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Title 6, Domestic SecurityRelease 119-110

§1202 Railroad Security-sensitive Material Tracking

Title 6 › CHAPTER 4 — TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › SUBCHAPTER IV — SURFACE TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › Part D — Hazardous Material and Pipeline Security › § 1202

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Develop a program that encourages putting tracking and safety-alert technology on rail cars that carry security-sensitive materials (materials defined elsewhere in the law as needing special security). The technology must give car location and tracking and must warn if a car loses pressure, is breached, gets too hot, or releases hazardous materials. The Secretary must work with the TSA Administrator, coordinate with the Secretary of Transportation, and make the program follow the findings of DHS tank-car tracking pilot programs. Congress provided $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008, 2009, and 2010 from related appropriated transportation funds to run the program.

Full Legal Text

Title 6, §1202

Domestic Security, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Communications
(1)In general
In conjunction with the research and development program established under section 1168 of this title and consistent with the results of research relating to wireless and other tracking technologies, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, shall develop a program that will encourage the equipping of railroad cars transporting security-sensitive materials, as defined in section 1151 of this title, with technology that provides—
(A)car position location and tracking capabilities; and
(B)notification of railroad car depressurization, breach, unsafe temperature, or release of hazardous materials, as appropriate.
(2)Coordination
In developing the program required by paragraph (1), the Secretary shall—
(A)consult with the Secretary of Transportation to coordinate the program with any ongoing or planned efforts for railroad car tracking at the Department of Transportation; and
(B)ensure that the program is consistent with recommendations and findings of the Department of Homeland Security’s hazardous material railroad tank car tracking pilot programs.
(b)Funding
From the amounts appropriated pursuant to 114(w) of title 49, there shall be made available to the Secretary to carry out this section— (1)
(2)$3,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; and
(3)$3,000,000 for fiscal year 2010.

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section 114(w) of title 49, referred to in subsec. (b), was redesignated section 114(v) of title 49 by Pub. L. 115–254, div. K, § 1904(b)(1)(I), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3545.

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6 U.S.C. § 1202

Title 6, Domestic Security

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110