{"id":223,"date":"2007-01-09T18:01:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/uncategorized\/2007\/223"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:33:42","slug":"house-passes-100-cargo-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/house-passes-100-cargo-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes 100% Cargo Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives passed H.R. 1 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/pdf\/HR1.pdf\">Full Text<\/a> PDF) today. While the bill contains many (many!) sections of interest to Long Beach includes funding for first responders, of particular concern to our local economy is Title V: &#8216;Strengthening The Security of Cargo Containers&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Title V contains provisions which the goods movement industries have resisted and many experts have characterized as impractical and cost prohibitive. In specific, Title V provides that a container be allowed to entering the US &#8220;only if&#8221; it is screened and sealed with &#8220;the best available technology.&#8221; The Secretary of Homeland Security must establish standards which &#8220;scan a container for radiation and density and, if appropriate, for atomic elements&#8221;. The Secretary must also establish standards for seals which &#8216;detect any breach into a container and identify the time of such breach&#8217;. Further, the Secretary&#8217;s seals standards must be updated &#8220;whenever the technology becomes available&#8221; to &#8220;identify the place of a breach into a container; notify the Secretary of such breach before the container enters the Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States; and track the time and location of the container during transit to the United States, including by truck, rail, or vessel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unless substantially revised, Title V will go into effect three years after signing for countries of origin which shipped more than 75,000 TEUs in 2005, and in five years for all other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Port of Long Beach imported 3,346,054 TEUs in 2005; the Port of Los Angeles imported 3,881,326 TEUs in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/ushousedigest.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/09\/jan-9th-update\/\">U.S. House Digest<\/a> for a summary of other components of H.R. 1.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives passed H.R. 1 (Full Text PDF) today. While the bill contains many (many!) sections of interest to Long Beach includes funding for first responders, of particular concern to our local economy is Title V: &#8216;Strengthening The Security of Cargo Containers&#8217;. Title V contains provisions which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[85,86,87,88,89,41,64,62,76,90,21,91,92,93,94,95,75,96,97,23],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-cargo-containers","tag-containerization","tag-economic-zone","tag-exclusive-economic-zone","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-law","tag-logistics-2","tag-long-beach","tag-los-angeles","tag-maritime","tag-national-security","tag-port-of-long-beach","tag-port-of-los-angeles","tag-radiation","tag-secretary-of-homeland-security","tag-technology","tag-transportation","tag-twenty-foot-equivalent-unit","tag-united-states","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}