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transportation agency shall revise its training program accord-
ingly and provide additional training as necessary to its workers 
within a reasonable time after the regulations are updated. 
(e) APPLICABILITY.—A public transportation agency that 
receives a grant award under this title shall be required to develop 
and implement a security training program pursuant to this section. 
(f) LONG-TERM TRAINING REQUIREMENT.—Any public transpor-
tation agency required to develop a security training program pursu-
ant to this section shall provide routine and ongoing training for 
employees covered under the program, regardless of whether the 
public transportation agency receives subsequent grant awards. 
(g) NATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall ensure 
that the training program developed under subsection (a) is a 
component of the National Training Program established under 
section 648 of the Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform 
Act (Public Law 109–295; 6 U.S.C. 748). 
(h) FERRY EXEMPTION.—This section shall not apply to any 
ferry system for which training is required to be conducted pursuant 
to section 70103 of title 46, United States Code. 
(i) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date of issuance 
of the final regulation, the Comptroller General shall review 
implementation of the training program, including interviewing 
a representative sample of public transportation agencies and 
employees, and report to the appropriate congressional committees, 
on the number of reviews conducted and the results. The Comp-
troller General may submit the report in both classified and 
redacted formats as necessary. 
SEC. 1409. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT PRO-
GRAM.—The Secretary shall carry out a research and development 
program through the Homeland Security Advanced Research 
Projects Agency in the Science and Technology Directorate and 
in consultation with the Transportation Security Administration 
and with the Federal Transit Administration, for the purpose of 
improving the security of public transportation systems. 
(b) GRANTS AND CONTRACTS AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary shall 
award grants or contracts to public or private entities to conduct 
research and demonstrate technologies and methods to reduce and 
deter terrorist threats or mitigate damages resulting from terrorist 
attacks against public transportation systems. 
(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants or contracts awarded under sub-
section (a)— 
(1) shall be coordinated with activities of the Homeland 
Security Advanced Research Projects Agency; and 
(2) may be used to— 
(A) research chemical, biological, radiological, or explo-
sive detection systems that do not significantly impede 
passenger access; 
(B) research imaging technologies; 
(C) conduct product evaluations and testing; 
(D) improve security and redundancy for critical 
communications, electrical power, and computer and train 
control systems; 
(E) develop technologies for securing tunnels, transit 
bridges and aerial structures;
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(F) research technologies that mitigate damages in the 
event of a cyber attack; and 
(G) research other technologies or methods for reducing 
or deterring terrorist attacks against public transportation 
systems, or mitigating damage from such attacks. 
(d) PRIVACY AND CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES.— 
(1) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out research and develop-
ment projects under this section, the Secretary shall consult 
with the Chief Privacy Officer of the Department and the 
Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the Department, 
as appropriate, and in accordance with section 222 of the Home-
land Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 142). 
(2) PRIVACY IMPACT ASSESSMENTS.—In accordance with sec-
tions 222 and 705 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
U.S.C. 142; 345), the Chief Privacy Officer shall conduct privacy 
impact assessments and the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil 
Liberties shall conduct reviews, as appropriate, for research 
and development initiatives developed under this section. 
(e) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Each entity that is awarded 
a grant or contract under this section shall report annually to 
the Department on the use of grant or contract funds received 
under this section to ensure that the awards made are expended 
in accordance with the purposes of this title and the priorities 
developed by the Secretary. 
(f) COORDINATION.—The Secretary shall ensure that the 
research is consistent with the priorities established in the National 
Strategy for Public Transportation Security and is coordinated, 
to the extent practicable, with other Federal, State, local, tribal, 
and private sector public transportation, railroad, commuter rail-
road, and over-the-road bus research initiatives to leverage 
resources and avoid unnecessary duplicative efforts. 
(g) RETURN OF MISSPENT GRANT OR CONTRACT FUNDS.—If the 
Secretary determines that a grantee or contractor used any portion 
of the grant or contract funds received under this section for a 
purpose other than the allowable uses specified under subsection 
(c), the grantee or contractor shall return any amount so used 
to the Treasury of the United States. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated to the Secretary to make grants under this 
section— 
(1) such sums as necessary for fiscal year 2007; 
(2) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
(3) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
(4) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and 
(5) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2011. 
SEC. 1410. INFORMATION SHARING. 
(a) INTELLIGENCE SHARING.—The Secretary shall ensure that 
the Department of Transportation receives appropriate and timely 
notification of all credible terrorist threats against public transpor-
tation assets in the United States. 
(b) INFORMATION SHARING 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—
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(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 transpor-
tation 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 the date of enactment of this Act, to the appro-
priate 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) $600,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
(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 avail-
able until expended. 
SEC. 1411. THREAT ASSESSMENTS. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall complete a name-based security background 
check against the consolidated terrorist watchlist and an immigra-
tion status check for all public transportation frontline employees, 
similar to the threat assessment screening program required for 
facility employees and longshoremen by the Commandant of the 
Coast Guard under Coast Guard Notice USCG–2006–24189 (71 
Fed. Reg. 25066 (April 8, 2006)). 
SEC. 1412. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than March 31 of each year, 
the Secretary shall submit a report, containing the information 
described in paragraph (2), to the appropriate congressional 
committees. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The report submitted under paragraph (1) 
shall include— 
(A) a description of the implementation of the provi-
sions of this title; 
(B) the amount of funds appropriated to carry out 
the provisions of this title that have not been expended 
or obligated;
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(C) the National Strategy for Public Transportation 
Security required under section 1404; 
(D) an estimate of the cost to implement the National 
Strategy for Public Transportation Security which shall 
break out the aggregated total cost of needed capital and 
operational security improvements for fiscal years 2008– 
2018; and 
(E) the state of public transportation security in the 
United States, which shall include detailing the status 
of security assessments, the progress being made around 
the country in developing prioritized lists of security 
improvements necessary to make public transportation 
facilities and passengers more secure, the progress being 
made by agencies in developing security plans and how 
those plans differ from the security assessments and a 
prioritized list of security improvements being compiled 
by other agencies, as well as a random sample of an equal 
number of large- and small-scale projects currently under-
way. 
(3) FORMAT.—The Secretary may submit the report in both 
classified and redacted formats if the Secretary determines 
that such action is appropriate or necessary. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORT TO GOVERNORS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than March 31 of each year, 
the Secretary shall submit a report to the Governor of each 
State with a public transportation agency that has received 
a grant under this Act. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The report submitted under paragraph (1) 
shall specify— 
(A) the amount of grant funds distributed to each 
such public transportation agency; and 
(B) the use of such grant funds. 
SEC. 1413. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEE PROTECTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—A public transportation agency, a contractor 
or a subcontractor of such agency, or an officer or employee of 
such agency, shall not discharge, demote, suspend, reprimand, or 
in any other way discriminate against an employee if such discrimi-
nation is due, in whole or in part, to the employee’s lawful, good 
faith act done, or perceived by the employer to have been done 
or about to be done— 
(1) to provide information, directly cause information to 
be provided, or otherwise directly assist in any investigation 
regarding any conduct which the employee reasonably believes 
constitutes a violation of any Federal law, rule, or regulation 
relating to public transportation safety or security, or fraud, 
waste, or abuse of Federal grants or other public funds intended 
to be used for public transportation safety or security, if the 
information or assistance is provided to or an investigation 
stemming from the provided information is conducted by— 
(A) a Federal, State, or local regulatory or law enforce-
ment agency (including an office of the Inspector General 
under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.; 
Public Law 95–452); 
(B) any Member of Congress, any Committee of Con-
gress, or the Government Accountability Office; or