{ "id": "RL33447", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RL33447", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 316450, "date": "2006-07-05", "retrieved": "2016-04-07T18:58:51.054029", "title": "Senate Proposals To Enhance Chemical Facility Security", "summary": "The 109th Congress is considering how to address the risks and consequences of potential\nterrorist\nattacks on chemical facilities. This report compares and analyzes two bills in the Senate that would\naddress these issues: S. 2145, as reported, and S. 2486 , as introduced. S.\n 2145 was reported, amended (without written report), by the Committee on Homeland\nSecurity and Governmental Affairs on June 26, 2006. For background information on chemical\nfacility security and summaries of other legislative proposals, see CRS Report RL31530 ,\n Chemical\nFacility Security . For more information about alternative legislative approaches, see CRS Report RL33043 , Legislative Approaches to Chemical Facility Security .\n S. 2145 would direct the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)\nto issue rules designating chemical facilities subject to regulation, assigning them to various\nrisk-based tiers, and establishing performance-based standards for each tier. Designated facilities\nwould include facilities selected from those required to complete risk management plans under the\nClean Air Act (CAA), Section 112(r)(7), and facilities handling more than specified quantities of\nammonium nitrate or any other substance designated by the Secretary. Facilities would be required\nto submit to DHS vulnerability assessments, security plans, and emergency response plans for\nterrorist incidents. Plans would have to be \"sufficient to deter, to the maximum extent practicable,\na terrorist incident or a substantial threat of such an incident,\" and \"include security measures to\nmitigate the consequences of a terrorist incident.\" To oversee implementation, S. 2145\nwould establish regional DHS security offices and area security committees and plans. DHS, other\nfederal agencies, and state and local agencies would be prohibited from releasing to the public\n\"protected information.\" S. 2145 expressly prohibits any private civil actions against an\nowner or operator to enforce provisions of the Act. S. 2145 also requires regulation of\nammonium nitrate sales. \n S. 2486 addresses security and safety at \"stationary sources,\" as defined by the\nCAA Section 112(r)(2), and other facilities holding substances of concern that the DHS Secretary,\nin consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, designates as \"high\npriority.\" For all stationary sources, S. 2486 would establish a general duty to identify\nhazards; ensure safe facility design, operation, and maintenance (including use of use of inherently\nsafer technology); and reduce the consequences of a criminal release. Employees would assist\nowners or operators in these tasks. Each high-priority facility would be required to submit to DHS\na vulnerability assessment, hazard assessment, and prevention, preparedness, and response plan. S.\n 2486 would exempt DHS from public disclosure requirements of the federal Freedom of\nInformation Act for \"all documents provided to the DHS Secretary under this Act, and all\ninformation that describes a specific vulnerability or stationary source derived from those\ndocuments.\" S. 2486 establishes Employees' Safety and Security Committees and\nmandates employee training with respect to the Act's requirements. 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