6 USC § 465 - Joint Interagency Task Force

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identifier: "/us/usc/t6/s465"
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title: "6 USC § 465 - Joint Interagency Task Force"
title_number: 6
title_name: "DOMESTIC SECURITY"
section_number: "465"
section_name: "Joint Interagency Task Force"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION"
subchapter_number: "VIII"
subchapter_name: "COORDINATION WITH NON-FEDERAL ENTITIES; INSPECTOR GENERAL; UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE; COAST GUARD; GENERAL PROVISIONS"
part_number: "H"
part_name: "Miscellaneous Provisions"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 885, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2247.)"
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# § 465. Joint Interagency Task Force

**(a)** **Establishment** The Secretary may establish and operate a permanent Joint Interagency Homeland Security Task Force composed of representatives from military and civilian agencies of the United States Government for the purposes of anticipating terrorist threats against the United States and taking appropriate actions to prevent harm to the United States.

**(b)** **Structure** It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary should model the Joint Interagency Homeland Security Task Force on the approach taken by the Joint Interagency Task Forces for drug interdiction at Key West, Florida and Alameda, California, to the maximum extent feasible and appropriate.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 885, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2247.)