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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 290 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to upgrade existing emergency commu- |
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| 6 | 6 | | nications centers in units of the National Park System to Next Genera- |
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| 7 | 7 | | tion 9–1–1 systems, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY29, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. B |
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| 11 | 11 | | ARRASSO(for himself, Mr. KING, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, and Mrs. HYDE- |
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| 12 | 12 | | S |
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| 13 | 13 | | MITH) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 14 | 14 | | to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources- |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To direct the Secretary of the Interior to upgrade existing |
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| 17 | 17 | | emergency communications centers in units of the Na- |
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| 18 | 18 | | tional Park System to Next Generation 9–1–1 systems, |
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| 19 | 19 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Making National 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Parks Safer Act’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | In this Act: 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | gress’’ means— 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Resources of the Senate; and 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (B) the Committee on Natural Resources 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | of the House of Representatives. 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (2) E |
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| 38 | 38 | | MERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER .— 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (A) I |
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| 40 | 40 | | N GENERAL.—The term ‘‘emergency 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | communications center’’ means— 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (i) a facility that— 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (I) is designated to receive a 9– 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | 1–1 request for emergency assistance; 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | and 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (II) performs 1 or more of the 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | functions described in subparagraph 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (B); or 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (ii) a public safety answering point 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (as defined in section 222 of the Commu-19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222)). 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (B) F |
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| 53 | 53 | | UNCTIONS DESCRIBED .—The func-21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | tions described in this subparagraph are the fol-22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | lowing: 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | •S 290 IS |
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| 59 | 59 | | (i) Processing and analyzing 9–1–1 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | requests for emergency assistance and in-2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | formation and data related to the requests. 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (ii) Dispatching appropriate emer-4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | gency response providers. 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (iii) Transferring or exchanging 9–1– 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | 1 requests for emergency assistance and 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | information and data related to the re-8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | quests with 1 or more other emergency 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | communications centers and emergency re-10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | sponse providers. 11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (iv) Analyzing any communications re-12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ceived from emergency response providers. 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (v) Supporting incident command 14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | functions. 15 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (3) I |
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| 75 | 75 | | NTEROPERABILITY.—The term ‘‘interoper-16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ability’’ means the capability of emergency commu-17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | nications centers— 18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (A) to receive 9–1–1 requests for emer-19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | gency assistance and information and data re-20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | lated to the requests, such as location informa-21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | tion and callback numbers from a person initi-22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | ating the request; and 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | (B) to process and share 9–1–1 requests 24 |
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| 84 | 84 | | for emergency assistance and information and 25 |
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| 88 | 88 | | data related to the requests with other emer-1 |
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| 89 | 89 | | gency communications centers and emergency 2 |
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| 90 | 90 | | response providers without the need for propri-3 |
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| 91 | 91 | | etary interfaces and regardless of jurisdiction, 4 |
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| 92 | 92 | | equipment, device, software, service provider, or 5 |
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| 93 | 93 | | other relevant factors. 6 |
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| 94 | 94 | | (4) N |
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| 95 | 95 | | EXT GENERATION 9 –1–1 SYSTEM.—The 7 |
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| 96 | 96 | | term ‘‘Next Generation 9–1–1 system’’ has the 8 |
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| 97 | 97 | | meaning given the term ‘‘Next Generation 911’’ in 9 |
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| 98 | 98 | | section 9.28 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations 10 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (or a successor regulation). 11 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (5) S |
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| 101 | 101 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 12 |
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| 102 | 102 | | the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-13 |
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| 103 | 103 | | rector of the National Park Service. 14 |
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| 104 | 104 | | SEC. 3. ASSESSMENT OF EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS 15 |
