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(A) PUBLICATION.—The Administrator shall publish in the 
Federal Register a list of sanctions for use as guidelines in the 
discipline of employees for infractions of airport access control re-
quirements. 
(B) DISCIPLINARY APPROACH.—The guidelines shall incorporate 
a progressive disciplinary approach that relates proposed sanctions 
to the severity or recurring nature of the infraction and shall in-
clude measures such as remedial training, suspension from secu-
rity-related duties, suspension from all duties without pay, and 
termination of employment. 
(C) USE.—Each airport operator, air carrier, and security 
screening company shall include the list of sanctions published by 
the Administrator in its security program. The security program 
shall include a process for taking prompt disciplinary action 
against an employee who commits an infraction of airport access 
control requirements. 
(2) ACTIONS TO IMPROVE ACCESS CONTROL.—The Administrator 
shall— 
(A) work with airport operators and air carriers to implement 
and strengthen existing controls to eliminate airport access control 
weaknesses; 
(B) require airport operators and air carriers to develop and im-
plement comprehensive and recurring training programs that 
teach employees their roles in airport security, the importance of 
their participation, how their performance will be evaluated, and 
what action will be taken if they fail to perform; 
(C) require airport operators and air carriers to develop and im-
plement programs that foster and reward compliance with airport 
access control requirements and discourage and penalize non-
compliance in accordance with guidelines issued by the Adminis-
trator to measure employee compliance; 
(D) on an ongoing basis, assess and test for compliance with 
access control requirements, report annually findings of the assess-
ments, and assess the effectiveness of penalties in ensuring compli-
ance with security procedures and take other appropriate enforce-
ment actions when noncompliance is found; 
(E) improve and better administer the Administrator’s security 
database to ensure its efficiency, reliability, and usefulness for 
identification of systemic problems and allocation of resources; 
(F) improve the execution of the Administrator’s quality control 
program; and 
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(G) work with airport operators to strengthen access control 
points in secured areas (including air traffic control operations 
areas, maintenance areas, crew lounges, baggage handling areas, 
concessions, and catering delivery areas) to ensure the security of 
passengers and aircraft and consider the deployment of biometric 
or similar technologies that identify individuals based on unique 
personal characteristics. 
(h) IMPROVED AIRPORT PERIMETER ACCESS SECURITY.— 
(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
(A) BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIER.—The term ‘‘biometric identifier’’ 
means a technology that enables the automated identification, or 
verification of the identity, of an individual based on biometric in-
formation. 
(B) BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIER INFORMATION.—The term ‘‘biomet-
ric identifier information’’ means the distinct physical or behav-
ioral characteristics of an individual that are used for unique iden-
tification, or verification of the identity, of an individual. 
(C) FAILURE TO ENROLL.—The term ‘‘failure to enroll’’ means 
the inability of an individual to enroll in a biometric identifier sys-
tem due to an insufficiently distinctive biometric sample, the lack 
of a body part necessary to provide the biometric sample, a system 
design that makes it difficult to provide consistent biometric iden-
tifier information, or other factors. 
(D) FALSE MATCH.—The term ‘‘false match’’ means the incor-
rect matching of one individual’s biometric identifier information 
to another individual’s biometric identifier information by a bio-
metric identifier system. 
(E) FALSE NON-MATCH.—The term ‘‘false non-match’’ means 
the rejection of a valid identity by a biometric identifier system. 
(F) SECURE AREA OF AN AIRPORT.—The term ‘‘secure area of 
an airport’’ means the sterile area and the Security Identification 
Display Area of an airport (as the terms are defined in section 
1540.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, or a successor 
regulation to that section). 
(2) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator, in consultation with the air-
port operator and law enforcement authorities, may order the deploy-
ment of necessary personnel at a secure area of the airport to counter 
the risk of criminal violence, the risk of aircraft piracy at the airport, 
the risk to air carrier aircraft operations at the airport, or to meet na-
tional security concerns. 
