Title: To amend titles 49 and 10, United States Code, to provide for the authority of the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border protection with respect to national security determinations concerning wind turbines proposed to be constructed in the United States in bodies of water that border Canada, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill authorizes U.S. Customs and Border Protection to make national security determinations concerning the proposed construction or alteration of wind turbines located in waters of the United States bordering Canada.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4441 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4441

   To amend titles 49 and 10, United States Code, to provide for the 
  authority of the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border protection 
   with respect to national security determinations concerning wind 
 turbines proposed to be constructed in the United States in bodies of 
           water that border Canada, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2019

   Mr. Collins of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in 
    addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend titles 49 and 10, United States Code, to provide for the 
  authority of the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border protection 
   with respect to national security determinations concerning wind 
 turbines proposed to be constructed in the United States in bodies of 
           water that border Canada, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION DETERMINATIONS WITH 
              RESPECT TO WIND TURBINES PROPOSED TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
              UNITED STATES WATER BORDERING CANADA.

    (a) Inclusion of CBP in Certain National Security Determinations.--
Section 44718 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3) by inserting ``, and in the case 
        of a covered wind turbine, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 
        Border Protection'' after ``Secretary of Defense'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
                        (A), by inserting ``, and in the case of a 
                        covered wind turbine, the Commissioner of U.S. 
                        Customs and Border Protection'' after 
                        ``Secretary of Defense''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, 
                        and in the case of a covered wind turbine, the 
                        Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 
                        Protection,'' after ``Secretary of Defense'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``, and in the 
                case of a covered wind turbine, the Commissioner of 
                U.S. Customs and Border Protection,'' after ``Secretary 
                of Defense''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``, and in the 
                case of a covered wind turbine, the Commissioner of 
                U.S. Customs and Border Protection,'' after ``Secretary 
                of Defense'';
            (3) in subsection (f), by inserting ``, and in the case of 
        a covered wind turbine, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 
        Border Protection,'' after ``Secretary of Defense''; and
            (4) in subsection (h), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(3) Covered wind turbine.--The term `covered wind 
        turbine' means a wind turbine proposed to be constructed in the 
        United States in a body of water that borders Canada.''.
    (b) DOD Consultation With CBP.--Section 183a(e) of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
    ``(5) In the case of an energy project filed with the Secretary of 
Transportation pursuant to section 44718 of title 19 for the proposed 
construction of a wind turbine in a location in the United States in a 
body of water that borders Canada, the Secretary of Defense shall 
consult with the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border protection in 
carrying out this subsection.''.
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