The Department of Homeland Security must improve its Fiscal Year 2008 Secure Border Initiative Expenditure Plan to enable proper Congressional oversight,according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.The expenditure plan,which the FY 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act required DHS to submit to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees by March 31,was to address 15 legislative conditions regarding the use of pedestrian and vehicle fencing as well as other forms of tactical infrastructure and technology in the Customs and Border Protection program.The act required DHS to submit a plan that satisfies 15 conditions before DHS could obligate $650 million of the approximately $1.2 billion appropriated for CBP fencing,infrastructure and technology.
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