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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Directing Officer of the NBIC 
shall— 
‘‘(i) establish a method of real-time communication 
with the National Operations Center; 
‘‘(ii) in the event that a biological event of national 
concern is detected, notify the Secretary and dissemi-
nate results of NBIC assessments relating to that 
biological event of national concern to appropriate Fed-
eral response entities and, in coordination with rel-
evant Member Agencies, regional, State, local, and 
tribal governmental response entities in a timely 
manner; 
‘‘(iii) provide any report on NBIC assessments to 
Member Agencies and, in coordination with relevant 
Member Agencies, any affected regional, State, local, 
or tribal government, and any private sector entity 
considered appropriate that may enhance the mission 
of such Member Agencies, governments, or entities 
or the ability of the Nation to respond to biological 
events of national concern; and 
‘‘(iv) share NBIC incident or situational awareness 
reports, and other relevant information, consistent with 
the information sharing environment established under 
section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism 
Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485) and any policies, 
guidelines, procedures, instructions, or standards 
established under that section. 
‘‘(B) CONSULTATION.—The Directing Officer of the 
NBIC shall implement the activities described in subpara-
graph (A) consistent with the policies, guidelines, proce-
dures, instructions, or standards established under section 
1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention 
Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485) and in consultation with the 
Director of National Intelligence, the Under Secretary for 
Intelligence and Analysis, and other offices or agencies 
of the Federal Government, as appropriate. 
‘‘(e) RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NBIC MEMBER AGENCIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each Member Agency shall— 
‘‘(A) use its best efforts to integrate biosurveillance 
information into the NBIC, with the goal of promoting 
information sharing between Federal, State, local, and 
tribal governments to detect biological events of national 
concern; 
‘‘(B) provide timely information to assist the NBIC 
in maintaining biological situational awareness for accurate 
detection and response purposes; 
‘‘(C) enable the NBIC to receive and use biosurveillance 
information from member agencies to carry out its require-
ments under subsection (c); 
‘‘(D) connect the biosurveillance data systems of that 
Member Agency to the NBIC data system under mutually 
agreed protocols that are consistent with subsection (c)(5); 
‘‘(E) participate in the formation of strategy and policy 
for the operation of the NBIC and its information sharing; 
‘‘(F) provide personnel to the NBIC under an inter-
agency personnel agreement and consider the qualifications 
of such personnel necessary to provide human, animal,
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and environmental data analysis and interpretation sup-
port to the NBIC; and 
‘‘(G) retain responsibility for the surveillance and intel-
ligence systems of that department or agency, if applicable. 
‘‘(f) ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES.— 
‘‘(1) HIRING OF EXPERTS.—The Directing Officer of the NBIC 
shall hire individuals with the necessary expertise to develop 
and operate the NBIC. 
‘‘(2) DETAIL
OF
PERSONNEL.—Upon the request of the 
Directing Officer of the NBIC, the head of any Federal depart-
ment or agency may detail, on a reimbursable basis, any of 
the personnel of that department or agency to the Department 
to assist the NBIC in carrying out this section. 
‘‘(g) NBIC INTERAGENCY
WORKING
GROUP.—The Directing 
Officer of the NBIC shall— 
‘‘(1) establish an interagency working group to facilitate 
interagency cooperation and to advise the Directing Officer 
of the NBIC regarding recommendations to enhance the bio-
surveillance capabilities of the Department; and 
‘‘(2) invite Member Agencies to serve on that working group. 
‘‘(h) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES.— 
The authority of the Directing Officer of the NBIC under this 
section shall not affect any authority or responsibility of any other 
department or agency of the Federal Government with respect 
to biosurveillance activities under any program administered by 
that department or agency. 
‘‘(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this 
section. 
‘‘(j) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The terms ‘biological agent’ and ‘toxin’ have the 
meanings given those terms in section 178 of title 18, United 
States Code. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘biological event of national concern’ means— 
‘‘(A) an act of terrorism involving a biological agent 
or toxin; or 
‘‘(B) a naturally occurring outbreak of an infectious 
disease that may result in a national epidemic. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘homeland security information’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 892. 
‘‘(4) The term ‘Member Agency’ means any Federal depart-
ment or agency that, at the discretion of the head of that 
department or agency, has entered a memorandum of under-
standing regarding participation in the NBIC. 
‘‘(5) The term ‘Privacy Officer’ means the Privacy Officer 
appointed under section 222.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in section 
1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 315 
the following: 
‘‘Sec. 316. National Biosurveillance Integration Center.’’. 
