---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 247d–6f"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "247d–6f"
heading: "Provision of medical countermeasures to Indian programs and facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/247d-6f"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part B — Federal-State Cooperation"
---

# §247d–6f. Provision of medical countermeasures to Indian programs and facilities


In the event that the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) deploys the contents of the Strategic National Stockpile under [section 247d–6b(a) of this title](/usc/42/247d–6b.md?p=a), or otherwise distributes medical countermeasures to [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) to respond to a public health emergency declared by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) under [section 247d of this title](/usc/42/247d.md), the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall, in consultation with the applicable [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f), make such contents or countermeasures directly available to Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations (as such terms are defined in [section 5304 of title 25](/usc/25/5304.md)), which may include through health [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) or facilities operated by the Indian Health [Service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), that are affected by such public health emergency.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 319F–5, as added Pub. L. 117–328, div. FF, title II, § 2408(b), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5789.)