---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 725"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "725"
heading: "Prepositioned equipment program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/725"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Emergency Management"
  - "Subchapter I — Personnel Provisions"
  - "Part B — Emergency Management Capabilities"
---

# §725. Prepositioned equipment program

- (a) **In general—** The [Administrator](/usc/6/821.md?p=1) shall establish a prepositioned equipment program to preposition standardized [emergency](/usc/6/701.md?p=6) equipment in at least 11 locations to sustain and replenish critical [assets](/usc/6/101.md?p=3) used by [State](/usc/6/821.md?p=9), local, and [tribal governments](/usc/6/701.md?p=16) in response to (or rendered inoperable by the effects of) natural disasters, acts of [terrorism](/usc/6/101.md?p=18), and other man-made disasters.
- (b) **Notice—** The [Administrator](/usc/6/821.md?p=1) shall notify [State](/usc/6/821.md?p=9), local, and tribal officials in an area in which a location for the prepositioned equipment program will be closed not later than 60 days before the date of such closure.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 637, Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1422.)