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Union Calendar No. 224 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3493 

[Report No. 114–295] 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the Securing 

the Cities program to enhance the ability of the United States to detect 

and prevent terrorist attacks and other high consequence events utilizing 

nuclear or other radiological materials that pose a high risk to homeland 

security in high-risk urban areas, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 

Mr. DONOVAN (for himself, Mr. KING of New York, and Mr. MCCAUL) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 

OCTOBER 20, 2015 

Additional sponsor: Ms. JACKSON LEE

OCTOBER 20, 2015 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on September 11, 2015] 

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A BILL 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 

the Securing the Cities program to enhance the ability 

of the United States to detect and prevent terrorist attacks and other high consequence events utilizing nuclear 

or other radiological materials that pose a high risk 

to homeland security in high-risk urban areas, and for 

other purposes. 

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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing the Cities Act 

5 of 2015’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SECURING THE CITIES PROGRAM. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title XIX of the Homeland Secu8 rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 591 et seq.) is amended by add9 ing at the end the following new section: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 1908. SECURING THE CITIES PROGRAM. 

11 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director for Domestic 

12 Nuclear Detection shall establish the ‘Securing the Cities’ 

13 (‘STC’) program to enhance the ability of the United States 

14 to detect and prevent terrorist attacks and other high con15 sequence events utilizing nuclear or other radiological mate16 rials that pose a high risk to homeland security in high17 risk urban areas. Through such program the Director 

18 shall— 

19 ‘‘(1) assist State, local, tribal, and territorial 

20 governments in designing and implementing, or en21 hancing existing, architectures for coordinated and 

22 integrated detection and interdiction of nuclear or 

23 other radiological materials that are out of regulatory 

24 control; 

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1 ‘‘(2) support the development of a region-wide 

2 operating capability to detect and report on nuclear 

3 and other radioactive materials out of operational 

4 control; 

5 ‘‘(3) provide resources to enhance detection, anal6 ysis, communication, and coordination to better inte7 grate State, local, tribal, and territorial assets into 

8 Federal operations; 

9 ‘‘(4) facilitate alarm adjudication and provide 

10 subject matter expertise and technical assistance on 

11 concepts of operations, training, exercises, and alarm 

12 response protocols; 

13 ‘‘(5) communicate with, and promote sharing of 

14 information about the presence or detection of nuclear 

15 or other radiological materials among appropriate 

16 Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial govern17 ments, in a manner that ensures transparency with 

18 the jurisdictions served by such program; and 

19 ‘‘(6) provide any other assistance the Director 

20 determines appropriate. 

21 ‘‘(b) DESIGNATION OF JURISDICTIONS.—In carrying 

22 out the program under subsection (a), the Director shall des23 ignate jurisdictions from among high-risk urban areas 

24 under section 2003, and other cities and regions, as appro25 priate. 

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1 ‘‘(c) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION.—The Director 

2 shall notify the Committee on Homeland Security and the 

3 Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representa4 tives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov5 ernmental Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of 

6 the Senate not later than three days before the designation 

7 of new jurisdictions under subsection (b) or other changes 

8 to participating jurisdictions. 

9 ‘‘(d) GAO REPORT.—Not later than one year after the 

10 date of the enactment of this section, the Comptroller Gen11 eral of the United States shall submit to the congressional 

12 committees specified in subsection (c) an assessment, in13 cluding an evaluation of the effectiveness, of the STC pro14 gram under this section. 

15 ‘‘(e) PROHIBITION ON ADDITIONAL FUNDING.—No 

16 funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 

17 section. This section shall be carried out using amounts oth18 erwise appropriated or made available for such purpose.’’. 

19 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 

20 section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 

21 amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1907 

22 the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 1908. Securing the Cities program.’’. 

23 SEC. 3. MODEL EXERCISES. 

24 Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment 

25 of this Act, the Director for Domestic Nuclear Detection of 

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1 the Department of Homeland Security shall report to the 

2 Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on 

3 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 

4 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af5 fairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate 

6 on the feasibility of the Director developing model exercises 

7 to test the preparedness of jurisdictions participating in the 

8 Securing the Cities program under section 1908 of the 

9 Homeland Security Act of 2002 (as added by section 2 of 

10 this Act) in meeting the challenges that may be posed by 

11 a range of nuclear and radiological threats. 

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Union Calendar No. 224 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3493 

[Report No. 114–295] 

A BILL 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 

other purposes. land security in high-risk urban areas, and for logical materials that pose a high risk to homesequence events utilizing nuclear or other radioand prevent terrorist attacks and other high conhance the ability of the United States to detect establish the Securing the Cities program to enOCTOBER 20, 2015 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 

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