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(C) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(D) The Immigration and Naturalization
Service.
(E) The United States Marshall Service.
(F) The Naval Criminal Investigative Serv-
ice.
(G) The Coastal Security Service.
(H) The Diplomatic Security Service.
(I) The United States Postal Inspection
Service.
(J) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms.
(K) The United States Customs Service.
(L) The National Park Service.
(4) INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.—The term
‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given
that term in section 3(4) of the National Security
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).
(5) PRESIDENT.—The term ‘‘President’’ means
the President of the United States, acting through
the Assistant to the President for Homeland Secu-
rity, in coordination with the Secretary of State, the
Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization,
the Attorney General, the Director of Central Intel-
ligence, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Inves-
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tigation, the Secretary of Transportation, the Com-
missioner of Customs, and the Secretary of the
Treasury.
(6) USA PATRIOT ACT.—The term ‘‘USA
PATRIOT Act’’ means the Uniting and Strength-
ening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Re-
quired to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA
PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (Public Law 107–56).
TITLE I—FUNDING
SEC. 101. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR HIR-
ING 
AND 
TRAINING 
GOVERNMENT 
PER-
SONNEL.
(a) ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL.—
(1) INS INSPECTORS.—Subject to the avail-
ability of appropriations, during each of the fiscal
years 2002 through 2006, the Attorney General
shall increase the number of inspectors and associ-
ated support staff in the Immigration and Natu-
ralization Service by the equivalent of at least 200
full-time employees over the number of inspectors
and associated support staff in the Immigration and
Naturalization Service authorized by the USA PA-
TRIOT Act.
(2) INS INVESTIGATIVE PERSONNEL.—Subject
to the availability of appropriations, during each of
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the fiscal years 2002 through 2006, the Attorney
General shall increase the number of investigative
and associated support staff of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service by the equivalent of at least
200 full-time employees over the number of inves-
tigators and associated support staff in the Immi-
gration and Naturalization Service authorized by the
USA PATRIOT Act.
(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums
as may be necessary to carry out this subsection, in-
cluding such sums as may be necessary to provide
facilities, attorney personnel and support staff, and
other resources needed to support the increased
number of inspectors, investigative staff, and associ-
ated support staff.
(b) WAIVER OF FTE LIMITATION.—The Attorney
General is authorized to waive any limitation on the num-
ber of full-time equivalent personnel assigned to the Immi-
gration and Naturalization Service.
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR INS
STAFFING.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be
appropriated for the Department of Justice such
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sums as may be necessary to provide an increase in
the annual rate of basic pay—
(A) for all journeyman Border Patrol
agents and inspectors who have completed at
least one year’s service and are receiving an an-
nual rate of basic pay for positions at GS–9 of
the General Schedule under section 5332 of
title 5, United States Code, from the annual
rate of basic pay payable for positions at GS–
9 of the General Schedule under such section
5332, to an annual rate of basic pay payable
for positions at GS–11 of the General Schedule
under such section 5332;
(B) for inspections assistants, from the an-
nual rate of basic pay payable for positions at
GS–5 of the General Schedule under section
5332 of title 5, United States Code, to an an-
nual rate of basic pay payable for positions at
GS–7 of the General Schedule under such sec-
tion 5332; and
(C) for the support staff associated with
the personnel described in subparagraphs (A)
and (B), at the appropriate GS level of the
General Schedule under such section 5332.
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(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS
FOR
TRAINING.—There are authorized to be appropriated such
sums as may be necessary—
(1) to appropriately train Immigration and Nat-
uralization Service personnel on an ongoing basis—
(A) to ensure that their proficiency levels
are acceptable to protect the borders of the
United States; and
(B) otherwise to enforce and administer
the laws within their jurisdiction; and
(2) to provide adequate continuing cross-train-
ing to agencies staffing the United States border
and ports of entry to effectively and correctly apply
applicable United States laws;
(3) to fully train immigration officers to use the
appropriate lookout databases and to monitor pas-
senger traffic patterns; and
(4) to expand the Carrier Consultant Program
described in section 235(b) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1225A(b)).
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR CON-
SULAR FUNCTIONS.—
(1) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Secretary of State
shall—
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(B) expanding, utilizing, and improving
technology to improve border security; and
(C) facilitating the flow of commerce and
persons at ports of entry, including improving
and expanding programs for preenrollment and
preclearance.
(2) WAIVER
OF
FEES.—Federal agencies in-
volved in border security may waive all or part of en-
rollment fees for technology-based programs to en-
courage participation by United States citizens and
aliens in such programs. Any agency that waives any
part of any such fee may establish its fees for other
services at a level that will ensure the recovery from
other users of the amounts waived.
(3) OFFSET OF INCREASES IN FEES.—The At-
torney General may, to the extent reasonable, in-
crease land border fees for the issuance of arrival-
departure documents to offset technology costs.
(b) IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANSION OF INS, STATE
DEPARTMENT, AND CUSTOMS FACILITIES.—There are
authorized to be appropriated to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service and the Department of State such
sums as may be necessary to improve and expand facilities
for use by the personnel of those agencies.
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SEC. 103. MACHINE–READABLE VISA FEES.
(a) RELATION
TO SUBSEQUENT AUTHORIZATION
ACTS.—Section 140(a) of the Foreign Relations Author-
ization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law
103–236) is amended by striking paragraph (3).
