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 PUBLIC LAW 106-398—APPENDIX 114 STAT. 1654A-257 monitoring and border security and air sovereignty operations compared to other surveillance systems available for such operations. (5) The costs associated with the planned standardization of the Tethered Aerostat Radar System and the Secretary's analysis of that standardization. (b) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary of Defense shall prepare the report in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury. SEC. 1026. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING USE OF ARMED FORCES FOR COUNTER-DRUG AND COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTIVI- TIES. It is the sense of Congress that the President should be able to use members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to assist law enforcement agencies, to the full extent consistent with section 1385 of title 18, United States Code (commonly known as the Posse Comitatus Act), section 375 of title 10, United States Code, and other applicable law, in preventing the entry into the United States of terrorists and drug traffickers, weapons of mass destruction, components of weapons of mass destruction, and prohibited narcotics and drugs. Subtitle D—Counterterrorism and Domestic Preparedness SEC. 1031. PREPAREDNESS OF MILITARY INSTALLATION FIRST RESPONDERS FOR INCIDENTS INVOLVING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. (a) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.— Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the program of the Department of Defense to ensure the preparedness of the first responders of the Department of Defense for incidents involving weapons of mass destruction on installations of the Department of Defense. (b) CONTENT OF REPORT. — The report shall include the following: (1) A detailed description of the overall preparedness program. (2) A detailed description of the deficiencies in the preparedness of Department of Defense installations to respond to an incident involving a weapon of mass destruction, together with a discussion of the actions planned to be taken by the Department of Defense to correct the deficiencies. (3) The schedule and costs associated with the implementation of the preparedness program. (4) The Department's plan for coordinating the preparedness program with responders in the communities in the localities of the installations. (5) The Department's plan for promoting the interoperability of the equipment used by the installation first responders referred to in subsection (a) with the equipment used by the first responders in those communities. (c) FORM OF REPORT. — The report shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. (d) DEFINITIONS. —In this section:

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