PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Administrator must create a training program to make surface transportation safer. The program teaches operators and frontline workers how to spot, judge, and respond to suspicious items or behavior. It covers all surface transportation modes, like public transit, rail, highways, buses, and pipelines. The Administrator must review existing training to see what is already taught and to find any gaps. The program must be updated when risks or terrorist methods change and to fix any gaps found. The Secretary must keep a national phone number for reporting suspicious activity. The Administrator will set rules to review reports, follow up, and share them with the right authorities, without replacing 9-1-1 or other listed training rules. Frontline employee means transit and bus drivers, dispatchers, maintenance and station staff, ticket agents, security and police, railroad onboard and maintenance staff, bridge tenders, and any other workers the Administrator decides need this training.

Title 6, §1155

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(a)Establishment

The Administrator shall establish a program to promote surface transportation security through the training of surface transportation operators and frontline employees on each of the skills identified in subsection (c).

(b)Application

The program established under subsection (a) shall apply to all modes of surface transportation, including public transportation, rail, highway, motor carrier, and pipeline.

(c)Training

The program established under subsection (a) shall cover, at a minimum, the skills necessary to recognize, assess, and respond to suspicious items or actions that could indicate a threat to transportation.

(d)Assessment

(1)In general

The Administrator shall conduct an assessment of current training programs for surface transportation operators and frontline employees.

(2)Contents

The assessment shall identify—

(A)whether other training is being provided, either voluntarily or in response to other Federal requirements; and

(B)whether there are any gaps in existing training.

(e)Updates

The Administrator shall ensure the program established under subsection (a) is updated as necessary to address changes in risk and terrorist methods and to close any gaps identified in the assessment under subsection (d).

(f)Suspicious activity reporting

(1)In general

The Secretary shall maintain a national telephone number for an individual to use to report suspicious activity under this section to the Administration.

(2)Procedures

The Administrator shall establish procedures for the Administration—

(A)to review and follow-up, as necessary, on each report received under paragraph (1); and

(B)to share, as necessary and in accordance with law, the report with appropriate Federal, State, local, and tribal entities.

(3)Rule of construction

Nothing in this section may be construed to—

(A)replace or affect in any way the use of 9–1–1 services in an emergency; or

(B)replace or affect in any way the security training program requirements specified in section 1137, 1167, and 1184 of this title.

(g)Definition of frontline employee

In this section, the term “frontline employee” includes—

(1)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 Administrator determines should receive security training under this section or that is receiving security training under other law;

(2)over-the-road bus drivers, security personnel, dispatchers, maintenance and maintenance support personnel, ticket agents, other terminal employees, and other employees of an over-the-road bus operator or terminal owner or operator that the Administrator determines should receive security training under this section or that is receiving security training under other law; or

(3)security personnel, dispatchers, locomotive engineers, conductors, trainmen, other onboard employees, maintenance and maintenance support personnel, bridge tenders, and any other employees of railroad carriers that the Administrator determines should receive security training under this section or that is receiving security training under other law.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the TSA Modernization Act and also as part of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, and not as part of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions For definitions of “Administrator” and “Secretary” as used in this section, see section 1902 of Pub. L. 115–254, set out as a note under section 101 of Title 49, Transportation.

§1155 Security Awareness Program

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Title 6, §1155

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