110 HR 1684 : Department of Homeland Security
U.S. House of Representatives
2007-05-11
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1.This Act may be cited as the
Department of Homeland Security
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
.
2.The table of contents
for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Title I—Authorization of Appropriations
Sec. 101. Department of Homeland Security.
Title II—Policy and Management Improvements
Sec. 201. Establishment of Directorate for Policy.
Sec. 202. Direct line authority for Chief Operating
Officers.
Sec. 203. Comprehensive Homeland Security Review.
Sec. 204. Qualifications for the Under Secretary for
Management.
Sec. 205. Sense of Congress regarding consolidation of
Department headquarters.
Sec. 206. Required budget line item for office of
counternarcotics enforcement.
Sec. 207. Designation of Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement
as primary Department counternarcotics enforcement representative.
Sec. 208. Granting line authority to the Assistant Secretary
for Legislative Affairs.
Title III—Oversight improvements
Sec. 301. Secure border initiative financial
accountability.
Sec. 302. Authorization Liaison Officer.
Sec. 303. Office of the Inspector General.
Sec. 304. Congressional notification requirement.
Title IV—Procurement Policy and Resources
Improvements
Sec. 401. Homeland security procurement training.
Sec. 402. Authority to appoint and maintain a cadre of Federal
annuitants for procurement offices.
Sec. 403. Additional requirement to review past performance of
contractors.
Sec. 404. Requirement to disclose foreign ownership or control
of contractors and subcontractors.
Sec. 405. Integrity in contracting.
Sec. 406. Small business utilization report.
Sec. 407. Requirement that uniforms, protective gear, badges,
and identification cards of Homeland Security personnel be manufactured in the
United States.
Sec. 408. Department of Homeland Security Mentor-Protégé
Program.
Sec. 409. Report on source of shortfalls at Federal Protective
Service.
Title V—Workforce and training improvements
Sec. 501. Customs and Border Protection Officer pay
equity.
Sec. 502. Plan to improve representation of minorities in
various categories of employment.
Sec. 503. Continuation of authority for Federal law enforcement
training center to appoint and maintain a cadre of Federal
annuitants.
Sec. 504. Authority to appoint and maintain a cadre of Federal
annuitants for Customs and Border Protection.
Sec. 505. Strengthening Border Patrol recruitment and
retention.
Sec. 506. Limitation on reimbursements relating to certain
detailees.
Sec. 507. Increased security screening of Homeland Security
Officials.
Sec. 508. Authorities of Chief Security Officer.
Sec. 509. Departmental culture improvement.
Sec. 510. Homeland security education program
enhancements.
Sec. 511. Repeal of
chapter
97 of title 5, United States Code.
Sec. 512. Utilization of non-law enforcement Federal employees
as instructors for non-law enforcement classes at the Border Patrol Training
Academy.
Sec. 513. Termination of Employment of Volunteer Firefighters
and Emergency Medical Personnel Prohibited.
Title VI—Biopreparedness improvements
Sec. 601. Chief Medical Officer and Office of Health
Affairs.
Sec. 602. Improving the material threats process.
Sec. 603. Study on national biodefense training.
Sec. 604. National Biosurveillance Integration
Center.
Sec. 605. Risk analysis process and integrated CBRN risk
assessment.
Title VII—Homeland security cybersecurity
improvements
Sec. 701. Cybersecurity and Communications.
Sec. 702. Cybersecurity research and development.
Sec. 703. Collaboration.
Title VIII—Science and Technology Improvements
Sec. 801. Report to Congress on strategic plan.
Sec. 802. Centers of Excellence Program.
Sec. 803. National research council study of university
programs.
Sec. 804. Streamlining of SAFETY Act and antiterrorism
technology procurement processes.
Sec. 805. Promoting antiterrorism through International
Cooperation Act.
Sec. 806. Availability of testing facilities and
equipment.
Title IX—Border Security Improvements
Sec. 901. US–VISIT.
Sec. 902. Shadow Wolves program.
Sec. 903. Cost-effective training for border patrol
agents.
Sec. 904. Report on implementation of the student and exchange
visitor program.
Sec. 905. Assessment of resources necessary to reduce crossing
times at land ports of entry.
Sec. 906. Report by Government Accountability Office regarding
policies and procedures of the Border Patrol.
Sec. 907. Report on Integrated Border Enforcement Team
initiative.
Sec. 908. Stolen and Lost Travel Document database.
Title X—Information sharing improvements
Sec. 1001. State and local fusion center program.
Sec. 1002. Fusion Center Privacy and Civil Liberties Training
Program.
Sec. 1003. Authority to appoint and maintain a cadre of Federal
annuitants for the Office of Information Analysis.
Title XI—Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 1101. Rural homeland security training
initiative.
Sec. 1102. Critical infrastructure study.
Sec. 1103. Terrorist watch list at high-risk critical
infrastructure.
Sec. 1104. Authorized use of surplus military
vehicles.
Sec. 1105. Computer capabilities to support real-time incident
management.
Sec. 1106. Expenditure reports as a condition of homeland
security grants.
Sec. 1107. Encouraging use of computerized training
aids.
Sec. 1108. Metropolitan Medical Response System
Program.
Sec. 1109. Identity fraud prevention grant program.
Sec. 1110. Technical corrections.
Sec. 1111. Citizen Corps.
Sec. 1112. Report regarding Department of Homeland Security
implementation of Comptroller General and Inspector General recommendations
regarding protection of agriculture.
Sec. 1113. Report regarding levee system.
Sec. 1114. Report on Force Multiplier Program.
Sec. 1115. Eligibility of State judicial facilities for State
homeland security grants.
Sec. 1116. Data sharing.
Sec. 1117. Cooperative agreement with National Organization on
Disability to carry out Emergency Preparedness Initiative.
Sec. 1118. Consideration of tourism in awarding Urban Area
Security Initiative grants.
Sec. 1119. Study of foreign rail security
practices.
Sec. 1120. FEMA recovery office in Florida.
Sec. 1121. Requirement to consult States regarding grant
awards.
Sec. 1122. Comptroller General report on critical
infrastructure.
Sec. 1123. Improving the nexus and fast registered traveler
programs.
Sec. 1124. Travel documents.
Sec. 1125. Sense of the Congress on
Interoperability.
Sec. 1126. Travelers Redress Inquiry Program.
Sec. 1127. Transportation Worker Identification Credential
program.
Sec. 1128. Automated targeting system for persons entering or
departing the United States.
<enum>I</enum><header>Authorization of
Appropriations</header>
<section id="HF30E0A17FB084283B130026FBFEB62A"><enum>101.</enum><header>Department of
Homeland Security</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There is
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security for the
necessary expenses of the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2008,
$39,863,000,000.</text>
</section><enum>II</enum><header>Policy and
Management Improvements</header>
<section id="H8B53C472394740DA8734D48DBD36CB2"><enum>201.</enum><header>Establishment of
Directorate for Policy</header>
<subsection id="H92A5C2144D1C41A18D2368C4FD27DF7D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Homeland Security
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C.
101 et seq.) is amended by striking sections 401 through 403
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H4F54E8183CDC4355AF008E9D00A47D85" style="OLC">
<section id="HD271DD2D9CB34EF28BF2CC00ED0200B1"><enum>401.</enum><header>Directorate for
Policy</header>
<subsection id="H1010854C527E4E5B9C958BD1B1ED7501"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There
is in the Department a Directorate for Policy. The Directorate for Policy shall
contain each of the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H7EF4A204DDBB4442B36B007ECF42AA7F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Office of the
Private Sector, which shall be administered by an Assistant Secretary for the
Private Sector.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4A403CA51D454C3D850993B9D32DF36B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Victim
Assistance Officer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBE20C8810FCA4B008042A7D72017CE79"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The Tribal
Security Officer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7FD643F728DD488CA92FB52FBAE55553"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Border Community Liaison
Officer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7A102122039245DC873C0095000094A8"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Such other offices
as considered necessary by the Under Secretary for Policy.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H186BBDE1EA774EC784266D87747D7500"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Under Secretary
for Policy</header>
<paragraph id="H3048B1E3BFBC4A7EA5FED400D73FD2A5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The head of the Directorate is the Under Secretary for
Policy, who shall be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of
the Senate.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8920E3202ED1496D835F50038D1DDC4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Qualifications</header><text>No
individual shall be appointed to the position of Under Secretary for Policy
under paragraph (1) unless the individual has, by education and experience,
demonstrated knowledge, ability, and skill in the fields of policy and
strategic planning.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1282E4BA1CD0438C94CA2C8EBA62B8C4"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header><text>Subject
to the direction and control of the Secretary, the responsibilities of the
Under Secretary for Policy shall be as follows:</text>
<subparagraph id="H83621DD2089E4BFD898E056C8BD239D4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>To serve as the
principal policy advisor to the Secretary.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFB830E97580D4DD3B8D6448865978F84"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To provide overall direction and
supervision of policy development for the programs, offices, and activities of
the Department, excluding each agency that is a distinct entity within the
Department.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H629C09788DA84F9C99776842AA8E5B21"><enum>(C)</enum><text>To ensure that the
budget of the Department (including the development of future year budgets and
interaction with the Office of Management and Budget and with Congress) is
compatible with the statutory and regulatory responsibilities of the Department
and with the Secretary’s priorities, strategic plans, and policies.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H109C393D225443D2810747D6787894B2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>To conduct
long-range, strategic planning for the Department, including overseeing the
Comprehensive Homeland Security Review established in section 203.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5ACF46AE21E04BF89D4BA80353B08E00"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To carry out such other responsibilities as
the Secretary may determine are appropriate, consistent with this
section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H364A67F52AFD4A869EDBD057AE22001F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Ensuring
consideration of the needs of children</header>
<paragraph id="H21D8840CD2BD4ADDA34F670572EB914"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Under Secretary for Policy of the Department of
Homeland Security, acting through the Assistant Secretary for the Office of
Policy and Development, shall ensure that all departmental policies, programs,
and activities appropriately consider the needs of and impact upon
children.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA77708295614410297A7BC94845E003B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Specific
functions</header><text>The Under Secretary for Policy shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H462C44C63E66411A93B05700EAC24E7E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>coordinate with
other Federal Departments and agencies to ensure that the needs of children,
schools, and other child-centered facilities are sufficiently understood and
incorporated into Federal, State, local, and tribal preparedness, response, and
recovery plans and activities for terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other
emergencies (including those involving chemical, biological, radiological,
nuclear, or other explosive weapons), or other manmade disasters;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6967B6E589A44039AAF14E1AF205CF3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>coordinate with the
Office of Grants within the Federal Emergency Management Agency to monitor the
use of homeland security grants by State, local, or tribal agencies to support
emergency preparedness activities for children, schools, and other
child-centered facilities, and make recommendations to improve the
effectiveness of such funding;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H367D7072AEEC405C89DF8761995B7454"><enum>(C)</enum><text>review public
awareness programs and screening policies by departmental entities, including
security screening at airports, and ensure that such policies consider the
needs and well-being of children; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9F4076A5E482435D96B34B96CFD300F"><enum>(D)</enum><text>ensure that all
other departmental activities that affect children include consideration of the
needs of children and that relevant agencies of the Department coordinate on
this matter where appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H720E42DABBA24EF59D6911750062C100"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report to
Congress</header><text>One year after the date of the enactment of this
subsection and on an annual basis thereafter, the Under Secretary for Policy
shall report to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives and to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs of the Senate on activities undertaken pursuant to this subsection and
the resulting improvement in security for children, schools, and other
child-centered facilities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HFB3E231C3EF242ABA0EC0020EEF437B2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header><text>Such Act is further amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H16E2F714A7324D349889A27215E6BC03"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking the
heading for title IV and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1052F998C4D24625A89814F47283564E" style="OLC">
<title id="HFB4D1FC68A754D4398F310311EF094A3"><enum>IV</enum><header>Directorate for
Policy</header>
;
(2)by striking the
heading for subtitle A of title IV and inserting the following:
AUnder Secretary
for
Policy
;
(3)in section
103(a)(3), by striking for Border and Transportation Security
and inserting for Policy
;
(4)in section
102(f)(9), by striking the Directorate of Border and Transportation
Security
and inserting United States Customs and Border
Protection
;
(5)in section 411(a),
by striking under the authority of the Under Secretary for Border and
Transportation Security,
;
(6)in section
430—
(A)in subsection
(a)—
(i)by
striking The
and inserting There is in the Department
an
; and
(ii)by
striking shall be
and all that follows through
Security
;
(B)in subsection (b),
by striking the second sentence; and
(C)by striking
subsection (d).
(7)in
section 441, by striking Under Secretary for Border and Transportation
Security
and inserting Secretary
;
(8)in section
442(a)—
(A)who—
in
paragraph (2), by striking and all that follows through (B)
shall
and inserting who shall
; and
(B)in paragraph
(3)—
(i)in
subparagraph (A), by striking Under Secretary for Border and
Transportation Security
each place it appears and inserting
Secretary
; and
(ii)in
subparagraph (C), by striking Border and Transportation Security
and inserting Policy
;
(9)in section 443, by
striking The Under Secretary for Border and Transportation
Security
and inserting Subject to the direction and control of
the Secretary, the Deputy Secretary
;
(10)in section 444, by striking The
Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security
and inserting
Subject to the direction and control of the Secretary, the Deputy
Secretary
;
(11)in section 472(e), by striking or
the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security
; and
(12)in section
878(e), by striking the Directorate of Border and Transportation
Security
and inserting United States Customs and Border
Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
.
(d)The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended—
(1)by
striking the item relating to title IV and inserting the following:
TITLE IV—DIRECTORATE FOR
POLICY
;
and(2)by striking the
items relating to subtitle A of title IV and inserting the following:
Subtitle A—Under Secretary for
Policy
Sec. 401. Directorate for
Policy.
.
202.Direct line
authority for Chief Operating Officers
(a)Title VII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
(6 U.S.C. 341 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:
707.
(a)The Chief Operating
Officers of the Department include the following officials of the
Department:
(1)The Chief
Financial Officer.
(2)The Chief
Procurement Officer.
(3)The Chief
Information Officer.
(4)The Chief Human
Capital Officer.
(5)The Chief
Administrative Officer.
(6)The Chief Security
Officer.
(b)The
Secretary shall direct the Chief Operating Officer of each component agency to
coordinate with that Officer’s respective Chief Operating Officer of the
Department to ensure that the component agency adheres to Government-wide laws,
rules, regulations, and policies to which the Department is subject and which
the Chief Operating Officer is responsible for implementing.
(c)Coordination with
heads of component agenciesIn coordinating with a Chief
Operating Officer of the Department as required under subsection (b), a Chief
Operating Officer of a component agency shall coordinate with the head of that
component
agency.
.
(b)The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 706 the
following:
Sec. 707. Chief Operating
Officers.
.
203.Comprehensive
Homeland Security Review
(a)Comprehensive
Homeland Security ReviewSubtitle A of title IV of the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 is further amended by adding at the end the
following:
402.Comprehensive
Homeland Security Review
(a)Requirement To
conduct reviewsThe
Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Policy, shall conduct a
comprehensive examination of the Department, to be known as the Comprehensive
Homeland Security Review. The Secretary shall conduct the first such review in
fiscal year 2009, and shall conduct a subsequent review in the first fiscal
year in which there begins the first presidential term of a new presidential
administration.
(b)In each Comprehensive Homeland Security Review, the
Secretary shall—
(1)include a Department of Homeland Security
Strategy that is consistent with the most recent National Strategy for Homeland
Security prescribed by the President;
(2)define sufficient personnel and appropriate
organizational structure and other requirements necessary for the successful
execution of the full range of missions called for in the Department of
Homeland Security Strategy; and
(3)identify a budget
plan, acquisition strategy, procurement process, and any other resources, that
are necessary to provide sufficient resources for the successful execution of
the full range of missions called for in the Department of Homeland Security
Strategy.
(c)
(1)The Secretary shall
conduct each review required under subsection (a) in consultation with key
officials of the Department, including the Assistant Secretary of the
Transportation Security Administration, the Commissioner of United States
Customs and Border Protection, the Director of United States Citizenship and
Immigration Services, the Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, the Director of the United States Secret Service, the
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Director of the
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and the Commandant of the Coast
Guard.
(2)Relationship
with Future Years Homeland Security ProgramThe Secretary shall
ensure that each review conducted under this section is consistent with the
Future Years Homeland Security Program required under section 874.
(d)Report to
Congress and the President
(1)The
Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee
on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, to the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and to
the President a report on each Comprehensive Homeland Security Review. Each
such report shall be submitted during the fiscal year following the fiscal year
in which the review is conducted, but not later than the date on which the
President submits to Congress the budget under
section
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for the fiscal year
following the fiscal year in which the report is to be submitted.
(2)Each such report shall include the
following, with a focus on reducing and managing risk and in preparing for,
mitigating against, responding to, and recovering from terrorist attacks, major
disasters, and other emergencies:
(A)A comprehensive
assessment of the level of alignment between the Department of Homeland
Security Strategy and the human resources, infrastructure, assets, and
organizational structure of the Department.
(B)An explanation of
any and all underlying assumptions used in conducting the Review.
(C)The human resources
requirements and response capabilities of the Department as they relate to the
risks of terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies.
(D)The strategic and tactical air, border sea,
and land capabilities and requirements to support the Department of Homeland
Security Strategy.
(E)The nature and
appropriateness of homeland security operational capabilities, including
operational scientific and technical resources and capabilities and the
anticipated effects on the human resources capabilities, costs, efficiencies,
resources, and planning of the Department of any technology or operational
capabilities anticipated to be available during the years subsequent to the
Review.
(F)Any other matter
the Secretary considers appropriate to include in the Review.
(3)Deadline for
initial reportNotwithstanding paragraph (1), the Secretary shall
submit the first Report required under subsection (a) not later than September
30, 2010.
(e)Preparations for
fiscal year 2008 reviewIn
fiscal year 2008, the Under Secretary for Policy shall make all preparations
for the conduct of the first Comprehensive Homeland Security Review in fiscal
year 2009, including—
(1)determining the
tasks to be performed;
(2)estimating the
human, financial, and other resources required to perform each task;
(3)establishing the
schedule for the execution of all project tasks;
(4)ensuring that
these resources will be available as needed; and
(5)all other
preparations considered necessary by the Under
Secretary.
.
(b)The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 401 the
following:
Sec. 402. Comprehensive Homeland Security
Review.
.
204.Qualifications
for the Under Secretary for Management
(a)Section
701 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 341) is amended by adding at
the end the following:
(c)The
Under Secretary for Management shall have all of the following
qualifications:
(1)Extensive executive
level leadership and management experience in the public or private
sector.
(2)Strong leadership
skills.
(3)A demonstrated
ability to manage large and complex organizations.
(4)A proven record of
achieving positive operational
results.
.
(b)Deadline for
appointment; incumbentNot later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall name an
individual who meets the qualifications of section 701 of the Homeland Security
Act (6 U.S.C.
341), as amended by subsection (a), to serve as the Under
Secretary for Management. The Secretary may submit the name of the individual
who serves in the position of Under Secretary for Management of the Department
of Homeland Security on the date of enactment of this Act together with a
statement the informs the Congress that the individual meets the qualifications
of such section as so amended.
205.Sense of
Congress regarding consolidation of Department headquarters
(a)Congress
finds that—
(1)the Department of
Homeland Security and its component headquarters facilities are currently
scattered widely throughout the National Capital Region (NCR);
(2)this geographic
dispersal disrupts the Department’s ability to operate in an efficient manner,
and could impair its ability to prevent, deter, prepare for, and respond to a
terrorist attack, major disaster, or other emergencies;
(3)the Government
Accountability Office continues to list Implementing and Transforming
the Department of Homeland Security
on its High Risk
list
;
(4)consolidating the
Department’s headquarters and component facilities, to the greatest extent
practicable, would be an important step in facilitating the transformation and
integration of the Department; and
(5)the President has
provided funding for Department consolidation in the fiscal year 2008 budget,
and has determined that the only site under the control of the Federal
Government and in the NCR with the size, capacity, and security features to
meet the Department of Homeland Security’s minimum consolidation needs as
identified in the Department of Homeland Security NCR Housing Master Plan
submitted to Congress on October 24, 2006, is the West Campus of St. Elizabeths
Hospital in the District of Columbia.
(b)It is the sense of Congress that the consolidation of
the Department and its key component headquarters on the West Campus of St.
Elizabeths Hospital, to the maximum extent practicable consistent with the
Department’s Housing Plan as submitted to Congress in October 2006, should move
forward as expeditiously as possible with all the agencies involved in this
effort bearing those costs for which they are responsible.
206.Required budget
line item for office of counternarcotics enforcementIn each fiscal year budget request for the
Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall
include a separate line item for the fiscal year for expenditures by the Office
of Counternarcotics Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security.
207.Designation of
Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement as primary Department counternarcotics
enforcement representativeSection 878(d)(5) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 458(d)(5))
is amended by striking to be a representative
and inserting
to be the primary representative
.
208.Granting line
authority to the Assistant Secretary for Legislative AffairsSection 701 of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C.
341) is further amended by adding at the end the
following:
(d)Authority of
Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs over Departmental
counterpartsThe Secretary for the Department shall ensure that
the Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs has adequate authority or the
Assistant Secretary’s respective counterparts in component agencies of the
Department to ensure that such component agencies adhere to the laws, rules,
and regulations to which the Department is subject and the departmental
policies that the Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs is responsible
for
implementing.
.
<enum>III</enum><header>Oversight
improvements</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H70116C67A69C4348003B8B56A600AB16" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header>Secure border
initiative financial accountability</header>
<subsection id="H56192D2B546E48988975BA86254FB167"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Inspector General of the Department of Homeland
Security shall review each contract action related to the Department’s Secure
Border Initiative having a value greater than $20,000,000, to determine whether
each such action fully complies with applicable cost requirements, performance
objectives, program milestones, inclusion of small, minority, and women-owned
business, and timelines. The Inspector General shall complete a review under
this subsection with respect to a contract action—</text>
<paragraph id="H2E99F9BA52EA414EB2A48B02E311C6DD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>not later than 60
days after the date of the initiation of the action; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD3BAB4522CFB4325BA006CADF4D0D2FB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>upon the
conclusion of the performance of the contract.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA7880A5C9EB64038B8CBBFBE004188D7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report by
Inspector General</header><text>Upon completion of each review required under
subsection (a), the Inspector General shall submit to the Secretary of Homeland
Security a report containing the findings of the review, including findings
regarding any cost overruns, significant delays in contract execution, lack of
rigorous departmental contract management, insufficient departmental financial
oversight, bundling that limits the ability of small business to compete, or
other high risk business practices.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA335D146BADE4121A2C980CA3FB28EF5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report by
Secretary</header><text>Not later than 30 days after the receipt of each report
required under subsection (b), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit
to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the findings of the
report by the Inspector General and the steps the Secretary has taken, or plans
to take, to address the findings in such report.</text>
</subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4A0CE3DBA22A4BBFAA4CDC9459E3BF16"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated for the Office of the Inspector General of the
Department of Homeland Security to carry out enhanced oversight of the Secure
Border Initiative—</text>
<paragraph id="H4885A0C0AF0D41D1AD09942D59660742"><enum>(1)</enum><text>for fiscal year
2008, of the amount authorized by section 101 and in addition to the amount
authorized by section 303, $5,500,000;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H70CF4BD71FC845D596CEE13391E6FAC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>for fiscal year
2009, at least 6 percent of the overall budget of the Office for that fiscal
year; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6EC5B66972AB42828E9E5D16B600C81F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for fiscal year 2010, at least 7 percent of
the overall budget of the Office for that fiscal year.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC57512B13C784EB881608C5ECF85BD00"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Action by
Inspector General</header><text>In the event the Inspector General becomes
aware of any improper conduct or wrongdoing in accordance with the contract
review required under subsection (a), the Inspector General shall, as
expeditiously as practicable, refer to the Secretary of Homeland Security or
other appropriate official in the Department of Homeland Security information
related to such improper conduct or wrongdoing for purposes of evaluating
whether to suspend or debar the contractor.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H81B695F8138F45D5847BF600FEC2EF58" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header>Authorization
Liaison Officer</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 702 of
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/342">6 U.S.C. 342</external-xref>) is
amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H14BDF964EB4542DB910513DB32D0003B" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H92699451282C441E9ED1B74C12B39B9B"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization
Liaison Officer</header>
<paragraph id="HE504D5390C47450DB0B722E87957353E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Chief Financial Officer shall establish the position
of Authorization Liaison Officer to provide timely budget and other financial
information to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of
the Senate, and other appropriate congressional committees. The Authorization
Liaison Officer shall report directly to the Chief Financial Officer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H005B59D60E4E4E048ED34DBB22EF383E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Submission of
reports to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
Authorization Liaison Officer shall coordinate with the Appropriations Liaison
Officer within the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to ensure, to the
greatest extent possible, that all reports prepared for the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are submitted
concurrently to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of
the Senate, and other appropriate congressional
committees.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H96EA3552A7BF46ED9C563B9CBC2D9986"><enum>303.</enum><header>Office of the
Inspector General</header>
<subsection id="HE2DAE5CA13A94F4E8447B155B310F390"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>Of the amount authorized by section 101, there is
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security
$108,500,000 for fiscal year 2008 for operations of the Office of the Inspector
General of the Department of Homeland Security.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H2552A7B7E1134AC5AEFC8185CD97EDC7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Assisting the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children</header>
<paragraph id="H61A2E84F8779476CA900A9EE9C7025BA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An Inspector General
of the Department of Homeland Security appointed under section 3 or 8G of the
Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) may authorize staff to use funds
authorized under subsection (a) to assist the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children, upon request by the Center—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2328C71B623943408FC61FC0FBEEC01D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by conducting
reviews of inactive case files that the Inspector General has reason to believe
involve a child or possible offender located outside the United States, and to
develop recommendations for further investigations; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H70CD8030F8D641C7B4971CD4004027E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by engaging in
similar activities.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HDDB90F97D7CC4D5AB458401E3214AFA5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitations</header>
<subparagraph id="HB5B0B05A6AF44B6D836FDCB57200F434"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An Inspector General may not permit staff
to engage in activities described in paragraph (1) if such activities will
interfere with the duties of the Inspector General under the Inspector General
Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H66B28B5F7E5548608778FEFCB14F1433"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Funding</header><text>No
additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this
paragraph.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9928CF20A1434C9DAE9FA2ADEA43413F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header>Congressional
notification requirement</header>
<subsection id="HE818F4B9BCDF45CAA6AF83039BC132A8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Title I of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
(6 U.S.C. 111 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HAF68750CDAA54AFAA88DA39674AAA4D" style="OLC">
<section id="H492C84CAEAB5425CB6FAF86EBF015BC"><enum>104.</enum><header>Congressional
notification</header>
<subsection id="H535E7ED3B82549A3B35DBEAE606454DD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall
actively consult with the congressional homeland security committees and other
appropriate congressional committees, and shall keep such committees fully and
currently informed with respect to all activities and responsibilities within
the jurisdictions of these committees.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB32923F6D0934B6BB4BEA07543F42EE9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Relationship to
other law</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this
section affects the requirements of section 872. The requirements of this
section supplement, and do not replace, the requirements of that
section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA48B9D76B48C4BDEA5D43029959B582E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Classified
notification</header><text>The Secretary may submit any information required by
this section in classified form if the information is classified pursuant to
applicable national security standards.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HABD717A6751C4E64854ECA83B06EF120"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Savings
clause</header><text>This section shall not be construed to limit or otherwise
affect the congressional notification requirements of title V of the National
Security Act of 1947 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/50/413">50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.</external-xref>), insofar as
they apply to the Department.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H14787279FF6F498CA1E0BD225369027F"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>As
used in this section, the term <term>congressional homeland security
committees</term> means the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H5850AC1291A5487E928674A15F2968E3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by adding at the end of the items relating to such title the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B690DBBC1D8428C868FC05F6B931C65" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 104. Congressional
notification.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H0BAE088A9D9E4DD7BA417514F9BBEF4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Coast Guard
mission review report</header><text>Section 888(f)(2) of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C.
468(f)(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H6B051E0A5922473C92F3E5F101D3D82C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating
subparagraphs (B) through (E) as subparagraphs (C) through (F) respectively;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDA840BEBF54B4D2592345C59015973E3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H642E6B26D46C4475B91D75CEE369143" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="HB4A75B3A529C47A9979BB08E4C429254"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3BFF5431E5504098984D5F3876AD3B48"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Committee on
Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives;</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header>Procurement
Policy and Resources Improvements</header>
<section id="HD51AFEAE41414759B33343D119596821"><enum>401.</enum><header>Homeland
security procurement training</header>
<subsection id="HB513C970EF7748CCAA223ED92834B65D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subtitle D of title VIII of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H702F68E9E60446E2BE64C2000BD2726" style="OLC">
<section id="H41732CE3053C41699127B4457E1845E"><enum>836.</enum><header>Homeland
security procurement training</header>
<subsection id="HADC5C928D50E47E4A2FB17251905C15E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Provision of
training</header><text>The Chief Procurement Officer shall provide homeland
security procurement training to acquisition employees.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HF9EEFC47F30F4E6FA257C1E6F463C247"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Responsibilities
of Chief Procurement Officer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Chief Procurement Officer shall carry
out the following responsibilities:</text>
<paragraph id="HA25B9E7B3357482F904D8EB96BC4E5B6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Establish
objectives to achieve the efficient and effective use of available acquisition
resources by coordinating the acquisition education and training programs of
the Department and tailoring them to support the careers of acquisition
employees.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H47BC5E41C68F4262BAE7CB5BA517F8CD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Develop, in
consultation with the Council on Procurement Training established under
subsection (d), the curriculum of the homeland security procurement training to
be provided.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H69056292F08C41E3BC76FD00AD003864"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Establish, in
consultation with the Council on Procurement Training, training standards,
requirements, and courses to be required for acquisition employees.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5399DD158CF1485E887975DAB66DAD91"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Establish an
appropriate centralized mechanism to control the allocation of resources for
conducting such required courses and other training and education.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3F4094B1F8D74DD7B356110026B30F6"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Select course
providers and certify courses to ensure that the procurement training
curriculum supports a coherent framework for the educational development of
acquisition employees, including the provision of basic, intermediate, and
advanced courses.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC250E0E229CD401000B0C089884EFA6D"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Publish an annual
catalog that includes a list of the acquisition education and training
courses.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H45BB33DA98FB476C83F6F117BBE1FA88"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Develop a system
of maintaining records of student enrollment, and other data related to
students and courses conducted pursuant to this section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H71CC38C7E0B54BCBBD967DA0B9FF6F16"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Eligibility for
training</header><text>An acquisition employee of any entity under subsection
(d)(3) may receive training provided under this section. The appropriate member
of the Council on Procurement Training may direct such an employee to receive
procurement training.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HF13DD6420DBE4FAC9CC93FA4BD604B41"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Council on
Procurement Training</header>
<paragraph id="H560314B303AF4E3E007C00A3A8FD8402"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>The
Secretary shall establish a Council on Procurement Training to advise and make
policy and curriculum recommendations to the Chief Procurement Officer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDD0041CE7AE747FB990175D4E882007F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Chair of
Council</header><text>The chair of the Council on Procurement Training shall be
the Deputy Chief Procurement Officer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEBF15E60862E4A168BC9DB8B26C83558"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Members</header><text>The
members of the Council on Procurement Training are the chief procurement
officers of each of the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="H60130B779DFA40FB93B37EE097B9EF8F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">United States Customs and Border
Protection.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H313AF26E006D4C868CDF20EBA6E7CF7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The Transportation
Security Administration.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0E1C25138AAE45C1BB68507021E6EE52"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The Office of
Procurement Operations.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H298111DE81F543EAAF5683A34D8FCDE"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The Bureau of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBA1BB556B9F4492BB761A5F9569B5733"><enum>(E)</enum><text>The Federal
Emergency Management Agency.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9D22C1126BB44437B96EC4B6C4EEC97F"><enum>(F)</enum><text>The Coast
Guard.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3B862961A548427B00A34C92828428BD"><enum>(G)</enum><text>The Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H225F92D3DFF04D62A0040330EA677968"><enum>(H)</enum><text>The United States
Secret Service.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6707ED406AF345FD99C06B6311DAB8D"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such other entity as the Secretary
determines appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7A92B4DA6FD64E5F969D22C410A5A61C"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Acquisition
employee defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes
of this section, the term <term>acquisition employee</term> means an employee
serving under a career or career-conditional appointment in the competitive
service or appointment of equivalent tenure in the excepted service of the
Federal Government, at least 50 percent of whose assigned duties include
acquisitions, procurement-related program management, or procurement-related
oversight functions.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC64EB6EF8DDF4A428200281B7CE6A4C5"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Report
required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than March
1 of each year, the Chief Procurement Officer shall submit to the Secretary a
report on the procurement training provided under this section, which shall
include information about student enrollment, students who enroll but do not
attend courses, graduates, certifications, and other relevant
information.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H3FAB76D3AB1A4EB68F812264EAB3F848"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of
contents in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by adding at the end of the
items relating to such subtitle the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H331CD7D1BC344639A29FC5000EFB34" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 836. Homeland security procurement
training.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC8098BF0E4AC4B6FAD3046D812B34D2F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>402.</enum><header>Authority to appoint
and maintain a cadre of Federal annuitants for procurement offices</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="HEDB16F98EBF843F3B4B89070D3C82212"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For
purposes of this section—</text>
<paragraph id="H71890CF30C7E4B35BDF7DD36B126F7E0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>procurement office</term> means the Office of Procurement Operations and
any other procurement office within any agency or other component of the
Department;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H907B1B79D84F495AB3005C4F61278943"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<term>annuitant</term> means an annuitant under a Government retirement
system;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H762791F0BCCB45EAA26B6048ABFD7D3B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term
<term>Government retirement system</term> has the meaning given such term by
section 501(a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HAC804DE6F5DD479BB7C1CCD4DB7E8094"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term
<term>employee</term> has the meaning given such term by
section
2105 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H343A54154F1949CDAC7F00DFFF046347"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Appointment
authority</header><text>The Secretary (acting through the Chief Procurement
Officer) may, for the purpose of supporting the Department’s acquisition
capabilities and enhancing contract management throughout the Department,
appoint annuitants to positions in procurement offices in accordance with
succeeding provisions of this section, except that no authority under this
subsection shall be available unless the Secretary provides to Congress a
certification that—</text>
<paragraph id="HBA438A957CDA4DEBBDCB0065A86DCA50"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Secretary has
submitted a request under section
8344(i) or
8468(f) of title 5, United States
Code, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, with respect to
positions in procurement offices;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEC3890D87F15439A93EFC25C3E12214B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the request
described in paragraph (1) was properly filed; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H92FC6C8974694749A89800001CB6C518"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the Office of
Personnel Management has not responded to the request described in paragraph
(1), by either approving, denying, or seeking more information regarding such
request, within 90 days after the date on which such request was filed.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H25CA13ECE4B84DFDA4A2948CF60006CF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Noncompetitive
procedures; exemption from offset</header><text>An appointment made under
subsection (b) shall not be subject to the provisions of title 5, United States
Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and any annuitant
serving pursuant to such an appointment shall be exempt from sections 8344 and
8468 of such title 5 (relating to annuities and pay on reemployment) and any
other similar provision of law under a Government retirement system.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H71CD70814FC24E5FB898A3C0F4EA8DAA"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Limitations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No appointment under subsection (b) may be
made if such appointment would result in the displacement of any employee or
would cause the total number of positions filled by annuitants appointed under
such subsection to exceed 250 as of any time (determined on a full-time
equivalent basis).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HB868A9B6410541E4AB9D0008D4276B54"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Rule of
construction</header><text>An annuitant as to whom an exemption under
subsection (c) is in effect shall not be considered an employee for purposes of
any Government retirement system.</text>
</subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H612860036C1D410181EB23600E35270"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Termination of
authority</header><text>Effective 2 years after the date of the enactment of
this Act—</text>
<paragraph id="H9A09E4F5FB3C4DD7977597908FAC8D54"><enum>(1)</enum><text>all authority to
make appointments under subsection (b) shall cease to be available; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDC1EA74D7F3C49BDA3EA841E9B544603"><enum>(2)</enum><text>all exemptions
under subsection (c) shall cease to be effective.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H098292DD163D4C268CA9A8858EDF9E30" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>403.</enum><header>Additional
requirement to review past performance of contractors</header>
<subsection id="H22A89D5D5695475AB5C480E0E1D6AEAD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Such subtitle is further amended by adding at the end the
following new section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07A5277AE9D746698D0097AED6B90032" style="OLC">
<section id="HEE6496ED29D8469D80A5AE4502FBD5D5"><enum>837.</enum><header>Review of
contractor past performance</header>
<subsection id="H0E00D35BE9AD4C949D7387745E00F41E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Consideration of
contractor past performance</header><text>In awarding a contract to a
contractor, the Secretary shall consider the past performance of that
contractor based on the review conducted under subsection (b).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H45077BCCAAE54521B852AD58B9D40802"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Review
required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before awarding to a
contractor (including a contractor that has previously provided goods or
services to the Department) a contract to provide goods or services to the
Department, the Secretary, acting through the appropriate contracting officer
of the Department, shall require the contractor to submit past performance
information regarding the contractor’s performance of Federal, State, and local
government and private sector contracts.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE320EB1D8F46460E80A5DBAE95369365"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Contact of
relevant officials</header><text>As part of any review of a contractor
conducted under subsection (b), the Secretary, acting through an appropriate
contracting officer of the Department, shall contact the relevant official who
administered or oversaw each contract performed by that contractor during the
five-year period preceding the date on which the review
begins.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HDEE81FCBC8C34FD8BEAE089018155D19"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of
contents in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by adding at the end of the
items relating to such subtitle the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA20F09B3996A404BAAD6A612BBE2031E" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 837. Review of contractor past
performance.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H987E15CDA71E46DBB5D660DB65EC78D7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>404.</enum><header>Requirement to
disclose foreign ownership or control of contractors and
subcontractors</header>
<subsection id="H50B19E2FCC6A479A9E01B9C5681CE03D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Compliance with
Buy American Act</header><text>With respect to any procurement of goods or
services by the Department of Homeland Security, the Chief Procurement Officer
of the Department shall conduct an independent review of the procurement to
ensure that it complies with all relevant provisions of the Buy American Act
(41 U.S.C. 10a et
seq.).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD3F6A445646B41C989008F00DEB1C524"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Foreign
ownership or control of contractors and subcontractors</header>
<paragraph id="HAD90EBB3FE7C4F009FFE9E05BDEE5EE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Disclosure of
information</header><text>With respect to any procurement of goods or services
by the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Homeland Security
shall require an offeror or prospective offeror to disclose whether the offeror
or any prospective subcontractor (at any tier) is owned or controlled by a
foreign person. The Secretary shall require all offerors, prospective offerors,
and contractors to update the disclosure at any time before award of the
contract or during performance of the contract, if the information provided
becomes incorrect because of a change of ownership, a change in subcontractors,
or for any other reason.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2667FABED831411399F258E2A7027900"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Foreign
ownership or control</header><text>In this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph id="H726AF304152A4A38AAA2BE1D7F9DF837"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The term
<term>owned or controlled by a foreign person</term>, with respect to an
offeror, contractor, or subcontractor, means that a foreign person owns or
controls, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more of the voting stock or
other ownership interest in the offeror, contractor, or subcontractor.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8C38730B44224F1A8701F83BCBD8B8C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The term
<term>foreign person</term> means any of the following:</text>
<clause id="HB92520136A924663903161FDC170CA8B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>A
foreign government.</text>
</clause><clause id="HE9BDB0565F9F428AA59036204027151E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>A
corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country.</text>
</clause><clause id="HCE0885182983451180FD6E05FE150416"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>An
individual who is not a citizen of the United States.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H46855346D4EE42C0A425EB29B4C5202F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Not
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of Homeland Security shall promulgate regulations to carry out this
subsection.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H3DEF904891FC430A9FAC08D82F00F29"><enum>405.</enum><header>Integrity in
contracting</header>
<subsection id="H67B903E8828941C1A3C82809FACDC6CB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subtitle D of title VIII of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 391 et
seq.) is further amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HD269193E232C4D3AA7F8B8B6256E009B" style="OLC">
<section id="H8428DC18C13541AE8B8C87732B5B56AE"><enum>838.</enum><header>Integrity in
contracting</header>
<subsection id="HFB5573A6FD65427C00924ED36D3D7005"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Attestation
Required</header><text>The Secretary shall require any offeror for any contract
to provide goods or services to the Department to submit as part of the
offeror’s bid for such contract an attestation that affirmatively discloses any
substantial role the offeror, the employees of the offeror, or any corporate
parent or subsidiary of the offeror may have played in creating a solicitation,
request for proposal, statement of work, or statement of objectives (as those
terms are defined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation) for the
Department.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HCBAB30836CB346CBAE63ED838FDCA865"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional
Requirements for Certain Offerors</header><text>If an offeror submits an
attestation under subsection (a) that discloses that the offeror, an employee
of the offeror, or any corporate parent or subsidiary of the offeror played a
substantial role in creating a solicitation, request for proposal, statement of
work, or statement of objectives for the Department, the Secretary shall
require the offeror to submit to the Secretary a description of the safeguards
used to ensure that precautions were in place to prevent the offeror from
receiving information through such role that could be used to provide the
offeror an undue advantage in submitting an offer for a contract.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC6BF8B3541CE4A1986A12DBD05FA20E6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Certification
Requirements</header>
<paragraph id="H509CE29DA8BF4B1E9E739E6D65D185F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall require any offeror for any contract
to provide goods or services to the Department to submit to the Secretary as
part of the offeror’s bid for such contract a certification in writing whether,
as of the date on which the certification is submitted, the offeror—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3FDFF3B6B4BF4F668442C0D39A776E5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is in default on
any payment of any tax to the Federal Government; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8199DA07DE2F434D8286B1DEC977087E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>owes the Federal
Government for any payment of any delinquent tax.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEAC48E7D01014612A0F79C1F93F3D77E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Failure of
certification</header><text>Nothing in this section shall prevent the
Department from awarding a contract to an offeror based solely on the offeror’s
certification.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H65CC78F3CD59463EB6D65DCCF680A2FF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
Amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
further amended by adding at the end of the items relating to such subtitle the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2717A3571A5E4F348040FA8235F0BD17" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 838. Integrity in
contracting.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDB0B6ACB40C644E7B03E9027E30079D6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>406.</enum><header>Small business
utilization report</header>
<subsection id="H10E4294BCCEA4857887E9C6E1D63F5D1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not
later than 360 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief
Procurement Officer of the Department of Homeland Security shall submit to the
Secretary of Homeland Security, the Committee on Homeland Security of the House
of Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs of the Senate a report that—</text>
<paragraph id="H203E41BC6D1545439DA1DCF7CB310980"><enum>(1)</enum><text>identifies each
component of the Department for which the aggregate value of contracts awarded
in fiscal year 2006 by the component to qualified HUBZone small business
concerns and small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled
veterans was less than 3 percent of the total value of all contracts awarded
under the component for that fiscal year; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H204DFCEFC359427FB245C3652295DC85"><enum>(2)</enum><text>identifies each
component of the Department for which the aggregate value of contracts awarded
in fiscal year 2006 by the component to socially or economically disadvantaged
small business concerns, including 8(a) small business concerns, and small
business concerns owned and controlled by women was less than 5 percent of the
total value of all contracts awarded by the component for that fiscal
year.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H50036541D1BA493CBE62A53F720398ED"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Action
plan</header>
<paragraph id="HD21EC36DE8D54E9A868B72F1A4F1D02"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Action plan
required</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of the submission
of the report required under subsection (a), the Chief Procurement Officer, in
consultation with Office of Small and Disadvantaged Businesses Utilization of
the Department, shall for each component identified under subsection (a)(1) and
(a)(2), develop, submit to the Committees referred to in subsection (a), and
begin implementing an action plan for achieving the objective described in
subsection (b)(2). An action plan is not required if the component meets or
exceeds the objective described in subsection (b)(2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC12DD6453341452BA8176E96B18510F7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Identification
of barriers</header><text>Each action plan shall identify and describe any
barriers to achieving the objectives of awarding by the component, for a fiscal
year, contracts having an aggregate value of at least 3 percent of the total
value of all contracts awarded by the component for the fiscal year to small
business concerns identified under subsection (a)(1) and 5 percent of the total
value of all contracts awarded by the component for the fiscal year to small
business concerns identified under subsection (a)(2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDFD67B3072BE499F96CCE596218F1200"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Performance
measures and timetable</header><text>Each action plan submitted under paragraph
(1) shall include performance measures and a timetable for compliance and
achievement of the objectives described in paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H445F18E988AA4F49AEA3DE45B21989D3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For
purposes of this section, the terms <term>small business concern</term>,
<term>socially or economically disadvantaged small business concern</term>,
<term>women owned small business concern</term>, <term>small business concern
owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans</term>, <term>8(a) small
business concerns</term>, and <term>qualified HUBZone small business
concern</term> have the meanings given such terms under the Small Business Act
(15 U.S.C. 631 et
seq.).</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H912982F73BB24C29A82800ACAF95D534" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>407.</enum><header>Requirement that
uniforms, protective gear, badges, and identification cards of Homeland
Security personnel be manufactured in the United States</header>
<subsection id="HC190FAC4E0DC4768B5BCF6A1966D4453"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subtitle D of title
VIII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/391">6 U.S.C. 391 et seq.</external-xref>) is further
amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H085A53AEC0BA4D6AA6C7CC6CC58C3409" style="OLC">
<section id="HA89F313E8A1A4AF5AF15D7F905E364E1"><enum>839.</enum><header>Requirement
that certain articles procured for Department personnel be manufactured in the
United States</header>
<subsection id="HEEEA4457ED494E30A035B600F0FE2656"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in section (c), funds
appropriated or otherwise available to the Department may not be used for the
procurement of an article described in section (b) if the item is not
manufactured in the United States.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H354204D899064035946C762C7DB14E31"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Covered
articles</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An article referred
to in subsection (a) is any of the following articles procured for personnel of
the Department:</text>
<paragraph id="HE5F7BC27636B46EC930362A06E100208"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Uniforms.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB9523053801F4A25AE33183735C215A5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Protective
gear.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H048E20A399044CC2816C80E122394EC6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Badges or other
insignia indicating the rank, office, or position of personnel.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9143053A8332477D9DC853E75742B3F4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Availability
Exception</header><text>Subsection (a) does not apply to the extent that the
Secretary determines that satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of the
article cannot be procured as and when needed at United States market prices.
