Sec. 4. Reporting requirements
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The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall submit a quarterly report to the appropriate congressional committees that includes, for the reporting period— the number of temporary duty assignments; the number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees required for each temporary duty assignment; the ports of entry from which such employees were reassigned; the ports of entry to which such employees were reassigned; the ports of entry at which reimbursable service agreements have been entered into that may be affected by temporary duty assignments; the duration of each temporary duty assignment; the cost of each temporary duty assignment; and for each temporary duty assignment to the southwest border, a description of any activities done in support of U.S.
Border Patrol operations. Not later than 10 days before redeploying employees from 1 port of entry to another, absent emergency circumstances— the Commissioner shall notify the director of the port of entry from which employees will be reassigned of the intended redeployments; and the port director shall notify impacted facilities (including airports, seaports, and land ports) of the intended redeployments. The Commissioner shall brief all affected U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees regarding plans to mitigate vulnerabilities created by any planned staffing reductions at ports of entry.
Section 907(a) of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 ( 19 U.S.C. 4451(a) ) is amended— in paragraph (3), by striking and an assessment and all that follows and inserting a period; by redesignating paragraphs
(4)through
(12)as paragraphs
(5)through (13), respectively; by inserting after paragraph
(3)the following: A description of the factors that were considered before entering into the agreement, including an assessment of how the agreement provides economic benefits and security benefits (if applicable) at the port of entry to which the agreement relates. ; and in paragraph (5), as redesignated by paragraph (2), by inserting after the report the following: , including the locations of such services and the total hours of reimbursable services under the agreement, if any . As part of the Annual Report on Staffing required under section 411(g)(5)(A) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 211(g)(5)(A) ), the Commissioner shall include— information concerning the progress made toward meeting the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer and support staff hiring targets set forth in section 2, while accounting for attrition; an update to the information provided in the Resource Optimization at the Ports of Entry report, which was submitted to Congress on September 12, 2017, pursuant to the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2017 (division F of Public Law 115–31 ); and a summary of the information included in the reports required under subsection
(a)and section 907(a) of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, as amended by subsection (b). In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate ; the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate ; the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives ; and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
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