with the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs, ensure coordination among such agencies to prevent the
entry of terrorists and terrorist materials and supplies into the
United States and facilitate removal of such terrorists from the
United States, when appropriate;
(ii) coordinate efforts to investigate terrorist threats and attacks
within the United States; and
(iii) coordinate efforts to improve the security of United States
borders, territorial waters, and airspace in order to prevent acts
of terrorism within the United States, working with the Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs, when appropriate.
(e) Protection. The Office shall coordinate efforts to protect the
United States and its critical infrastructure from the consequences
of terrorist attacks. In performing this function, the Office shall
work with Federal, State, and local agencies, and private entities,
as appropriate, to:
(i) strengthen measures for protecting energy production, transmission,
and distribution services and critical facilities; other utilities;
telecommunications; facilities that produce, use, store, or dispose
of nuclear material; and other critical infrastructure services
and critical facilities within the United States from terrorist
attack;
(ii) coordinate efforts to protect critical public and privately
owned information systems within the United States from terrorist
attack;
(iii) develop criteria for reviewing whether appropriate security
measures are in place at major public and privately owned facilities
within the United States;
(iv) coordinate domestic efforts to ensure that special events
determined by appropriate senior officials to have national significance
are protected from terrorist attack;
(v) coordinate efforts to protect transportation systems within
the United States, including railways, highways, shipping, ports
and waterways, and airports and civilian aircraft, from terrorist
attack;
(vi) coordinate efforts to protect United States livestock, agriculture,
and systems for the provision of water and food for human use and
consumption from terrorist attack; and
(vii) coordinate efforts to prevent unauthorized access to, development
of, and unlawful importation into the United States of, chemical,
biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive, or other related materials
that have the potential to be used in terrorist attacks.
(f) Response and Recovery. The Office shall coordinate efforts to
respond to and promote recovery from terrorist threats or attacks
within the United States. In performing this function, the Office
shall work with Federal, State, and local agencies, and private entities,
as appropriate, to:
(i) coordinate efforts to ensure rapid restoration of transportation
systems, energy production, transmission, and distribution systems;
telecommunications; other utilities; and other critical infrastructure
facilities after disruption by a terrorist threat or attack;
(ii) coordinate efforts to ensure rapid restoration of public and
private critical information systems after disruption by a terrorist
threat or attack;
(iii) work with the National Economic Council to coordinate efforts
to stabilize United States financial markets after a terrorist threat
or attack and manage the immediate economic and financial consequences
of the incident;
(iv) coordinate Federal plans and programs to provide medical,
financial, and other assistance to victims of terrorist attacks
and their families; and
(v) coordinate containment and removal of biological, chemical,
radiological, explosive, or other hazardous materials in the event
of a terrorist threat or attack involving such hazards and coordinate
efforts to mitigate the effects of such an attack.
(g) Incident Management. The Assistant to the President for Homeland
Security shall be the individual primarily responsible for coordinating
the domestic response efforts of all departments and agencies in the
event of an imminent terrorist threat and during and in the immediate
aftermath of a terrorist attack within the United States and shall
be the principal point of contact for and to the President with respect
to coordination of such efforts. The Assistant to the President for
Homeland Security shall coordinate with the Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs, as appropriate.
(h) Continuity of Government. The Assistant to the President for
Homeland Security, in coordination with the Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs, shall review plans and preparations
for ensuring the continuity of the Federal Government in the event
of a terrorist attack that threatens the safety and security of the
United States Government or its leadership.
(i) Public Affairs. The Office, subject to the direction of the
White House Office of Communications, shall coordinate the strategy
of the executive branch for communicating with the public in the
event of a terrorist threat or attack within the United States.
The Office also shall coordinate the development of programs for
educating the public about the nature of terrorist threats and appropriate
precautions and responses.
(j) Cooperation with State and Local Governments and Private Entities.
The Office shall encourage and invite the participation of State and
local governments and private entities, as appropriate, in carrying
out the Office's functions.
