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(b) REPORT.—Not later than 6 months after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to Congress 
that contains a plan to develop a departmental technology assess-
ment process to determine and certify the technology readiness 
levels of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detection 
technologies before the full deployment of such technologies within 
the United States. 
TITLE 
XII—TRANSPORTATION 
SECU-
RITY PLANNING AND INFORMATION 
SHARING 
SEC. 1201. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this title, the following terms apply: 
(1) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ means the 
Department of Homeland Security. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Homeland Security. 
SEC. 1202. TRANSPORTATION SECURITY STRATEGIC PLANNING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 114(t)(1)(B) of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(B) transportation modal security plans addressing 
security risks, including threats, vulnerabilities, and con-
sequences, for aviation, railroad, ferry, highway, maritime, 
pipeline, public transportation, over-the-road bus, and other 
transportation infrastructure assets.’’. 
(b) CONTENTS
OF
THE NATIONAL STRATEGY
FOR TRANSPOR-
TATION SECURITY.—Section 114(t)(3) of such title is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ‘‘, based on risk 
assessments conducted or received by the Secretary of Home-
land Security (including assessments conducted under the 
Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act 
of 2007’’ after ‘‘risk based priorities’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (D)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and local’’ and inserting ‘‘local, and 
tribal’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘private sector cooperation and partici-
pation’’ and inserting ‘‘cooperation and participation by pri-
vate sector entities, including nonprofit employee labor 
organizations,’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (E)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘response’’ and inserting ‘‘prevention, 
response,’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘and threatened and executed acts 
of terrorism outside the United States to the extent such 
acts affect United States transportation systems’’ before 
the period at the end; 
(4) in subparagraph (F), by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘Transportation security research and development projects 
shall be based, to the extent practicable, on such prioritization. 
Nothing in the preceding sentence shall be construed to require 
the termination of any research or development project initiated 
by the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary of
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Transportation before the date of enactment of the Imple-
menting Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 
2007.’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(G) A 3- and 10-year budget for Federal transportation 
security programs that will achieve the priorities of the 
National Strategy for Transportation Security. 
‘‘(H) Methods for linking the individual transportation 
modal security plans and the programs contained therein, 
and a plan for addressing the security needs of intermodal 
transportation. 
‘‘(I) Transportation modal security plans described in 
paragraph (1)(B), including operational recovery plans to 
expedite, to the maximum extent practicable, the return 
to operation of an adversely affected transportation system 
following a major terrorist attack on that system or other 
incident. These plans shall be coordinated with the resump-
tion of trade protocols required under section 202 of the 
SAFE Port Act (6 U.S.C. 942) and the National Maritime 
Transportation Security Plan required under section 
70103(a) of title 46.’’. 
(c) PERIODIC PROGRESS REPORTS.—Section 114(t)(4) of such title 
is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C)— 
(A) in clause (i) by inserting ‘‘, including the transpor-
tation modal security plans’’ before the period at the end; 
and 
(B) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(ii) CONTENT.—Each progress report submitted 
under this subparagraph shall include, at a minimum, 
the following: 
‘‘(I) Recommendations for improving and 
implementing the National Strategy for Transpor-
tation Security and the transportation modal and 
intermodal security plans that the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Transportation, considers appropriate. 
‘‘(II) An accounting of all grants for transpor-
tation security, including grants and contracts for 
research and development, awarded by the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security in the most recent 
fiscal year and a description of how such grants 
accomplished the goals of the National Strategy 
for Transportation Security. 
‘‘(III) An accounting of all— 
‘‘(aa) funds requested in the President’s 
budget submitted pursuant to section 1105 of 
title 31 for the most recent fiscal year for 
transportation security, by mode; 
‘‘(bb) personnel working on transportation 
security by mode, including the number of con-
tractors; and 
‘‘(cc) information on the turnover in the 
previous year among senior staff of the 
Department of Homeland Security, including 
component agencies, working on transpor-
tation security issues. Such information shall
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include the number of employees who have 
permanently left the office, agency, or area 
in which they worked, and the amount of time 
that they worked for the Department. 
