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(5) includes any other relevant observations or rec-
ommendations the Comptroller General deems appropriate. 
SEC. 1606. APPEAL AND REDRESS PROCESS FOR PASSENGERS 
WRONGLY DELAYED OR PROHIBITED FROM BOARDING 
A FLIGHT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 449 of title 49, United 
States Code is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘§ 44926. Appeal and redress process for passengers wrongly 
delayed or prohibited from boarding a flight 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
establish a timely and fair process for individuals who believe 
they have been delayed or prohibited from boarding a commercial 
aircraft because they were wrongly identified as a threat under 
the regimes utilized by the Transportation Security Administration, 
United States Customs and Border Protection, or any other office 
or component of the Department of Homeland Security. 
‘‘(b) OFFICE OF APPEALS AND REDRESS.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall establish in the 
Department an Office of Appeals and Redress to implement, 
coordinate, and execute the process established by the Secretary 
pursuant to subsection (a). The Office shall include representa-
tives from the Transportation Security Administration, United 
States Customs and Border Protection, and such other offices 
and components of the Department as the Secretary determines 
appropriate. 
‘‘(2) RECORDS.—The process established by the Secretary 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall include the establishment of 
a method by which the Office, under the direction of the Sec-
retary, will be able to maintain a record of air carrier pas-
sengers and other individuals who have been misidentified 
and have corrected erroneous information. 
‘‘(3) INFORMATION.—To prevent repeated delays of an 
misidentified passenger or other individual, the Office shall— 
‘‘(A) ensure that the records maintained under this 
subsection contain information determined by the Secretary 
to authenticate the identity of such a passenger or indi-
vidual; 
‘‘(B) furnish to the Transportation Security Administra-
tion, United States Customs and Border Protection, or any 
other appropriate office or component of the Department, 
upon request, such information as may be necessary to 
allow such office or component to assist air carriers in 
improving their administration of the advanced passenger 
prescreening system and reduce the number of false 
positives; and 
‘‘(C) require 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
INFORMA-
TION.—The Secretary, in conjunction with the Chief Privacy 
Officer of the Department shall— 
‘‘(A) require that Federal employees of the Department 
handling personally identifiable information of passengers 
(in this paragraph referred to as ‘PII’) complete mandatory
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privacy and security 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 such other equiva-
lent security technical protections as the Secretary deter-
mines 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 sub-
section 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 prop-
erly and is updated as necessary; 
‘‘(E) ensure that any employee of the Department 
receiving the data contained within the records handles 
the information in accordance with the section 552a of 
title 5, United States Code, and the Federal Information 
Security Management Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296); 
‘‘(F) only retain the data for as long as needed to 
assist the individual traveler in the redress process; and 
‘‘(G) conduct and publish a privacy impact assessment 
of the process described within this subsection and transmit 
the assessment to the Committee on Homeland Security 
of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, and Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate. 
‘‘(5) INITIATION
OF
REDRESS
PROCESS
AT
AIRPORTS.—The 
Office shall establish at each airport at which the Department 
has a significant presence a process to provide information 
to air carrier passengers to begin the redress process estab-
lished pursuant to subsection (a).’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis for such chapter is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 44925 the 
following: 
‘‘44926. Appeal and redress process for passengers wrongly delayed or prohibited 
from boarding a flight.’’. 
SEC. 1607. STRENGTHENING EXPLOSIVES DETECTION AT PASSENGER 
SCREENING CHECKPOINTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
consultation with the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
Administration, shall issue the strategic plan the Secretary was 
required by section 44925(b) of title 49, United States Code, to 
have issued within 90 days after the date of enactment of the 
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public 
Law 108–458). 
(b) DEPLOYMENT.—Section 44925(b) of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) 
IMPLEMENTATION.—The 
Secretary 
shall 
begin 
implementation of the strategic plan within one year after 
the date of enactment of this paragraph.’’.
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SEC. 1608. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF AVIATION TRANSPOR-
TATION SECURITY TECHNOLOGY. 
Section 137(a) of the Aviation and Transportation Security 
Act (49 U.S.C. 44912 note; 115 Stat. 637) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘2002 through 2006’’ and inserting ‘‘2006 
through 2011’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘aviation’’ and inserting ‘‘transportation’’; 
and 
(3) by striking ‘‘2002 and 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘2006 through 
2011’’. 
SEC. 1609. BLAST-RESISTANT CARGO CONTAINERS. 
