Strengthening Surface Transportation Security
Headline: Orders Stronger Security for U.S. Surface Transportation Systems
What it does: The order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to assess risks, create a comprehensive transportation security plan with mode-specific annexes, issue security guidance or requirements, and coordinate protective research and grants.
- Creates a government-wide security plan covering all surface transportation modes.
- May lead to new mandatory security rules or voluntary security guidance.
- Requires research coordination and public lists of available protective technologies.
Summary
The order makes strengthening security of the nation's surface transportation systems a national priority and directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, working with the Transportation Secretary and other officials, to assess risks and build a comprehensive transportation security plan with mode-specific annexes. It requires drafting security guidelines or formal security requirements for high-risk modes and coordinating research, technology lists, and use of security grants.
Federal, State, local, and tribal governments, private sector owners and operators, and the traveling public are affected. The goal is to better protect people, property, and infrastructure from terrorist attacks.
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