A bill to establish a national competence for critical infrastructure protection, and for other purposes.

Summary: Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001- Directs the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) to provide: (1) support for the activities of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection and Continuity Board; and (2) modeling, simulation, and analysis of any systems (cyber and/or physical) comprising critical infrastructures to gain an increased understanding of their complexity, to facilitate modification to mitigate threats to such systems, to provide training to members of the Board, and to enhance the stability of critical infrastructures. Requires the Board to provide to the Center information on the critical infrastructure requirements of each Federal agency.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Critical Infrastructures Protection 
Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The Information revolution has transformed the conduct 
        of business and the operations of government as well as the 
        infrastructure relied upon for the defense and national 
        security of the United States.
            (2) Private business, government, and the national security 
        apparatus increasingly depend on an interdependent network of 
        critical physical and information infrastructures, including 
        telecommunications, energy, financial services, water, and 
        transportation sectors.
            (3) A continuous national effort is required to ensure the 
        reliable provision of cyber and physical infrastructure 
        services critical to maintaining the national defense, 
        continuity of government, economic prosperity, and quality of 
        life in the United States.
            (4) This national effort requires extensive modeling and 
        analytic capabilities for purposes of evaluating appropriate 
        mechanisms to ensure the stability of these complex and 
        interdependent systems, and to underpin policy recommendations, 
        so as to achieve the continuous viability and adequate 
        protection of the critical infrastructure of the nation.

SEC. 3. POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES.

    It is the policy of the United States--
            (1) that any physical or virtual disruption of the 
        operation of the critical infrastructures of the United States 
        be rare, brief, geographically limited in effect, manageable, 
        and minimally detrimental to the economy, essential human and 
        government services, and national security of the United 
        States;
            (2) that actions necessary to achieve the policy stated in 
        paragraph (1) be carried out in a public-private partnership 
        involving corporate and non-governmental organizations; and
            (3) to have in place a comprehensive and effective program 
        to ensure the continuity of essential Federal Government 
        functions under all circumstances.

SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL COMPETENCE FOR CRITICAL 
              INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION.

    (a) Support of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Continuity by 
National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center.--
            (1) In general.--The National Infrastructure Simulation and 
        Analysis Center (NISAC) shall provide support for the 
        activities of the President's Critical Infrastructure 
        Protection and Continuity Board under Executive Order ____.
            (2) Particular support.--The support provided for the Board 
        under paragraph (1) shall include the following:
                    (A) Modeling, simulation, and analysis of the 
                systems comprising critical infrastructures, including 
                cyber infrastructure, telecommunications 
                infrastructure, and physical infrastructure, in order 
                to enhance understanding of the large-scale complexity 
                of such systems and to facilitate modification of such 
                systems to mitigate the threats to such systems and to 
                critical infrastructures generally.
                    (B) Acquisition from State and local governments 
                and the private sector of data necessary to create and 
                maintain models of such systems and of critical 
                infrastructures generally.
                    (C) Utilization of modeling, simulation, and 
                analysis under subparagraph (A) to provide education 
                and training to members of the Board, and other 
                policymakers, on matters relating to--
                            (i) the analysis conducted under that 
                        subparagraph;
                            (ii) the implications of unintended or 
                        unintentional disturbances to critical 
                        infrastructures; and
                            (iii) responses to incidents or crises 
                        involving critical infrastructures, including 
                        the continuity of government and private sector 
                        activities through and after such incidents or 
                        crises.
                    (D) Utilization of modeling, simulation, and 
                analysis under subparagraph (A) to provide 
                recommendations to members of the Board and other 
                policymakers, and to departments and agencies of the 
                Federal Government and private sector persons and 
                entities upon request, regarding means of enhancing the 
                stability of, and preserving, critical infrastructures.
            (3) Recipient of certain support.--Modeling, simulation, 
        and analysis provided under this subsection to the Board shall 
        be provided, in particular, to the Infrastructure 
        Interdependencies committee of the Board under section 9(c)(8) 
        of the Executive Order referred to in paragraph (1).
    (b) Activities of President's Critical Infrastructure Protection 
and Continuity Board.--The Board shall provide to the Center 
appropriate information on the critical infrastructure requirements of 
each Federal agency for purposes of facilitating the provision of 
support by the Center for the Board under subsection (a).

SEC. 5. CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``critical infrastructure'' 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 national security, national economic security, 
national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is hereby authorized for the Department of Defense for fiscal 
year 2002, $8,000,000 for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for 
activities of the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis 
Center under section 4 in that fiscal year.