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§1141 Reporting requirements

Title 6 › Chapter CHAPTER 4— - TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › § 1141

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

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By March 31 each year, the Secretary must send a report to the appropriate congressional committees. The report must say how the program is being carried out, list any appropriated funds that have not been spent or committed, include the National Strategy for Public Transportation Security required under section 1133, give a cost estimate that separates total capital and operational security needs for fiscal years 2008–2018, and describe the state of public transportation security (including security assessments, progress on prioritized lists of improvements, how agencies’ security plans compare to those assessments and lists, and a random sample of equal numbers of large and small projects now underway). The Secretary may provide the report in classified and redacted forms if needed. By March 31 each year, the Secretary must also send a report to each State Governor whose public transportation agency got a grant, stating how much each agency received and how the grant money was used.

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Title 6, §1141

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(a)(1)Not later than March 31 of each year, the Secretary shall submit a report, containing the information described in paragraph (2), to the appropriate congressional committees.
(2)The report submitted under paragraph (1) shall include—
(A)a description of the implementation of the provisions of this subchapter;
(B)the amount of funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of this subchapter that have not been expended or obligated;
(C)the National Strategy for Public Transportation Security required under section 1133 of this title;
(D)an estimate of the cost to implement the National Strategy for Public Transportation Security which shall break out the aggregated total cost of needed capital and operational security improvements for fiscal years 2008–2018; and
(E)the state of public transportation security in the United States, which shall include detailing the status of security assessments, the progress being made around the country in developing prioritized lists of security improvements necessary to make public transportation facilities and passengers more secure, the progress being made by agencies in developing security plans and how those plans differ from the security assessments and a prioritized list of security improvements being compiled by other agencies, as well as a random sample of an equal number of large- and small-scale projects currently underway.
(3)The Secretary may submit the report in both classified and redacted formats if the Secretary determines that such action is appropriate or necessary.
(b)(1)Not later than March 31 of each year, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Governor of each State with a public transportation agency that has received a grant under this Act.
(2)The report submitted under paragraph (1) shall specify—
(A)the amount of grant funds distributed to each such public transportation agency; and
(B)the use of such grant funds.

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This Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is Pub. L. 110–53, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 266, known as the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, which enacted this chapter and enacted and amended numerous other sections and notes in the Code. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 2007 Amendment note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.

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6 U.S.C. § 1141

Title 6Domestic Security

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Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73