6 U.S.C. § 912
Port Security Exercise Program
United States · Title 6 — DOMESTIC SECURITY · Status: effective
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- 6 U.S.C. § 912, Port Security Exercise Program, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/428262
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The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Preparedness and in coordination with the Commandant of the Coast Guard, shall establish a Port Security Exercise Program (referred to in this section as the “Exercise Program”) for the purpose of testing and evaluating the capabilities of Federal, State, local, and foreign governments, commercial seaport personnel and management, governmental and nongovernmental emergency response providers, the private sector, or any other organization or entity, as the Secretary determines to be appropriate, to prevent, prepare for, mitigate against, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and other emergencies at facilities required to submit a plan under section 70103(c) of title 46.
The Secretary shall ensure that the Exercise Program—
conducts, on a periodic basis, port security exercises at such facilities that are—
assists State and local governments and facilities in designing, implementing, and evaluating exercises that—
The Secretary shall establish a port security exercise improvement plan process to—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- SAFE Port Act