To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to prepare a report on activities to ensure that the agriculture quarantine inspection monitoring program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is operating effectively and to ensure that States are receiving adequate guidance.

SA 4555. Mr. SALAZAR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 5441, making appropriations for the Department
of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and
for other purposes; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. __. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall prepare a
report for submission to Congress by the President with the
budget for fiscal year 2008 transmitted under section 1105(a)
of title 31, United States Code, that--
(1) identifies activities being carried out by the
Department of Homeland Security to improve--
(A) the targeting of agricultural inspections;
(B) the ability of United States Customs and Border
Protection to adjust to new agricultural threats; and
(C) the in-service training for interception of prohibited
plant and animal products and

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agricultural pests under the agriculture quarantine
inspection monitoring program of the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service; and
(2) describes the manner in which the Secretary of Homeland
Security will coordinate with the Secretary of Agriculture
and State and local governments in carrying out the
activities described in paragraph (1).
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