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2004 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 604 
and 605) an appendix that includes the following: 
(1) A summary of findings identified by the Of-
fice of the Inspector General of the Department of 
Homeland Security in audits of such grants and 
methods to address areas identified for improvement, 
including opportunities for technical assistance. 
(2) Innovative projects and best practices insti-
tuted by grant recipients. 
SEC. 611. PROHIBITION ON CONSOLIDATION. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security may not imple-
ment the National Preparedness Grant Program or any 
successor consolidated grant program unless the Secretary 
receives prior authorization from Congress permitting such 
implementation. 
SEC. 612. MAINTENANCE OF GRANT INVESTMENTS. 
Section 2008 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 609), as amended by this Act, is further amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(h) MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT.—Any applicant 
for a grant under section 2003 or 2004 seeking to use funds 
to purchase equipment, including pursuant to paragraphs 
(3), (4), (5), or (12) of subsection (a) of this section, shall 
by the time of the receipt of such grant develop a plan for 
the maintenance of such equipment over its life-cycle that 
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includes information identifying which entity is responsible 
for such maintenance.’’. 
SEC. 613. TRANSIT SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM. 
Section 1406 of the Implementing Recommendations 
of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(2)(A), by inserting ‘‘and as-
sociated backfill’’ after ‘‘security training’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (m) and inserting the 
following new subsections: 
‘‘(m) PERIODS OF PERFORMANCE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), funds provided pursuant to a grant 
awarded under this section for a use specified in sub-
section (b) shall remain available for use by a grant 
recipient for a period of not fewer than 36 months. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Funds provided pursuant to 
a grant awarded under this section for a use specified 
in subparagraph (M) or (N) of subsection (b)(1) shall 
remain available for use by a grant recipient for a 
period of not fewer than 55 months. 
‘‘(n) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section 
$200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022.’’. 
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SEC. 614. PORT SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM. 
Section 70107 of title 46, United States Code, is 
amended by— 
(1) striking subsection (l); 
(2) redesignating subsection (m) as subsection 
(l); and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
sections: 
‘‘(n) PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE.—The Secretary shall 
make funds provided under this section available for use 
by a recipient of a grant for a period of not less than 36 
months. 
‘‘(o) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section 
$200,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2018 through 
2022.’’. 
SEC. 615. NATIONAL DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS CONSOR-
TIUM. 
Section 1204 of the Implementing Recommendations 
of the 9/11 Commission Act (6 U.S.C. 1102) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by inserting ‘‘to the extent 
practicable, provide training in settings that stimu-
late real response environments, such as urban 
areas,’’ after ‘‘levels,’’.; 
(2) in subsection (d), by amending paragraphs 
(1) and (2) to read as follows: 
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‘‘(1) for the Center for Domestic Preparedness, 
$63,939,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 and 2019; 
and 
‘‘(2) for the remaining Members of the National 
Domestic Preparedness Consortium, $101,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2018 and 2019.’’; and 
(3) in subsection (e), in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting 
‘‘2017’’. 
SEC. 616. RURAL DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS CONSORTIUM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity is authorized to establish a Rural Domestic Prepared-
ness Consortium within the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity consisting of universities and nonprofit organizations 
qualified to provide training to emergency response pro-
viders from rural communities. 
(b) DUTIES.—The Rural Domestic Preparedness Con-
sortium authorized under subsection (a) shall identify, de-
velop, test, and deliver training to State, local, and tribal 
emergency response providers from rural communities, pro-
vide on-site and mobile training, and facilitate the delivery 
of training by the training partners of the Department of 
Homeland Security. 
(c) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—Of 
amounts appropriated for Continuing Training Grants of 
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the Department of Homeland Security, $5,000,000 is au-
thorized to be used for the Rural Domestic Preparedness 
Consortium authorized under subsection (a). 
SEC. 617. EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNCTIONS. 
(a) UPDATE.—Paragraph (13) of section 504(a) of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 314(a)) is 
amended by inserting ‘‘, periodically updating (but not less 
often than once every five years),’’ after ‘‘administering’’. 
(b) EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNCTIONS.—Section 653 
of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 
2006 (6 U.S.C. 753; title VI of the Department of Homeland 
Security Appropriations Act, 2007; Public Law 109–295) 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as 
subsections (e) and (f), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(d) COORDINATION.—The President, acting through 
the Administrator, shall develop and provide to Federal de-
partments and agencies with coordinating, primary, or 
supporting responsibilities under the National Response 
Framework performance metrics to ensure readiness to exe-
cute responsibilities under the emergency support functions 
of such Framework.’’. 
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SEC. 618. REVIEW OF NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT 
SYSTEM. 
