scanning rate within the timeframes specified in 
paragraph (1), including acquisition, operations, and 
maintenance costs for large-scale, nonintrusive inspec-
tion systems or similar technology, and associated 
costs for any necessary infrastructure enhancements 
or configuration changes at each port of entry. Such 
acquisition plan shall promote, to the extent prac-
ticable, opportunities for entities that qualify as small 
business concerns (as defined under section 3(a) of the 
Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(a)). 
(3) Any projected impacts, as identified by the 
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion, on the total number of commercial and pas-
senger vehicles and freight rail traffic entering at 
land ports of entry and rail-border crossings where 
such systems are in use, and average wait times at 
peak and non-peak travel times, by lane type if ap-
plicable, as scanning rates are increased. 
(4) Any projected impacts, as identified by the 
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion, on land ports of entry and rail-border crossings 
border security operations as a result of implementa-
tion actions, including any changes to the number of 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers or their 
duties and assignments. 
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(e) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the 
submission of the plan under subsection (b), and biennially 
thereafter for the following 6 years, the Secretary of Home-
land Security shall submit a report to the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate 
and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives that describes the progress implementing 
the plan and includes— 
(1) an inventory of large-scale, nonintrusive in-
spection systems or similar technology operated by 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection at each land 
port of entry; 
(2) for each system or technology identified in 
the inventory required under paragraph (1)— 
(A) the scanning method of such system or 
technology; 
(B) the location of such system or tech-
nology at each land port of entry that specifies 
whether in use in pre-primary, primary, or sec-
ondary inspection area, or some combination of 
such areas; 
(C) the percentage of commercial and pas-
senger vehicles and freight rail traffic scanned by 
such system or technology; and 
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(D) seizure data directly attributed to 
scanned commercial and passenger vehicles and 
freight rail traffic; 
(3) the total number of commercial and pas-
senger vehicles and freight rail traffic entering at each 
land port of entry at which each system or technology 
is in use, and information on average wait times at 
peak and non-peak travel times, by lane type if ap-
plicable; 
(4) a description of the progress towards reach-
ing the benchmarks referred to in subsection (d)(1), 
and an explanation if any of such benchmarks are 
not achieved as planned; 
(5) a comparison of actual costs (including in-
formation on any awards of associated contracts) to 
estimated costs set forth in subsection (d)(2); 
(6) any realized impacts, as identified by the 
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion, on land ports of entry and rail-border crossings 
operations as a result of implementation actions, in-
cluding any changes to the number of U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection officers or their duties and as-
signments; 
(7) any proposed changes to the plan and an ex-
planation for such changes, including changes made 
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in response to any Department of Homeland Security 
research and development findings or changes in ter-
rorist or transnational criminal organizations tactics, 
techniques, or procedures; and 
(8) any challenges to implementing the plan or 
meeting the benchmarks, and plans to mitigate any 
such challenges. 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘An Act to require 
the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a plan to 
increase to 100 percent the rates of scanning of commer-
cial and passenger vehicles and freight rail entering the 
United States at land ports of entry along the border 
using large-scale, nonintrusive inspection systems to en-
hance border security, and for other purposes.’’. 
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Calendar No. 530 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5273 
[Report No. 116–267] 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
develop a plan to increase to 100 percent the 
rates of scanning of commercial and passenger 
vehicles entering the United States at land ports 
of entry along the border using large-scale non- 
intrusive inspection systems to enhance border 
security, and for other purposes. 
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 
Reported with an amendment and an amendment to the 
title 
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