‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENTS.—To be eligible to receive 
a grant under this section, a law enforcement agency 
shall— 
‘‘(1) be located in— 
‘‘(A) a State bordering either Canada or 
Mexico; or 
‘‘(B) a State or territory with a maritime 
border; and 
‘‘(2) be involved in an active ongoing U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection operation coordinated 
through a sector office. 
‘‘(c) PERMITTED USES.—The recipient of a grant 
under this section may use the grant for any of the following 
activities: 
‘‘(1) Equipment, including maintenance and 
sustainment costs. 
‘‘(2) Personnel, including overtime and backfill, 
in support of enhanced border law enforcement activi-
ties. 
‘‘(3) Any activity permitted under the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security’s Fiscal Year 2014 Fund-
ing 
Opportunity 
Announcement 
for 
Operation 
Stonegarden. 
‘‘(4) Any other appropriate activity, as deter-
mined by the Administrator. 
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‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $110,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2015 through 2019 for grants under this section. 
‘‘(e) REPORT.—The Administrator shall annually sub-
mit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Home-
land Security of the House of Representatives a report con-
taining information on the expenditure of grants made 
under this section by each grant recipient.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after the 
items relating to subtitle B of title XX the following new 
items: 
‘‘Subtitle C—Other Grant Programs 
‘‘Sec. 2031. Operation Stonegarden.’’. 
SEC. 17. SALE OR DONATION OF EXCESS PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY FOR BORDER SECURITY ACTIVITIES. 
Section 2576a of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking 
‘‘counter-drug and counter-terrorism activities’’ 
and inserting ‘‘counterdrug, counterterrorism, 
and border security activities’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘the At-
torney General and the Director of National 
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Drug Control Policy’’ and inserting ‘‘the Attor-
ney General, the Director of National Drug Con-
trol Policy, and the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity, as appropriate.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘counter-drug 
or 
counter-terrorism 
activities’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘counterdrug, counterterrorism, or border security ac-
tivities’’. 
SEC. 18. REIMBURSEMENT OF STATES FOR DEPLOYMENT 
OF NATIONAL GUARD TO THE SOUTHERN 
LAND BORDER. 
Of the amounts authorized to be appropriate pursuant 
to section 21, not more than $35,000,000 may be used for 
any fiscal year to reimburse States for the cost of the de-
ployment of any units or personnel of the National Guard 
to perform operations and missions under State Active 
Duty status in support of a southern land border mission. 
SEC. 19. OPERATION OF THE BORDER PATROL. 
The Border Patrol shall operate using intelligence- 
based operations to combat terrorist and transnational 
criminal threats along the international borders of the 
United States. In carrying out this section, the Border Pa-
trol shall coordinate with international, Federal, State, 
local, and tribal law enforcement partners. 
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SEC. 20. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
ADVANCED
UNATTENDED
SURVEILLANCE 
SENSORS.—The term ‘‘advanced unattended surveil-
lance sensors’’ means sensors that utilize an onboard 
computer to analyze detections in an effort to discern 
between vehicles, humans, and animals, and ulti-
mately filter false positives prior to transmission. 
(2) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means the Committee on Homeland Security of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate. 
(3) COCAINE REMOVAL EFFECTIVENESS RATE.— 
The term ‘‘cocaine removal effectiveness rate’’ means 
the percentage that results from dividing the amount 
of cocaine removed by the Department of Homeland 
Security’s maritime security components inside or 
outside a transit zone, as the case may be, by the total 
documented cocaine flow rate as contained in Federal 
drug databases. 
(4) 
CONSEQUENCE
DELIVERY
SYSTEM.—The 
term ‘‘Consequence Delivery System’’ means the series 
of consequences applied to persons unlawfully enter-
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ing the United States by the Border Patrol to prevent 
unlawful border crossing recidivism. 
(5) GOT AWAY.—The term ‘‘got away’’ means an 
unlawful border crosser who, after making an unlaw-
ful entry into the United States, is not turned back 
or apprehended. 
(6) HIGH TRAFFIC AREAS.—The term ‘‘high traf-
fic areas’’ means sectors along the northern and 
southern land borders of the United States that are 
within the responsibility of the Border Patrol that 
have significant unlawful cross-border activity, in-
formed through situational awareness. 
(7) UNLAWFUL BORDER CROSSING EFFECTIVE-
NESS RATE.—The term ‘‘unlawful border crossing ef-
fectiveness rate’’ means the percentage that results 
from dividing the number of apprehensions and turn 
backs by the number of apprehensions, turn backs, 
and got aways. The data used by the Secretary of 
Homeland Security to determine such rate shall be 
collected and reported in a consistent and standard-
ized manner across all Border Patrol sectors, in-
formed by situational awareness. 
(8) MAJOR VIOLATOR.—The term ‘‘major viola-
tor’’ means a person or entity that has engaged in se-
rious criminal activities at any land, air, or sea port 
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of entry, including possession of illicit drugs, smug-
gling of prohibited products, human smuggling, weap-
ons possession, use of fraudulent United States docu-
ments, or other offenses serious enough to result in ar-
rest. 
(9) OPERATIONAL CONTROL.—The term ‘‘oper-
ational control’’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 2(b) of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (8 U.S.C. 
1701 note; Public Law 109–367). 
(10) SITUATIONAL AWARENESS.—The term ‘‘situ-
ational awareness’’ means knowledge and an under-
standing of current unlawful cross-border activity, in-
cluding cross-border threats and trends concerning il-
licit trafficking and unlawful crossings along the 
international borders of the United States, the ability 
to forecast future shifts in such threats and trends, 
and the operational capability to conduct continuous 
and integrated surveillance of the international bor-
ders of the United States. 
(11) TRANSIT ZONE.—The term ‘‘transit zone’’ 
means the sea corridors of the western Atlantic Ocean, 
the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the east-
ern Pacific Ocean through which undocumented mi-
grants and illicit drugs transit, either directly or in-
directly, to the United States. 
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(12) TURN BACK.—The term ‘‘turn back’’ means 
an unlawful border crosser who, after making an un-
lawful entry into the United States, returns to the 
country from which such crosser entered. 
SEC. 21. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated for each of fis-
cal years 2016 through 2025 $1,000,000,000 to carry out 
this Act and the amendments made by this Act. 
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Union Calendar No. 6 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 399 
[Report No. 114–10, Part I] 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
gain and maintain operational control of the 
international borders of the United States, and 
for other purposes. 
JANUARY 27, 2015 
Reported from the Committee on Homeland Security 
with an amendment 
JANUARY 27, 2015 
The Committees on Armed Services, Natural Resources, 
and Agriculture discharged; committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
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