Sec. 3. Cost-benefit analysis of co-locating operational entities

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For all locations in which U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Air and Marine Operations operates that are within 45 miles of locations where any other Department of Homeland Security agency also operates air and marine assets, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall conduct a cost-benefit analysis to consider the potential cost of and savings derived from co-locating aviation and maritime operational assets of the respective agencies of the Department. In analyzing such potential cost savings achieved by sharing aviation and maritime facilities, such analysis shall consider, at a minimum, the following factors:

Potential enhanced cooperation derived from Department personnel being co-located. Potential cost of, and savings derived through, shared maintenance and logistics facilities and activities. Joint use of base and facility infrastructure, such as runways, hangars, control towers, operations centers, piers and docks, boathouses, and fuel depots. Short term moving costs required in order to co-locate facilities. Acquisition and infrastructure costs for enlarging current facilities, as needed.

Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report summarizing the results of the cost-benefit analysis required under subsection

(a)and any planned actions based upon such results.