To require a quadrennial review by the Department of Homeland Security.

1. Adds SEC. 519. QUADRENNIAL HOMELAND DEFENSE REVIEW on page 100, between lines 11 and 12

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   Inserted: SEC. 519. QUADRENNIAL HOMELAND DEFENSE REVIEW.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--

   Inserted: (1) Frequency and scope.--Beginning in fiscal year 2008, and every 4 years thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall conduct every 4 years, during a year following a year evenly divisible by 4, a comprehensive examination of the national homeland defense strategy, inter-agency cooperation, preparedness of Federal response assets, infrastructure, budget plan, and other elements of the homeland defense program and policies of the United States with a view toward determining and expressing the homeland defense strategy of the United States and establishing a homeland defense program for the next 20 years. Each review under this paragraph shall be known as the "quadrennial homeland defense review".

   Inserted: (2) Consultation.--Each quadrennial homeland defense review under paragraph (1) shall be conducted in consultation with the Attorney General of the United States and the Secretaries of State, Defense, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury.

   Inserted: (b) Contents of Review.--Each quadrennial homeland defense review shall--

   Inserted: (1) delineate a national homeland defense strategy consistent with the most recent National Response Plan prepared under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 or any directive meant to replace or augment that directive;

   Inserted: (2) describe the inter-agency cooperation, preparedness of Federal response assets, infrastructure, budget plan, and other elements of the homeland defense program and policies of the United States associated with that national homeland defense strategy required to execute successfully the full range of missions called for in the national homeland defense strategy delineated under paragraph (1); and

   Inserted: (3) identify--

   Inserted: (A) the budget plan required to provide sufficient resources to successfully execute the full range of missions called for in that national homeland defense strategy at a low-to-moderate level of risk, and

   Inserted: (B) any additional resources required to achieve such a level of risk.

   Inserted: (c) Level of Risk.--The assessment of the level of risk for purposes of subsection (b)(3) shall be conducted by the Secretary of Homeland Security in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence.

   Inserted: (d) Reporting.--

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   Inserted: (1) In general.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a report regarding each quadrennial homeland defense review to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives. The report shall be submitted not later than September 30 of the year in which the review is conducted.

   Inserted: (2) Contents of report.--The report submitted under paragraph (1) shall include--

   Inserted: (A) the results of the quadrennial homeland defense review;

   Inserted: (B) the threats to the assumed or defined national homeland security interests of the United States that were examined for the purposes of the review and the scenarios developed in the examination of those threats;

   Inserted: (C) the status of cooperation among Federal agencies in the effort to promote national homeland security;

   Inserted: (D) the status of cooperation between the Federal Government and State governments in preparing for emergency response to threats to national homeland security, and

   Inserted: (E) any other matter the Secretary of Homeland Security considers appropriate.

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