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individuals, including terrorists, to enhance border secu-
rity and for other purposes. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall ensure the 
program required in this section is coordinated with other 
biometric identification programs within the Department 
of Homeland Security. 
(c) COST ANALYSIS.—Within 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations and Homeland Secu-
rity of the House of Representatives and the Committees 
on Appropriations and Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate an analysis of the cost of 
expanding the Coast Guard’s biometric identification ca-
pabilities for use by the Coast Guards Deployable Oper-
ations Group, cutters, stations, and other deployable mari-
time teams considered appropriate by the Secretary, and 
any other appropriate Department of Homeland Security 
maritime vessels and units. The analysis may include a 
tiered plan for the deployment of this program that gives 
priority to vessels and units more likely to encounter indi-
viduals suspected of making illegal border crossings 
through the maritime environment. 
(d) DEFINITION.—For the purposes of this section, 
the term ‘‘biometric identification’’ means use of finger-
print and digital photography images. 
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SEC. 709. REVIEW OF POTENTIAL THREATS. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall sub-
mit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report ana-
lyzing the threat, vulnerability, and consequence of a ter-
rorist attack on gasoline and chemical cargo shipments in 
port activity areas in the United States. 
SEC. 710. PORT SECURITY PILOT. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish 
a pilot program to test and deploy preventive radiological 
or nuclear detection equipment on Coast Guard vessels 
and other locations in select port regions to enhance bor-
der security and for other purposes. The pilot program 
shall leverage existing Federal grant funding to support 
this program and the procurement of additional equip-
ment. 
SEC. 711. ADVANCE NOTICE OF PORT ARRIVAL OF SIGNIFI-
CANT OR FATAL INCIDENTS INVOLVING U.S. 
PERSONS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity shall require the owner or operator of a cruise ship 
that embarks or disembarks passengers in a United States 
port to notify the Secretary of any covered security inci-
dent that occurs on the cruise ship in the course of the 
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voyage (or voyage segment) in which a U.S. person is in-
volved, in conjunction with any advance notice of arrival 
to a United States port required by part 160 of title 33, 
Code of Federal Regulations. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 
(1) COVERED SECURITY INCIDENT.—The term 
‘‘covered security incident’’ means any criminal act 
or omission that results in death or bodily injury, all 
sexual assaults and missing persons, or any other in-
cident that poses a significant threat to the cruise 
ship, any cruise ship passenger, any port facility, or 
any person in or near the port. 
(2) CRUISE
SHIP.—The term ‘‘cruise ship’’ 
means a vessel on an international voyage that em-
barks or disembarks passengers at a port of United 
States jurisdiction to which subpart C of part 160 
of title 33, Code of Federal Regulations, applies and 
that provides overnight accommodations. 
(3) U.S. PERSON.—The term ‘‘U.S. person’’ 
means a citizen of the United States and an alien 
lawfully admitted for permanent residence (as de-
fined in section 101(a)(20) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 (a)(20)). 
(4) 
UNITED
STATES.—The 
term 
‘‘United 
States’’ means the 50 States, the District of Colum-
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bia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American 
Samoa, and any other territory or possession of the 
United States. 
(c) SAVINGS CLAUSE.—Nothing in this section shall 
be interpreted to discourage immediate notification to the 
Secretary of a covered security incident, nor shall this sec-
tion prohibit earlier notifications of covered security inci-
dents otherwise required by law or regulation. 
(d) AVAILABILITY OF INCIDENT DATA VIA INTER-
NET.— 
(1) WEBSITE.—The Secretary shall maintain, 
on an Internet site of the department in which the 
Coast Guard is operating, a numerical accounting of 
the missing persons and alleged crimes in covered 
security incidents for which the Secretary receives 
notification under subsection (a). The data shall be 
updated no less frequently than quarterly, aggre-
gated by cruise line, and each cruise line shall be 
identified by name. 
(2) ACCESS
TO
WEBSITE.—Each cruise line 
taking on or discharging passengers in the United 
States shall include on its Internet site a link to the 
Internet site referred to in paragraph (1), that is 
available to the public. 
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SEC. 712. SAFETY AND SECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR FOR-
EIGN PORTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 70110(e)(1) of title 46, 
United States Code, is amended by striking the second 
sentence and inserting the following: ‘‘The Secretary shall 
establish a strategic plan to utilize those assistance pro-
grams to assist ports and facilities that are found by the 
Secretary under subsection (a) not to maintain effective 
antiterrorism measures in the implementation of port se-
curity antiterrorism measures.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Section 70110 of title 46, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘OR FACILITIES’’ after 
‘‘PORTS’’ in the section heading; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘or facility’’ after ‘‘port’’ 
each place it appears; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘PORTS’’ in the heading 
for subsection (e) and inserting ‘‘PORTS, FA-
CILITIES,’’. 
(2) The chapter analysis for chapter 701 of title 
46, United States Code, is amended by striking the 
item relating to section 70110 and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘70110. Actions and assistance for foreign ports or facilities and United States 
territories’’. 
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