---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 421"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "421"
heading: "Definition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/421"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part F — Federal Emergency Procurement Flexibility"
---

# §421. Definition


In this part, the term “[executive agency](/usc/6/101.md?p=8)” has the meaning given that term under [section 133 of title 41](/usc/41/133.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 851, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2235.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In text, “section 133 of title 41” substituted for “section 4(1) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(1))” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.