Port Security Resources

Government Agency Resources

• Department of Homeland Security

  • Fact Sheet: Securing U.S. Ports (February 2006)

  • National Strategy for Maritime Security Supporting Plans Announced (October 2005)

  • Fact Sheet: Secure Seas, Open Ports (2004)

  • National Cargo Security Strategy White Paper (version 1.8) (December 2004)
     

• Government Accountability Office (formerly General Accounting Office)
   

  • Port Security: Better Planning Needed To Develop And Operate Maritime Worker Identification Card Program (2004)

  • Port Security: Better Planning Needed to Help Ensure an Effective Port Security Assessment Program 2004)
     

  • Homeland Security: Summary of Challenges Faced in Targeting Oceangoing Cargo Containers for Inspection (2004)
     

  • Maritime Security: Substantial Work Remains to Translate New Planning Requirements into Effective Port Security (2004)
     

  • Container Security: Expansion of Key Customs Programs Will Require Greater Attention to Critical Success Factors (2003)

  • Homeland Security: Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Target Security Inspections of Cargo Containers (2003)

• US Coast Guard
   

Executive Branch Resources

• President Discusses Port Security (news release February 21, 2006)
   

• National Strategy for Maritime Security (September 2005)
   

• Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-13 (Maritime Security Policy, December 2004)
   

Congressional Resources

• House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
   

• Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2005 : report (to accompany H.R. 889) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office) from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
   

• Port and Maritime Security: Background Issues for Congress (Congressional Research Service, updated May 2005)
   

• Terrorist Nuclear Attacks on Seaports: Threat and Response (Congressional Research Service, updated January 2005)
   

• Senators Patty Murray and Chris Dodd have posted commentary and activity to their sites. For more, search "port security" on the Senate website.
   

• House of Representatives website, search on "port security" for statements, testimony and more.
  
   

In the CSUSM Collection

• Port and Maritime Security Act of 2001: Report of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on S. 1214
  Microforms Y 1.1/5:107-64   
   

• Maritime Reform and Security Act of 1995: Report of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on S. 1139
  Microforms Y 1.1/5:104-167 
   

• CQ Researcher and CQ Weekly
  CSUSM Research Databases--CSUSM Users Only
  
   

CSUSM Librarians are able to help you locate further resources!

• Judith Downie, Humanities and Government Documents Librarian