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(3) CONSIDERATION OF SECURITY OF AIRCRAFT AND GROUND AC-
CESS TO SECURE AREAS.—In determining where to deploy the per-
sonnel, the Administrator shall consider the physical security needs of 
air traffic control facilities, parked aircraft, aircraft servicing equip-
ment, aircraft supplies (including fuel), automobile parking facilities 
within airport perimeters or adjacent to secured facilities, and access 
and transition areas at airports served by other means of ground or 
water transportation. 
(4) DEPLOYMENT OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL.— 
The Administrator may enter into a memorandum of understanding or 
other agreement with the Attorney General or the head of another ap-
propriate Federal law enforcement agency to deploy Federal law en-
forcement personnel at an airport in order to meet aviation safety and 
security concerns. 
(5) AIRPORT PERIMETER SCREENING.—The Administrator shall— 
(A) require screening or inspection of all individuals, goods, 
property, vehicles, and other equipment before entry into a secured 
area of an airport in the United States described in subsection (c); 
(B) prescribe specific requirements for the screening and inspec-
tion that will ensure at least the same level of protection as will 
result from screening of passengers and their baggage; 
(C) establish procedures to ensure the safety and integrity of— 
(i) all persons providing services with respect to aircraft 
providing passenger air transportation or intrastate air trans-
portation and facilities of those persons at an airport in the 
United States described in subsection (c); 
(ii) all supplies, including catering and passenger amen-
ities, placed aboard the aircraft, including the sealing of sup-
plies to ensure easy visual detection of tampering; and 
(iii) all persons providing the supplies and facilities of those 
persons; 
(D) require vendors having direct access to the airfield and air-
craft to develop security programs; and 
(E) issue guidance for the use of biometric or other technology 
that positively verifies the identity of each employee and law en-
forcement officer who enters a secure area of an airport. 
(6) USE OF BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY IN AIRPORT ACCESS CONTROL 
SYSTEMS.—In issuing guidance under paragraph (5)(E), the Adminis-
trator in consultation with representatives of the aviation industry, the 
biometric identifier industry, and the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology, shall establish, at a minimum— 
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(A) comprehensive technical and operational system require-
ments and performance standards for the use of biometric identi-
fier technology in airport access control systems (including airport 
perimeter access control systems) to ensure that the biometric 
identifier systems are effective, reliable, and secure; 
(B) a list of products and vendors that meet the requirements 
and standards set forth in subparagraph (A); 
(C) procedures for implementing biometric identifier systems— 
(i) to ensure that individuals do not use an assumed iden-
tity to enroll in a biometric identifier system; and 
(ii) to resolve failures to enroll, false matches, and false 
nonmatches; and 
(D) best practices for incorporating biometric identifier tech-
nology into airport access control systems in the most effective 
manner, including a process to best utilize existing airport access 
control systems, facilities, and equipment, and existing data net-
works connecting airports. 
(7) USE OF BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY FOR ARMED LAW ENFORCE-
MENT TRAVEL.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consultation with the At-
torney General, shall— 
(i) implement this section by publication in the Federal 
Register; and 
(ii) establish a national registered armed law enforcement 
program, that shall be federally managed, for law enforce-
ment officers needing to be armed when traveling by commer-
cial aircraft. 
(B) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—The program shall— 
(i) establish a credential or a system that incorporates bio-
metric technology and other applicable technologies; 
(ii) establish a system for law enforcement officers who 
need to be armed when traveling by commercial aircraft on 
a regular basis and for those who need to be armed during 
temporary travel assignments; 
(iii) comply with other uniform credentialing initiatives, in-
cluding the Homeland Security Presidential Directive–12; 
(iv) apply to all Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial 
government law enforcement agencies; and 
(v) establish a process by which the travel credential or sys-
tem may be used to verify the identity, using biometric tech-
nology, of a Federal, State, local, tribal, or territorial law en-
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