Section 44901 of title 49, United States Code, as amended 
by section 1602, is further amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(j) BLAST-RESISTANT CARGO CONTAINERS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Before January 1, 2008, the Adminis-
trator of the Transportation Security Administration shall— 
‘‘(A) evaluate the results of the blast-resistant cargo 
container pilot program that was initiated before the date 
of enactment of this subsection; and 
‘‘(B) prepare and distribute through the Aviation Secu-
rity Advisory Committee to the appropriate Committees 
of Congress and air carriers a report on that evaluation 
which may contain nonclassified and classified sections. 
‘‘(2) ACQUISITION, MAINTENANCE, AND REPLACEMENT.—Upon 
completion and consistent with the results of the evaluation 
that paragraph (1)(A) requires, the Administrator shall— 
‘‘(A) develop and implement a program, as the Adminis-
trator determines appropriate, to acquire, maintain, and 
replace blast-resistant cargo containers; 
‘‘(B) pay for the program; and 
‘‘(C) make available blast-resistant cargo containers 
to air carriers pursuant to paragraph (3). 
‘‘(3) DISTRIBUTION
TO
AIR
CARRIERS.—The Administrator 
shall make available, beginning not later than July 1, 2008, 
blast-resistant cargo containers to air carriers for use on a 
risk managed basis as determined by the Administrator.’’. 
SEC. 1610. PROTECTION OF PASSENGER PLANES FROM EXPLOSIVES. 
(a) TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND PILOT PROJECTS.— 
(1) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.—The Secretary of Home-
land Security, in consultation with the Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration, shall expedite research 
and development programs for technologies that can disrupt 
or prevent an explosive device from being introduced onto a 
passenger plane or from damaging a passenger plane while 
in flight or on the ground. The research shall be used in 
support of implementation of section 44901 of title 49, United 
States Code. 
(2) PILOT PROJECTS.—The Secretary, in conjunction with 
the Secretary of Transportation, shall establish a grant program 
to fund pilot projects— 
(A) to deploy technologies described in paragraph (1); 
and 
(B) to test technologies to expedite the recovery, 
development, and analysis of information from aircraft
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accidents to determine the cause of the accident, including 
deployable flight deck and voice recorders and remote loca-
tion recording devices. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security for fiscal 
year 2008 such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. 
Such sums shall remain available until expended. 
SEC. 1611. SPECIALIZED TRAINING. 
The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administra-
tion shall provide advanced training to transportation security offi-
cers for the development of specialized security skills, including 
behavior observation and analysis, explosives detection, and docu-
ment examination, in order to enhance the effectiveness of layered 
transportation security measures. 
SEC. 1612. CERTAIN TSA PERSONNEL LIMITATIONS NOT TO APPLY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any provision of law, any 
statutory limitation on the number of employees in the Transpor-
tation Security Administration, before or after its transfer to the 
Department of Homeland Security from the Department of 
Transportation, does not apply after fiscal year 2007. 
(b) AVIATION SECURITY.—Notwithstanding any provision of law 
imposing a limitation on the recruiting or hiring of personnel into 
the Transportation Security Administration to a maximum number 
of permanent positions, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
recruit and hire such personnel into the Administration as may 
be necessary— 
(1) to provide appropriate levels of aviation security; and 
(2) to accomplish that goal in such a manner that the 
average aviation security-related delay experienced by airline 
passengers is reduced to a level of less than 10 minutes. 
SEC. 1613. PILOT PROJECT TO TEST DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES AT 
AIRPORT EXIT LANES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Transportation 
Security Administration shall conduct a pilot program at not more 
than 2 airports to identify technologies to improve security at air-
port exit lanes. 
(b) PROGRAM COMPONENTS.—In conducting the pilot program 
under this section, the Administrator shall— 
(1) utilize different technologies that protect the integrity 
of the airport exit lanes from unauthorized entry; 
(2) work with airport officials to deploy such technologies 
in multiple configurations at a selected airport or airports at 
which some of the exits are not colocated with a screening 
checkpoint; and 
(3) ensure the level of security is at or above the level 
of existing security at the airport or airports where the pilot 
program is conducted. 
(c) REPORTS.— 
(1) INITIAL BRIEFING.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall conduct 
a briefing to the congressional committees set forth in para-
graph (3) that describes— 
(A) the airport or airports selected to participate in 
the pilot program; 
(B) the technologies to be tested;