technical support and provide the interface with State and local public health entities and related private sector organizations.

Interagency Coordination

There are numerous federal interagency coordination structures and several combined federal/state/local structures. As examples of the later, the Joint Terrorism Tasks Forces (JTTF) (FBI) will remain with the FBI and a new National JTTF (FBI) will be formed. But JTTFs are organized differently in various jurisdictions. And according to the national strategy, the responsibilities (for intelligence/information sharing with state and local law enforcement) of the U.S. Attorney Antiterrorism Task Forces (ATTFs) will shift to the DHS. The proliferation of such mechanisms will likely cause unnecessary duplication of effort. More importantly, the National Strategy calls on the Governors of the several states "to establish a single Homeland Security Task Force...to serve as [the] primary coordinating body with the federal government." But there is no similar single mechanism at the federal end.

Recommendation: That the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security review and recommend to the President, and that the President direct, a restructuring of interagency mechanisms to ensure better coordination within the federal government, and with states, localities, and the private sector, to avoid confusion and to reduce unnecessary expenditure of limited resources at all levels.

Legal Authorities

With the formation of the new DHS and other initiatives envisioned in the National Strategy, various statutory, regulatory, and other authorities (e.g., PDDs 37, 62, and 63) will be directly implicated. The Strategy appropriately calls for a review of legal authority for use of the military domestically. But there are other legal and regulatory issues that must be addressed, not the least of which are quarantine, isolation, mandatory vaccinations, and other prescriptive measures that may be called for in the event of a biological attack.

Recommendation: That the President direct the Attorney General to conduct a thorough review of applicable laws and regulations and recommend legislative changes before the opening of the next Congress.

The Congress

The Congress is still poorly organized to address issues involving homeland security in a cohesive way. The House recently took the bold, necessary, but unfortunately only

temporary step of creating a special committee just to consider the proposal to create the Department of Homeland Security. Structures of that nature are required on a longer-term basis. Jurisdiction for various aspects of this issue continues to be scattered over dozens of committees and subcommittees. We therefore restate our prior recommendation with a modification:

Recommendation: That each House of the Congress establish a separate
authorizing committee and related appropriation subcommittee with
jurisdiction over Federal programs and authority for Combating
Terrorism/Homeland Security.

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Advisory Panel Members

The Honorable James S. Gilmore, III, Chair

L. Paul Bremer, Corporate Executive, and Former Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-Terrorism,
U.S. Department of State

George Foresman, Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness, Commonwealth of Virginia

Michael Freemen, Chief, Los Angeles County Fire Department

William Garrison (Major General, U.S. Army, Retired), Corporate Executive, and Former Commander, U.S. Army
Special Operations Command's Delta Force

Ellen M. Gordon, Administrator, Emergency Management Division, Department of Public Defense,
State of Iowa, and Former President, National Emergency Management Association

James Greenleaf, Independent Consultant, and Former Associate Deputy for Administration, Federal
Bureau of Investigation

Dr. William Jenaway, Independent Consultant, and Chief of Fire and Rescue Services, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
William Dallas Jones, Director, Office of Emergency Services, State of California

Paul M. Maniscalco, Past President, National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, and Former Deputy
Chief/Paramedic, City of New York Fire Department, EMSC

John O. Marsh, Jr., Attorney at Law, former Secretary of the Army, and former Member of Congress
Kathleen O'Brien, University Executive, and former City Coordinator, City of Minneapolis, Minnesota

M. Patricia Quinlisk, M.D., Medical Director/State Epidemiologist, Department of Public Health, State of Iowa

Patrick Ralston, Executive Director, Indiana State Emergency Management Agency; Executive Director, Department of
Fire and Building Services; and Executive Director, Public Safety Training Institute, State of Indiana

William Reno (Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Retired), former Senior Vice President of Operations,
American Red Cross

Joseph Samuels, Jr., Chief of Police, Richmond, California, and President, International Association of Chief of Police
Kenneth Shine, M.D., Policy Analyst and former President, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies
Alan D. Vickery, Deputy Chief, Special Operations, Seattle Fire Department

Hubert Williams, President, The Police Foundation

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John Hathaway, U.S. Department of Defense Representative
Michael A. Wermuth, RAND, Executive Project Director
Jennifer Brower, RAND, Co-Project Director

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