PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary must make sure the Department of Transportation gets timely notice of any credible terrorist threats to public transportation in the United States. The Secretary must pay reasonable costs for the Information Sharing and Analysis Center for Public Transportation (ISAC). Transit agencies the Secretary labels as high risk must join the ISAC. Other agencies should be encouraged to join. Nonprofit labor groups should be invited when appropriate. There is no fee to participate. The Comptroller General must report to Congress at least 3 years after August 3, 2007 on how useful the ISAC and other DOT information-sharing programs are. The report must look at user satisfaction, costs and benefits, how programs work together, how each helps carry out the information-sharing plan under section 1203, and whether the ISAC duplicates DOT efforts. The law authorizes $600,000 for fiscal year 2008, $600,000 for fiscal year 2009, $600,000 for fiscal year 2010, and whatever is needed for 2011 if the report has been submitted to Congress. Those funds remain available until spent.

Title 6, §1139

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(a)Intelligence sharing

The Secretary shall ensure that the Department of Transportation receives appropriate and timely notification of all credible terrorist threats against public transportation assets in the United States.

(b)Information Sharing and Analysis Center

(1)Authorization

The Secretary shall provide for the reasonable costs of the Information Sharing and Analysis Center for Public Transportation (referred to in this subsection as the “ISAC”).

(2)Participation

The Secretary—

(A)shall require public transportation agencies that the Secretary determines to be at high risk of terrorist attack to participate in the ISAC;

(B)shall encourage all other public transportation agencies to participate in the ISAC;

(C)shall encourage the participation of nonprofit employee labor organizations representing public transportation employees, as appropriate; and

(D)shall not charge a fee for participating in the ISAC.

(c)Report

The Comptroller General shall report, not less than 3 years after August 3, 2007, to the appropriate congressional committees, as to the value and efficacy of the ISAC along with any other public transportation information-sharing programs ongoing at the Department. The report shall include an analysis of the user satisfaction of public transportation agencies on the state of information-sharing and the value that each system provides the user, the costs and benefits of all centers and programs, the coordination among centers and programs, how each center or program contributes to implementing the information sharing plan under section 1203, and analysis of the extent to which the ISAC is duplicative with the Department’s information-sharing program.

(d)Authorization

(1)In general

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section— (A)

(B)$600,000 for fiscal year 2009;

(C)$600,000 for fiscal year 2010; and

(D)such sums as may be necessary for 2011, provided the report required in subsection (c) of this section has been submitted to Congress.

(2)Availability of funds

Such sums shall remain available until expended.

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 1203, referred to in subsec. (c), is section 1203 of title XII of Pub. L. 110–53, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 383, which amended section 114 of Title 49, Transportation, and enacted provisions set out as a note under section 114 of Title 49.

§1139 Information Sharing

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Title 6, §1139

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