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(B) furnish to the Transportation Security Administration, U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection, or another appropriate office or 
component of the Department, on request, information necessary 
to allow the office or component to assist air carriers in improving 
their administration of the advanced passenger prescreening sys-
tem and reduce the number of false positives; and 
(C) require that air carriers and foreign air carriers take action 
to identify passengers determined, under the process established 
under subsection (a), to have been wrongly identified. 
(4) HANDLING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION.—The 
Secretary, in conjunction with the Chief Privacy Officer of the Depart-
ment, shall— 
(A) require that Federal employees of the Department handling 
personally identifiable information of passengers (in this para-
graph referred to as ‘‘PII’’) complete mandatory privacy and secu-
rity training prior to being authorized to handle PII; 
(B) ensure that the records maintained under this subsection 
are secured by encryption, one-way hashing, other data 
anonymization techniques, or other, equivalent security technical 
protections the Secretary determines necessary; 
(C) limit the information collected from misidentified passengers 
or other individuals to the minimum amount necessary to resolve 
a redress request; 
(D) require that the data generated under this subsection shall 
be shared or transferred via a secure data network, that has been 
audited to ensure that the anti-hacking and other security related 
software functions properly and is updated as necessary; 
(E) ensure that an employee of the Department receiving the 
data contained in the records handles the information under sec-
tion 552a of title 5 and the Federal Information Security Manage-
ment Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296, 116 Stat. 2259); 
(F) only retain the data for as long as needed to assist the indi-
vidual traveler in the redress process; and 
(G) conduct and publish a privacy impact assessment of the 
process described within this subsection and transmit the assess-
ment to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 
(5) INITIATION OF REDRESS PROCESS AT AIRPORTS.—The Office of 
Appeals and Redress shall establish at each airport at which the De-
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partment has a significant presence a process to provide information 
to air carrier passengers to begin the redress process established under 
subsection (a). 
§ 40936. Expedited screening for severely injured or dis-
abled members of the armed forces and severely 
injured or disabled veterans 
(a) PASSENGER SCREENING.—The Administrator, in consultation with 
the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and organiza-
tions identified by the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs that ad-
vocate on behalf of severely injured or disabled members of the armed forces 
and severely injured or disabled veterans, shall develop and implement a 
process to support and facilitate the ease of travel and to the extent possible 
provide expedited passenger screening services through passenger screening 
for severely injured or disabled members of the armed forces and severely 
injured or disabled veterans. The process shall be designed to offer the indi-
vidual private screening to the maximum extent practicable. 
(b) OPERATIONS CENTER.—As part of the process under subsection (a), 
the Administrator shall maintain an operations center to provide support 
and facilitate the movement of severely injured or disabled members of the 
armed forces and severely injured or disabled veterans through passenger 
screening prior to boarding a passenger aircraft operated by an air carrier 
or foreign air carrier in air transportation or intrastate air transportation. 
(c) PROTOCOLS.—The Administrator shall— 
(1) establish and publish protocols, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Defense, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the organiza-
tions identified under subsection (a), under which a severely injured or 
disabled member of the armed forces or severely injured or disabled 
veteran, or the family member or other representative of the member 
or veteran, may contact the operations center maintained under sub-
section (b) and request the expedited passenger screening services de-
scribed in subsection (a) for that member or veteran; and 
(2) on receipt of a request under paragraph (1), require the oper-
ations center to notify the appropriate Federal Security Director of the 
request for expedited passenger screening services, as described in sub-
section (a), for that member or veteran. 
(d) TRAINING.—The Administrator shall integrate training on the proto-
cols established under subsection (c) into the training provided to all em-
ployees who will regularly provide the passenger screening services described 
in subsection (a). 
(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall affect the 
authority of the Administrator to require additional screening of a severely 
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injured or disabled member of the armed forces, a severely injured or dis-
abled veteran, or their accompanying family members or nonmedical attend-
ants, if intelligence, law enforcement, or other information indicates that ad-
ditional screening is necessary. 
