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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6791 
To authorize the Land Port of Entry Community Infrastructure Program 
to address deficiencies in community infrastructure supportive of land 
ports of entry, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 17, 2025 
Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas (for himself and Ms. JOHNSON of Texas) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways 
and Means, the Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Energy and Com-
merce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Land Port of Entry Community Infrastruc-
ture Program to address deficiencies in community infra-
structure supportive of land ports of entry, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
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(1) COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE.—The term 
‘‘community infrastructure’’ means a project or fa-
cility that— 
(A) is— 
(i) a transportation project; 
(ii) a water, wastewater, telecommuni-
cations, electric, gas, or other utility 
project; or 
(iii) any other project directly sup-
porting a land port of entry or infrastruc-
ture that is disproportionately impacted by 
the nearby presence of a land port of 
entry, as designated by the Secretary; 
(B) is— 
(i) owned by a State, Tribal, or local 
government; or 
(ii) a not-for-profit, member-owned 
utility service; and 
(C) is— 
(i) focused on the modernization of a 
land port of entry; or 
(ii) located within 25 miles of a land 
port of entry and is supportive of, or dis-
proportionately impacted by the nearby 
presence of, a land port of entry. 
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(2) RURAL
AREA.—The term ‘‘rural area’’ 
means a city, town, or unincorporated area that has 
a population of not more than 100,000 inhabitants. 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
SEC. 2. LAND PORT OF ENTRY COMMUNITY INFRASTRUC-
TURE PROGRAM. 
(a) FUNDING AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary may 
award grants and supplement funds available under exist-
ing Federal programs administered by agencies other than 
the Department of Homeland Security to assist State, 
Tribal, and local governments and not-for-profit, member- 
owned utility services to address deficiencies in community 
infrastructure supportive of a land port of entry. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA; PROJECT CATEGORIES.— 
The Secretary shall establish criteria for determining 
which community infrastructure projects are eligible for 
assistance under this section in the following categories: 
(1) Projects designed to improve the safety, ef-
ficiency, and reliability of legitimate trade and travel 
across the international borders of the United 
States, such as local transportation or water infra-
structure projects to support the modernization or 
construction of a port of entry. 
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(2) Projects designed to enhance border secu-
rity, as measured by their predicted impact on illicit 
drug seizure rates and other relevant metrics for se-
curing the border at ports of entry established pur-
suant to section 1092(c) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (6 U.S.C. 
223(c)). 
(3) Projects designed to enhance resilience of 
land ports of entry and supportive infrastructure, in-
cluding projects that bolster the emergency pre-
paredness of such ports and infrastructure. 
(4) Projects designed to enhance U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection personnel family quality of 
life, as determined in accordance with subsection 
(c)(3). 
(5) Projects designed to address the direct im-
pacts that land ports of entry may have on sur-
rounding communities, such as projects related to 
transportation infrastructure, traffic congestion, 
waste and wastewater infrastructure, pollution, and 
environmental degradation. 
(c) ADDITIONAL
CONSIDERATIONS.—In selecting 
community infrastructure projects to receive financial as-
sistance under this section, the Secretary shall consider— 
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(1) infrastructure improvements identified in 
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s 2024 re-
port entitled, ‘‘Land Port of Entry Modernization: 
Promoting Security, Travel, and Trade’’; 
(2) infrastructure improvements identified in 
State capital investment plans that directly support 
a land port of entry; and 
(3) for the purposes of determining whether a 
proposed community infrastructure project will en-
hance family quality of life— 
(A) the impact of such project on alle-
viating port of entry commuter workforce 
issues; and 
(B) the benefit of local infrastructure 
funded by such project that will support U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection personnel and 
their dependents while residing in the commu-
nity in which such infrastructure will be con-
structed. 
(d) STANDARDIZATION OF PROCESSES FOR DETER-
MINING PROJECT ELIGIBILITY AND SELECTION.—In ac-
cordance with the eligibility criteria described in sub-
section (b) and the selection considerations described in 
subsection (c), the Secretary shall develop and implement 
guidance to standardize the process of identifying, vali-
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