---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 321h"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "321h"
heading: "Use of national private sector networks in emergency response"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/321h"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter V — National Emergency Management"
---

# §321h. Use of national private sector networks in emergency response


To the maximum extent practicable, the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) shall use national private sector networks and infrastructure for [emergency](/usc/6/701.md?p=6) response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive disasters, and other [major disasters](/usc/6/101.md?p=14).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 519, formerly § 508, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2215; renumbered § 519, Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 611(6), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1395.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 318 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 109–295.