---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 494"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "494"
heading: "Other functions and activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/494"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter IX — National Homeland Security Council"
---

# §494. Other functions and activities


For the purpose of more effectively coordinating the policies and [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) of the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) Government relating to [homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) security, the [Council](/usc/6/681.md?p=2) shall—

- (1) assess the objectives, commitments, and risks of the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) in the interest of [homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) security and to[^1] make resulting recommendations to the President;
- (2) oversee and review [homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) security policies of the Federal Government and to[^1] make resulting recommendations to the President; and
- (3) perform such other [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) as the President may direct.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The word “to” probably should not appear.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IX, § 904, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2259.)