---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 C.F.R. § 351.26"
title: "44"
number: "351.26"
heading: "The United States Department of Agriculture."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/44/351.26"
---

# §351.26. The United States Department of Agriculture.

- (a) Assist FEMA in developing and promulgating guidance to State and local governments for the preparation of radiological emergency plans.
- (b) Participate with FEMA in assisting State and local governments in developing their radiological emergency plans, evaluating exercises to test plans and reviewing and evaluating the plans and preparedness.
- (c) Assist State and local governments in preparing to implement protective actions in food ingestion pathway emergency planning zones around fixed nuclear facilities.
- (d) Develop, in coordination with FEMA, the HHS and other Federal agencies, guidance for assisting State and local governments in the production, processing and distribution of food resources under radiological emergency conditions.
- (e) Assist FEMA with the development, implementation and presentation to the extent that resources permit of training programs of Federal, State and local radiological emergency personnel.
- (f) **Provide representation to and support for the FRPCC and the RACs.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552, Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, E.O. 12127, E.O. 12148, E.O. 12241; Presidential Directive of Dec. 7, 1979.

### Source

Source: 47 FR 10759, Mar. 11, 1982, unless otherwise noted.