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United States to terrorist attacks, the Sec-
retary shall consult with— 
(A) the Director of National Intel-
ligence; 
(B) the Director of the National 
Counter Terrorism Center; 
(C) the Attorney General; 
(D) the Director of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation; 
(E) the Secretary of Defense; 
(F) the Secretary of State; 
(G) the Secretary of Energy; 
(H) the Secretary of the Treasury; 
and 
(I) the heads of other Federal 
agencies and State, county, and local 
law enforcement agencies as the Sec-
retary considers appropriate. 
(4) 
CLASSIFICATION.—The 
Secretary 
shall prepare the Plan in both classified 
and nonclassified forms. 
(b) ANNUAL
CROSSCUTTING
ANALYSIS
OF 
PROPOSED FUNDING FOR DEPARTMENT OF HOME-
LAND SECURITY PROGRAMS.—
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(1) REQUIREMENT
TO
SUBMIT
ANAL-
YSIS.—The Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall submit to the Congress, concurrently 
with the submission of the President’s 
budget for each fiscal year, a detailed, 
crosscutting analysis of the budget pro-
posed for the Department of Homeland Se-
curity, by budget function, by agency, and 
by initiative area, identifying the re-
quested amounts of gross and net appro-
priations or obligational authority and 
outlays for programs and activities of the 
Department for each of the following mis-
sion areas: 
(A) To prevent terrorist attacks 
within the United States. 
(B) To reduce the vulnerability of 
the United States to terrorism. 
(C) To minimize the damage, and 
assist in the recovery, from terrorist 
attacks that do occur within the 
United States. 
(D) To carry out all functions of 
the agencies and subdivisions within
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the Department that are not related 
directly to homeland security. 
(2) FUNDING ANALYSIS OF MULTIPURPOSE 
FUNCTIONS.—The analysis required under 
paragraph (1) for functions that are both 
related directly and not related directly to 
homeland security shall include a de-
tailed allocation of funding for each spe-
cific mission area within those functions, 
including an allocation of funding among 
mission support functions, such as agency 
overhead, capital assets, and human cap-
ital. 
(3) INCLUDED
TERRORISM
PREVENTION 
ACTIVITIES.—The analysis required under 
paragraph (1)(A) shall include the fol-
lowing activities (among others) of the De-
partment: 
(A) Intelligence and law enforce-
ment operations that screen for indi-
viduals who plan or intend to carry 
out acts of terrorism. 
(B) Intelligence and law enforce-
ment operations that identify and re-
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spond to vulnerabilities of the United 
States to terrorism. 
(C) Operations to detect and pre-
vent 
terrorist 
attacks 
within 
the 
United States, including the introduc-
tion of weapons of mass destruction 
into the United States. 
(D) Initiatives to detect potential, 
or the early stages of actual, biologi-
cal, chemical, radiological, or nuclear 
attacks. 
(E) Screening individuals against 
terrorist watch lists. 
(F) Screening cargo to identify 
and segregate high-risk shipments. 
(G) Utilization by the Department 
of Homeland Security of information 
and intelligence received from other 
Federal agencies, and foreign, State, 
local, tribal and private sector offi-
cials, to detect or prevent acts of ter-
rorism. 
(H) Dissemination by the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security of infor-
mation to other Federal agencies, and
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State, local, tribal and private sector 
officials. 
(I) Investments in technology, re-
search and development, training, 
and communications systems that are 
designed to improve the performance 
of the Department and its agencies 
with respect to each of the activities 
listed in subparagraphs (A) through 
(H). 
(4) SEPARATE DISPLAYS FOR MANDATORY 
AND DISCRETIONARY AMOUNTS.—Each anal-
ysis under paragraph (1) shall include 
separate displays for proposed mandatory 
appropriations 
and 
proposed 
discre-
tionary appropriations. 
SEC. 202. CONSOLIDATED BACKGROUND CHECK PROCESS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary shall 
consult with the Attorney General, to establish 
a single process for conducting the security 
screening and background checks on individ-
uals participating in any voluntary or manda-
tory departmental credentialing or registered 
traveler program.
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(b) INCLUDED PROGRAMS.—The process es-
tablished under subsection (a) shall be suffi-
cient to meet the security requirements of all 
applicable Departmental programs, includ-
ing— 
(1) the Transportation Worker Identi-
fication Credential; 
(2) the Hazmat Endorsement Creden-
tial; 
(3) the Free and Secure Trade pro-
gram; 
(4) the NEXUS and SENTRI border 
crossing programs; 
(5) the Registered Traveler program of 
the Transportation Security Administra-
tion; and 
(6) any other similar program or cre-
dential considered appropriate for inclu-
sion by the Secretary. 
(c) FEATURES OF PROCESS.—The process es-
tablished under subsection (a) shall include 
the following: 
(1) A single submission of security 
screening information, including personal 
data and biometric information as appro-