 It directs the President to make potassium iodide tablets available to state and local governments through the national stockpile to provide protection for people living near a nuclear power plant, and requests that the National Academy of Sciences conduct a study to determine the most effective and safe way to distribute and administer potassium iodide tablets on a mass scale.Subtitle C makes funds available for national security with respect to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies.Eligible activities include developing coordinated local plans for responding to emergencies, addressing deficiencies in public health needs, purchasing or upgrading equipment to prepare for emergencies, conducting exercises to test emergency response activities, developing trauma and burn center care plans for emergency medical services, improving public health laboratories, training public health and health care personnel, developing systems by which information can be communicated, addressing the safety needs of children and vulnerable populations, ensuring safety of workers, preparing for contamination prevention efforts and for triage and transport in emergencies, training health care professionals to recognize and treat mental health consequences, enhancing training of health care professionals to provide appropriate care for large numbers of individuals, enhancing training to protect the health and safety of personnel responding to an attack, improving preparations for emergency response activities, and improving the ability of existing telemedicine programs to provide information, as part of the emergency public health response to bioterrorism or other public health emergencies.