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| 105 | 105 | | CENTERS LOCATED IN UNITS OF THE NA-16 |
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| 106 | 106 | | TIONAL PARK SYSTEM. 17 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (a) I |
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| 108 | 108 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 18 |
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| 109 | 109 | | date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall complete 19 |
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| 110 | 110 | | an assessment of emergency communications centers lo-20 |
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| 111 | 111 | | cated in units of the National Park System to identify— 21 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (1) the implementation status of Next Genera-22 |
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| 113 | 113 | | tion 9–1–1 systems at existing emergency commu-23 |
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| 114 | 114 | | nications centers in units of the National Park Sys-24 |
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| 115 | 115 | | tem; 25 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (2) estimated costs to purchase Next Genera-1 |
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| 120 | 120 | | tion 9–1–1 systems for emergency communications 2 |
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| 121 | 121 | | centers in units of the National Park System that 3 |
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| 122 | 122 | | have not begun to implement Next Generation 9–1– 4 |
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| 123 | 123 | | 1 systems; and 5 |
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| 124 | 124 | | (3) estimated costs to maintain and operate 6 |
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| 125 | 125 | | Next Generation 9–1–1 systems across all emer-7 |
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| 126 | 126 | | gency communications centers in units of the Na-8 |
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| 127 | 127 | | tional Park System. 9 |
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| 128 | 128 | | (b) R |
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| 129 | 129 | | EPORT.—On completion of the assessment 10 |
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| 130 | 130 | | under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the ap-11 |
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| 131 | 131 | | propriate committees of Congress, and make available on 12 |
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| 132 | 132 | | the website of the Department of the Interior, a report— 13 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (1) describing the results of the assessment; 14 |
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| 134 | 134 | | and 15 |
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| 135 | 135 | | (2) identifying issues that may affect the imple-16 |
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| 136 | 136 | | mentation of Next Generation 9–1–1 systems across 17 |
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| 137 | 137 | | all emergency communications centers in units of 18 |
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| 138 | 138 | | the National Park System, including— 19 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (A) jurisdictional issues; 20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | (B) technological issues; 21 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (C) issues relating to relevant authorities; 22 |
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| 142 | 142 | | and 23 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (D) issues relating to legal agreements. 24 |
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| 147 | 147 | | SEC. 4. PLAN TO INSTALL NEXT GENERATION 9–1–1 SYS-1 |
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| 148 | 148 | | TEMS IN UNITS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYS-2 |
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| 149 | 149 | | TEM. 3 |
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| 150 | 150 | | (a) I |
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| 151 | 151 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 4 |
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| 152 | 152 | | date on which the report under section 3(b) is submitted, 5 |
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| 153 | 153 | | the Secretary shall develop a plan, based on the results 6 |
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| 154 | 154 | | of the assessment completed under section 3(a) and sub-7 |
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| 155 | 155 | | ject to subsection (c), to install Next Generation 9–1–1 8 |
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| 156 | 156 | | systems at identified emergency communications centers 9 |
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| 157 | 157 | | in units of the National Park System. 10 |
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| 158 | 158 | | (b) C |
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| 159 | 159 | | ONSULTATION.—In developing the plan under 11 |
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| 160 | 160 | | subsection (a), the Secretary shall consult with— 12 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (1) State and local emergency operations offi-13 |
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| 162 | 162 | | cials to ensure interoperability of the Next Genera-14 |
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| 163 | 163 | | tion 9–1–1 systems; 15 |
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| 164 | 164 | | (2) State and local stakeholders that the super-16 |
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| 165 | 165 | | intendent of the applicable unit of the National Park 17 |
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| 166 | 166 | | System determines to be appropriate; and 18 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (3) relevant Federal agencies, including— 19 |
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| 168 | 168 | | (A) the Department of Commerce; 20 |
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| 169 | 169 | | (B) the Department of Transportation; 21 |
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| 170 | 170 | | and 22 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (C) the Federal Communications Commis-23 |
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| 172 | 172 | | sion. 24 |
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| 173 | 173 | | (c) L |
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| 174 | 174 | | IMITATION.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), a 25 |
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| 175 | 175 | | plan developed under that subsection shall not be required 26 |
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| 179 | 179 | | to address emergency communications centers in any unit 1 |
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| 180 | 180 | | of the National Park System at which the superintendent 2 |
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| 181 | 181 | | of the unit of the National Park System determines that 3 |
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| 182 | 182 | | sufficient Next Generation 9–1–1 systems have already 4 |
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| 183 | 183 | | been installed or are being installed, as applicable. 5 |
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