I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5017 
To ensure the implementation of the recommendations of the National 
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 28, 2006 
Mr. SHAYS (for himself and Mrs. MALONEY) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addi-
tion to the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), Govern-
ment Reform, Armed Services, Judiciary, International Relations, Finan-
cial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, Energy and Com-
merce, Ways and Means, and Budget, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To ensure the implementation of the recommendations of 
the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the 
United States. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Ensuring Implementation of the 9/11 Commission Re-
port Act’’. 
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(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definition; 9/11 Commission. 
TITLE I—HOMELAND SECURITY, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 
AND RESPONSE 
Subtitle A—Emergency Preparedness and Response 
CHAPTER 1—EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 
Sec. 101. Adequate radio spectrum for first responders. 
Sec. 102. Report on establishing a unified incident command system. 
Sec. 103. Report on completing a national critical infrastructure risk and 
vulnerabilities assessment. 
Sec. 104. Private sector preparedness. 
Sec. 105. Relevant congressional committees defined. 
CHAPTER 2—ASSISTANCE FOR FIRST RESPONDERS 
Sec. 111. Short title. 
Sec. 112. Findings. 
Sec. 113. Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders. 
Sec. 114. Superseded provision. 
Sec. 115. Oversight. 
Sec. 116. GAO report on an inventory and status of Homeland Security first 
responder training. 
Sec. 117. Removal of civil liability barriers that discourage the donation of fire 
equipment to volunteer fire companies. 
Subtitle B—Transportation Security 
Sec. 121. Report on national strategy for transportation security. 
Sec. 122. Report on airline passenger pre-screening. 
Sec. 123. Report on detection of explosives at airline screening checkpoints. 
Sec. 124. Report on comprehensive screening program. 
Sec. 125. Relevant congressional committees defined. 
Subtitle C—Border Security 
Sec. 131. Counterterrorist travel intelligence. 
Sec. 132. Comprehensive screening system. 
Sec. 133. Biometric entry and exit data system. 
Sec. 134. International collaboration on border and document security. 
Sec. 135. Standardization of secure identification. 
Sec. 136. Security enhancements for social security cards. 
TITLE II—REFORMING THE INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT 
Subtitle A—Intelligence Community 
Sec. 201. Report on director of national intelligence. 
Sec. 202. Report on national counterterrorism center. 
Sec. 203. Report on creation of a Federal Bureau of Investigation national se-
curity workforce. 
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Sec. 204. Report on new missions for the Director of the Central Intelligence 
Agency. 
Sec. 205. Report on incentives for information sharing. 
Sec. 206. Report on Presidential leadership of national security institutions in 
the information revolution. 
Sec. 207. Homeland airspace defense. 
Sec. 208. Semiannual report on plans and strategies of United States Northern 
Command for defense of the United States homeland. 
Sec. 209. Relevant congressional committees defined. 
Subtitle B—Civil Liberties and Executive Power 
Sec. 211. Report on the balance between security and civil liberties. 
Sec. 212. Privacy and civil liberties oversight board. 
Sec. 213. Set privacy guidelines for Government sharing of personal informa-
tion. 
Sec. 214. Definition of relevant congressional committees for subtitle. 
Subtitle C—Homeland Security Committees 
CHAPTER 1—HOMELAND SECURITY REFORM IN THE HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES 
Sec. 221. Committee on Homeland Security. 
Sec. 222. Committee on Intelligence. 
Sec. 223. Subcommittee limitation on Committee on Appropriations. 
Sec. 224. Membership on Committee on Appropriations. 
Sec. 225. Conforming amendments. 
CHAPTER 2—HOMELAND SECURITY OVERSIGHT REFORM IN THE SENATE 
SUBCHAPTER A—HOMELAND SECURITY 
Sec. 231. Homeland Security. 
SUBCHAPTER B—INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT REFORM 
Sec. 241. Intelligence oversight. 
SUBCHAPTER C—COMMITTEE STATUS 
Sec. 251. Committee status. 
