Sec. 402. Ports of entry infrastructure enhancement report
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection 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 that identifies— infrastructure improvements at ports of entry that would enhance the ability of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to process and protect refugees and asylum seekers, facilitate daily pedestrian and vehicular trade and traffic, and detect, interdict, disrupt, and prevent fentanyl, other synthetic opioids, and other narcotics and psychoactive substances and associated contraband from entering the United States, including a description of circumstances in which effective technology in use at certain ports of entry cannot be implemented at other ports of entry; detection equipment that would improve the ability of such officers to identify such drugs and other dangers that are being illegally transported into the United States; and safety equipment that would protect such officers from accidental exposure to such drugs or other dangers associated with the inspection of potential drug traffickers.