Paragraph (2) of section 509(b) of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 319(b)) is amended, in the mat-
ter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘, but not less 
often than once every five years,’’ after ‘‘periodically’’. 
SEC. 619. REMEDIAL ACTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. 
Section 650 of the Post-Katrina Emergency Manage-
ment Reform Act of 2006 (6 U.S.C. 750; title VI of the De-
partment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007; 
Public Law 109–295) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 650. REMEDIAL ACTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator, in coordina-
tion with the National Council on Disability and the Na-
tional Advisory Council, shall establish a remedial action 
management program to— 
‘‘(1) analyze training, exercises, and real world 
events to identify lessons learned, corrective actions, 
and best practices; 
‘‘(2) generate and disseminate, as appropriate, 
the lessons learned, corrective actions, and best prac-
tices referred to in paragraph (1); and 
‘‘(3) conduct remedial action tracking and long 
term trend analysis. 
‘‘(b) FEDERAL CORRECTIVE ACTIONS.—The Adminis-
trator, in coordination with the heads of appropriate Fed-
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eral departments and agencies, shall utilize the program es-
tablished pursuant to subsection (a) to collect information 
on corrective actions identified by such Federal departments 
and agencies during exercises and the response to natural 
disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, 
and shall, not later than one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this section and annually thereafter for each of the 
next four years, submit to Congress a report on the status 
of such corrective actions. 
‘‘(c) DISSEMINATION OF AFTER ACTION REPORTS.— 
The Administrator shall provide electronically, to the max-
imum extent practicable, to Congress and Federal, State, 
local, tribal, and private sector officials after-action reports 
and information on lessons learned and best practices from 
responses to acts of terrorism, natural disasters, capstone 
exercises conducted under the national exercise program 
under section 648(b), and other emergencies or exercises.’’. 
SEC. 620. CYBER PREPAREDNESS. 
(a) INFORMATION SHARING.—Title II of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 is amended— 
(1) in section 210A (6 U.S.C. 124h)— 
(A) in subsection (b)— 
(i) in paragraph (10), by inserting be-
fore the semicolon at the end the following: 
‘‘, including, in coordination with the na-
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tional cybersecurity and communications 
integration center under section 227, access 
to timely technical assistance, risk manage-
ment support, and incident response capa-
bilities with respect to cyber threat indica-
tors, defensive measures, cybersecurity risks, 
and incidents (as such terms are defined in 
such section), which may include attribu-
tion, mitigation, and remediation, and the 
provision of information and recommenda-
tions on security and resilience, including 
implications of cybersecurity risks to equip-
ment and technology related to the electoral 
process’’; 
(ii) in paragraph (11), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(iii) by redesignating paragraph (12) 
as paragraph (14); and 
(iv) by inserting after paragraph (11) 
the following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(12) review information relating to cybersecu-
rity risks that is gathered by State, local, and re-
gional fusion centers, and incorporate such informa-
tion, as appropriate, into the Department’s own in-
formation relating to cybersecurity risks; 
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‘‘(13) ensure the dissemination to State, local, 
and regional fusion centers of the information de-
scribed in paragraph (12); and’’; 
(B) in subsection (c)(2)— 
(i) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) 
through (G) as subparagraphs (D) through 
(H), respectively; and 
(ii) by inserting after subparagraph 
(B) the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) The national cybersecurity and com-
munications integration center under section 
227.’’; 
(C) in subsection (d)— 
(i) in paragraph (3), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(ii) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 
paragraph (5); and 
(iii) by inserting after paragraph (3) 
the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) assist, in coordination with the national cy-
bersecurity and communications integration center 
under section 227, fusion centers in using informa-
tion relating to cybersecurity risks to develop a com-
prehensive and accurate threat picture; and’’; and 
(D) in subsection (j)— 
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(i) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 
through (5) as paragraphs (2) through (6), 
respectively; and 
(ii) by inserting before paragraph (2), 
as so redesignated, the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(1) the term ‘cybersecurity risk’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 227;’’; and 
(2) in section 227 (6 U.S.C. 148)— 
(A) in subsection (c)— 
(i) in paragraph (5)(B), by inserting 
‘‘, including State, local, and regional fu-
sion centers, as appropriate’’ before the 
semicolon at the end; 
(ii) in paragraph (7), in the matter 
preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘information and recommendations’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘informa-
tion, recommendations, and best practices’’; 
and 
(iii) in paragraph (9), by inserting 
‘‘best practices,’’ after ‘‘defensive measures,’’; 
and 
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(B) in subsection (d)(1)(B)(ii), by inserting 
‘‘and State, local, and regional fusion centers, as 
appropriate’’ before the semicolon at the end. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that to facilitate the timely dissemination to appropriate 
State, local, and private sector stakeholders of homeland se-
curity information related to cyber threats, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security should, to the greatest extent prac-
ticable, work to share actionable information in an unclas-
sified form related to such threats. 
