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title: "6 U.S.C. § 491"
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# 6 U.S.C. § 491 - National Homeland Security Council

## Text

There is established within the Executive Office of the President a council to be known as the “Homeland Security Council” (in this subchapter referred to as the “Council”).

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IX, § 901, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2258.)