‘‘(iii) WRITTEN EXPLANATION OF TRANSPORTATION 
SECURITY ACTIVITIES NOT DELINEATED IN THE NATIONAL 
STRATEGY FOR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY.—At the end 
of each fiscal year, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a written explanation of any Federal transpor-
tation security activity that is inconsistent with the 
National 
Strategy 
for 
Transportation 
Security, 
including the amount of funds to be expended for the 
activity and the number of personnel involved.’’; and 
(2) by striking subparagraph (E) and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(E) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘appropriate 
congressional committees’ means the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate.’’. 
(d) PRIORITY STATUS.—Section 114(t)(5)(B) of such title is 
amended— 
(1) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(2) by redesignating clause (iv) as clause (v); and 
(3) by inserting after clause (iii) the following: 
‘‘(iv) 
the 
transportation 
sector 
specific 
plan 
required under Homeland Security Presidential Direc-
tive–7; and’’. 
(e) COORDINATION AND PLAN DISTRIBUTION.—Section 114(t) of 
such title is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(6) COORDINATION.—In carrying out the responsibilities 
under this section, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
coordination with the Secretary of Transportation, shall consult, 
as appropriate, with Federal, State, and local agencies, tribal 
governments, private sector entities (including nonprofit 
employee labor organizations), institutions of higher learning, 
and other entities. 
‘‘(7) PLAN DISTRIBUTION.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall make available and appropriately publicize an 
unclassified version of the National Strategy for Transportation 
Security, including its component transportation modal security 
plans, to Federal, State, regional, local and tribal authorities, 
transportation system owners or operators, private sector stake-
holders, including nonprofit employee labor organizations rep-
resenting transportation employees, institutions of higher 
learning, and other appropriate entities.’’. 
SEC. 1203. TRANSPORTATION SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 114 of title 49, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(u) TRANSPORTATION SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING PLAN.— 
‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:
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‘‘(A) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—The 
term ‘appropriate congressional committees’ has the 
meaning given that term in subsection (t). 
‘‘(B) PLAN.—The term ‘Plan’ means the Transportation 
Security Information Sharing Plan established under para-
graph (2). 
‘‘(C) PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STAKEHOLDERS.—The term 
‘public and private stakeholders’ means Federal, State, and 
local agencies, tribal governments, and appropriate private 
entities, including nonprofit employee labor organizations 
representing transportation employees. 
‘‘(D) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security. 
‘‘(E) TRANSPORTATION
SECURITY
INFORMATION.—The 
term ‘transportation security information’ means informa-
tion relating to the risks to transportation modes, including 
aviation, public transportation, railroad, ferry, highway, 
maritime, pipeline, and over-the-road bus transportation, 
and may include specific and general intelligence products, 
as appropriate. 
‘‘(2) ESTABLISHMENT OF PLAN.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security, in consultation with the program manager of the 
information sharing environment established under section 
1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act 
of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485), the Secretary of Transportation, and 
public and private stakeholders, shall establish a Transpor-
tation Security Information Sharing Plan. In establishing the 
Plan, the Secretary shall gather input on the development 
of the Plan from private and public stakeholders and the pro-
gram manager of the information sharing environment estab-
lished under section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Ter-
rorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485). 
‘‘(3) PURPOSE OF PLAN.—The Plan shall promote sharing 
of transportation security information between the Department 
of Homeland Security and public and private stakeholders. 
‘‘(4) CONTENT OF PLAN.—The Plan shall include— 
‘‘(A) a description of how intelligence analysts within 
the Department of Homeland Security will coordinate their 
activities within the Department and with other Federal, 
State, and local agencies, and tribal governments, including 
coordination with existing modal information sharing cen-
ters and the center described in section 1410 of the Imple-
menting Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 
2007; 
‘‘(B) the establishment of a point of contact, which 
may be a single point of contact within the Department 
of Homeland Security, for each mode of transportation for 
the sharing of transportation security information with 
public and private stakeholders, including an explanation 
and justification to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees if the point of contact established pursuant to this 
subparagraph differs from the agency within the Depart-
ment that has the primary authority, or has been delegated 
such authority by the Secretary, to regulate the security 
of that transportation mode; 
‘‘(C) a reasonable deadline by which the Plan will be 
implemented; and