land Security, in coordination with the Secretary of State, 
shall engage with the appropriate officials of the Govern-
ment of Canada and the Government of Mexico to assess 
the specific needs of the countries of Central America to 
maintain the security of the international borders of such 
countries and determine the support needed by such coun-
tries from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, to meet 
such needs. 
(b) CARIBBEAN COOPERATION INITIATIVE.—The Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Sec-
retary of State, shall engage with appropriate officials of 
the governments of the countries of the Caribbean to estab-
lish a program to assess the specific needs of such countries 
to address the unique challenges of maritime border secu-
rity. 
(c) MEXICO’S SOUTHERN BORDER SECURITY INITIA-
TIVE.—The Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordina-
tion with the Secretary of State, shall engage with appro-
priate officials of the Government of Mexico to assess the 
specific needs to help secure Mexico’s southern border from 
undocumented aliens, drugs, weapons and other contra-
band. 
(d) REPORTING.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security 
and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
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resentatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate a report on the assessment of needs car-
ried out under this section. 
SEC. 7. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN APPLICATIONS FOR PORT 
OF ENTRY STATUS. 
The Commissioner of United States Customs and Bor-
der Protection shall give priority consideration to an appli-
cation for port of entry status submitted by any commercial 
airport if such airport served at least 100,000 deplaned 
international passengers in the previous calendar year. 
SEC. 8. TRUSTED TRAVELER PROGRAMS. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security may not enter 
into or renew an agreement with the government of a for-
eign country for a trusted traveler program administered 
by United States Customs and Border Protection unless the 
Secretary certifies in writing that such government— 
(1) routinely submits to INTEPOL for inclusion 
in INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents 
database information about lost and stolen passports 
and travel documents of the citizens and nationals of 
such country; or 
(2) makes available to the United States Govern-
ment the information described in paragraph (1) 
through another means of reporting. 
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SEC. 9. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE FOREIGN 
LANGUAGE AWARD PROGRAM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Congress established the Foreign Language 
Award Program (FLAP) to incentivize employees at 
United States ports of entry to utilize their foreign 
language skills on the job by providing a financial in-
centive for the use of the foreign language for at least 
ten percent of their duties after passage of competency 
tests. FLAP incentivizes the use of more than two 
dozen languages and has been instrumental in identi-
fying and utilizing United States Customs and Bor-
der Protection officers and agents who are proficient 
in a foreign language. 
(2) In 1993, Congress provided for dedicated 
funding for this program by stipulating that certain 
fees collected by United States Customs and Border 
Protection to fund FLAP. 
(3) Through FLAP, foreign travelers are aided 
by having an officer at a port of entry who speaks 
their language, and United States Customs and Bor-
der Protection benefits by being able to focus its bor-
der security efforts in a more effective manner. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that FLAP incentivizes United States Customs and Border 
Protection officers and agents to attain and maintain com-
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petency in a foreign language, thereby improving the effi-
ciency of operations for the functioning of United States 
Customs and Border Protection’s security mission, making 
the United States a more welcoming place when foreign 
travelers find officers can communicate in their language, 
and helping to expedite traveler processing to reduce wait 
times. 
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Union Calendar No. 415 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3846 
[Report No. 113–555, Part I] 
A BILL 
To provide for the authorization of border, mari-
time, and transportation security responsibilities 
and functions in the Department of Homeland 
Security and the establishment of United States 
Customs and Border Protection, and for other 
purposes. 
JULY 24, 2014 
Reported from the Committee on Homeland Security 
with an amendment 
JULY 24, 2014 
The Committee on Ways and Means discharged; com-
mitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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