(k) Review of Legal Authorities and Development of Legislative Proposals.
The Office shall coordinate a periodic review and assessment of the
legal authorities available to executive departments and agencies
to permit them to perform the functions described in this order. When
the Office determines that such legal authorities are inadequate,
the Office shall develop, in consultation with executive departments
and agencies, proposals for presidential action and legislative proposals
for submission to the Office of Management and Budget to enhance the
ability of executive departments and agencies to perform those functions.
The Office shall work with State and local governments in assessing
the adequacy of their legal authorities to permit them to detect,
prepare for, prevent, protect against, and recover from terrorist
threats and attacks.
(l) Budget Review. The Assistant to the President for Homeland Security,
in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget (the ``Director'') and the heads of executive departments and
agencies, shall identify programs that contribute to the Administration's
strategy for homeland security and, in the development of the President's
annual budget submission, shall review and provide advice to the heads
of departments and agencies for such programs. The Assistant to the
President for Homeland Security shall provide advice to the Director
on the level and use of funding in departments and agencies for homeland
security-related activities and, prior to the Director's forwarding
of the proposed annual budget submission to the President for transmittal
to the Congress, shall certify to the Director the funding levels
that the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security believes
are necessary and appropriate for the homeland security-related activities
of the executive branch.
(a) I hereby establish a Homeland Security Council (the ``Council''),
which shall be responsible for advising and assisting the President
with respect to all aspects of homeland security. The Council shall
serve as the mechanism for ensuring coordination of homeland security-related
activities of executive departments and agencies and effective development
and implementation of homeland security policies.
(b) The Council shall have as its members the President, the Vice
President, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense,
the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
the Secretary of Transportation, the Director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
the Director of Central Intelligence, the Assistant to the President
for Homeland Security, and such other officers of the executive branch
as the President may from time to time designate. The Chief of Staff,
the Chief of Staff to the Vice President, the Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs, the Counsel to the President, and the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget also are invited to
attend any Council meeting. The Secretary of State, the Secretary
of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Energy,
the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and the
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall be invited to
attend meetings pertaining to their responsibilities. The heads of
other executive departments and agencies and other senior officials
shall be invited to attend Council meetings when appropriate.
(c) The Council shall meet at the President's direction. When the
President is absent from a meeting of the Council, at the President's
direction the Vice President may preside. The Assistant to the President
for Homeland Security shall be responsible, at the President's direction,
for determining the agenda, ensuring that necessary papers are prepared,
and recording Council actions and Presidential decisions.
(a) Section 101(a) is amended by adding at the end of the fourth
sentence: ``, except that the Homeland Security Council shall be responsible
for administering such policy with respect to terrorist threats and
attacks within the United States.''
(b) Section 104(a) is amended by adding at the end: ``, except that
the Homeland Security Council is the principal forum for consideration
of policy relating to terrorist threats and attacks within the United
States.''
(c) Section 104(b) is amended by inserting the words ``and the Homeland
Security Council'' after the words ``National Security Council.''
(d) The first sentence of section 104(c) is amended by inserting
the words ``and the Homeland Security Council'' after the words ``National
Security Council.''
(e) The second sentence of section 104(c) is replaced with the following
two sentences: ``Pursuant to such procedures for the organization
and management of the National Security Council and Homeland Security
Council processes as the President may establish, the Director of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency also shall assist in the implementation
of and management of those processes as the President may establish.
The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency also shall
assist in the implementation of national security emergency preparedness
policy by coordinating with the other Federal departments and agencies
and with State and local governments, and by providing periodic reports
to the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council
on implementation of national security emergency preparedness policy.''
(f) Section 201(7) is amended by inserting the words ``and the Homeland
Security Council'' after the words ``National Security Council.''
(g) Section 206 is amended by inserting the words ``and the Homeland
Security Council'' after the words ``National Security Council.''
(h) Section 208 is amended by inserting the words ``or the Homeland
Security Council'' after the words ``National Security Council.''
/s/George W. Bush