Keeping our Communities Safe by Strengthening Safety Standards for Chemical Facilities Act

Keeping our Communities Safe by Strengthening Safety Standards for Chemical Facilities Act - Amends the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), in assigning a chemical facility to a risk tier under performance standards for the security of chemical facilities, to consider the proximity of the facility to population centers, schools, and other facilities at risk of creating a secondary explosion.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6711 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6711

     To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to make certain 
 considerations when assigning chemical facilities to risk-based tiers 
      pursuant to the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 27, 2012

Ms. Richardson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to make certain 
 considerations when assigning chemical facilities to risk-based tiers 
      pursuant to the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keeping our Communities Safe by 
Strengthening Safety Standards for Chemical Facilities Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATIONS IN ASSIGNMENT OF CHEMICAL FACILITIES TO RISK 
              TIERS PURSUANT TO THE CHEMICAL FACILITY ANTI-TERRORISM 
              STANDARDS.

    Section 550(a) of the Department of Homeland Security 
Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public Law 109-295) is amended by inserting 
before the period at the end the following: ``: Provided further, That 
in assigning a chemical facility to a risk tier pursuant to this 
section, the Secretary shall consider the proximity of the facility to 
population centers, schools, and other facilities at risk of creating a 
secondary explosion''.
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