I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4749 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the Office for 
Bombing Prevention, to address terrorist explosive threats, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 17, 2007 
Mr. KING of New York (for himself and Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Home-
land Security 
A BILL 
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, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Bombing Pre-
vention Act of 2007’’. 
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: 
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‘‘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 
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— 
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‘‘(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— 
‘‘(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; 
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‘‘(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-
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; 
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‘‘(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; and 
‘‘(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. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section— 
‘‘(A) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
‘‘(B) $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2010 through 2012; and 
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‘‘(C) such sums as may be necessary for 
each subsequent fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts made available 
pursuant to paragraph (1) are authorized to remain 
available until expended. 
‘‘SEC. 210G. NATIONAL STRATEGY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop and 
periodically update a national strategy to prevent and pre-
pare for terrorist explosive attacks in the United States. 
‘‘(b) DEVELOPMENT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary 
shall develop the national strategy required under sub-
section (a). 
‘‘(c) REPORTING.—Not later than six months after 
the date of the submission of the report regarding each 
quadrennial homeland security review conducted under 
section 707, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee 
on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate a report regarding the na-
tional strategy required under subsection (a), which shall 
include recommendations, if any, for deterring, pre-
venting, detecting, protecting against, and responding to 
terrorist attacks in the United States using explosives or 
improvised explosive devices, including any such rec-
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ommendations relating to coordinating the efforts of Fed-
eral, State, local, and tribal governments, emergency re-
sponse providers, and the private sector.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Se-
curity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to section 210E the fol-
lowing new items: 
‘‘Sec. 210F. Office for Bombing Prevention. 
‘‘Sec. 210G. National strategy.’’. 
SEC. 3. EXPLOSIVES TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND 
TRANSFER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new sections: 
‘‘SEC. 318. EXPLOSIVES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, and in 
coordination with the Under Secretary for National Pro-
tection and Programs, the Attorney General, the Secretary 
of Defense, and the head of any other relevant Federal 
department or agency, shall ensure coordination and infor-
mation sharing regarding nonmilitary research, develop-
ment, testing, and evaluation activities of the Federal Gov-
ernment relating to the detection and prevention of, pro-
tection against, and response to terrorist attacks in the 
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United States using explosives or improvised explosive de-
vices, and the development of tools and technologies nec-
essary to neutralize and disable explosive devices. 
‘‘(b) LEVERAGING MILITARY RESEARCH.—The Sec-
retary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science 
and Technology, and in coordination with the Under Sec-
retary for National Protection and Programs, shall coordi-
nate with the Secretary of Defense and the head of any 
other relevant Federal department or agency to ensure 
that, to the maximum extent possible, military policies and 
procedures, and research, development, testing, and eval-
uation activities relating to the detection and prevention 
of, protection against, and response to terrorist attacks 
using explosives or improvised explosive devices, and the 
development of tools and technologies necessary to neu-
tralize and disable explosive devices, are adapted to non-
military uses. 
‘‘SEC. 319. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, and in 
coordination with the Under Secretary for National Pro-
tection and Programs, shall establish a technology trans-
fer program to facilitate the identification, modification, 
and commercialization of technology and equipment for 
use by Federal, State, and local governmental agencies, 
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emergency response providers, and the private sector to 
deter, prevent, detect, protect, and respond to terrorist at-
tacks in the United States using explosives or improvised 
explosive devices. 
‘‘(b) PROGRAM.—The activities under the program 
established under subsection (a) shall include— 
‘‘(1) applying the analysis conducted under sec-
tion 210F(b)(3) of the capabilities and requirements 
of bomb squad, explosive detection canine teams, 
tactical teams, and public safety dive teams of Fed-
eral, State, and local governments, to determine the 
training and technology requirements for Federal, 
State, and local governments, emergency response 
providers, and the private sector; 
‘‘(2) identifying available technologies designed 
to deter, prevent, detect, protect, or respond to ter-
rorist attacks using explosives or improvised explo-
sive devices that have been, or are in the process of 
being, developed, tested, evaluated, or demonstrated 
by the Department, other Federal agencies, the pri-
vate sector, foreign governments, or international or-
ganizations; 
‘‘(3) reviewing whether a technology described 
in paragraph (2) may be useful in assisting Federal, 
State, or local governments, emergency response 
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providers, or the private sector in detecting, deter-
ring, preventing, or responding to terrorist attacks 
using explosives or improvised explosive devices; and 
‘‘(4) communicating to Federal, State, and local 
governments, emergency response providers, and the 
private sector the availability of any technology de-
scribed in paragraph (2), including providing the 
specifications of any such technology, indicating 
whether any such technology satisfies appropriate 
standards, and identifying grants, if any, available 
from the Department to purchase any such tech-
nology. 
‘‘(c) WORKING GROUP.—To facilitate the transfer of 
military technologies, the Secretary, acting through the 
Under Secretary for Science and Technology, in coordina-
tion with the Secretary of Defense, and in a manner con-
sistent with protection of sensitive sources and methods, 
shall establish a working group to advise and assist in the 
identification of military technologies designed to deter, 
prevent, detect, protect, or respond to terrorist explosive 
attacks that are in the process of being developed, or are 
developed, by the Department of Defense or the private 
sector.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Se-
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curity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.) is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to section 317 the fol-
lowing new items: 
‘‘Sec. 318. Explosives research and development. 
‘‘Sec. 319. Technology transfer.’’. 
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