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U.S. not ready to implement new travel law


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U.S. not ready to implement new travel law: report

The Bush administration is not ready to implement a travel law that would require everyone entering the U.S. to have a passport or some other form of national identification by Jan. 2008, according to a new report.

"[Department of Homeland Security] and State have a long way to go to implement their proposed plans for the Travel Initiative, and the time to get the job done is slipping by," according to study conducted by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) — a non-partisan investigative arm of Congress.

Among concerns raised by the GAO, the Department of Homeland Security has not decided what documents will be acceptable as an alternative to a passport and what technologies might be used, such as an electonic "pass card."

The GAO also tells the agencies to complete a cost-benefit analysis of their final plan, including an examination of how tourism and commerce might be discouraged by the new law.

The release of the study comes as Canada's premiers wrapped up a meeting in Manitoba, attended by some U.S. governors and ambassadors.

The premiers are calling for a delay of the border-crossing legislation and warned that the new law will hurt Canadian-American relations.

The western premiers say the cost of obtaining passports for every family member will be prohibitive and will affect the numbers of people crossing the Canada-U.S. border.

On Thursday, a New York Congresswoman Louise Slaugher will announce she's introducing a bill in the House of Representatives that would include delaying the travel-law deadline to 2009. Slaughter has concerns about how the law will affect travel and commerce in her border state.

Legislation that would delay the deadline to June 2009 has already been passed in the US Senate.

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