SUBCHAPTER D—INTELLIGENCE-RELATED SUBCOMMITTEES 
Sec. 261. Subcommittee related to intelligence oversight. 
Sec. 262. Subcommittee related to intelligence appropriations. 
CHAPTER 3—EFFECTIVE DATE 
Sec. 271. Effective date. 
Subtitle D—Declassification of Overall Intelligence Budget 
Sec. 281. Availability to public of certain intelligence funding information. 
Subtitle E—Standardize Security Clearances 
Sec. 282. Standardization of security clearances. 
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TITLE III—FOREIGN POLICY, PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, AND 
NONPROLIFERATION 
Subtitle A—Foreign Policy 
Sec. 301. Actions to ensure a long-term commitment to Afghanistan. 
Sec. 302. Actions to support Pakistan against extremists. 
Sec. 303. Actions to support reform in Saudi Arabia. 
Sec. 304. Elimination of terrorist sanctuaries. 
Sec. 305. Comprehensive coalition strategy against Islamist terrorism. 
Sec. 306.
Standards for the detention and humane treatment of captured ter-
rorists. 
Sec. 307. Use of economic policies to combat terrorism. 
Sec. 308. Actions to ensure vigorous efforts against terrorist financing. 
Subtitle B—Public Diplomacy 
Sec. 311. Public diplomacy responsibilities of the Department of State and pub-
lic diplomacy training of members of the Foreign Service. 
Sec. 312. International broadcasting. 
Sec. 313. Expansion of United States scholarship, exchange, and library pro-
grams in the Islamic world. 
Sec. 314. International Youth Opportunity Fund. 
Subtitle C—Nonproliferation 
Sec. 321. Short title. 
Sec. 322. Findings. 
Sec. 323. Establishment of Office of Nonproliferation Programs in the Execu-
tive Office of the President. 
Sec. 324. Removal of restrictions on Cooperative Threat Reduction programs. 
Sec. 325. Removal of restrictions on Department of Energy nonproliferation 
programs. 
Sec. 326. Modifications of authority to use Cooperative Threat Reduction pro-
gram funds outside the former Soviet Union. 
Sec. 327. Modifications of authority to use International Nuclear Materials 
Protection and Cooperation program funds outside the former 
Soviet Union. 
Sec. 328. Special reports on adherence to arms control agreements and non-
proliferation commitments. 
Sec. 329. Presidential report on impediments to certain nonproliferation activi-
ties. 
Sec. 330. Enhancement of Global Threat Reduction Initiative. 
Sec. 331. Expansion of Proliferation Security Initiative. 
Sec. 332. Sense of Congress relating to international security standards for nu-
clear weapons and materials. 
Sec. 333. Authorization of appropriations relating to inventory of Russian tac-
tical nuclear warheads and data exchanges. 
Sec. 334. Report on accounting for and securing of Russia’s non-strategic nu-
clear weapons. 
Sec. 335. Research and development involving alternative use of weapons of 
mass destruction expertise. 
Sec. 336. Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. 
Sec. 337. Definitions. 
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SEC. 2. DEFINITION; 9/11 COMMISSION. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘9/11 Commission’’ means the 
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the 
United States. 
TITLE I—HOMELAND SECURITY, 
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 
AND RESPONSE 
Subtitle A—Emergency 
Preparedness and Response 
CHAPTER 1—EMERGENCY 
PREPAREDNESS 
SEC. 101. ADEQUATE RADIO SPECTRUM FOR FIRST RE-
SPONDERS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This chapter may be cited as the 
‘‘Homeland Emergency Response Operations Act’’ or the 
‘‘HERO Act’’. 
(b) PREVENTION OF DELAY IN REASSIGNMENT OF 
24 MEGAHERTZ FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PURPOSES.—Sec-
tion 309(j)(14) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 309(j)(14)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(E) EXTENSIONS
NOT
PERMITTED
FOR 
CHANNELS (63, 64, 68 AND 69) REASSIGNED FOR 
PUBLIC
SAFETY
SERVICES.—Notwithstanding 
subparagraph (B), the Commission shall not 
grant any extension under such subparagraph 
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from the limitation of subparagraph (A) with 
respect to the frequencies assigned, pursuant to 
section 337(a)(1), for public safety services. 
