Sec. 1153. Operation Stonegarden
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Subtitle A of title XX of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: There is established in the Department a program to be known as Operation Stonegarden , under which the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, shall make grants to eligible law enforcement agencies, through the State administrative agency, to enhance border security in accordance with this section. To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a law enforcement agency— shall be located in— a State bordering Canada or Mexico; or a State or territory with a maritime border; and shall be involved in an active, ongoing, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection operation coordinated through a U.S. Border Patrol sector office. The recipient of a grant under this section may use such grant for— equipment, including maintenance and sustainment costs; personnel, including overtime and backfill, in support of enhanced border law enforcement activities; any activity permitted for Operation Stonegarden under the Department of Homeland Security’s Fiscal Year 2017 Homeland Security Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity; and any other appropriate activity, as determined by the Administrator, in consultation with the Commissioner of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection. The Secretary shall award grants under this section to grant recipients for a period of not less than 36 months. For each of the fiscal years 2018 through 2022, the Administrator shall submit a report to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives containing information on the expenditure of grants made under this section by each grant recipient.
There is authorized to be appropriated $110,000,000, for each of the fiscal years 2018 through 2022, for grants under this section. . Section 2002(a) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 603(a) ) is amended to read as follows: The Secretary, through the Administrator, may award grants under sections 2003, 2004, and 2009 to State, local, and tribal governments, as appropriate. . The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2008 the following:
Sec. 2009. Operation Stonegarden. .
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