CBP CSMS Messages and Web Postings
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the new password policy change for ACE Secure Data Portal users is scheduled to take effect in early August 2008. The new policy does not affect users with existing passwords; however, when a new password is generated or an existing password is changed or reset, the new rules will apply.
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1. CBP Announces Effective Date of Its ACE Secure Data Portal Password Policy Change
(See notice for ACE password rules.) (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/15/08 news, 08071550 3, for BP summary announcing the new rules.) (Notice, dated 08/05/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/whats_new/new_ace_psswrd.xml)
2. Other CBP Postings and Messages
Seven seaports were closed due to Tropical Storm Edouard. CBP had posted to its Unified Business Resumption Messaging Web site messages (which are no longer available) announcing that the following seaports were 100% closed on August 5th due to Tropical Storm Edouard: Houston Ship Channel, Galveston, Texas City, Freeport, Port Arthur, Corpus Christi, and New Orleans. (UBRM messaging Web site (messages no longer posted) available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_outreach/bus_resumption/maritime/)
CBP seizes marijuana in commercial vehicles, trailers. CBP reports that officers seized nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana in two commercial vehicles/trailers at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility in California, August 1, 2008, in a three-hour time frame. (News release, dated 08/05/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/08052008.xml)
CBP, DEA, ICE seize pseudoephedrine. CBP reports that CBP officials, along with officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Agency, seized a shipment on July 31st that came into the Port of Newark containing more than a ton of pseudoephedrine. (News release, dated 08/05/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/08052008_3.xml)
CBP launches port improvement campaign in Texas. CBP recently launched an aggressive multi-media communication campaign in English and Spanish to advise travelers of technology-related construction at the U.S.' busiest 39 land ports of entry, including local international crossings in El Paso, Fabens and Fort Hancock, Texas. (News release, dated 08/05/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/08052008_2.xml)