If such a determination is made with respect to an article, the Secretary
shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H989FC38733134A52006053C290F31329"><enum>(1)</enum><text>notify the
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate within 7
days after making the determination; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC755FCC25C9C4F5F8602A00637D09038"><enum>(2)</enum><text>include in that
notification a certification that manufacturing the article outside the United
States does not pose a risk to the national security of the United States, as
well as a detailed explanation of the steps any facility outside the United
States that is manufacturing the article will be required to take to ensure
that the materials, patterns, logos, designs, or any other element used in or
for the article are not misappropriated.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8DA7EA8DC575442ABDE49006B66FB537"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Other
exceptions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)
does not apply—</text>
<paragraph id="HE0333C5BFFF14D83B5837FE060B0819D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to acquisitions at or below the simplified
acquisition threshold (as defined in section 4 of the Office of Federal
Procurement Policy Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/41/403">41 U.S.C. 403</external-xref>)); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H98BC9674798242D09200E0412B553B15"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to acquisitions
outside the United States for use outside of the United States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB0FE1F16EA29413B90A00B7A71653F6"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Use of domestic
textiles</header><text>For fiscal year 2008 and each subsequent fiscal year,
the Secretary shall take all available steps to ensure that, to the maximum
extent practicable, the items described in subsection (b) procured by the
Department are manufactured using domestic
textiles.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HC93A50D7ADC04E6BB7E91146DB715F7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to
such subtitle the following new item:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C078785635049258286721285CCC4BE" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 839. Requirement that certain
articles procured for Department personnel be manufactured in the United
States.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H05B63AFD67F441558FB429D2F6D35873"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>The
amendments made by this section take effect 120 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act and apply to any contract entered into on or after that
date for the procurement of items to which such amendments apply.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HBD3391C131724FB9815E54DAED14BA87"><enum>408.</enum><header>Department of
Homeland Security Mentor-Protégé Program</header>
<subsection id="H8B5C96FDFD584FBFBE27F3E4B0059CE6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>The
Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish within the Department of
Homeland Security’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization a
Mentor-Protégé Program, which shall motivate and encourage prime contractors
that are large businesses to provide developmental assistance to small business
concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans, small
business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, HUBZone
small business concerns, small business concerns owned by socially and
economically disadvantaged individuals, and small business concerns owned and
controlled by women.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H87C54E0C84EB4657AF56550081D6D413"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Participation by
contractors and offerors</header><text>The Secretary shall take affirmative
steps to publicize and to ensure that Department contractors and offerors are
fully aware of and are participating in the Mentor-Protégé Program, including
that their efforts to seek and develop a formal Mentor-Protégé relationship
will be a factor in the evaluation of bids or offers for Department
contracts.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE98A5A6998BC436A92AA82F65C299EF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Factor in
evaluation of offers</header><text>When evaluating the offer of a contractor,
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall consider, among the other factors the
Secretary deems relevant, that offeror’s efforts to seek and develop a formal
Mentor-Protégé relationship under the Mentor-Protégé Program.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB23F7A64711C4B2A98A426219FBC514B"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Review by
inspector general</header><text>The Inspector General of the Department of
Homeland Security shall conduct a review of the Mentor-Protégé Program. Such
review shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="HD9F1DA159DB7454C935B99C463007DBD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>an assessment of
the program’s effectiveness;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H23F7729F43C04FD200037D86D53464D5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>identification of
any barriers that restrict contractors from participating in the
program;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H69A21ECB96D44BDBABAE2BD671277FF8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>a
comparison of the program with the Department of Defense Mentor-Protégé
Program; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF11CEF582D9F435B8E05D8E6F6D3D19B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>development of
recommendations to strengthen the program to include the maximum number of
contractors as possible.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H9678CF6BF42B4108A7007E313BE5D3FD"><enum>409.</enum><header>Report on
source of shortfalls at Federal Protective Service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Consistent
with any applicable law, the Secretary of Homeland Security may not conduct a
reduction in force or furlough of the workforce of the Federal Protective
Service until—</text>
<paragraph id="H5305A12AC294497EB4E990FE37D6F74E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Comptroller
General of the United States submits to the Committees on Homeland Security and
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate the
report on the source of shortfalls at the Federal Protective Service that was
requested by the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the
Senate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0172F824A5C9493EA3363437FC349FA2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committees on
Homeland Security and Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives have conducted hearings on such report.</text>
</paragraph></section><enum>V</enum><header>Workforce and
training improvements</header>
<section id="HE806EB46C87C4DB59CE40005780085F9"><enum>501.</enum><header>Customs and
Border Protection Officer pay equity</header>
<subsection id="H0BD5C347EDC84975AE6C6B2141F85FC7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For
purposes of this section:</text>
<paragraph id="HD6A0259C5781446C92BADB09F6F28FEE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The term
<term>Government retirement system</term> means a retirement system established
by law for employees of the Government of the United States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA996F8032E37419CB0FA92EEE1AAEB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The
term <term>Customs and Border Protection Officer position</term> refers to any
Customs and Border Protection Officer position—</text>
<subparagraph id="H42CEC379EB2C4A14A4A28F93C422BC00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>which is within
the Department of Homeland Security, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7303A3F7F8E340FB9400CCD595141AA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the primary duties
of which consist of enforcing the border, customs, or agriculture laws of the
United States;</text>
</subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">such term
includes a supervisory or administrative position within the Department of
Homeland Security to which an individual transfers directly from a position
described in the preceding provisions of this paragraph in which such
individual served for at least three years.</continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="HCF801218EDAA43658420A0F948DD5C35"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The term <term>law
enforcement officer</term> has the meaning given such term under the Government
retirement system involved.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H54EBEBAF089D450EA042AA1E7DE41605"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The term
<term>Executive agency</term> or <term>agency</term> has the meaning given
under section
105 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA4B51EAF63DC4ABD8CC6D2AE00ABAB00"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>prior qualified
service</term> means service as a Customs and Border Protection Officer within
the Department of Homeland Security, since its establishment in March
2003.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1080144A66DD40C68B596E52A8FDC979"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treatment as a
law enforcement officer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In
the administration of any Government retirement system, service in a Customs
and Border Protection Officer position shall be treated in the same way as
service performed in a law enforcement officer position, subject to succeeding
provisions of this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0A142591223B4C3AB22D16922780C66D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>Subsection
(b) shall apply in the case of—</text>
<paragraph id="HE2AED584984E4F59BECBA240C7B3017F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any individual first appointed to a Customs
and Border Protection Officer position on or after the date of the enactment of
this Act; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCF0794B807C242730093C11496A876F9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any individual
who—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD11277CD224D4679A4F5B035DE16A5DB"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">holds a Customs and Border Protection
Officer position on the date of the enactment of this Act pursuant to an
appointment made before such date; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HABAB9B86DA3149C5916368DE84E213D8"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who submits to the agency administering the
retirement system involved an appropriate election under this section, not
later than five years after the date of the enactment of this Act or before
separation from Government service, whichever is earlier.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H68DB40661C7B43ACB5CDC67F86D7BE1E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Individual
contributions for prior qualified service</header>
<paragraph id="H47CFA274A2334D1FBBCBC410662498E3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>An individual described in subsection (c)(2)(B) may, with
respect to prior qualified service performed by such individual, contribute to
the Government retirement system by which such individual is covered (for
deposit in the appropriate fund within the Treasury) the difference between the
individual contributions that were actually made for such service and the
individual contributions that should have been made for such service if
subsection (b) had then been in effect (with interest).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HED5D7E1DEF5A4011961636F21BD12CF0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effect of not
contributing</header><text>If less than the full contribution under paragraph
(1) is made, all prior qualified service of the individual shall remain fully
creditable as law enforcement officer service, but the resulting annuity
(before cost-of-living adjustments) shall be reduced in a manner such that,
when combined with the unpaid amount, would result in the present value of the
total being actuarially equivalent to the present value of the annuity that
would otherwise have been payable if the full contribution had been
made.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7A327E7C24734619ADB53E31C75922E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Government
contributions for prior qualified service</header>
<paragraph id="H024928365BC14CB994E52459318EB507"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>If an individual makes an election under subsection
(c)(2)(B), the Department of Homeland Security shall remit, with respect to any
prior qualified service, the total amount of additional Government
contributions that would have been required for such service under the
retirement system involved if subsection (b) had then been in effect (with
interest).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA7A3D8076054414A94DD5ECAA7AAECCA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contributions to
be made ratably</header><text>Government contributions under this subsection on
behalf of an individual shall be made ratably (on at least an annual basis)
over the ten-year period beginning on the date an individual’s retirement
deductions begin to be made.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8811A849F7C34BD28FE78CD200094F00"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Exemption from
mandatory separation</header><text>Effective during the three-year period
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, nothing in this section
shall result in any individual being involuntarily separated on account of the
provisions of any retirement system relating to the mandatory separation of a
law enforcement officer on account of age or age and service combined.</text>
</subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7722410C6DBB4D2B908315439E5F3035"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Comptroller
General report</header><text>The Comptroller General shall conduct a
comprehensive review of the retirement system for law enforcement officers
employed by the Federal Government. The review shall include all employees
categorized as law enforcement officers for purposes of retirement and any
other Federal employee performing law enforcement officer duties not so
categorized. In carrying out the review, the Comptroller General shall review
legislative proposals introduced over the 10 years preceding the date of the
enactment of this Act that are relevant to the issue law enforcement retirement
and consult with law enforcement agencies and law enforcement employee
representatives. Not later than August 1, 2007, the Comptroller General shall
submit to Congress a report on the findings of such review. The report shall
include each of the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H5846759FA8394AADA755855F39004349"><enum>(1)</enum><text>An assessment of
the reasons and goals for the establishment of the separate retirement system
for law enforcement officers, as defined in
section
8331 of title 5, United States Code, including the need for
young and vigorous law enforcement officers, and whether such reasons and goals
are currently appropriate.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H588C1C3D8F4F4515B4EC314B3B84340"><enum>(2)</enum><text>An
assessment of the more recent reasons given for including additional groups of
employees in such system, including recruitment and retention, and whether such
reasons and goals are currently appropriate.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDC77FDC079834A8282D7D7C2CEEB3FC1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A
determination as to whether the system is achieving the goals in (1) and
(2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H65F0E3EC9A6545BF9329E6D00E47CC4"><enum>(4)</enum><text>A
summary of potential alternatives to the system, including increased use of
bonuses, increased pay, and raising the mandatory retirement age, and a
recommendation as to which alternatives would best meet each goal defined in
(1) and (2), including legislative recommendations if necessary.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H95B289A8AD7B485894F0477F004FF0F0"><enum>(5)</enum><text>A
recommendation for the definition of law enforcement officer.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD46FA584767D4494A700BF23EE995DF8"><enum>(6)</enum><text>An detailed review
of the current system including its mandatory retirement age and benefit
accrual.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H66CCA781B3EB48C9873F41986504188F"><enum>(7)</enum><text>A
recommendation as to whether the law enforcement officer category should be
made at the employee, function and duty, job classification, agency or other
level, and by whom.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H81373A2C7E8B44A6AEB4F75E73EDA7DF"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Any other relevant
information.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H992EC3A8318D40DCAF9800186F4FF9A7"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Rule of
construction</header><text>Nothing in this section shall be considered to apply
in the case of a reemployed annuitant.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB3157402342245CD8F2009857DC90528"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Any
regulations necessary to carry out this section shall be prescribed in
consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H00A22D785F9147E9804D70D8AF49E7E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>502.</enum><header>Plan to improve
representation of minorities in various categories of employment</header>
<subsection id="H395A57B671C74BDE9BE630087227FA3B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Plan for
improving representation of minorities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department of
Homeland Security shall prepare and transmit to the Committee on Homeland
Security and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of
Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of
the Senate, and the Comptroller General of the United States a plan to achieve
the objective of addressing any under representation of minorities in the
various categories of civil service employment within such Department. Such
plan shall identify and describe any barriers to achieving the objective
described in the preceding sentence and the strategies and measures included in
the plan to overcome them.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HFAB5ABDCAED24E0984F2F4EE298A7AA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Assessments</header><text>Not
later than 1 year after receiving the plan, the Comptroller General of the
United States shall assess—</text>
<paragraph id="HD9D4C5F4D6314E979395E4FD23404499"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any programs and
other measures currently being implemented to achieve the objective described
in the first sentence of subsection (a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4F2B7E1A8B9349D5B0C9866F9F51536B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the likelihood
that the plan will allow the Department to achieve such objective.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4D6FCE2B210B497F83EAC1666753D451"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For
purposes of this section—</text>
<paragraph id="H824A9EDC491049AEB86278AA5B1784EE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>under representation</term> means when the members of a minority group
within a category of Federal civil service employment constitute a lower
percentage of the total number of employees within the employment category than
the percentage that the minority constitutes within the labor force of the
Federal Government, according to statistics issued by the Office of Personnel
Management;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H479AF51A4AAE4E4C8B27784F009BA671"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<term>minority groups</term> or <term>minorities</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H14E4BE0F21144CA480B28C581DDC8CD8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>racial and ethnic
minorities;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H56195D8A59D84DAC8B0713FCE1A2A5D1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>women; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4BCE0FFB29534B279919F1F308168B71"><enum>(C)</enum><text>individuals with
disabilities; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H70FCF051D8DF4E57A3B9C98C1180268"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term
<term>category of civil service employment</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDCB134210D06424AADA481009CED60B7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>each pay grade,
pay band, or other classification of every pay schedule and all other levels of
pay applicable to the Department of Homeland Security; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5F635B2D11FD43B99E42CAF3B948477"><enum>(B)</enum><text>such occupational,
professional, or other groupings (including occupational series) as the Chief
Human Capital Officer of the Department of Homeland Security may specify, in
the plan described in subsection (a), in order to carry out the purposes of
this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H431057819A2B444E8486EF851D73157E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>503.</enum><header>Continuation of
authority for Federal law enforcement training center to appoint and maintain a
cadre of Federal annuitants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1202(a) of the 2002 Supplemental
Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response To Terrorist Attacks
on the United States (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3771">42 U.S.C. 3771</external-xref> note) is amended in
the first sentence by striking <quote>December 31, 2007</quote> and inserting
<quote>December 31, 2008</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC33DB00C77624D2C8552ED24F217FA19" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>504.</enum><header>Authority to appoint
and maintain a cadre of Federal annuitants for Customs and Border
Protection</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H984B3978CE464E898954CCF24C9F7366"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For
purposes of this section—</text>
<paragraph id="H16DF74ABFBE34F270086FE369BE5AA88"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>CBP</term> means the United States Customs and Border Protection;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA133E8D585D7479FA16E149DC4F70EE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<term>annuitant</term> means an annuitant under a Government retirement
system;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H140FA5941FF8494C9BBB95E468EEB341"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term
<term>Government retirement system</term> has the meaning given such term by
section 501(a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H6ADAFAA7CC594437A7B857529D00E823"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term
<term>employee</term> has the meaning given such term by
section
2105 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEBD836C25FBD457FBF45E9AA19C376FD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Appointment
authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary
(acting through the Commissioner of the United States Customs and Border
Protection) may, for the purpose of accelerating the ability of the CBP to
secure the borders of the United States, appoint annuitants to positions in the
CBP in accordance with succeeding provisions of this section, except that no
authority under this subsection shall be available unless the Secretary
provides to Congress a certification that—</text>
<paragraph id="HEE1E2159635A49E0B4EA5ADB3D0379C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Secretary has
submitted a request under section
8344(i) or
8468(f) of title 5, United States
Code, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, with respect to
positions in the CBP;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8AB301363301437AA1895BCEF8F14F8C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the request
described in paragraph (1) was properly filed; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB012AD65EE214A5C9E8232CD6CA10071"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the Office of
Personnel Management has not responded to the request described in paragraph
(1), by either approving, denying, or seeking more information regarding such
request, within 90 days after the date on which such request was filed.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB960014F18554656B3C5D81DF3C69700"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Noncompetitive
procedures; exemption from offset</header><text>An appointment made under
subsection (b) shall not be subject to the provisions of title 5, United States
Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and any annuitant
serving pursuant to such an appointment shall be exempt from sections 8344 and
8468 of such title 5 (relating to annuities and pay on reemployment) and any
other similar provision of law under a Government retirement system.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC5C86D4E861B4506A1E8CF5D22482837"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Limitations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No appointment under subsection (b) may be
made if such appointment would result in the displacement of any employee or
would cause the total number of positions filled by annuitants appointed under
such subsection to exceed 500 as of any time (determined on a full-time
equivalent basis).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H73DC28D4D02E443594AA00159C53CA45"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Rule of
construction</header><text>An annuitant as to whom an exemption under
subsection (c) is in effect shall not be considered an employee for purposes of
any Government retirement system.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD018623089F94CA88F4D6FF471005707"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Termination of
authority</header><text>Effective 2 years after the date of the enactment of
this Act—</text>
<paragraph id="HAF1960571F8F4DF700EFC1801DC6BF00"><enum>(1)</enum><text>all authority to
make appointments under subsection (b) shall cease to be available; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE7B7A0CF11BE43230016E0BCA3D0A0B1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>all exemptions
under subsection (c) shall cease to be effective.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H73CA995DB6C14381A360CE943FE9DC96" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>505.</enum><header>Strengthening Border
Patrol recruitment and retention</header>
<subsection id="H3263C002844343F4AF7E043C35C400EB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order to address
the recruitment and retention challenges faced by United States Customs and
Border Protection, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish a plan,
consistent with existing Federal statutes and Office of Personnel Management
Regulations and Guidelines applicable to pay, recruitment, relocation, and
retention of Federal law enforcement officers. Such plan shall include the
following components:</text>
<paragraph id="H86D27F4666274754B12E6FB27C94A784"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The establishment of a recruitment
incentive for Border Patrol agents, including the establishment of a foreign
language incentive award.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0885038BBA11490389C9DFF63D34B015"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The establishment
of a retention plan, including the payment of bonuses to Border Patrol agents
for every year of service after the first two years of service.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9B4E78F05EDE437DB1E69392C67B005B"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An increase in the pay percentage
differentials to Border Patrol agents in certain high-cost areas, as determined
by the Secretary, consistent with entry-level pay to other Federal, State, and
local law enforcement agencies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H17CEDCF07C7C4778A571FD39E600BEE"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The establishment
of a mechanism whereby Border Patrol agents can transfer from one location to
another after the first two years of service in their initial duty
location.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H66D82A6AD5FE40B98C857000001419E0"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The establishment of quarterly goals for
the recruitment of new Border Patrol agents, including goals for the number of
recruits entering Border Patrol training, and the number of recruits who
successfully complete such training and become Border Patrol agents.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F12C553490C418B9206D7CE7C1C4C7B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header>
<paragraph id="H6EEDB1C0FEA74F7480F0AD90A1FD73B5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than the
first calendar quarter after the date of the enactment of this Act and every
calendar quarter thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to
the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report
identifying whether the quarterly goals for the recruitment of new Border
Patrol agents established under subsection (a)(5) were met, and an update on
the status of recruitment efforts and attrition rates among Border Patrol
agents.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC5C8A99D73844C7BBDE6A6D4161BB5C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents of
report</header><text>The report required under paragraph (1) shall contain, at
a minimum, the following with respect to each calendar quarter:</text>
<subparagraph id="HBF296615815445F2001B17FBD79BFFE"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The number of recruits who enter Border
Patrol training.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5BFB59DD6B5847C6B95C2B42213C1DC2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The number of recruits who successfully
complete such training and become Border Patrol agents.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H55393547851E4435A8D0759CF5CC1590"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The number of Border Patrol agents who are
lost to attrition.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B88436E4C9B4BB595DBDFD0C750B443" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>506.</enum><header>Limitation on
reimbursements relating to certain detailees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In the case of an individual assigned to the
Department of Homeland Security as a detailee under an arrangement described in
subchapter VI of
chapter
33 of title 5, United States Code, the maximum reimbursement by
the Department of Homeland Security which may be made under section 3374(c) of
such title with respect to such individual for the period of the assignment
(including for any employee benefits) may not exceed the total amount of basic
pay that would have been payable for such period if such individual had been
paid, at the highest rate allowable under section 5382 of such title, as a
member of the Senior Executive Service.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H44F7100E66344A079438BB3CDDE90000" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>507.</enum><header>Increased security
screening of Homeland Security Officials</header>
<subsection id="H6D5AF15A9D4043E5AA11175431E14054"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Review
required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90
days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall conduct a Department-wide review of the Department of Homeland
Security security clearance and suitability review procedures for Department
employees and contractors, as well as individuals in State and local government
agencies and private sector entities with a need to receive classified
information.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H4E0E1E3BF72948F08C56258C20C4F479"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Strengthening of
security screening policies</header>
<paragraph id="H3DD66C519F794D19B346475FE8BC070"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Based on the findings of the review conducted under
subsection (a), the Secretary shall, as appropriate, take all necessary steps
to strengthen the Department’s security screening policies, including
consolidating the security clearance investigative authority at the
headquarters of the Department.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1A9FD3D1A8CE4C73AECF48934E002B69"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Elements</header><text>In
strengthening security screening policies under paragraph (1), the Secretary
shall consider whether and where appropriate ensure that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB16C3B83A6744D98A9EF27085784BB61"><enum>(A)</enum><text>all components of
the Department of Homeland Security meet or exceed Federal and Departmental
standards for security clearance investigations, adjudications, and suitability
reviews;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3E9003B5B31F4CC5924619D354FDE1AE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Department has
a cadre of well-trained adjudicators and the Department has in place a program
to train and oversee adjudicators; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA58A2B9BFA114AD795DB8079BC002DA5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>suitability
reviews are conducted for all Department of Homeland Security employees who
transfer from a component of the Department to the headquarters of the
Departmental.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H4EC9E5360B4C4ABCA220BA29111DAF34"><enum>508.</enum><header>Authorities of
Chief Security Officer</header>
<subsection id="H5873E4E2101C489A86BFC7AE6730F9F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>Title
VII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/341">6 U.S.C. 341 et seq.</external-xref>) is further
amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE08120D198834BECB141B2DF38C888D8" style="OLC">
<section id="HC01AD9186350437C914710A2237597B6"><enum>708.</enum><header>Chief Security
Officer</header>
<subsection id="H05851C9E48E64FF2BA34B3E9CAE85416"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There
is in the Department a Chief Security Officer.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H9A0DE5A36B7C44C200EBB5B6CA332CDA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header><text>The
Chief Security Officer shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H8E573084966B4145BA416EB1BDEE3C6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>have responsibility
for overall Department-wide security activities, including issuing and
confiscating credentials, controlling access to and disposing of classified and
sensitive but unclassified materials, controlling access to sensitive areas and
Secured Compartmentalized Intelligence Facilities, and communicating with other
government agencies on the status of security clearances and security clearance
applications;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA7AB18D8D73D456D8DCF08FD36F57400"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ensure that each
component of the Department complies with Federal standards for security
clearances and background investigations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H10806EB3DD804983A32F6BAC803454DC"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure, to the greatest extent practicable,
that individuals in State and local government agencies and private sector
entities with a need to receive classified information, receive the appropriate
clearances in a timely fashion; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9E8406C30EA544CD9087DE46203F57BB"><enum>(4)</enum><text>perform all other
functions as determined by the
Secretary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HB69AA9FFE4124650AFD343BF9FA14102"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by inserting after the items relating to such title the following new
item:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H158A362955384DB68322C4E108317F08" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 708. Chief Security
Officer.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="HD8C4443CD3CA47C990EA8476A105F2B9"><enum>509.</enum><header>Departmental
culture improvement</header>
<subsection id="HD93FB890F7664992A4C9FFE614FA452B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Consideration
required</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the
Chief Human Capital Officer, shall consider implementing recommendations set
forth in the Homeland Security Advisory Council Culture Task Force Report of
January 2007.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H9EDD60D461D741C5AAE971546CC617B4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Identification
of terms</header><text>As part of this consideration, the Secretary, acting
through the Chief Human Capital Officer, shall identify an appropriate term, as
among <quote>workforce</quote>, <quote>personnel</quote>, and
<quote>employee</quote>, to replace <quote>human capital</quote> and integrate
its use throughout the operations, policies, and programs of the Department of
Homeland Security.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HF34A3B037EAD48B2910099C6B2E854D4"><enum>510.</enum><header>Homeland
security education program enhancements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 845(b) of the Homeland Security Act
of 2002 (6 U.S.C.
415(b)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H48C5C19FE0CF446D8B00BD7E28BCFDD0" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H5B25514E0E334F6A8BEC6C844FDB2792"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Leveraging of
existing resources</header><text>To maximize efficiency and effectiveness in
carrying out the Program, the Administrator shall use curricula modeled on
existing Department-reviewed Master’s Degree curricula in homeland security,
including curricula pending accreditation, together with associated learning
materials, quality assessment tools, digital libraries, asynchronous distance
learning, video conferencing, exercise systems, and other educational
facilities, including the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium, the
National Fire Academy, and the Emergency Management Institute. The
Administrator may develop additional educational programs, as
appropriate.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="HA2A467232C09402B007FB94BE1D7A3CC"><enum>511.</enum><header>Repeal of
chapter
97 of title 5, United States Code</header>
<subsection id="H80935CA42A02445791ECCC73A32721C4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Repeal</header>
<paragraph id="HE99C2EB5E33F4BCE91E2B0B671C699D2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Effective as of the date specified in section 4 of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/101">6 U.S.C. 101</external-xref> note),
chapter
97 of title 5, United States Code (as added by section
841(a)(2) of such Act), section 841(b)(3) of such Act, and subsections (c) and
(e) of section 842 of such Act are repealed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6F1A4BC50E54498BA9AEB62F8381D357"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Any
regulations prescribed under authority of
chapter
97 of title 5, United States Code, are void ab initio.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H998865FEBCC346BAB2AD56B8F8A716BC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
Amendment</header><text>The table of chapters for part III of title 5, United
States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to chapter 97.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HAEBA3244F5F34C018CF28D37DC629CF"><enum>512.</enum><header>Utilization of
non-law enforcement Federal employees as instructors for non-law enforcement
classes at the Border Patrol Training Academy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Director of the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center (FLETC) of the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation
with the Chief of the Border Patrol, is authorized to select appropriate
employees of the Federal Government other than law enforcement officers (as
defined in section
8401(17) of title 5, United States Code) to serve as
instructors of non-law enforcement classes.</text>
</section><section id="H2719D870A6A2425BBAA491C6914138F3"><enum>513.</enum><header>
Termination of Employment of Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Medical
Personnel Prohibited</header>
<subsection id="H1DFCDF48270243CD9797DF192C2243BC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Termination
prohibited</header>
<paragraph id="H0CED251A5AB8470690FF7D2E7883C964"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>No employee may be terminated, demoted, or in any other
manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of employment because
such employee is absent from or late to the employee’s employment for the
purpose of serving as a volunteer firefighter or providing volunteer emergency
medical services as part of a response to an emergency or major
disaster.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4CB92DDD5AEE4FC0BF791223CAA1DE94"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Deployment</header><text>The
prohibition in paragraph (1) shall apply to an employee serving as a volunteer
firefighter or providing volunteer emergency medical services if such
employee—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE8ABDD08BEF14D25A593E777E9F3F41C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is specifically
deployed to respond to the emergency or major disaster in accordance with a
coordinated national deployment system such as the Emergency Management
Assistance Compact or a pre-existing mutual aid agreement; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H97A4CA12AB0A40BFA9912E85539BEE00"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is a volunteer
firefighter who—</text>
<clause id="H6683EE937645413A82B88BF3A2548C7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is a
member of a qualified volunteer fire department that is located in the State in
which the emergency or major disaster occurred;</text>
</clause><clause id="H443EAEDF70384237B768779CB7B4C1E3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is
not a member of a qualified fire department that has a mutual aid agreement
with a community affected by such emergency or major disaster; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H1DDE5726C930455B83EC156241953100"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>has been
deployed by the emergency management agency of such State to respond to such
emergency or major disaster.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB573973E59F5472FA0001C93A883DCAF"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitations</header><text>The
prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply to an employee who—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8804538198274A959D447B42B3C76BC6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is absent from the
employee’s employment for the purpose described in paragraph (1) for more than
14 days per calendar year;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3727AA39110A469381DCC3FB9700CC26"><enum>(B)</enum><text>responds to the
emergency or major disaster without being officially deployed as described in
paragraph (2); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE074F5BAF9AE40EBBE57707800037F3D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>fails to provide
the written verification described in paragraph (5) within a reasonable period
of time.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H194C16C4C2274056B712F02F1CB7DBE6"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Withholding of
Pay</header><text>An employer may reduce an employee’s regular pay for any time
that the employee is absent from the employee’s employment for the purpose
described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H161882CDFFBB46DDA9FFA02ED32D9696"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Verification</header><text>An
employer may require an employee to provide a written verification from the
official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency supervising the Federal
response to the emergency or major disaster or a local or State official
managing the local or State response to the emergency or major disaster that
states—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCB3D8AE4F6BB455AA33448C368199D63"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the employee
responded to the emergency or major disaster in an official capacity;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4CB9073CF1D34D2580CF956D97B4C94D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the schedule and
dates of the employee’s participation in such response.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H8168F0FEB4FB49BCAA28F3EA99D25025"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Reasonable
Notice Required</header><text>An employee who may be absent from or late to the
employee’s employment for the purpose described in paragraph (1) shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H56566433A93C4EA59E75D3909121EEF3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>make a reasonable
effort to notify the employee’s employer of such absence; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7B7BEBE8C1FA45EC9E9B841693B91E41"><enum>(B)</enum><text>continue to
provide reasonable notifications over the course of such absence.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2F52709DB0B744F1ABC9C3AA7C808480"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Right of
action</header>
<paragraph id="H6109D0A566EA40CBA5D9E4D93C298777"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Right of
Action</header><text>An individual who has been terminated, demoted, or in any
other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of employment in
violation of the prohibition described in subsection (a) may bring, in a
district court of the United States of appropriate jurisdiction, a civil action
against individual’s employer seeking—</text>
<subparagraph id="H932DCFDAEC664E77B165E5BBCC6D1EF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>reinstatement of
the individual’s former employment;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2A4F3DD46B7A4873B8698E8BF09C1105"><enum>(B)</enum><text>payment of back
wages;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H46866FB2E331440593307DB76B3CD609"><enum>(C)</enum><text>reinstatement of
benefits; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD97BDADB60564898B4EACFB35D44A5B1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>if the employment
granted seniority rights, reinstatement of seniority rights.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4AE7CFB839754AA5B0BC4962301C5700"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The
individual shall commence a civil action under this section not later than 1
year after the date of the violation of the prohibition described in subsection
(a).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H781B4451946A4E0D9E4EABA8E37754D1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Study and
report</header>
<paragraph id="HD203BAFACFE74969935D772F8C19B677"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The
Secretary of Labor shall conduct a study on the impact that the requirements of
this section could have on the employers of volunteer firefighters or
individuals who provide volunteer emergency medical services and who may be
called on to respond to an emergency or major disaster.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H82DCA8EEE0704FCE994185183B1710B2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 12 months after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall submit a report of the
study conducted under paragraph (1) to the Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of
the Senate and the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee
on Small Business of the House of Representatives.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA5CED1A8E3424EF99866F8E1FF1A99E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section—</text>
<paragraph id="HAA53B3472D604C95A7C505FD00ED6F7D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<quote>emergency</quote> has the meaning given such term in section 102 of the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
5122);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6C07BA0583094AD796661DED98B1EB52"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<quote>major disaster</quote> has the meanings given such term in section 102
of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C.
5122);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCBFFAB502B8648BD86DAA1E91682FA55"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term
<quote>qualified volunteer fire department</quote> has the meaning given such
term in section
150(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA943FF69D39E453E8B4D88155CFF065B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term
<quote>volunteer emergency medical services</quote> means emergency medical
services performed on a voluntary basis for a fire department or other
emergency organization; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD09861C324E14FCD929D77CDA26A00"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the
term <quote>volunteer firefighter</quote> means an individual who is a member
in good standing of a qualified volunteer fire department.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Biopreparedness
improvements</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB85C7195A5A34AD581B576D9F4861F17"><enum>601.</enum><header>Chief Medical
Officer and Office of Health Affairs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 516 of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C.
321e) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H760FF0E48F6742B38BD4DC18D8D064A8" style="OLC">
<section id="HECB33B683EAA49669BC3FAC265B63F3C"><enum>516.</enum><header>Chief Medical
Officer</header>
<subsection id="H7C9A85292BE9448ABB396BF447F5D8CB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>There is in the Department a Chief Medical Officer, who
shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, and shall have the rank and title of Assistant Secretary for Health
Affairs and Chief Medical Officer (in this section referred to as the
<quote>Chief Medical Officer</quote>).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0B70AD371C8D441AA6F9DB615A2FCBD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Office of Health
Affairs</header><text>There is in the Department an Office of Health Affairs,
which shall be headed by the Chief Medical Officer.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB3222B70A77D4B9F8B74A5AE2BD15CC8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Qualifications</header><text>The
individual appointed as the Chief Medical Officer shall possess a demonstrated
ability in and knowledge of medicine, public health, and the treatment of
illnesses caused by chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological agents.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC46E7440E280435FB289F5580583B500"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header><text>The
Chief Medical Officer shall have the primary responsibility within the
Department for medical and health issues related to the general roles,
responsibilities, and operations of the Department, and terrorist attacks,
major disasters, and other emergencies, including—</text>
<paragraph id="H367905B3A1F040298000AE11E1FF38FC"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">serving as the principal advisor to the
Secretary and leading the Department’s medical care, public health, food,
water, veterinary care, and agro- security and defense responsibilities;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC4E97B143A744429A0D9C2016858F9A1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing oversight for all
medically-related actions and protocols of the Department’s medical
personnel;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB7554308D4954BBD919295E1DBC3C633"><enum>(3)</enum><text>administering the
Department’s responsibilities for medical readiness, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8F171D6D37DC4C398D35FE3FF0B3AB8C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>planning and
guidance to support improvements in local training, equipment, and exercises
funded by the Department; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEE649E4117BF412EA67E6D836518AD98"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consistent with the National Response Plan
established pursuant to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8, assisting
in fulfilling the Department’s roles in related emergency support
functions;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H19EE2D635872430BA342BCBEAB208ED3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>serving as the
Department’s primary point of contact with the Department of Agriculture, the
Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the
Department of Transportation, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other
Federal departments and agencies, on all matters of medical and public health
to ensure coordination consistent with the National Response Plan;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5D42A90FD38C47EEA4D669052CA865B"><enum>(5)</enum><text>serving as the
Department’s primary point of contact for State, local, tribal, and territorial
governments, the medical community, and the private sector, to ensure that
medical readiness and response activities are coordinated and consistent with
the National Response Plan and the Secretary’s incident management
requirements;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H70333237CA9749C6B22E65CFBB9ECDA7"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">managing the Department’s biodefense and
biosurveillance activities including the National Biosurveillance Integration
System, and the Departments responsibilities under Project BioShield in
coordination with the Under Secretary of Science and Technology as
appropriate;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6FD07586ED0E4E11977F683D1E856294"><enum>(7)</enum><text>assuring that the
Department’s workforce has science-based policy, standards, requirements, and
metrics for occupational safety and health;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC6661CBCB70E4968B66127B6C4E3AAE"><enum>(8)</enum><text>supporting the
operational requirements of the Department’s components with respect to
protective medicine and tactical medical support;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8E883A0A78AC47DD89D500A1778B181"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">developing, in coordination with
appropriate Department entities and other appropriate Federal agencies,
end-to-end plans for prevention, readiness, protection, response, and recovery
from catastrophic events with human, animal, agricultural, or environmental
health consequences;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB63DA8B6C4BB4FF49EE73F5E5F3B1E9E"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">integrating into the end-to-end plans
developed under paragraph (9), Department of Health and Human Services’ efforts
to identify and deploy medical assets (including human, fixed, and material
assets) used in preparation for or response to national disasters and
catastrophes, and to enable access to patient electronic medical records by
medical personnel to aid treatment of displaced persons in such circumstance,
in order to assure that actions of both Departments are combined for maximum
effectiveness during an emergency consistent with the National Response Plan
and applicable emergency support functions;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC6F60F79C7A5401DB61B00E4E2E80075"><enum>(11)</enum><text>performing other
duties relating to such responsibilities as the Secretary may require;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDE3BE6A3AAAA42D5B000BD69E141B339"><enum>(12)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">directing and maintaining a coordinated
system for medical support of the Department’s operational
activities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H04F67DDD2B06478499935436E37247AD"><enum>602.</enum><header>Improving the
material threats process</header>
<subsection id="H53371D1CB88846D98333FBE0336DA43D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 319F–2(c)(2)(A) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 247d–6b(c)(2)(A)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA510C4B4A0DB4EAC8CADB15C1964D455"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating
clauses (i) and (ii) as subclauses (I) and (II), respectively;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8AF6423AD6914D73B658C0BFA6109999"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by moving each of
such subclauses two ems to the right;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H35BD891C109D4AF0B9AAD4CFE3D2C26"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>(A) <header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">Material
threat.—</header-in-text>The Homeland Security Secretary</quote> and inserting
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCEC600C550B14E21BFC57E929B1D00C8" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="HA233F67B5C854344A703F01D29CEBDEF"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Material
threat</header>
<clause id="H1F1A0573E71949C0BE16EBB9C9478C3D"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland
Security</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEA476FA8B78A4B8EBAD9B8D8103DD96F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following clauses:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H773CEC5FE1014F879C3BF88D37D2BBE" style="OLC">
<clause id="H14652689762845A1AC39974DA8B56F25"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Use of existing
risk assessments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the
purpose of satisfying the requirements of clause (i) as expeditiously as
possible, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, as practicable, utilize
existing risk assessments that the Secretary of Homeland Security, in
consultation with the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Defense, and
Agriculture, and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, considers
credible.</text>
</clause><clause id="HF31C28E2965449A1A3A59060596DBCAA"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Order of
assessments</header>
<subclause id="H1BC4363D094B43B68306E9273FE05EE"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Groupings to
facilitate assessment of countermeasures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting threat assessments and
determinations under clause (i) of chemical, biological, radiological, and
nuclear agents, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, to the extent
practicable and appropriate, consider the completion of such assessments and
determinations for groups of agents toward the goal of facilitating the
assessment of countermeasures under paragraph (3) by the Secretary of Health
and Human Services.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H70B1F7E8CA4F4DB6A05DEDEB9F915D03"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Categories of
countermeasures</header><text>The grouping of agents under subclause (I) by the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall be designed to facilitate assessments
under paragraph (3) by the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding the
following two categories of countermeasures:</text>
<item id="H1F457260279D4267BEA534215F3E5B28"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>Countermeasures
that may address more than one agent identified under clause (i)(II).</text>
</item><item id="HC9B78D75782D4FB689A258060088100"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Countermeasures that may address adverse
health consequences that are common to exposure to different agents.</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="HCCE46E9A2891472AB2D2E904FC8993D8"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Rule of
construction</header><text>A particular grouping of agents pursuant to
subclause (II) is not required under such subclause to facilitate assessments
of both categories of countermeasures described in such subclause. A grouping
may concern one category and not the other.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H270D7B6164324CB9BA52B8DEDCD624D"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Deadline for
completion of certain material threat determinations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to chemical, biological,
radiological, and nuclear agents known to the Secretary of Homeland Security as
of the day before the date of the enactment of this clause, and which such
Secretary considers to be capable of significantly affecting national security,
such Secretary shall complete the determinations under clause (i)(II) not later
than December 31, 2007.</text>
</clause><clause id="H046014699D404AE39CC47BDA58A3EE86"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Report to
Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30
days after the date on which the Secretary of Homeland Security completes a
material threat assessment under clause (i), the Secretary shall submit to
Congress a report containing the results of such assessment.</text>
</clause><clause id="HDB9202D90D71446EA9E917352D364E37"><enum>(vi)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>For
purposes of this subparagraph, the term <term>risk assessment</term> means a
scientific, technically-based analysis of agents that incorporates threat,
vulnerability, and consequence
information.</text>
</clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4D55221AB6AF4EBABEAE4FBE8C8D25D0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>Section 521(d) of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C.
321j(d)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H9675F6CDEEA44078B665CE453EC28B68"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>2006,</quote> and inserting <quote>2009,</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAD972D4FF0B24429894E77205E3E147C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA1E4295AB3E84303A21E870096809748" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HF33F6327938C440AA9C2CC50BCA2418E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Additional
authorization of appropriations regarding certain threat
assessments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the purpose
of providing an additional amount to the Secretary to assist the Secretary in
meeting the requirements of clause (iv) of section 319F–2(c)(2)(A) of the
Public Health Service Act (relating to time frames), there are authorized to be
appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008, in addition to
the authorization of appropriations established in paragraph (1). The purposes
for which such additional amount may be expended include conducting risk
assessments regarding clause (i)(II) of such section when there are no existing
risk assessments that the Secretary considers
credible.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06EDCCFC1567439DAEED641543CC402D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>603.</enum><header>Study on national
biodefense training</header>
<subsection id="HF3F2926BBC4A44A7A67C078E7E2E7431"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study
required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of
Homeland Security shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the
Secretary for Health and Human Services, conduct a joint study to determine the
staffing and training requirements for pending capital programs to construct
biodefense laboratories (including agriculture and animal laboratories) at
Biosafety Level 3 and Biosafety Level 4 or to expand current biodefense
laboratories to such biosafety levels.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD7C205F2349045B6B341976D356C65BB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Elements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting the study, the Secretaries
shall address the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H28DE503B97754139B633DD11BFB806B8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The number of
trained personnel, by discipline and qualification level, required for existing
biodefense laboratories at Biosafety Level 3 and Biosafety Level 4, including
the number trained in Good Laboratory Practices (GLP).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAFBD325F7A244C3497CD5AB77FC809E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The number of research and support staff,
including researchers, laboratory technicians, animal handlers, facility
managers, facility or equipment maintainers, safety and security personnel
(including biosafety, physical security, and cybersecurity personnel), and
other safety personnel required to manage biodefense research efforts to combat
bioterrorism at the planned biodefense laboratories described in subsection
(a).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H611BFEB49F264660B9AC165900C1BE80"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The training
required to provide the personnel described by paragraphs (1) and (2),
including the type of training (whether classroom, laboratory, or field
training) required, the length of training required by discipline, and the
curriculum required to be developed for such training.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2AEBAA6B9E234E3FBD565C00C924C5FE"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Training schedules
necessary to meet the scheduled openings of the biodefense laboratories
described in subsection (a), including schedules for refresher training and
continuing education that may be necessary for that purpose.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H38FDBBCDD4434AA2B4A00015E9CF7BA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 31, 2007, the
Secretaries shall submit to Congress a report setting forth the results of the
study conducted under this section.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDD9F3F13EE7841D8A336A32807F99FD9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>604.</enum><header>National
Biosurveillance Integration Center</header>
<subsection id="H1B696F31E1E94F77BC964150AB80E422"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Title III of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
(6 U.S.C. 181 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAD93428D9D4E4CBCAFCC00C9A84996A9" style="OLC">
<section id="HD198D5EB802C4DC3AF154676A378A54D"><enum>316.</enum><header>National
Biosurveillance Integration Center</header>
<subsection id="H7DDF230DCF1D43C2BE205043E4A0356"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>The
Secretary shall establish a National Biosurveillance Integration Center
(referred to in this section as the <quote>NBIC</quote>) to enhance the
capability of the Federal Government to rapidly identify, characterize, and
localize a biological event by integrating and analyzing data related to human
health, animals, plants, food, and the environment. The NBIC shall be headed by
a Director.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0B90560C6C0F421E8312FAD8593C11A0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Integrated
biosurveillance network</header><text>As part of the NBIC, the Director shall
develop, operate, and maintain an integrated network to detect, as early as
possible, a biological event that presents a risk to the United States or the
infrastructure or key assets of the United States. The network shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H96A004F3D55C4D3BAC00D81887549BAB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>consolidate data
from all relevant surveillance systems maintained by the Department and other
governmental and private sources, both foreign and domestic, to the extent
practicable; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCF02EC1C2848424B8F728E3B39472051"><enum>(2)</enum><text>use an information
technology system that uses the best available statistical and other analytical
tools to identify and characterize biological events in as close to real-time
as possible.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H649B6D05F45E4E43AAB4D8F3D5267EC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header>
<paragraph id="H2157BE9323F94DE5885C84945EAAC1FC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Director shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H363DC2B6C98D4DDEB01094A2DDAB10DE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>monitor on an
ongoing basis the availability and appropriateness of candidate data feeds and
solicit new surveillance systems with data that would enhance biological
situational awareness or overall performance of the NBIC;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H921C37AB70B04E4E99F265AA5CAE833D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>review and seek to
improve on an ongoing basis the statistical and other analytical methods used
by the NBIC;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3C1686DF2A7040D99101B2008EF3961"><enum>(C)</enum><text>establish a
procedure to enable Federal, State and local government, and private sector
entities to report suspicious events that could warrant further assessments by
the NBIC;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HED51325B0BEE4947AFD4E5BAEE599E72"><enum>(D)</enum><text>receive and
consider all relevant homeland security information; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H41943870223E4B13BB72B1EDF510BB38"><enum>(E)</enum><text>provide technical
assistance, as appropriate, to all Federal, State, and local government
entities and private sector entities that contribute data relevant to the
operation of the NBIC.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H7EB80B899A7C4C70BF3B003EAFDB064B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Assessments</header><text>The
Director shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H789EA945E49A4C6F9DE3BA48F92867F4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>continuously
evaluate available data for evidence of a biological event; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HADFC15098CA54EE8A2F6678592595615"><enum>(B)</enum><text>integrate homeland
security information with NBIC data to provide overall biological situational
awareness and determine whether a biological event has occurred.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC1ECE0E2CD8A43B9008B74B9151E189F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Information
sharing</header><text>The Director shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H4A91398CC37040579FA3DD4C791A36"><enum>(A)</enum><text>establish a
mechanism for real-time communication with the National Operations
Center;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C893AD1AC974444A377A8842C62D5B4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide integrated
information to the heads of the departments and agencies with which the
Director has entered into an agreement under subsection (d);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD4EA3647E58D4B1DB6FA316B5D5F00B9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>notify the
Secretary, the head of the National Operations Center, and the heads of
appropriate Federal, State, tribal, and local entities of any significant
biological event identified by the NBIC;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H933F7131F6EB4E9DA8B35C2752B8F587"><enum>(D)</enum><text>provide reports on
NBIC assessments to Federal, State, and local government entities, including
departments and agencies with which the Director has entered into an agreement
under subsection (d), and any private sector entities, as considered
appropriate by the Director; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H82C53C3B97284BC991F87747536C25EC"><enum>(E)</enum><text>use information
sharing networks available to the Department for distributing NBIC incident or
situational awareness reports.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H01538D654201415DAB7C2BC7317F287D"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Interagency
agreements</header>
<paragraph id="H51EC9C855BBA4B94B61804E500CA39AB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall, where feasible, enter into
agreements with the heads of appropriate Federal departments and agencies,
including the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense,
the Department of Agriculture, the Department of State, the Department of
Interior, and the Intelligence Community.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAF4CFEE8D13541EB8438480481437C51"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Content of
agreements</header><text>Under an agreement entered into under paragraph (1),
the head of a Federal department or agency shall agree to—</text>
<subparagraph id="H4294C400EA574BBEBBCD44A4B1FB15D9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>use the best
efforts of the department or agency to integrate biosurveillance information
capabilities through NBIC;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H420ADB0905AD4C38BA30DC4459F00020"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide timely,
evaluated information to assist the NBIC in maintaining biological situational
awareness for timely and accurate detection and response purposes;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6A95D77FABFF440498647F3C9E65BF17"><enum>(C)</enum><text>provide
connectivity for the biosurveillance data systems of the department or agency
to the NBIC network under mutually agreed protocols;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H18BBDCCEBB10454E8C41EEA9545FEF1F"><enum>(D)</enum><text>detail, if
practicable, to the NBIC department or agency personnel with relevant expertise
in human, animal, plant, food, or environmental disease analysis and
interpretation;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7DEE5EEF9AE84AACBD9EC164306F0033"><enum>(E)</enum><text>retain
responsibility for the surveillance and intelligence systems of that department
or agency, if applicable; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H307808EBD1F24B33B10088E6C0A3A27F"><enum>(F)</enum><text>participate in
forming the strategy and policy for the operation and information sharing
practices of the NBIC.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H93D4B6FE94B145DE9B547CFD769E0239"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Notification of
Director</header><text>The Secretary shall ensure that the Director is notified
of homeland security information relating to any significant biological threat
and receives all classified and unclassified reports related to such a threat
in a timely manner.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA5D0EAEF43664972A0F91500BF30BCDD"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Administrative
Authorities</header>
<paragraph id="H9623759DDFE04A6DB4397C1434411DEA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Privacy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="HEDEB5DBA068F4B408422952936C5E18"><enum>(A)</enum><text>designate the NBIC
as a public health authority;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9061FCDACF874A45B5A6F07BFF8D2670"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure that the
NBIC complies with any applicable requirements of the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC21679545ADF4CC5822DB3FDAAB2CC56"><enum>(C)</enum><text>ensure that all
applicable privacy regulations are strictly adhered to in the operation of the
NBIC and the sharing of any information related to the NBIC.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HDEF40CBEBAE341A6AEE785644F287DAE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Collection of
