nuclear materials shall be conducted in coordination with 
the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. 
‘‘(g) TIMEFRAME; REPORTS TO CONGRESS.— 
‘‘(1) INITIAL REPORT.—By not later than June 
2008, the Secretary shall complete the first formal, in-
tegrated, CBRN risk assessment required under sub-
section (b) and shall submit to Congress a report 
summarizing the findings of such assessment and 
identifying improvements that could be made to en-
hance the transparency and usability of the risk anal-
ysis process developed under subsection (a). 
‘‘(2) UPDATES TO REPORT.—The Secretary shall 
submit to Congress updates to the findings and report 
in paragraph (1), when appropriate, but by not later 
than two years after the date on which the initial re-
port is submitted. Such updates shall reflect improve-
ments in the risk analysis process developed under 
subsection (a).’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after the 
items relating to such title the following: 
‘‘Sec. 317. Risk analysis process and integrated CBRN risk assessment.’’. 
SEC. 606. NATIONAL BIO AND AGRO-DEFENSE FACILITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 (6. U.S.C. 181 et seq.) is further amended by 
adding at the end the following new section: 
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‘‘SEC. 318. NATIONAL BIO AND AGRO-DEFENSE FACILITY. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is in the Department a 
National Bio and Agro-defense Facility (referred to in this 
section as the ‘NBAF’), which shall be headed by a Director 
who shall be appointed by the Secretary. 
‘‘(b) PURPOSES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The NBAF shall be an inte-
grated human, foreign-animal, and zoonotic disease 
research, development, testing, and evaluation facility 
with the purpose of supporting the complementary 
missions of the Department, the Department of Agri-
culture, and the Department of Health and Human 
Services in defending against the threat of potential 
acts of agroterrorism and natural-occurring incidents 
related to agriculture with the potential to adversely 
impact public health, animal health, and the econ-
omy, or may otherwise impact homeland security. 
‘‘(2) KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND SHARING.— 
The NBAF shall produce and share knowledge and 
technology for the purpose of reducing economic losses 
caused by foreign-animal, zoonotic, and, as appro-
priate, other endemic animal diseases of livestock and 
poultry, and preventing human suffering and death 
caused by diseases existing or emerging in the agri-
cultural sector. 
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‘‘(c) RESPONSIBILITIES OF DIRECTOR.—The Secretary 
shall vest in the Director primary responsibility for each 
of the following: 
‘‘(1) Directing basic, applied, and advanced re-
search, development, testing, and evaluation relating 
to foreign-animal, zoonotic, and, as appropriate, 
other endemic animal diseases, including foot and 
mouth disease, and performing related activities, in-
cluding— 
‘‘(A) developing countermeasures for for-
eign-animal, zoonotic, and, as appropriate, other 
endemic animal diseases, including diagnostics, 
vaccines and therapeutics; 
‘‘(B) providing advanced test and evalua-
tion capability for threat detection, vulner-
ability, and countermeasure assessment for for-
eign-animal, zoonotic, and, as appropriate, other 
endemic animal diseases; 
‘‘(C) conducting nonclinical, animal model 
testing and evaluation under the Food and Drug 
Administration’s Animal Rule as defined in 
parts 314 and 601 of title 22, Code of Federal 
Regulations, to support the development of 
human medical countermeasures by the Depart-
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