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(E) container security; 
(F) recognition and detection of weapons, dangerous 
substances, and devices; 
(G) operation and maintenance of security equipment 
and systems; 
(H) security threats and patterns; 
(I) security incident procedures, including procedures 
for communicating with governmental and nongovern-
mental emergency response providers; and 
(J) evacuation procedures; 
(5) is consistent with, and supports implementation of, 
the National Incident Management System, the National 
Response Plan, the National Infrastructure Protection Plan, 
the National Preparedness Guidance, the National Prepared-
ness Goal, the National Maritime Transportation Security Plan, 
and other such national initiatives; 
(6) is evaluated against clear and consistent performance 
measures; 
(7) addresses security requirements under facility security 
plans; and 
(8) educates, trains, and involves individuals in neighbor-
hoods around facilities required to submit a plan under section 
70103(c) of title 46, United States Code, on how to observe 
and report security risks. 
(c) VESSEL AND FACILITY SECURITY PLANS.—Section 70103(c)(3) 
of title 46, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (F), (G), and (H) (as 
added by section 102(1)(D)) as subparagraphs (G), (H), and 
(I), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following: 
‘‘(F) provide a strategy and timeline for conducting training 
and periodic unannounced drills;’’. 
(d) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary shall ensure that, in car-
rying out the Program, the Office of Grants and Training shall 
consult with commercial seaport personnel and management. 
(e) TRAINING PARTNERS.—In developing and delivering training 
under the Training Program, the Secretary, in coordination with 
the Maritime Administration of the Department of Transportation, 
and consistent with section 109 of the Maritime Transportation 
Security Act of 2002 (46 U.S.C. 70101 note), shall—
(1) work with government training facilities, academic 
institutions, private organizations, employee organizations, and 
other entities that provide specialized, state-of-the-art training 
for governmental and nongovernmental emergency responder 
providers or commercial seaport personnel and management; 
and 
(2) utilize, as appropriate, government training facilities, 
courses provided by community colleges, public safety acad-
emies, State and private universities, and other facilities. 
SEC. 114. PORT SECURITY EXERCISE PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through the Under 
Secretary for Preparedness and in coordination with the Com-
mandant of the Coast Guard, shall establish a Port Security Exer-
cise Program (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Exercise Program’’) 
for the purpose of testing and evaluating the capabilities of Federal, 
State, local, and foreign governments, commercial seaport personnel
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and management, governmental and nongovernmental emergency 
response providers, the private sector, or any other organization 
or entity, as the Secretary determines to be appropriate, to prevent, 
prepare for, mitigate against, respond to, and recover from acts 
of terrorism, natural disasters, and other emergencies at facilities 
required to submit a plan under section 70103(c) of title 46, United 
States Code. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall ensure that the Exer-
cise Program—
(1) conducts, on a periodic basis, port security exercises 
at such facilities that are—
(A) scaled and tailored to the needs of each facility; 
(B) live, in the case of the most at-risk facilities; 
(C) as realistic as practicable and based on current 
risk 
assessments, 
including 
credible 
threats, 
vulnerabilities, and consequences; 
(D) consistent with the National Incident Management 
System, the National Response Plan, the National Infra-
structure Protection Plan, the National Preparedness Guid-
ance, the National Preparedness Goal, the National Mari-
time Transportation Security Plan, and other such national 
initiatives; 
(E) evaluated against clear and consistent performance 
measures; 
(F) assessed to learn best practices, which shall be 
shared with appropriate Federal, State, and local officials, 
commercial seaport personnel and management, govern-
mental and nongovernmental emergency response pro-
viders, and the private sector; and 
(G) followed by remedial action in response to lessons 
learned; and 
(2) assists State and local governments and facilities in 
designing, implementing, and evaluating exercises that—
(A) conform to the requirements of paragraph (1); and 
(B) are consistent with any applicable Area Maritime 
Transportation Security Plan and State or Urban Area 
Homeland Security Plan. 
(c) IMPROVEMENT PLAN.—The Secretary shall establish a port 
security exercise improvement plan process to—
(1) identify and analyze each port security exercise for 
lessons learned and best practices; 
(2) disseminate lessons learned and best practices to 
participants in the Exercise Program; 
(3) monitor the implementation of lessons learned and best 
practices by participants in the Exercise Program; and 
(4) conduct remedial action tracking and long-term trend 
analysis. 
SEC. 115. FACILITY EXERCISE REQUIREMENTS. 
The Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard 
is operating shall require each high risk facility to conduct live 
or full-scale exercises described in section 105.220(c) of title 33, 
Code of Federal Regulations, not less frequently than once every 
2 years, in accordance with the facility security plan required under 
section 70103(c) of title 46, United States Code.
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Subtitle C—Port Operations 
SEC. 121. DOMESTIC RADIATION DETECTION AND IMAGING. 
