§1137 Public Transportation Security Training Program

Summary

The Secretary must write rules for a public transportation security training program. The Secretary must issue detailed interim final rules no later than 90 days after August 3, 2007, and final rules no later than 1 year after August 3, 2007. When making the rules, the Secretary must work with law enforcement, fire and security experts, transit agency representatives, and labor groups. The rules must require training that covers key topics such as judging how serious a threat is; crew and passenger communication; self‑defense and nonlethal options; protective gear; evacuation (including people with disabilities and older adults); behavior and psychological responses to attacks; live drills like tunnel evacuations; spotting and reporting dangerous substances, packages, people, and situations; incident procedures and working with emergency responders; operating security equipment; and any other items the Secretary finds needed. Any transit agency that gets a grant under this subchapter must make and send a training program to the Secretary within 90 days after it becomes subject to these rules. The Secretary has 60 days to approve or ask for changes, and the agency must answer comments within 30 days. After approval, the agency must finish training all covered employees within 1 year. The Secretary will update the rules as threats change, agencies must update their programs and retrain workers, agencies must keep providing ongoing routine training even if they stop getting grants, ferries covered by 46 U.S.C. 70103 are not covered, and the Comptroller General must review and report on how the program was put into place within 2 years after the final rule.