The Commission shall take all actions necessary 
to complete assignment of the electromagnetic 
spectrum between 764 and 776 megahertz, in-
clusive, and between 794 and 806 megahertz, 
inclusive, for public safety services and to per-
mit operations by public safety services on those 
frequencies commencing no later than January 
1, 2007.’’. 
SEC. 102. REPORT ON ESTABLISHING A UNIFIED INCIDENT 
COMMAND SYSTEM. 
(a) REPORT; CERTIFICATION.—Not later than 30 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 
30 days thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall submit to the relevant congressional committees a 
report on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission 
and the policy goals of the Intelligence Reform and Ter-
rorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–458) 
with respect to establishing a unified incident command 
system. Such report shall include— 
(1) a certification by the Secretary of Home-
land Security that such recommendations have been 
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implemented and such policy goals have been 
achieved; or 
(2) if the Secretary of Homeland Security is 
unable to make the certification described in para-
graph (1), a description of— 
(A) the steps taken to implement such rec-
ommendations and achieve such policy goals; 
(B) when the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity expects such recommendations to be imple-
mented and such policy goals to be achieved; 
and 
(C) any allocation of resources or other ac-
tions by Congress the Director considers nec-
essary to implement such recommendations and 
achieve such policy goals. 
(b) TERMINATION OF DUTY TO REPORT.—The duty 
to submit a report under subsection (a) shall terminate 
when the Secretary of Homeland Security submits a cer-
tification pursuant to subsection (a)(1). 
(c) GAO REVIEW OF CERTIFICATION.—If the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security submits a certification pursu-
ant to subsection (a)(1), not later than 30 days after the 
submission of such certification, the Comptroller General 
shall submit to the relevant congressional committees a 
report on whether the recommendations described in sub-
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section (a) have been implemented and whether the policy 
goals described in subsection (a) have been achieved. 
SEC. 103. REPORT ON COMPLETING A NATIONAL CRITICAL 
INFRASTRUCTURE 
RISK 
AND 
VULNERABILITIES ASSESSMENT. 
(a) REPORT; CERTIFICATION.—Not later than 30 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 
30 days thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall submit to the relevant congressional committees a 
report on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission 
and the policy goals of the Intelligence Reform and Ter-
rorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–458) 
with respect to completing a national critical infrastruc-
ture risk and vulnerabilities assessment. Such report shall 
include— 
(1) a certification by the Secretary of Home-
land Security that such recommendations have been 
implemented and such policy goals have been 
achieved; or 
(2) if the Secretary of Homeland Security is 
unable to make the certification described in para-
graph (1), a description of— 
(A) the steps taken to implement such rec-
ommendations and achieve such policy goals; 
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(B) when the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity expects such recommendations to be imple-
mented and such policy goals to be achieved; 
and 
(C) any allocation of resources or other ac-
tions by Congress the Director considers nec-
essary to implement such recommendations and 
achieve such policy goals. 
(b) TERMINATION OF DUTY TO REPORT.—The duty 
to submit a report under subsection (a) shall terminate 
when the Secretary of Homeland Security submits a cer-
tification pursuant to subsection (a)(1). 
(c) GAO REVIEW OF CERTIFICATION.—If the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security submits a certification pursu-
ant to subsection (a)(1), not later than 30 days after the 
submission of such certification, the Comptroller General 
shall submit to the relevant congressional committees a 
report on whether the recommendations described in sub-
section (a) have been implemented and whether the policy 
goals described in subsection (a) have been achieved. 
SEC. 104. PRIVATE SECTOR PREPAREDNESS. 
The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
submit to the Congress by not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act— 
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(1) a determination of what has been done to 
enhance private sector preparedness for terrorist at-
tack; and 
(2) recommendations of any additional congres-
sional action or administrative action that is nec-
essary to enhance such preparedness. 
