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6 U.S.C. § 236 — Reports, evaluations, and research regarding drug interdiction at and between ports of entry
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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) 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 intelligence sharing into the origins of illicit fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals within the United States; and
(C) other data or metrics considered appropriate by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
(3) **Updates** — The Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate and in the coordination with the officials referred to in paragraph (1), may update the data and metrics program established pursuant to paragraph (1).
(4) **Reports**
(A) *Secretary of Homeland Security* — Not later than one year after December 23, 2022, and biennially thereafter, 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, based on the data collected and metrics developed pursuant to the program established pursuant to paragraph (1), submit to the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report that—
(i) examines and analyzes current technologies, including pilot technologies, deployed at land, air, and sea ports of entry to assess how well such technologies detect, deter, and address illicit fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals; and
(ii) examines and analyzes current technologies, including pilot technologies, deployed between land ports of entry to assess how well and accurately such technologies detect, deter, interdict, and address illicit fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals; 11 So in original. The semicolon probably should be a period.
(B) *Government Accountability Office* — Not later than one year after the submission of each of the first three reports required under subparagraph (A), the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report that evaluates and, as appropriate, makes recommendations to improve, the collection of data under the program established pursuant to paragraph (1) and metrics used in the subsequent reports required under such subparagraph.
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The Secretary shall be responsible for the following:
(1) Preventing the entry of terrorists and the instruments of terrorism into the United States.
(2) Securing the borders, territorial waters, ports, terminals, waterways, and air, land, and sea transportation systems of the United States, including managing and coordinating those functions transferred to the Department at ports of entry.
(3) Carrying out the immigration enforcement functions vested by statute in, or performed by, the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization (or any officer, employee, or component of the Immigration and Naturalization Service) immediately before the date on which the transfer of functions specified under [section 251 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section251&num=0&edition=prelim) takes effect.
(4) Establishing and administering rules, in accordance with [section 236 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section236&num=0&edition=prelim), governing the granting of visas or other forms of permission, including parole, to enter the United States to individuals who are not a citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.
(5) Establishing national immigration enforcement policies and priorities.
(6) Except as provided in part C of this subchapter, administering the customs laws of the United States.
(7) Conducting the inspection and related administrative functions of the Department of Agriculture transferred to the Secretary of Homeland Security under [section 231 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section231&num=0&edition=prelim).
(8) In carrying out the foregoing responsibilities, ensuring the s
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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) Regulations**
(1) The admission to the United States of any alien as a nonimmigrant shall be for such time and under such conditions as the Attorney General may by regulations prescribe, including when he deems necessary the giving of a bond with sufficient surety in such sum and containing such conditions as the Attorney General shall prescribe, to insure that at the expiration of such time or upon failure to maintain the status under which he was admitted, or to maintain any status subsequently acquired under [section 1258 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1258&num=0&edition=prelim), such alien will depart from the United States. No alien admitted to Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands without a visa pursuant to section 1182(l) of this title may be authorized to enter or stay in the United States other than in Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands or to remain in Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for a period exceeding 45 days from date of admission to Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. No alien admitted to the United States without a visa pursuant to [section 1187 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1187&num=0&edition=prelim) may be authorized to remain in the United States as a nonimmigrant visitor for a period exceeding 90 days from the date of admission.
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(A) The period of authorized status as a nonimmigrant described in [section 1101(a)(15)(O) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1101/a/15/O&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be for such period as the Attorney General may specify in order to provide for the even
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TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY
§ 236
1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘section’’.
2 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘ ‘consular officer’ ’’.
(c) Limitations on statutory construction
(1) Grant of authority
Nothing in this chapter may be construed to
vest in the Secretary or any other official in
the Department any authority over transpor-
tation security that is not vested in the Under
Secretary of Transportation for Security, or
in the Secretary of Transportation under
chapter 449 of title 49 on the day before No-
vember 25, 2002.
(2) Obligation of AIP funds
Nothing in this chapter may be construed to
authorize the Secretary or any other official
in the Department to obligate amounts made
available under section 48103 of title 49.
(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 423, Nov. 25, 2002, 116
Stat. 2185.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the
original ‘‘this Act’’, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25,
2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security
Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chap-
ter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code,
see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this
title and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
Reference to Under Secretary of Transportation for
Security deemed to refer to Administrator of the
Transportation Security Administration, see section
1994 of Pub. L. 115–254, set out as a note under section
114 of Title 49, Transportation.
§ 234. Preservation of Transportation Security
Administration as a distinct entity
Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, the Transportation Security Adminis-
tration shall be maintained as a distinct entity
within the Department.
(Pub. L. 107
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