(a) SCANNING CONTAINERS.—Subject to section 1318 of title 
19, United States Code, not later than December 31, 2007, all 
containers entering the United States through the 22 ports through 
which the greatest volume of containers enter the United States 
by vessel shall be scanned for radiation. To the extent practicable, 
the Secretary shall deploy next generation radiation detection tech-
nology. 
(b) STRATEGY.—The Secretary shall develop a strategy for the 
deployment of radiation detection capabilities that includes—
(1) a risk-based prioritization of ports of entry at which 
radiation detection equipment will be deployed; 
(2) a proposed timeline of when radiation detection equip-
ment will be deployed at each port of entry identified under 
paragraph (1); 
(3) the type of equipment to be used at each port of entry 
identified under paragraph (1), including the joint deployment 
and utilization of radiation detection equipment and nonintru-
sive imaging equipment; 
(4) standard operating procedures for examining containers 
with such equipment, including sensor alarming, networking, 
and communications and response protocols; 
(5) operator training plans; 
(6) an evaluation of the environmental health and safety 
impacts of nonintrusive imaging technology and a radiation 
risk reduction plan, in consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administra-
tion, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and 
Health, that seeks to minimize radiation exposure of workers 
and the public to levels as low as reasonably achievable; 
(7) the policy of the Department for using nonintrusive 
imaging equipment in tandem with radiation detection equip-
ment; and 
(8) a classified annex that—
(A) details plans for covert testing; and 
(B) outlines the risk-based prioritization of ports of 
entry identified under paragraph (1). 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit the strategy 
developed under subsection (b) to the appropriate congressional 
committees. 
(d) UPDATE.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
submission of the report under subsection (c), the Secretary shall 
provide a more complete evaluation under subsection (b)(6). 
(e) OTHER WEAPONS
OF MASS DESTRUCTION THREATS.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a report on the feasibility of, and a strategy for, the develop-
ment of equipment to detect and prevent shielded nuclear and 
radiological threat material and chemical, biological, and other 
weapons of mass destruction from entering the United States. 
(f) STANDARDS.—The Secretary, acting through the Director 
for Domestic Nuclear Detection and in collaboration with the
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National Institute of Standards and Technology, shall publish tech-
nical capability standards and recommended standard operating 
procedures for the use of nonintrusive imaging and radiation detec-
tion equipment in the United States. Such standards and proce-
dures—
(1) should take into account relevant standards and proce-
dures utilized by other Federal departments or agencies as 
well as those developed by international bodies; and 
(2) shall not be designed so as to endorse specific companies 
or create sovereignty conflicts with participating countries. 
(g) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 3 years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall fully implement 
the strategy developed under subsection (b). 
(h) EXPANSION TO OTHER UNITED STATES PORTS OF ENTRY.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after—
(A) implementation of the program for the examination 
of containers for radiation at ports of entry described in 
subsection (a); and 
(B) submission of the strategy developed under sub-
section (b) (and updating, if any, of that strategy under 
subsection (c)), 
but not later than December 31, 2008, the Secretary shall 
expand the strategy developed under subsection (b), in a 
manner consistent with the requirements of subsection (b), 
to provide for the deployment of radiation detection capabilities 
at all other United States ports of entry not covered by the 
strategy developed under subsection (b). 
(2) RISK ASSESSMENT.—In expanding the strategy under 
paragraph (1), the Secretary shall identify and assess the risks 
to those other ports of entry in order to determine what equip-
ment and practices will best mitigate the risks. 
(i) INTERMODAL RAIL RADIATION DETECTION TEST CENTER.—
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—In accordance with subsection (b), 
and in order to comply with this section, the Secretary shall 
establish an Intermodal Rail Radiation Detection Test Center 
(referred to in this subsection as the ‘‘Test Center’’). 
(2) PROJECTS.—The Secretary shall conduct multiple, 
concurrent projects at the Test Center to rapidly identify and 
test concepts specific to the challenges posed by on-dock rail. 
(3) LOCATION.—The Test Center shall be located within 
a public port facility at which a majority of the containerized 
cargo is directly laden from (or unladen to) on-dock, intermodal 
rail. 
SEC. 122. INSPECTION OF CAR FERRIES ENTERING FROM ABROAD. 
Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner, and in 
coordination with the Secretary of State and in cooperation with 
ferry operators and appropriate foreign government officials, shall 
seek to develop a plan for the inspection of passengers and vehicles 
before such passengers board, or such vehicles are loaded onto, 
a ferry bound for a United States facility required to submit a 
plan under section 70103(c) of title 46, United States Code. 
SEC. 123. RANDOM SEARCHES OF CONTAINERS. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner, shall develop 
and implement a plan, utilizing best practices for empirical scientific