[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 126 (Thursday, July 26, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5431]
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SA 3624. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3399 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6147, making
appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. __. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available under this Act may be obligated or expended by
the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection
Agency, the Forest Service, the Indian Health Service, the
Smithsonian Institution, or any Federal agency for which
amounts are appropriated by division B or D of this Act, to
acquire telecommunications or video surveillance equipment
produced by Huawei Technologies Company, ZTE Corporation,
Hytera Communications Corporation, Ltd., Hangzhou Hikvision
Digital Technology Company, Ltd., or Dahua Technology
Company, Ltd. (or any subsidiary or affiliate of any of such
entities), or a high-impact or moderate-impact information
system, as defined for security categorization in the
National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST)
Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 199,
``Standards for Security Categorization of Federal
Information and Information Systems'', unless the agency
has--
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the information
systems against criteria developed by NIST to inform
acquisition decisions for high-impact and moderate-impact
information systems within the Federal Government;
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the presumptive
awardee against available and relevant threat information
provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other
appropriate agencies; and
(3) in consultation with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation or other appropriate Federal entity, conducted
an assessment of any risk of cyber-espionage or sabotage
associated with the acquisition of such system, including any
risk associated with such system being produced,
manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities identified
by the United States Government as posing a cyber threat,
including but not limited to, those that may be owned,
directed, or subsidized by the People's Republic of China,
the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, or the Russian Federation.
(b) Section 432(a) of division A of this Act, section
632(a) of division B of this Act, and section 420(a) of
division D of this Act shall have no force or effect.
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