1.Authorization of Securing the Cities
Initiative
(a)Title XIX of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
1908.Authorization of Securing the Cities
Initiative
(a)Congress finds the following:
(1)The Securing the Cities Initiative of the
Department uses next generation radiation detection technology to detect the
transport of nuclear and radiological material in urban areas by terrorists or
other unauthorized individuals.
(2)The technology used by partners in the
Securing the Cities Initiative leverages radiation detection technology used at
ports of entry.
(3)The Securing the Cities Initiative has
fostered unprecedented collaboration and coordination among its Federal, State,
and local partners.
(4)The Securing the Cities Initiative is a
critical national capability to detect the dangerous introduction of nuclear
and radiological material.
(b)Authorization of
AppropriationsThere is
authorized to be appropriated to the Director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection
Office of the Department for the Securing the Cities Initiative such sums as
may be necessary for each fiscal year, including—
(1)for each city in which it has been
implemented by fiscal year 2009—
(A)$40,000,000 for fiscal year 2010;
(B)$20,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;
and
(C)not less than $10,000,000 in sustainment
assistance for each fiscal year thereafter; and
(2)for additional Securing the Cities
initiatives to be implemented in not fewer than 2 sites participating in the
Urban Area Security Initiative, such sums as may be necessary each fiscal year
to implement and sustain each additional
initiative.
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(b)The table of contents in section 1(b) of
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the item
relating to section 1907 the following new item:
Sec. 1908. Authorization of
Securing the Cities
Initiative.
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Passed the House of
Representatives January 20, 2010.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk.