Sec. 105. Strategy, policy, and plans
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Title VII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 341 et seq. ), as amended by this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following: There is established in the Department an Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans. The Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans shall be headed by an Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans, who shall serve as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary and be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
The Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans shall— lead, conduct, and coordinate Department-wide policy development and implementation and strategic planning; develop and coordinate policies to promote and ensure quality, consistency, and integration for the programs, offices, and activities across the Department; develop and coordinate strategic plans and long-term goals of the Department with risk-based analysis and planning to improve operational mission effectiveness, including leading and conducting the quadrennial homeland security review under section 707; manage Department leadership councils and provide analytics and support to such councils; manage international coordination and engagement for the Department; review and incorporate, as appropriate, external stakeholder feedback into Department policy; and carry out such other responsibilities as the Secretary determines appropriate.
To ensure consistency with the policy priorities of the Department, the head of each component of the Department shall coordinate with the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans in establishing or modifying policies or strategic planning guidance. The Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans shall— establish standards of reliability and validity for statistical data collected and analyzed by the Department; be provided with statistical data maintained by the Department regarding the operations of the Department; conduct or oversee analysis and reporting of such data by the Department as required by law or directed by the Secretary; and ensure the accuracy of metrics and statistical data provided to Congress.
There shall be transferred to the Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans the maintenance of all immigration statistical information of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which shall include information and statistics of the type contained in the publication entitled Yearbook of Immigration Statistics prepared by the Office of Immigration Statistics, including region-by-region statistics on the aggregate number of applications and petitions filed by an alien (or filed on behalf of an alien) and denied, and the reasons for such denials, disaggregated by category of denial and application or petition type. .
The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( Public Law 107–296 ; 116 Stat. 2135) , as amended by this Act, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 708 the following: Sec. 709. Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans. .
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- Pub. L. 107-296
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