DHS Writing Chemical Security Bill to Require　Safer Technology, Measures at Water Plants

摘要

The Department of Homeland Security is writing legislation to reauthorize the chemical facility security program, a bill that could require use of safer chemicals in some cases and force water systems to adopt security measures for the first time, a senior agency official told a Senate committee March 3.rnRand Beers, undersecretary of homeland security in charge of the National Protection and Programs Directorate, told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs that the department has a draft bill under review and could release it this spring.