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6 U.S.C. § 555 — Reorganization plan
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**(a) Submission of plan** Not later than 60 days after November 25, 2002, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a reorganization plan regarding the following:
(1) The transfer of agencies, personnel, assets, and obligations to the Department pursuant to this chapter.
(2) Any consolidation, reorganization, or streamlining of agencies transferred to the Department pursuant to this chapter.
**(b) Plan elements** The plan transmitted under subsection (a) shall contain, consistent with this chapter, such elements as the President deems appropriate, including the following:
(1) Identification of any functions of agencies transferred to the Department pursuant to this chapter that will not be transferred to the Department under the plan.
(2) Specification of the steps to be taken by the Secretary to organize the Department, including the delegation or assignment of functions transferred to the Department among officers of the Department in order to permit the Department to carry out the functions transferred under the plan.
(3) Specification of the funds available to each agency that will be transferred to the Department as a result of transfers under the plan.
(4) Specification of the proposed allocations within the Department of unexpended funds transferred in connection with transfers under the plan.
(5) Specification of any proposed disposition of property, facilities, contracts, records, and other assets and obligations of agencies transferred under the plan.
(6) Specification of the proposed allocations within the Department of the functions of the agencies and subdivisions that are not related directly to securing the homeland.
**(c) Modification of plan** The President may, on the basis of consultations with the appropriate
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**(a) Submission of plan** Not later than 60 days after November 25, 2002, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a reorganization plan regarding the following:
(1) The transfer of agencies, personnel, assets, and obligations to the Department pursuant to this chapter.
(2) Any consolidation, reorganization, or streamlining of agencies transferred to the Department pursuant to this chapter.
**(b) Plan elements** The plan transmitted under subsection (a) shall contain, consistent with this chapter, such elements as the President deems appropriate, including the following:
(1) Identification of any functions of agencies transferred to the Department pursuant to this chapter that will not be transferred to the Department under the plan.
(2) Specification of the steps to be taken by the Secretary to organize the Department, including the delegation or assignment of functions transferred to the Department among officers of the Department in order to permit the Department to carry out the functions transferred under the plan.
(3) Specification of the funds available to each agency that will be transferred to the Department as a result of transfers under the plan.
(4) Specification of the proposed allocations within the Department of unexpended funds transferred in connection with transfers under the plan.
(5) Specification of any proposed disposition of property, facilities, contracts, records, and other assets and obligations of agencies transferred under the plan.
(6) Specification of the proposed allocations within the Department of the functions of the agencies and subdivisions that are not related directly to securing the homeland.
**(c) Modification of plan** The President may, on the basis of consultations with the appropriate congressional committees, modify or revise any part of the plan until that part of the plan becomes effective in accordance with subsection (d).
**(d) Effective date**
(1) **In general** — The reorganization plan described in this section, including any modifications or revisions of the plan under subsection (d), shall become effective for an agency on the earlier of—
(A) the date specified in the plan (or the plan as modified pursuant to subsection (d)), except that such date may not be earlier than 90 days after the date the President has transmitted the reorganization plan to the appropriate congressional committees pursuant to subsection (a); or
(B) the end of the transition period.
(2) **Statutory construction** — Nothing in this subsection may be construed to require the transfer of functions, personnel, records, balances of appropriations, or other assets of an agency on a single date.
(3) **Supersedes existing law** — Paragraph (1) shall apply notwithstanding [section 905(b) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section905/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) In general** Within the Department, there shall be a position of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (in this section referred to as the “Ombudsman”). The Ombudsman shall report directly to the Deputy Secretary. The Ombudsman shall have a background in customer service as well as immigration law.
**(b) Functions** It shall be the function of the Ombudsman—
(1) to assist individuals and employers in resolving problems with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services;
(2) to identify areas in which individuals and employers have problems in dealing with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services; and
(3) to the extent possible, to propose changes in the administrative practices of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services to mitigate problems identified under paragraph (2).
**(c) Annual reports**
(1) **Objectives** — Not later than June 30 of each calendar year, the Ombudsman shall report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the objectives of the Office of the Ombudsman for the fiscal year beginning in such calendar year. Any such report shall contain full and substantive analysis, in addition to statistical information, and—
(A) shall identify the recommendations the Office of the Ombudsman has made on improving services and responsiveness of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services;
(B) shall contain a summary of the most pervasive and serious problems encountered by individuals and employers, including a description of the nature of such problems;
(C) shall contain an inventory of the items described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) for which action has been taken and the result of such action;
(D) shall contain an inventory of the items described in subparag
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**(a) Program established** The Secretary, through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (referred to in this section as “CBP”), in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall establish a program that—
(1) seeks to prevent a child (as defined in [section 1204(b)(1) of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1204/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim)) from departing from the territory of the United States if a parent or legal guardian of such child presents a court order from a court of competent jurisdiction prohibiting the removal of such child from the United States to a CBP Officer in sufficient time to prevent such departure for the duration of such court order; and
(2) leverages other existing authorities and processes to address the wrongful removal and return of a child.
**(b) Interagency coordination**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary of State shall convene and chair an interagency working group to prevent international parental child abduction. The group shall be composed of presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed officials from—
(A) the Department of State;
(B) the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and
(C) the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(2) **Department of Defense** — The Secretary of Defense shall designate an official within the Department of Defense—
(A) to coordinate with the Department of State on international child abduction issues; and
(B) to oversee activities designed to prevent or resolve international child abduction cases relating to active duty military servic
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**(a) Establishment**
(1) **In general** — There shall be in the Department of Homeland Security a bureau to be known as the “Bureau of Border Security”.