(b) FEE AMOUNT.—The machine-readable visa fee
charged by the Department of State shall be the higher
of $65 or the cost of the machine-readable visa service,
as determined by the Secretary of State after conducting
a study of the cost of such service.
(c) SURCHARGE.—The Department of State is au-
thorized to charge a surcharge of $10, in addition to the
machine-readable visa fee, for issuing a machine-readable
visa in a nonmachine-readable passport.
(d) AVAILABILITY OF COLLECTED FEES.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, amounts collected as
fees described in this section shall be credited as an offset-
ting collection to any appropriation for the Department
of State to recover costs of providing consular services.
Amounts so credited shall be available, until expended, for
the same purposes as the appropriation to which credited.
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TITLE II—INTERAGENCY
INFORMATION SHARING
SEC. 201. INTERIM MEASURES FOR ACCESS TO AND CO-
ORDINATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
OTHER INFORMATION.
(a) INTERIM DIRECTIVE.—Until the plan required by
subsection (c) is implemented, Federal law enforcement
agencies and the intelligence community shall, to the max-
imum extent practicable, share any information with the
Department of State and the Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service relevant to the admissibility and deportability
of aliens, consistent with the plan described in subsection
(c).
(b) REPORT IDENTIFYING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Presi-
dent shall submit to the appropriate committees of
Congress a report identifying Federal law enforce-
ment and the intelligence community information
needed by the Department of State to screen visa
applicants, or by the Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service to screen applicants for admission to the
United States, and to identify those aliens inadmis-
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sible or deportable under the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act.
(2) REPEAL.—Section 414(d) of the USA PA-
TRIOT Act is hereby repealed.
(c) COORDINATION PLAN.—
(1) REQUIREMENT FOR PLAN.—Not later than
one year after the date of enactment of the USA
PATRIOT Act, the President shall develop and im-
plement a plan based on the findings of the report
under subsection (b) that requires Federal law en-
forcement agencies and the intelligence community
to provide to the Department of State and the Im-
migration and Naturalization Service all information
identified in that report as expeditiously as prac-
ticable.
(2) CONSULTATION
REQUIREMENT.—In the
preparation and implementation of the plan under
this subsection, the President shall consult with the
appropriate committees of Congress.
(3) PROTECTIONS
REGARDING
INFORMATION
AND
USES
THEREOF.—The plan under this sub-
section shall establish conditions for using the infor-
mation described in subsection (b) received by the
Department of State and Immigration and Natu-
ralization Service—
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(A) to limit the redissemination of such in-
formation;
(B) to ensure that such information is
used solely to determine whether to issue a visa
to an alien or to determine the admissibility or
deportability of an alien to the United States,
except as otherwise authorized under Federal
law;
(C) to ensure the accuracy, security, and
confidentiality of such information;
(D) to protect any privacy rights of indi-
viduals who are subjects of such information;
(E) to provide data integrity through the
timely removal and destruction of obsolete or
erroneous names and information; and
(F) in a manner that protects the sources
and methods used to acquire intelligence infor-
mation as required by section 103(c)(6) of the
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 403–
3(c)(6)).
(4) CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR MISUSE OF IN-
FORMATION.—Any person who obtains information
under this subsection without authorization or ex-
ceeding authorized access (as defined in section
1030(e) of title 18, United States Code), and who
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uses such information in the manner described in
any of the paragraphs (1) through (7) of section
1030(a) of such title, or attempts to use such infor-
mation in such manner, shall be subject to the same
penalties as are applicable under section 1030(c) of
such title for violation of that paragraph.
(5) ADVANCING
DEADLINES
FOR
A
TECH-
NOLOGY STANDARD AND REPORT.—Section 403(c)
of the USA PATRIOT Act is amended—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘2
years’’ and inserting ‘‘one year’’; and
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘18
months’’ and inserting ‘‘six months’’.
SEC. 202. INTEROPERABLE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IN-
TELLIGENCE 
DATA 
SYSTEM 
WITH 
NAME-
MATCHING CAPACITY AND TRAINING.
(a) INTEROPERABLE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IN-
TELLIGENCE ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEM.—
(1) REQUIREMENT FOR INTEGRATED IMMIGRA-
TION
AND
NATURALIZATION
DATA
SYSTEM.—The
Immigration and Naturalization Service shall fully
integrate all databases and data systems maintained
by the Service that process or contain information
on aliens. The fully integrated data system shall be
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TITLE IV—ADMISSION AND
INSPECTION OF ALIENS
SEC. 401. STUDY OF THE FEASIBILITY OF A NORTH AMER-
ICAN NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall conduct a
study of the feasibility of establishing a North American
National Security Program to enhance the mutual security
and safety of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
(b) STUDY ELEMENTS.—In conducting the study re-
quired by subsection (a), the officials specified in sub-
section (a) shall consider the following:
(1) PRECLEARANCE.—The feasibility of estab-
lishing a program enabling foreign national travelers
to the United States to submit voluntarily to a
preclearance procedure established by the Depart-
ment of State and the Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service to determine whether such travelers are
admissible to the United States under section 212 of
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1182). Consideration shall be given to the feasibility
of expanding the preclearance program to include
the preclearance both of foreign nationals traveling
to Canada and foreign nationals traveling to Mexico.
(2) PREINSPECTION.—The feasibility of ex-
panding preinspection facilities at foreign airports as