Abstract
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decade-old program for protecting chemical facilities against potential terrorist attacks is working well and should be reauthorized for multiple years with some targeted improvements, industry officials say. The Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program “has helped make our industry and communities more secure,” Kirsten Meskill, director of corporate security for BASF, told the House of Representatives Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Protection on Feb. 15. The panel held the hearing to gather industry input on CFATS as lawmakers prepare to extend and possibly revise the counterterrorism initiative that began in 2007. The program, which Congress overhauled in 2014, is set to expire at the end of the year. CFATS applies to facilities that make, use, or store threshold quantities of any one of more than 300 hazardous chemicals. Facilities that qualify must assess their risks, develop site-security plans for DH...
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