PUBLIC LAW 104-208—SEPT. 30, 1996 110 STAT. 3009-560 SEC. 122. LAND BORDER INSPECTION AND AUTOMATED PERMIT PILOT PROJECTS. (a) EXTENSION OF LAND BORDER INSPECTION PROJECT AUTHOR- ITY; ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTOMATED PERMIT PILOT PROJECTS.— Section 286(q) is amended— 8 USC 1356. (1) by striking the matter preceding paragraph (2) and inserting the following: "(q) LAND BORDER INSPECTION FEE ACCOUNT. —(l)(A)(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Attorney General is authorized to establish, by regulation, not more than 6 projects under which a fee may be charged and collected for inspection services provided at one or more land border points of entry. Such projects may include the establishment of commuter lanes to be made available to qualified United States citizens and aliens, as determined by the Attorney General. "(ii) The program authorized in this subparagraph shall terminate on September 30, 2000, unless further authorized by an Act of Congress. "(iii) This subparagraph shall take effect, with respect to any project described in clause (1) that was not authorized to be commenced before the date of the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, 30 days after submission of a written plsin by the Attorney General detailing the proposed implementation of such project. "(iv) The Attorney General shall prepare and submit on a quarterly basis, until September 30, 2000, a status report on each land border inspection project implemented under this subparagraph. "(B) The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, may conduct pilot projects to demonstrate the use of designated ports of entry after working hours through the use of card reading machines or other appropriate technology."; and (2) by striking paragraph (5). (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1994 (Public Law 103-121, 107 Stat. 1161) is amended 8 USC 1356 note, by striking the fourth proviso under the heading "Immigration and Naturalization Service, Salaries and Expenses". SEC. 123. PREINSPECTION AT FOREIGN AIRPORTS. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Immigration and Nationality Act is amended by inserting after siection 235 the following: "PREINSPECTION AT FOREIGN AIRPORTS "SEC. 235A. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PREINSPECTION STATIONS.— 8 USC 1225a. "(1) NEW STATIONS.— Subject to paragraph (5), not later than October 31, 1998, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall establish and maintain preinspection stations in at least 5 of the foreign airports that are among the 10 foreign airports which the Attorney General identifies as serving as last points of departure for the greatest numbers of inadmissible alien passengers who arrive from abroad by air at ports of entry within the United States. Such preinspection stations shall be in addition to any preinspection stations established prior to the date of the enactment of such Act.
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