---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 321c"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "321c"
heading: "Department and Agency officials"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/321c"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter V — National Emergency Management"
---

# §321c. Department and Agency officials

- (a) **Deputy Administrators—** The President may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not more than 4 Deputy [Administrators](/usc/6/311.md?p=1) to assist the [Administrator](/usc/6/311.md?p=1) in carrying out this subchapter.
- (b) **United States Fire Administration—** The [Administrator](/usc/6/311.md?p=1) of the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) Fire Administration shall have a rank equivalent to an assistant [secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 514, as added Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(13), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1409; amended Pub. L. 115–278, § 2(g)(4)(B), Nov. 16, 2018, 132 Stat. 4178.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 115–278 redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b). Prior to amendment, text of subsec. (b) read as follows: “There is in the Department an Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Mar. 31, 2007, see section 614(b)(3) of Pub. L. 109–295, set out as a note under section 701 of this title.