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ganizations in implementing plans for outreach to people 
with disabilities during emergencies. 
SEC. 906. TWIC PROCESS REFORM. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—To avoid further imposing 
unnecessary and costly regulatory burdens on United States 
workers and businesses, it is the sense of Congress that it 
is urgent that the Transportation Worker Identification 
Credential (TWIC) application process be reformed by not 
later than the end of 2012, when hundreds of thousands of 
current TWIC holders will begin to face the requirement 
to renew their TWICs. 
(b) TWIC APPLICATION REFORM.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary shall reform the process for the enrollment, activa-
tion, issuance, and renewal of a TWIC to require, in total, 
not more than one in-person visit to a designated enroll-
ment center except in cases in which there are extenuating 
circumstances, as determined by the Secretary, requiring 
more than one such in-person visit. 
SEC. 907. REPORT ON PROGRESS TOWARD CONDUCTING SE-
CURITY VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS AT 
AIRPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: 
(1) According to a July 2011 interview with the 
Government Accountability Office, the Transportation 
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Security Authority (TSA) admitted to not having 
conducted security vulnerability assessments at 83 
percent of airports in the United States. This figure 
increased from 87 percent in 2009, but shows little 
progress on the matter and leaves airport perimeters 
throughout the United States vulnerable to security 
breaches. 
(2) TSA identified security vulnerability assess-
ments, along with professional judgment, as TSA’s 
primary mechanism for assessing airport security 
vulnerabilities in accordance with National Infra-
structure Protection Plan requirements. 
(3) The Federal Government reports that between 
1996 and November 2010, there have been 86 stow-
aways involving 76 flights, of which 68 were fatal 
and 18 survived. 
(4) In November 2011, Delvonte Tisdale stowed 
away on a commercial jet at the Charlotte-Douglas 
International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, 
and fell out of the aircraft as it neared Boston’s 
Logan Airport. To this day, no comprehensive rea-
soning has been provided as to how Mr. Tisdale was 
able to stow away in the wheel well of the aircraft. 
(b) REPORT.— 
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(1) No later than 180 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a report 
to Congress and the appropriate congressional com-
mittees, detailing TSA’s progress toward conducting 
security vulnerability assessments at 100 percent of 
airports in the United States. The report shall detail 
the reasoning behind why TSA has currently con-
ducted these assessments at only 17 percent of air-
ports nationwide and how it will bring this figure up 
to 100 percent in the next two years. 
(2) The report shall include steps taken to in-
crease perimeter security since the incident involving 
Delvonte Tisdale in November 2010. 
(3) The report shall include a thorough expla-
nation of the conclusions reached by TSA during the 
Tisdale investigation. 
SEC. 908. REGULATION OF THE SALE AND TRANSFER OF 
AMMONIUM NITRATE. 
Section 899B (6 U.S.C. 488a) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘of ownership 
rights’’ after ‘‘sale and transfer’’ and inserting ‘‘and 
transfer of possession to entities that provide applica-
tion services for ammonium nitrate’’ after ‘‘ammo-
nium nitrate facility’’; 
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(2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (i) 
as subsections (g) through (j), respectively; and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the following 
new subsection (f): 
‘‘(f) EXEMPTION FOR TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS.— 
The Secretary shall exempt from this subtitle persons en-
gaged in transportation activities covered by chapter 51 or 
section 114(d) of title 49, United States Code, who, in the 
determination of the Secretary, do no pose a security threat 
to homeland security based on existing security programs.’’. 
SEC. 909. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON INCLUSION OF THE 
WESTERN HEMISPHERE IN THE 2012 NA-
TIONAL STRATEGY FOR COUNTERTERROR-
ISM’S ‘‘AREA OF FOCUS’’. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) A 2009 Department of State Country Report 
on Terrorism found that Hezbollah is the most tech-
nically capable terrorist group in the world with 
thousands of supporters, several thousand members, 
and a few hundred terrorist operatives. 
(2) Officials from the Iranian Islamic Revolu-
tionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Qods Force have been 
working in concert with Iran’s chief global terrorist 
proxy, Lebanese Hezbollah, since the 1990s, and they 
have developed networks in the Western Hemisphere 
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that encompass more than 80 operatives in at least 
12 countries throughout the region. 
(3) Hezbollah’s chief sponsors, Iran and Syria, 
have been forging relationships with the governments 
in Latin America to achieve state cover and effective 
immunity for their activities, and Hezbollah has es-
tablished a working relationship with the Revolu-
tionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in arms 
and drug trafficking. 
(4) Hezbollah has demonstrated its ability to co-
operate with Mexican drug cartels to utilize smug-
gling techniques and routes in order to bring drugs 
and people into the United States. Sophisticated 
narco-tunneling 
resembling 
the 
types 
used 
by 
Hezbollah in Lebanon have been found along the 
United States-Mexican border, and arrested Mexican 
gang members entering the United States with Farsi 
tattoos also support a Hezbollah influence. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
there exists a significant cause for concern and for further 
investigation of potential counterterrorism threats to the 
United States from Iran’s growing presence and influence 
in the Western Hemisphere. The Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity, in coordination with other related agencies, should 
include the Western Hemisphere in the 2012 National 
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Union Calendar No. 520 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3116 
[Report No. 112–717, Part I] 
A BILL 
To authorize certain programs of the Department 
of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. 
DECEMBER 21, 2012 
The Committees on Energy and Commerce, Science, 
Space, and Technology, and Transportation and Infra-
structure discharged; committed to the Committee of 
the Whole House on the State of the Union and or-
dered to be printed 
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