ny activity
that--
(A) involves an act that--
(i) is dangerous to human life or
potentially destructive of critical
infrastructure or key resources; and
(ii) is a violation of the criminal
laws of the United States or of any
State or other subdivision of the
United States; and
(B) appears to be intended--
(i) to intimidate or coerce a
civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a
government by intimidation or coercion;
or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a
government by mass destruction,
assassination, or kidnapping.
(17)(A) The term ``United States'', when used in a
geographic sense, means any State of the United States,
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, any
possession of the United States, and any waters within
the jurisdiction of the United States.
(B) Nothing in this paragraph or any other
provision of this Act shall be construed to modify the
definition of ``United States'' for the purposes of the
Immigration and Nationality Act or any other
immigration or nationality law.
(18) The term ``voluntary preparedness standards''
means a common set of criteria for preparedness,
disaster management, emergency management, and business
continuity programs, such as the American National
Standards Institute's National Fire Protection
Association Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management
and Business Continuity Programs (ANSI/NFPA 1600).

SEC. 3. [6 U.S.C. 102] CONSTRUCTION; SEVERABILITY.

Any provision of this Act held to be invalid or
unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or
circumstance, shall be construed so as to give it the maximum
effect permitted by law, unless such holding shall be one of
utter invalidity or unenforceability, in which event such
provision shall be deemed severable from