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(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—An annuitant as to 
whom an exemption under subsection (c) is in effect shall 
not be considered an employee for purposes of any Govern-
ment retirement system. 
(f) TERMINATION.—Upon the expiration of the 5-year 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act— 
(1) any authority to make appointments under 
subsection (b) shall cease to be available; and 
(2) all exemptions under subsection (c) shall 
cease to be effective. 
TITLE XI—MISCELLANEOUS 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 
1101. 
ELIGIBLE 
USES 
FOR 
INTEROPERABILITY 
GRANTS. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that 
all funds administered by the Department of Homeland Se-
curity to support the interoperable communications needs 
of State, local, and tribal agencies, including funds admin-
istered pursuant to a Memorandum of Understanding or 
other agreement, may be used to support the standards out-
lined in the SAFECOM interoperability continuum, in-
cluding governance, standard operating procedures, tech-
nology, training and exercises, and usage. 
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SEC. 1102. RURAL HOMELAND SECURITY TRAINING INITIA-
TIVE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall establish a program to be administered by 
the Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Cen-
ter of the Department of Homeland Security to expand 
homeland security training to units of local and tribal gov-
ernments located in rural areas. The Secretary shall take 
the following actions: 
(1) EVALUATION OF NEEDS OF RURAL AREAS.— 
The Secretary shall evaluate the needs of such areas. 
(2) DEVELOPMENT OF TRAINING PROGRAMS.— 
The Secretary shall develop expert training programs 
designed to respond to the needs of such areas, includ-
ing, but not limited to, those pertaining to rural 
homeland security responses including protections for 
privacy, and civil rights and civil liberties. 
(3) PROVISION
OF
TRAINING
PROGRAMS.—The 
Secretary shall provide to such areas the training 
programs developed under paragraph (2). 
(4) OUTREACH EFFORTS.—The Secretary shall 
conduct outreach efforts to ensure that such areas are 
aware of the training programs developed under 
paragraph (2) so that such programs are made avail-
able to units of local government and tribal govern-
ments located in rural areas. 
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(b) NO DUPLICATION OR DISPLACEMENT OF CURRENT 
PROGRAMS.—Any training program developed under para-
graph (2) of subsection (a) and any training provided by 
the program pursuant to such subsection shall be developed 
or provided, respectively, in a manner so as to not duplicate 
or displace any program in existence on the date of the en-
actment of this section. 
(c) PRIORITIZED LOCATIONS FOR RURAL HOMELAND 
SECURITY TRAINING.—In designating sites for the provi-
sion of training under this section, the Secretary shall, to 
the maximum extent possible and as appropriate, give pri-
ority to facilities of the Department of Homeland Security 
in existence as of the date of the enactment of this Act and 
to closed military installations, and to the extent possible, 
shall conduct training onsite, at facilities operated by par-
ticipants. 
(d) RURAL DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘‘rural’’ means an area that is not located in a metropolitan 
statistical area, as defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget. 
SEC. 1103. CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE STUDY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall work with the Center for Risk and Economic 
Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), led by the Uni-
versity of Southern California, to evaluate the feasibility 
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and practicality of creating further incentives for private 
sector stakeholders to share protected critical infrastructure 
information with the Department for homeland security 
and other purposes. 
(b) INCLUDED
INCENTIVES.—Incentives evaluated 
under this section shall include, but not be limited to, tax 
incentives, grant eligibility incentives, and certificates of 
compliance and other non-monetary incentives. 
(c) RECOMMENDATIONS.—The evaluation shall also in-
clude recommendations on the structure and thresholds of 
any incentive program. 
SEC. 1104. TERRORIST WATCH LIST AND IMMIGRATION STA-
TUS REVIEW AT HIGH-RISK CRITICAL INFRA-
STRUCTURE. 
From amounts authorized under section 101, there 
may be appropriated such sums as are necessary for the 
Secretary of Homeland Security to require each owner or 
operator of a Tier I or Tier II critical infrastructure site 
as selected for the Buffer Zone Protection Program, to con-
duct checks of their employees against available terrorist 
watch lists and immigration status databases. 
SEC. 1105. AUTHORIZED USE OF SURPLUS MILITARY VEHI-
CLES. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall include 
United States military surplus vehicles having dem-
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onstrated utility for responding to terrorist attacks, major 
disasters, and other emergencies on the Authorized Equip-
ment List in order to allow State, local, and tribal agencies 
to purchase, modify, upgrade, and maintain such vehicles 
using homeland security assistance administered by the De-
partment of Homeland Security. 
SEC. 1106. COMPUTER CAPABILITIES TO SUPPORT REAL- 
TIME INCIDENT MANAGEMENT. 
From amounts authorized under section 101, there are 
authorized such sums as may be necessary for the Secretary 
of Homeland Security to encourage the development and use 
of software- or Internet-based computer capabilities to sup-
port real-time incident management by Federal, State, 
local, and tribal agencies. Such software-based capabilities 
shall be scalable and not be based on proprietary systems 
to ensure the compatibility of Federal, State, local, and 
tribal first responder agency incident management systems. 
In the development and implementation of such computer 
capabilities, the Secretary shall consider the feasibility and 
desirability of including the following capabilities: 
(1) Geographic information system data. 
(2) Personnel, vehicle, and equipment tracking 
and monitoring. 
(3) Commodity tracking and other logistics man-
agement. 
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