<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" id="id1e49ea93-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d" identifier="/us/usc/t21/s2203"><num value="2203">§ 2203.</num><heading> Food and Agriculture Coordinating Councils</heading>
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="blockIndent0">The Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Agriculture, shall within 180 days of <date date="2011-01-04">January 4, 2011</date>, and annually thereafter, submit to the relevant committees of Congress, and make publicly available on the Internet Web site of the Department of Homeland Security, a report on the activities of the Food and Agriculture Government Coordinating Council and the Food and Agriculture Sector Coordinating Council, including the progress of such Councils on—</chapeau><paragraph class="indent1" id="id1e49ea94-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d" identifier="/us/usc/t21/s2203/1"><num value="1">(1)</num><content> facilitating partnerships between public and private entities to help coordinate and enhance the protection of the agriculture and food system of the United States;</content>
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<paragraph class="indent1" id="id1e49ea95-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d" identifier="/us/usc/t21/s2203/2"><num value="2">(2)</num><content> providing for the regular and timely interchange of information between each council relating to the security of the agriculture and food system (including intelligence information);</content>
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<paragraph class="indent1" id="id1e49ea96-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d" identifier="/us/usc/t21/s2203/3"><num value="3">(3)</num><content> identifying best practices and methods for improving the coordination among Federal, State, local, and private sector preparedness and response plans for agriculture and food defense; and</content>
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<paragraph class="indent1" id="id1e4a11a7-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d" identifier="/us/usc/t21/s2203/4"><num value="4">(4)</num><chapeau> recommending methods by which to protect the economy and the public health of the United States from the effects of—</chapeau><subparagraph class="indent2" id="id1e4a11a8-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d" identifier="/us/usc/t21/s2203/4/A"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> animal or plant disease outbreaks;</content>
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<subparagraph class="indent2" id="id1e4a11a9-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d" identifier="/us/usc/t21/s2203/4/B"><num value="B">(B)</num><content> food contamination; and</content>
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<subparagraph class="indent2" id="id1e4a11aa-f63b-11e2-8470-abc29ba29c4d" identifier="/us/usc/t21/s2203/4/C"><num value="C">(C)</num><content> natural disasters affecting agriculture and food.</content>
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(<ref href="/us/pl/111/353/s109">Pub. L. 111–353, title I, § 109</ref>, <date date="2011-01-04">Jan. 4, 2011</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/124/3912">124 Stat. 3912</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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