Thread: HR 2892 what does this part mean?

Title IV - Research and Development, Training, and Services
Makes appropriations for FY2010 for: (1) United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), including for the processing of asylum or refugee status applications and military naturalization applications and for the E-Verify program to assist U.S. employers with maintaining a legal workforce; (2) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, including for acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses; (3) the Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, including for research, development, acquisition, and operations (including for the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility); and (4) the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, including for research, development, testing, evaluation, and operations, and for systems acquisition. Prohibits: (1) obligating funds for full-scale procurement of Advanced Spectroscopic Portal monitors until the Secretary submits to the Appropriations Committees a report certifying that a significant increase in operational effectiveness will be achieved; or (2) the use of immigrant integration grant funds to provide services to aliens who have not been lawfully admitted for permanent residence.

Does this law stop funding to illegals?
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xp ... ab=summary

The Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) is an advanced nuclear screening portal system designed to identify and interdict the illegal
entry of nuclear devices and materials into the United States.


http://news.cnet.com/military-tech/?

keyword=advanced+spectroscopic+porta

Price overruns for nuke detectors likely to be in the billions, says GAO
by Mark Rutherford 2 comments .Share (Credit: GAO)

Soaring cost estimates for protecting US borders against nuclear smuggling arrived at by the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) are unreliable and could result in "significant" overruns, according to a Government Accounting Agency (GAO) report.

How significant? The projected cost to implement the Radiation Portal Monitor Program has gone from $399 million in 2003, when the Customs and Border Protection was in charge of the project, to $1.3 billion when DNDO took over in 2005. In 2007 the cost of equipping US ports with portal monitors was $1.7 billion. It's now $2.1 billion. But this latest estimate fails to take into account several major "cost elements". The true cost will be about $3.1 billion, but could go as high as $3.8 billion, according to the GAO.

DNDO did not follow Department of Homeland Security cost-estimating methodology or bother to document the estimating approach it did use, according to GAO. Further, when the GAO requested detailed documentation of DNDO's billion dollar portal monitor strategy, all it received was a one page spreadsheet of summary information, the report notes.(pdf)

Some of the price increase kicked in when DNDO sponsored the development of the next-generation, advanced spectroscopic portal (ASP.) These new portals not only detect radioactive material but also identify the source, thereby minimizing missed threats and greatly reducing false alarms, according to DNDO. The cost of these units has nearly doubled from around $576,400 to $800,000.

This is not first time GAO, (the nonpartisan audit and investigative arm of Congress,) has come down on DNDO, a relatively new agency establishment under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2005.

In 2007, the government watchdog accused the office of using biased methods to enhance performance results in testing the new detection portals. When preliminary tests were conducted, the defense contractors who were bidding on the job were allowed access to the results, allowing them to adjust their systems accordingly, GAO charged.

Preventing nuclear and radioactive material from being smuggled into the United States became a major security concern after 9-11. A common fear is that the stuff could be used by terrorists in a nuclear weapon or a "dirty bomb", even though that possibility remains highly theoretical.
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Couldn't find the section you were citing. Here is the link to the bill I have found so far:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtex ... =h111-2892

Maybe there is a later version. I believe this has been signed into law as a DHS appropriation.

Originally Posted by Captainron

Couldn't find the section you were citing. Here is the link to the bill I have found so far:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtex ... =h111-2892

Maybe there is a later version. I believe this has been signed into law as a DHS appropriation.

Yes it is law.

Title IV - Research and Development, Training, and Services
Makes appropriations for FY2010 for: (1) United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), including for the processing of asylum or refugee status applications and military naturalization applications and for the E-Verify program to assist U.S. employers with maintaining a legal workforce; (2) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, including for acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses; (3) the Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, including for research, development, acquisition, and operations (including for the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility); and (4) the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, including for research, development, testing, evaluation, and operations, and for systems acquisition. Prohibits: (1) obligating funds for full-scale procurement of Advanced Spectroscopic Portal monitors until the Secretary submits to the Appropriations Committees a report certifying that a significant increase in operational effectiveness will be achieved; or (2) the use of immigrant integration grant funds to provide services to aliens who have not been lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xp ... ab=summary

So, I guess CIS services cannot be used on illegal aliens for integration purposes? There is an awful lot going on within DHS.......
TITLE IV

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND SERVICES

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

For necessary expenses for citizenship and immigration services, $224,000,000, of which $50,000,000 is for processing applications for asylum or refugee status; of which $5,000,000 is for the processing of military naturalization applications; and of which $137,000,000 is for the basic pilot program (E-Verify Program), as authorized by section 402 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1324a note), to assist United States employers with maintaining a legal workforce: Provided, That of the amounts made available for the basic pilot program (E-Verify Program), $30,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2011: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds available to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services may be used to acquire, operate, equip, and dispose of up to five vehicles, for replacement only, for areas where the Administrator of General Services does not provide vehicles for lease: Provided further, That the Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services may authorize employees who are assigned to those areas to use such vehicles to travel between the employees’ residences and places of employment: Provided further, That none of the funds made available under this heading may be obligated for processing applications for asylum or refugee status unless the Secretary of Homeland Security has published a final rule updating part 103 of title 8, Code of Federal Regulations, to discontinue the asylum/refugee surcharge: Provided further, That none of the funds made available under this heading may be obligated for development of the ‘REAL ID hub’ until the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives receive a plan for expenditure for that program that describes the strategic context of the program, the specific goals and milestones set for the program, and the funds allocated for achieving each of these goals and milestones: Provided further, That none of the funds made available in this Act for grants for immigrant integration may be used to provide services to aliens who have not been lawfully admitted for permanent residence[/b]

Captainron

So what is going on? Why is this law going under the radar? It would seem a good thing...at least to me and the Alpacien's. No news on lame stream...nothing. You would think that the IA's would be screaming about it. I just stumbled on it...the way I find most things...linking all over the place.

How vary very strange...