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(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 pro-
grams designed to respond to the needs of such 
areas, including, but not limited to, those pertaining 
to rural homeland security responses including pro-
tections for privacy, and civil rights and civil lib-
erties. 
(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 
available to units of local government and tribal gov-
ernments located in rural areas. 
(b) NO DUPLICATION OR DISPLACEMENT OF CUR-
RENT
PROGRAMS.—Any training program developed 
under paragraph (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 
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to not duplicate or displace any program in existence on 
the date of the enactment 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 pos-
sible, shall conduct training onsite, at facilities operated 
by participants. 
(d) RURAL DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘‘rural’’ means an area that is not located in a metropoli-
tan statistical area, as defined by the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget. 
SEC. 1102. CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE STUDY. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall work with 
the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism 
Events (CREATE), led by the University of Southern 
California, to evaluate the feasibility 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. 
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SEC. 1103. TERRORIST WATCH LIST AT HIGH-RISK CRIT-
ICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. 
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 
conduct checks of their employees against available ter-
rorist watch lists. 
SEC. 1104. AUTHORIZED USE OF SURPLUS MILITARY VEHI-
CLES. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall include 
United States military surplus vehicles having dem-
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 
Department of Homeland Security. 
SEC. 1105. 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 Sec-
retary of Homeland Security to encourage the develop-
ment and use of software- or Internet-based computer ca-
pabilities to support real-time incident management by 
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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 implemen-
tation of such computer capabilities, the Secretary shall 
consider the feasibility and desirability of including the fol-
lowing capabilities: 
(1) Geographic information system data. 
(2) Personnel, vehicle, and equipment tracking 
and monitoring. 
(3) Commodity tracking and other logistics 
management. 
(4) Evacuation center and shelter status track-
ing. 
(5) Such other capabilities as determined ap-
propriate by the Secretary. 
SEC. 1106. EXPENDITURE REPORTS AS A CONDITION OF 
HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle H of title VIII of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
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‘‘SEC. 890A. EXPENDITURE REPORTS AS A CONDITION OF 
HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) QUARTERLY REPORTS REQUIRED AS A CONDI-
TION OF HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) EXPENDITURE REPORTS REQUIRED.—As a 
condition of receiving a grant administered by the 
Secretary, the Secretary shall require the grant re-
cipient to submit quarterly reports to the Secretary 
describing the nature and amount of each expendi-
ture made by the recipient using grant funds. 
‘‘(2) DEADLINE
FOR
REPORTS.—Each report 
required under paragraph (1) shall be submitted not 
later than 30 days after the last day of a fiscal quar-
ter and shall cover expenditures made during that 
fiscal quarter. 
‘‘(3) EXCLUDED PROGRAMS.—This section shall 
not apply to or otherwise affect any grant issued 
under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) 
or the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 
1974 (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.). 
‘‘(b) PUBLICATION OF EXPENDITURES.—Not later 
than 30 days after receiving a report under subsection (a), 
the Secretary shall publish and make publicly available on 
the Internet website of the Department a description of 
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