1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Terrorism Prevention and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2017 . 2. Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) The Nation’s critical infrastructure provides the essential services that underpin American society. Proactive and coordinated efforts are necessary to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning, and resilient critical infrastructure, including assets, networks, and systems, that are vital to public confidence and the Nation’s safety, prosperity, and well-being. (2) The Nation’s critical infrastructure is diverse and complex. It includes distributed networks, varied organizational structures and operating models (including multinational ownership), interdependent functions and systems in both the physical space and cyber space, and governance constructs that involve multilevel authorities, responsibilities, and regulations. Critical infrastructure owners and operators are uniquely positioned to manage risks to their individual operations and assets, and to determine effective strategies to make them more secure and resilient. (3) Critical infrastructure must be secured against terrorist attacks, and must be designed and maintained in such a way as to withstand and recover quickly in the event of an attack. Achieving this will require integration with the national preparedness system across prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts. 3. Policy (a) Security and resilience The Secretary of Homeland Security shall work with critical infrastructure owners and operators and SLTTs to take proactive steps to manage risk and strengthen the security and resilience of the Nation’s critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks that could have a debilitating impact on national security, economic stability, public health and safety, or any combination thereof. Such efforts shall seek to reduce vulnerabilities, minimize consequences, identify and disrupt terrorism threats, and hasten response and recovery efforts related to critical