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mass transit, over-the-road bus, and other public transportation infra-
structure assets that could be at risk of attack or disruption. 
(2) The development of risk-based priorities, based on risk assess-
ments conducted or received by the Secretary (including assessments 
conducted under the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Com-
mission Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–53, 121 Stat. 266)), across all 
transportation modes and realistic deadlines for addressing security 
needs associated with those assets referred to in paragraph (1). 
(3) The most appropriate, practical, and cost-effective means of de-
fending those assets against threats to their security. 
(4) A forward-looking strategic plan that sets forth the agreed upon 
roles and missions of Federal, State, regional, local, and tribal authori-
ties and establishes mechanisms for encouraging cooperation and par-
ticipation by private-sector entities, including nonprofit employee labor 
organizations, in the implementation of the plan. 
(5) A comprehensive delineation of prevention, response, and recov-
ery responsibilities and issues regarding threatened and executed acts 
of terrorism within the United States and threatened and executed acts 
of terrorism outside the United States to the extent the acts affect 
United States transportation systems. 
(6) A prioritization of research and development objectives that sup-
port transportation security needs, giving a higher priority to research 
and development directed toward protecting vital transportation assets. 
Transportation security research and development projects shall be 
based, to the extent practicable, on the prioritization. Nothing in the 
preceding sentence shall be construed to require the termination of a 
research or development project initiated by the Secretary or the Sec-
retary of Transportation before August 3, 2007. 
(7) A 3- and 10-year budget for Federal transportation security pro-
grams that will achieve the priorities of the National Strategy for 
Transportation Security. 
(8) 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. 
(9) Transportation modal security plans described in subsection 
(a)(2), including operational recovery plans to expedite, to the max-
imum extent practicable, the return to operation of an adversely af-
fected transportation system following a major terrorist attack on that 
system or other incident. These plans shall be coordinated with the re-
sumption of trade protocols required under section 30502 of this title 
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and the National Maritime Transportation Security Plan required 
under section 70103(a) of title 46. 
(d) SUBMISSIONS OF PLANS TO CONGRESS.— 
(1) DEFINITION OF APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.— 
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 Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Com-
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate. 
(2) BIENNIAL STRATEGY REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit the 
National Strategy for Transportation Security, including the transpor-
tation modal security plans and any revisions to the National Strategy 
for Transportation Security and the transportation modal security 
plans, to appropriate congressional committees not less frequently than 
April 1 of each even-numbered year. 
(3) PERIODIC PROGRESS REPORT.— 
(A) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.—Each year, in conjunction 
with the submission of the budget to Congress under section 
1105(a) of title 31, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees an assessment of the progress made on 
implementing the National Strategy for Transportation Security, 
including the transportation modal security plans. 
(B) CONTENT.—Each progress report submitted under this 
paragraph shall include, at a minimum, the following: 
(i) Recommendations for improving and implementing the 
National Strategy for Transportation Security and the trans-
portation modal and intermodal security plans that the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Transportation, considers appropriate. 
(ii) An accounting of all grants for transportation security, 
including grants and contracts for research and development, 
awarded by the Secretary in the most recent fiscal year and 
a description of how the grants accomplished the goals of the 
National Strategy for Transportation Security. 
(iii) An accounting of all— 
(I) funds requested in the President’s budget sub-
mitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31 for the most 
recent fiscal year for transportation security, by mode; 
(II) personnel working on transportation security by 
mode, including the number of contractors; and 
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(III) information on the turnover in the previous year 
among senior staff of the Department, including compo-
nent agencies, working on transportation security issues. 
The information shall 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. 
(C) WRITTEN
EXPLANATION
OF
TRANSPORTATION
SECURITY 
ACTIVITIES NOT DELINEATED IN THE NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR 
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY.—At the end of each fiscal year, the 
Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a written explanation of a Federal transportation security activity 
that is inconsistent with the National Strategy for Transportation 
Security, including the amount of funds to be expended for the ac-
tivity and the number of personnel involved. 
(4) CLASSIFIED MATERIAL.—Any part of the National Strategy for 
Transportation Security, or any part of the transportation modal secu-
rity plans, that involves information that is properly classified under 
criteria established by Executive order shall be submitted to the appro-
priate congressional committees separately in a classified format. 
(e) PRIORITY STATUS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The National Strategy for Transportation Secu-
rity shall be the governing document for Federal transportation secu-
rity efforts. 
(2) OTHER PLANS AND REPORTS.—The National Strategy for Trans-
portation Security shall include, as an integral part or as an appen-
dix— 
(A) the current National Maritime Transportation Security Plan 
under section 70103 of title 46; 
(B) the report required by section 40956 of this title; 
(C) transportation modal security plans required under this 
chapter; 
(D) the transportation sector specific plan required under 
Homeland Security Presidential Directive–7; and 
(E) another transportation security plan or report that the Sec-
retary determines appropriate for inclusion. 
(f) COORDINATION.—In carrying out the responsibilities under this sec-
tion, the Secretary, 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 or-
ganizations), institutions of higher learning, and other entities. 
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(g) PLAN DISTRIBUTION.—The Secretary shall make available and appro-
priately publicize an unclassified version of the National Strategy for Trans-
portation Security, including its component transportation modal security 
plans, to Federal, State, regional, local and tribal authorities, transportation 
system owners or operators, private-sector stakeholders, including nonprofit 
employee labor organizations representing transportation employees, institu-
tions of higher learning, and other appropriate entities. 
§ 11315. Transportation Security Information Sharing Plan 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—The term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ has the meaning given the term in 
section 11314 of this title. 
(2) PLAN.—The term ‘‘Plan’’ means the Transportation Security In-
formation Sharing Plan established under subsection (b). 
(3) PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STAKEHOLDERS.—The term ‘‘public and 
private stakeholders’’ means Federal, State, and local agencies, tribal 
governments, and appropriate private entities, including nonprofit em-
ployee labor organizations representing transportation employees. 
(4) TRANSPORTATION SECURITY INFORMATION.—The term ‘‘trans-
portation security information’’ means information relating to the risks 
to transportation modes, including aviation, public transportation, rail-
road, ferry, highway, maritime, pipeline, and over-the-road bus trans-
portation, and may include specific and general intelligence products, 
as appropriate. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF PLAN.—The Secretary, acting through the Ad-
ministrator and in consultation with the program manager of the informa-
tion sharing environment established under section 11708 of this title, the 
Secretary of Transportation, and public and private stakeholders, shall es-
tablish a Transportation 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 program manager of the infor-
mation sharing environment established under section 11708 of this title. 
(c) PURPOSE OF PLAN.—The Plan shall promote sharing of transpor-
tation security information between the Department of Homeland Security 
and public and private stakeholders. 
(d) CONTENT OF PLAN.—The Plan shall include— 
(1) a description of how intelligence analysts in the Department will 
coordinate their activities in the Department and with other Federal, 
State, and local agencies, and tribal governments, including coordina-
tion with existing modal information sharing centers and the center de-
scribed in section 40508 of this title; 
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