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EMAC: Emergency Management Assistance Compact

The Emergency Management Assistance Compact was ratified by Congress and signed into law (Public Law 104-321) in 1996. Since then, 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have enacted legislation to become members of EMAC. EMAC is the first national disaster-relief compact since the Civil Defense and Disaster Compact of 1950 to be ratified by Congress.

Read more about EMAC on the EMAC Web site. [external Web link - opens in a new browser window]

Current EMAC missions

• Katrina EMAC missions [Updated Apr. 14, 2006; 14.6kb PDF]