information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The NBIC, as a
public health authority with a public health mission, is authorized to collect
or receive health information, including such information protected under the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, for the purpose of
preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC8070482A3A2463A9FEE61FA4C6F1717"><enum>(g)</enum><header>NBIC interagency
working group</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director
shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HE91049F2FD894A2C984F9E6FE56D5069"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish an interagency working group to
facilitate interagency cooperation to advise the Director on recommendations to
enhance the biosurveillance capabilities of the Department; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFC98268BF9C043E885F3F1D8BBFAB9C8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>invite officials
of Federal agencies that conduct biosurveillance programs, including officials
of the departments and agencies with which the Secretary has entered into an
agreement under subsection (d), to participate in the working group.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H285ABD571F764FC784C06934BB8CB6AE"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Annual report
required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than
December 31 of each year, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report that
contains each of the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H4378D2502DB246209213B9A2116CA86F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>A list of
departments, agencies, and private or nonprofit entities participating in the
NBIC and a description of the data that each entity has contributed to the NBIC
during the preceding fiscal year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3B9EBFD6F675471087B6DBC0D1535F3E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The schedule for
obtaining access to any relevant biosurveillance information not received by
the NBIC as of the date on which the report is submitted.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5BA09B894D834E4D847B54927DA4BCBC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A list of Federal,
State, and local government entities and private sector entities that have
direct or indirect access to the information that is integrated by the
NBIC.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1393FFD25CDD4D9C9DD1A45B2CEDBE9D"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For any year before the NBIC is fully
implemented or any year in which any major structural or institutional change
is made to the NBIC, an implementation plan for the NBIC that includes cost,
schedule, key milestones, and the status of such milestones.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD6C6DAAE02AA4E9896130712DCFA1400"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Relationship to
other departments and agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The authority of the Secretary under this
section shall not affect an authority or responsibility of any other Federal
department or agency with respect to biosurveillance activities under any
program administered by that department or agency.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC7D86C3FF05B42369E4C6E67B4984B8F"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this section such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H24441528A5124C38B8BAEE62E56600C4"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Biological
event</header><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>biological
event</term> means—</text>
<paragraph id="H33D2E9255BE64EFC946BC5DD562D6D61"><enum>(1)</enum><text>an act of
terrorism involving biological agents or toxins of known or unknown origin;
or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEA74ED8097C14E9E8C08B9AB60632883"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a naturally
occurring outbreak of an infectious disease that may be of potential national
significance.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HC7A67035F1F646E5BB63C95EA565029C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by inserting after the items relating to such title the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H97009C38985241DDA898C94753190627" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 316. National Biosurveillance
Integration
Center.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H220CAF1368E64194BC7B10131154AF34"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Deadline for
implementation</header><text>The National Biosurveillance Integration Center
required under section 316 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as added by
subsection (a), shall be fully operational by not later than September 30,
2008.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2D253250F0664C4494580097D01B5D94" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>605.</enum><header>Risk analysis
process and integrated CBRN risk assessment</header>
<subsection id="H1E2715A0ED364E66A70050A89085DB12"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Title III of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
(6 U.S.C. 181 et
seq.) is further amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HC1730573046048FEBCC7C5381CE04661">
<section id="H6D6AE36B95664C1A81E3D5AFFBA23D89"><enum>317.</enum><header>Risk analysis
process and integrated CBRN risk assessment</header>
<subsection id="H710CF6D8F9154E0D87B09B0041A7F41"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Risk analysis
process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall
develop a risk analysis process that utilizes a scientific, quantitative
methodology to assess and manage risks posed by chemical, biological,
radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) agents.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HF5D22D5C91FE44DB9CF1987BD7C2F0DA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Integrated CBRN
risk assessment</header><text>The Secretary shall use the process developed
under subsection (a) to conduct a risk assessment that shall support the
integration of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H1E5420003BD146C28FE3C7808647B66E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>The
purpose of the risk analysis process developed under subsection (a) and the
integrated risk assessment conducted under subsection (b) shall be to identify
high risk agents, determine how best to mitigate those risks, and guide
resource allocation. Such risk analysis shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H419198075CD34D9EBEF7A6181D039B69"><enum>(1)</enum><text>facilitate
satisfaction of the requirements of section 602;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6EC05FCAC67E4F3695BA4B198E23A168"><enum>(2)</enum><text>guide research,
development, acquisition, and deployment of applicable countermeasures,
including detection systems;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H45B784C5A406466D884536F7B41D818B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>identify key
knowledge gaps or vulnerabilities in the CBRN defense posture of the
Department;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBBED90B6307441A2AF5DFF9022D35DBC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>enable rebalancing
and refining of investments within individual classes of threat agents as well
as across such classes; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8265745A85C84321B0A2DF0056D066E"><enum>(5)</enum><text>support end-to-end
assessments of the overall CBRN defense policy of the Department, taking into
account the full spectrum of countermeasures available, including prevention,
preparedness, planning, response and recovery activities, to better steer
investments to strategies with the greatest potential for mitigating identified
risks.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1F3A30F22C794618930134DED1B442B"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Risk
Information</header>
<paragraph id="HF35654DC59FB44E691D42F85008EC000"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Classes of
threat agents</header><text>In developing the risk analysis process under
subsection (a) and conducting the risk assessment under subsection (b), the
Secretary shall consider risks posed by the following classes of
threats:</text>
<subparagraph id="HB185C6D10355400D83FE226783EC1883"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Chemical threats,
including—</text>
<clause id="HDFF5F953795249A0BCD565FF004EA87D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>toxic industrial
materials and chemicals;</text>
</clause><clause id="H560A4D25376144A7A5F29513B8A728E3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>traditional
chemical warfare agents; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H1BE25481296F44A2A7042586B0471C84"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>non-traditional
agents, which are defined as novel chemical threat agents or toxicants
requiring adapted countermeasures.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9832294847764198B82E97C50842C717"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Biological
threats, including—</text>
<clause id="H4F3F16F45A904C8786D71B8D256137B7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>traditional agents
listed by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention as Category A, B, and C
pathogens and toxins;</text>
</clause><clause id="HE2965CEDDE6543DB93E0031ECB1CB88"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>enhanced agents,
which are defined as traditional agents that have been modified or selected to
enhance their ability to harm human populations or circumvent current
countermeasures;</text>
</clause><clause id="HDAA0E5172D22430B85B9FDF248FB3F94"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>emerging agents,
which are defined as previously unrecognized pathogens that may be naturally
occurring and present a serious risk to human populations; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H73CCCF40A2384B6E86ADD0428D8C50B5"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>advanced or
engineered agents, which are defined as novel pathogens or other materials of
biological nature that have been artificially engineered in the laboratory to
bypass traditional countermeasures or produce a more severe or otherwise
enhanced spectrum of disease.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6205587747F04A0C805B6C877C9D005B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Nuclear and
radiological threats, including fissile and other radiological material that
could be incorporated into an improvised nuclear device or a radiological
dispersal device or released into a wide geographic area by damage to a nuclear
reactor.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H94307873F28840FCB593ABEBBC37F35E"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Threats to the
agriculture sector and food and water supplies.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCC0B565AFBA047EDA081FDBD032C69FC"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Other threat
agents the Secretary determines appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H224D8578DB4A4BC8AEDBB0200FE7DFD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Sources</header><text>The
risk analysis process developed under subsection (a) shall be informed by
findings of the intelligence and law enforcement communities and integrated
with expert input from the scientific, medical, and public health communities,
including from relevant components of the Department and other Federal
agencies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H537593F7F2514A30912DDBD4E2C37AC"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Data Quality,
Specificity, and Confidence</header><text>In developing the risk analysis
process under subsection (a), the Secretary shall consider the degree of
uncertainty and variability in the available scientific information and other
information about the classes of threat agents under paragraph (1). An external
review shall be conducted to assess the ability of the risk analysis process
developed by the Secretary to address areas of large degrees of
uncertainty.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF0F6FDA94B264B49AFDBFDEFAA4EE582"><enum>(4)</enum><header>New
information</header><text>The Secretary shall frequently and systematically
update the risk assessment conducted under subsection (b), as needed, to
incorporate emerging intelligence information or technological changes in order
to keep pace with evolving threats and rapid scientific advances.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6B22FF39B26C42DB951110CF335C900"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Methodology</header><text>The
risk analysis process developed by the Secretary under subsection (a)
shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H0807B039D8374B0BA2A933D6BF51F796"><enum>(1)</enum><text>consider, as
variables—</text>
<subparagraph id="H31B19C670CA640839C6B4033F44E329"><enum>(A)</enum><text>threat, or the
likelihood that a type of attack that might be attempted;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFAEF8A4AB96D484B80555FDBEF1C08F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>vulnerability, or
the likelihood that an attacker would succeed; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4393B55C841E411E9BD271561C62A44D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>consequence, or
the likely impact of an attack;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3B2EA57A9B3240229DC01374CF13AED1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>evaluate the
consequence component of risk as it relates to mortality, morbidity, and
economic effects;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H060CAE51008A4B95BD241F09D7F427B5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>allow for changes
in assumptions to evaluate a full range of factors, including technological,
economic, and social trends, which may alter the future security
environment;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H914D327C1F2F4C26A0A7537C2F7D4D27"><enum>(4)</enum><text>contain a
well-designed sensitivity analysis to address high degrees of uncertainty
associated with the risk analyses of certain CBRN agents;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC2F6CA1C2D584809A71300FACEE5C240"><enum>(5)</enum><text>utilize red
teaming analysis to identify vulnerabilities an adversary may discover and
exploit in technology, training, and operational procedures and to identify
open-source information that could be used by those attempting to defeat the
countermeasures; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H332DA30FA1844E3EB1E3EE70E8A36818"><enum>(6)</enum><text>incorporate an
interactive interface that makes results and limitations transparent and useful
to decision makers for identifying appropriate risk management
activities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2BD207E8E117464A9EE6756793D43CA4"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>The
Secretary shall ensure that all risk analysis activities with respect to
radiological or nuclear materials shall be conducted in coordination with the
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC8BAFA47EAA24A5700167333A8D9BCF"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Timeframe;
reports to Congress</header>
<paragraph id="HABF38A13F7634DE1A12135C3F788A77E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Initial
report</header><text>By not later than June 2008, the Secretary shall complete
the first formal, integrated, CBRN risk assessment required under subsection
(b) and shall submit to Congress a report summarizing the findings of such
assessment and identifying improvements that could be made to enhance the
transparency and usability of the risk analysis process developed under
subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2341F71F4F3244BFA4B22CC2F394FA6D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Updates to
report</header><text>The Secretary shall submit to Congress updates to the
findings and report in paragraph (1), when appropriate, but by not later than
two years after the date on which the initial report is submitted. Such updates
shall reflect improvements in the risk analysis process developed under
subsection
(a).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H30C7B460B5264C5CA3BCB2B117BAA977"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by inserting after the items relating to such title the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8CEA5465D50249F3A1A884C4F6E4735" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 317. Risk analysis process and
integrated CBRN risk
assessment.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><enum>VII</enum><header>Homeland
security cybersecurity improvements</header>
<section id="HCE01093FE90B45DDBA7F61D6F1BF1E59"><enum>701.</enum><header>Cybersecurity
and Communications</header>
<subsection id="H9DE73E7475DD4ECA8E35F42E0477700"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subtitle C of title II of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 141 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H99E971D0BA04446E88D4DBBB6C6F1647" style="OLC">
<section id="H510CC92E1E1047D699A0163D01D998DB"><enum>226.</enum><header>Office of
Cybersecurity and communications</header>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF27C89945E6A4A729400E8865920F0CE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>There shall be within the Department of Homeland Security
an Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, which shall be headed by the
Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H308BAE06354D48C5BEEBE531DC008722"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Duty of the
Assistant Secretary</header><text>The Assistant Secretary shall assist the
Secretary in carrying out the responsibilities of the Department regarding
cybersecurity and communications.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H2233B8CFC3AA48208488BAC0ACE7329D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header><text>The
Assistant Secretary shall be responsible for overseeing preparation,
situational awareness, response, reconstitution, and mitigation necessary for
cybersecurity and to protect communications from terrorist attacks, major
disasters, and other emergencies, including large-scale disruptions, and shall
conduct the following activities to execute those responsibilities:</text>
<paragraph id="H78EA726EEE734FC59DB34A62D6E8B23"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Preparation and
situational awareness</header>
<subparagraph id="HDF9721AA8FA548879B4C7C40612BA592"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establish and maintain a capability within
the Department for ongoing activities to identify threats to critical
information infrastructure to aid in detection of vulnerabilities and warning
of potential acts of terrorism and other attacks.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H831E9D96625E46B9BBF40599B7D56F6D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Conduct risk
assessments on critical information infrastructure with respect to acts of
terrorism and other large-scale disruptions, identify and prioritize
vulnerabilities in critical information infrastructure, and coordinate the
mitigation of such vulnerabilities.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC2A9291E520943C90092959DEFAFDDCD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Develop a plan for
the continuation of critical information operations in the event of a cyber
attack or other large-scale disruption of the information infrastructure of the
United States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H42810E967BFD4685BC6EA0F17414BD8D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Oversee an
emergency communications system in the event of an act of terrorism or other
large-scale disruption of the information infrastructure of the United
States.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4C77284CB53B46EA8FDC00ABCAD1E2F3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Response and
reconstitution</header>
<subparagraph id="H827A8AA738EA4D079046B14FC72BF7D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Define what
qualifies as a cyber incident of national significance for purposes of the
National Response Plan.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC8997FDABAEF4B1000DBF2BC2ED00F8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Ensure that the
Department’s priorities, procedures, and resources are in place to reconstitute
critical information infrastructures in the event of an act of terrorism or
other large-scale disruption.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFA324461BF64429F8C061892296B5722"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Mitigation</header>
<subparagraph id="HACDBF5B0CEE3443F959730564643F44C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Develop a national
cybersecurity awareness, training, and education program that promotes
cybersecurity awareness within the Federal Government and throughout the
Nation.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H13479D2D8F37434D9F36070986B9E8E4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Consult and
coordinate with the Under Secretary for Science and Technology on cybersecurity
research and development to strengthen critical information infrastructure
against acts of terrorism and other large-scale disruptions.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF0E50E77B14142BB9860850044BCB754"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section the term <term>critical
information infrastructure</term> means systems and assets, whether physical or
virtual, used in processing, transferring, and storing information so vital to
the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets
would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security,
national public health or safety, or any combination of those
matters.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H309DA4FF63E04279AC28C31660ACE05B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by inserting at the end of the items relating to subtitle C of title II
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H455135B070C549EBBCCBF6A711672701" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 226. Office of Cybersecurity and
Communications.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H344439F6BCEA4D789C139C173F9BA2E5"><enum>702.</enum><header>Cybersecurity
research and development</header>
<subsection id="HB6E4CC6436F6481E9F12E5EBCE811B12"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header><text>The Under Secretary for Science and Technology shall
support research, development, testing, evaluation, and transition of
cybersecurity technology, including fundamental, long-term research to improve
the ability of the United States to prevent, protect against, detect, respond
to, and recover from acts of terrorism and cyber attacks, with emphasis on
research and development relevant to large-scale, high-impact attacks.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6E60E075F6CE4DC385278D742EC10042"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Activities</header><text>The
research and development supported under subsection (a) shall include work
to—</text>
<paragraph id="H25475FBD7A324B95950600C6A83C5F3F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>advance the
development and accelerate the deployment of more secure versions of
fundamental Internet protocols and architectures, including for the domain name
system and routing protocols;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9E4E2E0AD82D4116946433395F31BE28"><enum>(2)</enum><text>improve and create
technologies for detecting attacks or intrusions, including monitoring
technologies;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCD04918BEAF2483A82DBA07CFDB08163"><enum>(3)</enum><text>improve and create
mitigation and recovery methodologies, including techniques for containment of
attacks and development of resilient networks and systems that degrade
gracefully;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0036882AA9F54FB8AAA7EA77AEBB2042"><enum>(4)</enum><text>develop and
support infrastructure and tools to support cybersecurity research and
development efforts, including modeling, testbeds, and data sets for assessment
of new cybersecurity technologies;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H53036D0F3D244E379400E0BF27E6A303"><enum>(5)</enum><text>assist the
development and support of technologies to reduce vulnerabilities in process
control systems (PCS); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7BA6018B5C5A4F54AF2087D382BCDD90"><enum>(6)</enum><text>test, evaluate,
and facilitate the transfer of technologies associated with the engineering of
less vulnerable software and securing the IT software development
lifecycle.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9801EB4EBC254D63B555FDE777CD15CB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>In
carrying out this section, the Under Secretary for Science and Technology shall
coordinate activities with—</text>
<paragraph id="H247DCD5AD8824413863EB525983B34F6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Assistant
Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB89015EA5058418FA38FE87D4EC0A215"><enum>(2)</enum><text>other Federal
agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, the Information Assurance Directorate of the National
Security Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the
Department of Commerce, and other appropriate working groups established by the
President to identify unmet needs and cooperatively support activities, as
appropriate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF3B05E147E384815A227D34B5379F068"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>Of the amount authorized by section 101, there is
authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Homeland Security for
fiscal year 2008, $50,000,000, for the cybersecurity research and development
activities of the Directorate for Science and Technology to prevent, detect,
and respond to acts of terrorism and other large-scale disruptions to
information infrastructure.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HF8B5551C8AE545FC85056F1700A85D1B"><enum>703.</enum><header>Collaboration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In carrying out this title, the Assistant
Secretary of Homeland Security for Cybersecurity and Communications shall
collaborate with any Federal entity that, under law, has authority over the
activities set forth in this title.</text>
</section><enum>VIII</enum><header>Science and
Technology Improvements</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF9CB2B764A024965933FC851F9C79F00" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>801.</enum><header>Report to Congress
on strategic plan</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later
than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary for
Science and Technology shall transmit to Congress the strategic plan described
in section 302(2) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/182">6 U.S.C. 182(2)</external-xref>). In
addition to the requirements described in that section 302(2), the strategic
plan transmitted under this section shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="H1E4ADBE9D78D4471B4153469E435F392"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a
strategy to enhance the Directorate for Science and Technology workforce,
including education and training programs, improving morale, minimizing
turnover, strengthening workforce recruitment, and securing institutional
knowledge;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7618E62DAA694AC8A32F583871374F77"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Department
policy describing the procedures by which the Directorate for Science and
Technology hires and administers assignments to individuals assigned to the
Department as detailees under an arrangement described in subchapter VI of
chapter
33 of title 5, United States Code;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF3A7E88C76B9467C8EE161C762A58FA0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the Department
policy governing the responsibilities of the Under Secretary for Science and
Technology, the Under Secretary for Policy, and the Under Secretary for
Management, and the operational components of the Department regarding
research, development, testing, evaluation, and procurement of homeland
security technologies;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5189CA6E17444CA695CBD39F1459889D"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the methodology by which
research, development, testing, and evaluation is prioritized and funded by the
Directorate for Science and Technology;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H297DF6468C744CAAB3E557C34F26D65C"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the performance
measurements to be used or a plan to develop performance measurements that can
be used to annually evaluate the Directorate for Science and Technology’s
activities, mission performance, and stewardship of resources;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4CF3A54D19FB4133A7DD04264B6D86D3"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a plan for domestic and international
coordination of all related programs and activities within the Department and
throughout Federal agencies, State, local, and tribal governments, the
emergency responder community, industry, and academia;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE619A2066506466BBD8081C58058CDA9"><enum>(7)</enum><text>a
plan for leveraging the expertise of the National Laboratories, the process for
allocating funding to the National Laboratories, and a plan for fulfilling
existing National Laboratory infrastructure commitments to maintain current
capabilities and meet mission needs; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC57BBFB780FF44B585E535FE1C35EE00"><enum>(8)</enum><text>a
strategy for the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency that
includes—</text>
<subparagraph id="H400940EACA224CD5A679C4746611F13C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a mission
statement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1749F75E87E34A1E8B7062498167A895"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a description of
the Department’s high risk and high payoff research, development, test, and
evaluation strategy; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0A6D484B1A68492698A432C544748717"><enum>(C)</enum><text>internal policies
designed to encourage innovative solutions.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="HA9DB46A4CD8F4215B494980393BE02B3"><enum>802.</enum><header>Centers of
Excellence Program</header>
<subsection id="H5C5BD0B41A0C466DA26BE066F839CF53"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amount
authorized by section 101, there is authorized to be appropriated to the
Secretary of Homeland Security for carrying out the Centers of Excellence
Program $31,000,000 for fiscal year 2008 such that each center that received
funding in fiscal year 2007 shall receive, at a minimum, the same amount it
received in fiscal year 2007.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6DB658F86A784ED790EAADB096981A7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Minority Serving
Institutions Program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the
amount authorized by section 101, there is authorized to be appropriated to the
Secretary of Homeland Security for carrying out the Minority Serving
Institutions Program $8,000,000 for fiscal year 2008.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H290949422E80494EA4961919B631490"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Centers of
excellence program participation</header>
<paragraph id="H70DB3D9F2C724DBDAF50E9DA9D4C7016"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If, by the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security has not selected a Minority Serving
Institution to participate as a Center of Excellence under the Department of
Homeland Security Centers of Excellence Program, at least one of the next four
Centers of Excellence selected after the date of enactment of this Act shall be
an otherwise eligible applicant that is a Minority Serving Institution.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4269187D57A442E2A58121084D140176"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Minority Serving
Institution defined</header><text>In this subsection the term <term>Minority
Serving Institution</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1D6BF8EBC2CC43EC814FC015DF563900"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an historically
black college or university that receives assistance under part B of title III
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/106">20 U.S.C. 106 et seq.</external-xref>);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H249F9A5BCE0048DDAB8C12D2275F78E7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an
Hispanic-serving institution (as that term is defined in section 502 of the
Higher Education Act of 1965 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1101a">20 U.S.C. 1101a</external-xref>); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H920D874185F14719B9F142008FD5D9AD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a tribally
controlled college or university (as that term is defined in section 2 of the
Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978
(25 U.S.C.
1801)).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H2E1C726B2A9842D3A8CA4BDA08AC76D6"><enum>803.</enum><header>National
research council study of university programs</header>
<subsection id="H74D8686F606043F2A1CB6D1E355B9584"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text>Not
later than 3 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Under
Secretary for Science and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security
shall seek to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council of the
National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study to assess the University
Programs of the Department, with an emphasis on the Centers of Excellence
Program and the future plans for these programs, and make recommendations for
appropriate improvements.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC0BE7AEFC489435DB3E0758441420095"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Subjects</header><text>The
study shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="HE93B97E64EC349DE8F61B0212D69AAB6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a
review of key areas of study needed to support the homeland security mission,
and criteria that should be utilized to determine those key areas for which the
Department should maintain or establish Centers of Excellence;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC52062ED57A74DEBB9EC5FB6DCBCE65"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a
review of selection criteria and weighting of such criteria for Centers of
Excellence;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBA6A46E7876A4670B65E51482F24FD1E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>an examination of
the optimal role of Centers of Excellence in supporting the mission of the
Directorate of Science and Technology and the most advantageous relationship
between the Centers of Excellence and the Directorate and the Department
components the Directorate serves;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7A650FC73BCB4748B7EB87BC006F1275"><enum>(4)</enum><text>an examination of
the length of time the Centers of Excellence should be awarded funding and the
frequency of the review cycle in order to maintain such funding, particularly
given their focus on basic, long term research;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H922E128CC6E9488FA9BE2186158C8CFF"><enum>(5)</enum><text>identification of
the most appropriate review criteria and metrics to measure demonstrable
progress, and mechanisms for delivering and disseminating the research results
of established Centers of Excellence within the Department, and to other
Federal, State, and local agencies;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE4454EB93B01446DAD328EC636CE6103"><enum>(6)</enum><text>an examination of
the means by which academic institutions that are not designated or associated
with Centers of Excellence can optimally contribute to the research mission of
the Directorate;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8FE6FBB418374B7B0000434E46141CDD"><enum>(7)</enum><text>an assessment of
the interrelationship between the different University Programs; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HECB93A73D7B14FFA9056B60965340043"><enum>(8)</enum><text>a
review of any other essential elements of the University Programs to be
determined in the conduct of the study.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H001FF0621D6A4C3C96A949864F2500EB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>The
Under Secretary for Science and Technology shall transmit a report containing
the results of the study and recommendations required by subsection (a) and the
Under Secretary’s response to the recommendations, to the appropriate
Congressional committees not later than 24 months after the date of enactment
of this Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H65849D3BB21F4CAA80DF256297A3262D"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of
Appropriations</header><text>Of the amount authorized in section 101, there is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $500,000.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H014EBF1616BD4853B951591B4FF040FD"><enum>804.</enum><header>Streamlining of
SAFETY Act and antiterrorism technology procurement processes</header>
<subsection id="H0BB360F80F474CC6A4A604E824436EE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Personnel</header><text>The
Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that, in addition to any personnel
engaged in technical evaluations that may be appropriate, a sufficient number
of full-time equivalent personnel, who are properly trained and qualified to
apply legal, economic, and risk analyses, are involved in the review and
prioritization of antiterrorism technologies for the purpose of determining
whether such technologies may be designated by the Secretary as qualified
antiterrorism technologies under section 862(b) of the SAFETY Act
(6 U.S.C.
