Sec. 133. Border protection strategy
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Not later than September 30, 2014, the Secretary, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with tribal, State, and local officials, shall jointly develop and submit to Congress a border protection strategy for the international land borders of the United States. The strategy developed in accordance with subsection
(a)shall include the following components: A comparative analysis of the levels of operational control, based on auditable and verifiable data, achievable through alternative tactical infrastructure and other security measures. Measures assessed shall include, at a minimum— pedestrian fencing; vehicle barriers, especially in the vicinity of existing or planned roads; additional Border Patrol agents; efficacy of natural barriers and open space in response to unauthorized or unlawful border crossing; fielding of advanced remote sensing and information integration technology, including the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and other advanced technologies and systems, including systems developed and employed, or under development, for tactical surveillance, multisource information integration, and response analysis in difficult terrain and under adverse environmental conditions; regional as well as urban and rural variation in border security methodologies, and incorporation of natural barriers; enhanced cooperation with, and assistance to, intelligence, security, and law enforcement agencies in Mexico and Canada in detecting, reporting, analyzing, and successfully responding to unauthorized or unlawful border crossings from or into Mexico or Canada; and removal of obstructive non-native vegetation. A comprehensive analysis of cost and other impacts of security measures assessed in paragraph (1), including an assessment of— land acquisition costs, including related litigation and other costs; construction costs, including both labor and material costs; maintenance costs over 25 years; contractor costs; management and overhead costs; the impacts on wildlife, wildlife habitat, natural communities, and functioning cross-border wildlife migration corridors and hydrology (including water quantity, quality, and natural hydrologic flows) on Federal, tribal, State, local, and private lands along the border; and costs of fully mitigating the adverse impacts to Federal, tribal, State, local, and private lands, waters (including water quality, quantity, and hydrological flows), wildlife, and wildlife habitats, including, where such action is possible, the full costs of the replacement or restoration of severed wildlife migration corridors with protected corridors of equivalent biological functionality, as determined by each Secretary concerned, in consultation with appropriate authorities of tribal, State, and local governments and appropriate authorities of Mexico and Canada. A comprehensive compilation of the fiscal investments in acquiring or managing Federal, tribal, State, local, and private lands and waters in the vicinity of, or ecologically related to, the land borders of the United States that have been acquired or managed in whole or in part for conservation purposes (including the creation or management of protected wildlife migration corridors) in— units of the National Park System; National Forest System land; land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management; land under the jurisdiction of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; other relevant land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture; land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense or the individual military department; land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce; tribal lands; State and private lands; and lands within Mexico and Canada. Recommendations for strategic border security management based on comparative security as detailed in paragraph (1), the cost-benefit analysis as detailed in paragraph (2), as well as protection of investments in public lands specified in paragraph (3). The Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary concerned, shall provide— natural resource protection training for Customs and Border Protection agents or other Federal personnel assigned to plan or oversee the construction or operation of border security tactical infrastructure or to patrol land along or in the vicinity of a land border of the United States; and cultural resource training for Customs and Border Protection agents and other Federal personnel assigned to plan or oversee the construction or operation of border security tactical infrastructure or to patrol tribal lands. In developing and providing training under subparagraph
(A)of paragraph (1), the Secretary shall coordinate with the Secretary concerned and the relevant tribal government to ensure that such training is appropriate to the mission of the relevant agency and is focused on achieving border security objectives while avoiding or minimizing the adverse impact on natural and cultural resources resulting from border security tactical infrastructure, operations, or other activities.