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6 U.S.C. § 1137 — Public transportation security training program
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**(a) In general** Not later than 90 days after August 3, 2007, the Secretary shall develop and issue detailed interim final regulations, and not later than 1 year after August 3, 2007, the Secretary shall develop and issue detailed final regulations, for a public transportation security training program to prepare public transportation employees, including frontline employees, for potential security threats and conditions.
**(b) Consultation** The Secretary shall develop the interim final and final regulations under subsection (a) in consultation with—
(1) appropriate law enforcement, fire service, security, and terrorism experts;
(2) representatives of public transportation agencies; and
(3) nonprofit employee labor organizations representing public transportation employees or emergency response personnel.
**(c) Program elements** The interim final and final regulations developed under subsection (a) shall require security training programs to include, at a minimum, elements to address the following:
(1) Determination of the seriousness of any occurrence or threat.
(2) Crew and passenger communication and coordination.
(3) Appropriate responses to defend oneself, including using nonlethal defense devices.
(4) Use of personal protective devices and other protective equipment.
(5) Evacuation procedures for passengers and employees, including individuals with disabilities and the elderly.
(6) Training related to behavioral and psychological understanding of, and responses to, terrorist incidents, including the ability to cope with hijacker behavior, and passenger responses.
(7) Live situational training exercises regarding various threat conditions, including tunnel evacuation procedures.
(8) Recognition and reporting of dangerous substances and suspicious p
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**(a) In general** Not later than 90 days after August 3, 2007, the Secretary shall develop and issue detailed interim final regulations, and not later than 1 year after August 3, 2007, the Secretary shall develop and issue detailed final regulations, for a public transportation security training program to prepare public transportation employees, including frontline employees, for potential security threats and conditions.
**(b) Consultation** The Secretary shall develop the interim final and final regulations under subsection (a) in consultation with—
(1) appropriate law enforcement, fire service, security, and terrorism experts;
(2) representatives of public transportation agencies; and
(3) nonprofit employee labor organizations representing public transportation employees or emergency response personnel.
**(c) Program elements** The interim final and final regulations developed under subsection (a) shall require security training programs to include, at a minimum, elements to address the following:
(1) Determination of the seriousness of any occurrence or threat.
(2) Crew and passenger communication and coordination.
(3) Appropriate responses to defend oneself, including using nonlethal defense devices.
(4) Use of personal protective devices and other protective equipment.
(5) Evacuation procedures for passengers and employees, including individuals with disabilities and the elderly.
(6) Training related to behavioral and psychological understanding of, and responses to, terrorist incidents, including the ability to cope with hijacker behavior, and passenger responses.
(7) Live situational training exercises regarding various threat conditions, including tunnel evacuation procedures.
(8) Recognition and reporting of dangerous substances and suspicious packages, persons, and situations.
(9) Understanding security incident procedures, including procedures for communicating with governmental and nongovernmental emergency response providers and for on scene interaction with such emergency response providers.
(10) Operation and maintenance of security equipment and systems.
(11) Other security training activities that the Secretary deems appropriate.
**(d) Required programs**
(1) **Development and submission to Secretary** — Not later than 90 days after a public transportation agency meets the requirements under subsection (e), each such public transportation agency shall develop a security training program in accordance with the regulations developed under subsection (a) and submit the program to the Secretary for approval.
(2) **Approval** — Not later than 60 days after receiving a security training program proposal under this subsection, the Secretary shall approve the program or require the public transportation agency that developed the program to make any revisions to the program that the Secretary determines necessary for the program to meet the requirements of the regulations. A public transportation agency shall respond to the Secretary’s comments within 30 days after receiving them.
(3) **Training** — Not later than 1 year after the Secretary approves a security training program proposal in accordance with this subsection, the public transportation agency that developed the program shall complete the training of all employees covered under the program.
(4) **Updates of regulations and program revisions** — The Secretary shall periodically review and update, as appropriate, the training regulations issued under subsection (a) to reflect new or changing security threats. Each public transportation agency shall revise its training program accordingly and provide additional training as necessary to its workers within a reasonable time after the regulations are updated.
**(e) Applicability** A public transportation agency that receives a grant award under this subchapter shall be required to develop and implement a security training program pursuant to this section.