441(b)) or certified by the Secretary under section 863(d) of
such Act (6 U.S.C.
442(d)).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H498B9F09E2FE4062BE3C2F7D43CE45C1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Coordination
Within Department of Homeland Security</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland
Security shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HE10A4A060E4744129D581C60565E03FA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>establish a formal
coordination process that includes the official of the Department of Homeland
Security with primary responsibility for the implementation of the SAFETY Act,
the Chief Procurement Officer of the Department, the Under Secretary for
Science and Technology, the Under Secretary for Policy, and the Department of
Homeland Security General Counsel to ensure the application of the litigation
and risk management provisions of the SAFETY Act to antiterrorism technologies
procured by the Department; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H21657B04B51847EAA21CFC1D002F72A9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>promote awareness
and utilization of the litigation and risk management provisions of the SAFETY
Act in the procurement of antiterrorism technologies.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H77D4EBCF62B74D929DFF5BCAC8E99165"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Issuance of
Departmental Directive</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall,
in accordance with the final rule implementing the SAFETY Act, issue a
Departmental management directive providing for coordination between Department
procurement officials and any other Department official responsible for
implementing the SAFETY Act in advance of any Department procurement of an
antiterrorism technology, as required under subsection (b).</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HFC32D7A51CE04BC1BBCC1CA14C2F9DEF"><enum>805.</enum><header>Promoting
antiterrorism through International Cooperation Act</header>
<subsection id="H662C85C5D6444807BE4BEA3028CE5642"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header><text>Title III of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
(6 U.S.C. 181 et
seq.) is further amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H250FB86A6DC347AC0016617C8B49B971" style="OLC">
<section id="H76154FE080544BFC8B7DD2C5A3B5ECD"><enum>319.</enum><header>Promoting
antiterrorism through international cooperation program</header>
<subsection id="HBF0113076FB841BAA4169123FE5831A9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="HD7E64596ABFD4A19A93762E4C111FA20"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Director</header><text>The
term <term>Director</term> means the Director selected under subsection
(b)(2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H682EEF97F12A4E6FA792EBF5F91FED1C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>International
cooperative activity</header><text>The term <term>international cooperative
activity</term> includes—</text>
<subparagraph id="H33303AD124954A539754D553E033E5A6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>coordinated
research projects, joint research projects, or joint ventures;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAD4ED9A753FD48C3878BB30587432098"><enum>(B)</enum><text>joint studies or
technical demonstrations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H31FFAE6B56064CEEBDF22E9D3000085D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>coordinated field
exercises, scientific seminars, conferences, symposia, and workshops;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0D61DB7C3F4C4465ACF2FEFD5F5B00F"><enum>(D)</enum><text>training of
scientists and engineers;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H596B856F19F247558412BA1B3900D815"><enum>(E)</enum><text>visits and
exchanges of scientists, engineers, or other appropriate personnel;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H19A72E281FF74B9DB23C3620F674ACBB"><enum>(F)</enum><text>exchanges or
sharing of scientific and technological information; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD1BADA7CB22D4AB3A3F58F48EBD07DE3"><enum>(G)</enum><text>joint use of
laboratory facilities and equipment.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H936788DA855B42579026CDDE1E557C36"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Science and
Technology Homeland Security International Cooperative Programs Office</header>
<paragraph id="HBAE9CC2448B044898679F72B93A5A1E7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>The
Under Secretary shall establish the Science and Technology Homeland Security
International Cooperative Programs Office.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1846B8D4B49F4D4BA8E04B3B0009F46D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Director</header><text>The
Office shall be headed by a Director, who—</text>
<subparagraph id="H4C8CA754B8CE46DA8E035BCDC2B49D9D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall be selected
by and shall report to the Under Secretary; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3990F4C3F1E8431690D34033FA2284BD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>may be an officer
of the Department serving in another position.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3D060E418C7A478B84E01FBAC25BF24D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header>
<subparagraph id="H677B24FBA9374929BD61BECFE2CC65B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Development of
mechanisms</header><text>The Director shall be responsible for developing, in
consultation with the Department of State, understandings or agreements that
allow and support international cooperative activity in support of homeland
security research, development, and comparative testing.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAF1D7DE5BE144162B8964F1795E10021"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Priorities</header><text>The
Director shall be responsible for developing, in coordination with the
Directorate of Science and Technology, the other components of the Department
of Homeland Security, and other Federal agencies, strategic priorities for
international cooperative activity in support of homeland security research,
development, and comparative testing.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H395C800628354329AD326DEB76B67094"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Activities</header><text>The
Director shall facilitate the planning, development, and implementation of
international cooperative activity to address the strategic priorities
developed under subparagraph (B) through mechanisms the Under Secretary
considers appropriate, including grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts
to or with foreign public or private entities, governmental organizations,
businesses, federally funded research and development centers, and
universities.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE77D2BA40A4341EBAD9064A8BE0479E"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Identification of
partners</header><text>The Director shall facilitate the matching of United
States entities engaged in homeland security research with non-United States
entities engaged in homeland security research so that they may partner in
homeland security research activities.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H48ED89421FF044E6BF1112E1FA003EE5"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text>The
Director shall ensure that the activities under this subsection are coordinated
with those of other relevant research agencies, and may run projects jointly
with other agencies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HADAB183EC1AE490C8EE3A3BF65B8B691"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Conferences and
workshops</header><text>The Director may hold international homeland security
technology workshops and conferences to improve contact among the international
community of technology developers and to help establish direction for future
technology goals.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE3116B1B93194786A70000FEEA4C4F79"><enum>(c)</enum><header>International
Cooperative Activities</header>
<paragraph id="HCB5C2E522E9F4BE4B55548B3C4A09D5E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Authorization</header><text>The
Under Secretary is authorized to carry out international cooperative activities
to support the responsibilities specified under section 302.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H65CC0379720F409D938F382D126677BF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Mechanisms and
equitability</header><text>In carrying out this section, the Under Secretary
may award grants to and enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with
United States governmental organizations, businesses (including small
businesses and small and disadvantaged businesses), federally funded research
and development centers, institutions of higher education, and foreign public
or private entities. The Under Secretary shall ensure that funding and
resources expended in international cooperative activities will be equitably
matched by the foreign partner organization through direct funding or funding
of complementary activities, or through provision of staff, facilities,
materials, or equipment.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H28E6914561964C23B1DCA92428972DFB"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Loans of
equipment</header><text>The Under Secretary may make or accept loans of
equipment for research and development and comparative testing purposes.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H00BA3682E52B495E0094DA6064E9531F"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Cooperation</header><text>The
Under Secretary is authorized to conduct international cooperative activities
jointly with other agencies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H14AC7A918AAA4752B8C200C1B881712B"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Foreign
partners</header><text>Partners may include Israel, the United Kingdom, Canada,
Australia, Singapore, and other allies in the global war on terrorism, as
appropriate.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5E34F2C4573340708C8CFB588B47C1AA"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Exotic
diseases</header><text>As part of the international cooperative activities
authorized in this section, the Under Secretary, in coordination with the Chief
Medical Officer, may facilitate the development of information sharing and
other types of cooperative mechanisms with foreign countries, including nations
in Africa, to strengthen American preparedness against threats to the Nation’s
agricultural and public health sectors from exotic diseases.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2A178DC002964ADFB06060F6B3B63C63"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Budget
Allocation</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to the
Secretary, to be derived from amounts otherwise authorized for the Directorate
of Science and Technology, $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008
through 2011 for activities under this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H8331A342E99D4AFB8FFDEA97781FCF5E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Foreign
Reimbursements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Whenever the
Science and Technology Homeland Security International Cooperative Programs
Office participates in an international cooperative activity with a foreign
country on a cost-sharing basis, any reimbursements or contributions received
from that foreign country to meet its share of the project may, subject to the
availability of appropriations for such purpose, be credited to appropriate
current appropriations accounts of the Directorate of Science and
Technology.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE4F44C04EBF046BCBCE8950012BB005F"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Report to
Congress on International Cooperative Activities</header>
<paragraph id="H57E3B472A9E24099938FB80D006E87"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Initial
report</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of
this section, the Under Secretary, acting through the Director, shall transmit
to the Congress a report containing—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3D1618CD87F946D995F94DAAC0B600"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a brief description
of each partnership formed under subsection (b)(4), including the participants,
goals, and amount and sources of funding; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA658E9BE6164421E001F498B77A74208"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a list of
international cooperative activities underway, including the participants,
goals, expected duration, and amount and sources of funding, including
resources provided to support the activities in lieu of direct funding.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2F9EA31F01EC4883BF9D93572C695B1C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Updates</header><text>At
the end of the fiscal year that occurs 5 years after the transmittal of the
report under subsection (a), and every 5 years thereafter, the Under Secretary,
acting through the Director, shall transmit to the Congress an update of the
report required under subsection
(a).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H013D69E52DCE49B5B6D6A36EA3AAC8C3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
Amendment</header><text>The table of contents for the Homeland Security Act of
2002 is further amended by adding at the end of the items relating to such
title the following new item:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H39480C1832044C5FA9BD267E915C7100" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 319. Promoting antiterrorism through
international cooperation
program.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H14A4A9A4D1F44C379F002FD5FE95C3D5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>806.</enum><header>Availability of
testing facilities and equipment</header>
<subsection id="HE66C6C3F2D14421EBDF73D3D3F924D37"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority</header><text>The
Under Secretary for Science and Technology or his designee may make available
to any person or entity, for an appropriate fee, the services of any Department
of Homeland Security owned and operated center, or other testing facility for
the testing of materials, equipment, models, computer software, and other items
designed to advance the homeland security mission.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H5AE40CDAFA0C4A0D9DC0ED3575C15E1F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Interference
with federal programs</header><text>The Under Secretary for Science and
Technology shall ensure that the testing of materiel and other items not owned
by the Government shall not cause government personnel or other government
resources to be diverted from scheduled tests of Government materiel or
otherwise interfere with Government mission requirements.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H7B12A09D1F1146709DB547D32E49E6CC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Confidentiality
of test results</header><text>The results of tests performed with services made
available under subsection (a) and any associated data provided by the person
or entity for the conduct of such tests are trade secrets or commercial or
financial information that is privileged or confidential within the meaning of
section
552b(4) of title 5, United States Code, and may not be
disclosed outside the Federal Government without the consent of the person or
entity for whom the tests are performed.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H8F02654261BF413BB471C1B480A8B028"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Fees</header><text>The
fees for exercising the authorities under subsection (a) may not exceed the
amount necessary to recoup the direct and indirect costs involved, such as
direct costs of utilities, contractor support, and salaries of personnel that
are incurred by the United States to provide for the testing.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE7D33E43FB4B402ABE66CA009E927E8E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Use of
fees</header><text>The fees for exercising the authorities under subsection (a)
shall be credited to the appropriations or other funds of the Directorate of
Science and Technology.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD127ED6063CC48B286BB37D34B6726DE"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Operational
plan</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Under Secretary for Science and Technology shall submit to
Congress a report detailing a plan for operating a program that would allow any
person or entity, for an appropriate feel, to use any center or testing
facility owned and operated by the Department of Homeland Security for testing
of materials, equipment, models, computer software, and other items designed to
advance the homeland security mission. The plan shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="H6B922F012E6544DAAF131E18B1F67766"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a
list of the facilities and equipment that could be made available to such
persons or entities;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF2A57858B7C444FAB6A6D0C1D3DEF51"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a
five-year budget plan, including the costs for facility construction, staff
training, contract and legal fees, equipment maintenance and operation, and any
incidental costs associated with the program;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE366327C208E4B1A805539B2F120AFE8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A
five-year estimate of the number of users and fees to be collected;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H42873F4F39EC484B971628E300CF9E87"><enum>(4)</enum><text>a
list of criteria for selecting private-sector users from a pool of applicants,
including any special requirements for foreign applicants; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H98E53EEEED7D4806AF24AAC461E21303"><enum>(5)</enum><text>an assessment of
the effect the program would have on the ability of a center or testing
facility to meet its obligations under other Federal programs.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H210811FC3F48434AB74E9BAC00B0C300"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Report to
congress</header><text>The Under Secretary for Science and Technology shall
submit to Congress an annual report containing a list of the centers and
testing facilities that have collected fees under this section, the amount of
fees collected, a brief description of each partnership formed under this
section, and the purpose for which the testing was conducted.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H44F7A64E1D9D454897153D65B4E4EB53"><enum>(h)</enum><header>GAO</header><text>Not
later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Comptroller General shall submit to Congress an assessment of the
implementation of this section.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>IX</enum><header>Border Security
Improvements</header>
<section id="HA15774B161DB49A097F886EFA7587FD1"><enum>901.</enum><header>US–VISIT</header>
<subsection id="H0DA1566DF050407FA5E4F4ECC1A645C4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 7 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee on
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the comprehensive strategy
required by section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention
Act of 2004 for the biometric entry and exit data system (commonly referred to
as the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program
or US–VISIT) established under the section and other laws described in
subsection (b) of such section. The comprehensive strategy shall include an
action plan for full implementation of the biometric exit component of
US–VISIT, as required under subsection (d) of section 7208 of such Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD1B99BAC960447AEA962B406A59F06BB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The
comprehensive strategy and action plan referred to in subsection (a) shall, at
a minimum, include the following:</text>
<paragraph id="HA1383DB8661C470B00ADCE03C1ADFDE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>An
explanation of how US–VISIT will allow law enforcement officials to identify
individuals who overstay their visas.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDBDF2F956747460E94CA794E067ED0C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A
description of biometric pilot projects, including the schedule for testing,
locations, cost estimates, resources needed, and performance measures.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE908AEF14B8B419CA7AC9FB348F52106"><enum>(3)</enum><text>An implementation
schedule for deploying future biometric exit capabilities at all air, land, and
sea ports of entry.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H64FB61BEBBB844089923382D9EC7A6AC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The actions the
Secretary plans to take to accelerate the full implementation of the biometric
exit component of US–VISIT at all air, land, and sea ports of entry.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDFC52EE6381C4AFFA9DA53CAB4D3723"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Airport and
seaport exit implementation</header><text>Not later than December 31, 2008, the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall complete the exit portion of the biometric
entry and exit data system referred to in subsection (a) for aliens arriving in
or departing from the United States at an airport or seaport.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H8F80D328551844A1BC6820DA2554B5A9"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Prohibition on
transfer</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall not transfer to
the National Protection and Programs Directorate of the Department of Homeland
Security the office of the Department that carries out the biometric entry and
exit data system referred to in subsection (a) until the Secretary submits to
the committees specified in such subsection the action plan referred to in such
subsection for full implementation of the biometric exit component of US-VISIT
at all ports of entry.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H7771748702F146F7AB9D5CF39DE045C6"><enum>902.</enum><header>Shadow Wolves
program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the amount
authorized by section 101, there is authorized to be appropriated $4,100,000
for fiscal year 2008 for the Shadow Wolves program.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7D8FB95C3D63457AB859B0A8A5F9D335"><enum>903.</enum><header>Cost-effective
training for border patrol agents</header>
<subsection id="HE1F82ADA24EF48C386D754E9FB58B1AF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall take such steps
as may be necessary to control the costs of hiring, training, and deploying new
Border Patrol agents, including—</text>
<paragraph id="H58826AC5078745F7A89E72FDA23E731"><enum>(1)</enum><text>permitting
individuals who are in training to become Border Patrol agents to waive certain
course requirements of such training if such individuals have earlier satisfied
such requirements in a similar or comparable manner as determined by the
Secretary; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE3C2F4124B504AB2B6A57C9081B47812"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">directing the Office of Inspector General
to conduct a review of the costs and feasibility of training new Border Patrol
agents at Federal training centers, including the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center facility in Charleston, South Carolina, and the HAMMER facility
in Hanford, Washington, and at training facilities operated by State and local
law enforcement academies, non-profit entities, and private entities, including
institutions in the southwest border region, as well as the use of all of the
above to conduct portions of such training.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H839B6B517DDC4E9BA750BAF95667C41B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on
per-agent cost of training</header>
<paragraph id="H660D52C3712A460ABC288E1FE6176BB8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary shall
take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that the fiscal year 2008
per-agent cost of hiring, training, and deploying each new Border Patrol agent
does not exceed $150,000.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCCF794E685CC45488551BD4C293582FD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exception and
certification</header><text>If the Secretary determines that the per-agent cost
referred to in paragraph (1) exceeds $150,000, the Secretary shall promptly
submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a
certification explaining why such per-agent cost exceeds such amount.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEAFA418DF1CD4B38AF12F1E390ECAFA1"><enum>904.</enum><header>Report on
implementation of the student and exchange visitor program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report to update the Government
Accountability Office report of June 18, 2004, GAO–04–690, on the Student and
Exchange Visitor Program (referred to in this section as <quote>SEVP</quote>)
and specifically the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (referred
to in this section as <quote>SEVIS</quote>). The report shall include the
following information:</text>
<paragraph id="H55D9894534F94F8191A27E2367487267"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The rate of
compliance with the current SEVIS requirements by program sponsors and
educational institutions, including non-academic institutions authorized to
admit students under SEVIS.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4B3D76AC95A54A3A91F9DEBE07E3BFAE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Whether there are
differences in compliance rates among different types and sizes of institutions
participating in SEVIS.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2DCFC64244A142B4B0E9FBC100EA9475"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Whether SEVIS
adequately ensures that each covered foreign student or exchange visitor in
nonimmigrant status is, in fact, actively participating in the program for
which admission to the United States was granted.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFA90CD050B7542FCA2769DCA30495461"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Whether SEVIS
includes data fields to ensure that each covered foreign student or exchange
visitor in nonimmigrant status is meeting minimum academic or program standards
and that major courses of study are recorded, especially those that may be of
national security concern.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE85FB8C9C81B403290E8FBA546EF600"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Whether the
Secretary of Homeland Security provides adequate access, training, and
technical support to authorized users from the sponsoring programs and
educational institutions in which covered foreign students and exchange
visitors in a nonimmigrant status are enrolled.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2F3A1502138249739DA610A238211DC9"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Whether each
sponsoring program or educational institution participating in SEVP has
designated enough authorized users to comply with SEVIS requirements.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9F309886E32248DCA7173E096FC6A73F"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Whether authorized
users at program sponsors or educational institutions are adequately vetted and
trained.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H240247885D2E46F5A532A1DCEDCC690"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Whether the fees
collected are adequate to support SEVIS.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB0F75DC918434D7B9300BD89E100F15E"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Whether there any
new authorities, capabilities, or resources needed for SEVP and SEVIS to fully
perform.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H68CF55E776E246AF9172B321D7C139C0"><enum>905.</enum><header>Assessment of
resources necessary to reduce crossing times at land ports of
entry</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of
Homeland Security shall, not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, conduct an assessment, and submit a report to the
Congress, on the personnel, infrastructure, and technology required to reduce
border crossing wait times for pedestrian, commercial, and non-commercial
vehicular traffic at land ports of entry into the United States to wait times
less than prior to September 11, 2001, while ensuring appropriate security
checks continue to be conducted.</text>
</section><section id="H5F3444A3A5F04599A7C648001389CE29"><enum>906.</enum><header>Report by
Government Accountability Office regarding policies and procedures of the
Border Patrol</header>
<subsection id="H99903953B42D49028500AD09CCC6598E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of
the United States shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report regarding the policies and
procedures of the Border Patrol pertaining to the use of lethal and non-lethal
force and the pursuit of fleeing vehicles, including data on the number of
incidents in which lethal or non-lethal force was used and any penalties that
were imposed on Border Patrol agents as a result of such use.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE3F1D09CD4994AE38CC8BC91831D87C6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Consultation</header>
<paragraph id="H35EDCE443F964EFF8BCA89B539BB0105"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>In
complying with this section, the Comptroller General shall consult with Customs
and Border Protection and with representatives of the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="H0E40B80F74E54FD795D4CCE339E3E1D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>State and local law
enforcement agencies located along the northern and southern international
borders of the United States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0AA288F36EB643AEB8D901B5A4B93E05"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The National
Border Patrol Council.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H91165F7AE6434A44A050EC0042CD54C2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The National
Association of Former Border Patrol Officers.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB866DC5FA175405CB0261149B06D5770"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Human rights
groups with experience regarding aliens who cross the international land
borders of the United States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFDBDD879BE724D9CA1D357104973CD00"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Any other group
that the Comptroller General determines would be appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA560F111DC04420684AE30EA95615539"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Inclusion of
opinions</header><text>The Comptroller General shall attach written opinions
provided by groups referenced to in paragraph (1) as appendices to the
report.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HB7B98F1A6FDA4566BC80C8E43685E82B"><enum>907.</enum><header>Report on
Integrated Border Enforcement Team initiative</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a report
to the Congress on the status of the Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET)
initiative. The report should include an analysis of current resources
allocated to IBETs, an evaluation of progress made since the inception of the
program, and recommendations as to the level of resources that would be
required to improve the program’s effectiveness in the future.</text>
</section><section id="H50F285782DB0402FA65661512600B07D"><enum>908.</enum><header>Stolen and Lost
Travel Document database</header>
<subsection id="H5822B39EC97144E6806BF0001FEF70D8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of
Homeland Security, acting through the Commissioner of United States Customs and
Border Protection, shall, as expeditiously as possible, implement at primary
inspection points at United States ports of entry the Stolen and Lost Travel
Document database managed by Interpol.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H25B3197E6B044A8C972D2635D995BC50"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not
later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees (as defined in section
2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/101">6 U.S.C. 101</external-xref>)) a report on the
implementation required under subsection (a).</text>
</subsection></section><enum>X</enum><header>Information sharing
improvements </header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H496A5ACEF5804D439CA0CBD0E333BE59" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1001.</enum><header>State and local
fusion center program</header>
<subsection id="HC7D7BD348C1D4CBDA4C24C1F1BEA4748"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subtitle I of title
VIII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/481">6 U.S.C. 481 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by
striking sections 895 through 899 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H08347A7D2A234475B2E75EF39DBFD9" style="OLC">
<section id="HF3CB8DB933244585BD4F9CB65CC91400"><enum>895.</enum><header>State and local
fusion center program</header>
<subsection id="HEBCC8339E36E43EFAF05F87993C5D604"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall establish within the
Department a State and Local Fusion Center Program. The program shall be
overseen by the component charged with overseeing information sharing of
homeland security information with State, local and tribal law enforcement. The
purpose of the State and Local Fusion Center Program is to facilitate
information sharing between the Department and State, local, and tribal law
enforcement for homeland security and other purposes.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6AAB5F7308214F7FB7F489CBB25F6988"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of
Appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to the
Secretary such sums as are necessary for the Secretary to carry out the purpose
of the State and Local Fusion Center Program, including for—</text>
<paragraph id="H823E82DDAB8B4AC5A46B945E40D8BEED"><enum>(1)</enum><text>deploying
Department personnel with intelligence and operational skills to State and
local fusion centers participating in the Program;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF32723E3D0604742B6C4E1C0B8FFCB77"><enum>(2)</enum><text>hiring and
maintaining individuals with substantial law enforcement experience who have
retired from public service and deploying such individuals to State and local
fusion centers participating in the Program (with the consent of such centers);
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H80B75B4F22924A4CB9BFE799242FC2D5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>maintaining an
adequate number of staff at the headquarters of the Department to sustain and
manage the portion of the Program carried out at the headquarters and to
otherwise fill positions vacated by Department staff deployed to State and
local fusion centers participating in the
Program.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H6175A81AD04E40088EE28066773BE274"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by striking the items relating to sections 895 through 899 and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE0304256AA774480871563BF3D352826" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 895. State and Local Fusion Center
Program.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H06D70D46D68942DC9098006CF17DDC98"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Prior amendments
not affected</header><text>This section shall not be construed to affect the
application of sections 895 through 899 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
(including provisions enacted by the amendments made by those sections), as in
effect before the effective date of this section.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3E271323EBC7420CAC398BBACF58EE55" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1002.</enum><header>Fusion Center
Privacy and Civil Liberties Training Program</header>
<subsection id="HD78C3E2F474149E0B4CD276CE7F58E1D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subtitle A of title
II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/121">6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by
adding at the end the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCDC6A553B4724E8A006DA200F523BC4" style="OLC">
<section id="H4BA48E58E149437A8548A82E268EF159"><enum>203.</enum><header>Fusion center
privacy and civil liberties training program</header>
<subsection id="H2CB6412037534AD095DAAAD463A3759B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>The
Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis, the