SEC. 105. RELEVANT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED. 
In this chapter, the term ‘‘relevant congressional 
committees’’ means the Committee on Homeland Security, 
the Committee on Government Reform, and the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity and Government Affairs and the Committee on Envi-
ronment and Public Works of the Senate. 
CHAPTER 2—ASSISTANCE FOR FIRST 
RESPONDERS 
SEC. 111. SHORT TITLE. 
This chapter may be cited as the ‘‘Faster and Smart-
er Funding for First Responders Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 112. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) In order to achieve its objective of pre-
venting, minimizing the damage from, and assisting 
in the recovery from terrorist attacks, the Depart-
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ment of Homeland Security must play a leading role 
in assisting communities to reach the level of pre-
paredness they need to prevent and respond to a ter-
rorist attack. 
(2) First responder funding is not reaching the 
men and women of our Nation’s first response teams 
quickly enough, and sometimes not at all. 
(3) To reform the current bureaucratic process 
so that homeland security dollars reach the first re-
sponders who need it most, it is necessary to clarify 
and consolidate the authority and procedures of the 
Department of Homeland Security that support first 
responders. 
(4) Ensuring adequate resources for the new 
national mission of homeland security, without de-
grading the ability to address effectively other types 
of major disasters and emergencies, requires a dis-
crete and separate grant making process for home-
land security funds for first response to terrorist 
acts, on the one hand, and for first responder pro-
grams designed to meet pre-September 11 priorities, 
on the other. 
(5) While a discrete homeland security grant 
making process is necessary to ensure proper focus 
on the unique aspects of terrorism preparedness, it 
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is essential that State and local strategies for uti-
lizing such grants be integrated, to the greatest ex-
tent practicable, with existing State and local emer-
gency management plans. 
(6) Homeland security grants to first respond-
ers must be based on the best intelligence con-
cerning the capabilities and intentions of our ter-
rorist enemies, and that intelligence must be used to 
target resources to the Nation’s greatest threats, 
vulnerabilities, and consequences. 
(7) The Nation’s first response capabilities will 
be improved by sharing resources, training, plan-
ning, personnel, and equipment among neighboring 
jurisdictions through mutual aid agreements and re-
gional cooperation. Such regional cooperation should 
be supported, where appropriate, through direct 
grants from the Department of Homeland Security. 
(8) An essential prerequisite to achieving the 
Nation’s homeland security objectives for first re-
sponders is the establishment of well-defined na-
tional goals for terrorism preparedness. These goals 
should delineate the essential capabilities that every 
jurisdiction in the United States should possess or 
to which it should have access. 
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(9) A national determination of essential capa-
bilities is needed to identify levels of State and local 
government terrorism preparedness, to determine 
the nature and extent of State and local first re-
sponder needs, to identify the human and financial 
resources required to fulfill them, to direct funding 
to meet those needs, and to measure preparedness 
levels on a national scale. 
(10) To facilitate progress in achieving, main-
taining, and enhancing essential capabilities for 
State and local first responders, the Department of 
Homeland Security should seek to allocate homeland 
security funding for first responders to meet nation-
wide needs. 
(11) Private sector resources and citizen volun-
teers can perform critical functions in assisting in 
preventing and responding to terrorist attacks, and 
should be integrated into State and local planning 
efforts to ensure that their capabilities and roles are 
understood, so as to provide enhanced State and 
local operational capability and surge capacity. 
(12) Public-private partnerships, such as the 
partnerships between the Business Executives for 
National Security and the States of New Jersey and 
Georgia, can be useful to identify and coordinate pri-
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vate sector support for State and local first respond-
ers. Such models should be expanded to cover all 
States and territories. 
(13) An important aspect of terrorism pre-
paredness is measurability, so that it is possible to 
determine how prepared a State or local government 
is now, and what additional steps it needs to take, 
in order to prevent, prepare for, respond to, mitigate 
against, and recover from acts of terrorism. 
