---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 422"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "422"
heading: "Procurements for defense against or recovery from terrorism or nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/422"
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"
---

# §422. Procurements for defense against or recovery from terrorism or nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack


The authorities provided in this part apply to any procurement of property or services by or for an [executive agency](/usc/6/101.md?p=8) that, as determined by the head of the [executive agency](/usc/6/101.md?p=8), are to be used to facilitate defense against or recovery from [terrorism](/usc/6/101.md?p=18) or nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack, but only if a solicitation of offers for the procurement is issued during the 1-year period beginning on November 25, 2002.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 852, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2235.)