6 USC 921a: Integration of detection equipment and technologies
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6 USC 921a: Integration of detection equipment and technologies Text contains those laws in effect on November 14, 2024
From Title 6-DOMESTIC SECURITYCHAPTER 3-SECURITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR EVERY PORTSUBCHAPTER I-SECURITY OF UNITED STATES SEAPORTSPart B-Port Operations
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§921a. Integration of detection equipment and technologies

(a) Responsibility of Secretary

The Secretary of Homeland Security shall have responsibility for ensuring that domestic chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detection equipment and technologies are integrated, as appropriate, with other border security systems and detection technologies.

(b) Report

Not later than 6 months after August 3, 2007, the Secretary shall submit a report to Congress that contains a plan to develop a departmental technology assessment process to determine and certify the technology readiness levels of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detection technologies before the full deployment of such technologies within the United States.

( Pub. L. 110–53, title XI, §1104, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 380 .)


Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, and not as part of the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006, also known as the SAFE Port Act, which comprises this chapter.