SEC. 2. RAIL WORKER SECURITY TRAINING PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, in consultation with appropriate law enforce-
ment, security, and terrorism experts, representatives of 
railroad carriers, and nonprofit employee organizations 
that represent rail workers, shall develop and issue de-
tailed guidance for a rail worker security training program 
to prepare front-line workers for potential threat condi-
tions. 
(b) PROGRAM ELEMENTS.—The guidance developed 
under subsection (a) shall require such a program to in-
clude, at a minimum, elements that address the following: 
(1) Determination of the seriousness of any oc-
currence. 
(2) Crew communication and coordination. 
(3) Appropriate responses to defend oneself. 
(4) Use of protective devices. 
(5) Evacuation procedures. 
(6) Psychology of terrorists to cope with hi-
jacker behavior and passenger responses. 
(7) Live situational training exercises regarding 
various threat conditions, including tunnel evacu-
ation procedures. 
(8) All employee training provisions included in 
the 
Transportation 
Security 
Directive 
(SD
RAILPAX–04–01 and SD RAILRAX–04–02) issued 
under the authority of section 114 of title 49, 
United States Code, by the Transportation Security 
Administration on May 20, 2004. 
(9) Any other areas that the Secretary deems 
appropriate. 
(c) RAILROAD CARRIER PROGRAMS.—Not later than 
60 days after the Secretary issues guidance under sub-
section (a) in final form, each railroad carrier shall develop 
a rail worker security training program in accordance with 
that guidance and submit it to the Secretary for approval. 
Not later than 30 days after receiving a railroad carrier’s 
program under this subsection, the Secretary shall review 
the program and approve it or require the railroad carrier 
to make any revisions the Secretary considers necessary 
for the program to meet the guidance requirements. 
(d) TRAINING.—Not later than 180 days after the 
Secretary approves the training program developed by a 
railroad carrier under this section, the railroad carrier 
shall complete the training of all front-line workers in ac-
cordance with that program. 
(e) UPDATES.—The Secretary shall update the train-
ing guidance issued under subsection (a) from time to 
time to reflect new or different security threats, and re-
quire railroad carriers to revise their programs accordingly 
and provide additional training to their front-line workers. 
(f) SECURITY TRAINING PROGRAM GRANTS.—The 
Secretary of Homeland Security is authorized to make 
grants to railroads (including intercity, heavy, and light 
rail), hazardous materials shippers, owners of rail cars 
used in the transportation of hazardous materials, univer-
sities, colleges, and research centers, and State and local 
governments (for railroad facilities and infrastructure) for 
full or partial reimbursement of costs incurred to imple-
ment the program detailed in subsection (a). 
(g) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of 
Homeland Security $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2006 to 
carry out the purposes of this section. Amounts appro-
priated pursuant to this subsection shall remain available 
until expended. 
(h) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘‘front-line workers’’ means heavy and light rail em-
ployees who have daily access to the operations infrastruc-
ture and passengers of their rail systems. 
SEC. 3. PUBLIC AWARENESS. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall de-
velop a national plan for public outreach and awareness.
Such plan shall be designed to increase awareness of 
measures that the general public, railroad passengers, and 
railroad employees can take to increase railroad system 
security. Such plan shall also provide outreach to railroad 
carriers and their employees to improve their awareness 
of available technologies, ongoing research and develop-
ment efforts, and available Federal funding sources to im-
prove railroad security. Not later than 9 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall implement the plan developed under this 
section. 
SEC. 4. RAILROAD SECURITY UPGRADES. 
(a) SECURITY IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.—The Sec-
retary of Homeland Security is authorized to make grants 
to railroads (including intercity passenger and heavy and 
light rail), hazardous materials shippers, owners of rail 
cars used in the transportation of hazardous materials, 
universities, colleges, and research centers, and State and 
local governments (for railroad facilities and infrastruc-
ture) for full or partial reimbursement of costs incurred 
to prevent or respond to acts of terrorism, sabotage, or 
other railroad security threats, including providing for— 
(1) technologies for reduction of tank car vul-
nerability;
(2) demonstration of bridge and tunnel inspec-
tion technologies; 
(3) security and redundancy for critical commu-
nications, electric power (including traction power), 
computer, and train control systems essential for se-
cure railroad operations or to continue railroad oper-
ations after an attack impacting railroad operations; 
(4) the security of hazardous material transpor-
tation by railroad; 
(5) secure passenger railroad stations, trains, 
and infrastructure; 
(6) public security awareness campaigns for 
passenger train operations; 
(7) the sharing of intelligence and information 
about railroad security threats; 
(8) train tracking and interoperable commu-
nications systems that are coordinated to the max-
imum extent possible; 
(9) additional police and security officers, in-
cluding canine units; and 
(10) all provisions included in the Transpor-
tation Security Directives (SD RAILPAX–04–01 
and SD RAILPAX–04–02) issued under the author-
ity of section 114 of title 49, United States Code,
by the Transportation Security Administration on 
May 20, 2004. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of 
Homeland Security $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2006 to 
carry out the purposes of this section. Amounts appro-
priated pursuant to this subsection shall remain available 
until expended. 
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