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Union Calendar No. 475 

115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4921 

[Report No. 115–622] 

To require the Surface Board of Transportation to implement certain recommendations of the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 5, 2018 

Mr. MITCHELL (for himself and Mr. GOTTHEIMER) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

APRIL 5, 2018 

Additional sponsor: Mr. FASO

APRIL 5, 2018 

Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House 

on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 5, 2018] 


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A BILL 

To require the Surface Board of Transportation to implement certain recommendations of the Inspector General 

of the Department of Transportation. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘STB Information Secu5 rity Improvement Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Surface Transportation Board 

8 (in this section referred to as the ‘‘STB’’) shall develop a 

9 timeline and plan to implement the recommendations of the 

10 Inspector General of the Department of Transportation in 

11 Report No. FI2018002, including improvements— 

12 (1) to identify controls, including risk manage13 ment, weakness remediation, and security authoriza14 tion; 

15 (2) to protect controls, including configuration 

16 management, user identity and access management, 

17 and security training; 

18 (3) to detect controls, including continuous mon19 itoring; 

20 (4) to respond controls, including incident han21 dling and reporting; 

22 (5) to recover controls for contingency planning; 

23 and 

24 (6) any additional tools that will improve the 

25 implementation of the recommendations. 


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1 (b) IMPLEMENTATION.— 

2 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after 

3 the date of enactment of this Act, the STB shall sub4 mit the plan and timeline developed under subsection 

5 (a) to the Committee on Transportation and Infra6 structure of the House of Representatives and the 

7 Committee on Commerce of the Senate. 

8 (2) REPORT.—The STB shall report annually to 

9 such Committees on the progress on implementation 

10 of the recommendations until the implementation is 

11 complete. 

12 (3) PLAN IMPLEMENTATION.—The STB shall 

13 designate an individual to implement the plan devel14 oped under subsection (a). 

15 SEC. 3. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED. 

16 No additional funds are authorized to carry out the 

17 requirements of this Act. Such requirements shall be carried 

18 out using amounts otherwise authorized. 

Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to require the 

Surface Transportation Board to implement certain recommendations of the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 475 

115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4921 

[Report No. 115–622] 

A BILL 

To require the Surface Board of Transportation to 

tation. spector General of the Department of Transporimplement certain recommendations of the InAPRIL 5, 2018 

Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee 

dered to be printed of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and orVerDate Sep 11 2014 20:59 Apr 05, 2018 Jkt 079200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6651 Sfmt 6651 E:\BILLS\H4921.RH H4921

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