49 U.S.C. § 44904 — Domestic air transportation system security
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-272 to r/title-49-TRANSPORTATION · 392 words · no verdicts yet
This section requires joint assessment of threats to domestic air transportation and periodic assessments of airport security. It also requires an aviation security plan, operating criteria, and corrective action.
(a) Assessing threats. The TSA Administrator and FBI Director must jointly assess current and possible threats to domestic air transportation, including who has the ability and intent to commit terrorist or related unlawful acts and how they might do so. They must jointly choose and carry out the most effective method for continuously analyzing and monitoring those threats. (b) Assessing security. With the Director’s coordination, the Administrator must periodically assess threats and vulnerabilities at every airport in the domestic air transportation system. Each assessment must consider (1) security procedures for handling and transporting checked baggage and cargo; (2) space needed for security personnel and equipment; (3) separation of screened and unscreened passengers, baggage, and cargo; (4) separation of controlled and uncontrolled airport areas; and (5) coordination among TSA, Customs, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, carriers, and other law-enforcement personnel. (c) Aviation modal security plan. In addition to section 114(s)(3)(B)–(F), the aviation plan under section 114(s) must (1) establish damage-mitigation and recovery plans after a terrorist attack; and (2) include a threat matrix identifying each threat to United States civil aviation and the corresponding security layers. (d) Operating criteria. The Administrator must issue criteria protecting airport infrastructure and operations from threats identified under section 114(s)(1) and approve best-practices guidelines for airport assets. (e) Improving security. The Administrator must correct security deficiencies found through this section’s assessments, analyses, and monitoring.
The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation jointly shall assess current and potential threats to the domestic air transportation system. The assessment shall include consideration of the extent to which there are individuals with the capability and intent to carry out terrorist or related unlawful acts against that system and the ways in which those individuals might carry out those acts. The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration and the Director jointly shall decide on and carry out the most effective method for continuous analysis and monitoring of security threats to that system.
In coordination with the Director, the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall carry out periodic threat and vulnerability assessments on security at each airport that is part of the domestic air transportation system. Each assessment shall include consideration of—
the adequacy of security procedures related to the handling and transportation of checked baggage and cargo;
space requirements for security personnel and equipment;
separation of screened and unscreened passengers, baggage, and cargo;
separation of the controlled and uncontrolled areas of airport facilities; and
coordination of the activities of security personnel of the Transportation Security Administration, the United States Customs Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and air carriers, and of other law enforcement personnel.
In addition to the requirements set forth in subparagraphs (B) through (F) of section 114(s)(3), the modal security plan for aviation prepared under section 114(s) shall—
establish a damage mitigation and recovery plan for the aviation system in the event of a terrorist attack; and
include a threat matrix document that outlines each threat to the United States civil aviation system and the corresponding layers of security in place to address such threat.
The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall issue operational criteria to protect airport infrastructure and operations against the threats identified in the plans prepared under section 114(s)(1) and shall approve best practices guidelines for airport assets.
The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall take necessary actions to improve domestic air transportation security by correcting any deficiencies in that security discovered in the assessments, analyses, and monitoring carried out under this section.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1207; Pub. L. 107–71, title I, § 101(f)(1), (7), (9), Nov. 19, 2001, 115 Stat. 603; Pub. L. 108–458, title IV, § 4001(b), Dec. 17, 2004, 118 Stat. 3712; Pub. L. 115–254, div. K, title I, § 1991(d)(4), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3632.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-272 · 108 Stat. 1207
- 2001Amended · Pub. L. 107-71 · 115 Stat. 603
- 2004Amended · Pub. L. 108-458 · 118 Stat. 3712
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-254 · 132 Stat. 3632
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 103-272 on 1994-07-05.
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