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Of the total amount made available under U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, and Improvements , $1,390,338,000 shall be available only as follows: $600,000,000 for the acquisition and deployment of physical barriers; $300,000,000 for the acquisition and deployment of border security technologies; $305,000,000 for trade and travel assets and infrastructure; $23,654,000 for facility construction and improvements; $131,419,000 for integrated operations assets and infrastructure; and $30,265,000 for mission support and infrastructure.
None of the funds allocated for pedestrian physical barriers may be made available for any purpose other than the construction of steel bollard pedestrian barrier built at least 18 to 30 feet in effective height and augmented with anti-climb and anti-dig features. None of the funds allocated for pedestrian physical barriers may be made available for any purpose other than construction of pedestrian barriers consistent with the description in subsection
(b)at locations identified in the Border Security Improvement Plan submitted to Congress on August 1, 2020. The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection may reprioritize the construction of physical barriers outlined in the Border Security Improvement Plan and, with prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, add additional miles of pedestrian physical barriers where no such barriers exist, prioritized by operational requirements developed in coordination with U.S. Border Patrol leadership. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall begin to obligate amounts for physical barrier construction no later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act. For purposes of this section, the term “effective height” refers to the height above the level of the adjacent terrain features.