(2) **Assistant Secretary** — The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall be the Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who—
(A) shall report directly to the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security; and
(B) shall have a minimum of 5 years professional experience in law enforcement, and a minimum of 5 years of management experience.
(3) **Functions** — The Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—
(A) shall establish the policies for performing such functions as are—
(i) transferred to the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security by [section 251 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section251&num=0&edition=prelim) and delegated to the Assistant Secretary by the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security; or
(ii) otherwise vested in the Assistant Secretary by law;
(B) shall oversee the administration of such policies; and
(C) shall advise the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security with respect to any policy or operation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement affecting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services established under part E of this subchapter, including potentially conflicting policies or operations.
(4) **Program to collect information relating to foreign students** — The Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall be responsible for administering the program to collect information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students and other exchange program participants described in [section 137
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**(a) In general** Notwithstanding [section 58c(e) of title 19](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section58c/e&num=0&edition=prelim) and [section 1451 of title 19](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1451&num=0&edition=prelim), the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, upon the request of any entity, may enter into a fee agreement with such entity under which—
(1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall provide services described in subsection (b) at a United States port of entry or any other facility at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection provides or will provide such services;
(2) such entity shall remit to U.S. Customs and Border Protection a fee imposed under subsection (h) in an amount equal to the full costs that are incurred or will be incurred in providing such services; and
(3) if space is provided by such entity, each facility at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection services are performed shall be maintained and equipped by such entity, without cost to the Federal Government, in accordance with U.S. Customs and Border Protection specifications.
**(b) Services described** The services described in this subsection are any activities of any employee or Office of Field Operations contractor of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (except employees of the U.S. Border Patrol, as established under [section 211(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section211/e&num=0&edition=prelim)) pertaining to, or in support of, customs, agricultural processing, border security, or immigration inspection-related matters at a port of entry or any other facility at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection provides or will provide servic
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**(a) Transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions** There shall be transferred to the Secretary the functions of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to agricultural import and entry inspection activities under the laws specified in subsection (b).
**(b) Covered animal and plant protection laws** The laws referred to in subsection (a) are the following:
(1) The Act commonly known as the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act (the eighth paragraph under the heading “Bureau of Animal Industry” in the Act of March 4, 1913; [21 U.S.C. 151](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section151&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(2) Section 1 of the Act of August 31, 1922 (commonly known as the Honeybee Act; [7 U.S.C. 281](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section281&num=0&edition=prelim)).
(3) Title III of the Federal Seed Act ([7 U.S.C. 1581](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1581&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(4) The Plant Protection Act ([7 U.S.C. 7701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section7701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(5) The Animal Health Protection Act (subtitle E of title X of Public Law 107–171; [7 U.S.C. 8301](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section8301&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(6) The Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 ([16 U.S.C. 3371](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3371&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(7) Section 11 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ([16 U.S.C. 1540](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1540&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(c) Exclusion of quarantine activities** For purposes
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It is the sense of Congress that each House of Congress should review its committee structure in light of the reorganization of responsibilities within the executive branch by the establishment of the Department.
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(1) **Sense of Congress** — It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security.
(2) **Limitation on statutory construction** — Nothing in this chapter, including any amendment made by this chapter, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.
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**(a) Research on additional technologies to detect fentanyl** Not later than one year after December 23, 2022, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, shall research additional technological solutions to—
(1) target and detect illicit fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals, including low-purity fentanyl, especially in counterfeit pressed tablets, and illicit pill press molds; and
(2) enhance detection of such counterfeit pressed tablets through nonintrusive, noninvasive, and other advanced screening technologies.
**(b) Evaluation of current technologies and strategies in illicit drug interdiction and procurement decisions**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, shall establish a program to collect available data and develop metrics to measure how technologies and strategies used by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other relevant Federal agencies have helped detect trafficked illicit fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals or deter illicit fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals from being trafficked into the United States at and between land, air, and sea ports of entry.
(2) **Considerations** — The data and metrics program established pursuant to paragraph (1) may consider—
(A) the rate of detection of illicit fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals at land, air, and sea ports of entry;
(B) investigations and inte
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**(a) Establishment** The Secretary shall establish within the Department a social media working group (in this section referred to as the “Group”).
**(b) Purpose** In order to enhance the dissemination of information through social media technologies between the Department and appropriate stakeholders and to improve use of social media technologies in support of preparedness, response, and recovery, the Group shall identify, and provide guidance and best practices to the emergency preparedness and response community on, the use of social media technologies before, during, and after a natural disaster or an act of terrorism or other man-made disaster.
**(c) Membership**
(1) **In general** — Membership of the Group shall be composed of a cross section of subject matter experts from Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, and nongovernmental organization practitioners, including representatives from the following entities:
(A) The Office of Public Affairs of the Department.
(B) The Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Department.
(C) The Privacy Office of the Department.
(D) The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(E) The Office of Disability Integration and Coordination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
(F) The American Red Cross.
(G) The Forest Service.
(H) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(I) The United States Geological Survey.
(J) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(2) **Chairperson; co-chairperson**
(A) *Chairperson* — The Secretary, or a designee of the Secretary, shall serve as the chairperson of the Group.
(B) *Co-chairperson* — The chairperson shall designate, on a rotating basis, a representative from a State or local government who is a member of the Group to serv
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The Secretary shall be responsible for—
(1) conducting investigations of noncriminal allegations of misconduct, corruption, and fraud involving any employee of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that are not subject to investigation by the Inspector General for the Department;
(2) inspecting the operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and providing assessments of the quality of the operations of such agency as a whole and each of its components; and
(3) providing an analysis of the management of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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