(14) The Department of Homeland Security 
should establish, publish, and regularly update na-
tional voluntary consensus standards for both equip-
ment and training, in cooperation with both public 
and private sector standard setting organizations, to 
assist State and local governments in obtaining the 
equipment and training to attain the essential capa-
bilities for first response to acts of terrorism, and to 
ensure that first responder funds are spent wisely. 
SEC. 113. FASTER AND SMARTER FUNDING FOR FIRST RE-
SPONDERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Homeland Security Act of 
2002 (Public Law 107–296; 6 U.S.C. 361 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) in section 1(b) in the table of contents by 
adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘TITLE XVIII—FUNDING FOR FIRST RESPONDERS 
‘‘Sec. 1801. Definitions. 
‘‘Sec. 1802. Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders. 
‘‘Sec. 1803. Covered grant eligibility and criteria. 
‘‘Sec. 1804. Risk-based evaluation and prioritization. 
‘‘Sec. 1805. Task Force on Terrorism Preparedness for First Responders. 
‘‘Sec. 1806. Use of funds and accountability requirements. 
‘‘Sec. 1807. National standards for first responder equipment and training.’’. 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘TITLE XVIII—FUNDING FOR 
FIRST RESPONDERS 
‘‘SEC. 1801. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘In this title: 
‘‘(1) BOARD.—The term ‘Board’ means the 
First Responder Grants Board established under 
section 1804. 
‘‘(2) COVERED
GRANT.—The term ‘covered 
grant’ means any grant to which this title applies 
under section 1802. 
‘‘(3) DIRECTLY
ELIGIBLE
TRIBE.—The term 
‘directly eligible tribe’ means any Indian tribe or 
consortium of Indian tribes that— 
‘‘(A) meets the criteria for inclusion in the 
qualified applicant pool for Self-Governance 
that are set forth in section 402(c) of the In-
dian Self-Determination and Education Assist-
ance Act (25 U.S.C. 458bb(c)); 
‘‘(B) employs at least 10 full-time per-
sonnel in a law enforcement or emergency re-
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sponse agency with the capacity to respond to 
calls for law enforcement or emergency services; 
and 
‘‘(C)(i) is located on, or within 5 miles of, 
an international border or waterway; 
‘‘(ii) is located within 5 miles of a facility 
designated as high-risk critical infrastructure 
by the Secretary; 
‘‘(iii) is located within or contiguous to one 
of the 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas 
in the United States; or 
‘‘(iv) has more than 1,000 square miles of 
Indian country, as that term is defined in sec-
tion 1151 of title 18, United States Code. 
‘‘(4) ELEVATIONS
IN
THE
THREAT
ALERT 
LEVEL.—The term ‘elevations in the threat alert 
level’ means any designation (including those that 
are less than national in scope) that raises the 
homeland security threat level to either the highest 
or second highest threat level under the Homeland 
Security Advisory System referred to in section 
201(d)(7). 
‘‘(5) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.—The term 
‘emergency preparedness’ shall have the same mean-
ing that term has under section 602 of the Robert 
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T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5195a). 
‘‘(6) ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES.—The term ‘es-
sential capabilities’ means the levels, availability, 
and competence of emergency personnel, planning, 
training, and equipment across a variety of dis-
ciplines needed to effectively and efficiently prevent, 
prepare for, respond to, and recover from acts of 
terrorism consistent with established practices. 
‘‘(7) FIRST RESPONDER.—The term ‘first re-
sponder’ shall have the same meaning as the term 
‘emergency response provider’. 
‘‘(8) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian tribe’ 
means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other orga-
nized group or community, including any Alaskan 
Native village or regional or village corporation as 
defined in or established pursuant to the Alaskan 
Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et 
seq.), which is recognized as eligible for the special 
programs and services provided by the United States 
to Indians because of their status as Indians. 
