---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 314a"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "314a"
heading: "FEMA programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/314a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter V — National Emergency Management"
---

# §314a. FEMA programs


Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law, as of April 1, 2007, the [Director](/usc/6/677a.md?p=3) of the Federal [Emergency Management](/usc/6/701.md?p=7) [Agency](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) shall be responsible for the radiological [emergency](/usc/6/701.md?p=6) preparedness program and the chemical stockpile [emergency](/usc/6/701.md?p=6) preparedness program.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–347, title VI, § 612, Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1943.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006, also known as the SAFE Port Act, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

References to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency considered to refer and apply to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, see section 612(c) of Pub. L. 109–295, set out as a note under section 313 of this title.