The House Homeland Security Committee announced
this morning that their Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security
Technologies Subcommittee will be holding a markup hearing Thursday for HR
4007, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program Authorization and
Accountability Act of 2014.
No details are available yet, but Rep. Meehan (R,PA)
will be offering an amendment in the form of a substitute. Any additional
amendments will be made to that language.
It will be interesting to see if the staff has
worked out a compromise on the two issues that have kept the Republicans and
Democrats on the opposite sides of the fence on the CFATS issue. I expect that
we will see some sort of IST amendment and a worker participation amendment
offered by Rep. Clarke (D,NY). If either of those amendments gets Republican
support then there is a chance that this bill could actually get considered in
the Senate. Passage in the House is not a big issue.
I refer readers back to my proposed IST
compromise language.
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