National Strategy to Utilize Microreactors for Natural Disaster Response Efforts Act

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2025-01-03

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• AI system security vulnerabilities

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

This document has minimal coverage of AI risk domains. It primarily addresses nuclear microreactor deployment for disaster response, with only one explicit mention of AI in Section 3(c)(15) regarding predictive tools. The document does not substantively address AI-specific risks, harms, or governance challenges described in the MIT taxonomy.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Trade, Transportation & Utilities
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)
• National Security

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Information
• Scientific Research & Development Services
• Health Care & Social Assistance

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document primarily governs Public Administration (disaster response and emergency management) and National Security (military involvement in disaster response). It also has significant coverage of Trade, Transportation and Utilities (energy provision and electrical grid integration) and minimal mention of Information sector (AI and predictive tools).

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding legislative act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that uses mandatory language requiring the President to develop and submit a national strategy. The document contains clear legal obligations with specified timelines and reporting requirements to Congress.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The bill was introduced by Representative Donalds and co-sponsors in the House of Representatives and referred to multiple committees for consideration.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The legislation requires the President to develop a national strategy in consultation with multiple federal agencies. These government entities are the primary targets who must comply with the strategy development and implementation requirements.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: Congress enforces compliance through its oversight function by requiring the President to submit the strategy to specified congressional committees for review.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: Congress monitors implementation through biennial reporting requirements where the President must submit comprehensive updates on the national strategy.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Plan and Design

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document has minimal coverage of AI lifecycle stages. It mentions AI only once in Section 3(c)(15) regarding the use of 'artificial intelligence and predictive meteorological tools' for disaster preparation. This represents minimal coverage of the Plan and Design stage, as it addresses planning for AI tool utilization but provides no detail on development, deployment, or monitoring of AI systems.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• Predictive AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document makes only one brief reference to 'artificial intelligence' in the context of predictive meteorological tools. It does not define AI, discuss AI models or systems, or address any specific AI technical categories such as frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, or compute thresholds.