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Union Calendar No. 430 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4179 
[Report No. 110–686] 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish an appeal and 
redress process for individuals wrongly delayed or prohibited from board-
ing a flight, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 14, 2007 
Ms. CLARKE (for herself, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. JACKSON-LEE 
of Texas, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. CARNEY, Ms. NORTON, Mr. AL GREEN 
of Texas, Mr. PASCRELL, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. CUELLAR, and Ms. 
LORETTA SANCHEZ of California) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
JUNE 5, 2008 
Additional sponsors: Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. GONZALEZ, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of 
California, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of California, and Mr. 
MCDERMOTT 
JUNE 5, 2008 
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 November 14, 2007] 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 
an appeal and redress process for individuals wrongly 
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delayed or prohibited from boarding a flight, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fair, Accurate, Secure, 
and Timely Redress Act of 2008’’ or the ‘‘FAST Redress 
Act of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF APPEAL AND REDRESS PROC-
ESS FOR INDIVIDUALS WRONGLY DELAYED 
OR PROHIBITED FROM BOARDING A FLIGHT, 
OR DENIED A RIGHT, BENEFIT, OR PRIVI-
LEGE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle H of title VIII of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 890A. APPEAL AND REDRESS PROCESS FOR PAS-
SENGERS WRONGLY DELAYED OR PROHIB-
ITED FROM BOARDING A FLIGHT, OR DENIED 
A RIGHT, BENEFIT, OR PRIVILEGE. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 30 days after 
the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall 
establish a timely and fair process for individuals who be-
lieve they were delayed or prohibited from boarding a com-
mercial aircraft or denied a right, benefit, or privilege be-
cause they were wrongly identified as a threat when 
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screened against any terrorist watchlist or database used 
by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) or 
any office or component of the Department. 
‘‘(b) OFFICE OF APPEALS AND REDRESS.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish in the Department an Office of Appeals and 
Redress to implement, coordinate, and execute the 
process established by the Secretary pursuant to sub-
section (a). The Office shall include representatives 
from the TSA and such other offices and components 
of the Department as the Secretary determines appro-
priate. 
‘‘(2) 
COMPREHENSIVE
CLEARED
LIST.—The 
process established by the Secretary pursuant to sub-
section (a) shall include the establishment of a method 
by which the Office, under the direction of the Sec-
retary, will maintain and appropriately disseminate 
a comprehensive list, to be known as the ‘Comprehen-
sive Cleared List’, of individuals who— 
‘‘(A) were misidentified as an individual on 
any terrorist watchlist or database; 
‘‘(B) completed an approved Department of 
Homeland Security appeal and redress request 
and provided such additional information as re-
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quired by the Department to verify the individ-
ual’s identity; and 
‘‘(C) permit the use of their personally iden-
tifiable information to be shared between mul-
tiple Departmental components for purposes of 
this section. 
‘‘(3) USE OF COMPREHENSIVE CLEARED LIST.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall— 
‘‘(i) except as provided in subpara-
graph (B), transmit to the TSA or any 
other appropriate office or component of the 
Department, other Federal, State, local, and 
tribal entities, and domestic air carriers 
and foreign air carriers that use any ter-
rorist watchlist or database, the Comprehen-
sive Cleared List and any other information 
the Secretary determines necessary to re-
solve misidentifications and improve the ad-
ministration of the advanced passenger 
prescreening system and reduce the number 
of false positives; and 
‘‘(ii) ensure that the Comprehensive 
Cleared List is taken into account by all 
appropriate offices or components of the De-
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partment when assessing the security risk of 
an individual. 
‘‘(B) TERMINATION.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—The transmission 
of the Comprehensive Cleared List to domes-
tic air carriers and foreign air carriers 
under clause (i) of subparagraph (A) shall 
terminate on the date on which the Federal 
Government assumes terrorist watchlist or 
database screening functions. 
‘‘(ii) WRITTEN NOTIFICATION TO CON-
GRESS.—Not later than 15 days after the 
date on which the transmission of the Com-
prehensive Cleared List to the air carriers 
referred to in clause (i) of this subpara-
graph terminates in accordance with such 
clause, the Secretary shall provide written 
notification to the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs of the Senate of such termination. 
‘‘(4) INTERGOVERNMENTAL EFFORTS.—The Sec-
retary may— 
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