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‘‘(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Recommendations or 
findings that remain unresolved between program admin-
istrators and the Department Inspector General for 30 
days must be immediately reported to Congress by the De-
partment Inspector General. 
‘‘SEC. 708. FRAUD PREVENTION TRAINING PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) TRAINING PROGRAM REQUIRED.—The Sec-
retary, acting through the Under Secretary for Emergency 
Management, shall develop and implement a program to 
provide training on the prevention of waste, fraud, and 
abuse of Federal assistance funds and services during the 
response to or recovery from acts of terrorism, natural dis-
asters, or other emergencies and ways to identify such po-
tential waste, fraud, and abuse. 
‘‘(b) INDIVIDUALS ELIGIBLE FOR TRAINING.—Under 
the training program required under subsection (a), the 
Secretary may provide training to— 
‘‘(1) employees, contractors, and volunteers of 
the Federal Government; 
‘‘(2) employees and volunteers of any State, 
local, or tribal government entity; and 
‘‘(3) employees and volunteers of nonprofit or-
ganizations that assist in the administration of Fed-
eral assistance funds and services provided in re-
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sponse to acts of terrorism, natural disasters, or 
other national emergencies. 
‘‘(c) INFORMATION SHARING.—Any State, local, or 
tribal government entity or nonprofit entity that provides 
Federal assistance funds or services to individuals affected 
by acts of terrorism, natural disasters, or other emer-
gencies may share information with the Federal Govern-
ment, in a manner consistent with Federal Privacy Act 
protections, about any recipient of such assistance, at the 
request of the head of a Federal department or agency, 
for the purpose of preventing fraud and abuse of Federal 
assistance.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after 
the item related to section 706 the following: 
‘‘Sec. 707. Fraud, waste, and abuse controls. 
‘‘Sec. 708. Fraud prevention training program.’’. 
SEC. 202. ASSESSMENT AND REPORT REGARDING UTILIZA-
TION OF INDEPENDENT PRIVATE SECTOR IN-
SPECTORS GENERAL. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Under Secretary for Emer-
gency Management of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity, in consultation with the Under Secretary for Manage-
ment, shall— 
(1) assess the role that Independent Private 
Sector Inspectors General (popularly known as 
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‘‘IPSIGs’’) played in preventing waste, fraud, and 
abuse, in contracts for goods or services purchased 
or commissioned after the terrorist attacks on the 
World Trade Center in New York City on September 
11, 2001; and 
(2) report the findings of such assessment to 
Congress by not later than one year after the date 
of enactment of this Act and post the report on the 
primary agency public access website. 
(b) UTILIZATION OF IPSIGS TO MONITOR AND PRO-
VIDE
GREATER
ACCOUNTABILITY.—Such assessment 
shall include examination of how IPSIGs may be utilized 
to monitor and provide greater accountability for contracts 
using Federal funding provided in response to a terrorist 
attack, natural disaster, or other national emergency, in-
cluding contracts for debris removal and the repair or re-
construction of damaged infrastructure. 
SEC. 203. ENHANCED ACCOUNTABILITY FOR FEDERAL AS-
SISTANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Homeland Security Act of 
2002 is amended by inserting after section 856 (6 U.S.C. 
426) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 856a. ENHANCED ACCOUNTABILITY FOR FEDERAL AS-
SISTANCE. 
‘‘(a) RECIPIENTS OF FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each State, local, tribal, 
and nonprofit entity that receives Federal assistance 
funds in response to acts of terrorism, natural disas-
ters, or other emergencies shall report to the perti-
nent Federal agency six months after the initial dis-
bursement of resources regarding the expenditure of 
such funds. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—The report shall include a 
description of— 
‘‘(A) the projects or programs that re-
ceived Federal assistance; 
‘‘(B) the entity administering the program 
or project; and 
‘‘(C) the dates and amounts disbursed, al-
located, and expended. 
‘‘(3) MINIMIZING
REPORTING
BURDEN.—The 
Under Secretary for Emergency Management shall 
determine whether the requirement to report under 
this section is duplicative of or can be combined with 
other reporting requirements and, if so, the Under 
Secretary shall combine such requirements and 
eliminate such duplication. 
‘‘(b) FEDERAL
ASSISTANCE
DISBURSING
AGEN-
CIES.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each Federal agency that 
disburses Federal assistance funds in response to an 
act of terrorism, a natural disaster, or another emer-
gency shall submit to the Inspector General of the 
Department, acting in the Inspector General’s role 
as chairman of the President’s Council on Integrity 
and Efficiency Homeland Security Roundtable, a re-
port on the expenditure of such funds. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—Each report required under 
paragraph (1) shall include— 
‘‘(A) names and addresses of recipient 
agencies; 
‘‘(B) the purpose for which resources were 
provided; 
‘‘(C) the amounts disbursed, allocated, and 
expended; and 
‘‘(D) the status of reporting by agencies 
that received disbursements (as set forth under 
subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(3) DEADLINE.—Each report submitted under 
paragraph (1) shall be submitted not later than one 
year after the date of the enactment of the appro-
priations Act that makes available the Federal as-
sistance funds covered by the report, and on a recur-
rent basis every six months thereafter until such 
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