SEC. 621. MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREA COUNTERTER-
RORISM TRAINING AND EXERCISE GRANT 
PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title XX of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 603 et seq.) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 2009. MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREA COUNTERTER-
RORISM TRAINING AND EXERCISE GRANT 
PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
‘‘(1) 
IN
GENERAL.—The 
Secretary, 
acting 
through the Administrator and the heads of other rel-
evant components of the Department, shall carry out 
a program to make grants to emergency response pro-
viders to prevent, prepare for, and respond to emerg-
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cluding complex, coordinated terrorist attacks and ac-
tive shooters. 
‘‘(c) PERMITTED USES.—The recipient of a grant 
under the program established pursuant to subsection (a) 
may use such grant to— 
‘‘(1) identify capability gaps related to pre-
paring for, preventing, and responding to emerging 
terrorist attack scenarios, including complex, coordi-
nated terrorist attacks and active shooters; 
‘‘(2) develop or update plans, annexes, and proc-
esses to address any capability gaps identified pursu-
ant to paragraph (1); 
‘‘(3) conduct training to address such identified 
capability gaps; 
‘‘(4) conduct exercises, including at locations 
such as mass gathering venues, places of worship, or 
educational institutions, as appropriate, to validate 
capabilities; and 
‘‘(5) pay for backfill associated with personnel 
participating in training and exercises under para-
graphs (3) and (4). 
‘‘(d) PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE.—The Administrator 
shall make funds provided under this section available for 
use by a recipient of a grant for a period of not fewer than 
36 months. 
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SHARING.—The Administrator 
shall, to the extent practicable, aggregate, analyze, and 
share with relevant emergency response providers informa-
tion on best practices and lessons learned from— 
‘‘(1) the planning, training, and exercises con-
ducted using grants authorized under the program es-
tablished pursuant to subsection (a); and 
‘‘(2) responses to actual terrorist attacks around 
the world. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are 
authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section 
$39,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2008 
the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 2009. Major metropolitan area counterterrorism training and exercise grant 
program.’’. 
SEC. 622. CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS. 
(a) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—The Administrator of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall develop 
an implementation plan, including benchmarks and mile-
stones, to address the findings and recommendations of the 
2017 Management Review Team that issued a report on 
May 8, 2017, regarding live agent training at the Chemical, 
Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility 
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and provide to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate updates 
and information on efforts to implement recommendations 
related to the management review of the Chemical, Ord-
nance, Biological, and Radiological Training Facility of 
the Center for Domestic Preparedness of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency, including, as necessary, infor-
mation on additional resources or authority needed to im-
plement such recommendations. 
(b) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REVIEW.—Not later than 
one-year after the date of the enactment of this section, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall review and 
report to Congress on the status of the implementation plan 
required by subsection (a) and the governance structure at 
the Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological 
Training Facility of the Center for Domestic Preparedness 
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. 
SEC. 623. OPERATION STONEGARDEN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title XX of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), as amend-
ed by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end 
the following new section: 
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‘‘SEC. 2010. OPERATION STONEGARDEN. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the De-
partment a program to be known as ‘Operation 
Stonegarden’. Under such program, the Secretary, acting 
through the Administrator, shall make grants to eligible law 
enforcement agencies, through the State Administrative 
Agency, to enhance border security in accordance with this 
section. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENTS.—To be eligible to receive 
a grant under this section, a law enforcement agency 
shall— 
‘‘(1) be located in— 
‘‘(A) a State bordering either Canada or 
Mexico; or 
‘‘(B) a State or territory with a maritime 
border; and 
‘‘(2) be involved in an active, ongoing U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection operation coordinated 
through a sector office. 
‘‘(c) PERMITTED USES.—The recipient of a grant 
under this section may use such grant for any of the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) Equipment, including maintenance and 
sustainment costs. 
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‘‘(2) Personnel, including overtime and backfill, 
in support of enhanced border law enforcement activi-
ties. 
‘‘(3) Any activity permitted for Operation 
Stonegarden under the Department of Homeland Se-
curity’s Fiscal Year 2016 Homeland Security Grant 
Program Notice of Funding Opportunity. 
‘‘(4) Any other appropriate activity, as deter-
mined by the Administrator, in consultation with the 
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion. 
‘‘(d) PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE.—The Secretary shall 
make funds provided under this section available for use 
by a recipient of a grant for a period of not less than 36 
months. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $110,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2018 through 2022 for grants under this section. 
‘‘(e) REPORT.—The Administrator shall annually for 
each of the fiscal years specified in subsection (d) submit 
to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report containing 
information on the expenditure of grants made under this 
section by each grant recipient.’’. 
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