President Signs Port Inspection Bill
President Donald Trump signed into law an act that requires the Department of Homeland Security to submit a plan within 180 days of how it can get to 100% high-throughput scanning of freight rail and commercial and passenger vehicles using…
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large-scale, non-intrusive inspection systems. The Securing American Ports Act was signed on Jan. 5. The agency is to tell Congress how much of the traffic is currently scanned, the personnel assigned to those efforts, and seizure data on contraband discovered by that scanning. The report should create benchmarks on how to get to 100% scanning within six years, and the costs to get there, in both government spending and suspected delays. After the first report is submitted, DHS is to update Congress one year later on progress, then again every other year.