**(f) Long-term training requirement** Any public transportation agency required to develop a security training program pursuant to this section shall provide routine and ongoing training for employees covered under the program, regardless of whether the public transportation agency receives subsequent grant awards.
**(g) National Training Program** The Secretary shall ensure that the training program developed under subsection (a) is a component of the National Training Program established under [section 748 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section748&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(h) Ferry exemption** This section shall not apply to any ferry system for which training is required to be conducted pursuant to [section 70103 of title 46](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section70103&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(i) Report** Not later than 2 years after the date of issuance of the final regulation, the Comptroller General shall review implementation of the training program, including interviewing a representative sample of public transportation agencies and employees, and report to the appropriate congressional committees, on the number of reviews conducted and the results. The Comptroller General may submit the report in both classified and redacted formats as necessary.
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**(a) National Maritime Transportation Security Plan.—**
(1) The Secretary shall prepare a National Maritime Transportation Security Plan for deterring and responding to a transportation security incident.
(2) The National Maritime Transportation Security Plan shall provide for efficient, coordinated, and effective action to deter and minimize damage from a transportation security incident, and shall include the following:
(A) Assignment of duties and responsibilities among Federal departments and agencies and coordination with State and local governmental agencies.
(B) Identification of security resources.
(C) Procedures and techniques to be employed in deterring a national transportation security incident.
(D) Establishment of procedures for the coordination of activities of—
(i) Coast Guard maritime security teams established under this chapter; and
(ii) Federal Maritime Security Coordinators required under this chapter.
(E) A system of surveillance and notice designed to safeguard against as well as ensure earliest possible notice of a transportation security incident and imminent threats of such a security incident to the appropriate State and Federal agencies.
(F) Establishment of criteria and procedures to ensure immediate and effective Federal identification of a transportation security incident, or the substantial threat of such a security incident.
(G) Designation of—
(i) areas for which Area Maritime Transportation Security Plans are required to be prepared under subsection (b); and
(ii) a Coast Guard official who shall be the Federal Maritime Security Coordinator for each such area.
(H) A risk-based system for evaluating the potential for violations of security zones designated by the Secretary on the waters subj
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**(a) Equipment standards**
(1) **In general** — The Administrator, in coordination with the heads of appropriate Federal agencies and the National Advisory Council, shall support the development, promulgation, and updating, as necessary, of national voluntary consensus standards for the performance, use, and validation of equipment used by Federal, State, local, and tribal governments and nongovernmental emergency response providers.
(2) **Requirements** — The national voluntary consensus standards shall—
(A) be designed to achieve equipment and other capabilities consistent with the national preparedness goal, including the safety and health of emergency response providers;
(B) to the maximum extent practicable, be consistent with existing national voluntary consensus standards;
(C) take into account, as appropriate, threats that may not have been contemplated when the existing standards were developed; and
(D) focus on maximizing operability, interoperability, interchangeability, durability, flexibility, efficiency, efficacy, portability, sustainability, and safety.
**(b) Training standards** The Administrator shall—
(1) support the development, promulgation, and regular updating, as necessary, of national voluntary consensus standards for training; and
(2) ensure that the training provided under the national training program is consistent with the standards.
**(c) Consultation with standards organizations** In carrying out this section, the Administrator shall consult with representatives of relevant public and private sector national voluntary consensus standards development organizations.
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For purposes of this subchapter, the following terms apply:
(1) **Appropriate congressional committees** — The term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
(2) **Department** — The term “Department” means the Department of Homeland Security.
(3) **Disadvantaged businesses concerns** — The term “disadvantaged business concerns” means small businesses that are owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals as defined in section 11 So in original. Probably should be “part”. 124, title 13, Code of Federal Regulations.
(4) **Frontline employee** — The term “frontline employee” means an employee of a public transportation agency who is a transit vehicle driver or operator, dispatcher, maintenance and maintenance support employee, station attendant, customer service employee, security employee, or transit police, or any other employee who has direct contact with riders on a regular basis, and any other employee of a public transportation agency that the Secretary determines should receive security training under [section 1137 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section1137&num=0&edition=prelim).
