---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 247d–7d"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "247d–7d"
heading: "Security for countermeasure development and production"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/247d-7d"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part B — Federal-State Cooperation"
---

# §247d–7d. Security for countermeasure development and production

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), in consultation with the Attorney General and the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Defense, may provide technical or other assistance to provide security to persons or facilities that conduct development, production, distribution, or storage of priority countermeasures (as defined in [section 247d–6(e)(4) of this title](/usc/42/247d–6.md?p=e-4)).
- (b) **Guidelines—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may develop guidelines to enable entities eligible to receive assistance under [subsection (a)](#a) to secure their facilities against potential terrorist attack.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 319K, as added Pub. L. 107–188, title I, § 124, June 12, 2002, 116 Stat. 614; amended Pub. L. 116–22, title VII, § 705(a)(2), June 24, 2019, 133 Stat. 964.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2019—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–22 substituted “section 247d–6(e)(4)” for “section 247d–6(h)(4)”.