(f) REPORT.—The Administrator, not later than August 9 of each year, 
shall submit to Congress a report on the implementation of this section. 
Each report shall include each of the following: 
(1) Information on the training provided under subsection (d). 
(2) Information on the consultations between the Administrator and 
the organizations identified under subsection (a). 
(3) The number of people who accessed the operations center during 
the period covered by the report. 
(4) Other information the Administrator determines is appropriate. 
§ 40937. Honor Flight program 
The Administrator shall establish, in collaboration with the Honor Flight 
Network or other not-for-profit organization that honors veterans, a process 
for providing expedited and dignified passenger screening services for vet-
erans traveling on an Honor Flight Network private charter, or another not- 
for-profit organization that honors veterans, to visit war memorials built 
and dedicated to honor the service of those veterans. 
Subchapter III—Administration and 
Personnel 
§ 40951. Federal Security Managers 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT, DESIGNATION, AND STATIONING.—The Adminis-
trator shall establish the position of Federal Security Manager at each air-
port in the United States described in section 40913(c) of this title. The 
Administrator shall designate individuals as Managers for, and station those 
Managers at, those airports. 
(b) DUTIES AND POWERS.—The Federal Security Manager at each air-
port shall— 
(1) oversee the screening of passengers and property at the airport; 
and 
(2) carry out other duties prescribed by the Administrator. 
§ 40952. Foreign Security Liaison Officers 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT, DESIGNATION, AND STATIONING.—The Adminis-
trator shall establish the position of Foreign Security Liaison Officer for 
each airport outside the United States at which the Administrator decides 
an Officer is necessary for air transportation security. In coordination with 
the Secretary of State, the Administrator shall designate an Officer for each 
of those airports. In coordination with the Secretary of State, the Adminis-
trator shall designate an Officer for each of those airports where extraor-
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dinary security measures are in place. The Secretary of State shall give high 
priority to stationing those Officers. 
(b) DUTIES AND POWERS.—Each Federal Security Liaison Officer re-
ports directly to the Administrator. The Officer at each airport shall— 
(1) serve as the liaison of the Administrator to foreign security au-
thorities (including governments of foreign countries and foreign air-
port authorities) in carrying out United States Government security re-
quirements at that airport; and 
(2) to the extent practicable, carry out duties and powers referred 
to in section 40951(b) of this title. 
(c) COORDINATION OF ACTIVITIES.—The activities of each Foreign Secu-
rity Liaison Officer shall be coordinated with the chief of the diplomatic 
mission of the United States to which the Officer is assigned. Activities of 
an Officer under this section shall be consistent with the duties and powers 
of the Secretary of State and the chief of mission to a foreign country under 
section 103 of the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 
1986 (22 U.S.C. 4802) and section 207 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
(22 U.S.C. 3927). 
§ 40953. Employment standards and training 
(a) EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS.—The Administrator shall prescribe stand-
ards for the employment and continued employment of, and contracting for, 
air carrier personnel and, as appropriate, airport security personnel. The 
standards shall include— 
(1) minimum training requirements for new employees; 
(2) retraining requirements; 
(3) minimum staffing levels; 
(4) minimum language skills; and 
(5) minimum education levels for employees, when appropriate. 
(b) REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS.—In coordination with air carriers, 
airport operators, and other interested persons, the Administrator shall re-
view issues related to human performance in the aviation security system 
to maximize that performance. When the review is completed, the Adminis-
trator shall recommend guidelines and prescribe appropriate changes in ex-
isting procedures to improve that performance. 
(c) SECURITY
PROGRAM
TRAINING, STANDARDS, 
AND
QUALIFICA-
TIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator— 
(A) may train individuals employed to carry out a security pro-
gram under section 40913(c) of this title; and 
(B) shall prescribe uniform training standards and uniform 
minimum qualifications for individuals eligible for that training. 
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