(5) **Public transportation agency** — The term “public transportation agency” means a publicly owned operator of public transportation eligible to receive Federal assistance under chapter 53 of title 49.
(6) **Secretary** — The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Homeland Security.
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**(a) Public transportation security assessments**
(1) **Submission** — Not later than 30 days after August 3, 2007, the Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration of the Department of Transportation shall submit all public transportation security assessments and all other relevant information to the Secretary.
(2) **Secretarial review** — Not later than 60 days after receiving the submission under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall review and augment the security assessments received, and conduct additional security assessments as necessary to ensure that at a minimum, all high risk public transportation agencies, as determined by the Secretary, will have a completed security assessment.
(3) **Content** — The Secretary shall ensure that each completed security assessment includes—
(A) identification of critical assets, infrastructure, and systems and their vulnerabilities; and
(B) identification of any other security weaknesses, including weaknesses in emergency response planning and employee training.
**(b) Bus and rural public transportation systems** Not later than 180 days after August 3, 2007, the Secretary shall—
(1) conduct security assessments, based on a representative sample, to determine the specific needs of—
(A) local bus-only public transportation systems; and
(B) public transportation systems that receive funds under [section 5311 of title 49](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section5311&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(2) make the representative assessments available for use by similarly situated systems.
**(c) Security plans**
(1) **Requirement for plan**
(A) *High risk agencies* — The Secretary shall require public transportation agencies determined by the Secretary to be at high risk for
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**(a) Security assistance program**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary shall establish a program for making grants to eligible public transportation agencies for security improvements described in subsection (b).
(2) **Eligibility** — A public transportation agency is eligible for a grant under this section if the Secretary has performed a security assessment or the agency has developed a security plan under [section 1134 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section1134&num=0&edition=prelim). Grant funds shall only be awarded for permissible uses under subsection (b) to—
(A) address items included in a security assessment; or
(B) further a security plan.
**(b) Uses of funds** A recipient of a grant under subsection (a) shall use the grant funds for one or more of the following:
(1) Capital uses of funds, including—
(A) tunnel protection systems;
(B) perimeter protection systems, including access control, installation of improved lighting, fencing, and barricades;
(C) redundant critical operations control systems;
(D) chemical, biological, radiological, or explosive detection systems, including the acquisition of canines used for such detection;
(E) surveillance equipment;
(F) communications equipment, including mobile service equipment to provide access to wireless Enhanced 911 (E911) emergency services in an underground fixed guideway system;
(G) emergency response equipment, including personal protective equipment;
(H) fire suppression and decontamination equipment;
(I) global positioning or tracking and recovery equipment, and other automated-vehicle-locator-type system equipment;
(J) evacuation improvements;
(K) purchase and placement of bomb-resistant trash cans throughout publ
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TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY
§ 1137
(4) assists State, local, and tribal govern-
ments and public transportation agencies in
designing, implementing, and evaluating exer-
cises that conform to the requirements of
paragraph (2).
(d) National Exercise Program
The Secretary shall ensure that the exercise
program developed under subsection (a) is a
component of the National Exercise Program es-
tablished under section 748 of this title.
(e) Ferry system exemption
This section does not apply to any ferry sys-
tem for which drills are required to be con-
ducted pursuant to section 70103 of title 46.
(Pub. L. 110–53, title XIV, § 1407, Aug. 3, 2007, 121
Stat. 408.)
§ 1137. Public transportation security training
program
(a) In general
Not later than 90 days after August 3, 2007, the
Secretary shall develop and issue detailed in-
terim final regulations, and not later than 1
year after August 3, 2007, the Secretary shall de-
velop and issue detailed final regulations, for a
public transportation security training program
to prepare public transportation employees, in-
cluding frontline employees, for potential secu-
rity threats and conditions.
(b) Consultation
The Secretary shall develop the interim final
and final regulations under subsection (a) in
consultation with—
(1) appropriate law enforcement, fire service,
security, and terrorism experts;
(2) representatives of public transportation
agencies; and
(3) nonprofit employee labor organizations
representing public transportation employees
or emergency response personnel.
(c) Program elements
The interim final and final regulations devel-
oped under subsection (a) shall require security
training programs to include, at a minimum,
elements to address the following:
(1) Determination of t
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