(c) DEADLINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION.—The National Biosurveil-
lance Integration Center under section 316 of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act, as added by subsection (a), shall be fully operational 
by not later than September 30, 2008.
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(d) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 
to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
House of Representatives an interim report on the status of the 
operations at the National Biosurviellance Integration Center that 
addresses the efforts of the Center to integrate the surveillance 
efforts of Federal, State, local, and tribal governments. When the 
National Biosurveillance Integration Center is fully operational, 
the Secretary shall submit to such committees a final report on 
the status of such operations. 
SEC. 1102. BIOSURVEILLANCE EFFORTS. 
The Comptroller General of the United States shall submit 
to Congress a report— 
(1) describing the state of Federal, State, local, and tribal 
government biosurveillance efforts as of the date of such report; 
(2) describing any duplication of effort at the Federal, State, 
local, or tribal government level to create biosurveillance sys-
tems; and 
(3) providing the recommendations of the Comptroller Gen-
eral regarding— 
(A) the integration of biosurveillance systems; 
(B) the effective use of biosurveillance resources; and 
(C) the effective use of the expertise of Federal, State, 
local, and tribal governments. 
SEC. 1103. INTERAGENCY COORDINATION TO ENHANCE DEFENSES 
AGAINST NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL WEAPONS OF 
MASS DESTRUCTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
101 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 1906, as redesig-
nated by section 104, the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1907. JOINT ANNUAL INTERAGENCY REVIEW OF GLOBAL 
NUCLEAR DETECTION ARCHITECTURE. 
‘‘(a) ANNUAL REVIEW.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, the Attorney General, 
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary 
of Energy, and the Director of National Intelligence shall jointly 
ensure interagency coordination on the development and 
implementation of the global nuclear detection architecture by 
ensuring that, not less frequently than once each year— 
‘‘(A) each relevant agency, office, or entity— 
‘‘(i) assesses its involvement, support, and partici-
pation in the development, revision, and implementa-
tion of the global nuclear detection architecture; and 
‘‘(ii) examines and evaluates components of the 
global nuclear detection architecture (including associ-
ated strategies and acquisition plans) relating to the 
operations of that agency, office, or entity, to determine 
whether such components incorporate and address cur-
rent threat assessments, scenarios, or intelligence anal-
yses developed by the Director of National Intelligence 
or other agencies regarding threats relating to nuclear 
or radiological weapons of mass destruction; and
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‘‘(B) each agency, office, or entity deploying or operating 
any nuclear or radiological detection technology under the 
global nuclear detection architecture— 
‘‘(i) evaluates the deployment and operation of 
nuclear or radiological detection technologies under the 
global nuclear detection architecture by that agency, 
office, or entity; 
‘‘(ii) identifies performance deficiencies and oper-
ational or technical deficiencies in nuclear or radio-
logical detection technologies deployed under the global 
nuclear detection architecture; and 
‘‘(iii) assesses the capacity of that agency, office, 
or entity to implement the responsibilities of that 
agency, office, or entity under the global nuclear detec-
tion architecture. 
‘‘(2) TECHNOLOGY.—Not less frequently than once each 
year, the Secretary shall examine and evaluate the develop-
ment, assessment, and acquisition of radiation detection tech-
nologies deployed or implemented in support of the domestic 
portion of the global nuclear detection architecture. 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL REPORT ON JOINT INTERAGENCY REVIEW.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than March 31 of each year, 
the Secretary, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, 
the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the 
Director of National Intelligence, shall jointly submit a report 
regarding the implementation of this section and the results 
of the reviews required under subsection (a) to— 
‘‘(A) the President; 
‘‘(B) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee 
on Armed Services, the Select Committee on Intelligence, 
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate; and 
‘‘(C) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee 
on Armed Services, the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, the Committee on Homeland Security, and 
the Committee on Science and Technology of the House 
of Representatives. 
‘‘(2) FORM.—The annual report submitted under paragraph 
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form to the maximum 
extent practicable, but may include a classified annex. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘global nuclear detec-
tion architecture’ means the global nuclear detection architecture 
developed under section 1902.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in section 
1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 note) 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1906, 
as added by section 104, the following: 
‘‘Sec. 1907. Joint annual interagency review of global nuclear detection architec-
ture.’’. 
SEC. 1104. INTEGRATION OF DETECTION EQUIPMENT AND TECH-
NOLOGIES. 
(a) RESPONSIBILITY OF SECRETARY.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall have responsibility for ensuring that domestic chem-
ical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detection equipment and 
technologies are integrated, as appropriate, with other border secu-
rity systems and detection technologies.