‘‘(9) REGION.—The term ‘region’ means— 
‘‘(A) any geographic area consisting of all 
or parts of 2 or more contiguous States, coun-
ties, municipalities, or other local governments 
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that have a combined population of at least 
1,650,000 or have an area of not less than 
20,000 square miles, and that, for purposes of 
an application for a covered grant, is rep-
resented by 1 or more governments or govern-
mental agencies within such geographic area, 
and that is established by law or by agreement 
of 2 or more such governments or governmental 
agencies in a mutual aid agreement; or 
‘‘(B) any other combination of contiguous 
local government units (including such a com-
bination established by law or agreement of two 
or more governments or governmental agencies 
in a mutual aid agreement) that is formally cer-
tified by the Secretary as a region for purposes 
of this title with the consent of— 
‘‘(i) the State or States in which they 
are located, including a multi-State entity 
established by a compact between two or 
more States; and 
‘‘(ii) the incorporated municipalities, 
counties, and parishes that they encom-
pass. 
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‘‘(10) TASK FORCE.—The term ‘Task Force’ 
means the Task Force on Terrorism Preparedness 
for First Responders established under section 1805. 
‘‘(11) TERRORISM PREPAREDNESS.—The term 
‘terrorism preparedness’ means any activity designed 
to improve the ability to prevent, prepare for, re-
spond to, mitigate against, or recover from threat-
ened or actual terrorist attacks. 
‘‘SEC. 1802. FASTER AND SMARTER FUNDING FOR FIRST RE-
SPONDERS. 
‘‘(a) COVERED GRANTS.—This title applies to grants 
provided by the Department to States, regions, or directly 
eligible tribes for the primary purpose of improving the 
ability of first responders to prevent, prepare for, respond 
to, mitigate against, or recover from threatened or actual 
terrorist attacks, especially those involving weapons of 
mass destruction, administered under the following: 
‘‘(1) STATE HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PRO-
GRAM.—The State Homeland Security Grant Pro-
gram of the Department, or any successor to such 
grant program. 
‘‘(2) URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE.—The 
Urban Area Security Initiative of the Department, 
or any successor to such grant program. 
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‘‘(3) LAW ENFORCEMENT TERRORISM PREVEN-
TION PROGRAM.—The Law Enforcement Terrorism 
Prevention Program of the Department, or any suc-
cessor to such grant program. 
‘‘(b) EXCLUDED PROGRAMS.—This title does not 
apply to or otherwise affect the following Federal grant 
programs or any grant under such a program: 
‘‘(1) NONDEPARTMENT PROGRAMS.—Any Fed-
eral grant program that is not administered by the 
Department. 
‘‘(2) FIRE GRANT PROGRAMS.—The fire grant 
programs authorized by sections 33 and 34 of the 
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 
(15 U.S.C. 2229, 2229a). 
‘‘(3) EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING 
AND
ASSISTANCE
ACCOUNT
GRANTS.—The Emer-
gency Management Performance Grant program and 
the Urban Search and Rescue Grants program au-
thorized by title VI of the Robert T. Stafford Dis-
aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5195 et seq.); the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 
(113 Stat. 1047 et seq.); and the Earthquake Haz-
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ards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701 et 
seq.). 
‘‘SEC. 1803. COVERED GRANT ELIGIBILITY AND CRITERIA. 
‘‘(a) GRANT ELIGIBILITY.—Any State, region, or di-
rectly eligible tribe shall be eligible to apply for a covered 
grant. 
‘‘(b) GRANT CRITERIA.—The Secretary shall award 
covered grants to assist States and local governments in 
achieving, maintaining, and enhancing the essential capa-
bilities for terrorism preparedness established by the Sec-
retary. 
‘‘(c) STATE HOMELAND SECURITY PLANS.— 
‘‘(1) SUBMISSION
OF
PLANS.—The Secretary 
shall require that any State applying to the Sec-
retary for a covered grant must submit to the Sec-
retary a 3-year State homeland security plan that— 
‘‘(A) describes the essential capabilities 
that communities within the State should pos-
sess, or to which they should have access, based 
upon the terrorism risk factors relevant to such 
communities, in order to meet the Department’s 
goals for terrorism preparedness; 
‘‘(B) demonstrates the extent to which the 
State has achieved the essential capabilities 
that apply to the State; 
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