6 U.S.C. § 565 — Maintenance validation and oversight
submitted 8 years ago by Pub. L. 107-296 to r/title-6-DOMESTIC-SECURITY · 229 words · no verdicts yet
The Administrator must create a preventive-maintenance validation process for airport security technology. It must cover employee guidance and verification, contractor schedules and notices, independent validation, and contract penalties for noncompliance.
(a) General rule. Within 180 days after October 5, 2018, the Administrator* must develop and implement a process to validate preventive maintenance for security technology deployed at airports.
(b) Administration* personnel. For maintenance done by Administration personnel, the process must provide guidance on conducting and documenting preventive maintenance and ways for the Administrator to verify compliance.
(c) Contractors. For contractor maintenance, the process must require monthly schedules for appropriate personnel at each airport, identifying every action to be completed; notice to those personnel when an action is completed; and independent third-party validation of the maintenance.
(d) Penalties. Contracts made 60 days after October 5, 2018, or later, for airport security technology maintenance must include penalties when preventive or corrective maintenance was not completed as required by the contract and the manufacturer’s specifications.
Not later than 180 days after October 5, 2018, the Administrator* shall develop and implement a preventive maintenance validation process for security-related technology* deployed to airports.
For maintenance to be carried out by Administration personnel at airports, the process referred to in subsection (a) shall include the following:
Guidance to Administration personnel at airports specifying how to conduct and document preventive maintenance actions.
Mechanisms for the Administrator to verify compliance with the guidance issued pursuant to paragraph (1).
For maintenance to be carried by a contractor at airports, the process referred to in subsection (a) shall require the following:
Provision of monthly preventative maintenance schedules to appropriate Administration personnel at each airport that includes information on each action to be completed by contractor.1
Notification to appropriate Administration personnel at each airport when maintenance action is completed by a contractor.
A process for independent validation by a third party of contractor maintenance.
The Administrator shall require maintenance for any contracts entered into 60 days after October 5, 2018, or later for security-related technology deployed to airports to include penalties for noncompliance when it is determined that either preventive or corrective maintenance has not been completed according to contractual requirements and manufacturers’ specifications.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–296, title XVI, § 1621, as added Pub. L. 115–254, div. K, title I, § 1918(a), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3558.)
- 2018Enacted · Pub. L. 107-296 · 132 Stat. 3558
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 107-296 on 2018-10-05.
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