IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4749 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 19, 2008 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 
the Office for Bombing Prevention, to address terrorist 
explosive threats, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Bombing Pre-
vention Act of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. BOMBING PREVENTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title II of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 210F. OFFICE FOR BOMBING PREVENTION. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish 
within the Protective Security Coordination Division of the 
Office of Infrastructure Protection of the Department an 
Office for Bombing Prevention (in this section referred to 
as ‘the Office’). 
‘‘(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Office shall have the 
primary responsibility for enhancing the ability, and co-
ordinating the efforts, of the United States to deter, de-
tect, prevent, protect against, and respond to terrorist ex-
plosive attacks in the United States, including by— 
‘‘(1) serving as the lead agency of the Depart-
ment for ensuring that programs designed to 
counter terrorist explosive attacks in the United 
States function together efficiently to meet the evolv-
ing threat from explosives and improvised explosive 
devices; 
‘‘(2) coordinating national and intergovern-
mental bombing prevention activities to ensure those 
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activities work toward achieving common national 
goals; 
‘‘(3) conducting analysis of the capabilities and 
requirements necessary for Federal, State, local, and 
tribal governments to deter, prevent, detect, protect 
against, and assist in any response to terrorist ex-
plosive attacks in the United States by— 
‘‘(A) maintaining a national analysis data-
base on the capabilities of bomb squads, explo-
sive detection canine teams, tactics teams, and 
public safety dive teams; and 
‘‘(B) applying the analysis derived from 
the database described in subparagraph (A) 
in— 
‘‘(i) evaluating progress toward clos-
ing identified gaps relating to national 
strategic goals and standards; and 
‘‘(ii) informing decisions relating to 
homeland security policy, assistance, train-
ing, research, development efforts, testing 
and evaluation, and related requirements; 
‘‘(4) promoting secure information sharing of 
sensitive material and promoting security awareness, 
including by— 
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‘‘(A) operating and maintaining a secure 
information sharing system that allows the 
sharing of critical information relating to ter-
rorist explosive attack tactics, techniques, and 
procedures; 
‘‘(B) educating the public and private sec-
tors about explosive precursor chemicals; 
‘‘(C) working with international partners, 
in coordination with the Office for International 
Affairs of the Department, to develop and share 
effective practices to deter, prevent, detect, pro-
tect, and respond to terrorist explosive attacks 
in the United States; and 
‘‘(D) executing national public awareness 
and vigilance campaigns relating to terrorist ex-
plosive threats, preventing explosive attacks, 
and activities and measures underway to safe-
guard the United States; 
‘‘(5) assisting State, local, and tribal govern-
ments in developing multi-jurisdictional improvised 
explosive devices security plans for high-risk jurisdic-
tions; 
‘‘(6) helping to ensure, in coordination with the 
Under Secretary for Science and Technology and the 
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Manage-
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ment Agency, the identification and availability of 
effective technology applications through field pilot 
testing and acquisition of such technology applica-
tions by Federal, State, local, and tribal govern-
ments to deter, prevent, detect, protect, and respond 
to terrorist explosive attacks in the United States; 
‘‘(7) coordinating the efforts of the Department 
relating to, and assisting departments and agencies 
of Federal, State, local, and tribal governments, and 
private sector business in, developing and imple-
menting national explosives detection training, cer-
tification, and performance standards; 
‘‘(8) ensuring the implementation of any rec-
ommendations in the national strategy required 
under section 210G, including developing, maintain-
ing, and tracking progress toward achieving objec-
tives to reduce the vulnerability of the United States 
to terrorist explosive attacks; 
‘‘(9) developing, in coordination with the Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, programmatic guidance and permitted uses 
for bombing prevention activities funded by home-
land security assistance administered by the Depart-
ment; and 
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‘‘(10) establishing and executing a public 
awareness campaign to inform the general public 
and private sector businesses on ways they can 
deter, detect, prevent, protect against, and respond 
to terrorist explosive attacks in the United States, 
that— 
‘‘(A) utilizes a broad spectrum of both 
mainstream and specialty print, radio, television 
outlets, and the Internet; 
‘‘(B) utilizes small and disadvantaged busi-
nesses, as defined under the Small Business Act 
(15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.); and 
‘‘(C) ensures that the public awareness 
messages under the campaign reach and are 
understandable to underserved populations, in-
cluding— 
‘‘(i) persons with physical and mental 
disabilities, health problems, visual impair-
ments, 
hearing 
impairments, 
limited 
English proficiency, and literacy barriers; 
‘‘(ii) socially and economically dis-
advantaged households and communities; 
‘‘(iii) the elderly; and 
‘‘(iv) children. 
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