Privacy Officer, and the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, shall
establish a program within the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to
provide privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights protection training for
appropriate Department employees and State, local, tribal employees serving in
State and local fusion centers participating in the State and Local Fusion
Center Program.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA872EF9C60D74C6AB21923D78E00CC62"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Mandatory
training</header>
<paragraph id="H8ADA48B3B9694D8693D0063C21960040"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Department
employees</header><text>The Secretary shall require each employee of the
Department who is embedded at a State or local fusion center and has access to
United States citizens and legal permanent residents personally identifiable
information to successfully complete training under the program established
under subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8C7107E47E8D4A5BB6CB3CD5310253F0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Fusion center
representatives</header><text>As a condition of receiving a grant from the
Department, a fusion center shall require each State, local, tribal, or private
sector representative of the fusion center to successfully complete training
under the program established under subsection (a) not later than six months
after the date on which the State or local fusion center at which the employee
is embedded receives a grant from the Department.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8C0DFAAC0D664D2F865509283B287D61"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Contents of
training</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training provided
under the program established under subsection (a) shall include training in
Federal law in each of the following:</text>
<paragraph id="HF81EBB6AB6344C6E8134E1926C62AB30"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Privacy, civil
liberties, and civil rights policies, procedures, and protocols that can
provide or control access to information at a State or local fusion
center.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H76C3E4E9591241978B4ECA96AAAB2600"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Privacy awareness training based on
section
552a of title 5, United States Code, popularly known as the
Privacy Act of 1974.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H568C6EBED9DE408490FCE000B466C738"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The handling of
personally identifiable information in a responsible and appropriate
manner.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA134460FB1AA4037924BC37700619243"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Appropriate
procedures for the destruction of information that is no longer needed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H70220789A9F24BB99BCD00201CAA9E9D"><enum>(5)</enum><text>The consequences
of failing to provide adequate privacy and civil liberties protections.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC3D50E0B96A5408F9F782F78EAFAB2B4"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Compliance with
Federal regulations setting standards for multijurisdictional criminal
intelligence systems, including 28 CFR 23 (as in effect on the date of the
enactment of this section).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H66FBBB35A21D4FF586BD1959BF3F6E7D"><enum>(7)</enum><text>The use of
immutable auditing mechanisms designed to track access to information at a
State or local fusion center.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H02B171267EC642FF902BC117EC9CA77E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Certification of
training</header><text>The Secretary, acting through the head of the Office of
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, shall issue a certificate to each person who
completes the training under this section and performs successfully in a
written examination administered by the Office of Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties. A copy of each such certificate issued to an individual working at a
participating fusion center shall be kept on file at that fusion center.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H227C4B930413466D9B56F0434E82F833"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts
authorized by section 101, there are authorized to be appropriate to carry out
this section—</text>
<paragraph id="H7EB456CFE7E448DF9958B9E71003555"><enum>(1)</enum><text>$3,000,000 for each
of fiscal years 2008 through 2013; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBDADEB3982A447818BFE99233187BDBD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>such sums as may
be necessary for each subsequent fiscal
year.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HBBCEEC4791504E538DC51BB7B893A51B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by adding at the end of the items relating to such subtitle the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H65974B27BCF547C7A0838385F200789B" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 203. Fusion center privacy and civil
liberties training
program.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="HC5EA822586134F4E8853D59048AB11FD"><enum>1003.</enum><header>Authority to
appoint and maintain a cadre of Federal annuitants for the Office of
Information Analysis</header>
<subsection id="H578A9A1B871E459A916BB9AFD460FFAE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For
purposes of this section—</text>
<paragraph id="HD7CE3DE45FE542FF8B43FFD8DE9949F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<quote>IA</quote> means the Office of Information Analysis;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB34C3324206246C48114094BA6D4D9B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<quote>annuitant</quote> means an annuitant under a Government retirement
system;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H832E259B0BA54B47AC08176CF6839FA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term
<quote>Government retirement system</quote> has the meaning given such term by
section 501(a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB2B1BDFBC1784A6DA2707DD32095E1D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term
<quote>employee</quote> has the meaning given such term by
section
2105 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9942536856F6436DA9EB5C2883D4C788"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Appointment
authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary
(acting through the Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis) may, for the
purpose of accelerating the ability of the IA to perform its statutory duties
under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, appoint annuitants to positions in the
IA in accordance with succeeding provisions of this section, except that no
authority under this subsection shall be available unless the Secretary
provides to Congress a certification that—</text>
<paragraph id="H4B94D20EEB7747619775620076CE4890"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Secretary has
submitted a request under section
8344(i) or
8468(f) of title 5, United States
Code, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, with respect to
positions in the IA;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2F88C09BBC314649AD72A3C1D987A037"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the request
described in paragraph (1) was properly filed; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H37835D3F82EA4AEDAE000032602CCA00"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Office of Personnel Management has not
responded to the request described in paragraph (1), by either approving,
denying, or seeking more information regarding such request, within 90 days
after the date on which such request was filed.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H39050BF367434439B67E8F27335444E1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Noncompetitive
procedures; exemption from offset</header><text>An appointment made under
subsection (b) shall not be subject to the provisions of title 5, United States
Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and any annuitant
serving pursuant to such an appointment shall be exempt from sections 8344 and
8468 of such title 5 (relating to annuities and pay on reemployment) and any
other similar provision of law under a Government retirement system.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H84E2F58A50FC4EA2A28BDA379DEDD85"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Limitations</header><text>No
appointment under subsection (b) may be made if such appointment would result
in the displacement of any employee or would cause the total number of
positions filled by annuitants appointed under such subsection to exceed 100 as
of any time (determined on a full-time equivalent basis).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H5E550C44E7764B129696917974E5AF60"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Rule of
construction</header><text>An annuitant as to whom an exemption under
subsection (c) is in effect shall not be considered an employee for purposes of
any Government retirement system.</text>
</subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07F0511D496240D4837995181D73168C"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Termination of
authority</header><text>Effective 2 years after the date of the enactment of
this Act—</text>
<paragraph id="H7FE222792CD54048AD3F4B722CB7B96"><enum>(1)</enum><text>all authority to
make appointments under subsection (b) shall cease to be available; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1A7CDFB7C20048CA8C24F7DB9E097B4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>all exemptions
under subsection (c) shall cease to be effective.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>XI</enum><header>Miscellaneous
Provisions</header>
<section id="H7A898D32475D4CF8A3F7ECD9D1168C87"><enum>1101.</enum><header>Rural homeland
security training initiative</header>
<subsection id="HDDD8749663AC4E5D9681DAA4270379BB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>The
Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish a program to be administered by
the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center of the Department
of Homeland Security to expand homeland security training to units of local and
tribal governments located in rural areas. The Secretary shall take the
following actions:</text>
<paragraph id="H763DAA03719B49C784604E42FCE5B20"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Evaluation of
needs of rural areas</header><text>The Secretary shall evaluate the needs of
such areas.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8F9DD50715224025A6F0D1D13FAC0021"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Development of
training programs</header><text>The Secretary shall develop expert training
programs designed to respond to the needs of such areas, including, but not
limited to, those pertaining to rural homeland security responses including
protections for privacy, and civil rights and civil liberties.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H64223715477844EDB2D26AB08C91496"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Provision of
training programs</header><text>The Secretary shall provide to such areas the
training programs developed under paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB43EB3E3E0F14E169C831300B7F98E54"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Outreach
efforts</header><text>The Secretary shall conduct outreach efforts to ensure
that such areas are aware of the training programs developed under paragraph
(2) so that such programs are made available to units of local government and
tribal governments located in rural areas.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4ED049EF64D84EDBAE3CBD993E39B882"><enum>(b)</enum><header>No duplication
or displacement of current programs</header><text>Any training program
developed under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) and any training provided by
the program pursuant to such subsection shall be developed or provided,
respectively, in a manner so as to not duplicate or displace any program in
existence on the date of the enactment of this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H716D881B7C4B4FA8A78BB079DE4838E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Prioritized
locations for rural homeland security training</header><text>In designating
sites for the provision of training under this section, the Secretary shall, to
the maximum extent possible and as appropriate, give priority to facilities of
the Department of Homeland Security in existence as of the date of the
enactment of this Act and to closed military installations, and to the extent
possible, shall conduct training onsite, at facilities operated by
participants.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HDA8F9BAF09294A2199CC7D69BB934E96"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Rural
defined</header><text>In this section, the term <quote>rural</quote> means an
area that is not located in a metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the
Office of Management and Budget.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4CB566B2FAD74569AB2FF24CF533E757"><enum>1102.</enum><header>Critical
infrastructure study</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Secretary of Homeland Security shall work with the Center for Risk and Economic
Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), led by the University of Southern
California, to evaluate the feasibility and practicality of creating further
incentives for private sector stakeholders to share protected critical
infrastructure information with the Department for homeland security and other
purposes.</text>
</section><section id="HD2DB8AC9C6144BC4B49EF1A73ECAE4B5"><enum>1103.</enum><header>Terrorist
watch list at high-risk critical infrastructure</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">From amounts authorized under section 101,
there may be appropriated such sums as are necessary for the Secretary of
Homeland Security to require each owner or operator of a Tier I or Tier II
critical infrastructure site as selected for the Buffer Zone Protection
Program, to conduct checks of their employees against available terrorist watch
lists.</text>
</section><section id="H88C2185CBF394EC39679907CC1CF7C5F"><enum>1104.</enum><header>Authorized use
of surplus military vehicles</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
include United States military surplus vehicles having demonstrated utility for
responding to terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies on the
Authorized Equipment List in order to allow State, local, and tribal agencies
to purchase, modify, upgrade, and maintain such vehicles using homeland
security assistance administered by the Department of Homeland Security.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCD80C36000E84BF095FBBC22A14DE3C3"><enum>1105.</enum><header>Computer
capabilities to support real-time incident management</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">From amounts authorized under section 101,
there are authorized such sums as may be necessary for the Secretary of
Homeland Security to encourage the development and use of software- or
Internet-based computer capabilities to support real-time incident management
by Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies. Such software-based capabilities
shall be scalable and not be based on proprietary systems to ensure the
compatibility of Federal, State, local, and tribal first responder agency
incident management systems. In the development and implementation of such
computer capabilities, the Secretary shall consider the feasibility and
desirability of including the following capabilities:</text>
<paragraph id="H899AF28A73534DC79071D04D8F5923"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Geographic
information system data.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H99DD3A934BCB434A9320E248BA10B089"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Personnel,
vehicle, and equipment tracking and monitoring.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3B331F467443498CA56732E063C48700"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Commodity tracking
and other logistics management.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3B484C1CB6C64E7E8B846C83798CED50"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Evacuation center
and shelter status tracking.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAA711A336B6D40BC8E1719F25307E1D5"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Such other
capabilities as determined appropriate by the Secretary.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H72BF7C82CBF943C4B8F3587BE194562B"><enum>1106.</enum><header>Expenditure
reports as a condition of homeland security grants</header>
<subsection id="HD034ACE5B64140C1A2B5AD1E6130D4F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header><text>Subtitle H of title VIII of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:</text>
<quoted-block id="H39E58D792B794B5286DFE1E05030DAE4" style="OLC">
<section id="H7B82818CE32946089445C449707DAAA0"><enum>890A.</enum><header>Expenditure
reports as a condition of homeland security grants</header>
<subsection id="H210085569850449A93396C3500183455"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Quarterly
Reports Required as a Condition of Homeland Security Grants</header>
<paragraph id="H7525B6D4BA2B41F9B7A3A8192080DAAB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Expenditure
reports required</header><text>As a condition of receiving a grant administered
by the Secretary, the Secretary shall require the grant recipient to submit
quarterly reports to the Secretary describing the nature and amount of each
expenditure made by the recipient using grant funds.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9F88E3AE5F4440FBA78703B82B71D485"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Deadline for
reports</header><text>Each report required under paragraph (1) shall be
submitted not later than 30 days after the last day of a fiscal quarter and
shall cover expenditures made during that fiscal quarter.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFA64CA04330B43F9928CC5CB7386C489"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Excluded
programs</header><text>This section shall not apply to or otherwise affect any
grant issued under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) or the Federal Fire Prevention and Control
Act of 1974 (15
U.S.C. 2201 et seq.).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H31A905981C594B3482490448A15835A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Publication of
Expenditures</header><text>Not later than 30 days after receiving a report
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall publish and make publicly available
on the Internet website of the Department a description of the nature and
amount of each expenditure covered by the report.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H027C36CA6CB64DB8B300E07C2C4E2405"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Protection of
Sensitive Information</header><text>In meeting the requirements of this
section, the Secretary shall take appropriate action to ensure that sensitive
information is not
disclosed.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H80A21B236CE14A6C9CEE94326870204D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
Amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by adding at the end of the items relating to such subtitle the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEA41E739D4DA42F1ACAB0231EF754DB5" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 890A. Expenditure reports as a
condition of homeland security
grants.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H63D78C0820EB493EB86EC7782C7DCAFD"><enum>1107.</enum><header>Encouraging
use of computerized training aids</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Under Secretary for Science and
Technology of the Department of Homeland Security shall use and make available
to State and local agencies computer simulations to help strengthen the ability
of municipalities to prepare for and respond to a chemical, biological, or
other terrorist attack, and to standardize response training.</text>
</section><section id="HDB7FDB27A31741A5BB020069DF31A21"><enum>1108.</enum><header>Metropolitan
Medical Response System Program</header>
<subsection id="H48F3B4EC3EF042479C98E6947B9E33D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Title V of the Homeland Security Act of 2002
(6 U.S.C. 311 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD2C938DEB4CA485A91A0D600B4602828" style="OLC">
<section id="H4D06440CCD04455192887ED9A3C1386C"><enum>522.</enum><header>Metropolitan
Medical Response System Program</header>
<subsection id="H498EE8EF171A4611A4A7D7119E604FCA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is a
Metropolitan Medical Response System Program (in this section referred to as
the <quote>program</quote>).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H474D9F420FC841059B1CDC44FFE69CF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The purpose of the program shall be to
support local jurisdictions in enhancing and maintaining all-hazards response
capabilities to manage mass casualty incidents (including terrorist acts using
chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear agents, or explosives, large-scale
hazardous materials incidents, epidemic disease outbreaks, and natural
disasters) by systematically enhancing and integrating first responders, public
health personnel, emergency management personnel, business representatives, and
volunteers.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC0AFDBB96F1849B6AF00A86423436B30"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Program
administration</header><text>The Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs shall
develop the programmatic and policy guidance for the program in coordination
with the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA666605E4B6D4007A2FDA39800E72914"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Personnel
costs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The program shall not
be subject to an administrative cap on the hiring of personnel to conduct
program activities.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H4ECC5979417741C285513137C1C4CF44"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Financial
assistance</header>
<paragraph id="HD529ED2718C6494288FEC852B4775831"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>The
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall administer
financial assistance provided to State and local jurisdictions under the
program.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H31848986A1614A93BFE4C8476E82BBF1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Assistance to
local jurisdictions</header><text>In providing financial assistance to a State
under the program, the Administrator shall ensure that 100 percent of the
amount of such assistance is allocated by the State to local jurisdictions,
except that a State may retain up to 20 percent of the amount of such
assistance to facilitate integration between the State and the local
jurisdiction pursuant to a written agreement between the State and the chair of
the Metropolitan Medical Response System steering committee.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H61B7E91ECCDD4EFE97BA48A33C02D14"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Mutual
aid</header>
<subparagraph id="H582702D86E6245F9BC899FF87CCC016D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Agreements</header><text>Local
jurisdictions receiving assistance under the program are encouraged to develop
and maintain memoranda of understanding and agreement with neighboring
jurisdictions to support a system of mutual aid among the jurisdictions.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H50AC2D92E5324B58B600B4609B342150"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>A
memorandum referred to in subparagraph (A) shall include, at a minimum,
policies and procedures to—</text>
<clause id="H6AFDD7AC1A974A20B754A31F7889FF6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>enable the timely
deployment of program personnel and equipment across jurisdictions and, if
relevant, across State boundaries;</text>
</clause><clause id="H85CA056E439E4955BB9BFDDD6773C7CA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>share information
in a consistent and timely manner; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H9359D125D1A84D5289942BAEC32729F5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>notify State
authorities of the deployment of program resources in a manner that ensures
coordination with State agencies without impeding the ability of program
personnel and equipment to respond rapidly to emergencies in other
jurisdictions.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H654C5C91F3D04A188EB4D2A3D5FEC722"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Authorization of
Appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts
authorized by section 101 there is authorized to be appropriated to carry out
the program $63,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through
2011.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H5F9AB93F4AEE4875003F5856B696DDD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Program
review</header>
<paragraph id="H96ACAA1CD2E644C1AE014FA9F73C8AD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Assistant
Secretary for Health Affairs shall conduct a review of the Metropolitan Medical
Response System Program.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5B5658B3AF64402EBE93A3B59459CB3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Content of
review</header><text>In conducting the review of the program, the Assistant
Secretary shall examine—</text>
<subparagraph id="H77384911A0344511B4F859B98264AE52"><enum>(A)</enum><text>strategic
goals;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3725B54F9658438193B97F40A43117E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>objectives;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H59543A401C5F4C9EA6F0FAD1294C12C2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>operational
capabilities;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H52C889D2DDD9485CA300A35B3E3ED5E9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>resource
requirements;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB26C890CEE184A8F92AF368C6F967306"><enum>(E)</enum><text>performance
metrics;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0FB3530FD6A240D1B5D55D0770B0DBD7"><enum>(F)</enum><text>administration;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDD10F338D5844E40AAB5843C3B70E39B"><enum>(G)</enum><text>whether the
program would be more effective if it were managed as a contractual
agreement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD33E236D894D48A4968C78E34F1D98"><enum>(H)</enum><text>the degree to which
the program’s strategic goals, objectives, and capabilities are incorporated in
State and local homeland security plans; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7675C12689C24A929C12D1A815DA35FC"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">challenges in the coordination among public
health, public safety, and other stakeholder groups to prepare for and respond
to mass casualty incidents.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H687652E4EC0748B5B6CAB2B2A3F5356E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not
later than 9 months after the date of enactment of this subsection, the
Assistant Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the results of the
review.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H42F52F8DC405444FA62900859CDD9C9C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header>
<paragraph id="H9F1DFBA9098C409C8EE134922F469FE1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Repeal</header><text>Section
635 of the Post-Katrina Management Reform Act of 2006 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/723">6 U.S.C. 723</external-xref>) is repealed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HADF53CC9B3AC4B289C26AFEAE592ECAE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Table of
contents</header><text>The table of contents contained in section 1(b) of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the item relating
to section 521 the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2EFDE1E5A0FE494C97F9154935D18000" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 522. Metropolitan Medical Response
System
Program.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H9FB917A9902B4768A583E81287CD15C2"><enum>1109.</enum><header>Identity fraud
prevention grant program</header>
<subsection id="H7BD0F083E4AC4B3BBF07AEEDA26021C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>Congress
finds the following:</text>
<paragraph id="HF351FD1CBE71472FB46555C81F1C77CE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States found that the 19
hijackers had been issued 16 State driver’s licenses (from Arizona, California,
Florida, and Virginia) and 14 State identification cards (from Florida,
Maryland and Virginia).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBA3A6E85CA2F4D5D8FA426375CD223C2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Commission
concluded that <quote>[s]ecure identification should begin in the United
States. The Federal Government should set standards for the issuance of birth
certificates and sources of identification, such as driver’s licenses. Fraud in
identification is no longer just a problem of theft. At many entry points to
vulnerable facilities, including gates for boarding aircraft, sources of
identification are the last opportunity to ensure that people are who they say
they are and to check whether they are terrorists.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H97630CFD4D184EA78BD4C9DA00BFD800"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Grant
program</header><text>Subtitle D of title IV of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 251 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC2211F2A453A49CE8350397C10BEAFA1" style="OLC">
<section id="H9925C2BBBFB24115B0652C5D31273275"><enum>447.</enum><header>Document fraud
prevention grant program</header>
<subsection id="H20DF0CFAE2944636A3E1FF9E04AE9E8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall establish a program to make grants
available to States to be used to prevent terrorists and other individuals from
fraudulently obtaining and using State-issued identification cards and to
develop more secure State-issued documents to be used for official Federal
purposes.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H06B4531B7D0D46C0B5BE4FEB9682E6C2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of
funds</header><text>A recipient of a grant under this section may use the grant
for any of the following purposes:</text>
<paragraph id="HC78A9E1242234651A95E95019B054E42"><enum>(1)</enum><text>To develop machine
readable technology, encryption methods, or other means of protecting against
unauthorized access of information appearing on licenses or
identification.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6175476FC237478D002150D78DDEC9B7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>To establish a
system for a State-to-State data exchange that allows electronic access to
States to information contained in a State department of motor vehicles
database.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H70860ACCB43B4F71BC73EA8BC738EF80"><enum>(3)</enum><text>To develop or
implement a security plan designed to safeguard the privacy of personal
information collected, maintained, and used by State motor vehicles offices
from unauthorized access, misuse, fraud, and identity theft.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFB9436266B0A4B85B9BB2B595BFDE24"><enum>(4)</enum><text>To develop a
querying service that allows access to Federal databases in a timely, secure,
and cost-effective manner, in order to verify the issuance, validity, content,
and completeness of source documents provided by applicants for identity
documents issued by State agencies, including departments of motor
vehicles.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA180F18BE37B4BE39E8C3B79FEC2FB66"><enum>(5)</enum><text>To develop a
system for States to capture and store digital images of identity source
documents and photographs of applicants in electronic format.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFC29387923E64C62BCC4D172B492CAEA"><enum>(6)</enum><text>To design systems
or establish procedures that would reduce the number of in-person visits
required to State departments of motor vehicles to obtain State-issued identity
documents used for Federal official purposes.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC8848765C09442BA9E781CAAC6E339BC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Priority in
awarding grants</header><text>In awarding grants under this section the
Secretary shall give priority to a State that demonstrates that—</text>
<paragraph id="HDCE6BB6FDF35402285F08B0032FD0054"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the grant will
assist the State in complying with any regulation issued by the Department to
prevent the fraudulent issuance of identification documents to be used for
official Federal purposes; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFC28E3E8295A4A68825B556D3D96B520"><enum>(2)</enum><text>such compliance
will facilitate the ability of other States to comply with such
regulations.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H39604C163AD8444A84BC4CE72BF15D83"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Limitation on
source of funding</header><text>The Secretary may not use amounts made
available under this section for any other grant program of the Department to
provide funding for expenses related to the REAL ID Act of 2005 (Public Law
109–13).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD98BF12448E54A368352B1433E844090"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts
authorized by section 101 there are authorized to be appropriated to the
Secretary for making grants under this section—</text>
<paragraph id="HC3A74DA888414D93A642CFDC6666C3F0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>$120,000,000 for
fiscal year 2008;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2988FDBCDF4D4677834F08D0D3E7E5C5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>$100,000,000 for
fiscal year 2009; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4DE43C88E88742BE0063FE7945B0065"><enum>(3)</enum><text>$80,000,000 for
fiscal year
2010.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H6CD883E9FC16465A9345CBDCCA8E8FAE"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is
amended by inserting after the items relating to such subtitle the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF0976E7E1FBD48ECA8CD65E274DE2B9" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 447. Document fraud prevention grant
program.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="HB273BF156B5942D9BBBAFB3EB1AFD757"><enum>1110.</enum><header>Technical
corrections</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Homeland
Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/296">Public Law 107–296</external-xref>;
6 U.S.C. 361 et
seq.) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H20A2EAD3703C4CBD9D174D6005C2126D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 1(b) in the table of contents by
striking the items relating to the second title XVIII, as added by section
501(b)(3) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/347">Public Law 109–347</external-xref>, and inserting
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC7107FDF7C5645638F0230EF5C8A752" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="title">TITLE XIX—DOMESTIC NUCLEAR DETECTION
OFFICE</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 1901. Domestic Nuclear Detection
Office.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 1902. Mission of Office. </toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 1903. Hiring authority.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 1904. Testing authority.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 1905. Relationship to other
Department entities and Federal agencies.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 1906. Contracting and grant making
authorities.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2DC14DB0A6DF4B08966E2D9F0845CBC6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating the second title XVIII, as
added by section 501(a) of
Public Law
109–347, as title XIX;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3FD0FD9561294A5A986C065085E74136"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in title XIX (as
so redesignated)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2F26046D09E94ED48B4B8EF450AA9F05"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating
sections 1801 through 1806 as sections 1901 through 1906, respectively;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFFAF9FC7B2724603888DFCB11DC3BBD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in section 1904(a)
(6 U.S.C.
