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Union Calendar No. 224 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3493 
[Report No. 114–295] 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the Securing 
the Cities program to enhance the ability of the United States to detect 
and prevent terrorist attacks and other high consequence events utilizing 
nuclear or other radiological materials that pose a high risk to homeland 
security in high-risk urban areas, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 
Mr. DONOVAN (for himself, Mr. KING of New York, and Mr. MCCAUL) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Home-
land Security 
OCTOBER 20, 2015 
Additional sponsor: Ms. JACKSON LEE 
OCTOBER 20, 2015 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on September 11, 2015] 
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A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 
the Securing the Cities program to enhance the ability 
of the United States to detect and prevent terrorist at-
tacks and other high consequence events utilizing nuclear 
or other radiological materials that pose a high risk 
to homeland security in high-risk urban areas, and for 
other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing the Cities Act 
of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. SECURING THE CITIES PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title XIX of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 591 et seq.) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 1908. SECURING THE CITIES PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director for Domestic 
Nuclear Detection shall establish the ‘Securing the Cities’ 
(‘STC’) program to enhance the ability of the United States 
to detect and prevent terrorist attacks and other high con-
sequence events utilizing nuclear or other radiological mate-
rials that pose a high risk to homeland security in high- 
risk urban areas. Through such program the Director 
shall— 
‘‘(1) assist State, local, tribal, and territorial 
governments in designing and implementing, or en-
hancing existing, architectures for coordinated and 
integrated detection and interdiction of nuclear or 
other radiological materials that are out of regulatory 
control; 
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‘‘(2) support the development of a region-wide 
operating capability to detect and report on nuclear 
and other radioactive materials out of operational 
control; 
‘‘(3) provide resources to enhance detection, anal-
ysis, communication, and coordination to better inte-
grate State, local, tribal, and territorial assets into 
Federal operations; 
‘‘(4) facilitate alarm adjudication and provide 
subject matter expertise and technical assistance on 
concepts of operations, training, exercises, and alarm 
response protocols; 
‘‘(5) communicate with, and promote sharing of 
information about the presence or detection of nuclear 
or other radiological materials among appropriate 
Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial govern-
ments, in a manner that ensures transparency with 
the jurisdictions served by such program; and 
‘‘(6) provide any other assistance the Director 
determines appropriate. 
‘‘(b) DESIGNATION OF JURISDICTIONS.—In carrying 
out the program under subsection (a), the Director shall des-
ignate jurisdictions from among high-risk urban areas 
under section 2003, and other cities and regions, as appro-
priate. 
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‘‘(c) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION.—The Director 
shall notify the Committee on Homeland Security and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate not later than three days before the designation 
of new jurisdictions under subsection (b) or other changes 
to participating jurisdictions. 
‘‘(d) GAO REPORT.—Not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States shall submit to the congressional 
committees specified in subsection (c) an assessment, in-
cluding an evaluation of the effectiveness, of the STC pro-
gram under this section. 
‘‘(e) PROHIBITION
ON ADDITIONAL FUNDING.—No 
funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
section. This section shall be carried out using amounts oth-
erwise appropriated or made available for such purpose.’’. 
(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 1907 
the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 1908. Securing the Cities program.’’. 
SEC. 3. MODEL EXERCISES. 
Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Director for Domestic Nuclear Detection of 
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the Department of Homeland Security shall report to the 
Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate 
on the feasibility of the Director developing model exercises 
to test the preparedness of jurisdictions participating in the 
Securing the Cities program under section 1908 of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (as added by section 2 of 
this Act) in meeting the challenges that may be posed by 
a range of nuclear and radiological threats. 
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Union Calendar No. 224 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3493 
[Report No. 114–295] 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 
establish the Securing the Cities program to en-
hance the ability of the United States to detect 
and prevent terrorist attacks and other high con-
sequence events utilizing nuclear or other radio-
logical materials that pose a high risk to home-
land security in high-risk urban areas, and for 
other purposes. 
OCTOBER 20, 2015 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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