United States HR 8150: Reducing Excessive Vetting Authorities to Maintain our Ports Act

Bill Text

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118TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 8150
To require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to
establish procedures for conducting maintenance projects at ports of
entry at which the Office of Field Operations conducts certain enforce-
ment and facilitation activities.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 29, 2024
Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas (for himself, Mr. CORREA, Mr. CISCOMANI, Mr.
CUELLAR, Ms. DE LA CRUZ, and Mr. VICENTE GONZALEZ of Texas) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and
Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned
A BILL
To require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection to establish procedures for conducting mainte-
nance projects at ports of entry at which the Office
of Field Operations conducts certain enforcement and
facilitation activities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. PORT MAINTENANCE. 3
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 411(o) of the Homeland 4
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 211(o)) is amended— 5
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(1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-1
graph (4); and 2
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-3
lowing: 4
‘‘(3) PORT MAINTENANCE.— 5
‘‘(A) PROCEDURES.— 6
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to sub-7
paragraphs (B) and (C), the Commis-8
sioner, in consultation with the Adminis-9
trator of General Services— 10
‘‘(I) shall establish procedures by 11
which U.S. Customs and Border Pro-12
tection may conduct maintenance and 13
repair projects costing not more than 14
$300,000 at any Federal Government- 15
owned port of entry where the Office 16
of Field Operations performs any of 17
the activities described in subpara-18
graphs (A) through (G) of subsection 19
(g)(3); and 20
‘‘(II) is authorized to perform 21
such maintenance and repair projects, 22
subject to the procedures described in 23
clause (ii). 24
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‘‘(ii) PROCEDURES DESCRIBED.—The 1
procedures established pursuant to clause 2
(i) shall include— 3
‘‘(I) a description of the types of 4
projects that may be carried out pur-5
suant to clause (i); and 6
‘‘(II) the procedures for identi-7
fying and addressing any impacts on 8
other tenants of facilities where such 9
projects will be carried out. 10
‘‘(iii) PUBLICATION OF PROCE-11
DURES.—All of the procedures established 12
pursuant to clause (i) shall be published in 13
the Federal Register. 14
‘‘(iv) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—The 15
publication of procedures under clause (iii) 16
shall not impact the authority of the Com-17
missioner to update such procedures, in 18
consultation with the Administrator, as ap-19
propriate. 20
‘‘(B) LIMITATION.—The authority under 21
subparagraph (A) shall only be available for 22
maintenance and repair projects involving exist-23
ing infrastructure, property, and capital at any 24
port of entry described in subparagraph (A). 25
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‘‘(C) ANNUAL ADJUSTMENTS.—The Com-1
missioner shall annually adjust the amount de-2
scribed in subparagraph (A) by the percentage 3
(if any) by which the Consumer Price Index for 4
All Urban Consumers for the month of June 5
preceding the date on which such adjustment 6
takes effect exceeds the Consumer Price Index 7
for All Urban Consumers for the same month 8
of the preceding calendar year. 9
‘‘(D) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing 10
in this paragraph may be construed to affect 11
the availability of funding from— 12
‘‘(i) the Federal Buildings Fund es-13
tablished under section 592 of title 40, 14
United States Code; 15
‘‘(ii) the Donation Acceptance Pro-16
gram established under section 482; or 17
‘‘(iii) any other statutory authority or 18
appropriation for projects described in sub-19
paragraph (A).’’. 20
(b) REPORTING.— 21
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 22
the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 23
thereafter, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 24
Border Protection shall submit a report to the Com-25
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mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-1
fairs of the Senate, the Committee on Appropria-2
tions of the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Se-3
curity of the House of Representatives, and the 4
Committee on Appropriations of the H