; and (3) by striking section 204 ( 34 U.S.C. 40503 ) and inserting the following: 205. Use of funds An applicant receiving a grant award under this title may use such funds to— (1) pay for the costs incurred during or after fiscal year 2017 for the transportation, processing, identification, and reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains, including migrants; (2) establish and expand programs developed to improve the reporting of unidentified persons in accordance with the assurances provided in the application submitted pursuant to section 203(b); (3) hire and maintain additional DNA case analysts and technicians, fingerprint examiners, forensic odontologists, and forensic anthropologists, needed to support such identification programs; and (4) procure and maintain state-of-the-art multimodal, multipurpose forensic and DNA-typing and analytical equipment. . (b) Kristen’s Act Section 3 of Kristen’s Act ( 34 U.S.C. 40504 note) is amended to read as follows: 3. Authorization of funding The Attorney General is authorized to use funds otherwise appropriated for the operationalization, maintenance, and expansion of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) for the purpose of carrying out this Act. . 3. Rescue beacons Section 411(o) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 211(o) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (3) Rescue beacons Beginning in fiscal year 2019, in carrying out subsection (c)(8), the Commissioner shall purchase, deploy, and maintain not more than 170 self-powering, 9–1–1 cellular relay rescue beacons along the southern border of the United States at locations determined appropriate by the Commissioner to mitigate migrant deaths. . 4. Reporting on national missing and unidentified persons (namus) program Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and every year thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress regarding— (1) the number of unidentified person cases processed