‘‘(A) enter into memoranda of under-
standing with other Federal, State, local, and 
tribal agencies or entities, as necessary, to im-
prove the appeal and redress process and for 
other purposes such as to verify an individual’s 
identity and personally identifiable information; 
and 
‘‘(B) work with other Federal, State, local, 
and tribal agencies or entities that use any ter-
rorist watchlist or database to ensure, to the 
greatest extent practicable, that the Comprehen-
sive Cleared List is considered when assessing 
the security risk of an individual. 
‘‘(5) HANDLING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE 
INFORMATION.—The Secretary, in conjunction with 
the Chief Privacy Officer of the Department, shall— 
‘‘(A) require that Federal employees of the 
Department handling personally identifiable in-
formation of individuals (in this paragraph re-
ferred to as ‘PII’) complete mandatory privacy 
and security training prior to being authorized 
to handle PII; 
‘‘(B) ensure that the information main-
tained under this subsection is secured by 
encryption, including one-way hashing, data 
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anonymization techniques, or such other equiva-
lent technical security protections as the Sec-
retary determines necessary; 
‘‘(C) limit the information collected from 
misidentified passengers or other individuals to 
the minimum amount necessary to resolve an 
appeal and redress request; 
‘‘(D) ensure that the information main-
tained under this subsection is shared or trans-
ferred via an encrypted data network that has 
been audited to ensure that the anti-hacking and 
other security related software functions perform 
properly and are updated as necessary; 
‘‘(E) ensure that any employee of the De-
partment receiving the information maintained 
under this subsection handles such information 
in accordance with section 552a of title 5, 
United States Code, the Federal Information Se-
curity Management Act of 2002 (Public Law 
107–296), and other applicable laws; 
‘‘(F) only retain the information main-
tained under this subsection for as long as need-
ed to assist the individual traveler in the appeal 
and redress process; 
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‘‘(G) engage in cooperative agreements with 
appropriate Federal agencies and entities, on a 
reimbursable basis, to ensure that legal name 
changes are properly reflected in any terrorist 
watchlist or database and the Comprehensive 
Cleared List to improve the appeal and redress 
process and to ensure the most accurate lists of 
identifications possible (except that section 552a 
of title 5, United States Code, shall not prohibit 
the sharing of legal name changes among Federal 
agencies and entities for the purposes of this sec-
tion); and 
‘‘(H) conduct and publish a privacy impact 
assessment of the appeal and redress process es-
tablished under this section and transmit the as-
sessment to the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity of the House of Representatives, and the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation and the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 
‘‘(6) INITIATION OF APPEAL AND REDRESS PROC-
ESS AT AIRPORTS.—At each airport at which— 
‘‘(A) the Department has a presence, the Of-
fice shall provide written information to air car-
rier passengers to begin the appeal and redress 
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process established pursuant to subsection (a); 
and 
‘‘(B) the Department has a significant pres-
ence, provide the written information referred to 
in subparagraph (A) and ensure a TSA super-
visor who is trained in such appeal and redress 
process is available to provide support to air 
carrier passengers in need of guidance con-
cerning such process. 
‘‘(7) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 240 
days after the date of the enactment of this section, 
the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-
portation and the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on 
the status of information sharing among users at the 
Department of any terrorist watchlist or database. 
The report shall include the following information: 
‘‘(A) A description of the processes and the 
status of the implementation of this section to 
share the Comprehensive Cleared List with other 
Department offices and components and other 
Federal, State, local, and tribal authorities that 
utilize any terrorist watchlist or database. 
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‘‘(B) A description of the extent to which 
such other Department offices and components 
are taking into account the Comprehensive 
Cleared List. 
‘‘(C) Data on the number of individuals 
who have sought and successfully obtained re-
dress through the Office of Appeals and Redress. 
‘‘(D) Data on the number of individuals 
who have sought and were denied redress through 
the Office of Appeals and Redress. 
‘‘(E) An assessment of what impact infor-
mation sharing of the Comprehensive Cleared 
List has had on misidentifications of individuals 
who have successfully obtained redress through 
the Office of Appeals and Redress. 
‘‘(F) An updated privacy impact assess-
ment. 
‘‘(c) TERRORIST
WATCHLIST
OR
DATABASE
DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘terrorist watchlist or 
database’ means any terrorist watchlist or database used 
by the Transportation Security Administration or any of-
fice or component of the Department of Homeland Security 
or specified in Homeland Security Presidential Directive- 
6, in effect as of the date of the enactment of this section.’’. 
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(b) INCORPORATION
OF SECURE FLIGHT.—Section 
44903(j)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C)(iii)— 
(A) by redesignating subclauses (II) through 
(VII) as subclauses (III) through (VIII), respec-
tively; and 
(B) by inserting after subclause (I) the fol-
lowing new subclause: 
‘‘(II) ensure, not later than 30 
days after the date of the enactment of 
the FAST Redress Act of 2008, that the 
procedure established under subclause 
(I) is incorporated into the appeals 
and redress process established under 
section 890A of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002;’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (E)(iii), by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ‘‘, in accordance 
with the appeals and redress process established under 
section 890A of the Homeland Security Act of 2002’’; 
and 
(3) in subparagraph (G)— 
(A) in clause (i), by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ‘‘The Assistant Secretary 
shall incorporate the process established pursu-
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Union Calendar No. 430 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4179 
[Report No. 110–686] 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 
establish an appeal and redress process for indi-
viduals wrongly delayed or prohibited from 
boarding a flight, and for other purposes. 
JUNE 5, 2008 
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and or-
dered to be printed 
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