IIB 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6025 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER 28, 2012 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To provide for annual reports on the status of operational 
control of the international land and maritime borders 
of the United States and unlawful entries, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mandatory Operational 
Control Reporting and Performance Measures Act of 
2012’’. 
SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS ON OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF 
INTERNATIONAL LAND AND MARITIME BOR-
DERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-
ate, as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s 
Annual Performance Report, an annual report on the 
number of miles of the international land and maritime 
border between the United States and Canada and the 
United States and Mexico that are under operational con-
trol of the Department, cumulatively and by sector. 
(b) ESTIMATES OF UNLAWFUL ENTRIES.—Each re-
port under subsection (a) shall include the estimated num-
ber of unlawful entries between ports of entry along the 
international land and maritime borders of the United 
States during the period covered by the report, determined 
using all available sources of data. 
(c) INDEPENDENT EVALUATION.—The Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall make available to the Govern-
ment Accountability Office the data and methodology used 
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to compile the statistics used in preparing each report 
under subsection (a), to ensure the suitability and statis-
tical validity of such data and methodology. 
(d) TERMINOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY.—Except as 
provided in subsection (e), for purposes of consistent 
usage of terminology and methodology in the annual re-
ports required under subsection (a), the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall use the methodology used to 
measure such operational control in accordance with the 
Department’s Annual Performance Reports for each of fis-
cal years 2008 through 2010. 
(e) ALTERNATE
TERMINOLOGY
AND
METHOD-
OLOGY.—The Secretary of Homeland Security shall use 
the terminology and methodology described in subsection 
(d) until such time as an alternate terminology and meth-
odology is— 
(1) required by an Act of Congress; or 
(2) certified as suitable and statistically valid 
by a Department of Energy National Laboratory 
with prior expertise in border security. 
Passed the House of Representatives November 27, 
2012. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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