594(a)), as so redesignated, by striking <quote>section
1802</quote> and inserting <quote>section 1902</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6027F85D8FD14D18A6FFE315AD5F0A6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in section 1906
(6 U.S.C.
596), as so redesignated, by striking <quote>section
1802(a)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>section
1902(a)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="H28F4C5601C3E434CAE3BDF958143DAD4"><enum>1111.</enum><header>Citizen
Corps</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the amount authorized
to be appropriated under section 101, such sums as may be necessary shall be
available to the Secretary of Homeland Security to encourage the use of Citizen
Corps funding and local Citizen Corps Councils to provide education and
training for populations located around critical infrastructure on preparing
for and responding to terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other
emergencies.</text>
</section><section id="H0932365B503C47A192C9004D004D7C94"><enum>1112.</enum><header>Report
regarding Department of Homeland Security implementation of Comptroller General
and Inspector General recommendations regarding protection of
agriculture</header>
<subsection id="H9263C3931D8E4490ADAC5FFBE8C700E7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Report
required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of
Homeland Security shall prepare a report describing how the Department of
Homeland Security will implement the applicable recommendations of the
following reports:</text>
<paragraph id="HE03D819015054894A8C099648B4FEACA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Comptroller
General report entitled <quote>Homeland Security: How Much is Being Done to
Protect Agriculture from a Terrorist Attack, but Important Challenges
Remain</quote> (GAO–05–214).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1C0A19872B4F44C5B400D19CC021D122"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Department of
Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report entitled <quote>The
Department of Homeland Security’s Role in Food Defense and Critical
Infrastructure Protection</quote> (OIG–07–33).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H36DD29C8BAD644CCBAB5CA37C7934AF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Submission of
report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 120
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit
the report to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
of the Senate. If the Secretary determines that a specific recommendation will
not be implemented or will not be fully implemented, the Secretary shall
include in the report a description of the reasoning or justification for the
determination.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H4C4B7D0F28614700838104B1FC98E597"><enum>1113.</enum><header>Report
regarding levee system</header>
<subsection id="H1F84A610A3B54A09A77E1CD8DD4488CF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report analyzing the threat, vulnerability, and
consequence of a terrorist attack on the levee system of the United
States.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H64D154412F3B4A84B9F700E809C781E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Existing
reports</header><text>In implementing this section, the Secretary may build
upon existing reports as necessary.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H4AF8227E1D9A46458CB16EE400262E5E"><enum>1114.</enum><header>Report on
Force Multiplier Program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not
later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of Homeland Security shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
report on the progress of the Secretary—</text>
<paragraph id="H18DB6467CC8246BA8EB1347D48483949"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in establishing
procedures to ensure compliance with
section
44917(a)(7) of title 49, United States Code; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD879CA8F77314055BEBF36AD24C29F00"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in accomplishing
the operational aspects of the Force Multiplier Program, as required pursuant
to the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public Law
109–295).</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H26BA94DDC508478B98E34C9E9D4B94D0"><enum>1115.</enum><header>Eligibility of
State judicial facilities for State homeland security grants</header>
<subsection id="HDCBBAE90FB2A40A89717097303D8CD48"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>States may utilize covered grants for the purpose of
providing funds to State and local judicial facilities for security at those
facilities.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H503B2275997F4064B4F99C89F6FD2194"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Covered
grants</header><text>For the purposes of this section, the term <quote>covered
grant</quote> means a grant under any of the following programs of the
Department of Homeland Security:</text>
<paragraph id="H230DFD7F479B457FA213365FBB687B6B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The State Homeland
Security Grant Program.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3324DF0A684E45BD9BF84E6EA4F87474"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Urban Area
Security Initiative.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H30217D95FC434AE0A25D3BA82036189D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1116.</enum><header>Data
sharing</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of
Homeland Security shall provide information relating to assistance requested or
provided in response to a terrorist attack, major disaster, or other emergency,
to Federal, State, or local law enforcement entities to assist in the location
of a missing child or registered sex offender. In providing such information,
the Secretary shall take reasonable steps to protect the privacy of
individuals.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE55C4BFC8F5345E2A5DF001C8F6B7923"><enum>1117.</enum><header> Cooperative
agreement with National Organization on Disability to carry out Emergency
Preparedness Initiative</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with
the Disability Coordinator of the Department of Homeland Security and the
Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the Department, shall use
amounts authorized under section 101 to enter into a cooperative agreement with
the National Organization on Disability to carry out the Emergency Preparedness
Initiative of such organization.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H49A9E2A470314FA486873E1EAE6FB8C1"><enum>1118.</enum><header>Consideration
of tourism in awarding Urban Area Security Initiative grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In awarding grants under the Urban Area
Security Initiative, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take into
consideration the number of tourists that have visited an urban area in the two
years preceding the year during which the Secretary awards the grant.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEB5E1FAC8C094D52B347004B2684CB6"><enum>1119.</enum><header>Study of
foreign rail security practices</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H316C8C2100BC4D378EA66664E356AD8E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">study select foreign rail security
practices, and the cost and feasibility of implementing selected best practices
that are not currently used in the United States, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE3B485BAF23B456A8700BACB002257FD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>implementing
covert testing processes to evaluate the effectiveness of rail system security
personnel;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5D74DFDEBDBD4F7AACE3BBBD00AD8C6C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>implementing
practices used by foreign rail operators that integrate security into
infrastructure design;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2E991AF1B22D4F0A9C10F909A5A4AD21"><enum>(C)</enum><text>implementing
random searches or screening of passengers and their baggage; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H03EA211D581D4357BBFFCFA3CE20CC56"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establishing and maintaining an information
clearinghouse on existing and emergency security technologies and security best
practices used in the passenger rail industry both in the United States and
abroad; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC9DE10F36FC1482D0058C14BB207C26"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">report the results of the study, together
with any recommendations that the Secretary may have for implementing covert
testing, practices for integrating security in infrastructure design, random
searches or screenings, and an information clearinghouse to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives not later than 1 year after
the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7165EAC3645B4662AFAB21098163A9BC"><enum>1120.</enum><header>FEMA recovery
office in Florida</header>
<subsection id="H12508312189A4B8AAB72D048893D6D73"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>To
provide eligible Federal assistance to individuals and State, local, and tribal
governments affected by Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne, Wilma,
Tropical Storm Bonnie, and other future declared emergencies and major
disasters, in a customer-focused, expeditious, effective, and consistent
manner, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Administration
shall maintain a recovery office in the State of Florida for a period of not
less than three years after the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H2CB36AE2C3C24966967FC5B971942500"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Structure</header><text>The
recovery office shall have an executive director, appointed by the
Administrator, who possesses a demonstrated ability and knowledge of emergency
management and homeland security, and a senior management team.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H69124890E9144BE39B71A07C65EA2181"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header><text>The
executive director, in coordination with State, local, and tribal governments,
non-profit organizations, including disaster relief organizations,
shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H70E42145C7A543C19C05D2783EAC8272"><enum>(1)</enum><text>work cooperatively
with local governments to mitigate the impact of a declared emergency or major
disaster; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE7F1007489D148FAAF689C664F4D5361"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide assistance
in a timely and effective manner to residents of Florida and other States as
determined appropriate by the Administrator for recovery from previous and
future declared emergencies and major disasters.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9E2B579C27D0437E9484C74ED0DD2C67"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Staffing</header><text>Staffing
levels of the recovery office shall be commensurate with the current and
projected workload as determined by the Administrator.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE1FA1DE56D3947A68002CC9BBE2C45AD"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Performance
measures</header><text>To ensure that the recovery office is meeting its
objectives, the Administrator shall identify performance measures that are
specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timed, including—</text>
<paragraph id="HF7B36BDE8C214231AB62E9CD1175BBF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>public assistance
program project worksheet completion rates; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5B830624D033456FA3D84FD5C9F21768"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the length of time
taken to reimburse recipients for public assistance.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1A1CAEEF88B5410498F2ED7500A2E13D"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Evaluation</header><text>The
Administrator shall evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the recovery
office in the State of Florida in meeting the requirements of this section. Not
later than three years after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Administrator shall report to the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives on whether continuing to operate
such office is necessary.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAFBF9D96F8C1400281DE0668E46CF399"><enum>1121.</enum><header>Requirement to
consult States regarding grant awards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Before the release by the Department of
Homeland Security of any information regarding the award of any grant to a
State with amounts authorized under section 101, including before submitting to
Congress any list of such grant awards, the Secretary of Homeland Security
shall consult with States.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8F61EB2E7BE44512B4691DA335B09B9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1122.</enum><header>Comptroller General
report on critical infrastructure</header>
<subsection id="H8A41B6FF9A1640048EE0EFA6D059B3EA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>The
Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study to—</text>
<paragraph id="HFF295D2CE1CB4C2B91D18B7BE75428DD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>determine the
extent to which architecture, engineering, surveying, and mapping activities
related to the critical infrastructure of the United States are being sent to
offshore locations;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA32964F71D65428898D576CE91AD0028"><enum>(2)</enum><text>assess whether any
vulnerabilities or threats exist with respect to terrorism; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA19ACC03352F4B278013640874D0927F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommend policies, regulations, or
legislation, as appropriate, that may be necessary to protect the national and
homeland security interests of the United States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF68D906E9F16495A9570B6EB6C124C81"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the study authorized by
this section, the Comptroller General shall consult with—</text>
<paragraph id="H6D8978BC81D64A96BD95E202A923837C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such other agencies of the Government of
the United States as are appropriate; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H87EA8328E6E8496CAADB027BFAE0C65B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">national organizations representing the
architecture, engineering, surveying, and mapping professions.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HCC9DC0924FA0445A96B8CA24E3DB52F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Comptroller General shall submit to the
Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, and
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, and to the Senate, by not
later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act a report on the
findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the study under this
section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3C8C639FAC62460A9BDDE53697F5197"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>As
used in this section—</text>
<paragraph id="H3BB3BDB150B84B60A59F6F63DBC511D0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each of the terms
<quote>architectural</quote>, <quote>engineering</quote>,
<quote>surveying</quote>, and <quote>mapping</quote>—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA21CB0ABAE324F708565D2916972907C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>subject to
subparagraph (B), has the same meaning such term has under
section
1102 of title 40, United States Code; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8EB99C6B628C4044BA73C0D5E68DF9CE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>includes services
performed by professionals such as surveyors, photogrammetrists, hydrographers,
geodesists, or cartographers in the collection, storage, retrieval, or
dissemination of graphical or digital data to depict natural or man-made
physical features, phenomena, or boundaries of the earth and any information
related to such data, including any such data that comprises the processing of
a survey, map, chart, geographic information system, remotely sensed image or
data, or aerial photograph; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC0693A008FBC4A27AE2796BC1FAB30E4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<quote>critical infrastructure</quote>—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0F5BC4B5E04946F99F8827091DEA5400"><enum>(A)</enum><text>means systems and
assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the
incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating
impact on security, national economic security, national public health or
safety, or any combination of those matters; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H90FEF1601A4D45A494D94167F085A8BB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>includes the basic
facilities, structures, and installations needed for the functioning of a
community or society, including transportation and communications systems,
water and power lines, power plants, and the built environment of private and
public institutions of the United States.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H62F187F407C949D0986FE0D1FF90BDE"><enum>1123.</enum><header>Improving the
nexus and fast registered traveler programs</header>
<subsection id="HB5F5494871DF4599AF7942B001CC37E6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Merging
requirements of nexus and fast</header>
<paragraph id="H5599E48B91D94158A4C6236F3F70FB42"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall merge the
procedures for the programs described in subsection (j) into a single
procedure, with common eligibility and security screening requirements,
enrollment processes, and sanctions regimes.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H49E34C17677D44178B8CE9F092003B26"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Specific
requirements</header><text>In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall
ensure that the procedures for the programs known as <quote>NEXUS
Highway</quote>, <quote>NEXUS Marine</quote>, and <quote>NEXUS Air</quote> are
integrated into such a single procedure.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H31F6FFB23ECB49979D92C700B2FD7C7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Integrating nexus
and fast information systems</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security
shall integrate all databases and information systems for the programs
described in subsection (j) in a manner that will permit any identification
card issued to a participant to operate in all locations where a program
described in such subsection is operating.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H2B45E66F7F434F28BF21DA55B8573D1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Creation of nexus
convertible lanes</header><text>In order to expand the NEXUS program described
in subsection (j)(2) to major northern border crossings, the Secretary of
Homeland Security, in consultation with appropriate representatives of the
Government of Canada, shall equip not fewer than six new northern border
crossings with NEXUS technology.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H079C7098E9EC417CADB06D42C69FB2EA"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Creation of
remote enrollment centers</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security, in
consultation with appropriate representatives of the Government of Canada,
shall create a minimum of two remote enrollment centers for the programs
described in subsection (j). Such a remote enrollment center shall be
established at each of the border crossings described in subsection (c).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HF3BE3B284C104988B47B8EDD501ED71F"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Creation of
mobile enrollment centers</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security, in
consultation with appropriate representatives of the Government of Canada,
shall create a minimum of two mobile enrollment centers for the programs
described in subsection (j). Such mobile enrollment centers shall be used to
accept and process applications in areas currently underserved by such
programs. The Secretary shall work with State and local authorities in
determining the locations of such mobile enrollment centers.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H630DC1C5AF90407DB7B5AEAA556D14B9"><enum>(f)</enum><header>On-line
application process</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
design an on-line application process for the programs described in subsection
(j). Such process shall permit individuals to securely submit their
applications on-line and schedule a security interview at the nearest
enrollment center.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H660DE179DFBE49E390DB81456FC3C535"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Promoting
enrollment</header>
<paragraph id="H347FEC136B58458A8BEC3484B59FEE2B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Creating
incentives for enrollment</header><text>In order to encourage applications for
the programs described in subsection (j), the Secretary of Homeland Security
shall develop a plan to admit participants in an amount that is as inexpensive
as possible per card issued for each of such programs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4740545915F84FADA31189B146AC8C9F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Customer service
phone number</header><text>In order to provide potential applicants with timely
information for the programs described in subsection (j), the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall create a customer service telephone number for such
programs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6F858ED0F80E4073B96832BF59899DA9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Publicity
campaign</header><text>The Secretary shall carry out a program to educate the
public regarding the benefits of the programs described in subsection
(j).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H49D76B5BCDF94E90BAE6B9EBBC9813"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Travel document
for travel into United States</header><text>For purposes of the plan required
under section 7209(b) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
of 2004, an identification card issued to a participant in a program described
in subsection (j) shall be considered a document sufficient on its own when
produced to denote identity and citizenship for travel into the United States
by United States citizens and by categories of individuals for whom
documentation requirements have previously been waived under section
212(d)(4)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1182(d)(4)(B)).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H166E1429935546219C805DEC0051B112"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not
later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of Homeland Security shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees
(as defined in section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/101">6 U.S.C. 101</external-xref>)) a
report on the implementation of subsections (a) through (g).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HBA485BC042E54446B9E769798D9332F0"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Programs</header><text>The
programs described in this subsection are the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H619D982CCB88457D99FA47D294DB331"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The FAST program
authorized under subpart B of title IV of the Tariff Act of 1930
(19 U.S.C. 1411 et
seq.).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H674E49EA90F740E5B0E8C0AE301BB7B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The NEXUS program
authorized under section 286(q) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (U.S.C.
1356(q)).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7F1885EF7E8146F78CAE1D2521EBD4F8"><enum>1124.</enum><header>Travel
documents</header>
<subsection id="H667723EFE27D46C5B9A6265DEDCF1F77"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Travel to Canada
and Mexico</header><text>Section 7209(b) of the Intelligence Reform and
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 is amended by adding at the end the following
new paragraphs:</text>
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<paragraph id="H6544B525F20143D1ACA346DD974D927E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Pass card
infrastructure</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall conduct
not less than one trial on the usability, reliability, and effectiveness of the
technology that the Secretary determines appropriate to implement the
documentary requirements of this subsection. The Secretary may not issue a
final rule implementing the requirements of this subsection until such time as
the Secretary has submitted to the appropriate congressional committees (as
defined in section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/101">6 U.S.C. 101</external-xref>)) a
report on the results and outcome of such trial or trials. The report shall
include data and evidence that demonstrates that the technology utilized in
such trial or trials is operationally superior to other alternative technology
infrastructures.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H285606376DCE4760919C1DD7798300E3"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Flexible
implementation period</header><text>In order to provide flexibility upon
implementation of the plan developed under paragraph (1), the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall establish a special procedure to permit an individual
who does not possess a passport or other document, or combination of documents,
as required under paragraph (1), but who the Secretary determines to be a
citizen of the United States, to re-enter the United States at an international
land or maritime border of the United States. The special procedure referred to
in this paragraph shall terminate on the date that is 180 days after the date
of the implementation of the plan described in paragraph (1)(A).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2983646B3AEC4E4D82E6204741047354"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Special rule for
certain minors</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (6), citizens of
the United States or Canada who are less than 16 years of age shall not be
required to present to an immigration officer a passport or other document, or
combination of documents, as required under paragraph (1), when returning or
traveling to the United States from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, or the Carribean
at any port of entry along the international land or maritime border of the
United States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAA3AE9EE8B00492DBC4D17F7A4FA27ED"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Special rule for
certain student minors traveling as part of an authorized and supervised school
trip</header><text>Notwithstanding the special rule described in paragraph (5),
the Secretary of Homeland Security is authorized to consider expanding the
special rule for certain minors described in such paragraph to a citizen of the
United States or Canada who is less than 19 years of age but is 16 years of age
or older and who is traveling between the United States and Canada at any port
of entry along the international or maritime border between the two countries
if such citizen is so traveling as a student as part of an authorized and
supervised school trip.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H22F373B1F313411BB646AED9A2B445E"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Public
outreach</header><text>To promote travel and trade across the United States
border, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall develop a public
communications plan to promote to United States citizens, representatives of
the travel and trade industries, and local government officials information
relating to the implementation of this subsection. The Secretary of Homeland
Security shall coordinate with representatives of the travel and trade
industries in the development of such public communications plan.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H87DF5E639979497DB2F3E6FC4403DCA7"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Cost-benefit
analysis</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall prepare an
extensive regulatory impact analysis that is fully compliant with Executive
Order No. 12866 and Office of Management and Budget Circular A-4 for an
economically significant regulatory action before publishing a rule with
respect to the implementation of the requirements of this
subsection.</text>
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</subsection><subsection id="H1BB317B0ABED4EE989E299D98FC6C6F8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not
later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and every 120
days thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees (as defined in section 2 of the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/101">6 U.S.C. 101</external-xref>)) a report on the
implementation of paragraphs (3) through (8) of section 7209(b) of the
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAC02098C147747BF8170F37C691EAB5"><enum>1125.</enum><header>Sense of the
Congress on Interoperability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the sense of the Congress that efforts
to achieve local, regional, and national interoperable emergency communications
in the near term should be supported and are critical in assisting communities
with their local and regional efforts to properly coordinate and execute their
interoperability plans.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5EC78E81AD5640D99593EA9CBFE9AFAA"><enum>1126.</enum><header>Travelers
Redress Inquiry Program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the
amount authorized to be appropriated under section 101, such sums as may be
necessary shall be available to the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all
necessary actions to protect the security of personal information submitted
electronically to the Internet website of the Department of Homeland Security
established for the Travelers Redress Inquiry Program and other websites of the
Department related to that program.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H764C4191EB9045728085824E6DB1ED89"><enum>1127.</enum><header>Transportation
Worker Identification Credential program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
work with the State of Florida and other States, as appropriate, to resolve the
differences between the Transportation Worker Identification Credential and
existing access control credentials.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB4FA1DB5C0DE45008CA5D54619AC38B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1128.</enum><header>Automated targeting
system for persons entering or departing the United States</header>
<subsection id="H65E5ABC82CC3465FB5C8242D4800BEB9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings of the
9/11 Commission</header><text>Congress finds that the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (commonly referred to as the 9/11
Commission) concluded that—</text>
<paragraph id="HAF0BD2B6EFDC400C92AACBDBE4AB0025"><enum>(1)</enum><text><quote>The small
terrorist travel intelligence collection and analysis program currently in
place has produced disproportionately useful results. It should be expanded.
Since officials at the border encounter travelers and their documents first and
investigate travel facilitators, they must work closely with intelligence
officials.</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF5BFD94234D74ADEBE9EFE15E83DFF01"><enum>(2)</enum><text><quote>Information
systems able to authenticate travel documents and detect potential terrorist
indicators should be used at consulates, at primary border inspection lines, in
immigration service offices, and intelligence and enforcement
units.</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6383B07F89BB4E068F9CD71D2400CF02"><enum>(3)</enum><text><quote>The
President should direct the Department of Homeland Security to lead the effort
to design a comprehensive screening system, addressing common problems and
setting common standards with systemwide goals in mind.</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE7998592A9D442FF8D503272EF3FEC0"><enum>(4)</enum><text><quote>A screening
system looks for particular, identifiable suspects or indicators of risk. It
does not involve guesswork about who might be dangerous. It requires frontline
border officials who have the tools and resources to establish that people are
who they say they are, intercept identifiable suspects, and disrupt terrorist
operations.</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H379A830C58714D2A903E6835EF5DE691"><enum>(5)</enum><text><quote>Inspectors
adjudicating entries of the 9/11 hijackers lacked adequate information and
knowledge of the rules. A modern border and immigration system should combine a
biometric entry-exit system with accessible files on visitors and immigrants,
along with intelligence on indicators of terrorist travel.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC7CC103EE445423383761200F406F4D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Automated
targeting system for persons entering or departing the United
States</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the
Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, may establish an automated
system for the purpose of the enforcement of United States law, including laws
relating to anti-terrorism and border security, to assist in the screening of
persons seeking to enter or depart the United States (in this section referred
to as the <quote>system</quote>).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA1648ED0F448410EABBFF9B875C253B4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Administrative
process to correct information</header><text>The Secretary, acting through the
Commissioner, shall ensure than an administrative process is established, or
application of an existing administrative process is extended, pursuant to
which any individual may apply to correct any information retained by the
system established under subsection (b). Nothing in this section shall be
construed as creating a private right of action for any case or claim arising
from the application of the system or the corrective administrative process
established or applied under this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC419F36EEAF9404380FA5EE5F9273F00"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Rule of
construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this
section shall be construed as abrogating, diminishing, or weakening the
provisions of any Federal or State law that prevents or protects against the
unauthorized collection or release of personal records.</text>
</subsection></section>
Passed the House of
Representatives May 9, 2007.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk.