Without objection. it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows (Purpose: 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) At the appropriate place. insert the following: SEC. . The Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives. not later than (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 inservice training for interception of prohibited plant and animal products and 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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